From cfa36fc55f681909eef844bb3869a338af7d6a95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alejandro Londono Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:17:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] #893: Shape Builder merges leave no seams on grids of lines The planar map merged sweep endpoints within eps into one vertex id but kept each segment's own copy of the coordinates, so faces meeting at a vertex could disagree on that corner by ~1e-13. Uniting them then failed to cancel their shared edge, and a merged strip came back as several touching subpaths whose stroke drew the inner edges as leftover lines. Pin every edge's ends to its vertex's canonical position, so faces share their corners bit for bit. Regression test from the reporter's grid. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- crates/pathops/src/planar.rs | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- docs/gaps.md | 5 ++- docs/roadmap.md | 9 +++-- docs/target-app-parity.md | 9 +++-- 4 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/crates/pathops/src/planar.rs b/crates/pathops/src/planar.rs index 528d4a7f..89d9335b 100644 --- a/crates/pathops/src/planar.rs +++ b/crates/pathops/src/planar.rs @@ -149,6 +149,20 @@ struct Edge { source: usize, } +/// `segs` (a chain) moved to start at `a` and end at `b`, the handles next to each moving with it. +fn pin_ends(segs: &mut [Seg], a: Point, b: Point) { + if let Some(s) = segs.first_mut() { + let d = a - s.c.p0; + s.c.p0 = a; + s.c.p1 += d; + } + if let Some(s) = segs.last_mut() { + let d = b - s.c.p3; + s.c.p3 = b; + s.c.p2 += d; + } +} + /// Half-edge `2e` runs along edge `e`, `2e + 1` back along it. fn twin(h: usize) -> usize { h ^ 1 @@ -508,11 +522,11 @@ fn build(shapes: &[Shape]) -> Option<(Vec, Vec)> { .filter_map(|k| grid.get(&k)) .flatten() .copied() - .find(|&v| points.get(v).is_some_and(|q| q.distance(p) <= eps)); + .find_map(|v| points.get(v).filter(|q| q.distance(p) <= eps).map(|&q| (v, q))); near.unwrap_or_else(|| { points.push(p); grid.entry((cx, cy)).or_default().push(points.len() - 1); - points.len() - 1 + (points.len() - 1, p) }) }; let mut edges: Vec = Vec::new(); @@ -520,11 +534,16 @@ fn build(shapes: &[Shape]) -> Option<(Vec, Vec)> { let outlines = Outlines::new(&inputs, eps); for idx in top.segment_indices() { let half = idx.first_half(); - let segs: Vec = positions[idx].path.segments().map(to_seg).collect(); - let ends = [vertex_id(top.point(half).to_kurbo()), vertex_id(top.point(idx.second_half()).to_kurbo())]; - if segs.is_empty() || ends[0] == ends[1] { + let mut segs: Vec = positions[idx].path.segments().map(to_seg).collect(); + let ((v0, p0), (v1, p1)) = (vertex_id(top.point(half).to_kurbo()), vertex_id(top.point(idx.second_half()).to_kurbo())); + let ends = [v0, v1]; + if segs.is_empty() || v0 == v1 { continue; } + // Every edge at a vertex starts or ends exactly on it, so faces meeting there share its + // coordinates: merging them (a union) then cancels their common edge, which it can't when + // each face carries its own rounding of the corner (#893). + pin_ends(&mut segs, p0, p1); let Some(source) = mid(&segs).and_then(|m| outlines.source_at(m)) else { continue }; // Coincident pieces the sweep left apart are one edge (the front-most input's). let key = (ends[0].min(ends[1]), ends[0].max(ends[1])); @@ -913,6 +932,55 @@ mod tests { assert_eq!(edges.len(), 1); } + /// A strip merged across an axonometric grid of lines (#893, the reporter's file): faces meeting + /// at a vertex share its exact coordinates, so the merge is one outline with no edge left inside. + #[test] + fn faces_share_their_corners_exactly_so_merging_them_leaves_no_seam() { + const LINES: &[[f64; 4]] = &[ + [416.57797027866155, 268.45362144397683, 416.5779702786616, 811.5463785560231], + [243.12292300414873, 511.1134238473054, 713.4550472745127, 782.6598024033286], + [836.8770769958512, 511.1134238473054, 366.5449527254871, 782.6598024033286], + [457.718646852441, 268.45362144397683, 457.718646852441, 811.5463785560231], + [263.6932612910385, 475.4845528055331, 734.0253855614023, 747.0309313615563], + [816.3067387089613, 475.4845528055331, 345.9746144385975, 747.0309313615563], + [498.85932342622044, 268.45362144397683, 498.85932342622044, 811.5463785560231], + [284.26359957792823, 439.8556817637607, 754.5957238482922, 711.4020603197839], + [795.7364004220717, 439.8556817637607, 325.40427615170773, 