Docs: ROADMAP 2026-10-12 adds #1375, #1376, #1379, #1382, #1383, #1386, #1390–#1392, #1395

docs/file-format-parity.md

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 # File format parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` editing data: 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; `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files read, #1264; gradient-filled shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha soft masks, #1286 in part; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; `.ai` and PDF trim and bleed boxes as artboard and bleed, #1266) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every format Illustrator opens, places, saves or exports, against VectorCraft's format table (`FORMATS`,
 `OPEN_EXTS`, `PLACE_EXTS` in `crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/mod.rs`). Illustrator's list comes from its public
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ private editing data. VectorCraft:
 
 ### Illustrator's private editing data
 
-the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths, clipping groups and layer clipping, object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images with their alpha channel, placed (linked) files 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 (#1264), guides, and every artboard where it is. An object with several fills or strokes, effects or a brush comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type, area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Where the text document can't say (a frame of another kind, or a document that doesn't agree with the page), type that shows comes from the page into its text object's place (no group around it), and hidden type is left out with a note. Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. Symbols, pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5%, where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068). That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
+the app's own editing copy of a file (an EPS after its `%%EOF`, a `.ai`'s `AIPrivateData` streams, a PDF's `AIPDFPrivateData` streams when it was saved with the editing data (#868), Zstandard or zlib, the EPS's in ASCII85) is not documented as a whole. VectorCraft reads its structure: layers and sublayers (names, order, visibility, lock, printing, preview, dimming, colour), groups as they were nested, compound paths, clipping groups and layer clipping, object names, hidden and locked objects, fills and strokes (grey, CMYK, RGB, named and spot colours, spot colours defined in Lab with their Lab values (#1032), global process colours as global swatches at their tint), linear and radial gradients, pattern fills with their patterns as pattern swatches (#1025), opacity, blend modes, isolation and knockout, embedded images with their alpha channel, placed (linked) files 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 (#1264), guides, and every artboard where it is. A gradient with stops in the middle runs its whole ramp across its shape, and a gradient object does not pass its fill to the next path (#1390). An object with several fills or strokes, effects or a brush comes in as its drawn look (a group named after it). Type is made from the file's text document, whole and editable, shown or not: point type, area type (a story in several frames as threaded type) and type on a path, with its characters, fonts, size, leading, tracking, scaling, baseline shift, fill and stroke (grey, RGB or CMYK), alignment, indents and paragraph spacing; the page's drawing of it (often in pieces) is left out. Where the text document can't say (a frame of another kind, or a document that doesn't agree with the page), type that shows comes from the page into its text object's place (no group around it), and hidden type is left out with a note. Kerning, underline and the other character and paragraph options aren't read yet. A `.ai` saved without PDF compatibility (a placeholder page) opens from its editing data alone, its point type, area type and type on a path made from the text document. 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 is made taller, with a warning in the open result) (#1392). Symbols, pattern fills whose pattern it can't read, placed files the data keeps no preview of and anything else it doesn't read make the file come in as its page (on a layer that doesn't show, they are left out of that layer), with a warning saying what. The layers' art is also compared with the page (by lightness, so colours written as their CMYK equivalents compare alike, and by whether a pixel is inked at all); the page is used when they differ by more than 5%, where one draws an object the other doesn't (away from type, whose lines may be laid out afresh), and when an EPS whose page is its art's box has art printed outside it (#735). An EPS whose page is its art's box keeps that page when it comes in through its layers, not the editing data's artboard, and a text object counts as drawn by the page by its colours, not only its lightness, so a red stroke stacked over a dark red one stays (#1102). `textAs: "outlines"` opens a `.ai` whose type shows from its PDF part, which has the outlines; `editingData: false` opens any of them as its page or PDF part only, for print pipelines (#735). A file whose import left something out (hidden text, art or layers) is never written over by an export or Save As to its own path unless `acknowledgeLoss: true` (`convert --replace-lossy`), so the original keeps what the document lacks. Where a `.ai` can't be read that way (or its layers are turned off in the import options), we read its PDF-compatible part, so Illustrator-only live objects arrive as appearance, and plain groups arrive ungrouped: that part draws each object on its own and marks only layers, clipping groups and groups with opacity, blending or a mask (those come back). Art outside the artboards isn't in that part at all (Illustrator's PDF part leaves it out), so it doesn't open; the import says so in a note (#472). Its pages still go where the editing data puts the artboards (a grid stays a grid), with the art on each, when it has as many artboards as pages, of the same sizes (#1068). That part also has no paragraphs: area type is written line by line, and comes back as area type only where its font is installed and lays the lines out with the same breaks, else as a point type object per line (#508). Art off the page that a PDF does draw opens on the pasteboard.
 
