With a key object, the Align panel's six Distribute Objects buttons
ignored the Distribute Spacing value. They kept the outermost objects
in place, spaced the others evenly between them and could move the
key object.
object.distribute now takes spacing. While the selection has a key
object, the key object stays in place, with the compound path or
selected group that contains it, and the objects' left edges, centers
or right edges (top edges, centers or bottom edges) end up spacing
points apart, outward from the key object's, in their order on that
line. With 0, the field's default, every object ends on the key
object's line. Two objects are enough, and to and artboard are not
used. The panel sends the value with the Distribute Objects buttons
while there is a key object, as it does with the Distribute Spacing
buttons. Without a key object, or with anchor points selected,
object.distribute does not use spacing and works as before. A spacing
that is not a number is an error.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Escape never changed the view's rotation.
Now a second Escape less than a second after the first runs Reset
Rotate View (`view.rotateReset`) when the view is rotated and the
second press has nothing else to end: no Presentation Mode, pattern
editing, isolation mode or open tool flyout, no tool that is busy or
takes the key, no open menu, dialog, command palette or Edit Toolbar
drawer, no text field or input method that takes the key, no number
field being dragged and no drag of the ruler origin. The first Escape
may end something, such as isolation mode, but it does not count as the
first when a menu, a dialog, the command palette, the drawer, a field
or an input method takes it. After a click, a press of another key that
is not a modifier (Shift, Control, Alt/Option or Command) or a held
Escape's repeats, the next Escape counts as the first. With the Rotate
View tool chosen, one Escape resets the view.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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.
Layers ≡ and row menus collect art via assets.add; a layer id expands to the art under it (including sublayers) so MCP and the panel match Object › Collect for Export.
A corner whose anchor carries a handle (where a curve meets a line, or two
curves meet) was left sharp. It now gets Live Corners' round cut
(geom::corners, #1144), reaching `radius` along each side and trimming a
curved side. Corners between handle-less anchors are rounded exactly as
before, and a closed path still starts where its first corner's rounding
starts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Commands that read the selection through edit::selected_roots leave
out an object whose group is also selected (edit::roots_of). Fourteen
places that read `ids` kept an object listed together with its group.
Given ids that list an object and a group that holds it, Make Repeat
failed with "no such object", New Symbol failed or stored the object
twice in the symbol, and object.transform moved it twice (20 pt for a
10 pt move).
These places now pass explicit ids through edit::outermost, which
drops an id whose ancestor is also listed, with the filter that
roots_of runs on the selection (now edit::without_inner). Nothing else
is dropped or replaced: unlike roots_of, it keeps layers and
compound-path members. A list without nesting gives the same result as
before. Commands that take both ids and the selection as listed, such
as paint.setFill without item, are unchanged.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Effect › Distort › Glass… offered only its four built-in textures. The
reference app's Texture menu also has Load Texture, which takes an
image file as the glass surface.
The Glass dialog now has a Load Texture… button. It reads a PNG, JPEG,
GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP, PSD or PSB file within the pixel allowance the
renderer draws images in, and the Texture menu gains Loaded Texture.
The effect stores the image's gray levels in `textureImage` as a
grayscale PNG in base64, so the document saves the texture with the
effect, and copies of the effect carry it. effect.apply and
effect.setParams take `textureImage` as {path}, {name, dataBase64} or
the stored string; any other value is an error.
The texture lies one image pixel per point at Scaling 100%, centered on
the object and repeated. Each pixel's luma is the surface's height,
from 0 for black to 1 pt for white, and a transparent pixel counts as
middle gray. A Glass without `textureImage` draws and saves as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Glass textures), docs/effects-parity.md,
docs/gaps.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Unit fields and length strings read a percentage operand as a share of
a value. After * or /, the percentage scales the term before it:
3cm*50% is 1.5 cm and 3cm/50% is 6 cm. After + or -, it adds or takes
away that share of everything before it: 50pt+25% is 62.5 pt and
100pt+20pt-50% is 60 pt. Before this change these expressions read as
nothing, and the field kept its old value.
The parser now splits a sum at its last + or -, so a percentage applies
to the whole sum before it. Text without % gives the same values as
before, apart from float rounding. A percentage on its own (50%) still
reads as nothing, and percent and degree fields still read % as their
suffix.