711.4020603197839], + [539.9999999999998, 268.45362144397683, 539.9999999999998, 811.5463785560231], + [304.83393786481787, 404.22681072198844, 775.1660621351818, 675.7731892780117], + [775.1660621351821, 404.22681072198844, 304.833937864818, 675.7731892780117], + [581.1406765737793, 268.45362144397683, 581.1406765737793, 811.5463785560231], + [325.4042761517076, 368.59793968021614, 795.7364004220715, 640.1443182362394], + [754.5957238482922, 368.59793968021614, 284.26359957792835, 640.1443182362394], + [622.2813531475588, 268.45362144397683, 622.2813531475588, 811.5463785560231], + [345.97461443859737, 332.9690686384438, 816.3067387089613, 604.515447194467], + [734.0253855614026, 332.9690686384438, 263.6932612910385, 604.515447194467], + [663.422029721338, 268.45362144397683, 663.422029721338, 811.5463785560231], + [366.54495272548706, 297.3401975966715, 836.877076995851, 568.8865761526947], + [713.4550472745128, 297.3401975966715, 243.12292300414884, 568.8865761526947], + ]; + let s: Vec = LINES.iter().enumerate().map(|(i, &[x0, y0, x1, y1])| line((x0, y0), (x1, y1), i as u64)).collect(); + let (faces, _) = live_paint(&s); + let corners: Vec = faces.iter().flat_map(|f| f.path.subpaths.iter().flat_map(|sp| sp.anchors.iter().map(|a| a.p))).collect(); + for p in &corners { + for q in &corners { + assert!(p == q || p.distance(*q) > 1e-6, "one corner, two positions: {p:?} {q:?}"); + } + } + // Down the strip between the lines x ≈ 498.9 and x = 540: 11 triangles, one outline. + let mut strip: Vec<&Region> = vec![]; + for k in 0..=240 { + if let Some(f) = faces.iter().find(|f| f.contains(Point::new(519.43, 420.0 + f64::from(k)))) + && !strip.iter().any(|g| std::ptr::eq(*g, f)) + { + strip.push(f); + } + } + assert_eq!(strip.len(), 11); + let merged = crate::merge_regions(&strip); + assert_eq!(merged.subpaths.len(), 1, "{merged:?}"); + } + #[test] fn shape_builder_lines_cut_regions() { // A line across a rectangle: two regions, the line in three pieces keyed by its index. diff --git a/docs/gaps.md b/docs/gaps.md index 2b03706c..ea27f39e 100644 --- a/docs/gaps.md +++ b/docs/gaps.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Gaps -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** minor (scaled text controls corrected, #1034; group font-size preservation deferred) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x) +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** minor (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 @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall - **Done:** scaled text's size and horizontal-scale controls account for object/group transforms (#1034), including exact sizes across grouped labels and resetting horizontal stretch while keeping editable text. -- **Missing:** Shape Builder misses planar regions and targets whole shapes (#937, #893); Transform effect dialog's invisible checkboxes and missing options (#885); +- **Missing:** Shape Builder misses planar regions and targets whole shapes (#937); Transform effect dialog's invisible checkboxes and missing options (#885); PDF text boxes moving on open (#722); SVG units reverting to points (#864); bezier drag preview freezing (#834). - **Impact:** wrong output in everyday work. - **Estimate:** 8–15 h. @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ from G14 and the budget run of G15: **~170–270 h** one agent, ~50–80 h wall | Date | Change | Summary | |---|---|---| +| 2026-10-11 | minor | G11: #893 fixed (merged regions of crossing lines left seams); #937 still open, estimate unchanged | | 2026-10-11 | minor | #1034: corrected scaled type controls; optional group font-size preservation remains separate. Estimates unchanged at this rounding. | | 2026-10-11 | minor | G9: legacy `.ai` without the prolog opens with its layers (#1027) | | 2026-10-11 | minor | G9: `.ai` pattern fills and global colours read from the editing data (#1025) | diff --git a/docs/roadmap.md b/docs/roadmap.md index 03b9ec6a..60f0fd45 100644 --- a/docs/roadmap.md +++ b/docs/roadmap.