Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-20 · Change: minor (live-effect plug-ins given their object's fills and strokes and the item they sit on, G17; plug-in parameters: labels, units, groups, help and conditions in their dialogs, text and number-list parameters, up to 256 of them, G17; exporter plug-ins: plug-in file formats in Export As and document.export, G17; G2: Effect › Artistic › Smudge Stick, Sponge and Watercolor; Sketch › Bas Relief, Charcoal, Photocopy and Stamp, #2533; Photoshop filters 45/57, 12 remaining (8–14 h); interactive Mirror Repeat axis; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis body while the center and end handles retain their move and rotation actions; Libraries panel: the list scrolls, items and groups reorder by dragging, items drag into and out of groups (
library.moveItembefore/after,library.moveGroup); scores unchanged; PDF invisible text opens as type with no fill or stroke and is written back invisible, #2675; status-readout sample widths cached by language, document unit and pixels per point; status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates; cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission; cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes; interactive Mirror Repeat axis; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis body while the center and end handles retain their move and rotation actions; 3D lighting: one to ten colored lights, smooth colored Inflate, legacy white-light appearance preserved; surface batching and restored seam minimum; scores and estimates unchanged; Blend spine Anchor Point conversions, selection/stacking priority and Shift regression coverage (#2544); scores and hours unchanged; Artboard Options' X and Y with a reference point, #1876; Image Trace: Auto Color keeps rare but distinct colours; Image Trace: large images trace with a warning; anchor limit raised to 8,000,000; Image Trace: Raster::new returns an error for a buffer of the wrong length; M12 maximal-disc graph pruning and junction merging measured; M12 crop EDT and Guo–Hall thinning measured; M12 centre-lines baseline measured; scores and hours unchanged; installed plug-ins stay installed after a restart, #2541; Group Selection picks and moves one path of a compound path, #2441 in part; the Move dialog opens on the last move and its last checkboxes; Image Trace: a higher Paths never gives fewer segments on collapsed loops; Image Trace: the notch rule reads only its own piece; Image Trace: an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; Image Trace Flat Logo traces line art on white paper instead of a blank result; score and hours unchanged; Image Trace: a simpler contour walk with no precomputed direction table; transparency grid visibility saved in native documents, #1968; MCP cancellation, progress and busy answers during long exports, #2165, #2171, #2172; EPS editing data: legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and compound member paint retained; raster page comparison filters minification without relaxing limits; scores and hours unchanged; native family-name fallback from English-only typographic names, #2208; scores unchanged; batch exporting, #1935; G2: Effect › Sketch › Halftone Pattern; Photoshop filters 45/57, 12 remaining (8–14 h); G5: Symbol Options Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip); Localization: Brazilian Portuguese complete under the tests, #1914, 71% → 74%; G6 image variables: Automation ~60% → ~62% / detail ~65% → ~68%, hours lowered; Warp Options controls verified by focused checks and original-image review; estimates unchanged; G11: Asset Export Art Optimized seam (#983 / #1037) and supersampled thumbs; Export for Screens 85% → 90%; existing-guide Escape cancellation validated 2026-10-14; scores and hours unchanged; open-path anchor Delete keeps surviving runs separate; estimates unchanged; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; Artboard tab-switch follow-up historically validated ona0671777; scores and hours unchanged; Artboard clean active-tab close/Delete follow-up validated 2026-10-15; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and.ai, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (identifyObjectsBy) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (blackOutput) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for.ai, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408;.aicompound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and.aiimport keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged;.aiediting-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged;.aiplaced (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 45/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (vpal) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408;.aicompound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and.aiimport keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged;.aiediting-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged;.aiplaced (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 45/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (vpal) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; MCPadd_textexposes the existingverticaloption for point, area and path type; horizontal remains the default; scores and hours unchanged; Vertical fullwidth question and exclamation marks keep their nominal glyph upright when the font has no vertical alternate; scores and hours unchanged.; Curvature curve geometry, #1236 in part; Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up validated; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace adjustment discovery; File interop: legacy.aiof version 7 saved with type as text, hidden objects kept and an artboard picker, #868, scores unchanged; Revolve: automatic smooth shading and default-on Cap with continuous rims; PDF.R1: shared PDF reader with windowed content scanning and explicit incomplete-content errors; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF.W1: guarded shared PDF writer; output behavior, scores and estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-14 merges: anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel, #1816; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; Actions panel selection, #1629 in part; redo during a drag, #1719; preferences written on OK, #1747; type in symbols after reopening, #1738; macOS save sheets, #1855, the Format menu withdrawn; stroke outlines shared, #1667; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; effects, #1864, Dim Images, #1683; duplicated rows of the 2026-10-05 table noted for the owner; scores unchanged; Image Trace: Shapes rework, stroke caps, enhanced presets, gradients over noise, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Escape while typing, #1686; Pen clicks, #1663; Expand on repeats, #1756; Roughen and Scribble, #1643, #1648; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace levelling and Flat Logo on scans, #1647, #1657; scores unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1598, #1601; type on a path from PDF and.ai, #1585, #1586; ICC tag alignment, #1584; saves, #1620 in part; Warp Arc, #1578; Zig Zag, #1558; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; a guide's position in the Transform panel, #1597 in part, a convenience with no parity claim; scores unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; Units › Identify Objects By (identifyObjectsBy) acts on Layers, Variables and Layer Options, #394, scores unchanged; Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (blackOutput) acts on RGB raster export and Print as Bitmap, #394, scores unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; Color panel: the mode picked last comes back after a restart, #1675; Image Trace: shared edges, memory, thin lines, strokes, corners, and the Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; 2026-10-13 merges: Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes for.ai, PDF, EPS and SVG, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts lists commands outside the menus, #1539; correction: Average and Join with a corner or smooth choice is missing; scores unchanged; late 2026-10-12 merges: type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; Tabs panel drags, #1458; template layers in Outline view, #1486; dialog slider rails, #1483; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; print-size images, #1517; 3D on outlined type, #1481; French catalog, #1511; scores unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; Localization: Vietnamese catalog added, 63% → 71%, hours 60–100 → 55–90, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408;.aicompound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and.aiimport keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged;.aiediting-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged;.aiplaced (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 45/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (vpal) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks; Image Trace: colour presets no longer shatter noisy flat art and photos trace into smooth tones, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect across an angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder panel on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; scores and hours unchanged; Image Trace places edges to a fraction of a pixel in every mode, measured inimage-trace-quality.md, score unchanged; 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added, 3D ~8% → ~25% (estimated), menu stubs 25 → 22; Affinity text frames too short for their first line show it, #1423; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors, #1408;.aicompound path paint, #1410; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; corner drags hide the bounding box, #1229; scores and hours unchanged; PDF and.aiimport keep overprint, #1388, scores unchanged;.aiediting-data follow-ups: gradient stops, type of objects with an appearance, short area-type frames (#1390, #1391, #1392); dialog keyboard focus on every open (#1382, #1395); art flush with an artboard (#1375); font rescan (#1376); symbol instance redraw cache (#1386); scores and hours unchanged; grid tool options, #1377 in part, scores unchanged;.aiplaced (linked) files read from the editing data, #1264, scores unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click selects its corner, #1239; scores and hours unchanged; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; Localization: Korean catalog added, 54% → 63%, full readiness unchanged at ~62%; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels traces scaled down instead of being refused, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; Path operations: Simplify preview/counts and component selection (#1272); scores unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 45/57; 28 filters remain; Platforms: RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor (#1275); scores unchanged; Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged; Drawing: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Type core: full-name font matching (#1258), scores and hours unchanged; Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); scores unchanged; UI chrome: Eyedropper cursor and precise-setting regressions (#1269); scores unchanged; Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged; Selection: segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges (#1278); scores unchanged; Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged; graphs: designs and markers, data, Graph Type and label options; UI chrome: native macOS save Format menu, #866, scores unchanged; compound paths inherit the backmost appearance and member fill-rule edits reach their owner, #1197; scores unchanged; Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (vpal) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file; SVG knockout groups of opaque art export without masks) · Target: Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
The authoritative parity assessment. ROADMAP.md summarizes it; gaps.md is
the work list made from it. Deep areas have their own checklists: UI and interaction,
file formats, hardware, languages,
effects and type.
| Number | Value | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-15 | minor | Image Trace retains nonzero positioned boundaries when a fixed-end returning piece has fewer than two fitted cubics. Source-generated tests check survival, winding, shared-edge reversal and Noise controls; see image-trace-quality.md. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| Feature breadth (does each Illustrator menu item, tool, effect and format exist?) | ~88% | measured in part: menu tree 353 of 375 items wired (94.1%), tools 89 of 92 (97%), vector effects 44 of 50 (88%), Photoshop-style effects 46 of 57 (81%), 3D 4 of 4 (initial: Extrude & Bevel, Revolve, Inflate, Rotate); blended by the area weights below |
| Feature depth (each area scored by behaviour, weighted) | ~75% | estimated, area table below |
| Ready for real work, mainstream illustrator | ~65% (60–70%) | estimated, see Ready for real work |
| Ready for real work, full Illustrator (decides the stage) | ~62% (57–67%) | estimated: additive weighted sum over the dimensions, see Ready for real work |
| Ready for real work, essentials user (core features only, see Essentials user) | ~75% (70–80%) | estimated |
| Remaining to beta | ~170–270 h one agent | estimated, gaps.md beta list |
| Remaining to full parity | ~360–590 h one agent · ~95–165 h wall clock with 4–6 agents | estimated, sum of the area table + fidelity pass + hardening |
All hours are Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock hours: one agent session working sequentially, including builds, tests and the CI gate. See Calibration.
- Target version. Illustrator 2026, the 30.x line. Feature set from Adobe's public documentation and release announcements: 30.0 (October 2025: font browser, gradient dither and perceptual blending, tangent and perpendicular snapping, artboard locking and colours, Turntable beta, Firefly integration), 30.2 (TIFF in Export for Screens), 30.3, 30.5 (Concept to Vector, Prompt to Edit, Rewrite Text) and 30.7 (Blend panel with ease in/out). Sources: the 30.0 announcement, the 30.7 announcement and helpx feature pages.
- The installed Illustrator was not inspected. Illustrator 2026 is installed on the owner's Mac, but this
repo's clean-room rule (
AGENTS.md, from the project owner) forbids reading anything inside an Adobe install, itsInfo.plistand.lprojfolders included, and forbids launching or measuring it. So nothing here is a menu dump or a side-by-side measurement: the numbers come from our own code against Illustrator's public documentation. - From the code (measured, origin/main
01e165af):- Menu tree (
crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs, laid out in Illustrator's menu order): 347 items bound to commands, 27 stubs (todo(…)/todos(…)), so 92.8% of menu items do something (348 and 27 after the Revolve merge; 350 and 25, 93.3%, after Graph › Design and Marker; 353 and 22, 94.1%, after Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate). The stubs: Effect › 3D and Materials › Materials, Effect › SVG Filters, Edit › Spelling (3), Graph › Column, Live Paint Gap Options, Optical Margin Alignment, Start Global Edit, global and video rulers (2), Snap to Glyph, Window › Arrange (4), SVG Interactivity, the library placeholders (3), Other Script…, Help. - Engine commands: ~710 ids registered with
cmd!acrosscrates/engine/src/cmd(plus macro-generated families), and 85 UI-only commands (UI_COMMANDS). - Tools: 91 in
crates/tools/src/catalog.rs; Touch Type is listed but not implemented, and the Dimension tool (added in Illustrator 28.x) is absent. - Effects catalogue (
crates/effects/src/lib.rs): see effects-parity.md. - Tests: 4,924
#[test]functions plus 40 property-test blocks (was "~2,840" in the last estimate). ~354k lines of Rust (was ~221k on 2026-10-07). - Formats: the
FORMATStable incrates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/mod.rs, see file-format-parity.md. - Languages: row counts of
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/*.tsv, see localization-parity.md.
- Menu tree (
- From users: the 71 open GitHub issues on 2026-10-10, which show what real users hit first (Illustrator
.aifiles opening with the wrong layer structure #951/#868, guides lost from.ai#779, Shape Builder region detection #937/#893, launch failures on some Windows and Linux machines #858/#964/#620, pen pressure on macOS #852, Preferences options that do nothing #394). - Presence is not parity. Each area is scored by behaviour against the public documentation, and an area is 100% only when every feature in it behaves like Illustrator. Scores were set by the agents that built the features, so they are upper bounds; this pass lowered the ones contradicted by open issues.
Weights are the share of Illustrator users' everyday work each area represents (drawing, paths, paint and type dominate; 3D, graphs and automation are specialist). They sum to 105. Feature depth = Σ weight × score / Σ weight.
| Area | Weight | Done | Main gaps | One agent (h) | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Direct Selection segment click/Delete corrected (#1278); open-path anchor Delete keeps gaps; remaining: Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Start Global Edit, transform nuances (no-op anchor Align history regression-tested, #1180 follow-up) | 4–6 | estimated |
| Drawing tools (Pen, Curvature, Pencil, shapes, Shaper) | 7 | 85% | Shaper construction widget, Pencil/Pen nuances, Blob Brush options, Touch Type, Dimension tool, Live Corners' Relative rounding; see ui-parity.md | 8–13 | estimated; Curvature point display regression-tested (#1236, in part) |
| Path operations, Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint | 5 | 80% | Shape Builder misses planar regions in real files (#937), its gap detection and options; Live Paint Gap Options; Simplify slider/auto, advanced UI and Show Original | 4–8 | estimated (lowered from 86%: open issues); compound attributes regression-tested (#1197); single-result source names survive SVG export/import (#1293), with SVG ID semantics and original-shape tests; Simplify component selection and preview regression-tested (#1272); Divide open-cutting-path geometry and appearance regression-tested (#1307) |
| Colour, swatches, gradients, patterns, mesh, recolor | 7 | 92% | 30.0's gradient dither, perceptual blending and gradient presets; freeform and mixed spot/process gradients in SVG/PDF | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 96%: target moved); unpainted zero-width stroke restoration fixed (#1253), score and hours unchanged; Eyedropper source reads regression-tested (#1251) |
| Strokes, brushes, width profiles | 5 | 88% | Shift-double-click adjoining adjustment is implemented; remaining: Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners, brush libraries, pen pressure on macOS, tilt/bearing/rotation | 8–15 | estimated; width-point creation and adjoining adjustment regression-tested; dialog layout reviewed; evidence below; finite-arithmetic follow-up regressions and full CI passed (evidence below) |
| Appearance, transparency, graphic styles, masks | 5 | 97% | raster effect reach in preview bounds | 1–2 | estimated |
| Live vector effects | 5 | 85% | Outline Object, Pathfinder Hard Mix/Soft Mix/Trap, SVG Filters, the Transform effect's missing options (#885) | 6–10 | measured count 46/50, depth estimated; Warp Options controls verified by focused checks and original-image review |
| Raster effects (Effect Gallery) | 4 | 49% | 11 Photoshop-style filters (7 Artistic, 3 Sketch, 1 more), the Effect Gallery dialog, Load Texture | 8–14 | measured count 46/57; texture redraw distances optimized (#1257), pixels verified; depth estimated |
| 3D and Materials (and Turntable) | 4 | ~25% | live Revolve with automatic smooth vector shading and default-on continuous circular caps, Extrude & Bevel (twist, taper, caps, five bevel shapes), Inflate and Rotate with Position presets (colored Inflate uses smooth membrane lighting; white-light Inflate retains its existing shading; Extrude & Bevel and Rotate retain planar shading; one to ten colored lights, shared neutral ambient, painter visibility); materials, light presets, shadows, ray tracing, 3D Classic, Turntable views, 3D export | 30–55 | estimated (Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate added 2026-10-12) |
| Type core | 9 | 80% | Auto-leading style resets are implemented; remaining: hyphenation and justification options, Optical Margin Alignment, Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout, optional group font-size preservation; transformed character controls fixed (#1034), see type-parity.md | 14–19 | estimated; full-name font matches regression-tested (#1258); mixed paragraph alignment indication implemented; headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass; localized legacy family-name fallback with loaded/catalog regressions (#2208) |
| Type advanced (CJK, spelling, Touch Type, Retype) | 4 | 50% | CJK vertical composition (ruby, mojikumi), variable font axes, tab leaders, spell check, Touch Type, Retype | 20–28 | estimated; upright fallback for fullwidth ！ / ？ regression-tested; score and hours unchanged |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, dynamic symbols, symbol libraries, Start Global Edit, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration, Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) and 9-slice guide settings (stored, not drawn) are done | 5–9 | estimated; interactive selected mirror axis implemented; bounding-box handles take priority over the axis line (focused regression and native checks passed; full CI blocked by an unrelated text test); #2544 spine Anchor Point conversion and picking regression-tested; scores and hours unchanged |
| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 75% | graph Column designs, Image Trace Create Strokes depth (Create Object Mosaic is done; junction-returning piece survival has source-generated regressions in image-trace-quality.md; simpler contour walk, identical output; an edge's sub-pixel shift is the same from either side; notches read only their own piece; collapsed loops keep few segments, so Paths is monotone on the code-drawn sweep) |
5–8 | estimated (raised from 72%); quick presets reveal adjustment controls, Properties reopens them |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 87% | 30.7's Blend panel with ease in/out, dynamic symbols, symbol libraries, Start Global Edit, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape; Symbol Options › Registration and Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) are done | 5–9 | estimated |
| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 75% | graph Column designs, Image Trace Create Strokes depth (Create Object Mosaic is done; junction-returning piece survival has source-generated regressions in image-trace-quality.md; large images trace with a warning; Auto Color keeps rare distinct colours) |
5–8 | estimated (raised from 72%); quick presets reveal adjustment controls, Properties reopens them |
| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 78% | Selected-artboard deletion is consistent across panel actions (all-selected retains artboard 1); history prunes removed indices while preserving valid multiselection; remaining: 30.0's artboard locking and colours and managing artboards from the canvas, Layers panel row context menus and Collect for Export (click-to-fit objects is done, #1227) | 5–8 | estimated (lowered from 82%: target moved); Artboard deletion keys keep artwork and the first of an all-selected set |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | New View/Edit Views, multiple windows and Arrange, Snap to Glyph | 9–14 | estimated; cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes (regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged); cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission (regression evidence below) |
| File formats | 6 | 75% | .ai files open with a flattened or wrong layer structure in real cases (#951), guides lost (#779), no writing of Illustrator's editing data (#868), FreeHand/CorelDRAW/DWG/HEIC/JPEG 2000 import, 3D export; see file-format-parity.md; EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified |
10–20 | estimated (lowered from 85%: open issues); DXF control-point SPLINE import closure regression-tested (#1299 follow-up after #1320); PDF writer metadata, reader streaming and immutable backend checks in crates/pdf/src/tests.rs, crates/pdf/src/tests_reader_streaming.rs and xtask/src/pdf_deps.rs; PDF Place and clipboard paste retain live text (synthetic regressions) |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | New View/Edit Views, multiple windows and Arrange, Snap to Glyph | 9–14 | estimated; cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes (regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged) |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | New View/Edit Views, multiple windows and Arrange, Snap to Glyph | 9–14 | estimated |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | 30.0's tangent and perpendicular snapping and its snapping panel, "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), video rulers, distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 80% | 30.0's tangent and perpendicular snapping and its snapping panel, "intersect" smart guides for a moved selection's anchors (drawn points and dragged anchors snap to intersections, #1658), global/artboard ruler mode switch and video rulers, distance readouts while drawing | 4–7 | estimated (lowered from 85%: target moved); new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented |
| Export for Screens, Asset Export, slices, Save for Web | 3 | 85% | anti-aliasing ghost borders (#983); TIFF choices and settings are implemented | 2–4 | estimated |
| Print, colour management, separations, flattener | 3 | 80% | print preview fidelity | 2–4 | estimated |
| Automation (Actions, Variables, scripting, batch) | 3 | 60% | a scripting surface (Illustrator: JavaScript/ExtendScript), Batch, image and graph variables, dataset import/export | 8–14 | estimated; MCP add_text exposes existing vertical type; score and hours unchanged |
| UI chrome (panels, Properties, workspaces, preferences) | 6 | 80% | Properties per context, ~16 Preferences options stored but unused (#394), panels outside the window, SVG Interactivity, context menus beyond the canvas, accessibility | 13–20 | estimated; macOS save Format menu implemented (#866), score and hours unchanged; Eyedropper cursor and precise setting checked (#1269), OS visual QA unverified; numeric-field focus and normal text drags regression-tested (#1326, in part); movements below the click threshold still select all; artboard navigation synchronizes the tool selection before destructive actions; status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates (sample widths cached by language/unit/DPI; regression and contributor original-file evidence below; scores/hours unchanged) |
| Libraries, Links, Package | 2 | 82% | shared libraries, linked graphics, gradients and patterns as library items (no cloud by design) | 2–3 | estimated |
| Generative AI (Text to Vector, Generative Recolor, Shape Fill, Concept to Vector, Prompt to Edit, Rewrite Text) | 2 | 0% | a pluggable provider and the panels; needs an owner decision on models | 30–60 | measured (absent) |
| Feature depth | 105 | ~75% | ~250–420 | ||
| Interaction-fidelity pass (every tool's modifiers, cursors, Properties per context) | ui-parity.md | 60–90 | estimated | ||
| Hardening (real-file corpus, cross-platform and browser QA, launch failures, performance budgets) | gaps.md | 50–80 | estimated; PngSuite fetch integrity and size budgets regression-tested (#1729) | ||
| Full parity | ~55% | ~360–590 |
Excluding the generative-AI row (the old table had none), depth is ~76% and the remaining feature work
~220–360 h. With 4–6 agents on disjoint crates, wall-clock time divides by about 3.5–4 (shared files such as
menus.rs and the i18n catalogs serialize some work): ~95–165 h to full parity.
Why the totals moved up from ~320–500 h (2026-10-05): the target moved (30.x added gradient dither, perceptual blending, new snaps, artboard locking, the Blend panel, Turntable), open issues lowered three areas, the raster-effects row was re-counted bottom-up from measured filter throughput, and generative AI is now counted. Work that landed since (Variables, Distort/Pixelate/Texture filters, Object Mosaic, German, placed documents) moved other rows up.
Three audiences, each with its own readiness and its own hours to ~95%. Essentials ⊂ mainstream ⊂ full, so the hours nest. Hours are calibrated as in Calibration. They divide by about 3.5–4 across 4–6 agents for the feature and fidelity work; stability on users' hardware, the real-file corpus and native-language review parallelize less and need humans.
| Audience | Ready % | Opus 5.5 agent hours to ~95% (one agent) | With 4–6 agents | Work that dominates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Illustrator (ready for real work; decides the stage) | ~62% (57–67%) | ~340–560 h | ~95–160 h | the mainstream work below, plus 3D (50–85 h), raster effects (24–40 h), advanced type (20–28 h), generative AI (30–60 h), localization (55–90 h) and ecosystem |
| Mainstream illustrator | ~65% (60–70%) | ~230–380 h | ~65–110 h | the interaction-fidelity pass (60–90 h), hardening and QA (30–50 h), stability (20–35 h), performance budgets (15–25 h), .ai exchange (10–20 h), the remaining depth of the everyday areas |
| Essentials user | ~75% (70–80%) | ~60–105 h | ~25–45 h | launch and stability on Windows (20–35 h), in-app help and onboarding (8–15 h), basic QA (10–15 h), Shape Builder regions (4–8 h), UI polish |
The standard's method, the same in every app: a weighted sum over the dimensions, with written weights. Values are from By dimension.
| Dimension | Weight | Value | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Features (depth) | 35 | 75% | 26.3 |
| UI/UX fidelity | 15 | 55% | 8.3 |
| File formats | 12 | 75% | 9.0 |
| Stability | 10 | 60% | 6.0 |
| Performance | 8 | 60% | 4.8 |
| Platforms | 5 | 80% | 4.0 |
| Hardware | 4 | 35% | 1.4 |
| Localization | 4 | 74% | 3.0 |
| Ecosystem and plug-ins | 4 | 15% | 0.6 |
| AI features | 3 | 0% | 0.0 |
| Ready for real work | 100 | ~62% |
The weights put most of the number on what professionals use daily (features, interaction, files, stability). Generative AI also sits inside the features row at weight 2 of 105, so it is counted slightly twice; that costs under a point.
Both start from feature depth over the areas concerned. Mainstream: ~83% over 16 areas (weight 83 of 105: selection, drawing, path operations, colour, strokes, appearance, live effects, type core, symbols and blends, layers and artboards, view, guides, file formats, Export for Screens, UI chrome, print). That is discounted ×0.9 for interaction fidelity, ×0.92 for stability on real machines and ×0.92 for Illustrator-file exchange (83 × 0.9 × 0.92 × 0.92 ≈ 63). The dimensions a typical illustrator rarely hits (plug-in ecosystem, generative AI, pen tilt, languages beyond their own) are left out. Essentials: see Essentials user.
The discounts, with the evidence:
- Illustrator's own files (×0.92).
.aiand EPS open as editable art by reading their PDF/PostScript and the structure of the editing data. Users do open legacy files a lot: 28 of the 350 issues (8%, ~22 people) are about.ai/EPS, the most common single format theme. 20 of the 28 are fixed (often the same day). The 8 open ones are about structure, not missing art: layers flattened or multiplied (#951: 109 layers instead of 14; #868), guides lost (#779), slower opening (#758), live effects, brushes and symbols as their drawn look (#637). VectorCraft can't write Illustrator's editing data (undocumented), so its PDF-compatible.aiopens in Illustrator as plain art; the legacy.aiof version 7 it also writes keeps layers, groups and type as text (one artboard per file, no transparency) but hasn't been tested by users yet (#868). That blocks beta (the main-format rule) for people who hand files back to Illustrator users, but it doesn't stop someone opening and reworking their own archive. - Interaction fidelity (×0.9). Pen, Direct Selection, smart guides and snapping are deep (ui-parity.md), and there has never been a side-by-side session. The issue tracker says the details mostly hold: 79 issues are about core drawing (pen, paths, selection, snapping, transform), 68 of them (86%) closed, 11 open (#991, #975, #955, #973 among them). One practitioner wrote "0 learning curve from pretty heavy AI use over last 20+ years" (#541).
- Stability on real machines (×0.92). The code never panics by design, and the main platform (macOS) starts reliably, but 26 issues mention a crash, freeze or failed launch (8 open: #858, #964 fixed the day of this review, #620, #818, #905 on Windows 7, #834). There is no field record and no real-world file corpus yet.
- Performance unverified. Budgets (
vectorcraft-cli perf) were all met at 25k paths on 2026-10-11; runs of 0.10.0 on Linux with 4 logical CPUs, reported in #1172 on 2026-10-13, missed all three render budgets at 20k paths. Performance is not discounted separately. Open user reports of slowness in mainstream work include #575 (Linux AppImage), #758 (.aiopen time), #1097 (zoom and pan in 0.9.0) and #1731 (a drag that stutters as it starts). - Missing subsystems a minority need daily (3D, the Effect Gallery, CJK vertical composition, scripting) pull the full number below the mainstream one.
A beginner or casual user who touches only the core features, at their default settings. Excluded: advanced options, pro workflows, file-exchange edge cases, and everything the mainstream number already leaves out. Depth here is "does the basic use work", not the area's full score.
| Core feature | Weight | Depth | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| New, open and save documents | 8 | 95% | New Document presets, Open for SVG/PDF/.ai/images, lossless native save, Data Recovery |
| Shape tools (rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star, line) | 9 | 95% | all shape tools, Live Corners |
| Selection, move, scale, rotate | 9 | 92% | bounding box, smart guides, transform tools |
| Pen and Pencil, basic use | 7 | 88% | ui-parity.md; a few Pencil and Curvature options missing |
| Fill, stroke, colour, swatches | 9 | 95% | M3 done |
| Gradients, basic | 4 | 90% | Gradient panel and on-canvas annotator |
| Type: point and area text, font, size | 8 | 88% | font menu with previews; hyphenation options missing (rarely touched) |
| Align, group, arrange | 6 | 95% | |
| Layers, basic | 4 | 85% | Layers panel rework; no row context menus |
| Shape Builder | 5 | 70% | beginners lean on it; region detection fails in some files (#937) |
| Pathfinder | 4 | 95% | exact booleans |
| Place images, Image Trace | 4 | 85% | 13 trace presets |
| Export PNG/JPG/SVG/PDF, print | 8 | 92% | Art Optimized supersample closes Asset Export ghost borders (#983 / #1037) |
| Undo and redo | 4 | 100% | unlimited, property-tested |
| Zoom, pan, fit | 4 | 95% | |
| Artboards, basic | 4 | 88% | |
| Weighted depth | 97 | ~91% |
The discounts a beginner actually hits:
- Launch and stability, ×0.93: fine on macOS, but some Windows machines fail to start (#858, #620, #818).
- Discoverability and UI clarity, ×0.92: the layout follows Illustrator's and comes in 11 languages, but there is no in-app help (Help › VectorCraft Help… is a stub), no Learn panel or tutorials, and a newcomer meets Illustrator's density without Illustrator's learning material.
- Opening files people send them, ×0.96: PDF, SVG, images and most
.aifiles open as editable art. Layer-structure problems (#951) matter less to a beginner.
91 × 0.93 × 0.92 × 0.96 ≈ 75: ~75% (70–80%), estimated.
All 350 issues and 964 issue comments on GitHub (Discussions are off), authors other than the maintainers:
- Praise: 17 issue threads from 15 people ("Great work on this. It's kind of amazing" #954; "really great job" #841; "I really love this project" #620; "0 learning curve from pretty heavy AI use over last 20+ years" #541).
- "Replacing Illustrator" reports: none found in the tracker. Praise is for the app as it is, not reports of having switched on paid work. Owner reports from practitioners outside GitHub aren't counted here.
- Themes of the 350 issues: core drawing 79 (11 open), import/export 59 (17 open), launch/crash/platform/ performance 51 (12 open), UI chrome and layers 46 (10 open), type 28 (4 open), colour 12 (5 open), other and requests 75 (24 open). 35 are titled as feature requests. The open set is mostly core-path bugs and file-exchange problems, not niche features.
Stage: alpha. All six core workflows pass the core-workflow gate end to end on macOS with save and reopen (roadmap.md › Alpha gate); file exchange with Illustrator users is partial, which is what keeps it from beta, not from alpha.
| Dimension | % | One agent (h) | Kind | Doc |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Features (depth, weighted) | 75% | 220–360 | estimated | this file |
| UI/UX fidelity (look ~80%, interaction ~45%) | 55% | 70–110 | estimated | ui-parity.md |
| File formats | 75% | 15–30 | estimated | file-format-parity.md |
| Hardware (GPU, pen, touch, displays) | 35% | 25–45 | estimated | hardware-parity.md |
| Localization (the 12 key languages, equally weighted) | 74% | 50–85 | measured from catalogs | localization-parity.md |
| Performance | ~60% | 15–25 | estimated (unverified budgets) | gaps.md |
| Stability | ~60% | 30–50 | estimated | gaps.md |
| Platforms (macOS, Windows x64/arm64, Linux, FreeBSD, web) | 80% | 15–25 | estimated | gaps.md |
| Ecosystem and plug-ins (scripting, third-party plug-ins) | 15% | 30–60 | estimated | gaps.md |
| AI features (generative) | 0% | 30–60 (+ owner decision) | measured (absent) | gaps.md |
| Agent automation (MCP, CLI, control channel) | beyond Illustrator | — | measured | mcp.md |
The dimension hours overlap (the feature rows already hold some UI, format and AI work), so they don't add up to the full-parity total.
Hours come from this repo's own history (git log and merged-PR timestamps, gh pr list):
- Raster filters, one agent working serially on gap 2: Pixelate (4 filters, merged 2026-10-10 08:47), Texture (6, 12:44), Distort (3, 16:24). About 4 h per batch, 0.7–1.2 h per Photoshop-style filter including dialog, catalogue row, menus and translations into 11 languages.
- M3 (paint and appearance): a 92-task plan whose packages were planned at 5–11 h each took about 1–1.5 agent hours each, on 2026-10-04/05 with 6–8 agents.
- Medium features: about 0.8 h each (Text Wrap, Graphs, Effect › Pathfinder…: ~20 in ~16 h on 2026-10-02).
- Whole repo: 1,671 commits and 592 merged PRs from 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-10, with several agents in parallel and a dozen community contributors.
Large subsystems (3D, CJK composition, generative AI) have no comparable history and are counted bottom-up, with a wider range. What needs a human: native-speaker review of the translations, an owner decision on generative models, real Illustrator files that users own (used locally, never committed), and Wacom/pen hardware for tilt and rotation.
Exact curve booleans, off-thread multithreaded rendering, unlimited undo, lossless SVG/PDF export of live effects, a documented JSON format, Affinity 1–3 import, the same app on the web and on Linux/FreeBSD, scrubby numeric fields, sandboxed WebAssembly plug-ins, and every command, gesture and dialog drivable by agents (MCP, CLI, control channel).
- Adobe cloud services (Libraries sync, Adobe Fonts, Projects, Express templates, Firefly): pluggable provider APIs at most, never built in.
- Adobe's bundled assets (swatch, brush, symbol libraries, presets, icons): ours are original.
- Illustrator's private editing data, beyond its structure: see file-format-parity.md.
Film Grain (G2, 2026-10-12) is the first Artistic filter: deterministic document-space monochrome
grain, transparency-preserving tone controls, a bounded live dialog, undo and appearance editing,
with PNG rendering and SVG/PDF raster baking. Evidence: crates/effects/src/pixel/artistic.rs,
its film_grain_* tests and the canvas/export cases in crates/engine/src/tests_rasterfilters.rs.
This raises the measured Photoshop filter count to 29/57; the depth estimate is conservatively 49%.
The full feature/readiness headline remains unchanged at its existing rounding.
Cutout, Neon Glow and Poster Edges (G2, 2026-10-16) follow as original Artistic filters with live
preview, undo, appearance editing and save/reopen, keeping coverage at any Document Raster Effects
resolution. Evidence: crates/effects/src/pixel/artistic.rs, its cutout_*, neon_glow_* and
poster_edges_* tests, and artistic_settings_survive_a_save_and_open in
crates/engine/src/tests_rasterfilters.rs. Smudge Stick, Sponge and Watercolor follow (G2, 2026-10-16) as original Artistic filters with the same
live preview, undo, appearance editing and save/reopen; evidence: crates/effects/src/pixel/paint.rs,
its pixel::tests_paint::* tests and tests_rasterfilters. Measured Photoshop filter count 36/57; depth unchanged.
crates/engine/src/tests_rasterfilters.rs. Bas Relief, Charcoal, Photocopy and Stamp (G2, 2026-10-16, #2527) follow as original Sketch filters
(crates/effects/src/pixel/sketch_ink.rs, pixel::tests_sketch::*). Measured Photoshop filter count 37/57; depth unchanged.
Detailed missing items per area (2026-10-05 table, still current unless the area table above says otherwise)
Duplicated rows (2026-10-14): this table lists "Selection, transform & align tools" three times and "Drawing tools" twice, each time with different text, as merges that each edited the table left them. Which text is current needs the owner's judgement, so the rows are kept as they are.
The previous estimate's per-area missing lists, kept as evidence. Scores in it are superseded by the table above.