Command length strings use the same parser: file.new's width and
height, the distance params and the length preferences.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/ui-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Exports bake live effects into plain art, and a Transform effect on
type or on its group or layer turned the type into glyph outlines, even
when the effect only moved it or made moved copies. A PDF reader could
not select or search that text.
The export bake now keeps such type as type, moved into each place the
effect puts its outlines. It does this for Transform effects without
scale, rotation, reflection or Random, for type whose characters are in
solid colors without underline or strikethrough, and that has no fills
or strokes of its own, inline graphics or perspective, and when the
copies do not overlap. Type under such an effect on its group or layer
also needs no transparency or effects of its own, and the group or
layer needs no fill, stroke or Pathfinder effect of its own. The export
still outlines other type under geometry effects, and the canvas and
Expand Appearance still draw outlines.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The PostScript interpreter that reads EPS and PostScript files turned
the samples of a CMYK image into display RGB and stored an RGBA PNG,
so the image lost its ink amounts. The DCTDecode filter decoded a CMYK
JPEG to RGB, so it lost its ink amounts too. The PDF importer keeps
the ink amounts of 8- and 16-bit CMYK images (in a CMYK TIFF, or the
CMYK JPEG itself).
A CMYK image (image or colorimage in DeviceCMYK, CIEBasedDEFG or a
four-component ICCBased space) now keeps its samples in a CMYK TIFF
(ImageBlob::cmyk_tiff), read through its Decode array, at every bit
depth the interpreter reads. A CMYK JPEG gives its samples as stored,
and the image's Decode array reads them: [1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0] undoes the
inverted samples of Adobe's CMYK JPEGs. The pixels that a MaskColor
or an ImageType 3 mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask over the
image, as in PDF import. A mask that hides nothing adds no mask. Gray,
RGB, indexed and spot color images and image masks stay RGBA PNGs.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
When a graphics driver crashed the process while the window started,
as Intel's Direct3D 12 driver (igd12umd64.dll) did on an Intel UHD
Graphics 605 (#2243), the next start picked the same adapter again. The
restart without a failing adapter and the first-frame watch run inside
the process, so the crash ended them along with it.
Each start now writes graphics-start.json in the log folder before the
graphics start, adds the adapter once one is picked, and clears both
when the first frame reaches the screen or the app ends without
crashing. A start that finds an earlier start still recorded there
leaves that adapter out, as a restart does, logs it and shows a note in
the status bar. When the crash came while the adapters were being
listed (wgpu's Direct3D 12 backend creates a device on each GPU to list
it), the next starts list OpenGL's adapters alone, except on macOS. The
adapters stay left out until the app version or the Graphics Processor
preference changes, a start shows its first frame on one, or no adapter
is left. WGPU_BACKEND and WGPU_ADAPTER_NAME choose regardless of the
record.
Docs: docs/development.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A PDF, PDF-compatible .ai or .ait opened from its pages had an empty
File Info. Nothing read the file's document information
dictionary or its XMP packet, so file.info reported no author,
description or keywords, even for a PDF that VectorCraft exported.
vectorcraft_pdf::file_info reads both. The author, description,
keywords, copyright status, notice and URL and the created and modified
dates come from the XMP packet (dc:creator, dc:description, dc:subject
or pdf:Keywords, xmpRights:Marked, dc:rights, xmpRights:WebStatement,
xmp:CreateDate, xmp:ModifyDate), else from the dictionary's Author,
Subject, Keywords, CreationDate and ModDate. document.open,
file.newFromTemplate and file.revert put each value through file.info's
checks and leave out a value that file.info refuses. A packet that is
not well-formed XML leaves the dictionary's values. File Info does not
set the title, and a file restored from the document it carries keeps
that document's File Info. vectorcraft-pdf depends on roxmltree 0.21,
which usvg already brings into Cargo.lock.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (File Info), docs/file-format-parity.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
When type had used a font, removing the font while the app ran left
it in the font menus, and the type kept drawing in it until the app
restarted. The font list is the loaded faces plus the scanned catalog,
and a scan replaced the catalog but kept every loaded face.