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Roadmap: milestones and what's next -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** minor (M7: accurate character controls after object/group scaling, #1034) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x) +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** minor (G11 and Current focus: #893 fixed, #937 open; M7: accurate character controls after object/group scaling, #1034) · **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 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Checked 2026-10-10 from the code, tests and open issues; no workflow fails, so V | Core workflow | Works end to end? | Evidence | Hours to pass | |---|---|---|---| -| Draw and edit paths precisely: Pen, Curvature, Direct Selection on anchors and handles, smart guides and snapping, Pathfinder | yes | `crates/tools/src/pen.rs`, `direct.rs`, `guides.rs` and their tests; 10 exact Pathfinder booleans; [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md). Shape Builder misses regions in some files (#937, #893), Pathfinder covers the same results | 0 | +| Draw and edit paths precisely: Pen, Curvature, Direct Selection on anchors and handles, smart guides and snapping, Pathfinder | yes | `crates/tools/src/pen.rs`, `direct.rs`, `guides.rs` and their tests; 10 exact Pathfinder booleans; [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md). Shape Builder misses regions in some files (#937), Pathfinder covers the same results | 0 | | Paint and style: fills and strokes, global and spot swatches, gradients, Appearance, transparency, graphic styles | yes | M3 done (92 tasks); area scores 92–97% in [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md#feature-areas) | 0 | | Set type: point and area type, Character and Paragraph styles, threading, outlines | yes | type core 80%; styles, threading, Create Outlines and font matching tested ([type-parity.md](type-parity.md)); hyphenation and justification options missing (not blocking) | 0 | | Organise layers and artboards and export assets (Export for Screens, SVG, PNG, PDF per artboard) | yes | Layers panel rework, Artboards panel and tool, Export for Screens and Asset Export done; ghost borders in some Asset Export output (#983) | 0 | @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Checked 2026-10-10 from the code, tests and open issues; no workflow fails, so V Selection, smart guides and snapping first. 60–90 h, parallel by tool. 2. **`.ai` files from real users** (G9): layer structure (#951, #868), guides (#779). 10–20 h. 3. **Launch and stability** (G10): the Windows and Linux start-up reports. 20–35 h. -4. **Core-tool bugs** (G11): Shape Builder regions (#937, #893), Asset Export borders (#983). 8–15 h. +4. **Core-tool bugs** (G11): Shape Builder regions (#937), Asset Export borders (#983). 8–15 h. 5. **Raster effects** (G2) continue alongside: Artistic, Sketch, then the Effect Gallery. 24–40 h. ## Next @@ -73,12 +73,13 @@ Milestone estimates predate the 2026-10-10 re-measure for M1–M14; the area tab The ROADMAP's "last updated" line as of 2026-10-10, kept as the record of what landed up to then: -After placed documents (File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file, linked), M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into floating panels that move, stack and dock again (#495), the 0.5.0 startup crash on dual-GPU Linux desktops under Wayland fixed: the desktop's own GPU by default and a restart on the next GPU when one can't show the window (#502), path editing while drawing: Cmd/Ctrl with the Pen borrowing Direct Selection and drawing on afterwards, Pen+Alt reshaping segments, handles of a whole selected path dragging, and handle drags no longer re-gathering snap targets every move (#494), the Control bar's and Properties panel's Convert buttons for a path selected as a whole with Direct Selection, the Pen and the anchor tools (#504), the Pen closing a path dragged out of its first anchor every time, without flicker (#501), the Paste menu checking the system clipboard on a background thread on Linux so an X11 clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window (#510), PDF/`.ai` import keeping a type object's outline stroke on the type, wrapped lines as area type, barcode digits in place and layers in the file's stacking order (#508), the Italian interface (#514), EPS images with several data sources read in turn (#498), `restore` undoing dictionary changes in EPS import (part of #505), the macOS menu bar laid out as a Mac app's (the VectorCraft menu with Settings, Language and Appearance, the system's Hide, Services and Window items; owner's request), Object › Image Trace › Make tracing with the Default preset instead of asking for a preset's name (#543), the rulers' unit menu (#528), Live Corners on stars, polygons and pen paths (#511), the drawing tools snapping to Smart Guides as the Selection tool does, with Construction Guides (#506), the in-window menus' Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste acting on the text field they were opened from (#516), Windows rendering through DX12 before Vulkan (#545), Image Trace tracing colour layers in parallel and refusing traces too large for memory, with the canvas outlining huge selections by their bounds (#525), SVGs of chosen artboards holding only the art over each artboard (#550), the font menu scrolling only its list, under a search field and filters that stay put (#555), a click on an object of a selection making it the key object that Align aligns to and Distribute Spacing spaces from, drawn with a thicker outline (#541), Shape Builder merges taken from the planar map itself, so merged regions leave no inner edge, hairline gap or spur in their outline (#569), `.ai` written by the exports and the CLI (`--export`, `convert`) as Save As writes it (#526), SVG round trips keeping hidden objects and `data-*` attributes (#522), the gradient stop popover staying open after the click that opens it from the Gradient panel (#577), standard ligatures kept under small tracking and dropped only past about −8% / +22% of a word space or when the character asks for them (#583), the Color panel keeping its height as warnings come and go so a drag on its spectrum no longer flickers near white (#578), fonts that font services such as Adobe Fonts load on Windows, listed through DirectWrite (#579), `.ai` files writing their layers and sublayers as PDF layers, hidden ones with their art, and PDF layers nested in layers importing as sublayers (#372), file dialogs on Linux shown off the UI thread so the compositor no longer finds the window not responding, and parented to the window on Linux and Windows (#592), anchors and handle ends picked from 2 px past their drawn size before the segments through them (#593), an image copied in a browser pasting as the picture, not its address (#597), the Free Transform widget with Constrain, Free Transform, Perspective Distort and Free Distort (#598), touch gestures: a two-finger tap undoes and a three-finger tap redoes (#585), the font menus' live preview staying on the text instead of flickering on and off every frame (#563), Edit Artboards showing the active artboard in the Properties panel with New Artboard, Delete Artboard and Exit (#530), the same DirectWrite fonts in `vectorcraft-cli` and its MCP server (#579), SVG layers keeping their names when wrapped and sublayers round-tripping through SVG (#372), a Layers panel that lays out only the rows in view and keeps a document's open rows in its file (#638), a panel dropped on the dock lights up the icon column it goes back to and pops out of its icon (#649), Image Trace's View modes and an Advanced section that stays as it was left (part of #641), Image Trace's Palette: Limited, Full Tone, Automatic and Document Library (part of #641), Image Trace's Create Strokes: line art traced as stroked centre lines (part of #641), a dual-GPU Mac falling back to its other GPU when one fails to start (#651), two fingers dragged on a touch screen panning the canvas (part of #449), the Home screen's Recent Files and a double-clicked New Document preset creating the document (part of #663), quitting no longer crashing on Macs with a Touch Bar (#661), Animated Zoom, Large Tabs, Scale Cursor Proportional to UI and anti-aliased bitmaps in Pixel Preview acting (part of #394), Smart Guides › Spacing Guides (part of #394), Edit Artboards' Properties choosing an artboard's size preset and flipping it between portrait and landscape (#671), Preferences › Type › Additional Fonts Folder loading the fonts of a folder you choose (#683), Canvas Color's light, medium and dark grey (part of #663), a document tab's close box after its title on Windows and Linux, before it on macOS (part of #673), Rearrange All Artboards' layouts (a grid by row or by column, one row, one column) and right-to-left order, one click away in the Properties and Artboards panels (#681), User Interface › Show Tool Group Labels and Cmd+, opening Settings on the Mac (part of #663), the Windows taskbar and Alt+Tab showing VectorCraft's icon, a click with a selection tool making its artboard the active one, and Paste in Place, in Front and in Back pasting onto the active artboard (#693), Photoshop-style raster