 ## Format by format
 
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | `.ai` editing data: a gradient with middle stops runs its whole ramp (#1390); type of objects with an appearance, of hidden layers and on later artboards goes to its own text object (#1391); area type in a frame too short for the fallback font shows its first line (#1392); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | `.ai` editing data: placed (linked) files come in as linked images showing the preview the file keeps, so a file with them opens through its layers, with its guides (#1264); scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | PDF and `.ai` import: a shape painted with a gradient opens as one path with the gradient (#1304). PDF and `.ai` export: the constant alpha soft mask of a CMYK page with transparency is white (#1286, in part) |
 | 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 |

docs/gaps.md

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 # Gaps
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; 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; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (G9: `.ai` editing-data follow-ups (gradient stops, type placement, short area-type frames), #1390, #1391, #1392; G15: symbol instance art kept between frames, #1386; G1: dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; estimates unchanged; G9: placed (linked) files read from `.ai` editing data, #1264; G9: gradient shapes import as paths, #1304, and white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; G15: linear deselect on hide or lock, #1353; estimates unchanged; G7: custom ruler origin done, #1212; G1: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); remaining interaction pass and estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; G16: Korean catalog added, 70–110 → 60–100 h; 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; G11: valid selection after Simplify and Add Anchor Points (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; G10: RPM runtime dependency metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; G15: texture-effect distance searches optimized (#1257); idle-machine/platform drag QA still pending; estimate unchanged; G1: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; G4: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimate unchanged; G11: no-op anchor Align keeps history and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; G1: dedicated Eyedropper cursor and precise-cursor checks (#1269); estimates unchanged; G1: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimate unchanged; G11: Direct Selection segment Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; G1: painted strokes regain the existing default after None/zero-width inheritance (#1253); estimate unchanged; G15: large-selection edits, cached live effects and faster Pathfinder, #1173; G4: proportional vertical metrics done, #966; G11: Shape Builder merge seams on grids of lines fixed, #893; scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Every known shortfall against Illustrator, one entry each, **ranked by how much it stops a professional from
 switching**. This is the work list: unless you were given a task, pick the highest-ranked gap you can make
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | G9: in `.ai` editing data, gradients with middle stops (#1390), type of objects with an appearance, hidden layers and later artboards (#1391) and area type in a frame too short for the fallback font (#1392) open as saved; G15: the art placed for symbol instances and inline graphics is kept between frames (#1386; the budget run on an idle machine remains); G1: dialogs take the keyboard focus on every open (#1367, #1395); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G9: placed (linked) files in `.ai` editing data come in as linked images showing their saved preview, so such files open through their layers with their guides (#1264); estimate unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G9: gradient-filled shapes from a PDF or `.ai` open as paths, not clip groups (#1304); CMYK files with transparency show in applications reading soft masks by luminosity (#1286, in part: the layer groups' bounding boxes remain); G15: hiding or locking a layer deselects in linear time (#1353); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | G7: custom document ruler origin (#1212) done; global/artboard mode switching and video rulers remain, estimate unchanged |

docs/roadmap.md

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 # Roadmap: milestones and what's next
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click, #1239; custom ruler origin, #1212; M11: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, 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; M6: Simplify preview/counts and valid topology selection (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; M14: RPM runtime metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; M5: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); clean-machine/platform drag measurements still pending; estimates unchanged; M2: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; M7: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimates unchanged; M1: no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; M14: dedicated Eyedropper cursor (#1269); estimates unchanged; M3: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimates unchanged; M2: Direct Selection segment picks and Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; M3: adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores 1 pt (#1253); estimates unchanged; M12: graph designs, graph data, Graph Type and label options; M14: native macOS save Format menu, #866; M6: compound appearance and member fill-rule fixes, #1197; estimates unchanged; M9: PDF raster-effect cap warnings; G11: #893 fixed, #937 open; M7: accurate character controls after scaling, #1034; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (`.ai` editing-data follow-ups, #1390, #1391, #1392; dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; symbol instance redraw cache, #1386; font rescan, #1376; estimates unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click, #1239; custom ruler origin, #1212; M11: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, 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; M6: Simplify preview/counts and valid topology selection (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; M14: RPM runtime metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; M5: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); clean-machine/platform drag measurements still pending; estimates unchanged; M2: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; M7: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimates unchanged; M1: no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; M14: dedicated Eyedropper cursor (#1269); estimates unchanged; M3: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimates unchanged; M2: Direct Selection segment picks and Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; M3: adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores 1 pt (#1253); estimates unchanged; M12: graph designs, graph data, Graph Type and label options; M14: native macOS save Format menu, #866; M6: compound appearance and member fill-rule fixes, #1197; estimates unchanged; M9: PDF raster-effect cap warnings; G11: #893 fixed, #937 open; M7: accurate character controls after scaling, #1034; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Forward-looking plan. Where VectorCraft stands is in [`ROADMAP.md`](../ROADMAP.md) and
 [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md); the ranked work list is [gaps.md](gaps.md). Hours are Opus 5.5
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ After placed documents (File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file, linked), M4.14
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | M4: `.ai` editing data follow-ups to #1264 (gradient stops #1390, type placement #1391, short area-type frames #1392) and PDF bleed with editing data (#1379); M14: dialogs take the keyboard focus on every open (#1367, #1395); M5: symbol instance art kept between frames (#1386); M7: characters no font had are looked for again after a font rescan (#1376); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | M4: gradient-filled shapes from a PDF or `.ai` open as paths (#1304); constant alpha soft masks export white (#1286, in part); M2: a Direct Selection click on a Live Corners widget selects its corner (#1239); estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | M2: custom ruler origin (#1212), with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y and native round-trip; remaining ruler modes and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | M11: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); estimate unchanged |