Method (2026-10-02; M3 rows re-derived 2026-10-04, file, export, print, links and UI-chrome rows after M4 on 2026-10-05): Illustrator's feature surface is split into 22 areas, weighted by how much of the app (and of real users' work) each represents. Each area is scored by depth of behaviour, not by presence of a menu item: an area is 100% only when every feature in it behaves like Illustrator. Feature parity = Σ weight × score / Σ weight. Remaining time is counted per area from what is missing, calibrated on measured throughput: in the last session one agent landed about 20 medium features (Text Wrap, Graphs, Effect → Pathfinder, export baking…) in ~16 h wall clock including builds and CI on a heavily loaded machine — about 0.8 h per medium feature; large subsystems (3D, raster filters, vertical type) are counted bottom-up. The M3 rows (colour, strokes, appearance) come from a detailed 92-task M3 plan whose review found more missing depth than the first estimate; all 92 tasks landed on 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-05 with 6–8 agents in parallel; its packages, planned at 5–11 h each, took about 1–1.5 agent-hours each, so the other rows (estimated on the older scale) are likely high.
| Area | Weight | Done | Missing (main items) | One agent (h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Start Global Edit, transform nuances (the rotated persistent bounding box is done) | 4–6 |
| Drawing tools | 7 | 85% | rough-square Shaper recognition and orientation steps corrected; editable Shaper Groups landed; remaining: Shaper construction widget/gesture refinements, pencil and the remaining pen modifier nuances, the freehand Tool Options' Keep selected, Alt to the Smooth tool, Blob Brush Merge Only with Selection and brush angle/roundness, Touch Type, Live Corners' Relative rounding (Curvature point display improved, #1236 in part) | 8–13 |
| Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Start Global Edit, transform nuances (the rotated persistent bounding box is done; no-op anchor Align history regression-tested, #1180 follow-up) | 4–6 |
| Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Direct Selection segment click/Delete corrected (#1278); remaining: Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Start Global Edit, transform nuances (the rotated persistent bounding box is done) | 4–6 |
| Drawing tools | 7 | 86% | rough-square Shaper recognition and orientation steps corrected; editable Shaper Groups landed; Pencil: Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool (#2001); remaining: Shaper construction widget/gesture refinements, pencil and the remaining pen modifier nuances, Blob Brush Merge Only with Selection and brush angle/roundness, Touch Type, Live Corners' Relative rounding | 7–12 |
| Path operations, Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint | 5 | 86% | Live Paint gap options, Shape Builder gap detection, options (Tool Options dialog, clicking a stroke in merge mode) and Shift-drag marquee | 3–6 |
| Colour, swatches, gradients, patterns, mesh, recolor | 7 | 96% | freeform and mixed spot/process gradients in SVG/PDF (exported as stops or process colours), pattern fills in Expand | 2–4; Eyedropper source reads regression-tested (#1251) |
| Strokes, brushes, width profiles | 5 | 90% | the Art brush's Overlap, auto-generated Pattern brush corners and new tile art in Pattern Brush Options (Brush Options for every brush type done), brush libraries (generated in code), pen pressure on macOS (the windowing layer reports none there), brushes driven by pen tilt, bearing and barrel rotation (6D art pens) | 8–15 |
| Appearance, transparency, graphic styles, masks | 5 | 98% | raster effect reach in preview bounds (flattener presets apply in PDF, EPS and print) | 1–2 |
| Live vector effects | 5 | 85% | Outline Object, Pathfinder Hard/Soft Mix and Trap, SVG Filters, the Transform effect's Transform Objects/Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects options | 6–10 |
| Raster effects (Effect Gallery, Document Raster Effects Settings) | 4 | 35% | ~36 Photoshop-style filters (Artistic, Brush Strokes, Sketch, Stylize), Texturizer's Load Texture and the Effect Gallery; Document Raster Effects Settings, raster effects in PDF, the pixel-filter pipeline, Radial Blur, Smart Blur (Normal, Edge Only and Overlay Edge), Unsharp Mask, Glowing Edges, Distort (Diffuse Glow, Glass, Ocean Ripple), Pixelate (Color Halftone, Crystallize, Mezzotint, Pointillize), Texture (Craquelure, Grain, Mosaic Tiles, Patchwork, Stained Glass, Texturizer) and Video (De-Interlace, NTSC Colors) are done | 8–14 |
| 3D and Materials | 4 | ~25% | Initial Revolve, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate, with simple lighting; materials, light presets, shadows, ray tracing, 3D Classic and more complete visibility remain | 25–45 |
| Type core | 9 | 80% | Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout and Paragraph Direction (Character Direction, kashidas, the Middle Eastern composers, editable bidirectional SVG text, a split caret where directions meet); Hyphenation… and Justification… options (Every-line Composer for justified and ragged text, per object, is done; it is tuned by eye, not yet compared side by side with Illustrator; mixed type sizes in a paragraph still break single-line), Optical Margin Alignment, paragraph spacing limit for vertically justified area type, hidden characters, paragraph attributes in the Type tool's copy and paste (the characters keep their styles, the paragraphs take the destination's), mixed-value display in the Paragraph panel for a selection across differing paragraphs, partial selection of type-area anchors by marquee, optional font-size preservation during group scaling (scaled character controls fixed in #1034) | 14–19 |
| Type advanced | 4 | 50% | CJK composition for vertical type (ruby, mojikumi beyond Line-end Punctuation Half Width — the other sets (and their paragraph-start bracket and indent rules), custom kinsoku sets (beyond Hard, Soft and None) and the Mojikumi Settings dialog —, manual tate-chu-yoko), variable font axis sliders (named instances are styles), tab leaders, spell check (open dictionary), Touch Type, Retype; vertical point/area/path type and Type Orientation have initial support (beyond parity, not scored: inline symbols in text) | 20–28 |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 90% | symbol libraries (original), dynamic symbols, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape output and warp point editing, brush interpolation in blends (M8 fidelity pass done); Symbol Options › Registration and Export Type done (9-slice guides remain) | 4–7 |
| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 72% | graph Column designs (Graph Design, Marker designs and series colours set with Group Selection are done), Create Object Mosaic, per-feature stroke/fill choice and varying widths in Image Trace's Create Strokes (Vector Halftone and the Image Trace View modes, Palette and Create Strokes are done) | 6–10 |
| Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 82% | Layers panel: a confirmation before deleting layers that hold art, Collect for Export, row context menus, the Layer Options dialog for several rows with mixed values, Paste Remembers Layers for sublayers, drag-scrolling a long panel while dragging rows; artboard preset polish (artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; Move Artwork for artboard X/Y edits, Rearrange All Artboards, Document Setup, New Document and the rest of the Layers panel are done) | 4–7 |
| View & navigation | 3 | 70% | New View/Edit Views, multiple windows/arrange, Snap to Pixel/Glyph (print tiling is done) | 9–14 |
| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 85% | global/video rulers, Spacing Guides' distance readouts and spacing for resized or drawn art, Smart Guides' angle and distance readouts while drawing, Alt swapping a ruler guide's orientation, ruler guides selected together with art (marquee, Shift-click), ruler guides as Layers rows with their own lock and hide (#451: Lock Guides locks them all; Make Guides paths are Layers rows already) (dragging existing guides is done, #414; new guides snapping to side midpoints and artboards, and artboard guides, #451; the drawing tools snapping, with Construction Guides, #506; Spacing Guides for moves, #394; moves snapping to the grid, #740; ruler guides pulling drawn points with Smart Guides on, and "center" and "anchor" labels while hovering with the Selection tool, #812) | 2–4 |
| File formats | 6 | 85% | Affinity export, and the rest of Affinity import (effects, adjustments, brushes, master pages, live symbol instances), DWG (no open spec: DXF instead), PSD placement as layers (Photoshop Import Options; the merged image is done), EPS checked against more real files users send (Inkscape files open as vectors; other generators' constructs are tested with programs written from the PostScript Language Reference only; CID-keyed CJK type and CCITTFaxDecode images not read), legacy .ai files saved without the prolog that defines their operators (their own operator set isn't read yet), the rest of Illustrator's editing data (appearances and live effects, symbols, pattern fills, brushes, placed files: #637), the remaining fidelity polish; EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, TIFF, BMP, Targa, PSD export, SVGZ, PDF security, PDF/X, PDF layers, presets and Affinity import are done |
6–10 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
| Export for Screens, Asset Export, slices, Save for Web | 3 | 85% | polish only (all four are done) | 2–4 |
| Print, colour management, separations, flattener | 3 | 80% | print preview fidelity (flattener presets in PDF and print, overprint in PDF and composite print, Print dialog, presets, PostScript, marks, separations, Print Tiling, print overprint/flattener/bitmap options and printer profile are done) | 1–2 |
| Automation | 3 | 65% | scripting surface, batch (MCP drops malformed app replies without replay; Variables: text/visibility variables bound to objects, an object may carry several, dataset rows applied in one undo step, panel and Window › Variables with dialogs; image/graph kinds and dataset import/export open) | 6–10 |
| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 80% | macOS native menu dismissal fixed (M14.8); Variables, Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes and the canvas context menu are done; remaining: SVG Interactivity, Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window and docked into any group, context menus beyond the canvas, about 13 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing, hyphenation language, devices…) | 13–20 |
| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 80% | macOS native menu dismissal fixed (M14.8); Variables, Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes and the canvas context menu are done; remaining: SVG Interactivity, Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window and docked into any group, context menus beyond the canvas, about 14 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing, hyphenation language, devices…) | 13–20 |
| Libraries, Links, Package | 2 | 82% | the Libraries panel is local only (no cloud by design: libraries are files on this machine) and has no shared libraries, linked graphics or gradients and patterns as items yet; its graphics, colours and text styles (#745), its search, groups and library export/import as .vclibrary files (#926), and a list that scrolls, with items and groups reordered by dragging and items dragged into and out of groups, are done; Links and Package are done; placed VectorCraft documents are done (linked by default, vectors in every output, previews, Break Link, Expand, Edit Original, refresh on save) |
2–3 |
| Feature parity | 103 | ~75% | ~210–330 | |
| Interaction-fidelity pass (side by side with Illustrator: every tool modifier, cursor, dialog, Properties context) | 60–90 | |||
| Hardening (big-file corpus, fuzzing, cross-platform and browser QA, accessibility, packaging) | Bounded control socket waits (#1726); PngSuite pinned-file integrity and download budgets verified (#1729); RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor checked (#1275); real-distro installation/start-up QA pending | 50–80 | ||
| Full parity | ~56% | ~320–500 |
Inventories (2026-10-07): 13 menu items still stubbed (todo(…) in crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs); every tool
implemented except Touch Type; 51 panel modules; Illustrator-style live
effects ~44/54, Photoshop-style raster effects ~4/56, 3D 0/5; ~2,840 tests; ~221k lines of Rust.
The previous assessment's evidence per dimension, kept as it was; the By dimension table above supersedes its numbers.
In one line: about two-thirds to three-quarters of Illustrator's features exist and work, and for everyday vector illustration (drawing, paths, paint and appearance, SVG/PDF/print) VectorCraft is close to usable. Measured against "a power user can't tell the difference", it is closer to 40–55%. What stands between here and "anyone can switch" is a handful of large subsystems plus a fidelity pass, not a long tail of small fixes.
How much to trust the numbers: area scores are graded by the agents that built the features, from behaviour docs
(plan/illustrator/) and tests, not by side-by-side use of Illustrator. Treat them as upper bounds. Look & feel is
the only dimension measured against the reference app. Performance budgets haven't been re-run on an idle machine
since 2026-10-01.
| Dimension | Estimate | Evidence and what's missing |
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| Breadth: menus, tools and panels exist | ~90% | 13 menu items still stubbed; every tool implemented except Touch Type; 51 panel modules |
| Depth: each feature behaves like Illustrator | ~69–75% | Strong: paint, appearance and colour (M3), Pathfinder and booleans, selection, drawing, files (M4). Weak: advanced type (~45%; inline symbols in text are beyond parity and don't raise it), brushes and symbols (in progress), raster effects (~20%) |
| Large missing subsystems | 0–20% | 3D & Materials (~25%, initial 3D types without materials), Photoshop-style raster effects and the Effect Gallery (~19 of ~56 filters), SVG Filters, CJK composition (vertical type with kinsoku, tate-chu-yoko and the font's vertical metrics; ruby, mojikumi and proportional vertical metrics open), scripting |
| Interaction fidelity: modifiers, cursors, small behaviours | ~30–40% | The dedicated pass hasn't started, and there has been no side-by-side session with Illustrator yet. A power user notices this first |
| Look & feel | ~75–80% | Measured against Illustrator 2026 screenshots (2026-10-02); the panels added since haven't been re-measured |
| File interop | ~85% | SVG/SVGZ, PDF and PDF-compatible .ai (and legacy version 7 .ai out, keeping layers, groups and type as text), EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, raster formats, PSD export and PSD/PSB placement (merged image), Place and Links, Package, Print, clipboard flavours. Affinity documents (Affinity 1–3) open natively as editable art, checked against 51 pinned public files (33 current .af), with selected saved-thumbnail comparisons and every-board native/SVG/PDF/PSD checks for current files; Affinity export is missing and effects, adjustments and brushes don't import. Affinity isn't an Illustrator feature, so this doesn't raise the parity score. The editing copy inside an Illustrator EPS or .ai is read for its structure: layers, groups, names, hidden objects and type, colours, gradients, transparency, images and every artboard (see Out of scope for what it doesn't read yet); DWG has no open spec |
| Bundled content: brush, symbol, style and swatch libraries | ~30% | Ours are original and generated in code, and far fewer than Illustrator ships; brush and symbol libraries are still missing |
| Performance | unverified | Multithreaded, off-thread rendering and caches are in place. The last budget run (2026-10-01, loaded machine) measured 290 ms for a 50k-path fit against a 16 ms budget. Re-run vectorcraft-cli perf on an idle machine |
| Robustness | good, new | ~2,840 tests, property tests, no panics in shipped code (lints, the guard safety net, import fuzzing), Data Recovery. Missing: a corpus of real-world files, Windows/Linux/browser QA |
| Platforms and 1.0 polish | ~60% | The macOS app and the web build work, and Finder opens every readable format with the macOS app (#295, #354); on macOS the menus are in the system menu bar, laid out as a Mac app's, with the in-window menus as a fallback (--in-window-menus; verified on Windows and by cross-compilation, not yet by hand on a Mac); hybrid-graphics laptops render on the power-saving GPU by default on Windows and macOS (#306), and Windows starts on Direct3D 12, falling back to OpenGL, and loads no Vulkan driver unless WGPU_BACKEND asks for it (#545: Vulkan flickered black on an Intel GPU, DX12 and OpenGL didn't; #806: a faulty Vulkan driver crashed the app before its window appeared; verified by unit tests and the reporter's runs with WGPU_BACKEND), and Linux on the GPU the desktop runs on, since a Wayland compositor may refuse frames from the other one; a window that fails on its GPU while starting up starts again on the next one instead of crashing (#502; the dual-GPU Wayland case is verified by unit tests and cross-compilation, not on such hardware); web drops land in the document they were dropped on (#359); desktop drops carry no pointer position (winit 0.30), so a dropped document opens as a tab of its own and a picture or text is placed in the middle of the view, while the web places anything dropped on the canvas and opens what is dropped off it, as Illustrator does (#472); a web page that loses its WebGPU device or WebGL context restarts its graphics with the same documents (#369); on Linux/Wayland the clipboard reads the compositor's own (data-control) and copied image files paste, but files can't be dropped on the window under native Wayland until eframe moves to winit 0.31 (#398; the Wayland side is verified by compilation only), so Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server › X11 (XWayland) opens the window through XWayland, where drops work (#1151; verified by unit tests and cross-compilation, not on a Wayland desktop); on Linux the Paste menu checks the system clipboard on a background thread, so a clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window, while Windows and macOS keep their quick in-line check (#510; the X11 hang verified by the contributor, here by headless tests); on KDE Plasma 6.3+ under Wayland, pens and pen displays reach the app only under XWayland (WAYLAND_DISPLAY=) or with KWin's KWIN_WAYLAND_EMULATE_TABLET=1, since winit 0.30 has no Wayland tablet input (#491, not verified on hardware); Windows/Linux packaging and accessibility are pending; an experimental, unsupported Windows 7 x64 OpenGL build exists (community-contributed, not verified by maintainers) |
| Agent automation | beyond Illustrator | Every command, gesture and dialog is drivable over MCP, the CLI and the control channel; synthetic-input counts, pending events and per-frame control requests are bounded (#1709); what an agent reads and writes on disk can be confined to chosen folders (--automation-read-root / --automation-write-root, as in PhotoCraft, #832) |
| Scrubby numeric fields | beyond Illustrator | As in Photoshop, dragging a numeric field's label (W:, Opacity:, the Character panel's icons) left or right steps its value live; one undo step per drag, Escape cancels (#400) |
| Align Stroke on live type | beyond Illustrator | The Stroke panel's Align Stroke works on type's character stroke: inside or outside the glyphs without Create Outlines, the type staying editable (as InDesign does; users have asked Illustrator for it since 2010, e.g. redd.it/1dwhos6). Canvas, PDF and EPS clip it to its side of the glyphs; SVG keeps the text live and draws the stroke on the glyph outlines (#2294) |
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Stable status-bar readouts: The status message keeps its left anchor and clipping allocation as live values, canvas hover and background-job state change. Coordinate and spinner slots stay reserved; narrow windows hide optional diagnostics, then coordinates, to preserve message space. Widths are measured from the active font, translated labels and fixed numeric samples, never current readings. Coordinates through +/-9999.99 selected units, timings through 9999.9 ms and FPS through 9999 remain readable. Extreme values are elided with full tooltip/accessibility text; only elided fields show a tooltip. Coordinate inspection retains the last point per document and clears on PointerGone. Regressions cover message origin/clip/bounds/elision invariance, all registered languages and ten units, responsive layouts, coordinate inspection and document switching, and accessible busy transitions. The contributor rebuilt and confirmed the original status-bar issue is fixed with their own artwork on 2026-10-19; the subsequent upstream rebase is checked by regressions and full CI. The artwork stays local. Scores and estimates are unchanged. Sample widths use a bounded single-entry UI cache keyed by language, unit and pixels per point; two regressions verify reuse during live updates and invalidation after each display-setting change.
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Canvas review follow-up: Cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission. Controlled-worker regression checks oversized width and height, high DPI and the render transform without allocating oversized images. Scores and estimates are unchanged.
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Cached canvas frames during viewport changes: Cached screen textures use their own raster dimensions and pixels-per-point when reprojected.
canvas::tests::cached_frames_keep_their_scale_during_resize_rotation_and_dpi_changesholds the worker and checks every UV corner against the cached render transform, including isolated viewport-only resize at zero/30-degree rotation, fractional raster dimensions, zoom/pan, changed rotation, monitor-DPI changes in both directions, Pixel Preview and replacement-frame delivery. The contributor rebuilt and confirmed the original resize issue is fixed with their own artwork on 2026-10-19; the subsequent upstream rebase is checked by regressions and full CI. The artwork stays local. Scores and estimates are unchanged. -
PDF editable import: Place from bytes or a path with
link: false, andclipboard.importPdffollowed by Paste, preserve live type on the selected page. Place still honorstextAs: "outlines". Synthetic two-page regressions:crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_pdffidelity.rs. No change to the PDF reader's existing fallback rules. -
Selected Mirror Repeat handles: a headless canvas regression creates the default mirror repeat and drags its Top bounding-box handle where the axis crosses it; the repeat grows vertically while its width stays fixed. Existing mirror-axis checks cover center movement and end-handle hit priority. The focused UI mirror tests pass. Scores and hours unchanged.
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Warp Options (#1760): Effect > Warp and existing Appearance effect links share the fifteen existing styles, original schematic previews, orientation choices and percent Bend/Distortion controls. Focused tests passed for real numeric entry and slider input, Preview/Cancel, immediate Enter/OK, mixed-style edits, target/slot/visibility preservation and Undo/Redo. Each applied style stays unchanged until an explicit Style choice. Original style-menu and live-preview captures were reviewed; their numeric values were supplied programmatically. Public references: Reshaping with effects and Using effects. Warp geometry, optional Properties integration and remembered defaults are unchanged; no broader parity claim.
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Existing-guide Escape cancellation (G1): Escape clears a pending guide press or drag through Selection and Direct/Group Selection, cancelling a begun preview. Eight app-input regressions cover both axes, move/copy, temporary selection-tool borrowing from idle Pen, preselected-guide document/interaction-start selection and Undo/Redo/saved-state preservation, later on-canvas motion/release, Shift-press cancellation, and ordinary-release/Enter/idle controls. Historical focused checks on
8ab574b7recorded five expected RED failures with three passing controls, then all eight GREEN tests and the Direct Selection Escape control passed. All nine also passed in current full CI. A full CI retry on the five-unit combined source ata0671777passed all seven stages with 6,613 test outcomes on 2026-10-14. An earlier full-CI run on the identical source panicked in the randomizedai_mutated_save_never_panicstest; the cause remains unresolved. This five-fix batch does not claim to repair that failure. The original 1280×960 headless app capture fromb076025awas reviewed for one vertical Selection guide after Escape; source review found its scene unchanged ona0671777. Scores and hours unchanged. -
TIFF in screen and asset export: both format menus expose the existing TIFF encoder and Format Settings. Headless UI regressions choose TIFF and check scaled dimensions, artboard selection, filenames, encoding options, saved settings and collected-asset output. Public reference: Export for Screens, updated 2026-09-28, lists TIFF for both artboards and assets. Adobe staff confirmed support in 30.2.1 on 2026-02-19; the older 2025 Collect assets guide omits TIFF.
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Export for Screens of the selected artboards: while the Artboard tool is in use, File › Export › Export for Screens… (
file.exportForScreens) opens with the artboards the tool has selected checked on its Artboards tab, and Export Artboard writes only those. Shift-clicks on the canvas, or Shift- or Ctrl/Cmd-clicks on the Artboards panel's rows, select several. The other fields show the settings the document last exported with. With another tool in use, the dialog takes its artboard choice from those settings too. Public reference: Export selected artboards. -
Effects in Export Selection and asset crops: File › Export Selection, Asset Export, Export for Screens' Assets tab and CSS Properties' rasterized art crop each object to the bounds the renderer measures for what it draws: drop shadows, glows, geometry effects such as Offset Path, a group's own effects and the effects in a symbol's art. A brushed path is cropped to its visual bounds, and a Shaper group is cropped to the art it shows.
assets.listreports the same crop. Engine tests export a square with each effect, a group with a shadow and an asset with a shadow, and check that the effect is inside the image. Public reference: a Community Expert answer traces the extra area of exported assets to the raster effects' area (Document Raster Effects Settings › Add Around Object). -
Effects in the art's bounds: Export with Use Artboards off, Fit to Artwork Bounds, and the other exports of the whole art (EPS without artboards, Export for Screens' Full Document, Save for Web (Legacy) with Clip to Artboard off) measure each visible object as the export crops above do. The drop shadows and other effects of groups, layers, type and images are inside the image or the artboard. A Shaper group without effects of its own is measured by the art it shows, and the hidden members of a group with a drop shadow, a glow or another raster effect do not count unless it is a Shaper group or also has a geometry, Pathfinder, Crop Marks or 3D effect or a visible effect on its own fill or stroke. The SVG of an artboard keeps an object whose effects alone reach the artboard. Tests measure a group, type and an image with a drop shadow, export a group and type with Use Artboards off and fit an artboard to them.
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Selected artboard deletion: the Artboards panel menu, panel trash button and Properties use the same selected set; selecting all retains artboard 1. Pointer-event tests cover nonadjacent and single selections, the original first-board survivor, ordinary artwork, Undo/Redo and the single-board guard. Public reference: Delete artboards.
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Artboard history selection: headless pointer/key tests in
panels/properties.rspass for panel New → Undo → Delete/Backspace/Properties, Duplicate → Undo → Delete, pruning removed indices and preserving valid multiselection. They assert board survivors, artwork and object selection, Move/Scale Artwork options, saved state and Undo/Redo. Full workspace CI passes. -
Artboard tab-switch follow-up: changing the active document through its tab aligns the Artboard tool with the displayed board before Properties Delete; clicking the already-active tab preserves multiselection and Move/Scale Artwork options. Three headless
chrome::tests::artboard_document_tab_*regressions cover actual tab A → B → A clicks followed by Properties Delete, surviving boards and guides, preserved artwork/symbols and Undo/Redo; controls cover same-tab multiselection, Move/Scale Artwork options and other tools. Historical focused validation ondbd2497brecorded one expected RED failure with two passing controls, then all three GREEN tests passed. All three also passed in historical full CI ona0671777. A full CI retry on the five-unit combined source ata0671777passed all seven stages with 6,613 test outcomes on 2026-10-14. An earlier full-CI run on the identical source panicked in the randomizedai_mutated_save_never_panicstest; the cause remains unresolved. This five-fix batch does not claim to repair that failure. -
Artboard clean active-tab close (2026-10-15): with the Artboard tool active, closing a clean active tab restores the surviving document's displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed: three existing tab regressions, one clean close/Delete regression and five existing unsaved-document controls. The close regression checks the correct surviving board, preserved artwork/symbols and object selection, affected guides, one Delete edit, saved state and Undo/Redo. Three reviewed original full-app headless captures show the active tab before closing, the surviving document's shown board after closing, and the correct survivor after Properties Delete, using the actual tab × and Delete controls.
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Character-style Auto leading: capture and explicit style attributes retain Auto as a reset, distinct from omitted leading. Redefine and later numeric updates preserve local leading overrides; the Character Styles marker recognizes Auto correctly. Regression assertions cover partial definitions, Undo/Redo and native save/load serialization. Public references: Character and paragraph styles and Leading.
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Text styles redefined to the defaults: New and Redefine Character Style and Paragraph Style capture every attribute of the selected text, including those at their defaults (Auto kerning, Roman baseline alignment, the default Hyphenation options, the Every-line Composer, no tab stops), and
charStyle.setAttrsandparaStyle.setAttrskeep an attribute set to its default value. After a redefinition, text whose value still equals the old definition's takes the new value, a default included; local overrides and attributes the new definition leaves out stay. The style panels show "+" only where the text differs from its style, including type with Auto alignment. Public reference: Character and paragraph styles. -
Names of new styles and symbols:
charStyle.newandparaStyle.newtrim the white space around the name they are given, ascharStyle.renameandparaStyle.renamedo, and refuse a name that is then empty; Duplicate names its copy from the trimmed name.symbol.newandsymbol.duplicatetrim the name as Symbol Options does, andlibrary.useadds a library's text style under its trimmed name. Public reference: Character and paragraph styles. -
Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables Adjust Adjoining Width Points; plain double-click and direct opening retain the default. Tool dispatch and headless dialog tests cover neighboring widths, Undo/Redo and Cancel. Public reference: Variable-width strokes. Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a feature lands.
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New ruler guides (G1): Alt swaps orientation while dragging from either ruler, following the public shortcut reference. Preview, snapping and final placement use the current axis. Tool and egui event tests exercise both rulers, modifier changes, cancellation and one-step Undo/Redo; existing-guide Alt-copy and ruler-origin gestures are unchanged.
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Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up (G1/M3): Adjoining adjustments avoid intermediate overflow; non-finite normalized or resulting factors are rejected before committing. Engine regressions in
tests_widthpoints.rscover finite extremes, small nonzero results, atomic rejection, Undo/Redo and native save/reopen. Historical focused validation on thea3357121integration observed 2 expected RED failures with 11 passing controls, then all 13 tests passing with the repair; none were ignored. All three added regressions passed in current full CI. A full CI retry on the five-unit combined source ata0671777passed all seven stages with 6,613 test outcomes on 2026-10-14. An earlier full-CI run on the identical source panicked in the randomizedai_mutated_save_never_panicstest; the cause remains unresolved. This five-fix batch does not claim to repair that failure. Scores and hours unchanged. -
Width-point creation (G1): double-click a stroked segment with the Width tool to open Width Point Edit using sampled side widths. OK creates the point and optionally adjusts adjoining widths in one undo step. Cancel or Delete discards a prospective point without changing the document or redo history. Command and pointer tests cover profiles, compound paths, adjoining adjustment, existing-point editing and Undo/Redo. Message-catalog checks and full CI passed; the original capture verifies opening and Cancel, and the dialog layout was reviewed (2026-10-13: 28 focused Width tests, all seven cargo xtask ci stages, and a headless opening/Cancel capture with original PNG review). Variable-width strokes.
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Rulers (#1212): drag the intersection to preview and set a document zero point, or double-click it to reset to the active artboard's top-left. Transform, Properties and Control X/Y fields measure from it and convert entered positions back to absolute command coordinates. The origin survives every native format version and compression; geometry, guides and patterns stay in place. Public reference: Use rulers.
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Global and artboard rulers: View › Rulers › Change to Global / Artboard Rulers (Cmd+Alt+R,
view.globalRulers). A new document has artboard rulers: the rulers and the Transform, Properties, Control and Info X/Y count from the active artboard's top-left corner, or the zero point dragged out for that artboard, which moves with it; with global rulers one document zero point serves every artboard. Guide readouts and Shift ruler-tick snapping follow the same zero point. The mode is saved with the document; files from before it open with global rulers, as they measured. Regression tests:engine/tests/ruler_origin.rs,ui-egui/src/tests_ruler_origin.rs,tools/src/rulerguide.rs. Public reference: About rulers. Video rulers remain. -
Document Setup modal handoff: Document Setup → Edit Artboards applies valid settings, closes the dialog and activates the Artboard tool. Pointer-click tests cover successful handoff, invalid settings, OK, Cancel and Undo in
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Control bar with the Artboard tool: while the Artboard tool is in use, the Control bar shows the active artboard's controls in place of the object controls: Preset, Portrait and Landscape, New Artboard, Delete Artboard, the Name field, Artboard Options, Rearrange All Artboards, the Transform link, Move and Scale Artwork with Artboard and, while the bar has room, the reference point with X and Y, and W and H with the Constrain Width and Height Proportions link. Each runs the command its Properties or Transform panel counterpart runs (
artboard.setProps,artboard.new,artboard.delete,tool.options {tool: "artboard"}), and the reference point is the one the Transform panel uses. In an 800-point window the controls up to the Transform link fit, Move and Scale Artwork with Artboard show as their boxes alone with their names in tooltips, and the link opens the Transform panel with the artboard's position and size. Pointer and key tests inpanels/artboards.rscover the controls, W about the reference point, the orientation and the name. Public reference: Using multiple artboards (archived copy). -
Names of new and renamed artboards, brushes and patterns:
artboard.newandartboard.setPropstrim the white space around the name they are given, as the Artboards panel's rename does, and a blank name gives the artboard its default name, Artboard N for the Nth artboard.brush.new,brush.duplicate,brush.options,object.pattern.make,object.pattern.saveCopyandpattern.optionstrim the name as the Brush Options dialog and the Pattern Options panel do, and compare the trimmed name with the names there are; a blank name gives the name each command gives when there is none, and Brush Options and Pattern Options keep the name. Tests intests_panelcmds.rs,tests_brushsym.rsandtests_pattern.rscover each command. Public references: Using multiple artboards, Brushes and Create and edit patterns (archived copies). -
Pattern names and swatch names:
pattern.optionsrefuses a new name that another pattern, a swatch or a color group has. It takes a name that only the pattern's own swatches have. The reference page does not say what happens when the new name is taken; the refusal follows VectorCraft's rule that swatches and color groups share one namespace (Document::swatch_name_taken), whichswatch.newandswatch.editalso follow. A rename gives the new name only to the pattern's swatches that had the old one; any other swatch with the old name keeps it, and art linked to that swatch stays linked.object.pattern.makeandobject.pattern.saveCopynumber a color group's name as they number a swatch's. Tests intests_pattern.rscover each command. Public reference: Create and edit patterns (archived copy). -
Edit Artboards in Properties: the active artboard's name is a field. Typing a new name and pressing Enter or clicking elsewhere renames that artboard in one undo step, as the Artboards panel's rename does (
artboard.setProps {index, name}); pressing Escape or leaving the field empty keeps the old name. A click on the Artboard Options icon beside the field opens Artboard Options for the active artboard, as double-clicking the Artboard tool's button does (tool.options {tool: "artboard"}). Pointer and key tests inpanels/properties.rscover both. Public references: Resize artboards and Create and add new artboards. -
Resizing several artboards: with several artboards selected with the Artboard tool, a new W or H in Properties, the Transform panel or the Control bar, a preset or an orientation in Properties or the Control bar, and a new Width or Height in Artboard Options resize every selected artboard in one undo step (
artboard.setProps {artboards}); with Scale Artwork with Artboard on, Properties, the Transform panel and the Control bar scale each object once, with the artboard it was inside before the change. The Transform panel, the Control bar and Artboard Options resize each one about its own reference point, a preset sizes each one in its own orientation, and X and Y still move the active artboard alone. Pointer and key tests inpanels/properties.rs, dialog tests indialogs/tests.rsand an engine test intests_xform.rscover them. Public references: Artboard Enhancements In Illustrator CC ("modify them all in bulk by defining the height and width values") and Using multiple artboards (2019). -
Artboard Escape routing: Escape leaves Artboard editing for Selection; during a drag it first cancels the gesture. Headless egui key events cover idle Escape, active-drag cancellation and a subsequent Escape in
tests_distortkeys.rs. -
Artboard deletion keys: Delete/Backspace delete selected boards in one Undo step, retaining the original first board in the current order when all are selected, as in the public Delete artboards guide. The last board and active drags stay protected; neither key clears selected artwork. Headless shortcut regressions in
tests_distortkeys.rscover reordered boards, artwork, saved state and Undo/Redo. -
Linux RPM packaging: 64-bit runtime capabilities replace Fedora-specific required package names (#1275); glibc 2.35, libm and libgcc_s are declared alongside dynamically loaded xkbcommon and Vulkan/EGL. Generated x86_64/aarch64 metadata and isolated synthetic-provider resolution checked; real-distro install/start-up QA remains pending.
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Linux file associations: the desktop entry lists the MIME type of every format File › Open reads but PSD, PSB,
.psPostScript and Targa,.ai,.aitand EPS included, and the MIME package declares the types shared-mime-info lacks (VectorCraft documents and templates,.ait, Affinity), so file managers list VectorCraft under Open With for them, as Finder does on macOS.the_linux_desktop_entry_opens_every_readable_formatinapps/vectorcraft/src/main.rschecks both files againstOPEN_EXTS. On Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 42,desktop-file-validateaccepts the desktop entry,update-mime-databaseaccepts the MIME package, andgioregisters the app for every one of these types. -
Architecture: 19+ crates with enforced layering (
cargo xtask layers). Every action is a command (~400 engine + ~50 UI). Undo is unlimited via structural sharing.command.batchruns several commands as one transaction. -
Automation:
- Variables: Update Data Set writes what the art holds into the active data set for the variables that data set holds, and keeps the data set's value for a variable whose objects are locked or inside a locked layer or group;
dataset.update {all: true}also adds the other variables that the art reports a value for. - Variables:
dataset.select,dataset.nextanddataset.prevrewrite type and apply the other values on hidden objects and in hidden layers and groups, which stay hidden unless a visibility value shows them, so a layer shown later holds the selected data set's text; objects that are locked or in a locked layer or group are skipped. - Variables:
dataset.select,dataset.nextanddataset.prevname the area type and type on a path whose text they rewrote and that doesn't fit, in the reply'soverflowkey, astext.setTextdoes. - Variables: when no object is bound to a variable that the data set has a value for, for example after Import Data Sets… defines new variables without binding them, choosing the data set in the Variables panel or stepping to it with the panel's arrows shows a status message, and
dataset.select,dataset.nextanddataset.prevadd the message to the reply aswarning. - Variables: Lock Variables (
variable.lock, in the Variables panel's bottom bar and menu) stops variables from being defined, deleted or renamed until they are unlocked, while objects can still be bound and unbound and data sets still change and apply; the lock is saved with the document. - Batch…: Override Save and Override Export name each file with the extension of the format the step writes, however the step spells the format (
.svgandSVGgive.svg,png8gives.png), inaction.batch. - Actions panel (record/playback, persisted), generic parameter dialogs for every "…" command.
- Batch… over data sets names each file after the document and the data set (
action.batch). It writes/,\,:,<,>,",|,?,*and control characters in the data set's name as-, and adds-2,-3… to a name an earlier data set used. - Export for Screens: the dialog's Example line shows the path of the file the export writes first, sub-folder included, named as the export names it, for the first chosen artboard, asset, layer or object (
document.exportForScreens). - Save for Web: Preview in Browser writes each preview's page and images to a folder of its own inside
VectorCraft Save for Webin the system's temporary folder. A later preview, from the same app or another one running, does not overwrite an earlier one. Each preview first removes the files and folders there that are an hour old or older (file.saveForWeb.browser). - Export for Screens, Save for Web (slice images, and files named after the document's title) and the Libraries panel name files with the characters Windows does not allow written as
-and with a-after a Windows device name such asCON, on every platform (document.exportForScreens,document.exportForWeb,library.create). - Variables (data merge): text, visibility and image variables bound to objects (an object may carry several), dataset rows applied in one undo step (
variable.*,dataset.*) from a Variables panel and Window › Variables, with dialogs to define, bind and edit, Make Text/Visibility/Image Dynamic, Capture/Update Data Set, CSV import/export (dataset.import/dataset.export), and a row in italics when an edit leaves the art not matching it; an image dataset value is a file path and apply keeps the object's bounds; bindings let go of deleted art and locked art is left alone; every command, like the rest, is drivable over MCP and the CLI. - Variables: Import Data Sets… (
dataset.import) reads tab-separated files as well as comma-separated ones, and files without anamecolumn, whose rows take the first free names Data Set 1, Data Set 2 and so on. An import error about a row's values or name gives the file line the row starts on. - Variables: Import Data Sets… (
dataset.import) defines the variables a file's header names that the document lacks, unbound.#Showndefines a visibility variable,@Photodefines an image variable, and a header without a prefix defines a text variable. A header that is a variable's exact name keeps naming it, and any other%header (graph data files) is refused. - JSON-lines control channel with real egui pointer and keyboard injection.
- Synthetic input validates complete gestures before queue mutation: at most 256 drag steps, 16 clicks and 1,024 pending events; up to 64 control requests per frame, with later requests retained for the next frame (#1709).
- The control server writes each reply through a 64 KiB buffer. On Windows 11 it sends the 17 MB
document.inspectreply of a document with 50,000 objects on one layer to a client over loopback in 0.09 s instead of 34 s. - MCP server with 25 tools (drawing, text, effects, Pathfinder, transforms, graphs, text wrap, export, screenshots, any command), attached to the running app or headless. Tool descriptions and replies agree with the engine: format lists come from its format table,
save_filesays it keeps the document's own format,inspect_documentreports the paint type's characters show, and selection exports report the encoder's warnings.--automation-read-root/--automation-write-root(onvectorcraft-cli mcpand onvectorcraft --control) confine the files commands read and write to chosen folders, links followed, with the flags PhotoCraft takes (#832). A long export can be cancelled (notifications/cancelledstops it at the next page or group and writes nothing), reports page progress to a client that sent a progress token, and does not make other requests wait: engine-free ones answer at once, the rest are refused as busy after two seconds (#2165, #2171, #2172). - MCP protocol: five prompts (
prompts/list/prompts/get: poster, icon set, recolour, trace-and-style, export set),completion/completefor prompt arguments and template variables read from the live catalogues (formats, effect ids, command ids, trace presets, swatch and object ids), four resource templates (vectorcraft://object/{id},//command/{id},//effect/{id},//swatch/{name}) so an agent reads one thing instead of the whole document, andlogging/setLevelwithnotifications/message.window.panelids are case-insensitive (display labels work too),vectorcraft://object/{id}reads throughdocument.node {summary: true}(the same reply bytes from one lookup instead of summarizing the whole document: a leaf read on a 2,000-object document drops from ~20 ms to ~0.06 ms), large containers slice withdocument.node {depth?, childLimit?}(truncated levels reportchildCount),document.inspectand theinspect_documenttool slice the same way so a depth-0 read is the layer skeleton (~9.7 KB instead of ~2 MB on a 2,000-object document),document.findlocates nodes by name/kind/text with ancestor paths, and the CLI sweeps the protocol surface over stdio against the compiled binary.docs/mcp.mdhas a Protocol section covering the capability table and what is deliberately absent (subscriptions, progress, cancellation, sampling, elicitation, Streamable HTTP — all of which need the transport to interleave reads). - Headless CLI (
vectorcraft-cli run,convert,info,bench,perf,mcp). Arunstep, like acommand_batchstep over MCP, can use an earlier step's result ("$1.id", #785). - File › Scripts › Check Script… reads a script written for Illustrator (
.jsx,.jsxincor a compiled.jsxbin) without running any of it and reports what it needs (the document model, files, dialogs, menu commands, features only Illustrator has), what it would do outside the document, the menu commands and document-model members it uses, its directives and included files, and the problems that would stop it loading (script.check, which also reads.jsfiles); File › Open and drag-and-drop show the report for.jsx,.jsxincand.jsxbinfiles.
- Variables: Update Data Set writes what the art holds into the active data set for the variables that data set holds, and keeps the data set's value for a variable whose objects are locked or inside a locked layer or group;
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UI: Illustrator 2026 layout restyled to measured values:
- Medium Dark theme, categorized and Advanced toolbars (a tool group's flyout opens on a right press, a long press or a press on its corner triangle), 35 pt document tabs, 33 pt panel tabs.
- Hint bar, contextual task bar, 19 dock panels with ≡ menus.
- Window › SVG Interactivity attaches JavaScript to the selected objects' events (
onclick,onmouseoverand 17 more) and links JavaScript files to the document (Link JavaScript Files…); SVG export writes the events as event attributes and the files as<script xlink:href>, SVG import reads both back as text without running them, and the native format keeps them (svgInteractivity.*). - Numeric fields keep the pointer's pressed character as the text-drag start when movement exceeds the click threshold (#1326, in part); a completed focus click selects the unit too. Pixel/point, plain and optional fields are regression-tested in both directions, before/after focus, with replacement text; keyboard focus, double-click, arrows and wheel keep their prior behavior. Native egui input confirms partial replacement gives 17 px instead of 700 px, one Undo/Redo, window captures and an exact saved-document read in a separate CLI process. Short movements still counted as clicks can select all; that case remains open.
- Unit fields and length strings take
%in arithmetic:3cm*50%reads as 1.5 cm, and50pt+25%reads as 62.5 pt. - The contextual task bar's handle drags it anywhere on the canvas (kept whole on it as the window resizes); unpinned it keeps that offset as it follows the selection, and its More Options menu hides it, pins its position across selection changes (
window.taskBar.pin), resets it under the selection (window.taskBar.reset) and shows the Properties panel. As in Illustrator the position isn't kept across launches. Not done: the bar's variants for other tools (only the selection tools and the Artboard tool show it). - With one image selected, the contextual task bar offers Image Trace, which traces the image at once with the Default preset (the Image Trace panel is left as it was), and Crop Image; with an Image Trace object it offers Expand, which keeps only the traced paths. As in Illustrator ("Selecting images displays options like Image Trace, Retype, and Crop Image"; "You can also quickly expand traced artwork from the bar": Contextual Task Bar announcement). Offset Path and Simplify, which don't apply to an image, aren't offered for one. Not done: Retype, which the app doesn't have.
- With the Artboard tool, the contextual task bar sits under the selected artboards and offers Resize (Artboard Options for the active artboard), Duplicate (each selected artboard, in one undo step, the copies then selected), Rearrange All (with two or more artboards) and Export (Export for Screens with the selected artboards checked). As in Illustrator ("the Contextual Task Bar reveals options to resize, duplicate, and export artboards": the Contextual Task Bar announcement; Rearrange and Export on the bar: Managing Artboards in Illustrator).