A scan now drops each loaded face whose file it did not catalog, with
the face's cached outlines. A family with no face left leaves the font
lists, and type set in it lays out in the fallback font and is
reported missing, as when a document opens without the font. When the
font is installed again, the next scan lists it and the type draws in
it again. Bundled fonts and fonts added as bytes have no file and
stay.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Adds a Finnish (Suomi, `fi`) catalog with 4,770 entries, written in
sentence case from the English labels with ordinary Finnish
vector-illustration vocabulary. It covers menus, `tl!` literals and the
668 `@msg` status and error messages: `fi` is in KEEPS_MENU_NAMES and
COMPLETE_MESSAGES. Like the other complete catalogs, it leaves the
product, workspace and perspective preset names in English.
Plurals are one/other with the partitive singular after any number but
1 (1 taso, 2 tasoa). Any fi-* locale selects Finnish; sv-FI does not.
Tests: `cargo test -p vectorcraft-ui-egui --lib i18n` passes (47),
including the new finnish_reads_as_finnish and the bundled-font glyph
check.
Clean-room, AI-assisted (Claude Code) translation; a native speaker
checked it in the running app, but it has not been proofread line by
line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds Swedish (Svenska) as an interface language: 4770 strings, written from the English source.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#1290 (from #1275) declared the glibc floor as `libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.35)(64bit)`. That doesn't stop
RHEL 9: its current glibc, `2.34-283.el9_8`, provides `libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.35)` through backports. On
Rocky Linux 9, dnf upgrades glibc to that build, installs VectorCraft 0.10.0, and `vectorcraft-cli`
then fails with ``/lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.35' not found``. The binaries' only GLIBC_2.35
symbols are `hypot` and `hypotf`, from libm, and RHEL 9 doesn't provide `libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.35)`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Spell out dataset.list/capture/update/delete/rename and distinguish the MCP
command_batch tool from the engine command.batch Actions play.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Play an action on every file in a folder or every data set, with destination
and Override Open/Save/Export. Actions panel and File › Automate › Batch…
open the dialog; new strings in pt-br.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
VariableKind::Graph binds a graph root; dataset rows supply CSV as graph.setData.
Make Graph Dynamic, Variables dialog, capture/apply, and pt-br for the new strings.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Load and save variable datasets as CSV for data-merge pipelines, and
translate the new Variables panel commands in Brazilian Portuguese.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
# Conflicts:
# docs/target-app-parity.md
Store the registration point with the symbol and place instances so that point lands on (x, y). Symbol Options exposes the same 9-point control as Transform.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Expose existing Warp styles, orientation and percentage controls through the shared live effect dialog while preserving preview history and effect targets. Keep ordinary Enter owned by focused non-searchable combo controls.
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
assets.export of abutting fills must leave no ghost edge (#983 / #1037); panel thumbnails use the same Art Optimized supersample. Progress docs mark the gap closed.
Keep surviving drawable runs separate when Delete or Backspace removes an open-path anchor. Preserve appearance, selection and one-step Undo.
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Make and Edit choose the Intertwine tool: hovering highlights the overlap
area under the pointer, a click swaps which object is on top there, and a
path drawn around overlaps (Shift: a rectangle) arranges every overlap
inside it; Esc or Enter goes back to the tool chosen before. The overlap
faces move to vectorcraft-tools, shared by the tool and the command.
Clicks inside a raised area pick the member drawn on top there, the
Object menu gets the Intertwine submenu, and the new labels and the
predicate message are translated in the complete catalogs. docs/gaps.md
records what landed under G13.
A step whose id is draw_path or draw_shape runs that tool with its params,
checked as tools/call checks arguments; its result is the tool's, so later
steps can use "$N.id". The reply lists the ids the drawing steps made
under created. The unknown-argument check is shared with tools/call.
The drawing tools style the object they draw in the same call: dash, cap
and join go to the stroke.set that strokeWidth already sends, opacity and
name to object.setProps, and effects are applied in order as apply_effect
does. The options are checked (effect ids against effect.list) before
anything is drawn, so a bad one leaves no half-styled object behind.
A gradient given to several objects fits each one's own bounds. With
span: "selection", a linear or radial gradient without its own vector is
placed once on the union of the targets' bounds, at its angle and aspect,
and every target gets that vector in document coordinates, so the ramp
runs on across them. A solid colour, a swatch, a freeform gradient or an
explicit start/end with it is refused before anything changes; the next
object drawn still fits the gradient to itself.
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