docs/type-parity.md

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 # Type parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; Middle Eastern digit types: Character panel menu › Digits, `{digits}`; the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (missing glyphs are looked for again after a font rescan, #1376; scores unchanged; Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; Middle Eastern digit types: Character panel menu › Digits, `{digits}`; the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in
 [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ against Illustrator's public documentation; **estimated** unless noted.
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | A character no installed font had is looked for again after the fonts are rescanned, so installing a font fixes it without a restart (#1376, from #992); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Full-name font matching and Missing Fonts searches (#1258): synthetic static/variable font regressions; Windows font-service QA pending; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | Middle Eastern: digit types done (Character panel menu › Digits: Default, Arabic, Hindi, Farsi; `text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {digits}`); Character Direction, kashidas, composers and the split caret still missing; scores unchanged at this rounding |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar words for the caret (Ctrl/Alt+arrows) and double-click; combining marks count as part of a word; score unchanged (estimated) |

docs/ui-parity.md

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 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid click dialogs take the skew, frame, compound path and Fill Grid options, #1377 in part, score unchanged; Live Corners: a Direct Selection click on a widget selects its corner, #1239; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard tool clicks fit the topmost editable object in one undo step (#1227); scores unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; 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; Simplify preview/counts and valid rewritten-path selection (#1272); parity remains partial; Texture-effect drag redraws optimized (#1257); idle Windows interaction still unverified; scores unchanged; Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Direct Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); Eyedropper cursor distinguished from precise crosshair (#1269); scores unchanged; Eyedropper can read visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores unchanged; Direct Selection: independent segment picks and Delete (#1278); scores unchanged; Adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores the 1 pt default (#1253); scores unchanged; macOS save sheets offer a Format menu, #866; Attributes fill-rule controls edit the compound when a member is selected, #1197; a marquee needs to touch a path, not just lie inside its fill, #1103; earlier: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (dialogs focus their first field on every open, #1367, and a first field that starts greyed out once it is enabled, #1395; scores unchanged; Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid click dialogs take the skew, frame, compound path and Fill Grid options, #1377 in part, score unchanged; Live Corners: a Direct Selection click on a widget selects its corner, #1239; custom ruler origin, #1212; Artboard tool clicks fit the topmost editable object in one undo step (#1227); scores unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; 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; Simplify preview/counts and valid rewritten-path selection (#1272); parity remains partial; Texture-effect drag redraws optimized (#1257); idle Windows interaction still unverified; scores unchanged; Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); scores unchanged; Direct Selection: no-op anchor Align preserves Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); Eyedropper cursor distinguished from precise crosshair (#1269); scores unchanged; Eyedropper can read visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); scores unchanged; Direct Selection: independent segment picks and Delete (#1278); scores unchanged; Adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores the 1 pt default (#1253); scores unchanged; macOS save sheets offer a Format menu, #866; Attributes fill-rule controls edit the compound when a member is selected, #1197; a marquee needs to touch a path, not just lie inside its fill, #1103; earlier: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 How VectorCraft's tools, handles, snapping and panels behave next to Illustrator's. A vector illustrator's
 trust is in the details: where a handle lands, what Shift and Alt do mid-drag, what a smart guide snaps to,
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row.
 | Units: pt, pc, in, mm, cm, px, ft-in, m, yd, ft; General/Stroke/Type units | done | units preference reverting to points on SVG output reported (#864) |
 | Field precision: 3 decimals for steps; values kept as f64 | done | |
 | Scrubby labels (beyond Illustrator) | done | #400 |
-| Dialogs open with the first field focused and selected; Enter confirms | done | |
+| Dialogs open with the first field focused and selected; Enter confirms | done | on every open, not only the first (#1367); a first field that starts greyed out takes the focus once enabled (#1395) |
 | Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid click dialogs: size, divider counts with a skew slider each, Use Outside Rectangle As Frame / Create Compound Path From Ellipses, Fill Grid; kept as the tool's options, used by drags too | partial | #1377. The options are the documented ones; how far a skew percentage moves the dividers and which way the radial skew turns are our own choice (the public documentation gives neither), and the reference point locator and a double-click on the tool are missing |
 
 ## Modifier keys and temporary tools
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ re-measure of the panels added since.
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Dialogs opened from a menu take the keyboard focus every time they open (#1367); a first field that starts greyed out takes it once enabled (#1395); art flush with an artboard within a rounding error moves, copies and scales with it (#1375, from #1295); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid tool options (skew, frame, compound path, Fill Grid; #1377, in part): a skew slider under each divider count, kept as tool options and used by drags; the skew curve is our own; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Live Corners: a Direct Selection click on a widget selects its corner, Shift-click toggles it (#1239); #908 and #1232 stay open; score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Custom ruler origin (#1212): corner drag previews and sets it; double-click resets to the active artboard; X/Y fields use it and native files keep it; scores unchanged (estimated) |