- The contextual task bar offers more next steps by selection (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/contextual-task-bar-overview.html): an open path Join and Edit Path (the Direct Selection tool), a closed path Edit Path, a compound path Edit Path and Release Compound Path, a clipping group Edit Clipping Path and Release Clipping Mask instead of Ungroup and Isolate, an image selected with vector art Make Clipping Mask instead of Unite, and point or area type Convert To Area Type or Convert To Point Type beside Create Outlines. Evidence:
crates/ui-egui/src/tests_taskbar.rs. - With anchor points selected with Direct Selection, the contextual task bar offers Remove Anchor Points, Connect (
path.join), Cut Path, Corner and Smooth (path.convertAnchorswithtoset tocornerorsmooth), the commands of the Control bar's anchor buttons. As in Illustrator ("Remove selected anchor points, Connect selected end points, Cut path at selected anchor points, Convert selected anchor points to corner, and Convert selected anchor points to smooth": Contextual Task Bar overview). Not done: Simplify, which the bar offers only while no anchors are selected, and the bar's Smooth item that adjusts a path's curvature, a command the app doesn't have (Object › Path › Smooth). - Tool flyouts tear off: dragging or clicking the tear-off bar on a flyout's right side (or releasing the long press over it) floats its group as a strip of tool buttons, moved by the same bar and put back in the toolbar by the × at its top (
window.floatTools). While a group floats, the presses that would open its flyout raise the strip instead. Floating strips are kept with the preferences and in user workspaces. Not done: turning a strip vertical, docking it. - Screen readers get a name for the Tools panel's tool buttons, flyout rows, floating strips and tear-off bars, and for the icon buttons, text buttons, toggles, checkboxes, radio buttons, tabs, chips, sliders, angle dials and combo boxes that panels and dialogs draw with
crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs: the text, label or tool tip each one shows, or a name of its own where it shows none (the angle dial, the spinner, the preset arrow, the color wheel and the Reference Point's squares). The tool buttons, toggles, checkboxes, radio buttons, tabs and the Reference Point's nine squares also report whether they are on, an icon button that is lit, such as the chosen Align To button, reports that it is pressed, and the angle dial reports its angle. The status bar's First, Previous, Next and Last Artboard buttons have tool tips. - Screen readers get the value of the color and channel sliders that panels and dialogs draw (the Color panel, the Color Picker, Swatch Options, the Navigator's Zoom, the Character panel's variable font axes, the Perspective Grid and flattener options, and the sliders of the effect, tool option and transform dialogs): the number and text of the field beside each one, such as 128 for G or 50% for an opacity, with the slider's range, which extends to include a number past the slider's end. The harmony wheel's Brightness slider, which has no field, reports its brightness in percent.
- Panels undock (#495): a dock tab, a panel icon or a popped-out panel's title dragged out of the dock floats that panel inside the window, and the strip right of the dock's tabs floats the whole tabbed group. A floating group moves by its title bar, a tab dragged out of it floats on its own, and dropped on another group's title bar or tabs it stacks with that group; dropped on the dock, which lights up under the pointer, its panels go back where they live (the tabbed group or the icon column), as its × and the panel menus' Float Panel / Dock Panel do (
window.panel.float,window.panel.dock). The Tools panel floats by its title bar and docks again on the window's left edge. Floating groups stack into sets: dropped on the upper or lower half of another group (a line shows where), a group joins it right above or below it, and the set's groups stack top to bottom, each showing one panel, moving together by the top group's title bar, whose × docks them all; a group dragged by its tab strip leaves the set (window.panel.float {below, above}). A double-click on a tab collapses a floating group to its tabs (collapsed). Sets dropped on the left edge of the icon column or of another dock column dock as dock columns (a multi-column dock,window.panel.dock {column}), whose groups stack, tab and tear out as a floating set's do, and whose top strip floats the column again. Floating panels, their sets and the Tools panel's position are kept with the preferences and in user workspaces, and clamped into a smaller window. Not done: panels in separate OS windows, docking a panel into the default tabbed group it doesn't belong to, reordering tabs by dragging, collapsing a set or dock column to icons, dock columns right of the default dock, resizing floating panels and the groups of a set. - The dock's double arrow collapses Properties, Layers and Libraries to icons at the top of the icon column, popping out like the other icon panels, and expands them again (
window.collapseDock, kept with the preferences and in saved workspaces). The icon column's own arrow (expanding the icon panels into a full column) is not done. - Czech render-site labels: desktop/web file filters, diagnostics, suggested preset names and contributor tooltips/plurals now use catalog lookups; gradients have Czech adjective agreement and printer marks have a separate context (PDF/Print and Summary). Search, Home, toolbar/panel tooltips and Preferences already look up their labels. Every complete catalog has rows for these labels and for the Roman and Japanese printer mark styles. Evidence:
i18n::tests::czech_render_site_follow_up,i18n::tests::complete_catalogs_translate_render_site_labels,dialogs::tests_modal::printer_mark_labels_are_distinct_from_language_names; see localization-parity.md. - The History panel, Edit › Undo and Edit › Redo translate the names of the steps that apply or redefine a character or paragraph style and of the step that redefines a graphic style: each such step keeps its template (
Apply {name},Redefine {name},Redefine Graphic Style “{name}”) and the style's name, every complete catalog has a row for each template, and the panel and the menu show the style's name as the document holds it, except the Normal styles' names, which they show in the interface language (steps_named_after_a_style_list_the_template_around_the_name,undo_and_redo_name_a_style_step_around_the_style_name,every_undo_label_is_translated). - Localised UI: menus (in-window and native), panels, dialogs, toolbar and Preferences read from per-language catalogs (
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n, seedocs/development.md); Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Simplified Chinese (mainland), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian ship complete, and Czech covers every menu label (and more), with system-locale detection on macOS, Windows, Linux and the web (the browser's languages, or?lang=), a Language preference and, on macOS, a VectorCraft ▸ Language menu. Names are never translated (fonts and their styles, layers, artboards, saved presets, user libraries, custom workspaces, recent files, plug-ins). - Edit › Undo and Edit › Redo, in the in-window and native menus, name the step in the interface language as the History panel lists it (
panels::history::step_name), so when the catalog has no plain row for a step named after an effect, such as Feather, the menu shows the translation of the effect's menu row without its ellipsis (undo_and_redo_name_the_step_as_the_history_panel_does). - The History panel translates the undo step names the engine, the tools and the shell write as literals: each has a row in every complete catalog (
every_undo_label_is_translated), and a step whose catalog row exists only with an ellipsis (such as an effect's menu name) shows that row without the ellipsis. - The History panel menu has Step Backward and Step Forward, which run Edit › Undo and Edit › Redo and are disabled when there is no step to undo or redo, and Set History Limit…, which opens Preferences at Performance, where History States is set. Not done: a new document from the selected state.
- The History panel menu's Clear History (
edit.clearHistory) removes every step to undo and to redo and leaves the document as it is; it is not an undo step itself, and it is disabled when there is no step to clear. - Native macOS menu bar, vector tool cursors, a ⌘K command palette, middle-button panning with any tool. Native menus explicitly end tracking on command selection, outside window presses and Escape; menu updates wait until tracking ends, and a dismissing press never starts a canvas gesture (M14.8).
- The errors of the blend spine commands (Move Spine Point, Reshape Spine Segment, Add Spine Point and Delete Spine Point) show in the status bar in the interface language: each has a row in every catalog that translates all status and error messages and in Bulgarian (
blend_spine_param_errors_are_translated). - The errors of the parameter checks that many commands share show in the status bar in the interface language: a value that is not a number where a number goes (
object.movewith"dx": "60 mm", andobject.rotate,object.setBoundsand the other commands that callcheck_numbers), a missing number or index,idsthat are not a list of object ids, an object id that is not a non-negative integer or names no object, and a date that is not Unix seconds. Each has a row in every catalog that translates all status and error messages, and in Bulgarian, Danish, Indonesian and Dutch (shared_param_check_errors_are_translated). - The macOS menu bar is built from the in-window menus (one model,
native_menu) and laid out as a Mac app's: the VectorCraft menu holds About, Settings ▸ (each Preferences page, General… ⌘K), Language ▸, Appearance ▸ (UI brightness), Services, Hide VectorCraft ⌃⌘H (⌘H stays Hide Edges), Hide Others, Show All and Quit; Window gains Minimize ⌃⌘M, Zoom and Bring All to Front, and Help the system's search field. Its key equivalents go back to egui as key presses, so user shortcuts, focused text fields and the Type tool's input method behave as in the window, and nothing fires twice; enabled, check marks and labels update in place.--in-window-menusorVECTORCRAFT_IN_WINDOW_MENUS=1keeps the menus in the window;ui.inspectreportsnativeMenuBar. - macOS: Finder opens every format File › Open reads with VectorCraft (double-click, Open With, a drop on the Dock icon,
open -a), at launch or while it runs; the release andcargo xtask bundleapps share oneInfo.plistthat declares those document types, owning only VectorCraft's own formats. The DMG opens on a designed Finder window, VectorCraft.app beside theApplicationslink over a background with the app icon (#493). - Swatch and graphic style libraries, Libraries panel files, presets and plug-ins open wherever they are dropped on the window, as File › Open opens them.
- A canvas context menu: right-click selects the object under the pointer and lists what applies to the selection (Undo/Redo, clipboard, group, isolation, join, Remove Anchor Points when anchors are selected, masks, compound paths, guides, Transform, Arrange, Select, Export Selection), or the view commands on empty canvas.
- A right-click over locked objects adds an Unlock submenu to the canvas context menu. The submenu lists up to 20 locked objects under the pointer, topmost first, by the name the Layers panel shows, and choosing one unlocks it (
layer.setProps). A locked group is listed as one item. Objects on hidden, locked or template layers are not listed. - Native macOS save sheets offer a localised Format menu (#866), built from the request's existing format filters. It selects the suggested filename's format and updates the suffix when changed, including legacy
.drawcraftnames.apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_save_format.rshas filename regressions; an actual native SVG save, selection of PDF and cancellation without changing the saved document were verified. - Save / Don't Save / Cancel before closing or quitting with unsaved documents (tabs, Close, Close All, Quit, window close).
- Four brightness themes, persistent preferences.
- Preferences that act (#394, in part): Show Tool Tips, Double Click To Isolate, Zoom with Mouse Wheel (the wheel zooms about the pointer, Shift-wheel scrolls up and down, Cmd/Ctrl-wheel sideways; Alt/Option-wheel and a trackpad pinch zoom about the pointer either way), Use Precise Cursors; Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance (objects, anchors and handles), Object Selection by Path Only, Command Click to Select Objects Behind (cycling down the stack), Zoom to Selection, anchor Size, Highlight anchors on mouse over; Type › Number of Recent Fonts (up to 15); Guides & Grid › guide and grid Color and Style (lines or dots) and Grids In Back. Then Snap to Point (its distance, for moves, drawn points and reference points), Move Locked and Hidden Artwork with Artboard, Enable Rubber Band for the Pen and Curvature tools, Handles style, Show handles when multiple anchors are selected, Hide Corner Widget for angles greater than; General › Transform Pattern Tiles (the transforms' and dialogs' Transform Patterns, Align and Distribute, art moved or duplicated with an artboard, and objects moved whole with direct-selected anchors) and Select Same Tint %; Type › Size/Leading, Tracking and Baseline Shift increments (
type.step, Cmd+Shift+. and Cmd+Shift+, for the size, the Type tool's Alt+arrows), Enable Missing Glyph Protection and Fill New Type Objects With Placeholder Text. Then Smart Guides › Color, Alignment Guides, Anchor/Path Labels, Measurement Labels, Transform Tools, Object Highlighting (with Smart Guides on) and Snapping Tolerance (4 px by default, for every smart guide snap), then Construction Guides and their Angles (#506: a drawn point near a line at one of those angles through the point it leaves from lands on it). Then Type › Type Object Selection by Path Only (type is picked on the baseline of any of its lines, area type's frame or the path of type on a path, no longer anywhere in its bounds; the Type tools and the Eyedropper still take a click among the characters). Then General › Anti-aliased Artwork (off, the canvas draws the art with hard edges). Then Guides & Grid › Show Pixel Grid (Above 600% Zoom), a line at every document pixel over the art in Pixel Preview, turning with a rotated view as the document grid now does too. Then General › Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (off, closing the last document leaves an empty window; the Home button still opens the screen). Then Units › Numbers Without Units Are Points (on by default: a number typed with no unit into a field in picas is read in points, a typed unit still wins; dimmed unless a unit is Picas). Then User Interface › Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (off by default: on, a click away from a panel popped out of the icon column puts it away). Then Performance › Animated Zoom (on, with GPU Performance, which it needs and which dims it when off: the Zoom tool dragged sideways zooms about the press, right in and left out, and held still zooms on, Alt out; off, a drag zooms to the area dragged across, now drawn as a marquee), User Interface › Large Tabs (taller document tabs) and Scale Cursor Proportional to UI (off, the tool cursors keep their size whatever the UI Scaling), and File Handling › Display Bitmaps as Anti-aliased Images in Pixel Preview (off by default: Pixel Preview draws images with each pixel taking its nearest image pixel). Type › Auto Size New Area Type works too (new area type gets Auto Size). They reach agents too (prefs.set, thenpointer_gestureorpress_key;ui.wheelon the control channel). Then Smart Guides › Spacing Guides (moves space the selection evenly with its row or column, see Drawing aids). Then Hyphenation › Exceptions (comma-separated words that never break, or break only at their hyphens;prefs.setand restore push them into the hyphenator, #394). Then Type › Show Font Names in English (off, font menus label a family by its native-language name when the font has one; documents still use the English family, #394). Then General › Display Print Size at 100% Zoom (off by default: View › Actual Size is one document point per screen point; on, one document inch fills 96 screen points, an inch at the reference density display scaling is set against;view.actualSize/prefs.set, #394). Then Guides & Grid › Gridline every and Subdivisions (changing either sets the grid of every open document; new and opened documents take that grid too, except a native file and the native document an SVG, PDF,.aior EPS file carries, which open with the grid they were saved with;file.new,document.open,file.newFromTemplate,file.revert, #394). Then Appearance of Black › On Screen (Display All Blacks Accurately by default: pure CMYK black shows through the CMYK profile, a dark grey; Display All Blacks as Rich Black shows it on the canvas as RGB black, also in CMYK documents drawn by ink planes, while rich blacks, black tints and images show as before;RenderOptions::rich_black, #394). Then Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (Output All Blacks Accurately by default; Output All Blacks as Rich Black draws pure CMYK black as RGB black in RGB raster exports and Print as Bitmap; CMYK ink exports and the document stay unchanged;prefs.blackOutput/richBlack, #394). Then Units › Identify Objects By (Object Name by default: Layers, Variables and Layer Options show and edit free names; XML ID shows and edits AI-style XML ids,_for a space and_xHH_escapes, andlayer.setProps/ rename refuse invalid ids; the document still stores the object name, #394). Then Type › Highlight Alternate Glyphs (off by default: on, pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen — ligatures, contextual forms; Document Setup's Highlight Substituted Fonts / Glyphs stay separate;prefs.set, #394). About 14 stored options still do nothing yet (the rest of #394: East Asian Type units, Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing and Editing, GPU Performance beyond Animated Zoom, hyphenation language, scratch disks, the legacy clipboard, Touch Workspace). - Preferences that act (#394, in part): Show Tool Tips, Double Click To Isolate, Zoom with Mouse Wheel (the wheel zooms about the pointer, Shift-wheel scrolls up and down, Cmd/Ctrl-wheel sideways; Alt/Option-wheel and a trackpad pinch zoom about the pointer either way), Use Precise Cursors; Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance (objects, anchors and handles), Object Selection by Path Only, Command Click to Select Objects Behind (cycling down the stack), Zoom to Selection, anchor Size, Highlight anchors on mouse over; Type › Number of Recent Fonts (up to 15); Guides & Grid › guide and grid Color and Style (lines or dots) and Grids In Back. Then Snap to Point (its distance, for moves, drawn points and reference points), Move Locked and Hidden Artwork with Artboard, Enable Rubber Band for the Pen and Curvature tools, Handles style, Show handles when multiple anchors are selected, Hide Corner Widget for angles greater than; General › Transform Pattern Tiles (the transforms' and dialogs' Transform Patterns, Align and Distribute, art moved or duplicated with an artboard, and objects moved whole with direct-selected anchors) and Select Same Tint %; Type › Size/Leading, Tracking and Baseline Shift increments (
type.step, Cmd+Shift+. and Cmd+Shift+, for the size, the Type tool's Alt+arrows), Enable Missing Glyph Protection and Fill New Type Objects With Placeholder Text. Then Smart Guides › Color, Alignment Guides, Anchor/Path Labels, Measurement Labels, Transform Tools, Object Highlighting (with Smart Guides on) and Snapping Tolerance (4 px by default, for every smart guide snap), then Construction Guides and their Angles (#506: a drawn point near a line at one of those angles through the point it leaves from lands on it). Then Type › Type Object Selection by Path Only (type is picked on the baseline of any of its lines, area type's frame or the path of type on a path, no longer anywhere in its bounds; the Type tools and the Eyedropper still take a click among the characters). Then General › Anti-aliased Artwork (off, the canvas draws the art with hard edges). Then Guides & Grid › Show Pixel Grid (Above 600% Zoom), a line at every document pixel over the art in Pixel Preview, turning with a rotated view as the document grid now does too. Then General › Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (off, closing the last document leaves an empty window; the Home button still opens the screen). Then Units › Numbers Without Units Are Points (on by default: a number typed with no unit into a field in picas is read in points, a typed unit still wins; dimmed unless a unit is Picas). Then User Interface › Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (off by default: on, a click away from a panel popped out of the icon column puts it away). Then Performance › Animated Zoom (on, with GPU Performance, which it needs and which dims it when off: the Zoom tool dragged sideways zooms about the press, right in and left out, and held still zooms on, Alt out; off, a drag zooms to the area dragged across, now drawn as a marquee), User Interface › Large Tabs (taller document tabs) and Scale Cursor Proportional to UI (off, the tool cursors keep their size whatever the UI Scaling), and File Handling › Display Bitmaps as Anti-aliased Images in Pixel Preview (off by default: Pixel Preview draws images with each pixel taking its nearest image pixel). Type › Auto Size New Area Type works too (new area type gets Auto Size). They reach agents too (prefs.set, thenpointer_gestureorpress_key;ui.wheelon the control channel). Then Smart Guides › Spacing Guides (moves space the selection evenly with its row or column, see Drawing aids). Then Hyphenation › Exceptions (comma-separated words that never break, or break only at their hyphens;prefs.setand restore push them into the hyphenator, #394). Then Type › Show Font Names in English (off, font menus label a family by its native-language name when the font has one; documents still use the English family, #394). Then General › Display Print Size at 100% Zoom (off by default: View › Actual Size is one document point per screen point; on, one document inch fills 96 screen points, an inch at the reference density display scaling is set against;view.actualSize/prefs.set, #394). Then Guides & Grid › Gridline every and Subdivisions (changing either sets the grid of every open document; new and opened documents take that grid too, except a native file and the native document an SVG, PDF,.aior EPS file carries, which open with the grid they were saved with;file.new,document.open,file.newFromTemplate,file.revert, #394). Then Appearance of Black › On Screen (Display All Blacks Accurately by default: pure CMYK black shows through the CMYK profile, a dark grey; Display All Blacks as Rich Black shows it on the canvas as RGB black, also in CMYK documents drawn by ink planes, while rich blacks, black tints and images show as before;RenderOptions::rich_black, #394). Then Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (Output All Blacks Accurately by default; Output All Blacks as Rich Black draws pure CMYK black as RGB black in RGB raster exports and Print as Bitmap; CMYK ink exports and the document stay unchanged;prefs.blackOutput/richBlack, #394). Then Units › Identify Objects By (Object Name by default: Layers, Variables and Layer Options show and edit free names; XML ID shows and edits AI-style XML ids,_for a space and_xHH_escapes, andlayer.setProps/ rename refuse invalid ids; the document still stores the object name, #394). Then Type › Highlight Alternate Glyphs (on by default: pink behind OpenType substitutions on screen — ligatures, contextual forms; Document Setup's Highlight Substituted Fonts / Glyphs stay separate;prefs.set, #394). About 14 stored options still do nothing yet (the rest of #394: East Asian Type units, Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing and Editing, GPU Performance beyond Animated Zoom, hyphenation language, scratch disks, the legacy clipboard, Touch Workspace). - The desktop app keeps the Color panel's Show Options or Hide Options between sessions, and
ui.colorPanelsets its mode and options as its panel menu does. - Preferences that act (#394, in part): Show Tool Tips, Double Click To Isolate, Zoom with Mouse Wheel (the wheel zooms about the pointer, Shift-wheel scrolls up and down, Cmd/Ctrl-wheel sideways; Alt/Option-wheel and a trackpad pinch zoom about the pointer either way), Use Precise Cursors; Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance (objects, anchors and handles), Object Selection by Path Only, Command Click to Select Objects Behind (cycling down the stack), Zoom to Selection, anchor Size, Highlight anchors on mouse over; Type › Number of Recent Fonts (up to 15); Guides & Grid › guide and grid Color and Style (lines or dots) and Grids In Back. Then Snap to Point (its distance, for moves, drawn points and reference points), Move Locked and Hidden Artwork with Artboard, Enable Rubber Band for the Pen and Curvature tools, Handles style, Show handles when multiple anchors are selected, Hide Corner Widget for angles greater than; General › Transform Pattern Tiles (the transforms' and dialogs' Transform Patterns, Align and Distribute, art moved or duplicated with an artboard, and objects moved whole with direct-selected anchors) and Select Same Tint %; Type › Size/Leading, Tracking and Baseline Shift increments (
type.step, Cmd+Shift+. and Cmd+Shift+, for the size, the Type tool's Alt+arrows), Enable Missing Glyph Protection and Fill New Type Objects With Placeholder Text. Then Smart Guides › Color, Alignment Guides, Anchor/Path Labels, Measurement Labels, Transform Tools, Object Highlighting (with Smart Guides on) and Snapping Tolerance (4 px by default, for every smart guide snap), then Construction Guides and their Angles (#506: a drawn point near a line at one of those angles through the point it leaves from lands on it). Then Type › Type Object Selection by Path Only (type is picked on the baseline of any of its lines, area type's frame or the path of type on a path, no longer anywhere in its bounds; the Type tools and the Eyedropper still take a click among the characters). Then General › Anti-aliased Artwork (off, the canvas draws the art with hard edges). Then Guides & Grid › Show Pixel Grid (Above 600% Zoom), a line at every document pixel over the art in Pixel Preview, turning with a rotated view as the document grid now does too. Then General › Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (off, closing the last document leaves an empty window; the Home button still opens the screen). Then Units › Numbers Without Units Are Points (on by default: a number typed with no unit into a field in picas is read in points, a typed unit still wins; dimmed unless a unit is Picas). Then User Interface › Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (off by default: on, a click away from a panel popped out of the icon column puts it away). Then Performance › Animated Zoom (on, with GPU Performance, which it needs and which dims it when off: the Zoom tool dragged sideways zooms about the press, right in and left out, and held still zooms on, Alt out; off, a drag zooms to the area dragged across, now drawn as a marquee), User Interface › Large Tabs (taller document tabs) and Scale Cursor Proportional to UI (off, the tool cursors keep their size whatever the UI Scaling), and File Handling › Display Bitmaps as Anti-aliased Images in Pixel Preview (off by default: Pixel Preview draws images with each pixel taking its nearest image pixel). Type › Auto Size New Area Type works too (new area type gets Auto Size). They reach agents too (prefs.set, thenpointer_gestureorpress_key;ui.wheelon the control channel). Then Smart Guides › Spacing Guides (moves space the selection evenly with its row or column, see Drawing aids). Then Hyphenation › Exceptions (comma-separated words that never break, or break only at their hyphens;prefs.setand restore push them into the hyphenator, #394). Then Type › Show Font Names in English (off, font menus label a family by its native-language name when the font has one; documents still use the English family, #394). Then General › Display Print Size at 100% Zoom (off by default: View › Actual Size is one document point per screen point; on, one document inch fills 96 screen points, an inch at the reference density display scaling is set against;view.actualSize/prefs.set, #394). Then Guides & Grid › Gridline every and Subdivisions (changing either sets the grid of every open document; new and opened documents take that grid too, except a native file and the native document an SVG, PDF,.aior EPS file carries, which open with the grid they were saved with;file.new,document.open,file.newFromTemplate,file.revert, #394). Then Appearance of Black › On Screen (Display All Blacks Accurately by default: pure CMYK black shows through the CMYK profile, a dark grey; Display All Blacks as Rich Black shows it on the canvas as RGB black, also in CMYK documents drawn by ink planes, while rich blacks, black tints and images show as before;RenderOptions::rich_black, #394). Then Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting (Output All Blacks Accurately by default; Output All Blacks as Rich Black draws pure CMYK black as RGB black in RGB raster exports and Print as Bitmap; CMYK ink exports and the document stay unchanged;prefs.blackOutput/richBlack, #394). Then Units › Identify Objects By (Object Name by default: Layers, Variables and Layer Options show and edit free names; XML ID shows and edits AI-style XML ids,_for a space and_xHH_escapes, andlayer.setProps/ rename refuse invalid ids; the document still stores the object name, #394). About 15 stored options still do nothing yet (the rest of #394: Highlight Alternate Glyphs, East Asian Type units, Open Documents As Tabs, Real-time Drawing and Editing, GPU Performance beyond Animated Zoom, hyphenation language, scratch disks, the legacy clipboard, Touch Workspace). - Dialogs move by dragging their heading (the band down from the top edge, as a title bar), stay on screen and keep where they were moved for the session; the form dialogs' choices are dropdowns (Offset Path's Joins, Average's and Shear's and Reflect's axis), and Offset Path lists Offset, Joins, Miter Limit and previews (#423).
- Dialogs open with their first field focused and its value selected: type a value and press Enter (Move, Rotate, Scale…). A dialog opened from a menu takes the keyboard focus every time it opens, not only the first (#1367), and one whose first field starts greyed out (Blend Options on Smooth Color, Layers Panel Options) gives the focus to that field once it is enabled (#1395). Number fields in panels, the Control bar and dialogs (preferences too) step with Up/Down, or with the mouse wheel over the focused field (#485: a notch a step; the panel under it then stays put, and an unfocused field leaves the wheel to scrolling) (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth of their unit), applied at once.
- A plain step of a number field (Up/Down or a wheel notch) goes to the next whole unit in its direction and a Ctrl/Cmd step goes to the next tenth, so 5.1 mm steps up to 6 mm and down to 5 mm (#2881). A Shift step adds or takes ten and keeps the fraction.
- In the number, text and color fields of the panels and the Control bar, Shift+Enter (Shift+Return) applies the value and keeps the field active with its value selected; a text box of several lines takes it as a line break. In a dialog, Shift+Enter applies the value and confirms the dialog, as Enter does.
- The Pattern Options panel's Name field and the name fields that a double-click opens in the Layers, Artboards and Asset Export panels take Shift+Enter (Shift+Return) the same way: it applies the name and keeps the field active with the name selected.
- Scrubby labels (#400, beyond Illustrator, as in Photoshop): dragging a numeric field's label left or right (the ↔ cursor shows over it) steps the value one unit every 2 points (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth; counts stay whole), in the field's unit and within its limits, applied live as the art follows; the whole drag is one undo step and Escape puts the value back. A click on the label focuses the field; the text box itself never scrubs, and a field with no label doesn't. Text labels before a field (Transform, Properties, Control bar, Stroke, Transparency, form rows in dialogs) and the Character and Paragraph panels' icons act as labels. Preferences › General › Scrub Numeric Fields by Dragging (on by default) turns it off.
- In the Transform panel, the Properties panel's Transform section and the Control bar, Alt+Enter (Option+Return) applies a value to a copy of the selection and selects the copy, in one undo step. With anchor points selected with Direct Selection it applies the value to them, as Enter does. Ctrl/Cmd+Enter in W or H applies the value and scales the selection proportionally with the link off. With the Artboard tool, it scales the active artboard proportionally. A percentage typed alone in W or H (
50%) is that share of the size the field shows, and the link and Ctrl/Cmd+Enter keep the proportions as with a length (#2401). - The Control bar's underlined Transform link opens the Transform panel in a popover under it (reference point, X/Y/W/H, Rotate and Shear with their icons and angle presets, flips, shape properties, Scale Corners and Scale Strokes & Effects), as its Stroke link does the Stroke panel; X/Y/W/H also show inline while the bar has room. The reference point locator is nine squares, the outer eight joined around the box.
- In isolation mode the Control bar has an Exit Isolation Mode button (
object.exitIsolation), except while a pattern is edited. Outside isolation mode, with one group, compound path, path, image, mesh or placed file selected, it has an Isolate Selected Object button (object.isolate), which also isolates a path inside a group that Direct Selection selected. - Tab shows and hides the panels (in the Type tool it types a tab) without moving the keyboard focus onto a field, so the next shortcut or letter still works; in dialogs and panel fields it moves between fields.
- Shift+Tab (
window.panels) shows and hides the dock and the floating panels and leaves the toolbar and the Control bar as they are; hiding the panels with Tab or Shift+Tab also closes a panel popped out of the icon column. - The second Tab (
window.dock) shows again only the bars the first Tab hid, after a restart too: a Control bar that was off stays off, a toolbar hidden with Window › Tools stays hidden, and panels shown with Shift+Tab in between stay shown. - Cmd/Ctrl+A follows the keyboard: in a panel, dialog or search field it selects the field's text, while the Type tool edits it selects all of that text (also
select.allover MCP), and only otherwise every object. On macOS the menu bar's Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste (keys or clicks) act on a focused field too, and elsewhere the in-window menus' do: the field that had the keyboard when the menu opened gets them, with its selection, and the keyboard back (#516). Not yet: Select All across threaded frames (one frame's text is selected). - With the Artboard tool, Cmd/Ctrl+A after a click on a row of the Artboards panel selects every artboard, as the macOS menu bar's Select All does then; the active artboard stays active, and the art's selection does not change. After a press outside the panel's list, Cmd/Ctrl+A selects every object again. It used to select every object after a click in the panel too. Public reference: Select artboards.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+. and , (
type.size.increaseByFive,type.size.decreaseByFive) step the font size of the selected type, or of the text the Type tool has selected, by five times the Size/Leading increment (Preferences › Type); Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+. and , still step it by one increment. - Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Q (
type.resetTracking) sets the tracking of the selected type, or of the text the Type tool has selected, to 0 and its kerning to Auto (0 in the Character panel), in one undo step; at a caret it resets the kerning of the character before it. - Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+X (
type.resetHorizontalScale) sets the horizontal scale of the selected type, or of the text the Type tool has selected, to 100% as the Character panel shows it (the object's own stretch included), in one undo step; at a caret it leaves the text as it is. - Shortcut sets other apps save as text (
.kys) open in Import Shortcut Set from File › Open, from Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts › Import… in the desktop app, or from a drop on the window. It matches each entry to a tool, command or panel by name and decodes the file's key and modifier codes where VectorCraft's default shortcuts agree on them; the user answers the rest, and Apply fills the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog's working set. The answers are kept with the preferences for the next import (shortcutSet.read,importMatches.*). - On Windows and Linux the app bar is the window's title bar (its own minimize, maximize and close buttons, drag to move, edges to resize), with the dragon app icon as the brand mark; dialogs and menus size to their content. As on a native menu bar, once one menu is open, moving the pointer onto another title opens that one.
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Tools:
- Shaper: uneven squares and rectangles become live rectangles even when drawing begins mid-edge. Recognition uses uniformly spaced samples and closed-loop corners, fits rectangle edges/angles rather than requiring a nearly perfect bounding-box fill, and includes the pointer-release position. Rectangles/squares and ellipses snap to 45° steps, hexagons to 90°, and triangles point up or down; lines keep their free angle even with Shift. Shaper Groups retain the live originals, merge regions with the gesture-origin fill, punch fills independently from strokes, remove boundaries on exiting scribbles and trim protruding stroke pieces. Source moves/resizes re-evaluate the result in the same undo step; double-click enters construction editing, and with the Shaper or Selection tool a click on the arrow widget beside a Shaper Group's original shapes switches the group between Face Selection and Construction mode. Native save/reopen, face recoloring, Release and Expand are covered. Finer gesture heuristics remain.
- Selection: Selection, Direct/Group Selection, Magic Wand, Lasso. A Shift-drag marquee toggles what it reaches: objects with the Selection tool, anchors with Direct and Group Selection (#483); the Lasso adds with Shift and subtracts with Alt. Dragging a path segment with Direct Selection bends it when it's curved (its anchors stay) and moves its two anchors when it's straight, one undo step; the fill, Shift or Alt still pick the whole path (Alt-drag copies it).
With the Selection or Group Selection tool, pressing E while dragging a marquee makes the marquee select only the objects that lie entirely inside it. Pressing E again switches the marquee back to its default selection.
The Lasso picks anchor points only on art a click can pick, and the Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, Anchor Point and Scissors tools pick anchor points and segments only on the selected paths and on art a click can pick: not on a Shaper Group's original shapes outside Construction mode, and in isolation mode only inside the isolated group or object. Smart Guides and Snap to Point do not snap to a Shaper Group's original shapes, and the reference point of the transform tools snaps to one only when it is selected, or under the pointer in Construction mode.
A marquee selects a clip group, or an object on a layer with a clipping mask, only when it reaches the area inside the clipping path, and it measures the art only within that path's bounds. Within the bounds of a mask that is not a rectangle, it can still select art that the mask hides. Direct Selection's marquee still selects the hidden anchor points inside it (#2345).
A marquee selects a Shaper Group only when it reaches the art the group shows, not the original shapes kept under it, and Direct Selection's clicks and marquee do not select those shapes' anchor points. In Construction mode a marquee selects the original shapes, and Direct Selection selects their anchor points.
A marquee selects an Intertwine group only when it reaches one of the group's members, as for a plain group, and it selects a repeat only when it reaches one of the copies the repeat draws. Direct and Group Selection's marquees select the anchor points of an Intertwine group's members, not the group, and Group Selection's E marquee selects the members inside it.
A key object needs another selected object outside it. A Shift-click or any other change that leaves one object selected clears the key, and
select.keysets none on one object or on a group selected with only its own members. With one object selected, the Align panel, the Control bar and the Properties panel align it to the artboard whatever Align To is set to. With two or more objects selected and no key object, Align to Key Object makes the topmost of them the key, whatever order they were selected in, and the Align panel, the Control bar and the Properties panel align to it. Align To keeps its Selection or Artboard choice and shows it again once the key is cleared. Object › Align aligns objects as the align buttons do: it aligns one object to the active artboard whatever Align To is set to, and otherwise it aligns to the key object while there is one, else to the Align To choice, which is saved with the preferences (ui.inspect→ui.align_to). With direct-selected anchor points, Object › Align aligns the points to their own bounds. While one object is selected, Align To shows Artboard. The command palette listsselect.keyas Cancel Key Object, and a pick cancels the key object (#541). Agent selection commands validate every object id before changing the selection and report the resulting count and ids (#784). Agents read the key object:select.keyreturns it, anddocument.inspectand theui.pointerandpointer_gesturereplies report it askey.select.keywith an id that isn't a selected top-level object returns an error and leaves the key unchanged. The Select menu's Same commands, its Object commands that select art, Next Object Above and Below, saved selections and the Magic Wand (#2655) select only objects that Select All selects and objects inside them: nothing hidden or locked, nothing in a hidden or locked group, layer or sublayer, nothing on a template layer, and in isolation mode nothing outside the isolated group or layer. In isolation mode Select All, All on Active Artboard and Inverse select nothing while the isolated group or layer, or a group or layer it is in, is hidden, locked or a template layer. Align and Distribute Spacing keep a compound path or selected group that contains the key object in place, as they keep the key object itself. Anchor Align moves the selected points to their bounds or the artboard (#1180). Repeating it, or moving by at most 1e-9 pt on both axes as whole-object Align does, leaves the document, Undo, Redo and saved state unchanged; actual moves still take one undo step.crates/engine/src/tests.rscovers repeated alignment, rounding-only alignment, unchanged handles, saved state, command recording and Undo/Redo. A symbol instance is measured by its symbol's art, as its transform places it, for clicks, the marquee, the bounding box, the Transform panel, Align and Distribute (the art's strokes too with Use Preview Bounds), Fit to Artwork Bounds, exports of the art, thumbnails and canvas culling; one whose symbol is missing is measured as the 20 × 20 square around the origin. A selected clip group shows the outline and anchors of its clipping path, not of the art the path clips, and its hover highlight and key object outline follow the clipping path too. That art shows its whole outline when it is selected on its own: with Edit Contents, Direct or Group Selection, or in isolation mode (#2422). Clear deletes individual selected compound-path members without deleting their siblings, and explicit object ids work without a selection; Cut still removes the same objects it copies (#786). A command that leaves out an object selected inside a selected group also leaves it out whenidslist it together with a group that holds it. Make Repeat and Live Paint no longer fail on such a list, New Symbol no longer stores the object twice, andobject.transformno longer moves it twice. - Compound paths: Make keeps the backmost object's appearance and each contour; selecting a member in Direct Selection reads and changes the compound's fill rule in Attributes. Direction remains a per-member edit. Rendered holes, unchanged contour geometry, no-op history and Undo/Redo are covered by
engine/tests/compound_attributes.rs(#1197). Behaviour reference: public compound-path documentation. Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537). - Saved selections: Select ▸ Save Selection… asks for a name and keeps the selection in the document (saved with the file, undoable, up to 25); each one is listed at the bottom of the Select menu and a click selects its objects again; Edit Selection… lists them to rename or delete, applied together on OK. A file's saved selections are capped and checked against its objects when it opens.
Select ▸ Update Selection replaces the objects of the saved selection last recalled with the selected objects, in one undo step that marks the document changed (
select.update). After Edit Selection… renames that saved selection, Update Selection replaces it under the new name; after Edit Selection… deletes it, Update Selection is disabled until another saved selection is recalled or the delete is undone. Undo and Redo do not change which saved selection is recalled. - Drawing modes: in Draw Inside, a double-click with a selection tool outside the object being drawn into sets the drawing mode to Draw Normal, as Shift+D does.
- Drawing: Pen, Curvature, anchor tools, Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, Smooth, Path Eraser, Join. Direction handles dragged with Direct Selection or the Anchor Point tool snap to smart guides, and Shift keeps them at 45° steps from their anchor. The Pen continues any open path from the end clicked, and while drawing, a click on an end of another open path joins the two into one (#776). The Curvature tool edits any selected path, whatever drew it, keeping its shape except where edited (#798): a click on a point makes it current and a drag moves it, re-curving only its two segments; Alt-click or double-click toggles it smooth or corner and Delete removes it; a click on a segment adds a point without changing the shape; with an end of an open path current, clicks go on from it and its other end closes it (
path.curvatureEdit). Every point a drawing tool places snaps to Smart Guides through one snapper (#506): the Pen's and Curvature tool's anchors, the Pencil's ends, the shape tools' start and dragged corner or radius (Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star, Line Segment, Arc, Spiral, the grids), the Type tool's click and frame, a new artboard's corners. A filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679). The [ and ] keys reach the Blob Brush, the Eraser and the Symbolism tools in the app (#1734, part of #1661). Curvature point markers are circular, with no direction handles. While drawing, its own point feedback replaces generic selection markers; existing paths use the selection overlay, including partial selections and Hide Edges. Anchor Size applies, and Direct Selection and Pen retain their handles. The real egui-frame regressions incrates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rsverify marker positions, counts and unchanged documents (#1236, in part); the existing-path interpolation request remains open. The curve through the points (curvature_splineincrates/tools/src/draw2.rs) makes each stretch of three points follow the circle through them: a smooth point's handles lie along that circle's tangent, eachchord / (3 cos²(α/2))long (α between handle and chord, capped at 90°), and the ends of an open path mirror their neighbour's tangent in their chord, so a J or a U curves evenly, a turn tighter than 30° comes to a point, and uneven spacing doesn't loop; the rubber band, a dragged or inserted point andpath.convertAnchorto smooth use the same rule, while the Pencil's fitting keeps its own;tests_draw2.rschecks that the rubber band is the path the click makes (#1236, in part). The Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512). - Shapes: all shape tools (including Flare) and the line, arc, spiral and grid tools. Space held while dragging out a shape, line, arc, spiral or grid moves it at its current size. While a grid is dragged out, Up/Down change its rows (concentric dividers) and Left/Right its columns (radial dividers). A click with a grid tool asks for the size, the divider counts and the grid options (#1377, in part): a skew for each set of dividers, Use Outside Rectangle As Frame or Create Compound Path From Ellipses, and Fill Grid; they are parameters of
shape.rectangularGridandshape.polarGrid, stay as the tool's options and apply to drags too. The curve a skew percentage follows and the direction of the radial skew are our own (the public documentation gives neither), and the dialogs have no reference point locator. An ellipse's Pie Start and End Angle and Invert Pie (Transform and Properties panels' Ellipse Properties,object.setLiveShape {pieStart, pieEnd, invertPie}) cut it as a pie (#812). With the bounding box showing, the Selection tool shows a selected ellipse's two pie widgets just outside it; dragging one sets its angle in one undo step and double-clicking one makes the ellipse whole again. A live polygon's Polygon Properties there: side count, angle, corner type and radius, radius, side length and Make Sides Equal once an uneven scale has made its sides differ (object.setLiveShape {sides, polygonAngle, polygonRadius, sideLength, makeSidesEqual}, part of #812); a star is a plain path, as in Illustrator. The Flare Tool Options last as the tool's options: the next flare dragged out uses them, a click's dialog shows them and double-clicking the tool opens them (part of #812). - Cutting: Eraser, Scissors, Knife, Mirror & Cut, Line Cut and Rectangle Cut (real geometry, compound paths keep their holes).
- Transform: Rotate, Reflect, Scale, Shear (click or Alt-click snaps the reference point to anchors and centres; Alt-click opens the tool's dialog, and a drag with Alt down at the release, from the press or pressed mid-drag, transforms a copy), Reshape, Free Transform (free and perspective distort and shear, switched by the keys held during a handle drag).
Align, Distribute, Distribute Spacing, Reflect and Shear return an error for any
horizontal,vertical,to,axis,boundsorspacingvalue they don't take, listing the choices, and Align returns one when a call gives neitherhorizontalnorvertical; nothing moves and no undo step is recorded. Align and Distribute act on the anchor points selected with Direct Selection: the points of one path align to each other, not to the artboard, and Distribute spaces them (#1641, fixes #1636; aligning to a key anchor is still missing). Transform Again uses the Copy, Transform Patterns, Scale Strokes & Effects and Scale Corners choices of the transform it repeats; after a bounding-box handle drag on area type, it resizes the type area again and the type keeps its size (object.transformAgain). With anchors selected with Direct Selection, Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect, Shear and Transform Again (the commands, their dialogs and the four tools' drags) transform only those anchors, their handles with them, about the centre of the box around them unless a point was clicked; a copy still copies the whole object (#1408; behaviour reference: adjust path segments; the default reference point and the copy are our choices). The Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear dialogs have a Preview checkbox, off when they open: while it is on the canvas follows the values, Cancel rolls it back and OK is still one undo step; Up/Down step the Rotate and Shear angles and the Scale percentages by 1, Shift by 10 (#1412). The five dialogs and Transform Each have Transform Objects beside Transform Patterns: off, the art stays and only its pattern tiles transform (objectson the transform commands), and Transform Again repeats the choice (#1448; behaviour reference: scale objects; the checkboxes are always enabled and the Scale page's pair is applied to all of them, our choices). Reflect's axis is Horizontal, Vertical or an angle (#1460; reflect objects along an axis). The link that keeps Transform Each's two scales equal is not built. - Pen: Alt pressed in the middle of dragging out an anchor splits its handles and keeps the curve already shaped into it (only the outgoing handle follows the pointer); Space held while dragging out an anchor moves it, handles and all. A press on the first anchor of the path being drawn closes it whatever the drag then does: the drag shapes the closing curve (symmetric handles, Alt breaks them) and the release closes the path wherever it ends (#501). Clicking the last anchor of the path being drawn retracts its outgoing handle (convert cursor), and dragging from it pulls out a new one on its own. Auto Add/Delete: over a selected path, a click on a segment adds an anchor and a click on an anchor deletes it (add and delete cursors); Shift held, or Preferences › General › Disable Auto Add/Delete, starts a new path instead. Alt held over a handle end or an anchor of a selected path (the one being drawn too) works as the Anchor Point tool, with its convert cursor: dragging a handle moves it alone, clicking a smooth anchor makes it a corner, dragging an anchor pulls out new symmetric handles, dragging a segment reshapes it; drawing then goes on. Cmd (Ctrl) held drags with the selection tool chosen last, Direct Selection until one is (handles, anchors and segments of the path being drawn or another), and the Pen then goes on drawing its path while that stays selected; the pointer shows that tool's while Cmd is held. The same holds for agents (
pointer_gesturewithmods.cmd), as the borrowing now lives in the engine (#494). With the Pen, a press that moves under 3 screen pixels is a click (a corner without handles), and a Precise Cursors command toggles the existing preference and can take a shortcut (#1663). - Direct Selection (#1278): clicking a segment picks its connection, with hollow endpoint anchors and only that curve's direction handles. Delete leaves the neighboring curves and appearance intact, opens/splits contours in one undo step, and another Delete removes the remaining selected path. A whole-path drag and deliberate anchor selection keep their existing behavior; egui frames and native control/art checked, OS mouse/visual QA pending. Where anchors of overlapping objects coincide, a click or drag takes the anchor of the selected object, also when another object lies over it (#1509, fixes #1508). Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path (it used to remove the wrong ones), removes objects selected whole along with the selected anchors of others, and keeps the remainder selected so a second Delete removes it (#1674). In isolation mode Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object (#1666). Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag (#1803, #1743). Double-clicking type (including type nested inside a group) switches to the Type tool and puts the caret at the clicked character.
A path segment with a control point whose x or y is infinite or larger in size than
f64::MAX / 16is measured by its control points, so its bounds hold the whole curve and the canvas check refuses an edit that leaves such a path selected (path.createincluded). With Direct Selection, the Pen and the anchor tools, a group, compound path or clip group selected whole shows the anchors of its paths filled, as a path selected whole does; the direction handles still show only on a path that is selected itself. Public references: Adjust anchor point, handle, and bounding box display size and Drawing basics (archived copies).path.curvatureEdit,path.removeAnchor,path.convertAnchor,path.reshapeSegment,path.split,path.setHandle,path.moveAnchorandpath.insertAnchorrefuse asubpaththat is not a whole number of 0 or more, andpath.splitrefuses such ananchororsegment; without asubpaththey edit subpath 0.path.reshapeSegmentrefuses a delta of 1e9 pt or longer, asobject.blend.spine.reshapeSegmentdoes, andpath.convertAnchorandpath.freehandrefuse a point whose x or y is 1e9 pt or more in size. - Group Selection (#2441): a click picks one path of a compound path (its outline within the pick tolerance, else the innermost path whose area holds the click: the outer shape or a hole), Shift-click adds another, and a click on a selected path adds the compound path, as a click on a group member climbs to its group. A path selected this way moves, rotates and scales on its own; paint still goes to the compound path.
With Direct Selection, Shift pressed during the drag of a curved segment keeps both of its handles at right angles to the line between its anchors, on the same side and at the same length (
path.reshapeSegment {perpendicular}). Shift held while any segment is dragged with the Anchor Point tool or the Pen with Alt does the same. With the Anchor Point tool, Shift held at the press on an anchor (or a selected blend's spine point) moves it, handles and all, instead of pulling out handles; Shift kept down keeps the move at 45° steps, and a Shift-click that doesn't move leaves the anchor as it was (path.moveAnchor). A selected blend spine's segment dragged with the Anchor Point tool, or a curved one dragged with Direct Selection, bends the same way (object.blend.spine.reshapeSegment). - Live Corners: drag a live rectangle's corner widgets (Selection or Direct Selection) to round all corners, with a radius readout; with Direct Selection, select corner anchors to show and round just those corners (#381). Each corner keeps its own radius and kind (Round, Inverted Round, Chamfer): Alt-click a widget to cycle the kind, double-click it for the Corners dialog, and the Properties and Transform radius fields set the selected corners (
object.setLiveShape {corners, radius, kind}). A link toggle behind Corner Radius (thesingleCornerRadiuspreference) switches the panels to a field for each corner of a live rectangle: Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Right and Bottom Left. Corners stay circular when the rectangle is scaled unevenly or along its own sides when rotated (the radius keeps its size, or scales by the mean scale with Scale Corners on); only a shear distorts them. On a rectangle that isn't square every corner is the same circle: a radius past half the shorter side stops there for all of them, the widgets sit on the corners as drawn and turn the edited corners red at that limit, CSS export writes the drawn radii, and rectangles saved stretched by older versions get circular corners when their corners are next set (#442). Live Corners work on any path's corners too, as on a rectangle's (#511): a star's, a live polygon's (which also shows them to the Selection tool, has a Corner Radius field in the Properties and Transform panels and keeps its radius as its sides change) and a pen path's, wherever two sides meet at an angle at an anchor that isn't smooth: curved sides too, trimmed to what the cut leaves of them (#1144). Direct Selection shows the widgets of every corner, or of the corners holding selected anchors; each corner is a circle tangent to both sides, drawn no larger than takes its cut halfway along its shorter side; a path keeps its uncut outline so its corners stay editable, and the same command, dialog, angle preference and View › Hide Corner Widget apply. With Direct Selection a click on a widget (no drag) selects its corner, as a click on the corner's anchor does, so the next drag on it rounds that corner alone; Shift-click toggles it (#1239). While a corner widget is dragged with the Selection tool the bounding box hides, so the rounding shows against the path alone (#1229). A round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape (#1547, fixes #1512). View › Hide Edges hides the Live Corners widgets, the bounding box and the type widget, and the selection tools then do not answer a press on them or change the cursor over them. - Blend spine Anchor Point tool (#2544): on a selected blend, dragging a spine corner makes symmetric Smooth handles; the tool displays and picks existing spine handles when switched to, drags one independently or retracts it on click, and clicking a point with handles retracts both. The spine is edited live without moving its key objects. Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed: symmetric and independent handles, corner/retraction, Shift constraints and perpendicular reshaping, tool switching, key preservation, Undo/Redo, save/reopen, hidden handles and overlapping Path/Blend priority (PR #2643). Behaviour reference: public path-editing documentation.
- Path editing (#494): the handles shown are the handles that drag: Direct Selection drags those of a path selected as a whole (as the Pen leaves it), the Anchor Point tool and Pen+Alt no longer grab handles that Show handles when multiple anchors are selected hides, a handle shorter than the tolerance leaves its anchor to be picked, and the anchor tools pick within Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance. A dragged segment keeps a smooth anchor at either end smooth. With Direct Selection, the Pen, the Curvature and the anchor tools, a path selected as a whole shows all its anchors selected, and the Control bar and the Properties panel offer Convert (corner, smooth) for them too; Remove and Cut wait for anchors direct-selected (#504). A handle drag gathers its snap targets once per drag (it took 21 ms per pointer move on a 20,000-path document, now 1 ms;
vectorcraft-cli perfmeasures handle and segment drags on a 5,000-anchor path). Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Average and Join in one step, with a corner or smooth choice for the joined anchor, is missing (gap 1). - Graphs: Column, Stacked Column, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area, Scatter, Pie and Radar graph tools with Graph Data and Graph Type. A series starts in greyscale; Group Selection's fill and stroke are kept separately on the graph and reapplied when its data, type or size changes, and through save, open and undo. Graph Type's Override Calculated Values (both
axisMinandaxisMax) uses exactly that value-axis range, split into the tick count (5 when automatic). Line graphs take Edge-to-Edge Lines (off by default: the points sit at the centres of their categories; graphs saved before the option keep their edge-to-edge lines), and radar graphs follow Mark Data Points and Connect Data Points. Blank cells (an empty CSV cell ornull) are values left out, not zeros: columns, bars and stacked segments skip them, lines and scatter lines break around them and the value axis ignores them, while area, pie and radar draw them as 0; a number in straight quotes is a label, and the data window writes it back quoted. Graph types combine: Graph Type on series picked with Group Selection (orseriesindexes) draws them as their own type, with column, stacked column, line and area mixing on the vertical value axis and bar and stacked bar on the horizontal one; stacked columns take one slot of the cluster, lines draw in front of columns and areas behind. The value axis goes on the left, the right or both sides (column, stacked column, line, area and scatter graphs; bar graphs keep theirs along the bottom), and Separate Scales gives the series assigned to the right axis a scale of their own with its own tick values. Each value axis takes tick marks of no, short or full (across the plot) length and a count per division, and a prefix and suffix for its numbers; the category axis takes tick marks too (none by default), at or between its labels. Graph designs: Object › Graph › Design lists the designs with a preview of the selected one, and New Design (the selected art), Rename, Delete Design, Paste Design (a copy back to edit) and Select Unused, and Marker draws the data points and legend swatches of line, scatter and radar series with a design, scaled so its backmost object fills the default marker's square. Graph Data transposes rows and columns and switches a scatter graph's x and y, and a|in a category or series label starts a new line. Pie graphs take Legends in Wedges, Position (Even, Ratio sized by area, Stacked on one centre) and Sort (None, All, First). Graph Type takes column and cluster widths up to 1000% (overlapping past 100%) with First Row and First Column in Front (First Row orders each series' categories; across series the series order decides, so series stay one group each for Group Selection), draws filled lines, adds drop shadows behind columns, bars, lines and wedges, and puts the legend in rows across the top. Text formatted with the Character or Appearance controls, on the whole graph or on labels picked with Group Selection, is kept per kind of label (value axis numbers, category labels, legend labels) through the graph being drawn again. Object › Graph › Data opens a worksheet: cells picked with a click and edited above the sheet (Tab moves right, Enter down, the arrows between cells), Import Data from a tab-separated text file, Transpose, Switch x/y, Cell Style (decimals shown, column width), Revert and Apply.graph.setDatareturns and takes the data as CSV with each value written exactly, not rounded to two decimals, so applying the returned CSV changes nothing (#1485). - Graph column designs: Object › Graph › Column (
graph.column) draws the columns, bars or stacked segments and the legend swatch of the series picked with Group Selection with a graph design: Vertically Scaled stretches it to each column's length, Uniformly Scaled scales it both ways and centers it, Repeating stacks a copy for each Each Design Represents value and chops or scales the last one (For Fractions), and Sliding keeps the part above the design's guide line in proportion and stretches the part below. The dialog lists the designs with a preview; the choice is saved with the graph and follows the design's rename and delete. - Other: Eyedropper, Gradient annotator, Artboard (Alt-drag duplicates an artboard, and its art with Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard on; Copy, Cut and Paste take the artboard with its art, Paste right of the last artboard, Paste in Place where it was, into this or another document, #446; Object › Artboards › Rearrange All Artboards lays them out in a grid by row or by column, in one row or one column, left to right or right to left, from the menu, the Artboards panel or Properties' Rearrange All, #681; Scale Artwork with Artboard, in the Control bar and Properties beside Move Artwork with Artboard, resizes the artboard proportionally with the art fully inside it and its guides, strokes and corners per the Scale preferences, #602), Measure, Type, Hand, Zoom, Rotate View. While a drag rotates the view, a dial at the center of the canvas shows the angle.
- Editing type: double-clicking type with a selection tool (Selection or Direct Selection) switches to the Type tool with the caret where it was clicked; pressing Escape finishes editing and switches back to the selection tool used before double-clicking it (when in isolation mode, the first Escape exits text editing while preserving isolation mode, and a second Escape exits isolation). While a Type tool edits type, a click that lands on no type ends the editing without making new type, and that tool stays active; the next click makes new type (#2871, #2854). Duplicate Artboards, the Artboard tool's Alt-drag and Paste give the new artboard an id that no other artboard has, also when an artboard's id is the largest possible value (#1718). Deleting the copy or the original then leaves the other's guides.
- Touch Type: a click with the Touch Type tool (Shift+T) selects one character and shows a box around it. Dragging the box or its lower-left handle moves the character. The upper-left handle scales it vertically, the lower-right handle scales it horizontally, the upper-right handle scales it proportionally, and the upper-middle handle rotates it. Each drag is one undo step that sets the character's kerning, baseline shift, scales or rotation, and the type stays editable (
text.touchType; behavior reference: Touch Type tool, Add text with the Type, Area Type, and Touch Type tools). - Temporary tools: Cmd with any other tool drags with the selection tool used last (Selection, Direct Selection or Group Selection). Held Space pans and Cmd+Space zooms (Cmd+Alt+Space out) whatever the tool. A Space+Shift drag rotates the view whatever the tool, as a Rotate View tool drag does, and Shift does not round the angle to 15°.
- Swatches panel clicks: Ctrl/Cmd-clicking New Swatch makes a spot color, and Ctrl/Cmd+Shift-clicking it makes a global process color.
- Panel drag and drop: art dragged off the canvas onto the Symbols panel becomes a symbol, onto the Swatches panel a pattern swatch and onto the Brushes panel an Art brush; a symbol dragged onto the canvas places an instance where it is dropped, and a brush dragged onto a path is applied to it. In the Swatches panel, Alt-dragging a swatch onto another swatch of its kind (not a tint swatch) replaces that swatch's color, gradient or pattern, and the swatch keeps its name and place.
- Tool double-clicks: double-clicking a tool's button opens its options: Hand fits the artboard in the window, Zoom shows 100 %, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear open their Object › Transform dialogs, the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools the Move dialog (Enter opens these seven tools' dialogs too; Move opens on the offset of the last drag or Move and with the checkboxes it was last confirmed with, so Enter, Enter repeats a move or a copy at the same spacing, as an Adobe Community thread describes), Gradient, Eyedropper, Blend and the Liquify tools their panels or options, the Pencil, Paintbrush, Smooth, Blob Brush and Eraser tools their Tool Options (Fidelity, fill, Keep selected, the tolerances, the brush size), and (#812) the Flare tool its Flare Tool Options, the Artboard tool the active artboard's Artboard Options, the graph tools Graph Type for the selected graph, the Symbolism tools the Symbolism Tools Options (Diameter, Intensity, Symbol Set Density) and the Magic Wand tool its panel.
Keep selected in the Pencil and Paintbrush Tool Options is on by default; while it is off, the path a stroke draws or continues is not selected afterwards and the rest of the selection stays as it was (
path.freehandkeepSelected). The Blob Brush Tool Options have Keep selected and Merge only with selection, both off by default: while Keep selected is off, the blob a stroke draws or merges into is not selected afterwards, and while Merge only with selection is on, a stroke merges only with selected blobs of its color that it touches (path.blobkeepSelectedandmergeOnlySelection).
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Ruler guides as layer objects: a guide goes on the current layer, shows, hides, locks and is deleted with it, is listed in the Layers panel (its row selects it) and moves to another layer (
guide.setLayer, or its row dragged onto that layer's rows); guides on a hidden or locked layer can't be selected, moved or deleted, Duplicate copies a layer's guides and Merge Selected and Flatten Artwork keep them on the merged layer; guides from files saved before guides had layers go on the top visible, unlocked layer when the document opens. Not done: guides stacked among the art of their layer (they are listed above it), a guide row's own eye and lock. Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534). The Transform panel shows a selected ruler guide's X or Y, and typing a value moves it (#1659, part of #1597). This is not established by the documentation we could find: the public help pages on guides, rulers and the Transform, Control and Properties panels (read again on 2026-10-14) describe selecting and dragging unlocked guides and the panels' X and Y for a selection, not a guide's position in a panel, and the one public statement of it is a user's community answer, which is not documentation. It is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision, with no parity claim and nothing counted towards a score. -
Releasing ruler guides: View › Guides › Release Guides turns the selected ruler guides into paths with no fill or stroke. An artboard guide becomes a line across its artboard, and a canvas guide becomes a line across the artboards (
view.guides.release {index?, ids?}). A Cmd/Ctrl+Shift double-click with the Selection, Direct Selection or Group Selection tool releases the ruler guide or guide path under the pointer. -
Layers panel: every layer, sublayer, group and object is a clickable row at any depth: a click highlights it and makes its layer current (new art goes there), Shift-click a range, Ctrl/Cmd-click toggles. Sublayers are no longer treated as objects: clicks, marquees, Select All and the Select menu take the art inside them, and each sublayer selects in its own colour. Selection squares on rows with selected art (click selects a row's art, Shift adds or removes; dragging the square moves the selection to another row, Alt copies), the eye and lock on every row with drag-down-the-column (one undo step), Ctrl/Cmd-click an eye for per-layer Outline, Alt-click an eye or lock to hide or lock the other layers (again: show or unlock them all), triangles with Alt to open or close everything inside, drag and drop rows above, below or into layers and groups with a drop line (Alt copies) and a dimmed copy of the row under the pointer (layers dropped in the empty space under the last row go below the bottom layer, #2260; dropped on the trash rows are deleted, on New Layer duplicated, as in Illustrator), inline rename, Delete key on highlighted rows. Buttons and the full panel menu: New Layer/Sublayer (Alt: options, Ctrl: on top), Duplicate, Delete, Options for Selection, clipping mask, isolation, Locate Object, Merge Selected, Flatten Artwork, Collect in New Layer, Release to Layers (Sequence and Build), Reverse Order, Template, Hide/Outline/Lock Others and Show/Preview/Unlock All, Paste Remembers Layers, Panel Options (row size, thumbnails per kind, Show Layers Only). Layer Options: name, colour (presets, each with a chip of its colour, or custom), Template, Lock, Show, Print, Preview (outline drawing and clicking) and Dim Images to %. Every operation is a command (
layer.move,layer.highlight,layer.merge…) with validation against cycles and invalid nesting. A document opens with only its top-level layers open; the rows left open are saved in the native file (nothing is written for the default) and reopen that way. Only the rows scrolled into view are laid out, from a row list made once per change: a layer of 5,000 groups of 10 paths, all open, draws the panel in 0.4 ms a frame instead of about 29 s (#638). The Filter button at the right of Search All keeps the rows that are of an object kind ticked under By Object (paths, shapes, text, images, effects, groups, linked files, guides) and in a state ticked under By Layer (locked, hidden), with the rows that hold them; a section with nothing ticked takes every row. The filter combines with the search, the button is lit while a filter is on, and Clear All in its popup turns the filter off (ui.layersFilter). The filter lasts the session. The panel menu's Save Selection submenu has Save Selection…, Update Selection and Edit Selection…, enabled and run as in the Select menu, and lists the document's saved selections: choosing one selects its objects again (select.recall).object.setPropswithvisible: falseorlocked: truedeselects every selected object that is then hidden or locked, the key object included, as the eye and lock columns do. Ctrl/Cmd+Alt-clicking an eye switches the other layers to Outline and the row's layer to Preview, or switches all layers back to Preview when the others are in Outline (layer.outlineOthers,layer.previewAll). Object › Arrange › Send to Current Layer returns the error "the target layer is locked or hidden" and leaves the selected objects where they are when the current layer is hidden or locked, or is inside a hidden or locked layer. Selected objects are deselected, the key object included, when a row drag moves them into a hidden layer or group, whennode.movemoves them into a hidden or locked layer or group, when Merge Selected moves them into a hidden or locked layer, when Collect in New Layer moves them into a new layer inside a hidden or locked layer, when Flatten Artwork moves them into a locked layer, and when applying a data set hides them. Panel Options › Locate Selected Objects (beyond Illustrator, off by default): when the last selected object changes on the canvas or by a command, the panel opens the layers and groups around it and scrolls to its row, as Locate Object does, without highlighting the row; when Show Layers Only, a search or the filter leaves the object without a row, the panel opens no rows for it and scrolls as with the option off. -
Drawing aids: Smart Guides and snapping (moving, with the Selection, Group Selection or Direct Selection tool, and resizing by the bounding-box handles with the Selection or Free Transform tool, Shift and Alt too: the dragged corner or side lands on the other objects' anchors and centres ("anchor", "center") or lines up with their edges and centres (a line and "align"); with Smart Guides › Spacing Guides, a moved selection that lines up with nothing along an axis lands as far from its neighbour as two other objects of its row or column are apart, or halfway between its two neighbours, the equal gaps marked; with View › Snap to Grid on, a moved selection lands on the grid instead, by whichever of its edges or its centre is nearest a gridline on each axis, #740; the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools drag from the anchor they grab and snap the pointer the same way, so a corner dragged onto another object's anchor scales exactly onto it, #482; anchors dragged with Direct Selection: the one pressed on lands on other anchors, its own path's that stay put among them, on path segments or in line with them, the others following, Shift keeps 45° steps, and with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; the Artboard tool snaps artboards, and their bleed, to other artboards, bleeds and art, the grid or whole pixels while moving, copying and resizing them, and the Transform panel shows and edits the active artboard's X/Y/W/H; drawn points, #506: hovering shows where the press goes, the point lands on the other objects' anchors, centres and paths ("anchor", "center", "path") or lines up with their anchors, edges and centres ("align"), the Pen's on the path being drawn too, near a construction guide through the anchor before it on that guide (Preferences › Smart Guides › Construction Guides and Angles), and with Shift kept to its 45° step or a square's diagonal it slides along that way into line; the targets are gathered once per document state, from the art in the window, and the anchors, centres and lines near the pointer are found by bisection, so hovering never rescans the document), guides dragged out of the rulers (#451: they snap as moved guides do, Shift to the ruler's ticks; with the Artboard tool they are artboard guides, which run across their artboard only and move, copy and delete with it,
guide.add {artboard}) that the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools then pick and drag (#414: the selected guides highlight and move together, Alt copies them, Shift snaps the dragged one to the ticks, otherwise it snaps to pixels, the grid or the edges, centres (so the sides' midpoints) and anchors of the art and the artboards, or with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; Shift-clicked they join the selected art, and Shift-added art keeps them, so guides and art are selected together in either order, Delete then deleting both in one step; the arrow keys nudge them, Delete deletes them, dragging one back onto its ruler deletes it, Lock Guides and Hide Guides leave them alone;guide.list,guide.select,guide.moveandguide.removereach agents), a right-click on either ruler or the origin box to pick the document's units (the current one checked;document.setUnits, one undo step, #528), and Draw Normal / Behind / Inside modes. Smart Guides: a point drawn with the Pen or a shape tool, and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection, snaps to where paths and ruler guides cross, labelled "intersect" (#1658, part of #1602; a moved selection's own anchors don't). A move that Shift keeps level, upright or diagonal stays on that line when it snaps, with the Selection, Group Selection or Direct Selection tool. It slides along the line until the selection lands on the grid or on whole pixels, lines up with the other objects or is spaced evenly with them, or until the line passes an anchor or crosses a ruler guide near the point the selection was grabbed by. A level or upright move snaps along its own axis only. A bounding-box handle dragged with the Selection or Free Transform tool snaps what it moves as a dragged point snaps (#2054). With View › Snap to Grid on, it snaps to the nearest gridline, and with Snap to Pixel on, it snaps to whole pixels. With Smart Guides off and Snap to Point on, it snaps to the other objects' anchors and the ruler guides within the Snap to Point distance. With Smart Guides and Snap to Point both on, it lines up with the ruler guides as well as the other objects. Shift still keeps the proportions, and Alt still scales about the center. A user slice's edge or corner handle dragged with the Slice Selection tool snaps as the Slice tool's drag does. With View › Snap to Grid on, it snaps to the nearest gridline, and with Snap to Pixel on, it snaps to whole pixels. Otherwise, with Smart Guides on, it lands on or lines up with the anchors, centers and edges of the art and the artboards, and with Smart Guides off and Snap to Point on, it snaps to the art's anchors and the ruler guides within the Snap to Point distance. Then a ruler guide within 5 px, shown and unlocked, moves the side or corner onto it. Shift still keeps the proportions, and Alt still resizes about the center. -
Artboard click-to-fit (#1227): a plain click fits the topmost editable object or group to a new artboard, including its stroke like Fit to Selected Art, and makes the new artboard active. Art and its selection stay unchanged; creation is one undo step. Handles, modified clicks, drags, Escape and tool changes retain their meaning. Tested inside an artboard and on the pasteboard (
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Rotated views: with the view rotated, Fit Artboard in Window, Fit All in Window and the status bar's artboard navigator fit the artboard or the art as the view turns it, and a Zoom tool marquee (Animated Zoom or GPU Performance off) zooms to the area dragged across. Ruler guides on no artboard turn with the view. The canvas draws the selection marquee where the tools select, Show Hidden Characters draws the marks of type partly inside the canvas, the Contextual Task Bar stays under the selection, and the Navigator's red box outlines what the window shows.
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Views: the status bar's artboard navigator (first, previous, next, last;
view.goToArtboard) goes to an artboard, fits it and synchronizes the Artboard tool selection when that tool is active; ordinary object selection is preserved. Actual Next-button regressions cover keyboard/Properties deletion and Undo inchrome.rs. Fit Artboard in Window and Actual Size show the navigator's artboard. The Artboards panel highlights that active artboard: clicking a row makes it active (the Artboard tool's too, while it is chosen) as does clicking an artboard with the Artboard tool, double-clicking its number also fits it in the window and double-clicking its name renames it. Duplicate Artboards, or a row dragged onto New Artboard, copies the artboard with its art (#446). Escape leaves Presentation Mode,view.screenModefrom it goes back to Normal Screen Mode, and the screen mode isn't saved with the preferences: the app always starts in Normal Screen Mode with its menus and panels (#472). View › Pixel Preview shows the art as the document pixels it rasterizes to, one per point and hard-edged when magnified, turning with a rotated view (it used to draw the smooth vectors, with only the pixel grid over them). In Outline view a template layer keeps drawing in Preview, dimmed, so a picture placed to be traced stays visible under the outlines (#1505, fixes #1486). In Presentation Mode, → and ← go to the next and the previous artboard, and a click anywhere goes to the next one, as the status bar navigator's Next and Previous do (view.goToArtboard): on the last artboard → and a click leave the view as it is, and so does ← on the first. The arrow keys do not move the selection there, and the tool does not receive a click, so a click selects and draws nothing (behavior reference: View artwork). In Presentation Mode no key press other than ←, → and Escape runs a command or reaches the tool (tool keys, Delete, Enter, Tab, F, Shift+F and every command shortcut, the macOS menu bar's key equivalents included), a right click or a long touch opens no context menu, a tap of two or three fingers undoes or redoes nothing, and the pointer over the canvas is the default one instead of the tool's cursor. Align to Artboard uses the active artboard, the one the Artboards panel highlights (object.align {artboard}). A press with a selection tool inside an artboard makes that artboard active; with the Selection tool, a Shift-click on an empty spot inside an artboard makes it active and keeps the selection. One selected object is aligned to the active artboard too, whatever Align To says (a lone object is never the key object). When an action plays, its Align to Artboard, All on Active Artboard, Paste in Place, Paste in Front and Paste in Back steps that name no artboard use the artboard that is active then. With the Artboard tool in use, a Shift-click on a row of the Artboards panel selects the artboards from the last row clicked without Shift to the clicked row, and the clicked row's artboard becomes the active one. When the artboard of the last row clicked without Shift is no longer selected, the range starts from the active artboard, and later Shift-clicks start from there too. A Ctrl/Cmd-click still adds or removes one artboard. A Shift-click used to add or remove one artboard as well. The public Select artboards page lists Shift-click in the Artboards panel for selecting several artboards. In the Artboards panel, a click on the active artboard's options icon, or a double-click on another row's icon, opens Artboard Options for that row's artboard, and the panel menu's Artboard Options… opens it for the active artboard (part of #1876). Both used to choose the Artboard tool instead. Opened while another tool is in use, the dialog moves the art with a new X or Y when the Artboard tool's Move Artwork with Artboard option is on. Artboard Options has X and Y fields beside a reference point locator (#1876), so an artboard's position can be typed as well as its size. X and Y are where the reference point lies, counted from the ruler origin (#1212), as the Transform panel and the Control bar show an artboard's position, and the locator is the one they and Properties share. A typed X or Y moves the artboard so that its reference point lands there, and a new Width or Height keeps the reference point in place; OK applies everything in one undo step. The shape dialogs still keep their X and Y to themselves (the click position). Pointer and key tests indialogs/tests.rscover both. Public references: Resize artboards and Create and add new artboards (a reference point in a nine-point grid, then X and Y). Alt-clicking New Artboard in the Artboards panel opens Artboard Options for the new artboard, and OK adds it and makes it the active artboard (ui.newArtboard; behavior reference: Default keyboard shortcuts, Use panels). A plain click still adds the artboard at once. With Align to Artboard chosen, the Align panel's Distribute Objects and Distribute Spacing buttons use the active artboard (object.distributeandobject.distributeSpacingwithto: "artboard"andartboard). The first object's left or top edge goes to the artboard's left or top edge, and the last object's right or bottom edge goes to the artboard's right or bottom edge. Distribute Objects spaces the other objects evenly by its button's line, and two objects are enough. Distribute Spacing makes the gaps between the objects equal. With anchor points selected, the buttons space the points among themselves and do not use the artboard. When an action plays, its Distribute Objects and Distribute Spacing steps with Align to Artboard use the artboard that is active then. With a key object, the Align panel's Distribute Objects buttons use the Distribute Spacing value (object.distribute {spacing}): the key object, or the compound path or selected group that contains it, stays in place, and the objects' left edges, centers or right edges (top edges, centers or bottom edges) end up that far apart, outward from the key object's, in their order. With the field's default value of 0, a click puts every object on the key object's line (behavior reference: Ask Mordy: Distributing Objects). Choosing the Artboard tool (Shift+O, its toolbar button, Edit Artboards in Properties or Document Setup, or the Artboards panel menu's Artboard Options…) starts it on the active artboard: the canvas outlines that artboard, and Delete, Cut, Copy, the Transform panel and Artboard Options act on it. Object › Artboards › Fit to Selected Art resizes the active artboard (artboard.fitToSelection {index}). It used to resize artboard 1 whichever artboard was active. When an action plays, its Fit to Artwork Bounds and Fit to Selected Art steps that name no artboard resize the artboard that is active then. Object › Artboards › Fit to Artwork Bounds and the Artboards panel menu's Fit to Artwork Bounds fit each selected artboard (those the Artboard tool has selected, else the active one) to the art on it, as the public Use the artboard context menu page describes (artboard.fitToArt {indices}). An object partly on an artboard counts for each artboard it overlaps, and an artboard with no art on it keeps its size and place. They used to fit the active artboard to all the art in the document. The Artboards panel menu's Duplicate Artboards copies each selected artboard (those the Artboard tool has selected, else the active one) with its art, in one undo step, and the copies are then selected, as the public Use the artboard context menu page describes. With the Artboard tool, Copy and Cut take every selected artboard with its art, as the public Cut, copy, and paste artboards page describes, and Paste brings them all back in one undo step (artboard.duplicate,artboard.copyandartboard.cutwithindices). The copies keep their places relative to each other, together right of the last artboard. All three used to act on the active artboard only. The canvas draws the active artboard's edge in black, as the public Select artboards page describes. It draws the other artboards' edges in gray. With several artboards selected by the Artboard tool, the canvas draws the black edge around the active one, which the tool shows with handles and its name. It used to draw artboard 1's edge in black whichever artboard was active. View › Rotate View turns the view to the status bar's preset angles (view.rotate {angle}, which takes any angle). View › Rotate View to Selection turns the view to the angle of the selected objects' bounding box, so the box is square to the window (view.rotateToSelection). When the view angle changes (a Rotate View drag, the status bar's angle menu, Reset Rotate View or a saved view) and the desktop app renders the frame at the new angle on the render worker, the canvas draws the last frame turned to the new angle until that frame is ready. It used to draw no art until then. With the view rotated, a second Escape less than a second after the first resets the rotation, as Reset Rotate View does. The first Escape may end something else, such as isolation mode or a path being drawn. The second resets the view only when it has nothing else to end, and an Escape that closes a menu does not count. After a click, or a press of another key that is not a modifier (Shift, Control, Alt/Option or Command), the next Escape counts as the first. With the Rotate View tool chosen, one Escape resets the view. A two-finger rotation on a Mac trackpad turns the view about the pointer once it reaches 5° (Preferences › General › Trackpad Gesture to Rotate View, on by default). The status bar navigator's field shows the active artboard's number and name, and its drop-down lists every artboard by number and name, as the Artboards panel does. Choosing an artboard in the list makes it the active artboard and fits it in the window (view.goToArtboard). The list opens on the active artboard's row and lays out only the rows in view and at most one more. -
Geometry and effects:
- Open-path anchor Delete: Delete/Backspace removes selected anchors and their adjoining segments, leaving drawable runs as separate open subpaths of the original object. Surviving curves and appearance stay intact; one Undo restores the document and selection, and a second Delete removes the selected remainder. Explicit Remove Anchor Points still reconnects/refits. Four core regressions, one full-frame Delete/Backspace regression and three existing removal/segment controls pass, covering these distinctions, multiple deletions, transformed geometry and mixed whole-object selection. Behaviour references: the legacy public Illustrator reference guide, Add or delete an anchor point distinguishes keyboard deletion from dedicated removal; the current Add or remove anchor points describes the dedicated tools. Other G11 gaps and scores/hours remain unchanged.
- Pathfinder (10 exact curve booleans; single-result shape operations retain source names and SVG IDs, #1293), Offset, Outline Stroke, Simplify, Clean Up, Split Into Grid, Divide Objects Below. With one group selected alone, the Pathfinder panel's buttons work on its members (among other selected objects a group still acts as one shape), and a greyed-out button says what it needs (#1450; behaviour reference: combine objects using Pathfinder effects; one plain path selected alone stays disabled, which the documentation doesn't settle). Split Into Grid takes the number, height or width, gutter and total of the rows and of the columns, Add Guides and Preview, and several selected paths become one grid painted as the topmost one (#1462,
object.path.splitIntoGrid; behaviour reference: divide or split objects; a typed height or width keeps the gutter and changes the total, our choice). Object › Path › Remove Anchor Points (path.removeAnchors) removes the direct-selected anchors without opening their paths (the Delete key still deletes them with their segments): the neighbours keep their handle directions and their facing handles are refitted so one cubic follows the two old segments, and straight sides stay straight. The Delete Anchor Point tool uses the same refit. The Control bar, the contextual task bar, the Properties quick actions and the canvas context menu offer it when anchors are selected. With anchors selected, the Control bar and the Properties panel also convert them to corner or smooth (path.convertAnchors), connect end points (Join) and cut the path at them (path.cutAtAnchors, also on the task bar and the context menu): a closed path opens there and an open one becomes one path per piece, each cut leaving one of its two coincident anchors selected so a drag pulls the path apart. In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635). - Divide uses open lines, bent paths and curves as cutting edges (#1307), preserving the frontmost filled face's appearance and holes. Engine tests cover implicit closure of filled open contours and unrelated objects; native automation confirms independent piece movement, one Undo/Redo, canvas/window captures and an exact saved-document read by a separate CLI process. The shared planar map retains its 4,096-segment cap and filled-area fallback; other Pathfinder operations are unchanged.
- Type that Transform effects only move and copy (no scale, rotation, reflection or Random) exports as type in each place, and PDF export writes every copy as selectable, searchable text, when its characters are in solid colors without underline or strikethrough, the type object has no fills or strokes of its own, no inline graphics and no perspective, its transform does not scale or shear stroked characters, and the copies do not overlap. When the effect is on the type itself, the type can also have transparency, an opacity mask and raster effects. When the effect is on the group or layer holding the type, the type has no transparency or effects of its own and is not in a clipping path, the group or layer has no fill, stroke or Pathfinder effect of its own, and no group between them has a fill, stroke, Pathfinder or geometry effect. Type still exports as outlines when the effect stops its copies early, or when the copies would number more than 10,000 or take more than 20,000,000 bytes of document data, and so does other type under a geometry effect.
- Extrude & Bevel and Inflate treat strokes as outlined: each visible stroke builds a solid from its outline in its own paint beside the top fill's (three-d.md).
- Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate (Effect › 3D and Materials): live effects in the
three-dcrate with depth, twist, taper, solid or hollow caps, five original bevel shapes (width, height, repeat, spacing, inside, both sides), Inflate's volume, both sides, twist, taper and cap, Rotate's turned fills and strokes, Position presets, the rotation and light gizmos, SVG/PDF vector output and Expand Appearance; one 3D effect per object; covered by geometry, effect, canvas-versus-export, command and dialog tests (three-d.md). - Initial live Revolve (#605, #846): a portable geometry and shading crate (
three-d), editable path and compound profiles, compact options with artboard rotation and light gizmos, SVG/PDF vector output and Expand Appearance that can trim covered faces. Open ends have continuous caps by default, shading is smooth with one to ten colored lights, and intersecting surfaces' visibility is approximate (revolve.md). - Live effects with previewing dialogs: Distort & Transform, Path, Convert to Shape, 15 Warp styles, Round Corners, Scribble, Effect → Pathfinder (all 10 operations, live on groups; several loose objects are grouped first, in one undo step), Color Adjustments (Brightness/Contrast, Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation, Shift to Color, Temperature/Tint, on vectors, live type and embedded images), and raster drop shadow, glows and feather. SVG and PDF export keep live effects (geometry baked; SVG raster effects as filters). Zig Zag spaces its ridges evenly along each segment, so lines and curves get a regular wave in Corner and Smooth (#1558). Warp › Arc (the effect and Envelope › Make with Warp) bends in the object's real proportions: a circular arc with concentric edges and no fold-over at 100%, so Arc on art that isn't square draws differently from before (#1581, fixes #1578).
effect.applyandeffect.setParamsgive an error for a misspelt or wrongly typed effect parameter instead of running the effect with its default (#1623, #1592). Roughen with Smooth keeps turn-backs smooth instead of making cusps that draw as spikes (#1646, #1643). Scribble draws one zig-zag per region, with no lines across holes and notches; convex shapes are unchanged (#1651, #1648). On the canvas, in Expand Appearance and in exports, Effect → Pathfinder uses the glyph outlines of type in the group, and results painted like the type keep its opacity and blend mode. - Effect › Path › Outline Object has no options. Type that carries it is drawn, exported (PDF and SVG as paths, with no font) and expanded as its glyph outlines while it stays editable, and the effects after it reshape those outlines. Paths and images draw as before. With Use Preview Bounds on, type is still measured by its layout box. Public reference: Summary of effects (archived copy).
- Initial live Revolve (#605, #846): a portable geometry and shading crate (
three-d), editable path and compound profiles, compact options with artboard rotation and light gizmos, SVG/PDF vector output and Expand Appearance that can trim covered faces. Cap is on by default with continuous curved vector rims; shading uses vector gradients automatically, with sharp profile corners, uniform caps and round seam joins. The Lights list, Add Light and Delete Light manage one to ten independent colored lights; ambient is shared and visibility remains approximate (revolve.md). - Live effects with previewing dialogs: Distort & Transform, Path, Convert to Shape, 15 Warp styles, Round Corners, Scribble, Effect → Pathfinder (all 10 operations, live on groups; several loose objects are grouped first, in one undo step), Color Adjustments (Brightness/Contrast, Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation, Shift to Color, Temperature/Tint, on vectors, live type and embedded images), and raster drop shadow, glows and feather. SVG and PDF export keep live effects (geometry baked; SVG raster effects as filters). Zig Zag spaces its ridges evenly along each segment, so lines and curves get a regular wave in Corner and Smooth (#1558). Warp › Arc (the effect and Envelope › Make with Warp) bends in the object's real proportions: a circular arc with concentric edges and no fold-over at 100%, so Arc on art that isn't square draws differently from before (#1581, fixes #1578).
effect.applyandeffect.setParamsgive an error for a misspelt or wrongly typed effect parameter instead of running the effect with its default (#1623, #1592). Roughen with Smooth keeps turn-backs smooth instead of making cusps that draw as spikes (#1646, #1643). Scribble draws one zig-zag per region, with no lines across holes and notches; convex shapes are unchanged (#1651, #1648). - Scribble (Effect › Stylize › Scribble…) has a Variation for each of Path Overlap, Curviness and Spacing (Scribble options) (
overlapVariation,curvinessVariation,spacingVariation), shown in its dialog and in the Appearance panel. A Scribble saved with the earlier singlevariationreads it as the Path Overlap and Spacing variations and draws as before. The angle is stored above -180° and up to 180°, so 270° is stored as -90°. - Simplify feedback and component selection (#1272): the existing tolerance dialog previews from the original interaction snapshot and shows original/new anchor counts. Preview off and Cancel restore the document and selection; OK is one Undo. A refit or Add Anchor Points clears component indexes only on paths whose geometry changes, keeping their objects selected whole and unchanged paths' components intact. Engine and real-egui frame regressions cover document/selection restoration and grouped paths.
Public references: Simplify benefits and advanced options.
Nearly unchanged appearance is expected when reducing points. The checklist is partial, without raising scores.
Simplify and Add Anchor Points record no undo step when they change no path, and a path they leave as it is keeps its live shape.
The Simplify dialog also has Corner Point Angle Threshold, Convert to Straight Lines and Show Original Path. The threshold is a slider from 0° to 180° and opens at 150°: an anchor whose corner is sharper than the threshold stays a corner, so moving the slider right keeps more corners, and the dialog sends
cornerAngleas 180° less the threshold. While Preview is on, Show Original Path draws the paths as they were before the preview in a wide, faint band of their layer's color under the selection's outlines. Object › Path › Simplify opens a slider under the selection (Manually simplify paths, Auto simplify paths) with Auto-Simplify, a rail from the fewest anchor points to the closest fit, and More Options, which opens the dialog at the slider's tolerance. The rail's levels are VectorCraft's own scale (object.path.simplify {level}): level 50, where the slider opens, is 1 pt, and every 10 levels halve or double the tolerance, from 32 pt at 0 to 1/32 pt at 100. Auto-Simplify picks the lowest level whose tolerance is at most 1/400 of the selection's longer side, or level 100 when that side is under 12.5 pt. The dialog's "Open this dialog with these settings next time" makes the menu item open the dialog on the settings of its last OK.
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Devanagari shaping: with an OpenType Devanagari font, Ka, virama and Ssa (क्ष) form one conjunct glyph, Ra and virama before a consonant (र्क) become a reph drawn after it, the i matra (कि) is drawn before its consonant, and Ka with a nukta is drawn like the precomposed क़ (U+0958), as Microsoft's Devanagari shaping specification describes. Each syllable is one cluster of its source bytes, and the arrow keys stop at its ends. A click inside a syllable drawn with several glyphs puts the caret at the syllable's nearer end, in point, area and path type. Tests:
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Vertical punctuation: fullwidth
！(U+FF01) and？(U+FF1F) use their nominal glyph upright when no vertical alternate is present, following the Tu fallback in Unicode UAX #50 §3.1. Code-built test fonts cover point and area type with and withoutvertalternates, retain the rotated fallback for a bracket and long vowel mark, and leave horizontal type unchanged. Tests:crates/text/src/tests_vertical.rs.- Free Distort's dialog (Effect › Distort & Transform › Free Distort…) shows a box in the proportions of the first selected object's bounds with a handle on each corner. Dragging a handle moves that corner. A handle focused by a click or Tab moves 1% of the box with each arrow key, and 10% with Shift. Reset puts the four corners back on the box. The preview and OK run
effect.apply, oreffect.setParamswhen the dialog edits an applied effect, and the Appearance panel's inline editor opens the dialog with Edit…. Behavior reference: Illustrator CC Help (2014, PDF), page 285 (PDF page 291).
- Free Distort's dialog (Effect › Distort & Transform › Free Distort…) shows a box in the proportions of the first selected object's bounds with a handle on each corner. Dragging a handle moves that corner. A handle focused by a click or Tab moves 1% of the box with each arrow key, and 10% with Shift. Reset puts the four corners back on the box. The preview and OK run
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Kerning across style runs: characters that differ only in fill, stroke, underline, strikethrough, overprint, character style name, leading, baseline shift, rotation, Character Alignment, kerning, or tracking that keeps or drops ligatures alike are shaped together, so restyling one character keeps the font's kerning pairs with its neighbors. A character with manual kerning that follows one with automatic kerning keeps the font's kerning with it (unless All Caps or Small Caps sets it as two letters, as ß becomes SS), and its value replaces the font's kerning after it. A ligature does not form across a change of style, and a change of font, size or OpenType features still shapes the characters apart. Behavior reference: Line and character spacing (public documentation). Tests:
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Type: Character size, leading, baseline shift and horizontal-scale controls account for object/group transforms (#1034): exact document-point sizes, mixed-value display and keyboard increments, range edits, resettable horizontal stretch, undo/redo and native save/reopen (
tests_typescale, Character panel tests). Point size is the transformed em-height axis, independent of glyph ink bounds; affine rotation, reflection and shear are retained. Group scaling still scales text; preserving font sizes is a separate enhancement. Behaviour reference: Transform text (public documentation). Text Wrap, Type on a Path effects (Rainbow/Skew/3D Ribbon/Stair Step/Gravity) and Options (Flip, Align to Path, Spacing; OK keeps the type where it is), type on a path's start, centre and end brackets (Selection and Direct Selection drag them to set where the type runs, slide it along its path and, across the path, flip it: #429), Character and Paragraph Styles (override-preserving redefine), paragraph attributes per paragraph (alignment, indents, spacing, hyphenation, hanging punctuation, tab stops, paragraph style, direction, mojikumi and leading model; the Paragraph, Tabs and Paragraph Styles panels act on the paragraphs the Type tool's selection or caret touches, Return continues the paragraph's style, threads and SVG keep them), Area Type Options (rows/columns/inset/first baseline, vertical Align Top/Center/Bottom/Justify per row/column, reflowing non-rectangular frames and text wrap), threaded text across any closed shapes, Fit Headline, the Every-line Composer for justified and ragged text (paragraph-wide breaks for an even rag, Single-line per object from the Paragraph panel menu ortext.setFormat {composer}). Area type resizes like Illustrator's type areas: a bounding-box handle drag (Selection tool) or Area Type Options Width/Height size the frame and the text reflows at its size (threads too); Direct Selection drags a frame corner or edge (text.reshapeArea). Point type still scales. Auto Size: the frame height follows the text after every edit, in the same undo step (rectangular frames of horizontal type in one row; columns get the least height that holds them; a height set by hand or threading turns it off), and the "Auto Size New Area Type" preference gives it to new area type. Shrink Text to Fit (beyond Illustrator): overflowing area type scales its sizes, leading and baseline shifts down by the largest factor (in 0.1 pt steps of the first run, down to a minimum percentage) that fits, at layout time so every export sees it.text.areaOptionsanddocument.inspectreport overflow and the shrink factor. The Selection tool shows the type widget beside selected type's bounding box (hollow on point type, filled on area type); double-clicking it converts between them (Type › Convert To Area Type / Convert To Point Type), keeping the text and its styles in place. Variable fonts list every named instance as a style of their family (Figtree Light to Black and their italics, Bahnschrift, Segoe UI Variable), and the instance chosen is shaped, drawn, outlined and measured at its axis settings; PDF and SVG embed it as that instance. The Character panel's Variable Font sliders set each axis (see Fonts). Beyond Illustrator: inline graphics (text.insertInline, Type ▸ Insert Inline Symbol) set a document symbol in a run of type as one character that flows, wraps and justifies like a glyph (InDesign-style inline objects, e.g. mana symbols in card rules text): sized to a multiple of the font size, centred on the cap height, opening up tall lines, following Redefine Symbol; a character of its run's size for Character Alignment and Top-to-Top leading, placed by the bidi reordering in right-to-left text (a neutral U+FFFC); drawn on the canvas, kept as live text plus a<use>in SVG and as vector art in PDF; Backspace removes it whole. Hebrew and Arabic are laid out right to left with the Unicode bidirectional algorithm (embedded Latin and numbers keep their direction, lines put in visual order after wrapping) in point, area and path type, with caret, selection and arrow keys in visual order; each paragraph's direction comes from its first strong character unless Paragraph Direction sets it (Paragraph panel with Show Indic Options,text.setFormat {direction}), and new type aligns to the start of its direction. SVG export outlines right-to-left text. Arabic typefaces: builds made with a craft-fonts checkout that holds its Arabic families (Noto Sans Arabic, the Arabic fallback, plus Cairo, Tajawal, Almarai, IBM Plex Sans Arabic, Noto Kufi Arabic, Amiri, Alexandria, Fustat, Reem Kufi, Aref Ruqaa and Gulzar once craft-fonts adds them, storytold/craft-fonts#11; releases get them when their craft-fonts pin moves) list them in the font menus on desktop; the web build fetches them from beside the wasm (Noto Sans Arabic before start, so Arabic never shows as boxes, the rest in the background). Font Size and Leading are combo boxes in the Character and Properties panels (Font Size in the Control bar too, beside the Character link, font family and style): type, step with ↑/↓ or the spinner, scrub the label, or pick a preset (6–72 pt, shown in the type unit; Leading also Auto), each pick one undo step; Kerning and Tracking list -100…200; a size, leading, kerning or tracking the selected text doesn't share shows blank (#458). Type › Bold and Italic (beyond Illustrator, as page layout apps have them; Cmd+Shift+B / Cmd+Shift+I while the Type tool edits text) switch the selected type to its family's own Bold or Italic face and back, keeping its width (a Narrow face stays Narrow); a family without that face says so (#724). The commands that make or restyle type (and the MCPadd_texttool) say in their result when area type does not fit its frame, andadd_texttakes Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit (#1500, fixes #1471). Cmd+Shift+C (Align center) works on Windows and Linux too (#1940). A double-click on area type's bottom middle handle turns on Auto Size (#1940). Print and Print Preview warn about the area type and type on a path that prints without the text that doesn't fit, and give their ids. A tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed, a stop just added included (#1487, fixes #1458). Area type in a non-rectangular shape moves a word too wide for the top lines down to the first line that holds it instead of breaking it (#1617, fixes #1615). Stylistic sets (ss01–ss20), stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, and superscript and subscript glyphs can be turned on as OpenType features of a character style (text.setStyle {features}), and the OpenType panel keeps them (#1611, fixes #1607). Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656). Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737).text.create,text.createInPathand the MCPadd_texttool takejustify, so point type can be centred on or end at its point (#1752, #1748). The Character panel's Small Caps, Superscript and Subscript buttons and the panel menu's items of the same names turn small caps and the superscript or subscript position on and off for the selected type, or for the text the Type tool has selected (text.setFormatortext.setRangeStyle{smallCaps, position}), in Document Setup's proportions. Turning Superscript on turns Subscript off, and turning Subscript on turns Superscript off. A button or item shows as on when the first selected character (at a caret, the character before it) has its attribute. -
Paragraph alignment: the shared Paragraph/Properties alignment row leaves every button unselected when the paragraphs it acts on differ. Auto resolves per paragraph; choosing an alignment uses the existing command. Headless paragraph_mixed_alignment_* regressions exercise mixed → Center → Undo, caret/uniform states, Unicode range boundaries, Auto/direction, split runs and grouped text. These regressions and full integration CI pass. Original captures confirm mixed → Center → Undo in the existing alignment-button layout. The public Paragraph panel guide lists the seven controls, but does not specify mixed-state rendering. Other paragraph fields remain outside this change; scores and hours unchanged. For Auto Size area type in columns, the bisection for the frame's height runs on the lines of the one-column layout, and its result is checked with at most two layouts of the columns. When the text wraps around objects or does not fit the one-column layout, or when the check fails, the columns are laid out at every step of the bisection, as before. Typing at the start of a story of 50,000 characters in 2 columns took 1,670 ms a keystroke and now takes 292 ms (release build,
auto_height_in_columns_typing_timing). Exports to PDF, EPS, SVG, EMF, WMF and the raster formats warn about the area type and type on a path that they draw without the text that doesn't fit, and give their ids, as Print and Print Preview do. An edit copies a thread's story only when it changes one of the thread's frames: with a story of 50,000 characters threaded through 8 frames with a style change at every word, moving another object took 7.8 ms and now takes 0.013 ms, and a frame of a drag took 7.2 ms and now takes 0.012 ms (release build,threaded_story_edit_timing). The frames of threaded text share one Optical Margin Alignment setting: turning it on or off in one frame sets it in every frame, threading frames gives the thread its first frame's setting, and frames taken out of a thread keep it. Type › Optical Margin Alignment (type.opticalMarginAlignment) hangs the punctuation and letter edges at the ends of a type object's lines outside its margins: at the left of left-aligned lines, at the right of right-aligned lines, and at both ends of centered and justified lines, in point and area type of left-to-right paragraphs. Quotation marks, hyphens, full stops and commas hang wholly; asterisks, tildes, ellipses, en and em dashes, colons and semicolons hang by half; and A, V, W, Y, v, w and y hang by a tenth of their width. It is off by default and saved with the type object. The Paragraph panel menu's Hyphenation… (ui.hyphenation,text.setFormat {wordsLongerThan, afterFirst, beforeLast, hyphenLimit, hyphenationZone, hyphenateCapitalized}) sets each paragraph's hyphenation limits: the shortest word that breaks, the fewest letters on each side of the hyphen, the most hyphenated lines in a row, a zone at the right edge where the Single-line Composer breaks before a word instead of hyphenating it, and whether capitalized words break. The defaults are words longer than 5 letters, 3 letters on each side, no limit or zone, and capitalized words hyphenated; paragraph styles and the native file keep the options. The Tabs panel's ruler is numbered in the General unit with the canvas rulers' label steps and a tick every tenth of a step. With the panel menu's Snap to Unit on, or Shift held, a tab stop placed by a click on the ruler or dragged on it lands on the nearest tick (text.tabs.set). The Tabs panel menu's Clear All Tabs (text.tabs.clear), Delete Tab and Repeat Tab (text.tabs.set) can be chosen while the panel's ruler shows tab stops. Delete Tab removes the stop selected on the ruler. Repeat Tab replaces the stops after the selected stop with up to 20 copies of it. The copies are spaced by the selected stop's distance from the stop before it, or from the paragraph's left indent when it is the first stop, and no copy is placed at 2,000 pt or beyond. Clear All Tabs removes every stop, so the default stops every ½ inch apply again. -
Interface languages, vertical type: Preferences ▸ User Interface (or VectorCraft ▸ Language on macOS) picks Automatic (the system locale) or a registered language, persisted as
interfaceLanguage. Translations come from per-language catalogs (i18n/*.tsv): Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German (everyde-*locale), Spanish (neutral international Spanish, for everyes-*locale), French (everyfr-*locale), Italian (everyit-*locale) Russian (everyru-*locale) and Ukrainian (everyuk-*locale) cover the whole interface, Czech every menu label; Czech, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Swedish, Ukrainian and Finnish also translate status-bar and error messages as they are shown (@msgtemplates, every message literal tested; the messages themselves stay English for agents); untranslated text stays English. Japanese and Chinese glyphs come from the craft-fonts build input (release builds) or the installed fonts, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian ones from the bundled UI fonts. The web app follows the browser's languages (or?lang=). The Basic toolbar's Type button holds Vertical Type in its flyout. Vertical Type, Vertical Area Type and Vertical Type on a Path create vertical text (columns right to left, upright CJK glyphs and marks withvertalternates, Latin and longer numbers on their side, two- and three-digit numbers set as tate-chu-yoko in one em of the column (kept whole when justified), upright glyphs centred on the column (tracked or justified too), point type's anchor on the first column's centre line); kinsoku applies to horizontal and vertical Japanese (Paragraph panel › Kinsoku Set,text.setFormat {kinsoku}: Hard, the default, keeps closing marks, iteration marks, the prolonged sound mark and small kana off the line start and opening brackets off its end; Soft lets 々, ー and small kana start a line as JLREQ's level 3 rules do; None turns it off), and justified Japanese lines spread their room between characters (not inside Latin words); Paragraph panel › Mojikumi Set (shown with Preferences › Type › Show East Asian Options,text.setFormat {mojikumi}): None or Line-end Punctuation Half Width (new type's default, as in Illustrator; older documents and imported text keep None) shares one half-em space between consecutive punctuation, sets a closing mark ending a line half width and an opening bracket starting a line flush with its start (a paragraph's first line at its first-line indent, JIS X 4051's principle in JLREQ 3.1.5), and puts a quarter em between Japanese and Latin letters or digits; Paragraph panel menu › Top-to-Top / Bottom-to-Bottom Leading measures leading from em box top to top (area type's first line touches the frame) or from baseline to baseline (new type in a Japanese interface starts top to top, with em box centre character alignment, #432); Paragraph panel menu › Burasagari None / Regular / Force (text.setFormat {burasagari: "none"|"standard"|"forced"}) hangs an East Asian comma or full stop (、。，．､｡) ending an area type line outside it, Regular (new type's default) when it doesn't fit and Force always (the rest of the line then fills the measure; closing brackets and Latin punctuation don't hang); Character panel menu › Character Alignment (with the East Asian options;text.setFormatortext.setRangeStyle {charAlign}) lines characters smaller than the largest on their line up on the Roman baseline, the em box top/right, centre or bottom/left, or the ICF (ideographic character face) top/right or bottom/left, from the font's BASE table or, without one, the average ink box of some ideographs and kana; Proportional Metrics (the same menu;{proportionalMetrics}) sets full-width glyphs on the font's proportional widths (OpenTypepalt) in horizontal type and upright glyphs on its proportional heights (vpal, shaped top to bottom; fonts without vertical metrics keep their cells) in vertical type, and Line-end Punctuation Half Width takes nothing more off the punctuation they re-spaced; Type ▸ Type Orientation switches existing text; caret, selection, hit testing and arrow keys follow the writing direction. Vertical text exports to PDF as real text and to SVG as outlines. The interface is available in Polish (pl): menus, panels, dialogs and messages, with one/few/many plurals; AI-drafted, native review pending (#1498). -
Transparency: opacity masks (clip/invert/disable/link), exported as SVG
<mask>and PDF soft masks. The constant alpha soft mask that PDF and.aiexport draw a CMYK page with transparency through is white, so applications that read every soft mask by its luminosity show the page too (#1359, part of #1286). Disable, Enable, Unlink and Link Opacity Mask and Opacity Mask Options (transparency.setOpacityMask) record no undo step when every mask they act on already has the flags they set. -
Image Trace, thin closed outlines: generated
fit::snap_area_testsverify nonzero interiors after straightening, opposite closed-boundary winding and Noise controls; see quality notes. Scores and hours unchanged; open-piece fitting is unchanged. -
Image Trace, Auto Color rare colours: the Automatic palette keeps colours too rare for its area count when they are distinct (Oklab) and drawn as coherent regions, at most six, protected from mixed-colour merging and Noise; code-drawn stem, highlight, low-contrast and scattered-noise tests (see quality notes).
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Image Trace, large images: images over 1500 px on a side trace with a warning in the result and the status bar; the anchor limit is 8,000,000 (2,000,000 on the web), measured at about 90 bytes an anchor (see quality notes).
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Image Trace small contours: closed fits too small to form an editable subpath retain their positioned outline, including holes. Source-generated island, hole/winding and stepped-region regressions cover Corners and Noise; defaults, parity scores and estimates are unchanged.
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Create Strokes baseline (2026-10-17, measured): the ignored centre-lines class covers 23 exact code-drawn scenes in aa and hard variants, including junctions, crossings, fills meeting strokes and varying widths. Baseline and metric definitions. Topology is recovered from emitted geometry; width-profile metrics remain unavailable. No behaviour change or score increase.
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Image Trace, collapsed loops keep few segments: a loop whose fit collapses to one cubic keeps the fewest segments that hold its area and course, so a higher Paths gives no fewer segments; a code-drawn Paths sweep in
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Image Trace, notches read only their own piece: the notch rule of
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Image Trace, same shift from either side of an edge: a crack's sub-pixel shift is averaged from its two sides, so abutting regions on one- and two-pixel slivers get the same points and leave nothing uncovered; code-drawn regressions in
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Image Trace, simpler contour walk:
contour::trace_maskworks out each turn from the pixels during the walk, with no precomputed direction table and no assertion; identical loops to the previous walk on every 4 × 4 mask (see quality notes). -
Image Trace, measured:
crates/trace/tests/qualitytraces drawings made from known vector art with every preset andimage-trace-quality.mdrecords the numbers against the baseline. Black and White, Grayscale and Color place each edge by the blend of the pixels across it (to a fraction of a pixel on anti-aliased and blurred images; hard-edged images are read as staircases) and fit outlines as Flat Logo does. Measured on each preset's own inputs, all sizes and variants: Default's outlines went from 0.31 px off on average to 0.09 (largest 1.51 to 1.02), Black and White Logo's from 0.27 to 0.06 with 0.3 kinks per trace where it had 15, and the gaps between abutting paths from 64 px to 22. On clean curved shapes Black and White Logo is 0.02 px off (the open tracer measured beside it: 0.20). The palette is made of the picture's own colours (blends along edges take none of it, colours that noise made of one colour merge, a blend pixel goes to one of the two colours it lies between; #1504): 16 Colors on flat art, all variants, went from 70 paths to 4.2 and from 5.1 px off to 0.13, with no path left in a colour the art doesn't have (5.9 before). Photos are smoothed within their tones before they are quantised and stacked layers go by lightness (#1516): High Fidelity Photo went from 3,653 paths to 121 with its colour error down from 2.30 to 1.75, and a 16 megapixel photo-like image is traced in 3.5 s where 4 megapixels were refused. Since then, by the same harness: outlines are cut at their junctions and each shared piece is fitted once (#1535: gaps and overlaps between abutting paths 22 to 50 px of area down to under 2); layers are traced within the box of their pixels and a few at a time (#1546: a 16 megapixel photo 3.9 GB to 0.9 GB); black and white are read against the image's own black and the paper near each edge (#1563, for thin lines in blurred and scanned art); Ignore Color and the Auto Color and Outline presets (#1574); Snap Curves To Lines levels lines within 2.5 degrees of level or upright (#1593, the angle our choice); Create: Strokes puts centre lines in the middle of their ink and makes them as wide as it (#1595: Outline 0.295 to 0.052 px from the true centre line, 18.4 to 2.7 anchors a stroke); sharp corners whose pixel is mostly outside the shape stay corners (#1609: Default 69% to 76% kept). Three options, each off unless asked for as the legacy presets have them: Shapes (#1609: 57 to 62% of plain circles, ellipses, rectangles and regular polygons come out as live shapes, rounded rectangles rarely), Auto Grouping (#1618: paths grouped with what lies inside them, the same picture) and Gradients (#1627: linear gradients traced as one gradient-filled path; on gradient inputs 6 Colors' colour error 2.12 to 0.62 with 6.4 to 3.4 paths, none found in flat art). Snap Curves To Lines moves no end of a line by more than 1.6 px, so long lines a degree or two off stay as the image has them (#1647: Technical Drawing's largest distance 4.21 px to 1.46). Flat Logo takes the tones a scan's uneven paper makes of one colour for one colour (#1657: on scans 470 paths and 21 px off to 8.5 paths and 0.09 px). Shapes finds rounded rectangles and shapes in aliased, blurred and scanned art (#1845: 57 to 62% of the plain shapes up to 98 to 100%, no false shape but one line 2 px wide). Stroked lines get square caps where their ink is cut square, and a wide end that turned towards a corner goes back on its line (#1846: Outline's largest distance 2.94 px to 0.88, 14 anchors to 10). Each of the 14 documented presets has an enhanced version with Auto Grouping and, in all but High Fidelity Photo, Shapes (#1847), measured beside its preset: equal or better within 0.005 px and 1% of edge ΔE on every preset's own inputs (Default 0.091 to 0.083 px); Auto Grouping keeps traced order in its groups, which removed a light seam along the counters of letters. Gradients grows a gradient over the pixels noise and soft rims took off it (#1848: blurred and noisy linear gradients 3 to 11 paths beside the gradient down to 0.5 with 6 Colors, 24 to 56 down to 0.5 to 1.5 with High Fidelity Photo). Silhouettes is 0.52 px off because its threshold is 200 (0.11 px at 128). Still weak, by the same numbers: rounded rectangles and other line-and-arc outlines take 12 to 16 anchors (the fitter does not split lines from arcs), blurred and scanned polygons lose corners, hairlines under half a pixel are lost to the threshold, aliased art is about 0.25 px off, a scan's uneven paper splits into tones when more colours are asked for than the art has, stroke junctions stay at their skeleton pixels, a three-stop gradient in a small or scanned disc is not found, radial gradients stay bands (a draft, #1849, traces them; the documented option is for linear ones, so it waits for a decision), near-regular polygons a few dozen pixels across are made regular with Shapes (up to 0.5 px off), and aliased stroked lines are 0.8 px off at worst. -
Gradient mesh from an image: Object › Create Gradient Mesh (
object.mesh.create) on an embedded image makes a mesh of 1 to 50 rows and columns over the picture's rectangle, placed with the image's transform; each point takes the alpha-weighted average colour and the opacity of the area around it, and Appearance and Highlight apply. A linked image is refused with a message to embed it (#1676). Scores and hours unchanged. -
Image Trace Flat Logo mode: a fourth mode beside Black and White, Grayscale and Color, for flat-colour logos. Each pixel is read as a blend of the logo's colours (found automatically or named), the blend is interpolated smoothly and every outline is placed where two colours are equally present, so edges are accurate to a fraction of a pixel. Outlines are then cleaned: corners the blur rounded are put back, near-straight runs and near-circular arcs become exact lines and arcs, the rest is fitted with as few Béziers as the tolerance allows, touching colours overlap by a hair so no gap opens, and an outline that strays from the raw contour is fitted plainly instead. Gradients and photos are refused with advice to use Color. Line art whose only solid area is white paper (strokes a pixel or two wide) takes its colours from the strokes' cores, with the lighter shades along a stroke's anti-aliased edge folded into its ink; a page whose ink (a channel at least 48 below white) covers under 1% of it traces to nothing, as blank paper does. Measured (a local experiment, not run in CI): a flat-colour logo's vector original was rendered down to a soft 199 × 100 px transparent PNG, traced, and the result compared with the original at 1600 px wide. The built-in colour presets (6 Colors, 16 Colors, High Fidelity Photo, Low Fidelity Photo) had a mean edge error of 2.5 to 3.4 px and region overlap of 0.88 to 0.91; Flat Logo had 0.78 px and 0.966 (0.48 px and 0.975 from a crisp source), in about 0.1 s. Limits: flat-colour art only; needle-thin sharp tips are shortened by about 1.7 source pixels because the blur erases them; it works at no more than 1024 px on the long side (larger images are averaged down first); only one logo family has been scored against a vector original.
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Advanced art: live Blends (steps/distance/smooth colour, editable spine, anchor-targeted Blend tool, faithful interpolation, knockout), Envelope Distort (warp/mesh/top object, Reset, full Envelope Options, mesh handles, Edit Contents; type, images, symbols, gradients, patterns and appearance distorted everywhere), Liquify tools with options and pen pressure, Puppet Warp with rotating pins, Perspective Grid with presets, movable planes and projected type (choosing a perspective tool shows the grid; Hide Grid hides it with the tool still chosen), Gradient Mesh, Shape Builder (stroke-only open paths and lines cut the regions they cross and enclose regions of their own, and regions they bound merge without seams where the lines cross at rounded coordinates (#893); filled open paths count as closed; erase mode while Alt/Option is held: a minus pointer, red highlights of what will go, a click or drag deletes the regions touched, the pieces of open lines and the edges (outline pieces between the points where paths meet, opening their paths there) it passes over, one undo step,
shapeBuilder.merge {erase}andshapeBuilder.regionsedges over MCP), Live Paint (every path an edge, open lines included), Image Trace (12 presets, colour layers traced in parallel; a trace past two million anchor points is refused with advice rather than running out of memory, an image over 64 megapixels is traced scaled down to that size (aspect kept, paths at the image's own size) and one over 192 megapixels is refused, and a selection too large to outline shows its bounds (#525); Object › Image Trace › Make and Make and Expand trace at once with the Default preset, #543; with an image selected the Control bar and the Properties panel show Image Trace, whose arrow traces with any preset, Mask (object.maskImage: a clipping path on the image's outline, selected so its handles crop), Crop Image (a crop box on the image, starting on its part over the artboard, dragged by its handles or inside it, the outside dimmed, with X/Y/W/H, Apply and Cancel in the Control bar, Enter and Escape, #734;object.cropImage {rect}for agents,{trim: true}cuts an image to its pixels that aren't fully transparent, pixel for pixel) and Embed or Unembed in place of Fill and Stroke; with an Image Trace object selected, its Preset (choosing another traces again), View, the Image Trace panel and Expand, plus Release in Properties; the five View modes (Tracing Result, with Outlines, Outlines, Outlines with Source Image, Source Image) redraw a trace on screen without tracing again, are saved with it andimageTrace.setViewsets them, while exports and Expand keep the result; the panel's Advanced section is a header that stays open or closed as it was left (part of #641); Color mode's Palette: Limited, Full Tone (as many colours as the tones need, Less … More), Automatic (flat art with its own colours, else Full Tone; a heuristic) and Document Library (the most used colours of the document's swatches or a swatch library, filled with the swatch colours as they are), part of #641; Advanced › Create: Fills and/or Strokes, where lines up to the Stroke width trace as stroked centre lines (distance transform, thinning, a skeleton graph with spurs pruned, curve fitting; one width per line; without Fills, wider areas become stroked outlines), part of #641), pattern swatches with pattern editing mode, live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror). A single selected mirror repeat shows a prominent axis with a center move handle and two rotation handles. Drag the line or center to change spacing, or an end to change angle; Shift snaps rotation to 45°. The original artwork stays in place, the reflected copy previews live, Escape cancels and each drag takes one undo step throughobject.repeat.options. Controls follow zoom/view rotation and hide with edges or the bounding box. Engine and headless canvas regressions passed for gestures, history and visibility; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots were reviewed. Public mirror-repeat reference. Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756).- Create Strokes uses exact squared Euclidean distances and Guo–Hall thinning in bounded per-blob crops. Maximal-disc pruning, split-crossing merges and degree-two joins simplify its skeleton graph. The whole-blob width rule and ink fitting remain; 46 code-drawn inputs measure ends and junctions in
image-trace-quality.md. Junction degrees measure 44/45 correct in each input variant; remaining spurs are recorded. This is a measured skeleton improvement; the Image Trace score, missing per-feature selection and width controls, and estimates remain unchanged. Live Paint Gap Options (Object › Live Paint › Gap Options…,livePaint.gapOptions): with Gap Detection on, paint stops at the gaps that run from a loose end of a path to the nearest path, up to Small (3 pt), Medium (6 pt), Large (12 pt) or a custom size; Close Gaps With Paths adds an unpainted path across each gap; Preview applies the options live and draws the gaps in the Gap Preview Color. The options are saved, copied and undone with the group, and Merge keeps the bottom group's options when its Gap Detection is on, or else turns Gap Detection on with Small when another merged group has it on. When Gap Detection is off in every merged group, it stays off. Double-clicking the Live Paint Selection tool opens its Tool Options (Live Paint Selection tool options): with Select Fills off, a click selects an edge instead of a face; with Select Strokes off, Alt-click selects a face instead of an edge; Color and Width set the color and width of the highlight on the face or edge under the pointer (red and 4 px by default). The options last across tool switches and are saved with the preferences (tool.setOption {tool: "livePaintSelection"}). Window › Blend opens the Blend panel: Make, the selected blend's Spacing and Orientation (with no blend selected, the options new blends start with), Reverse Front to Back, Reverse Spine, Replace Spine, Expand and Release, each running its Object › Blend command. Make is dimmed until two or more objects are selected. Spacing and Orientation are dimmed until a blend or two or more objects are selected, and the other buttons are dimmed until a blend is selected. Objects on Path (#2545): a click with the Objects on Path tool (in Edit Toolbar's Modify section and the Blend tool's flyout; Object › Objects on Path › Attach and the context menu with two or more objects selected choose it) attaches the selected objects to the path clicked, open or closed, in an Objects on Path group with the path at its bottom. The objects go along the path column by column from left to right, spread evenly from its first anchor (the last one sits on the end of an open path), each turned to the path at its attachment point; Pivot and Rotate set where each one attaches and how far it tilts (object.objectsOnPath.attach,object.objectsOnPath.options). Editing the path moves the objects, an object moved on its own goes back, objects moved into or out of the group in the Layers panel join or leave the path, and Object › Objects on Path › Expand leaves a plain group. The group saves and reopens live and exports as plain art. The Space, Move All, Rotate All and Select/Move widgets, Detach, the tool's options dialog and the Properties panel section are missing.
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Paint and appearance (M3):
- Swatches: names follow the colour model and are unique; Swatch Options (process/spot, Global, Gray/RGB/HSB/CMYK/Web, live preview); editing a global or spot swatch recolours every linked fill, stroke and text run in one undo step; multi-select and delete with confirmation; New Swatch and New Color Group dialogs (a group from the selected artwork's colours); swatches in colour groups convert, separate and count like any other. The Swatches panel selects ranges and whole groups, has a find field, and drags swatches to reorder, regroup or paint art; Add Used Colors, Select All Unused, Merge, Ungroup and Sort by Kind; a CMYK document keeps applied colours in CMYK. Swatch libraries: nine generated colour libraries and five gradient libraries in a library panel, saved as
.vcswatches,.gpl, swatch exchange (.ase) or CSS, and loaded from.vcswatches,.gpland.asefiles (.aseboth ways: RGB, CMYK, Lab and Gray; global, spot and process; groups) and from color books (.acb, read only: the RGB, CMYK or Lab colors of a book such as a Pantone book a user owns, named with its prefix and suffix, spot unless it says process, #831);swatch.library.copyToUsercopies a loaded library into the User Defined folder without replacing a file, and a file with the same extension and bytes as a User Defined library opens as that library. Tints of global and spot colours ("Name 40%") stay linked and separate as a percentage of their plate. Spot colours can be defined in Lab (Spot Colors options). A built-in [Registration] swatch prints on every plate. - Colour: a Color Picker (colour field, H/S/B/R/G/B channel slider, HSB/RGB/Lab/CMYK fields, hex, web-only snapping, out-of-gamut correction); the Color panel shows a selected colour in its own model and, with nothing selected, the new-art defaults in the mode picked last, which it keeps between sessions; Alt-click paints the other proxy; proxies look through groups and show "?" for mixed paint; Invert, Complement, Apply Last Color (
,) and Apply Last Gradient (.) keep the colour model; every paint command feeds the recent colours. The Color Guide has 21 harmony rules, Steps and Variation options and Limit to Library. Adjust Color Balance (its Global mode shifts tints) and Saturate preview live; Edit Colors and Recolor also reach meshes, images and patterns. Recolor Artwork has colour reduction, five recolour methods, presets, Limit to Library, a colour-wheel Edit tab and Edit Color Group; a local Color Themes panel saves five-colour themes. Fill/Stroke chips open swatch and mixer popovers (the Properties panel has the Control bar's Fill and Stroke chips, Stroke link and weight spinner, with nothing selected too), panels have Illustrator's Window menu keys (Align Shift+F7, Transform Shift+F8, Pathfinder Cmd+Shift+F9, Layers F7, Character Cmd+T…; every panel can be given one in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts), and Eyedropper Options pick up and apply chosen attributes (Alt and Shift+Alt, image pixels). An ICC CMYK profile converts straight into the RGB working space (not through sRGB, so a wider space such as Wide Gamut RGB keeps colours sRGB can't hold) with the colour settings' black-point compensation, on the canvas and in RGB exports alike (the built-in Generic CMYK compensates both ways, so RGB black separated to a rich black displays as black again). Fills and strokes can overprint (Attributes panel, Overprint Black options), and CMYK documents blend in inks on screen, in PDF and when flattening. Document Color Mode converts the art, symbols, pattern tiles and swatches through the colour settings: Gray stays Gray, RGB greys separate into four-colour greys and a rich black as Illustrator does, or go on the black plate only withgrays: "black"(also fordocument.open {colorMode}). View › Proof Setup › Color blindness – Tritanopia-type turns Proof Colors on and proofs the canvas with the tritanopia simulation of Brettel, Viénot and Mollon (1997). The Separations Preview panel's Proof Setup list offers the same target (view.proofSetup {target: "tritanopia"}). Grays keep their value. - Color Picker layout (#2008): a centered draggable header, equal-width actions above aligned HSB/RGB/Hex and Lab/CMYK fields, compact field and slider, and warnings below the preview. No horizontal scrolling; narrow windows stack the sections with vertical scrolling. Tests in
dialogs/color_picker.rscover actual pointer/key input, typed values before OK/Enter, Cancel/Escape rollback, one Undo step, mode-size stability, warnings and layout at two UI scales. The screen sampler sits above the field and the upstream two-grid Tab order is retained. AccessKit regressions check the action names and each channel slider's displayed value, units and range. German and enlarged English UI renders were reviewed locally; no reference images are shipped. This is a layout improvement, with no change to scores or remaining-hour estimates. - Eyedropper sources (#1251): ordinary and Shift clicks, Shift+Alt appearance append, raster pixels and gradient-stop sampling can read visible locked/template art and sources outside isolation. Sampling leaves the source and selection intact; Alt reverse still uses editable hits, and hidden art stays excluded. Engine/tool/hit regressions cover the editing boundary, color models and one-step Undo/Redo. The general object/image workflow is described in public HelpX; the lock/isolation expectations come from the user report and these regressions, without a new full-parity measurement.
- Eyedropper colors in a CMYK document (#2276): a CMYK image (a four-component JPEG, or an 8- or 16-bit chunky CMYK TIFF) gives its ink amounts as they are, and an RGB image's pixel or an RGB color given to
paint.setFill,paint.setStroke,paint.sampleColororswatch.new {color}(hex input and gradient stops included) is separated through the color settings' CMYK working space and intent, as Document Color Mode converts it. With the default Generic CMYK, RGB 83/170/223 separates to C59 M12 Y3 K0, where the profile-free formula gave C63 M24 Y0 K13. - RGB input to other commands in a CMYK document: type colors (
text.create,text.setStyle,text.setRangeStyle), a Shape Builder hex fill,paint.editGradientstops, freeform gradient points, gradient mesh points (the Mesh tool gives a new point the fill's color in its own model), the Symbol Stainer's color and the swatch commands (swatch.new {colors},swatch.newGroup,swatch.editGroup,swatch.edit) separate RGB through the color settings aspaint.setFilldoes: with Generic CMYK,text.setStyle {fill: "#53aadf"}gives C59 M12 Y3 K0. A color a swatch already has keeps its model, and a swatch color given withmodeis converted into that mode only. - Sample Color from Screen: an eyedropper button in the Color Picker and
ui.sampleScreenColor(which can be given a key in Keyboard Shortcuts) pick a color anywhere on the screen with the system's sampler:NSColorSampleron macOS, the EyeDropper API in browsers that have it. The color becomes the fill or the stroke as one undo step, or the Color Picker's color, converted from display sRGB into the working RGB space. Windows, Linux and other browsers have no sampler yet; the button is gray there. - Stroke visibility (#1253): adding paint to a previously unpainted zero-width stroke restores the existing 1 pt default (
PaintDefaults::default,Appearance::set_stroke), for the selected appearance item, the new-art defaults and Swap Fill/Stroke. Positive widths are kept; recoloring a painted zero-width stroke keeps its explicit zero. A real Eyedropper-to-new-shape sequence reproduces the zero-width inheritance. Five engine regressions cover creation, defaults, targeted items, preserved widths and one-step Undo/Redo (crates/engine/tests/stroke_visibility.rs). - Gradients: lossless, validated gradient params; gradients follow rotate, reflect, shear, non-uniform scale and distortions; the Gradient tool edits the fill or stroke of the active proxy, type included; an interactive on-canvas annotator (move, length/angle, rotate, add/move/delete/duplicate stops, midpoints, a stop popover, Delete and arrow keys). The Gradient panel has the Fill/Stroke proxy, a gradient-swatch dropdown with Save to Swatches, midpoint locations, Alt-drag to copy or swap stops, swatch drops on the ramp and a stop eyedropper; copied appearances and graphic styles place gradients on each target's own bounds; gradient handles snap and honour Constrain Angle. Gradient stops stay linked to global and spot swatches. Freeform gradients (points and lines) are edited on the canvas; radial gradients have an extent ellipse, an aspect handle and an off-centre focal point (SVG
fx/fy, PDF two-point radials). A stroke's gradient runs within, along or across it. Object ▸ Expand turns gradients into N objects or a gradient mesh. With a gradient stop or a freeform gradient point selected, Alt-clicking a color swatch in the Swatches panel recolors it instead of the inactive Fill or Stroke. - Freeform gradient colors in their own model: Object ▸ Expand and Object ▸ Create Gradient Mesh (
object.mesh.create) mix a freeform gradient's points in the color model they share: points of C50 M20 Y0 K10 give mesh points of C50 M20 Y0 K10, and RGB points keep their values in a working RGB space other than sRGB. Points in different models mix in display RGB, and a CMYK document stores the result as CMYK through the color settings. Points colored along CMYK stops (paint.editGradient {stops}, or a CMYK gradient switched to freeform) are CMYK, and so are a pointpaint.freeform.splitLineadds between CMYK points and a pointpaint.freeform.addPointadds withoutcolorto CMYK points. Public reference: Gradients and Meshes, which do not state how colors in different models mix; the rule is VectorCraft's own. - Strokes: one stroke-geometry module shared by the canvas, SVG, PDF and Outline Stroke; dotted lines (zero-length dashes draw dots or squares); arrowheads with hollow outlines, tip-on-end or extend-past-end alignment and one opacity for line and head. SVG and PDF export arrowheads, width profiles, brushes and aligned strokes exactly as the canvas draws them; Outline Stroke and the live Outline Stroke effect outline every stroke item as drawn (dashes, heads, profiles, alignment); dashes can be fitted to corners and path ends; width profiles carry through dashes, and their corners take the join. The Stroke panel edits type's character strokes, follows the stroke units (its weight presets are round values in that unit:
0.25 mm,0.0625 in,1 px, #426; fields show four decimals in mm, cm and inches, three in points), shows mixed values blank and opens from the Control bar. A width profile library, thirty more arrowheads, and Width Point Edit with multi-select and discontinuous points. Visual bounds and clicks cover the whole painted stroke. Scale Strokes & Effects, Scale Corners and Use Preview Bounds work everywhere, and new art inherits stroke options, a graphic style or the whole last appearance. - Brushes (part of #852): double-clicking a brush in the Brushes panel (or the panel menu's Brush Options…) opens Calligraphic Brush Options (Name; Angle, Roundness and Size, each Fixed, Random or Pressure with its Variation; live previews of the nib and of a light–heavy–light stroke) or Bristle Brush Options (Shape and the bristle sliders); OK edits the brush and every stroke painted with it. The Paintbrush records the pen pressure along each stroke (kept with the path, saved, and joined when a stroke continues a path); a Calligraphic value on Pressure goes from value − variation at the lightest pressure to value + variation at the heaviest, on the canvas and in SVG, PDF and the other exports. Brushes saved before keep their look. Scatter Brush Options (Size, Spacing, Scatter and Rotation, each Fixed, Random between two values or Pressure from the first at the lightest pressure to the second at the heaviest; Rotation relative to Page or Path), Art Brush Options (Width, Scale Proportionately, Stretch to Fit Stroke Length or Stretch Between Guides with the guides' start and end, the four Directions, Flip Along and Across) and Pattern Brush Options (Scale, Spacing, the five tiles shown, Flip Along and Across, Stretch to fit, Add space to fit or Approximate path) each have Colorization (None, Tints, Tints and Shades, Hue Shift with its Key Color picked from the art's colours) and a live stroke preview; values from files and commands are clamped to their ranges. Still to come: the Art brush's Overlap, auto-generated Pattern brush corners, new tile art picked in Pattern Brush Options, Stylus Wheel, Tilt, Bearing and Rotation, and pen pressure on macOS.
In the Brushes panel, Shift-click selects a range of brushes and Ctrl/Cmd-click adds or removes one. Delete Brush and Duplicate Brush then act on all of them (
brush.delete {names},brush.duplicate {names}). - Appearance: the Appearance panel's selected row drives every paint, stroke, gradient and transparency edit (
itemon the commands); effects apply to one fill or stroke; per-item Opacity popups, whose blend-mode list and opacity slider stay open inside them (#430; the Control bar's Stroke popover too); Mixed Appearances, Layers target dots and basic-appearance rules. Effects can be reordered, moved between items and copied by dragging; Show All Hidden Attributes; clicking an effect edits it in place; the object thumbnail drags onto art; effects render on type, images, symbols, blends, envelopes, meshes and repeats, and per-item raster effects export. Groups, layers and type have their own fills, strokes and effects (Contents and Characters rows); the Layers panel's target circles target layers, groups and objects; Expand Appearance turns fills, strokes, effects and brushes into objects. Fill and stroke paint (Fill, Stroke, None, Apply Last Color and Apply Last Gradient, also on characters selected with the Type tool), the Stroke panel's options, gradient and freeform point edits, Swap Fill and Stroke, Default Fill and Stroke, the Eyedropper, and the Appearance panel's item edits, Clear Appearance, Reduce to Basic Appearance, Remove Item, item reordering and Move Appearance record no undo step when they change nothing. An image's own fills and strokes draw the shape that a Convert to Shape or Outline Object effect on them gives them (the image's box or its frame, reshaped by the effects after it), under or over the image as its Contents row says, on the canvas, in exports and through Expand Appearance; new fills and strokes on an image go under it. Without one of those effects they draw nothing, and Use Preview Bounds measures an image by its frame. A geometry effect on one of type's own fills or strokes reshapes the whole outline that the fill or stroke paints, on the canvas and in exports; PDF, SVG, EPS and the other vector exports write such type as paths. On type that holds inline graphics, those effects are drawn and exported only when the type has a geometry effect or perspective of its own. The Appearance panel's inline effect editor labels each parameter as the effect dialogs' generic fields do, without the colon ("Max. Radius", "Channel 1", "Create New Fields by"). Roughen's and Zig Zag's Points, Offset Path's Joins, Inner Glow's Source and the menus of Radial Blur, Smart Blur, Sprayed Strokes, Glass, Mezzotint, Halftone Pattern, Grain, Texturizer and De-Interlace are dropdowns with the dialog's labels that send the dialog's values, and a plug-in's choice is a dropdown of the plug-in's values. Revolve's edge, Extrude & Bevel's bevel, every Warp style's orientation, Rasterize's Color Model, Background and Anti-aliasing and the channel of Levels and Curves are dropdowns too, with the labels their own dialogs show.effect.applyandeffect.setParamsrefuse a Levels or Curveschannelother thanrgb,red,greenorblue(orr,gandb, in any letter case). - Masks and clipping: opacity-mask controls work while the mask is being edited; transparency commands take ids and work without a selection; clipping sets clip by compound paths, even-odd paths, text and groups on screen and in raster export, matching SVG/PDF. Alt-click shows only the mask; SVG masks keep Clip and Invert; the transparency grid is per-document state; a clipping path's own fill and stroke paint behind and over the clipped art; layers can be clipping masks.
- Masks and clipping: opacity-mask controls work while the mask is being edited; transparency commands take ids and work without a selection; clipping sets clip by compound paths, even-odd paths, text and groups on screen and in raster export, matching SVG/PDF. Alt-click shows only the mask; SVG masks keep Clip and Invert; the transparency grid is per-document view state saved in native files (#1968); a clipping path's own fill and stroke paint behind and over the clipped art; layers can be clipping masks.
- Transparency: three-state Knockout Group (on, neutral, off), Opacity & Mask Define Knockout Shape, Page Isolated Blending and Page Knockout Group, on screen and in SVG/PDF. SVG export writes a knockout group of opaque art plainly, without masks, so shapes meeting edge to edge leave no seam; translucent, blended, masked or brushed art knocks out through masks. Blend modes match the standard formulas on screen, in SVG and in PDF, and non-isolated groups blend with the art below. Flatten Transparency with presets, a dialog and a Flattener Preview panel.
On the canvas, the renderer no longer draws the picture of the art below back as an image each time it copies the backdrop of a non-isolated group that blends: it keeps that picture and draws the art that follows over it. At 2880 × 1800, 50 translucent groups with Multiply members take 65 ms a frame instead of 299 ms on 8 threads (
vectorcraft-cli bench), and the frames have the same pixels. Type inside a group, layer, symbol instance, blend or repeat keeps its opacity, blend mode, opacity mask, Opacity & Mask Define Knockout Shape, own effects, perspective and visibility when the effects on the container outline it. Hidden type with a geometry effect of its own is left out of exports. - Graphic styles: styles keep opacity and blend mode, capture groups and type, apply on top with Alt, and link to the objects using them; Redefine, Break Link, Graphic Style Options, Select All Unused, Sort by Name, and Select > Same Graphic Style / Appearance Attribute. The panel has list and thumbnail views with rendered previews, merge, reorder and drag and drop, plus a Control bar Style picker; six generated style libraries save and load as
.vcstyles. In the Graphic Styles panel, Shift-click selects a range of styles and Ctrl/Cmd-click adds or removes one. - Neutral wording: labels, MCP tool text, docs and packaging use neutral names, and
cargo xtask brands(part ofcargo xtask ci) fails on vendor names.
- Swatches: names follow the colour model and are unique; Swatch Options (process/spot, Global, Gray/RGB/HSB/CMYK/Web, live preview); editing a global or spot swatch recolours every linked fill, stroke and text run in one undo step; multi-select and delete with confirmation; New Swatch and New Color Group dialogs (a group from the selected artwork's colours); swatches in colour groups convert, separate and count like any other. The Swatches panel selects ranges and whole groups, has a find field, and drags swatches to reorder, regroup or paint art; Add Used Colors, Select All Unused, Merge, Ungroup and Sort by Kind; a CMYK document keeps applied colours in CMYK. Swatch libraries: nine generated colour libraries and five gradient libraries in a library panel, saved as
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Colour, type and file workflows: Recolor Artwork (dialog with harmonies), Edit Colors, Find & Replace, Change Case, Smart Punctuation, Guides, Lock/Hide Above, Transform Each, Rasterize. Object › Lock › All Artwork Above and Object › Hide › All Artwork Above deselect the selected objects they lock or hide, the key object included. Object › Lock › All Artwork Above and Object › Hide › All Artwork Above go through each top-level layer once, checking each object that is not selected against the selected objects below it: with 100 tiles selected under 25,000 rectangles, Lock took 6.4 s and now takes under 0.1 s, and with all of 5,001 objects selected it took 8.8 s and now takes under 0.1 s. All Artwork Above and Other Layers (Object › Lock and Object › Hide), Transform Each, Rearrange All Artboards, the width point and width profile commands, Liquify, Puppet Warp, Define Perspective Grid, Attach to Active Plane, Release with Perspective, moves and transforms in perspective, Move Plane and Move Plane to Match Object record no undo step when they change nothing. Create Object Mosaic (its columns and rows), Transform Each (its reference point and Random seed) and Rearrange All Artboards (its columns) refuse a fraction, a negative number or a string, such as 2.5, -1 or "4"; 4.0 counts as 4. Transform Each (its scales, moves and rotation), Rasterize (its resolution), Create Object Mosaic (its new width and height and its spacing), Create Trim Marks (its offset, length, bleed and weight) and Rearrange All Artboards (its spacing) refuse a value other than a number or null, such as "50", and change nothing. Crop Image refuses a rectangle that is not four numbers, such as "0, 0, 20, 20". Change Case, Smart Punctuation, Find and Replace, Convert To Area Type, Convert To Point Type, Type on a Path Options, the Type on a Path effects and Fill with Placeholder Text record no undo step when they change nothing.
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Fonts: a font is found by any of its names (family and style in every language of its name table, legacy family/style pairs, PostScript name), so documents from other apps open with the font they name; Find Font and
text.fontssay for each font whether it was found exactly, by another name, substituted or missing, and how many glyphs are missing. PDF and.aiimport brings Japanese text back as live type: CID fonts without a ToUnicode map read through the standard CMaps, vertical columns (WMode 1) as vertical type, letter spacing as tracking; a glyph is live type only when the installed font (in the closest style of its family) draws the same glyph, and text in a font that isn't installed comes in as live type shown in the fallback font until the font is installed (exports that draw it — PDF, EPS, EMF/WMF, raster, SVG outlines or embedded fonts — warn that they wrote the fallback font, and Print and Print Preview warn about the type that prints in it;textAs: outlineskeeps the PDF's embedded glyphs). Two installed versions of one family and style (a font library keeping an old file beside a new one) both load, the first staying the one the family and style resolve to; PDF and.aiimport tries each version when the glyphs differ, and type set in a version other than that one names it (CharStyle::font_version), which layout, the substituted-glyph highlight, Find Font, Package and Document Info follow. Fonts outside the font folders are listed too: those font services such as Adobe Fonts load on Windows, through DirectWrite, and those apps and font managers register with CoreText on macOS (#579). When a document opens with fonts that aren't available, fonts used only in symbols included, a Missing Fonts dialog lists them after the linked-file questions, with Find Fonts (Type › Find Font on them) and Close. Its Find in Folder… (in Find Font too) searches a folder on several threads, reads only what the font scan reads of font files and skips app packages, the Program Files and ProgramData folders, the system's folders and the app data folders in a home folder; Add Fonts copies the font files the user chooses, suitcase fonts with their resource fork, into VectorCraft's own Fonts folder, which the desktop app andvectorcraft-cliread (text.missingFonts,text.findFontFiles,text.addFontFiles). The font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under/usr/share/texmf/fonts(#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux). A variable font's type gets one slider and field per variation axis under the Character panel's Variable Font button, each named as the font names the axis (Weight, Width), so the type can be set between or past its named instances: the settings stay with the characters (CharStyle::font_axes,text.setFormat {fontAxes}andtext.setRangeStyle {fontAxes}, clamped to each axis's range;text.fontList {family, style}lists the axes), and layout, outlines, the substituted-glyph highlight and PDF and SVG export (font-variation-settings, embedded fonts) use the font instanced at them. Another font or style clears them; legacy.aiexport writes the style and warns that they are left out. The font database looks up a name that is neither a loaded nor an installed family among the other names of the loaded and installed fonts once for each style it is asked in, and keeps the answer until fonts are added or rescanned. Laying out a story of 1,000 paragraphs set in a font that is not installed, with 400 more fonts loaded, takes a median of 56 to 71 ms instead of 409 to 507 ms on Windows 11 (CRAFT_FONTS_DIR=<craft-fonts checkout> cargo test --release -p vectorcraft-text --lib missing_font_story_layout_timing -- --ignored --nocapture). A font family removed while the app runs leaves the font menus when the app scans the font folders again (when its window comes to the front after a font folder changed, or Refresh Font List), also when type had used it: that type then draws in the fallback font and Find Font lists the font as missing, until the font is installed again and the folders are scanned. -
Files (M4):
- PDF export and print composition use the optional shared guarded writer (pdf-backend.md); app drawing and output policy and desktop printer submission remain in their existing layers. The shared reader keeps the app-owned import adapter; synthetic tests cover layer and overprint state across windows, long operands, inline images, failed decoding, document limits and incomplete tails. Empty and populated metadata key presence is regression-tested, and CI checks the immutable backend source.
Invisible text in a PDF (rendering mode 3, which carries a scanned page's recognized text over the scan) opens as type with no fill or stroke, a run of its own beside visible text on the same line; text that can't come in as type (opened as outlines, Type 3 fonts) is left out with a warning. PDF export, and printing, write characters with no fill or stroke as real text in rendering mode 3, so they draw nothing but stay selectable and searchable, also in PDF/X-1a and PDF/A-2b (#2675,
pdf/src/tests_import_fidelity.rs,pdf/src/tests_realtext.rs). A PDF, or a.airead through its PDF part, whose spot inks have the same values but different names opens with a spot swatch for each ink. The solid fills and strokes of paths and type, and the stops of gradients on paths, link to the swatch of the ink they are painted in, the points of a gradient mesh in one of these inks keep the ink's color, and PDF export writes each of these inks as its own separation (pdf/src/tests_import_color.rs). Paint in these inks inside pattern cells, soft masks and type 3 glyphs, and gradients on type in these inks, still import as RGB. Type in one of these inks can also import as RGB when type in another Separation or DeviceN ink is shown with no path drawn between them. .vectorcraft(lossless JSON, compressed, atomic saves, save down to v1), Save As with a format chooser, Save a Copy, Revert, templates, Data Recovery after a crash (browser tabs hold their copies with Web Locks too, so a background tab's copies are never taken for a crash's, and a tab repairs copies another removed when it resumes: #367), background save and export. The desktop app writes its warnings and errors (graphics adapter, a lost graphics device, panics the guard recovered from) to standard error and tologs/vectorcraft.lognext to the preferences, the two previous runs kept and each file capped at 16 MiB, so a launch without a terminal still leaves something to attach to a bug report (#465). Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492). Saving to a network drive on macOS falls back to a plain fsync when the share refuses a full flush (#1625, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real share), and a save still succeeds when a folder refuses the temporary file, the rename over the document or copying permissions: the content is written elsewhere first and copied in, and a failed copy keeps the temporary file and names it (#1649, part of #1620). A document opened by a relative path finds its relatively linked images, andvectorcraft-cli convertlists what reading the input left out asimportWarnings(#1606, fixes #1604). A name typed in the desktop save panel without the file type's extension gets it, and when a file of that name exists, which the panel did not ask about, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save as Template, the exports and every other write through a save panel ask before replacing it (dialogreplaceFile; Cancel writes nothing).- macOS: the save sheet of Save As, Save a Copy, Save as Template and the first Save of a new document has a Format menu that lists each format the save can write, with the suggested file's format selected. Choosing a format changes the extension in the name field, and a name typed without an extension gets the chosen format's. A name typed with another listed extension is saved in that format. The menu is set up before the sheet opens; a save panel with one file type is shown by rfd as before (#866,
apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_save_format.rs). - Linux and the BSDs: the save dialog of Save As, Save a Copy, Save as Template and the first Save of a new document is asked of the desktop portal, starting on the suggested file's type, and the file type picked in it decides the format. A name typed without an extension, or with the suggested file's, gets the picked type's extension; a name typed with another save format's extension (for Save as Template, a template format's) is saved in that format, and any other extension gets the picked type's added. rfd shows the dialog when the portal can't (#2679,
apps/vectorcraft/src/portal_save.rs). - Save as Template writes a PDF-compatible
.aitas well as a.vctemplate, which stays the default: the save panel and the web build's Save as Template dialog list both, and New from Template opens the.aitas an untitled document with its layers and art (file.saveAsTemplate {format: "ait"}, or a path ending in.ait). Save as Template always writes a file named with its template type's extension:file.saveAsTemplatesaves a path ending in another format's extension (card.png) ascard.vctemplate(orcard.ait), the desktop save panel adds.vctemplateto a name typed with a Save As format's extension (card.pdf.vctemplate), andfile.saveAsanddocument.saverefuseaitwith an error that namesfile.saveAsTemplate. A.aitis PDF-compatible only:aiVersion: "7"is an error for it, and the web build's dialog shows no Version row for it. Save as Template always writes a file named with its template type's extension:file.saveAsTemplatesaves a path ending in another format's extension (card.png) ascard.vctemplate(orcard.ait), the desktop save panel adds.vctemplateto a name typed with a Save As format's extension (card.pdf.vctemplate), andfile.saveAsanddocument.saverefuseaitwith an error that namesfile.saveAsTemplate. Exports refuse a.aitwith an error that namesfile.saveAsTemplate, andvectorcraft-cli convert in.pdf out.aitandrun --export out.aitwrite the template asfile.saveAsTemplatedoes. - SVG/SVGZ in and out with SVG Options, Preserve Editing, symbols, filters, rich text and physical units (SVG type under a transform or
viewBoxscale opens at the size it draws at, the scale moved into its size, leading, baseline shift and strokes, a stretch, skew or rotation kept as its transform: #396; a top-level group with a clip path, such as a clipped Inkscape layer, opens as a layer with a clipping mask, its name kept: #420; hidden objects written hidden on Save andconvert, anddata-*attributes kept as the objects' own data: #522; top-level groups open as layers named fromdata-name, else the id, also when one more group (a transform on all the art, a<switch>) wraps them, hidden ones hidden, and a file whose art sits loose under a root<svg>with an id (ordata-name), as one-layer exports write it, opens with its one layer named from it; nested groups stay groups, except the sublayers VectorCraft writes, markeddata-vc-layer, and Inkscape sublayers, which open as sublayers in their layer's colour: #372); PDF and PDF-compatible.aiin and out (layers, with hidden ones kept hidden with their art and nested ones as sublayers, on pages of up to 64 million operators, art whose layer can't be told going to a hidden, non-printing layer rather than showing or printing: #419; strokes kept live, a fill and a stroke of one outline as one object; a type object's stroke written as each glyph's outline stroked back on the type, so it stays one editable object; lines wrapped in a frame (each wrapped line ending in a space, one left edge, leading and font) back as one area type object, left aligned or justified with its paragraph spacing, where laying it out breaks the lines where the file does; glyphs set apart by gaps wider than a space (a barcode's digit groups) keeping their places; layers stacked as the pages mark them even when one first paints on a later page, art ending a layer's marked content or a clip closing in a later layer kept in its own layer, and layers with no art kept empty: #508; art reaching past a plain PDF's page clipped to its crop box, as PDF viewers show it, each such object in a clip group of its own (a PDF-compatible.aiopens whole: #675); a.aion its trim boxes with the bleed boxes round them as the document's bleed, as Crop To › Trim opens a PDF (#1266); masks, editable text with type set along a curve coming back as type on a path, each artboard's art on its own page only, an.ai's white page under its layers left out rather than coming in as art, spot colours, presets, security, marks and bleed, ICC output intents, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3). CMYK images keep their ink amounts from PDF import (and from placed CMYK TIFFs) to PDF export: a CMYK JPEG passes through unchanged, others stay CMYK (DeviceCMYK, or ICC-based CMYK in PDF/X-3/X-4) unless the Output settings convert them; the canvas shows them through the working CMYK profile (#320). Overprint is kept from PDF import (opened, the PDF part of an.ai, placed) to PDF export: the graphics state's/OPand/opbecome the overprint of fills, strokes and type, so a spot colour over a process colour still overprints; a page whose overprint can't be read for certain knocks out with a note, as does/OPM 0being read as nonzero overprint (#1388; hand-written fixtures,pdf/src/tests_import_overprint.rs). A masked CMYK image (/SMask,/Maskor a colour key) keeps its inks too, its alpha coming in as a greyscale opacity mask. - SVG/SVGZ in and out with SVG Options, Preserve Editing, symbols, filters, rich text and physical units (SVG type under a transform or
viewBoxscale opens at the size it draws at, the scale moved into its size, leading, baseline shift and strokes, a stretch, skew or rotation kept as its transform: #396; a top-level group with a clip path, such as a clipped Inkscape layer, opens as a layer with a clipping mask, its name kept: #420; hidden objects written hidden on Save andconvert, anddata-*attributes kept as the objects' own data: #522; top-level groups open as layers named fromdata-name, else the id, also when one more group (a transform on all the art, a<switch>) wraps them, hidden ones hidden, and a file whose art sits loose under a root<svg>with an id (ordata-name), as one-layer exports write it, opens with its one layer named from it; nested groups stay groups, except the sublayers VectorCraft writes, markeddata-vc-layer, and Inkscape sublayers, which open as sublayers in their layer's colour: #372); PDF and PDF-compatible.aiin and out (layers, with hidden ones kept hidden with their art and nested ones as sublayers, on pages of up to 64 million operators, art whose layer can't be told going to a hidden, non-printing layer rather than showing or printing: #419; strokes kept live, a fill and a stroke of one outline as one object; a type object's stroke written as each glyph's outline stroked back on the type, so it stays one editable object; lines wrapped in a frame (each wrapped line ending in a space, one left edge, leading and font) back as one area type object, left aligned or justified with its paragraph spacing, where laying it out breaks the lines where the file does; glyphs set apart by gaps wider than a space (a barcode's digit groups) keeping their places; layers stacked as the pages mark them even when one first paints on a later page, art ending a layer's marked content or a clip closing in a later layer kept in its own layer, and layers with no art kept empty: #508; art reaching past a plain PDF's page clipped to its crop box, as PDF viewers show it, each such object in a clip group of its own (a PDF-compatible.aiopens whole: #675); a.aion its trim boxes with the bleed boxes round them as the document's bleed, as Crop To › Trim opens a PDF (#1266); masks, editable text with type set along a curve coming back as type on a path, each artboard's art on its own page only, an.ai's white page under its layers left out rather than coming in as art, spot colours, presets, security, marks and bleed, ICC output intents, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3). CMYK images keep their ink amounts from PDF import (and from placed CMYK TIFFs and the images in an.aior EPS file's editing data, an alpha channel coming in as a grayscale opacity mask) to PDF export: a CMYK JPEG passes through unchanged, others stay CMYK (DeviceCMYK, or ICC-based CMYK in PDF/X-3/X-4) unless the Output settings convert them; the canvas shows them through the working CMYK profile (#320). Overprint is kept from PDF import (opened, the PDF part of an.ai, placed) to PDF export: the graphics state's/OPand/opbecome the overprint of fills, strokes and type, so a spot colour over a process colour still overprints; a page whose overprint can't be read for certain knocks out with a note, as does/OPM 0being read as nonzero overprint (#1388; hand-written fixtures,pdf/src/tests_import_overprint.rs). A masked CMYK image (/SMask,/Maskor a colour key) keeps its inks too, its alpha coming in as a greyscale opacity mask. SVG import's style cascade, used for hidden objects, non-scaling strokes and type, tests each element only against the<style>rules for its id, its classes and its element name, and the rules whose selector ends in none of these (*,[x]). A.svgzfile copied in a file manager pastes as its art, as a copied.svgfile does. In a.aior EPS opened from its editing data, type has its text object's opacity and blend mode, whether it is made from the file's text document or taken from the page. Where such type has transparency and comes in with other art (the rest of its look, or page type and strokes that go with it), a group of them has it. Where the page draws its type, or the strokes around it, with transparency that is neither its text object's nor its text object's combined with that of the objects around it, the page's type and strokes keep their own instead (crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs). Where the page draws type of no text object over text objects made from the text document, that type is left out only when, for each piece of it, one of those text objects has the piece's Latin letters and digits in its text, in capitals or not; other such type is kept as the page's other type of no text object is. In SVG export without Fewer<tspan>Elements, each character of live type that justification or Mojikumi moves (the letter gaps of a Justify All line without word spaces, the gaps between the characters of a justified Japanese line, closed-up punctuation, the space between Japanese and Latin letters) starts its own positioned<tspan>, and type scaled horizontally on a justified line is stretched to its own width (crates/svg/tests/text_layout.rs). A PDF saved with Illustrator's editing data opens through it as a PDF-compatible.aidoes, with its layers and groups and with art reaching past its page unclipped; such a PDF holds the data inAIPDFPrivateDatastreams (part of #868). A shape a PDF or.aipaints with a gradient (a clip path round a shading) opens as one path filled with the gradient, not a clip group round a rectangle, so Shape Builder, Live Paint and Pathfinder work on its outline (#1304). In a.aiopened from its editing data, a text object on a layer that shows and doesn't print stays on that layer, made from the file's text document, even where the page doesn't draw it (crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs). Such a.aiopens without the PDF part's warnings that text was kept as outlines when no outlined glyphs come in, and a warning counts the text objects that hold the page's type next to glyphs the page has only as outlines, which don't come in (crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs). Where the art of a.aior EPS opened from its editing data differs a little from the file's page, the warning gives the share of the page that differs away from type. When that share is 0.2% or less, the warning names the type and gives the share of the page that differs where the type is (crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs). A.aior PDF whose editing data holds a variable library opens with a warning that its variables and data sets weren't read, with how many of each it has, whether its layers are read or it comes in as its PDF part (crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs). A PDF page whoseUserUnit(PDF 1.6) is above 1 opens at its size in points, its numbers times theUserUnit(one above 75,000 counts as 75,000), anddocument.pdfInfogives its size and boxes in points too. A.aiwhose editing data has its artboards in the units of such a page opens from that data at the page's size, with its layers, and when the layers can't be read its pages still take the artboard layout of the data, scaled the same way (part of #1482). When the editing data of a.aior EPS is for a page of another size than the file's, the warning that its layers weren't read gives both sizes in points, and the scale of the editing data's page to the file's page (1:10 for a tenth of its size) when their sides are in proportion (#2034;crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs). A.ai, or a PDF saved with Illustrator's editing data, whose editing data can't be decompressed opens from its PDF part with a warning that its layers weren't read and why, and an export or Save As to its own path asks first (acknowledgeLoss), as for a file whose layers the reader can't read (crates/eps/src/import/tests_native.rs,crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_aiimport.rs). PDF export and.aisaves write a page with a side longer than 14,400 pt with aUserUnit(PDF 1.6), its longer side divided by 14,400 and rounded up to the next thousandth, so that no side is longer than 14,400 units (ISO 32000-1, Annex C.2); in PDF 1.3 to 1.5 files and PDF/X files such a page is written in points. Placed (linked) files in a.ai's editing data come in as linked images in their place, each showing the low-resolution preview the file keeps of it until its file is found or relinked in the Links panel (a file found next to the document or at its path is read as the document opens). A file with them no longer falls back to its PDF part, so its guides, sublayers and hidden objects open (#1264;crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs,crates/engine/src/tests_links.rs). In a file opened that way, a gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape and a gradient object no longer passes its fill to the next path (#1390); text objects with an appearance keep their own text and frame, type of hidden layers stays hidden, and type on later artboards lands on its text objects (#1391); area type whose frame is too short for a line of the fallback font shows its first line, the frame made taller with a warning in the open result (#1392). - EPS and DXF in and out, EMF/WMF in and out; PNG (with PNG-8), JPEG, WebP, GIF, TIFF, BMP, Targa and layered PSD export; grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or other extra channels place, relink and open, the alpha as the image's transparency (#1466 in part; CCITT Group 3 and planar files with extra channels are not read); PSD and PSB files open and place, linked or embedded, as their merged image in every colour mode and depth (#918). EPS import runs a PostScript Level 3 interpreter written from the PostScript Language Reference: resource categories and
resourceforall, local and global VM (currentglobal/setglobal/gcheck),clipsave/cliprestore, subarrays and substrings that share storage, the standard dictionaries insystemdict,dictstack,internaldict, executable filters and strings,loadby any key,//nameimmediate names,token,execform, user paths,cshow,rootfont,cachestatus, colour rendering and halftone queries, filestatusand data read withflushfile, andpdfmarkmarks dropped (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474). Masked images (ImageType 3in its three interleavings) and reusable streams are read, and an image's several data sources are read in turn, as the reference defines (procedures that read one file get their own rows: such images came in banded, #498).restoreputs dictionaries back as they were at thesave, so programs that count their saves in a dictionary read to their end (part of #505). Tiling patterns come in as pattern swatches, uncoloured ones too; Type 3 fonts' glyphs as their outlines, spaced byashow/widthshow/xshow/kshow; mesh and function-based shadings (types 1, 4–7) as gradient meshes; sampled functions (type 0) and Flate/LZW predictors are read. It is tested with programs written from the specification in the ways common generators use these features; Inkscape/cairo EPS files open as vectors. When a file's PostScript still can't be read, it opens as its TIFF preview, its Windows metafile preview (as vectors) or its EPSI preview, and the warning (in the status bar,document.open/app.open/MCPopen_filereplies andvectorcraft-cli info) names the error, the operator that raised it and the procedures it ran in. Legacy PostScript.aifiles (Illustrator 3–8, written with the prolog that defines their operators) keep their groups and nested groups (u…U), between and inside clipping groups; EPS and EMF/WMF import nest clips (and groups) at most 128 deep, so a hostile file can't exhaust the stack. DXF TEXT justified Fit or Aligned spans its two points (stretched, or scaled as a whole). PDF export writes type as real, searchable text in embedded subset fonts by default, as Illustrator's PDF presets do (Convert Text to Outlines is an option; printer's marks stay shapes), so text-heavy PDFs stay small (#733). DXF export writes each fill as its outlines followed by its hatch, so laser and cutter software, which skips hatches, gets filled art and type too (#546). - The Open and Place dialogs list PostScript
.psfiles and.epsffiles. A.psfile opens and places through the EPS reader (its first page), also when its header is only%!, as thepsformat, which exports don't write (Print to PostScript does); an.epsffile opens and places as EPS. Copied in a file manager, these files paste as EPS, andclipboard.importEpsalso reads PostScript whose header is only%!(crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_epsimport.rs).document.pdfInforeads an EPS, a.psfile or a.aiin PostScript form as one page the size of its bounding box (a US Letter page without one), and itsthumbnail: 1is a PNG of what that page prints (crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_pdfimport.rs). - Targa files (
.tga,.vda,.icb,.vst) open, place linked or embedded, relink and update at their pixel size: color-mapped, true-color and black-and-white, raw or run-length encoded, in any of the four row orders. The image descriptor's attribute bits and the extension area's Attributes Type decide the transparency: a file with no attribute bits, or with attribute data the Attributes Type calls undefined, opens opaque; with one bit, a 16-bit true-color pixel takes that bit as its alpha, and a color-mapped pixel takes the bit of the 16-bit color map entry it indexes; premultiplied colors are divided by their alpha. Open and Place recognize a Targa file by its extension, andclipboard.importImageand Glass's Load Texture… by its header; a Targa file copied in a file manager pastes as a bitmap (crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_tiffbmp.rs,crates/engine/src/tests_links.rs). - EPS and DXF in and out, EMF/WMF in and out; PNG (with PNG-8), JPEG, WebP, GIF, TIFF, BMP, Targa and layered PSD export; grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or other extra channels place, relink and open, the alpha as the image's transparency (#1466 in part); PSD and PSB files open and place, linked or embedded, as their merged image in every colour mode and depth (#918). EPS import runs a PostScript Level 3 interpreter written from the PostScript Language Reference: resource categories and
resourceforall, local and global VM (currentglobal/setglobal/gcheck),clipsave/cliprestore, subarrays and substrings that share storage, the standard dictionaries insystemdict,dictstack,internaldict, executable filters and strings,loadby any key,//nameimmediate names,token,execform, user paths,cshow,rootfont,cachestatus, colour rendering and halftone queries, filestatusand data read withflushfile, andpdfmarkmarks dropped (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474). Masked images (ImageType 3in its three interleavings) and reusable streams are read, and an image's several data sources are read in turn, as the reference defines (procedures that read one file get their own rows: such images came in banded, #498).restoreputs dictionaries back as they were at thesave, so programs that count their saves in a dictionary read to their end (part of #505). Tiling patterns come in as pattern swatches, uncoloured ones too; Type 3 fonts' glyphs as their outlines, spaced byashow/widthshow/xshow/kshow; mesh and function-based shadings (types 1, 4–7) as gradient meshes; sampled functions (type 0) and Flate/LZW predictors are read. It is tested with programs written from the specification in the ways common generators use these features; Inkscape/cairo EPS files open as vectors. When a file's PostScript still can't be read, it opens as its TIFF preview, its Windows metafile preview (as vectors) or its EPSI preview, and the warning (in the status bar,document.open/app.open/MCPopen_filereplies andvectorcraft-cli info) names the error, the operator that raised it and the procedures it ran in. Legacy PostScript.aifiles (Illustrator 3–8, written with the prolog that defines their operators) keep their groups and nested groups (u…U), between and inside clipping groups; EPS and EMF/WMF import nest clips (and groups) at most 128 deep, so a hostile file can't exhaust the stack. DXF TEXT justified Fit or Aligned spans its two points (stretched, or scaled as a whole). PDF export writes type as real, searchable text in embedded subset fonts by default, as Illustrator's PDF presets do (Convert Text to Outlines is an option; printer's marks stay shapes), so text-heavy PDFs stay small (#733). DXF export writes each fill as its outlines followed by its hatch, so laser and cutter software, which skips hatches, gets filled art and type too (#546). - TIFFs that store each channel as its own plane (PlanarConfiguration 2) place, relink and open as the same image stored pixel by pixel does, 8 and 16 bits: grayscale with an alpha channel or other extra channels, and CMYK with or without them. A planar CMYK TIFF keeps its ink amounts and is stored as a CMYK TIFF with each pixel's inks together, at the file's resolution. A TIFF whose header claims more strips or tiles than can be counted is refused as too large to draw (#1466 in part;
crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests.rs). - 1-bit TIFFs compressed with CCITT Group 3 (ITU-T T.4) place, relink and open: Compression 2 (modified Huffman) and Compression 3 with one-dimensional rows or, with T4Options bit 0, two-dimensional ones, with or without fill bits, in strips or tiles, with either FillOrder and either polarity. Rows in T.4's uncompressed mode are not read. A file whose pixels would take more than the decoding allowance as RGBA is refused as too large to draw (#1466 in part;
crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests.rs). - EPS and PostScript import keeps a CMYK image's ink amounts, as PDF import does: the samples of
imageandcolorimagein a CMYK color space, and of a CMYK JPEG read throughDCTDecode, come in as a CMYK TIFF, read through the image's Decode array, and the pixels aMaskColororImageType 3mask hides become a grayscale opacity mask (crates/eps/src/import/tests_images.rs). Such images came in as RGB PNGs. - EPS and PostScript import reads image data through
CCITTFaxDecode: Group 4 (ITU-T T.6) and Group 3 one-dimensional and mixed (ITU-T T.4) data, with the filter'sK,Columns,Rows,EndOfBlock,EndOfLine,EncodedByteAlignandBlackIs1parameters, decodes to 1-bit rows forimageandimagemask. Damaged data keeps the rows decoded before it (damage in the first row is a PostScriptioerror), and parameters out of range or past the 256 MiB limit on decoded data are refused (crates/eps/src/import/tests_images.rs). Reading such a file stopped at an error naming the filter, and the file opened from a fallback, such as its preview or the art drawn before the image, or did not open. - EPS and PostScript
.aiimport undoes the TIFF predictor (/Predictor 2) ofFlateDecodeandLZWDecodedata at 1, 2, 4 and 16 bits a component as well as 8: each component adds the same component of the pixel to its left within its bit width, 16-bit components add as big-endian numbers, and each row starts again (ISO 32000-1 §7.4.4.4;crates/eps/src/import/tests_images.rs,crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_epsimport.rs). At those depths the image drew the stored differences instead of its samples. - DXF control-point SPLINE import honors its closed flag (#1299 follow-up after #1320 fixed export), including rational curves; open curves whose endpoints meet stay open. Own-fixture regressions cover controls/knots, fit-point fallback and all export versions (
crates/cad/src/import/tests.rs,crates/cad/src/tests.rs); native save/read checked. Circular cubic paths export as native CIRCLE/ARC where stroke semantics permit; R12 weighted strokes remain POLYLINE, and a non-circular ellipse keeps the existing fallback (crates/cad/src/tests.rs); CNC preset and VCarve QA remain pending. - Affinity documents in (AF.1–AF.4):
.af(Affinity 3) and.afdesign/.afphoto/.afpub(Affinity 1 and 2, container versions 8–12) open and place as editable art: layers and sublayers, groups (pass-through or isolated), artboards (with their names and backgrounds) and Publisher pages side by side, curves with live corners, parametric shapes (rectangles with corner radii, ellipses, polygons, stars, pies, triangles, trapezoids), compound shapes, solid/linear/elliptical gradient fills and strokes (weight, dashes, alignment, scale-with-object), clipping by nesting, vector and pixel masks, artistic and frame text with fonts, sizes, tracking, leading and alignment, placed images (their original JPEG/PNG) and pixel layers (8/16-bit RGB, CMYK), opacity, visibility, locking and blend modes, at the document's resolution in points. Effects, adjustments, brushes and pressure profiles, transparency gradients, master pages, symbol instances (imported as their cached picture), special shapes (cloud, heart, cog…, imported as ellipses) and Affinity-only blend modes are named in the import warning. A file whose native data can't be read opens as its embedded preview with the reason, and that preview can't be placed. Save never writes back over the Affinity file and there is no Affinity export. AF.4 adds Affinity 3 artboard recognition and actual-outline clipping, source-backed JPEG/PNG raster tiles, Unicode text-run recovery, stored fallback/exact installed fonts, OpenType feature flags and compound-geometry limits. 51 public CC0/MIT/Apache-2.0 files (33 current.af), pinned and sha256-verified (cargo xtask corpus --affinity), test native retention and every-board native/SVG/PDF/PSD output for current files; selected files compare their saved thumbnails. No Affinity reopen or independent paired PSD oracle was available; source audit and complex-font gaps; scope, provenance and limits. - Placed documents: File › Place of a
.vectorcraftfile links to it by default (file.place'slink): one locked object showing an artboard of the document (or its art's bounds), read the way placing it without Link reads it, its symbols, patterns and images kept apart from the document's; without Link (or from bytes, not a file) it is an editable copy as before. It stays vectors in every output (SVG, PDF, EPS, EMF, DXF), and so do placed documents inside it, read from their own files up to 8 levels deep (documents that place each other stop there). On screen they draw from bitmaps cached per file and zoom step, shared by every copy and made in the background (a placeholder until ready), so a sheet of them redraws in about a millisecond; exports and prints draw them exactly. Like linked images, a save keeps only a preview of each (JPEG when opaque) unless Include Linked Files; output, and zooming past the preview, read the file again, falling back to the preview with a warning when it is gone or changed. Saves for older versions write them as plain art. Links check, update, relink, Update Links on open, Link Info (the artboard's size), Placement Options, Break Link (also Embed, Object › Expand: the editable copy placing without Link gives, its resources joining the document), Edit Original (the document in a new tab) and the Links panel cover them; saving a document updates the open documents that place it. The native format (v4) keeps data of 8 KB or more after the JSON instead of base64 in it. - File › Place with Bounding Box (
file.place {crop: "bounding"}) measures the art that shows, with its strokes and effects, as an export does: hidden objects, guides and template layers do not count, a group whose only part on the page or artboard is hidden is not placed, and symbol instances are measured by their art, forat,rect, the place cursor andfile.place.info(crates/engine/src/tests_place.rs). - Desktop print transport uses
craft-printfor CUPS and modern Windows. Sheet composition, copies, separations and colour management remain in VectorCraft; Windows 7 retains WMI and the installed PDF viewer. The print-preview and physical-device fidelity gaps remain, so print scores and hours are unchanged. - A PDF, PDF-compatible
.aior.aitopened from its pages or its editing copy opens with the File Info that its XMP packet and its document information dictionary give: the author, description, keywords, copyright status, notice and URL, and the created and modified dates, the XMP packet's value where both give one; the title is not changed (crates/pdf/src/tests_file_info.rs,crates/engine/src/tests_fileinfo.rs). - PDF export and PDF-compatible
.aiand.aitsaves write the document's File Info created date as the file's creation date, or the time of writing when the document has none, and the time of writing as its modification date; the page information mark still prints the time of writing (crates/engine/src/tests_fileinfo.rs,crates/pdf/src/tests.rs,crates/pdf/src/tests_marks.rs). - Opening a PDF or PDF-compatible
.aiwhose XMP packet nests elements more than 256 deep no longer overflows the stack: File Info leaves the packet out and takes the document information dictionary's values (crates/pdf/src/tests_file_info.rs). file.print,print.previewandprint.setuptake a print preset by name (preset:[Default]or a saved preset, in any case): its settings are used instead of the document's, withsettingsover them,print.setupsaves them with the document, and an unknown name is refused with the list of presets.- Place and the Links panel, Package (placed
.vectorcraftdocuments packaged with their own linked files and fonts, relinked to the copies: #777), File Info, Print with print presets, PostScript output and print tiling, slices and Save for Web, Export for Screens and Asset Export, CSS Properties, PNG/PDF/SVG/text clipboard flavours; files copied in a file manager paste as art (SVG, PDF, EMF/WMF, bitmaps) on every desktop platform, and Linux/Wayland reads the compositor's clipboard (#398); on Linux the Paste menu checks the clipboard off the UI thread, so an X11 owner that never answers can't freeze the window (#510); screenshots and other copied pictures paste as embedded images at the view centre everywhere, the web included (#457). - File › Place reads RTF files as area type with their formatting: each run's font, size, bold and italic, underline, strikethrough, caps, superscript or subscript, baseline shift and color, and each paragraph's alignment, indents, space before and after and direction. Table cells are separated by tabs; hidden text, pictures, headers, footers and notes are left out (
file.place,crates/engine/src/tests_textimport.rs). - File › Place reads Word
.docxdocuments as area type with the same formatting, taken from the document defaults, the paragraph and character styles (their toggle properties reversing each other) and direct formatting, the theme's fonts included. Table rows are paragraphs with their cells separated by tabs; hidden and deleted text, field instructions, pictures, headers, footers and notes are left out (file.place,crates/engine/src/tests_textimport.rs). - On the desktop, Copy and Cut make the system clipboard's formats (text, SVG, PDF, PNG) from a copy of the clipboard on the thread that writes background saves and exports, and write them when they are ready; while that thread has a save, an export, a print or a recovery copy to finish, they are made and written at once. Until they are written, Paste in VectorCraft takes the internal clipboard, and while a text field or the Type tool has the keyboard the app waits for them. Another Copy or Cut, or a copy of text in VectorCraft, drops them.
- Missing linked files can be looked for in a folder and its subfolders: Find in Folder… in the Linked File Not Found dialog and in the Links panel menu lists the files with each one's name, those with the size and contents saved with the link first, and relinks the files chosen, copying an image's file into the document's folder when asked, without replacing a file there (
links.findFiles,links.relink {copy}). In the Links panel it looks for the selected linked files when any are selected. - On Windows, a document opened from a mapped network drive finds its links stored with the share's own path (
\\server\share\…), as the same document opened from the share does; links on other computers stay missing. - In the Links panel, Shift-click selects a range of links and Ctrl/Cmd-click adds or removes one.
- Linked files another app changes while their document is open follow Preferences › File Handling › Update Links, as they do when it opens: Automatically reads them again (an Update Links undo step), Ask When Modified offers to, Manually leaves them modified in the Links panel. The desktop app compares the active document’s linked files by size and modification time every two seconds and when its window comes back to the front, on a worker thread; a file still being written is tried again (
links.updateChanged). - Import and paste, 2026-10-13: a multi-artboard
.aiwith notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a.aigradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542). Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479). Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and.epsfiles copied in a file manager, with the new commandclipboard.importEps(#1538, fixes #1499). - A
.aior.aitfile copied in a file manager pastes as its art: one that holds a PDF pastes the objects of its editing data, and one saved as PostScript pastes as a copied.epsfile does. - A copied
.aior.aitfile that holds a PDF pastes the objects of its editing data as File › Open reads them: every layer's objects go into the active layer in their stacking order, with their names, hidden objects and type objects, instead of the PDF page's art with its type as outlines. When the editing data can't be read, the file pastes its page as before (clipboard.importPdf {editingData}). The objects of a hidden layer come in hidden, from a pasted EPS too. - Import and export, later 2026-10-13 merges: SVGs that move objects with a CSS transform (
translate(100px, 0),rotate(45deg)) or style type with thefontshorthand import as drawn (#1565); SVG symbols whose shapes use percentage lengths import at the size and place they are drawn, the percentages being of the symbol'sviewBox(#1596); Inkscape's flowed text (flowRoot) opens as area type in its rectangle, a paragraph perflowPara, instead of being dropped, and a region that can't be read is left out with a warning (#1569, fixes #1568); the warning for an unsupported SVG filter names the filter, its primitives and the object, and says the object is drawn without it (#1599, fixes #1598); the pages of an Inkscape multi-page SVG become artboards, named by their labels (#1603, fixes #1601); SVG export with CSS classes or style entities stays fast in documents with many distinct styles (#1567); PDF and.aiimport: evenly letter-spaced or tightened type on a path keeps its length along the path instead of closing up to the font's advances (#1586), and type on a path whose stroke is written glyph by glyph comes in as one text object with its stroke, not one object per glyph (#1585); the ICC profiles embedded in JPEG, TIFF and PSD exports have every tag on a 4-byte boundary (ICC.1 §7.1.2), so strict readers accept them (#1589, fixes #1584); GIF, PNG-8 and other indexed exports find each pixel's palette colour through an index instead of a scan, with identical output (#1576); a zero-length subpath draws its round cap as a dot and its projecting cap as a square, so dots in imported.aiand SVG files show (#1619, fixes #1613). - Files and untrusted input, 2026-10-14 merges: EPS import: a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes (#1654, #1653). WMF/EMF import refuses an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776). PDF open no longer takes exponential time on a crafted name tree with shared nodes when it looks for the editing data (#1781). The size limits on a native file's embedded data also apply to files read from memory, not only streamed ones (#1783). Saving over a private file on Unix no longer leaves a readable temporary copy beside it while the file is written (#1778). An Export for Screens suffix can no longer place files outside the export folder (#1777). Package refuses a folder where it would overwrite the open document or one of its linked files (#1786). ruzstd 0.9.1 fixes a decompression bomb (RUSTSEC-2026-0344) reachable from EPS/
.aiand Affinity import (#1807). File Info dates are stamped only after a save succeeds, so a failed save no longer changes them (#1774). Linked files that change during a drag are updated after the drag instead of being missed (#1773).
- PDF export and print composition use the optional shared guarded writer (pdf-backend.md); app drawing and output policy and desktop printer submission remain in their existing layers. The shared reader keeps the app-owned import adapter; synthetic tests cover layer and overprint state across windows, long operands, inline images, failed decoding, document limits and incomplete tails. Empty and populated metadata key presence is regression-tested, and CI checks the immutable backend source.
Invisible text in a PDF (rendering mode 3, which carries a scanned page's recognized text over the scan) opens as type with no fill or stroke, a run of its own beside visible text on the same line; text that can't come in as type (opened as outlines, Type 3 fonts) is left out with a warning. PDF export, and printing, write characters with no fill or stroke as real text in rendering mode 3, so they draw nothing but stay selectable and searchable, also in PDF/X-1a and PDF/A-2b (#2675,
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Fields, search and window, 2026-10-14 merges: Fields commit what was typed when you click away or move to another field, as Enter does; Escape still discards it (#1787). Up and Down move through the command search results and Enter runs the highlighted one (#1798, #1757). Slider rails show on Medium Dark (#1808, #1662). On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation).
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Tools, panels and type, later 2026-10-14 merges: the Transform panel's, Properties panel's and Control bar's X, Y, W and H show and edit the bounds of the anchor points selected with Direct Selection, and a whole-object selection is unchanged (#1839, fixes #1824). With Snap to Grid on, anchors and objects snap to the grid even when Snap to Pixel is also ticked: the grid wins (#1840; #1816 stays open until the reporter confirms). A marquee with the Selection or Direct Selection tool also selects the unlocked ruler guides it crosses (#1836). The toolbar shows no group labels by default (a preference brings them back) and runs on in one or two columns; the All Tools drawer lists the tools by flyout group with their shortcuts, has a menu (Reset, Basic, Advanced) and a Show section for the Fill/Stroke, Coloring, Draw Mode and Screen Mode controls (
toolbar.show, #1751). An action clicked in the Actions panel stays selected, so Play Current Selection and Delete Selection act on it (#1853, part of #1629; editing actions and action shortcuts remain). Redo pressed during a drag keeps the drag as a step instead of losing the redone edit (#1856, #1719). Preferences are written as soon as OK is pressed, so they survive a session that doesn't end with a normal quit (#1857; #1747 stays open until the reporter confirms). New and Redefine Character Style take the format of the selected text range, also while typing (#1634). Type inside symbols, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks gets its layout bounds back when a native file opens, so warped type in a symbol looks the same after save and reopen (#1833, #1738). Editing, renaming, deleting or merging a global swatch reaches the art of opacity masks, and a swatch used only in a mask is no longer listed as unused (#1830, #1735). On macOS, Save As, Save a Copy and the first Save show their sheet again; the Format menu on the sheet (#866) is withdrawn until the format can be set before the sheet opens, and #866 is open again (#1855; #1800, #1831 and #1518 stay open until confirmed on a Mac). -
Files and untrusted input, later 2026-10-14 merges: SVG import applies style sheet rules with
:not()selectors, with their nesting bounded (#1799, #1557), no longer stalls on a style sheet with many stacked descendant selectors over deep nesting (#1834, #1703), and reads an SVG's linked files within the automation roots in force again (#1870). DXF export writes the VPORT record's view direction once (group code 36 was written twice, which strict readers reject, #1789). A deeply nested file no longer overflows the stack: nesting is capped at 32 objects (deeper groups are merged with a warning; SVG past 256 elements and PDF past 256 nested arrays are refused), symbols and patterns that use themselves open without the offending instance or paint, and a document nested more than about 40 deep can no longer be saved to a file that won't open again (#1852). PDF and.aifiles nested deeply inside compressed streams, page trees holding themselves and functions or colour spaces built on themselves no longer crash the app (hayro 0.8; the import runs on a 16 MB thread, #1871); a decompression bomb or impossible predictor parameters are refused (#1873, #1700, #1701); a brush whose art draws the brush again through a symbol or pattern no longer crashes the app, and graph designs, Affinity, DXF, metafiles and plug-ins were probed with hostile input (#1872). Hostile EPS, Affinity and native files can no longer run memory or CPU away through ASCII85 data, PostScript objects holding themselves, flat-colour pixel layers or far and overlapping data offsets (#1863: #1715, #1714, #1704, #1699), and the save fallback for folders that refuse a rename keeps the old file's content until the new one is in (#1695). A file whose ids sit at their largest value no longer breaks new objects (#1718); a failedcommand.batchputs each document back whole, its file, history and a drag in progress included (#1697); a control request that timed out before the app took it never runs later, and the reply says which case it was (#1725, control-protocol.md); the Eyedropper and recolouring refuse an image too large as RGBA before decoding it (#1717) (all #1862). A save or export that fails is reported in a dialog that names the file and stays until closed, with the document left modified and the old file untouched (#1685); a browser download that can't start fails the save instead of marking it saved (#1693); a file that finishes opening waits while a dialog is open, so Save As options can't save the wrong document (#1694) (all #1865). krilla is built without its text shaping, so the unmaintained rustybuzz and ttf-parser don't ship (#1874, #1730); the CI gate compiles the web app for wasm, and the web's SVG nesting cap (34) follows from its 1 MiB stack (#1875). -
Rendering, later 2026-10-14 merges: copies, symbol instances and repeats that share an appearance keep their stroke outlines between frames (#1667). Wide drop shadows and glows at high zoom render within the raster budget (#1706); stacked Transform effects are bounded (#1705); 3D effects keep the area a nonzero compound path fills (#1724); pattern tiles redraw when a symbol, pattern or image their art shows changes (#1723); a template layer dims its images by its Dim Images percentage instead of fading the whole layer (#1683) (all #1864).
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Tool cursors: the Pen's pointer shows the new-path asterisk where a click starts a new path. While a path is being drawn it shows the pen without a badge, except over the first anchor (close), over the last anchor or with Alt held over a path (convert) and over another open path's end (join). The Eyedropper has an original pipette glyph with its tip at the hotspot; Use Precise Cursors restores the crosshair. The same glyph feeds OS bitmaps and painted cursors. DPI/hotspot and preference checks in
cursors.rsandtests_prefs.rscover #1269; actual OS display and Caps Lock remain unverified. Behaviour reference: public tool-pointer documentation. Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed). A Precise Cursors command toggles the preference and can take a shortcut (#1663). On macOS the tool cursor is painted only while the window has the focus. Over a window behind another app, or under the File › Open… sheet, the system pointer shows alone instead of next to the painted cursor (#2020). In a rotated view the resize and rotate cursors turn with the view, to the nearest 45°. -
Performance: 20k shapes + 1k texts render in 27 ms per full-retina frame (7.8 ms zoomed), 7× faster than the first version. The UI thread never blocks. The web build is 7.1 MB gzipped. Print-size images (more than 512 MB decoded, up to 2 GB) draw in the canvas and in raster exports and can be trimmed with Crop Image; an image with a side past 65,535 px is shrunk to fit, a raster export says when an image could not be decoded, and Crop Image's trim leaves CMYK images alone (#1517). On Windows
vectorcraft-cli perfreports the cores busy and, with--deep, its working set, and warns on a busy machine as it does on macOS and Linux (#1502). With--deep, each memory row ofvectorcraft-cli perfalso gives the peak so far: the peak working set on Windows and the peak resident memory (VmHWM) on Linux. A new last row gives the memory after the SVG export and the save → open → save at the end of the run. The renderer composes the two ink planes of a CMYK document that shows transparency into screen colors on up to as many threads as it rasterizes with, instead of on one. At 2880 × 1800 on 8 threads, a page of 300 shapes at 20% to 90% opacity takes 30 ms a frame instead of 55 ms, and 50,000 paths with one at 99% opacity take 258 ms instead of 361 ms (vectorcraft-cli bench), with the same pixels. With Overprint Preview or Separations Preview on, the renderer keeps the art it prepared for the preview from one frame to the next. It prepares again the objects that changed, and all of the art when Discard White Overprint changes or, with Separations Preview, when the plates shown, the proof setup, the swatches, the Spot Colors option or the color settings change or a profile is loaded. It draws the other objects from the art, geometry and stroke outlines it kept for them. The Pathfinder panel, Offset Path, Clean Up, Divide Objects Below, Make and Release Blend, Envelope Distort's Make and Release, Repeat (Radial, Grid, Mirror and Release), Vector Halftone, New and Redefine Symbol, Delete Symbol, erasing with the Symbol Sprayer, Rasterize, Convert to Artboards, Flatten Transparency, Clear Guides, Shape Builder, Live Paint, Release Image Trace, Make and Release Opacity Mask, Delete with direct-selected anchor points, Remove Anchor Points, Cut Path, and the Shaper, Knife, Eraser, Path Eraser, Line Cut, Rectangle Cut, Mirror & Cut and Blob Brush tools add and remove objects in one pass over each layer or group they change, and Outline Stroke and Expand write each new object in the place of the object it replaces (#1429). With more than 10,000 type on a path objects selected, the Selection and Direct Selection tools neither draw nor hit-test the objects' brackets. Type › Show Hidden Characters keeps the marks it places on each text object from one frame to the next. The canvas lays a text object out again when an edit changes it or its threaded story, or when the last frame that showed the marks did not draw it, and it lays out all type in view again when the fonts or the hyphenation exceptions change. With 1,000 two-line labels in view, drawing the marks takes 0.8 ms per frame in a release build instead of 19.7 ms. A selection with more than 100,000 points to outline shows its bounds instead of each object's outline and anchors. Paths count their anchors. Area type and type on a path count the anchors of their frame or path, and point type counts six: its box's corners and the ends of its baseline marker. Images, symbol instances, placed documents, and area type or type on a path in perspective count the four corners of their box, and gradient meshes and envelopes count their points and the ends of their mesh lines. The hover highlight leaves out an object past that count, and such an object shows its bounds as the key object. With 32,768 type objects, images, symbol instances, gradient meshes or envelopes selected, the selection's outlines and anchors add fewer than 100 vertices to the canvas's mesh (#2460). Delete, Cut, Group, Ungroup, Make and Release Compound Path, Make Clipping Mask, Send to Current Layer, Duplicate, Copy in the Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear dialogs, Transform Each with Copy and each move of an Alt-drag take time in proportion to the size of the document (#1429). In the web build the status bar's render and UI times are measured with the browser'sperformance.now(), and the Layers panel stops rendering row thumbnails in a frame once they have taken 8 ms. An Alt-drag with the Selection, Direct Selection, Group Selection, Rotate, Scale, Reflect or Shear tool copies the selection on its first move, and the moves after it transform those copies; the previews of the Move, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear dialogs with Copy and Preview on copy the selection once in the same way (#1429). An Alt-drag of objects in perspective with the Perspective Selection tool, and an Alt-drag of a plane widget with that tool or the Perspective Grid tool, copy the objects on the first move, and the moves after it move those copies (#1429). When the desktop app opens a document on a thread of its own (#1245), that thread also reads the document's linked files and lays out its type, and the UI thread only adds the finished document: in release builds, the step left on the UI thread takes 0.02 ms instead of 1.04 s for a document with 12 linked 3000 × 2000 TIFFs, and it takes 0.1 ms instead of 0.85 s for one with 300 Auto Size area type objects, every second one in three columns. The Layers panel's Delete Selection, Duplicate Selection, Collect in New Layer, Merge Selected, Flatten Artwork, Release to Layers (Sequence) and row drags also take time in proportion to the size of the document, and so do Cut Artboard and Duplicate Artboard with their art and each move of an Alt-drag of one artboard with the Artboard tool while Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard is on (#1429). 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Graphics processor: the canvas is rasterized on the CPU and the GPU only composites it, so any GPU that can show the window will do. Preferences › Performance › Graphics Processor (
gpuPreference) is Automatic by default: the power-saving GPU on Windows and macOS (the integrated one on hybrid-graphics laptops, where presenting from the discrete GPU made the window flicker, #306), and the GPU the desktop runs on under Linux, where KWin on an NVIDIA GPU refused frames from a Ryzen's integrated GPU and 0.5.0 crashed at startup (#502). Power Saving and High Performance pick a kind of GPU;WGPU_POWER_PREF,WGPU_ADAPTER_NAMEandWGPU_BACKENDoverride them. The app picks among the adapters that can present to the window (native backends before OpenGL, hardware before software, and on Windows a GPU's DX12 adapter before its Vulkan one: Intel's Vulkan driver made the whole window flicker black, #545), and if the window fails on one while starting up it starts again without it instead of crashing; after a start that a graphics driver crashed before its first frame, the next starts leave that adapter out, or list OpenGL's adapters alone when the crash came while the adapters were being listed (#2243; verified by unit tests, not on the reporter's Intel UHD Graphics 605); Help › About,ui.inspectand the log name the adapter in use. When the browser drops the page's WebGPU device or WebGL context, the web build writes recovery copies, starts again on new graphics with the same app and uploads its textures again; if it can't, it removes the stale canvas and says to reload, which offers the copies back. The desktop app writes the copies and says to restart (#369). On Windows and Linux the tools' cursors are OS cursors (bitmaps rasterized once per display scale), which the system moves itself: painted into the window, they trailed the pointer by the frames waiting to be shown, and the window now queues one frame instead of two (#444). macOS and the web still paint them (macOS sizes cursor bitmaps in points, eframe has no bitmap cursors on the web). Tool states have cursors of their own as the public manual describes them: Direct Selection shows a hollow or filled square on its white arrow over an anchor (path unselected or selected) and the Reshape Segment cursor over a curved segment, as do the Anchor Point tool and the Pen with Alt (whose caret it lends); Group Selection, and Direct Selection with Alt, show a plus; a drag shows the filled arrow, hollow while it snaps to a point or a guide, and an Alt-drag copy a double arrowhead; Curvature has its own pen and Free Transform's Cmd/Ctrl side-shear two arrows passing along the side. Lasso, Magic Wand, the freehand tools, Shaper, Live Paint Bucket, Measure, Print Tiling, the symbolism tools, vertical type, Scissors, Mesh and Puppet Warp return cursors of their own, which borrow the crosshair, the I-beam, the Pen's add cursor or not-allowed until they're drawn; there's no busy cursor yet.crates/tools/src/cursors.tomllists every cursor, when it shows and its hotspot, for whoever draws them. Pens and touch drive the tools as the mouse does, and a tap pressed and lifted within one frame clicks where it tapped (#491); pen pressure reaches the Liquify tools' Use Pressure Pen on Windows, while winit 0.30 reports none on macOS or Linux and egui none on the web. On Linux, seedocs/development.mdfor pens under Wayland. -
Linux display server for pens (part of #2028): Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server has X11 (XWayland) When a Pen Is Attached (
x11WithPen, off by default), which opens the window through XWayland on a Wayland session only when a pen is attached as the app starts. Under XWayland a drawing tablet's pen draws as a mouse. Below the choice, the Performance page tells users whose tablet pen doesn't draw to choose an X11 (XWayland) option. -
Control transport: idle sockets expire after 5 minutes, partial lines after an absolute 30 seconds from their first byte, and reply writes after 60 seconds (#1726). Real TCP regressions cover stalled peers and slot recovery; command execution has its separate existing timeout. MCP limits: 16 MiB lines, 64-message batches, 256-step
command_batchwith 8 MiB of kept results and 256 MiB control replies (#1764, fixes #1727). MCP requires the JSON-RPC 2.0 envelope and matches control replies by id, and an app refusal without an id reports the app's reason (#1768, fixes #1728). The MCP server reconnects to the app before a call when the connection was closed or holds stray bytes, after an app restart or an idle expiry (#1739). -
MCP vertical type:
add_text {vertical: true}forwards totext.createortext.createInPath. Regression coverage checks point type, rectangular area type, type in a path and type on a path with true, false and omitted direction. This exposes an existing engine option; it does not change glyph orientation, CJK composition or the type/automation scores. -
Malformed MCP replies: invalid JSON from the app drops the connection, reports that the operation may have completed and leaves the next call to reconnect; it never replays the edit (#1761). TCP regressions cover malformed and uncorrelated replies, connection closure and a subsequent inspection. Envelope regressions also verify zero backend calls and unchanged initialization state for invalid versions.
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Tests and robustness: ~2,840 automated tests: model-based property tests, a junk-parameter sweep over every command, import fuzzing (SVG, PDF, libraries), golden renders, and MCP end-to-end tests over stdio. Shipped code never panics (workspace lints and a rollback safety net; see
docs/development.md). Scatter graph data near the largest number is refused with a message instead of hanging the app (#1780). One very long Liquify stroke segment can no longer create an unbounded number of dabs (#1779). A drag whose last preview failed is no longer recorded as a committed command in the journal that actions and scripts read (#1775). Tests: text import fuzzing no longer searches installed fonts (#1785). Tests: render tests that add fonts no longer race the frame cache tests (#1795). -
Raster-effect resolution in PDF: when the 64 million pixel cap on an effect image renders an object's raster effects below the document's raster effects resolution, PDF export warns once per object with the requested and the lowest achieved ppi (
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Rasterize effect: Effect › Rasterize… (
rasterize) draws an object as an image of square pixels at its own resolution or the document's raster effects resolution, with Object › Rasterize's color model, background, anti-aliasing, clipping mask and room around the object, while its paths stay editable. Expand Appearance and PDF and SVG export of an object whose only raster effect is Rasterize give the image Object › Rasterize gives (crates/engine/src/tests_rastersettings.rs,crates/render/src/tests_rasterize.rs). Behavior reference: How to save artwork in Illustrator, Work with effects. -
Pattern tiles: the renderer keeps a tile of each pattern for each scale it rasterizes the pattern at, until the tiles fill the tile cache's budget, and then drops the least recently used tiles first. Objects that show one pattern at different scales, such as a pattern scaled to 25% with Transform Pattern Tiles next to the same pattern at 100%, draw from tiles kept between frames.
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Pattern fills in Expand: Object › Expand with Fill turns a pattern fill into the pattern's tiles in a clip group shaped like the object, with the fill's opacity and blend mode, and the object's other fills and strokes stay above or below it in paint order, in one undo step (
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Type with transparency or effects: type at less than 100% opacity, in a blend mode other than Normal, or with raster effects such as a drop shadow keeps its glyph outlines between frames, as opaque type does, and is laid out again when it is edited or the fonts change. At 2880 × 1800 on 8 threads, a page of 1,000 type objects takes 13 ms a frame instead of 23 ms at 80% opacity, 31 ms instead of 41 ms in Multiply and 16 ms instead of 26 ms with a drop shadow, with the same pixels.
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Type drawn as glyph outlines: under a geometry effect, in EMF and WMF export, in DXF export when it is written as outlines, flattened with Convert All Text to Outlines, and inside an envelope, type keeps its underline and strikethrough, the weight and dashes of its character strokes when it is scaled, and the placement of its gradients and patterns, as the canvas draws it. A group's or layer's own fills and strokes also paint the underline and strikethrough of the type in it.
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Texture redraws (#1257): Craquelure, Mosaic Tiles and Stained Glass compare squared distances when finding their nearest cells; rounding/tie boundaries use the original distance ordering. Brute-force candidate tests and three 1800×1500 viewport comparisons preserve the old pixels. A CMYK rectangle move at 190.07%/DPI 1.5 is reproducible with
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Smart Blur modes: Effect › Blur › Smart Blur… has a Mode menu with Normal, Edge Only and Overlay Edge (
blurMode:normal,edgeOnlyoroverlayEdge; an effect saved without it draws as Normal). Edge Only draws the edges in white on black, and Overlay Edge draws them in white over the Normal blur. A pixel is on an edge when one of the pixels the search reads within Radius of it differs from it by more than Threshold in a channel and its channels, alpha included, add up to at least that pixel's. The search reads neighbors as the Normal blur does, kept within Radius, and always the four nearest pixels, so a color step gives a line about as wide as Radius, and at least one pixel wide, on the side with the larger sum (lines on both sides when the sums are equal). The white and the black keep each pixel's coverage. Behavior reference: Summary of effects. -
Dragging objects with raster effects when zoomed in (#2558): during a drag with a tool on the canvas, the renderer draws filtered content (Gaussian Blur, Feather and the Photoshop-style filters) within 1,000,000 pixels, at a lower resolution where it would need more, unless it can draw the content from an earlier frame's raster. In the desktop app it does the same for drop shadows, outer glows and inner glows. No raster made that way is kept. The frame after the drag renders them as a still frame does, and a dialog's preview, exports and printing render as before.
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Dragging other art over a wide blur (#2558): an effect raster too large to keep whole (a wide blur, a shadow or glow, or any blur zoomed in) is cropped to what can show in the view, or made at a lower resolution and resampled to the view's pixels, and kept while the view stays the same, so dragging other art over the object draws its effects from the still frame instead of re-rendering them at the drag's lower resolution. A drag stays on the render worker once the worker drew the frame shown, since only that renderer holds the rasters.
tests_viewrastercovers each effect, anda_drag_over_a_wide_blur_draws_the_blur_from_the_still_framethe canvas on and off the worker. Not yet: a worker frame shows one display frame after the overlays, and the first frame of an interaction can land on the renderer that has not made the rasters yet (follow-up: render every canvas frame on the worker, waiting briefly for fast ones). -
Moving objects with raster effects (#1257): during a drag or a dialog's preview, an object whose content only moved draws its cached drop shadows, outer glows and filtered content (Gaussian Blur, Feather and the Photoshop-style filters) from the rasters of an earlier frame at the nearest whole pixel, without running the effects again. The renderer first draws the moved content where the old content lies in its raster and compares the pixels. De-Interlace runs again. The frame after the drag runs the effects again and draws what a fresh renderer draws; on the desktop, the canvas renders that frame on the render worker.
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Glass's Load Texture: Effect › Distort › Glass… has a Load Texture… button that reads a PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP, Targa, PSD or PSB file and adds Loaded Texture to the Texture menu (
textureImage:{path}or{name?, dataBase64}, stored in the effect and saved with the document as a grayscale PNG in base64). 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. Scaling and Invert act on it as on the built-in textures. A Glass saved withouttextureImagedraws and saves as before. -
Raster effects after document and view changes: a cached drop shadow, outer glow or filtered content is made again when something its content reads from outside the object changes: a pattern's art or tiling, a symbol shown inside another symbol, a brush definition, an image's pixels, the raster resolution (De-Interlace), Page Knockout Group, Document Setup's substitution highlights, a layer's Dim Images, the color settings, the fonts, Pixel Preview, Anti-aliased Artwork, Overprint Preview and isolation mode. A thumbnail under Color Halftone or Mezzotint is made again when the document's color mode changes. Raster effects (blur, shadow, glow, grain) drawn after a pattern, radial or freeform gradient fill export at their place and size (#1541, fixes #1536).
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Drop Shadow's Darkness: Effect › Stylize › Drop Shadow… has Color and Darkness as radio buttons, each with its field, and the Appearance panel's inline editor has the two radio buttons in its Shade row (
shade:colorordarkness;darkness: 0 to 100%, 100 by default). Color is the default, and a shadow saved without these keys draws as before. With Darkness the shadow is the object's own colors with black added: in a CMYK document their cyan, magenta and yellow stay and their black K becomes K + darkness × (1 − K), and in an RGB document each channel is multiplied by 1 − darkness. Darkness 0% gives the object's color; 100% gives black in an RGB document and keeps the colors under 100% black in a CMYK one. SVG export writes the object blurred, moved and darkened withfeComponentTransfer(screen colors, in a CMYK document too), and SVG import reads it back; CSS export leaves the shadow out and marks the object unsupported. When a.ai, EPS or PDF opens from its editing data, a Drop Shadow with Darkness in an object's art style is read as one with Color is, with the shadow's Darkness percentage (100% when the style gives none). Behavior reference: Illustrator CC Help (2014, PDF), page 428 (PDF page 434). -
Live objects after document changes: a blend, envelope or repeat, with or without an effect of its own, is evaluated again when one of these changes: the tiling of a pattern whose tiles an envelope bends (Distort Pattern Fills), a symbol shown inside a symbol, a pattern or an opacity mask, the fonts of its type, a placed document's file once the file is read, and the color settings. A gradient mesh, with or without an effect of its own, is colored again when the color settings change.
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Blend, mesh and envelope points by number:
object.blend.spine.moveAnchor,reshapeSegmentandremoveAnchor,object.mesh.setPointColor,movePointanddeletePoint, andobject.envelope.setMeshPointrefuse ananchor,segmentorindexthat is not a whole number, andobject.envelope.setMeshPointrefuses a negativeindex. Specified Steps (object.blend.make,object.blend.options) and the rows and columns ofobject.mesh.create,object.envelope.makeWithMeshandresetWithMeshmust be whole numbers too. -
Blend, mesh and envelope numbers given as text:
object.blend.makeandobject.blend.options(steps,distance,value),object.envelope.makeWithWarp,resetWithWarpandoptions(bend,h,v,horizontalDistortion,verticalDistortion),object.envelope.makeWithMeshandresetWithMesh(rows,cols,columns),object.envelope.options(fidelity),object.mesh.create(rows,cols,columns,highlight) andobject.mesh.setPointColor(opacity) refuse a value other than a number or null, such as"8", and change nothing.object.mesh.createrefuses anatthat is not[x, y]. -
Exporter plug-ins (G17): a WebAssembly plug-in of kind
exporteradds a write-only file format. File › Export › Export As lists it after the built-in formats, with Use Artboards greyed out (the plug-in writes the whole document) and its parameters in a generated dialog once the file is picked;document.exportwrites it by its format id,plugin.<id>, or by one of its extensions, and built-in formats keep theirs. The plug-in is given the native file's JSON (large images without their data) and_context(mode,extension,name), with 10 G instructions plus 4,000 per byte of input and 300 s, and Background Export's Cancel stops it between two slices of that budget. A decline or invalid output writes nothing; its warnings come back with the export's. Regressions:crates/engine/tests/plugin_export.rs,crates/plugins/tests/abi.rs,crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_plugin_export.rs. Scores and hours unchanged. -
Plug-in parameters as their manifest presents them (G17): each parameter may have a
label, aunitshown after its value,helpon its label and ahelpUrlpage opened from a button, agroup(sections that fold, after the parameters outside any group) and avisibleWhenthat shows it only while the checkboxes and choices it names have one of the listed values (a hidden parameter still goes to the plug-in).stringandnumberListparameters join number, int, bool and choice, and a plug-in declares up to 256 parameters, at most 64 outside groups. The filter, live-effect and exporter dialogs use these keys, and the Appearance panel's effect editor the labels, units, help and conditions; hosts from before them ignore them. Regressions:crates/plugins/src/dialog.rs,crates/plugins/src/manifest.rs,crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_plugin_fields.rs,crates/ui-egui/src/panels/appearance.rs. Scores and hours unchanged. -
Live-effect plug-ins read their object's paints (G17): a live effect is given the object's
fillsandstrokesas a filter gets them, read only, and_context.item("object", or the fill or stroke whose own effects hold it); the result is cached by paint too, so a change of paint runs it again. Regressions:crates/engine/src/tests_plugins.rs,crates/plugins/src/effect.rs. Scores and hours unchanged. -
Plug-in effects after a plug-in changes: when a plug-in is installed for the first time, installed again or removed (
plugin.install,plugin.reload,plugin.remove, File › Open of a.wasmfile, the Additional Plug-ins Folder preference), the next frame the canvas draws uses the plug-ins then installed for objects with a plug-in effect and their raster effects, for the blends, envelopes and repeats that show such objects, and for pattern tiles and symbol instances whose art holds one. -
Effect art after font and color settings changes: when a font becomes available (fonts added, Refresh Font List,
text.rescanFonts), the next frame the canvas draws outlines type in it where a geometry effect reshapes the type, a group that holds it or a symbol instance whose art holds it. When the color settings change (Edit › Color Settings,edit.colorSettings), the next frame shades objects with Revolve, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate or Rotate, and recolors objects and groups with a color adjustment, through the new settings. -
Full font names (#1258): OpenType name ID 4 identifies its face alongside family/legacy/PostScript names, including localized names, for loaded fonts, cataloged files and Missing Fonts searches. Synthetic name-table regressions cover full names distinct from their PostScript name, real-family precedence and variable fonts' default faces. Windows font-service activation remains unverified; scores and hours are unchanged.
xtask/src/pngsuite.rs verifies each file from the pinned PngSuite mirror against xtask/pngsuite.sha256 before it reaches the corpus. Seven synthetic regressions cover substitution, oversize, cache repair, failure cleanup, nonregular targets, stale staging and manifest limits. The opt-in corpus remains gitignored; no PNGs are committed.
Evidence for the shared light Color: geometry tests in tests_lighting, effect paint tests, command/save/undo/expand and SVG/PDF checks in three_d_light_color, and headless picker/reset/preview tests in tests_revolve. Revolve keeps smooth colored vector ramps and continuous flat-lit caps. Inflate geometry tests check spherical lighting, shared vertex/edge continuity, concave cell coverage, puffed backs at perspective and legacy single-light/list equivalence; rendered command/export regressions cover smooth shading and editable expansion. Four legacy white-light PNGs match main byte for byte; release measurements record the colored solid-fill batch and the remaining source-gradient cost.
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Plug-ins: live effects are given their object's fills and strokes, read only, and the item they sit on (G17); engine and unit regressions. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Plug-ins: parameters with labels, units, help, groups and conditions in their dialogs, string and numberList types, up to 256 per plug-in (G17); manifest and kittest dialog regressions. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Plug-ins: exporter plug-ins add write-only file formats to Export As and document.export (G17); engine, ABI and headless Export As regressions. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Libraries panel: the list fills the panel and scrolls (also while a drag nears its edges); items drag before or after others of their kind and into or out of groups, and groups drag by their headers (library.moveItem before/after, library.moveGroup). Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Cache status-readout sample widths per UI, language, document unit and pixels per point; regressions check reuse across live frames and refresh after display-setting changes. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Status messages and readouts use stable responsive allocations sized for localized labels and ordinary coordinates. Contributor original-file acceptance confirmed; scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas dimensions match the renderer limit before cache-key creation, view construction and worker submission. Regression coverage; scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Cached canvas reprojection preserves scale during resize, rotation and DPI changes. Contributor original-file acceptance confirmed; scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-18 | minor | PDF Place and clipboard paste use Open's live-text choice instead of forcing outlines; synthetic regressions cover page selection and explicit outlines. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-18 | minor | File formats: PDF invisible text (rendering mode 3, a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke instead of being dropped without a warning, and characters with no fill or stroke export as invisible text, so a scanned PDF opened and saved keeps its searchable text (#2675); own-fixture tests; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Effect rasters cropped to the view or made coarser are kept while the view stays the same: a drag over a 500 pt blur draws it from the still frame on this thread and on the worker, and an interaction stays on the worker that drew the frame shown (#2558). Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Color Picker layout (#2008): compact controls, centered header, stacked actions and aligned inputs; screen-reader channel values, current shared button names and styling, screen sampler and model-by-model Tab order retained. Narrow windows scroll vertically; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-18 | minor | Mirror Repeat shows its axis when selected (#2877): drag the line or center handle to move it, drag an end handle to rotate it (Shift: 45°), Escape cancels and each drag is one undo step. Engine and headless canvas gesture regressions passed; native move, rotation and Escape screenshots reviewed. Formatting, Clippy, WASM and repository checks passed; the undo label reuses translated Repeat Options. (#2877) Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-18 | minor | Bounding-box handles take priority where a selected Mirror Repeat axis crosses them: the Top handle scales the repeat, while the center still moves it and the ends still rotate it. Headless canvas regression confirms vertical scaling without width change; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Blend spine Anchor Point conversions, selection/stacking priority and Shift regression coverage (#2544); scores and hours unchanged. Windows native canvas checks and screenshots reviewed in PR #2643. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Evidence: Artboard Options has X and Y beside a reference point locator, counted from the ruler origin (#1876); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Image Trace: Auto Color keeps rare but distinct colours drawn as regions of their own (stems, highlights, near-white on pale backgrounds), at most six, protected from mixed-colour merging and Noise: every key colour on 66 of 66 flat test logos (was 39); scans unchanged. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Image Trace: images over 1500 px on a side trace normally with a warning that they are slower (as the public documentation describes), images over 64 MP say they were scaled down, and the memory guard is 8,000,000 anchors (2,000,000 on the web) instead of 2,000,000, measured at about 90 bytes an anchor. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Image Trace: Raster::new returns an error for RGBA bytes of the wrong length instead of failing an assertion, and Raster::pixel reads nothing past the raster; no behaviour change for valid images. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | M12: maximal-disc graph pruning and junction merging; centre-lines degrees improve to 44/45 in each variant, remaining spurs unchanged. Scores, missing features and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | M12: exact per-blob EDT and Guo–Hall skeletons, with randomized EDT/active-set checks and preserved diagonal ends; centre-lines measurements updated. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | M12: code-drawn centre-line scenes and metrics added to the ignored quality harness; current Create Strokes baseline in image-trace-quality.md. Tests only; scores, missing features and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Plug-ins: Install Plug-in keeps the module in a Plug-ins folder next to the preferences, installed again at startup (#2541); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Evidence: Group Selection picks and moves one path of a compound path (#2441, in part); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Create Gradient Mesh on an embedded image (#1676): colours sampled as area averages, transform kept, linked images refused. Scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | The Move dialog opens on the offset of the last drag or Move and with the Copy, Transform Objects and Preview it was last confirmed with (Transform Patterns sets the preference it starts from), so Enter, Enter repeats a move or a copy; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Image Trace: a loop or junction-returning piece whose fit collapsed to one cubic keeps the fewest segments that hold its area and course instead of every positioned point, so a higher Paths no longer gives fewer segments on code-drawn noisy images (six falling runs to none; one fall with another cause remains). Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Image Trace: a notch corner is cut only when the straight edges beside it lie in the shared piece, so both regions of the piece get the same points (code-drawn noisy colour images: 93 uncovered sample points to 0). Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Image Trace: a crack's sub-pixel shift is the mean of the readings from its two sides, exactly antisymmetric, so abutting regions get the same points on thin slivers (a code-drawn noisy ripple went from 482–1,228 uncovered sample points per trace to 0). Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Image Trace Flat Logo: line art whose only solid area is the paper (thin strokes, small marks) is traced from its strokes' cores instead of returning a blank success with no paths; anti-aliased edge shades fold into their ink, and paper with ink on under 1% of it (specks, grain) stays blank; code-drawn regressions thin_line_art_on_paper_is_traced_not_blank, anti_aliased_coloured_lettering_has_only_its_inks, sparse_marks_on_paper_are_not_promoted_to_colours, grainy_blank_paper_has_no_ink. Score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Image Trace: the contour walk works out each turn from the pixels as it goes instead of following a precomputed table of per-corner directions; identical loops on all 65,536 4 × 4 masks and 400 seeded masks, and no slower (whole 1 MP traces 1–5% faster). Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Native documents restore transparency grid visibility (#1968); save/open regression covers on/off, old files and SVG; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Evidence: Group Selection picks one path of a compound path (#2441, in part); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Agent automation: MCP cancellation, progress notifications and busy answers during long exports (#2165, #2171, #2172); scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | EPS editing data: legacy mesh corners, vector opacity masks and compound member paint retained; raster page comparison filters minification without relaxing limits; scores and hours unchanged. Synthetic EPS/parser/minification regressions; user EPS/SVG/JPG kept local. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Type: localized legacy family names remain available when typographic names are English-only (#2208); loaded and catalog paths tested. Scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Batch exporting in Export for Screens (#1935): a file name pattern (document and item names, a counter, the date), folders per format, item or both, Layers and Selection tabs with thumbnails, EPS, AI and VectorCraft rows, a PDF row with printer's marks, and export presets (built-in Logo Package and Print-Ready PDF, saved ones); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Align Stroke on live type (beyond Illustrator): the characters' stroke goes inside or outside the glyphs without creating outlines (#2294); scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | G2: Effect › Artistic › Smudge Stick, Sponge and Watercolor (original approximations with their documented options); measured Photoshop filters 36/57 with Cutout, Neon Glow and Poster Edges, 21 remaining (19–31 h); area score unchanged (49%, estimated). |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Bas Relief, Charcoal, Photocopy and Stamp (#2527); measured Photoshop filters 37/57 with Cutout, Neon Glow and Poster Edges, 20 remaining (18–30 h). Scores unchanged. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | G2: Effect › Sketch › Halftone Pattern (Size, Contrast, Pattern Type Circle, Dot or Line; black ink on white paper, Size in points at any Document Raster Effects resolution); measured Photoshop filters 30/57, 27 remaining (22–38 h). |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | Symbols: Symbol Options › Export Type (Graphic / Movie Clip) with Registration; Symbols score 85% → 87% (estimated) |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | Evidence: 36 more tool states get cursors of their own (node editing, Anchor Point, Curvature, side-shear drawn; the rest borrowed until drawn), listed in crates/tools/src/cursors.toml; scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Colored Inflate: shared membrane normals and smooth RGB vector ramps replace flat polygon bands; channel groups are batched per solid-fill surface. White-light Inflate retains its original polygons, paint composition and seam joins; the 0.05 seam minimum is restored. Scores and hour estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: one to ten directional lights, a selectable light list, Add Light and Delete Light, independent settings and artboard gestures; ambient applied once and smooth RGB vector export; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | 3D lighting: opaque RGB Color for the shared directional light, with neutral ambient, preview/reset controls and smooth vector Revolve shading; scores and hour estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Localization: Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) catalog completed under the tests (#1914); Localization 71% → 74% (measured), hours 55–90 → 50–85; full readiness unchanged (~62%) |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Automation: dataset CSV import/export; headline Automation ~62% → ~65%, detail ~68% → ~72%, hours 6–12 → 4–8 / 5–9 → 4–7 (estimated) |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Automation: image variables (kind: image, variable.makeImageDynamic, path values on datasets that keep object bounds); headline Automation ~60% → ~62%, detail ~65% → ~68%, hours 8–14 → 6–12 / 6–10 → 5–9 (estimated) |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Effect > Warp: style, orientation and percent controls; focused checks passed and original captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | G11: open-path anchor Delete removes adjoining segments without bridging the gap; explicit Remove Anchors keeps its reconnect/refit behavior. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | MCP add_text exposes the existing vertical option for point, area and path type; horizontal remains the default; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Vertical fullwidth question and exclamation marks keep their nominal glyph upright when the font has no vertical alternate; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Drawing: Curvature curve geometry (the Curvature tool's curve: each stretch of three points follows the circle through them (handles along its tangent, chord/(3·cos²(α/2)) long, shorter in a turn tighter than 30°), and the ends of an open path curve in, so uneven spacing neither overshoots nor loops; #1236, in part); score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Image Trace: tiny fitted contours retain islands and holes; generated Corners/Noise regressions; scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Quick Image Trace presets reveal the adjustment panel with Advanced open; Properties reopens it. Sliders keep their preset row until release so the re-trace is committed. UI regressions added; scores and remaining estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Revolve: automatic smooth vector shading, default-on Cap with continuous curved rims, and bounded seam joins; angular cut sides remain open. Scores and hour estimates unchanged at this rounding |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Evidence for the later merges of 2026-10-14 that did not write their own: anchor X/Y/W/H (#1839), Snap to Grid over Snap to Pixel (#1840), guides in a marquee (#1836), the toolbar and All Tools drawer (#1751), the Actions panel selection (#1853), redo during a drag (#1856), preferences written on OK (#1857), character styles from a selected range (#1634), type in symbols after reopening (#1833), swatches in opacity masks (#1830), macOS save sheets (#1855, the Format menu withdrawn), shared stroke outlines (#1667), SVG and DXF fixes (#1799, #1834, #1870, #1789), untrusted files (#1852, #1862, #1863, #1871–#1873), failed saves (#1865), effects and Dim Images (#1864), krilla (#1874) and the wasm gate (#1875). #1630, #1631, #1632, #1633, #1682, #1687–#1690, #1744, #1750, #1755, #1767, #1782, #1784, #1792, #1809, #1814 and #1850 wrote their own evidence and are not repeated. A note above the 2026-10-05 table says its duplicated "Selection, transform & align tools" and "Drawing tools" rows need the owner's judgement. Scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Local Image Trace Noise change: increasing-area whole-region merges preserve nested region partitions across thresholds, checked independently on 64 synthetic grids. See image-trace-quality.md; score and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Image Trace: closed outlines keep their interior when straightening would collapse them; generated mark/hole/winding/Noise regressions; score and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Image Trace, measured in image-trace-quality.md: Shapes rework (#1845), square stroke caps (#1846), enhanced presets (#1847), gradients grown over noise and soft rims (#1848). Score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Existing-guide Escape cancellation: eight app-input regressions, the Direct Selection Escape control and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | Artboard tool: closing a clean active tab restores the displayed board before Properties Delete. Nine targeted checks passed; three original close-route captures reviewed; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Artboard tab changes align the tool with the displayed board; same-tab multiselection and Move/Scale Artwork options preserved. Three tab regressions and historical full CI on a0671777 passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Width-point finite-arithmetic follow-up: atomicity, history and native round-trip regressions and current full CI passed; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Pinned PngSuite HTTPS files verified by SHA-256 before publication; bounded downloads replace archive extraction (#1729). Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Bounded synthetic control input (#1709): counts and queued events validated before mutation; control-channel bursts yield between frames. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Tools, UI and effects: Align and Distribute act on the anchor points selected with Direct Selection: the points of one path align to each other, not to the artboard, and Distribute spaces them (#1641, fixes #1636; aligning to a key anchor is still missing); Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path (it used to remove the wrong ones), removes objects selected whole along with the selected anchors of others, and keeps the remainder selected so a second Delete removes it (#1674); In isolation mode Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object (#1666); Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag (#1803, #1743); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656); A filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); With the Pen, a press that moves under 3 screen pixels is a click (a corner without handles), and a Precise Cursors command toggles the existing preference and can take a shortcut (#1663); The [ and ] keys reach the Blob Brush, the Eraser and the Symbolism tools in the app (#1734, part of #1661); In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635); Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756); Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737); Fields commit what was typed when you click away or move to another field, as Enter does; Escape still discards it (#1787); Up and Down move through the command search results and Enter runs the highlighted one (#1798, #1757); Slider rails show on Medium Dark (#1808, #1662); On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation); Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed); Roughen with Smooth keeps turn-backs smooth instead of making cusps that draw as spikes (#1646, #1643); Scribble draws one zig-zag per region, with no lines across holes and notches; convex shapes are unchanged (#1651, #1648); correction to the 2026-10-13 rows: a guide's position in the Transform panel (#1659) is not established by the documentation found (help pages read again on 2026-10-14) and is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision, with no parity claim; scores unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Files, untrusted input and automation: EPS import: a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes (#1654, #1653); WMF/EMF import refuses an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776); PDF open no longer takes exponential time on a crafted name tree with shared nodes when it looks for the editing data (#1781); The size limits on a native file's embedded data also apply to files read from memory, not only streamed ones (#1783); Saving over a private file on Unix no longer leaves a readable temporary copy beside it while the file is written (#1778); An Export for Screens suffix can no longer place files outside the export folder (#1777); Package refuses a folder where it would overwrite the open document or one of its linked files (#1786); ruzstd 0.9.1 fixes a decompression bomb (RUSTSEC-2026-0344) reachable from EPS/.ai and Affinity import (#1807); File Info dates are stamped only after a save succeeds, so a failed save no longer changes them (#1774); Linked files that change during a drag are updated after the drag instead of being missed (#1773); Scatter graph data near the largest number is refused with a message instead of hanging the app (#1780); One very long Liquify stroke segment can no longer create an unbounded number of dabs (#1779); A drag whose last preview failed is no longer recorded as a committed command in the journal that actions and scripts read (#1775); Tests: text import fuzzing no longer searches installed fonts (#1785); Tests: render tests that add fonts no longer race the frame cache tests (#1795); text.create, text.createInPath and the MCP add_text tool take justify, so point type can be centred on or end at its point (#1752, #1748); MCP limits: 16 MiB lines, 64-message batches, 256-step command_batch with 8 MiB of kept results and 256 MiB control replies (#1764, fixes #1727); MCP requires the JSON-RPC 2.0 envelope and matches control replies by id, and an app refusal without an id reports the app's reason (#1768, fixes #1728); The MCP server reconnects to the app before a call when the connection was closed or holds stray bytes, after an app restart or an idle expiry (#1739); #1684 and #1797 wrote their own evidence; scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Image Trace, measured in image-trace-quality.md: snap Curves To Lines moves no end of a line by more than 1.6 px, so long lines a degree or two off stay as the image has them (#1647: Technical Drawing's largest distance 4.21 px to 1.46); flat Logo takes the tones a scan's uneven paper makes of one colour for one colour (#1657: on scans 470 paths and 21 px off to 8.5 paths and 0.09 px); the Image Trace row keeps 75% (estimated): the score was raised for the measured work on 2026-10-13 and these two are refinements of it |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Malformed JSON app replies drop the MCP connection without replay and report uncertain completion (#1761); upstream notification and id-less refusal behavior preserved; scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Files: SVGs that move objects with a CSS transform (translate(100px, 0), rotate(45deg)) or style type with the font shorthand import as drawn (#1565); SVG symbols whose shapes use percentage lengths import at the size and place they are drawn, the percentages being of the symbol's viewBox (#1596); Inkscape's flowed text (flowRoot) opens as area type in its rectangle, a paragraph per flowPara, instead of being dropped, and a region that can't be read is left out with a warning (#1569, fixes #1568); The warning for an unsupported SVG filter names the filter, its primitives and the object, and says the object is drawn without it (#1599, fixes #1598); The pages of an Inkscape multi-page SVG become artboards, named by their labels (#1603, fixes #1601); SVG export with CSS classes or style entities stays fast in documents with many distinct styles (#1567); PDF and .ai import: evenly letter-spaced or tightened type on a path keeps its length along the path instead of closing up to the font's advances (#1586), and type on a path whose stroke is written glyph by glyph comes in as one text object with its stroke, not one object per glyph (#1585); The ICC profiles embedded in JPEG, TIFF and PSD exports have every tag on a 4-byte boundary (ICC.1 §7.1.2), so strict readers accept them (#1589, fixes #1584); GIF, PNG-8 and other indexed exports find each pixel's palette colour through an index instead of a scan, with identical output (#1576); Saving to a network drive on macOS falls back to a plain fsync when the share refuses a full flush (#1625, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real share), and a save still succeeds when a folder refuses the temporary file, the rename over the document or copying permissions: the content is written elsewhere first and copied in, and a failed copy keeps the temporary file and names it (#1649, part of #1620); A document opened by a relative path finds its relatively linked images, and vectorcraft-cli convert lists what reading the input left out as importWarnings (#1606, fixes #1604); A zero-length subpath draws its round cap as a dot and its projecting cap as a square, so dots in imported .ai and SVG files show (#1619, fixes #1613); scores unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Tools, UI, effects and type: Pathfinder's Trim, Merge and Crop remove the objects' strokes, and Merge joins same-fill objects whatever their strokes were, as the public Pathfinder page describes (#1572, fixes #1570); Offset Path with an inset larger than the shapes says the offset leaves nothing, instead of asking to select paths (#1591, fixes #1590); The Symbols panel's New Symbol opens Symbol Options to name the symbol first, and Alt-click skips it (#1566, fixes #1560); Tool flyouts are as wide as their longest translated name and shortcut need, so names no longer run into shortcuts in Spanish and other languages (#1650, fixes #1616); Smart Guides: a point drawn with the Pen or a shape tool, and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection, snaps to where paths and ruler guides cross, labelled "intersect" (#1658, part of #1602; a moved selection's own anchors don't); The Transform panel shows a selected ruler guide's X or Y, and typing a value moves it (#1659, part of #1597). This is not established by the documentation we could find: the public help pages on guides, rulers and the Transform, Control and Properties panels (read again on 2026-10-14) describe selecting and dragging unlocked guides and the panels' X and Y for a selection, not a guide's position in a panel, and the one public statement of it is a user's community answer, which is not documentation. It is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision, with no parity claim and nothing counted towards a score; Select Behind (Ctrl/Cmd-click) tests each object once, so a deep stack of overlapping objects no longer slows it; same objects in the same order (#1571); Commands that take ids run on the objects given with nothing selected, over MCP, the control channel and the CLI too (#1577, fixes #1575); Zig Zag spaces its ridges evenly along each segment, so lines and curves get a regular wave in Corner and Smooth (#1558); Warp › Arc (the effect and Envelope › Make with Warp) bends in the object's real proportions: a circular arc with concentric edges and no fold-over at 100%, so Arc on art that isn't square draws differently from before (#1581, fixes #1578); effect.apply and effect.setParams give an error for a misspelt or wrongly typed effect parameter instead of running the effect with its default (#1623, #1592); Area type in a non-rectangular shape moves a word too wide for the top lines down to the first line that holds it instead of breaking it (#1617, fixes #1615); Stylistic sets (ss01–ss20), stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, and superscript and subscript glyphs can be turned on as OpenType features of a character style (text.setStyle {features}), and the OpenType panel keeps them (#1611, fixes #1607); The Polish translator confirmed the Polish rows the maintainers had added after the catalog was written (#1614); scores unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | PDF.R1: editable PDF import uses the shared pinned reader; layer and overprint scans preserve state across content windows and reject known incomplete input. Synthetic streaming, decoder-limit and dependency-source regressions added; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | PDF.W1: PDF export and print composition use the shared guarded writer; drawing, colour policy and editable import stay app-owned. Metadata regression coverage and immutable dependency checks added; scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | G1/M11: Artboard panel deletion, protected deletion keys and navigator/tool synchronization before and after deletion; history normalization preserves valid multiselection; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Type core: mixed paragraph alignment indication implemented using the existing buttons and range command; headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: Alt switches the orientation of new ruler guides, including preview, snapping and release; scores and hours unchanged (estimated). |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: create width points through Width Point Edit with optional adjoining adjustment; command/pointer/history regressions and full CI passed; dialog layout reviewed; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Corner Radius: a link toggle behind the field in the Properties and Transform panels; off, a live rectangle shows a radius field for each corner (Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Right, Bottom Left), each setting its own corner (singleCornerRadius preference); split from #1594; score unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | 3D and Materials: the documented light settings, Intensity, Rotation, Height, Softness and Ambient Light (three-d.md); scores unchanged (3D ~25%) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | 3D and Materials: Perspective is the documented 0°–160° angle (three-d.md); scores unchanged (3D ~25%) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Control transport deadlines (#1726): idle and partial clients and blocked replies release connection slots; parity scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Colour: the Color panel keeps the mode picked last between sessions and shows the defaults for new art in it when nothing is selected; a selected colour still shows in its own model (fixes #1675); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Image Trace, measured in image-trace-quality.md: shared edges fitted once (#1535), 16 megapixel photos in 0.9 GB (#1546), thin lines (#1563), Ignore Color and two presets (#1574), upright snapping (#1593), stroked centre lines (#1595), corners and Shapes (#1609), Auto Grouping (#1618), Gradients (#1627). Score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Files: Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and .eps files copied in a file manager, with the new command clipboard.importEps (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479); a multi-artboard .ai with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a .ai gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542). Rendering: Raster effects (blur, shadow, glow, grain) drawn after a pattern, radial or freeform gradient fill export at their place and size (#1541, fixes #1536). Fonts: the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux). Localization: The interface is available in Polish (pl): menus, panels, dialogs and messages, with one/few/many plurals; AI-drafted, native review pending (#1498) (4,510 rows); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Tools and UI: Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape and the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512); Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539). Correction: the combined Average and Join with its corner or smooth choice was listed as done in ui-parity.md and does not exist in the app (path.join and path.average are separate commands, and Join has no such choice); it is now listed as missing there and in gap 1; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | UI and tools: sliders in Save for Web, the raster export options, Preferences and the opacity popup show their rail, filled up to the handle (#1506, fixes #1483); in Outline view a template layer stays in Preview, dimmed (#1505, fixes #1486); Direct Selection takes the selected object's anchor where anchors of overlapping objects coincide (#1509, fixes #1508); a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed (#1487, fixes #1458); type: commands and MCP add_text report area type that does not fit its frame (#1500, fixes #1471); graphs: graph.setData's CSV keeps each value exactly (#1485); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | 3D and Materials: outlined words and other shapes of many small curves take Rotate, Extrude & Bevel and Inflate (#1481), Twist runs 0° to 360° (#1524) and twisted walls keep their faces (#1525), all described in three-d.md; rendering: print-size images draw, export and crop (#1517); vectorcraft-cli perf on Windows reports load and memory (#1502; no budget re-run); localization: French catalog complete again with 423 strings added and 188 reworded (#1511), a Hungarian message in the informal address (#1474); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | File interop: Save As .ai also writes the legacy version 7 form (#868), keeping layers, groups, compound paths, clipping groups and type as text objects, one artboard per file, with Transparent Images, Hidden Objects and Text options; .ai legacy type is read on open; not yet tested by users who hand files back, so scores and hours are unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Image Trace, measured in image-trace-quality.md: the palette is made of the picture's own colours (#1504): 16 Colors on flat art 70 → 4.2 paths and 5.1 → 0.13 px off, paths in a colour the art lacks 5.9 → 0; photos are smoothed within their tones first and stacked layers go by lightness (#1516): High Fidelity Photo 3,653 → 121 paths with its colour error 2.30 → 1.75, 16 megapixels traced where 4 were refused. Score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | 3D and Materials: Inflate takes Twist, Taper and Cap (three-d.md); scores unchanged (3D ~25%) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Automation: a command run through MCP, the control channel or the CLI refuses a parameter key it doesn't take, naming it and the nearest accepted key (#1496, fixes #1442; 598 of 737 engine commands checked, 168 params descriptions corrected); plug-ins: a numeric parameter's default stays inside its declared range (#1463); stability: a window surface larger than 8192 px is configured up to the graphics adapter's limit instead of closing the app (#1495, part of #1459; not reproduced on a mixed-scale setup); text frames, wrap shapes and type paths beyond a billion points hold no text instead of hanging the layout (#1451); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | File formats: PDF and .ai import keep a stroke opaque and unmasked when the fill under it was faded or masked by its group, and a .ai read as its PDF part keeps its RGB numbers (#1434); SVG export writes knockout groups of opaque art without masks, and convert takes --decimals (#1435); grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or other extra channels place, relink and open (#1489, part of #1466; colourising 1-bit and grayscale images is still open); score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Path operations and transforms: Split Into Grid has its row and column sizes, gutters, totals, Add Guides and Preview (#1488, fixes #1462); the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone (#1493, for #1450; one plain path alone is not settled by the documentation); Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each, and Reflect across an angle (#1494, fixes #1448 and #1460); Fit Headline in a frame one line tall (#1445, fixes #1444); value fields: selected text is readable (#1490, part of #1465) and a focused field follows its value (#1497, fixes #1457); the many-object edits of #1430 and #1464 are under Performance already; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Image Trace: Black and White, Grayscale and Color place edges by the blend of the pixels across them and fit outlines as Flat Logo does; a harness measures every preset (image-trace-quality.md): Default's outlines 0.31 → 0.09 px off on average, Black and White Logo's 0.27 → 0.06 with 15 → 0.3 kinks, gaps between abutting paths 64 → 22 px. Score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | 3D and Materials: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate with Position presets (three-d.md); 3D ~8% → ~25%, 50–85 → 30–55 h (estimated); menu 353/375 wired (measured from the stubs removed) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | File formats: an Affinity text frame too short for its first line is made taller with a warning instead of showing nothing (#1423); synthetic-file test; score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | File formats: a .ai compound path takes its last path's paint and keeps paths grouped inside it (#1426, fixes #1410; hand-written editing data test, no public documentation of which member carries the paint); a .ai whose PDF part draws only text opens from it when its editing data can't be read (#1414, fixes #1387); score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Transform: with anchors selected with Direct Selection, the transform commands, dialogs and tools act on those anchors alone (#1427, fixes #1408); the five Transform dialogs preview on the canvas and their angle and percentage fields step with the arrow keys (#1428, fixes #1412); the Preview default (off) and the anchors' default reference point are our choices; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Rendering: a stroke wider than its closed shape paints solid on the canvas, as in exports (#1409, fixes #1396); Live Corners: the bounding box hides during a corner drag with the Selection tool (#1402, fixes #1229); Edit: a picture pastes when blank text sits beside it on the clipboard (#1404); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Automation: document.inspect reports a compound path's fill, stroke and weight and a blend mode that isn't Normal (#1397, fixes #1389); object.isolate with an unknown id reports no such object (#1415); docs/mcp.md covers the acting preferences, all resources and the symbol, brush, variable and Image Trace commands (#1418); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Transparency evidence: SVG export of knockout groups of opaque art needs no masks (no edge seams); score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | File formats: PDF and .ai import and placed PDFs keep overprint (/OP, /op), which exports again (#1388); own-fixture tests; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | File formats: .ai editing data follow-ups to #1264: gradients with middle stops (#1390), type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards (#1391), area type in a frame too short for the fallback font (#1392); a PDF saved with its editing data opens with its bleed (#1379); score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | UI chrome: dialogs take the keyboard focus on every open (#1367) and give it to a first field that starts greyed out once it is enabled (#1395); Artboards: art flush with an artboard within a rounding error moves, copies and scales with it (#1375, from #1295); Type core: a character no font had is looked for again after a font rescan (#1376, from #992); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Performance: the art placed for symbol instances and inline graphics is kept between frames (#1386; the contributor measured 51.6 → 32.3 ms a frame on 2,000 instances at 2880 × 1800, not re-measured here); budgets still unverified, score unchanged. Automation: --control without a valid port stops the desktop app with an error (#1383) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid tool options (skew, frame, compound path, Fill Grid; #1377, in part); skew curve our own, no reference point locator; scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | File formats: placed (linked) files in a .ai's editing data come in as linked images showing their saved preview, so such a file opens through its layers with its guides (#1264); own-fixture reader, lexer and link tests; score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | File formats: gradient-filled shapes import as paths (#1304); constant alpha soft masks export white for luminosity readers (#1286, in part); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Polar Grid click dialog (#1192); .ai images on hidden lines read (#1264, in part); Affinity rectangles keep per-corner radii and cut corners (#666, in part); Tools panel buttons centred (#1363); Properties panel width with Image Trace (#1358, in part); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Live Corners: a Direct Selection click on a widget selects its corner (#1239); Layers: deselecting on hide or lock is linear in the selection (#1353); scores and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Guides/rulers: custom document zero point (#1212) with preview, reset, relative position fields and native round-trip; global/artboard mode switch and video rulers remain; score 80% and 4–7 h unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Artboard click-to-fit verified for objects, groups, visible bounds, undo and cancellation (#1227); scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Pathfinder single-result booleans preserve source names and SVG IDs (#1293); paint-order, grouped/compound sources, unchanged geometry/appearance and Undo/Redo regression tests; scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Localization: Vietnamese (vi) catalog added, complete under the tests; Localization 63% → 71% (measured), hours 60–100 → 55–90; full readiness unchanged (~62%) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Localization: Korean (ko) catalog added, complete under the tests; Localization 54% → 63% (measured), hours 70–110 → 60–100; full readiness unchanged (~62%) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Desktop PDF spooler shared through craft-print; exact physical sizes, composed copies and Windows 7 fallback retained. Scores and remaining gaps unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Image Trace: an image over 64 megapixels (up to 192) is traced scaled down to 64 megapixels with its paths at the image's own size, instead of being refused; score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech render-site follow-up: file-dialog filters, diagnostics, preset numbering, contributor tooltips/plurals, gradient grammar and contextual printer mark styles; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Path operations: Simplify preview/counts, valid component selection after refit/subdivision (#1272); slider/auto/advanced UI remains open; scores/hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | G2: Artistic › Film Grain added with live controls and raster exports; measured Photoshop filters 29/57, 28 remaining (23–39 h). |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Platforms: RPM runtime SONAME capabilities and glibc 2.35 floor (#1275); metadata checked, distro installation/start-up pending; scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Raster effects: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); pixels unchanged; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Drawing: Curvature uses circular point markers without direction handles or duplicate markers (#1236, in part); existing-path interpolation unchanged; score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Type core: full-name font matches and Missing Fonts searches verified with synthetic fonts (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Selection: repeated or rounding-only anchor Align preserves Undo, Redo, saved state and path geometry (#1180 follow-up); engine regression tests; score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | UI chrome: original Eyedropper glyph and precise-cursor checks (#1269); score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Colour: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Selection: segment picks are distinct from anchor picks; Delete preserves neighboring geometry (#1278), egui/native checks; scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Colour: unpainted zero-width strokes regain 1 pt when painted (#1253); scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | The Graph Data worksheet (Import Data, Cell Style, Transpose, Switch x/y, Revert). Scores unchanged within rounding |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Graph label formatting kept through regeneration. Scores unchanged within rounding |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Graph Type's widths past 100%, First Row/Column in Front and Draw Filled Lines. Scores unchanged within rounding |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Graph Type's Add Drop Shadow and Add Legend Across Top. Scores unchanged within rounding |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Graph Data's Transpose and Switch x/y, ` |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Graph designs and marker designs (Object › Graph › Design… and Marker…): menu stubs 27 → 25; the graphs row's missing items are column designs and Image Trace depth. Scores unchanged within rounding |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | UI chrome: native macOS save sheets gain a Format menu (#866), with extension regression tests and actual save/cancel verification; score and hours unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Compound-path appearance and fill-rule edits through directly selected members (#1197) verified with rendered holes and Undo/Redo; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Path operations: Divide accepts open cutting paths (#1307); filled-face appearance, holes and bounded fallback regression-tested; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | UI chrome: numeric focus clicks select on release while drags retain their press position (#1326, in part); keyboard focus, stepping and double-click regressions pass; scores and hours unchanged; short movements below the click threshold remain open |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves stay open and curves retained; rational/non-rational import and export versions regression-tested; scores/hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Type core: Middle Eastern digit types (Character panel menu › Digits: Default, Arabic, Hindi, Farsi; {digits}) leave the missing list; score and hours unchanged at this rounding (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | PDF raster-effect cap reductions are reported per original object with requested/achieved ppi; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Platforms: Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server opens the window through XWayland, where file drops work (#1151); score unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Drawing tools: Live Corners on corners between curved sides (#1144) leaves the missing list; score and hours unchanged at this rounding (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Type advanced: Proportional Metrics in vertical type (vpal, #966) leaves the missing list; score and hours unchanged at this rounding (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Shape Builder #893 fixed (planar-map faces share their corners exactly, so merges leave no seams); Path operations stays 80% and Shape Builder 70% while #937 is open (estimated) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Merged main: initial live Revolve landed (#846). 3D 0% → ~8% (50–85 h), menu stubs 28 → 27; depth, readiness and totals unchanged within rounding |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Method aligned with the standard, no new evidence: the full ready-for-real-work number is the additive weighted sum over the dimensions (~62%). The multiplicative 55% from earlier today is withdrawn, and the 50% before it was an unbroken-down judgement. Added hours to ~95% for each audience (full 340–560 h, mainstream 230–380 h, essentials 60–105 h). Beta distance is now ~13 points |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Added the essentials-user readiness score (~75%): 16 core features weighted, depth ~91%, discounted for launch, discoverability and files people send |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Second look at ready for real work at the owner's request: 50% → 55% full Illustrator, and a new mainstream-illustrator figure of 65%. Why: the old 25-point discount was a judgement with no breakdown. Now each discount is written down and checked against the tracker: 86% of 79 core-drawing issues closed, 20 of 28 .ai/EPS issues fixed and the open ones about structure, praise from 15 people, no reports of switching; dimensions a typical illustrator rarely hits are taken out of readiness. Feature breadth, depth and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Stage checked against the core-workflow gate: passes, stays alpha |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | #1034: accurate transformed character controls; type-core score/hours and headline estimates unchanged at this rounding. |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x from code counts, open issues and public docs; added breadth/depth/ready-for-real-work numbers, generative-AI row, calibration from PR timestamps; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file |
| 2026-10-05 | major | (in ROADMAP.md) M3 and M4 rows re-derived after the paint and files milestones |
| 2026-10-02 | major | (in ROADMAP.md) First 22-area weighted estimate |