effects on a pixel-filter pipeline: Effect › Blur › Radial Blur and Smart Blur, Effect › Sharpen › Unsharp Mask (part of gap 2), the Properties panel's number fields all one width (#696), the rotate cursor drawn as a curved double arrow (#701), the Templates folder in the desktop's own documents folder, made when missing (#703), PDF and .ai glyphs whose ToUnicode names no character (U+FFFD) taking their character from the embedded font or keeping their outlines, with a warning (#708), Illustrator EPS and `.ai` files opening from their editing data with their colours, gradients, transparency, images, names and every artboard (part of #637), `.ai` files saved without PDF compatibility opening from their editing data (part of #637), guides left out of raster exports and Fit to Artwork Bounds, hidden art left out of Fit to Artwork Bounds, Illustrator files compared with their page object by object, and `editingData: false` opening only what the page prints (#735), art reaching past a PDF's page clipped to its crop box (#675), Package collecting what placed documents link to (#777), area type, threaded type and type on a path made whole from Illustrator files' text documents (part of #637), the missing-fonts dialog with Find Fonts and a folder search (#792), Effect › Stylize › Glowing Edges (#765), Offset Path's Joins and Zig Zag's Points as dropdowns and Relative/Absolute as radio buttons in the effect dialogs (#828), the control channel's `app.quit` reporting a pending save prompt (#830), blurred type that stays put while the view moves (#755), Windows starting on Direct3D 12 and loading no Vulkan driver unless asked (#806), the Artboard tool naming its artboard once (#824), Save for Web taking typed pixel sizes (#839), rulers ticked over their whole length in a rotated view (#826), the gradient stop popover opening beside the art (#862) and recent colours recolouring the selected stop (#835), every align button following Align To (#789), the Properties panel's Paragraph section with all seven alignments and Hyphenate (#775), isolation mode dimming and locking the art around the isolated group (#833), color books (`.acb`) opening as swatch libraries (#831), files that can't be opened reported in a dialog (#861), `run` and `command_batch` steps using earlier steps' results (#785), ruler guides pulling drawn points with Smart Guides on and Smart Guides labelling centres and anchors on hover (#812), shadows and glows keeping their blend modes in PDF (#827) and `.ai` import skipping layer checks that can't succeed (#758), the Curvature tool editing any selected path (#798), raster exports composited in floating point so translucent edges over opaque art stay opaque (#787), Calligraphic and Bristle Brush Options with pen-pressure Calligraphic brushes (part of #852), a polygon's Polygon Properties in the Properties and Transform panels, Flare Tool Options that last and more tools opening their options on a double-click (part of #812), MCP file access confined with --automation-read-root / --automation-write-root (#832), the Transform effect's dialog with the reference point, Random, sliders and an angle dial (part of #885), artboard X/Y edits in the Properties and Transform panels and Artboard Options taking their art along with Move Artwork with Artboard (#922), Effect › Pixelate's Color Halftone, Crystallize, Mezzotint and Pointillize (part of gap 2), linked files changed while the app was in the background following Update Links when its window comes back to the front (#925), the Tabs panel's Leader and Align On fields keeping what is typed until Enter (#924), the Properties panel's Gradient section with the gradient's type and a freeform gradient's Draw (Points or Lines) while the Gradient tool is active (#921), PSD and PSB files opened and placed, linked or embedded, as their merged image (#918), Direct Selection and Group Selection marquees selecting the type, images and other objects without anchors that they touch (#927), PDF and `.ai` glyphs that no mapping names found by their outline in the installed font, so their text stays one type object (#811), Effect › Video's De-Interlace and NTSC Colors (part of gap 2), the Libraries panel's search, groups and library export/import (#926), Live Corner widgets on every selected path, dragged together (#938), Scatter, Art and Pattern Brush Options with Colorization and Scatter values on pen pressure (part of gap 5), artboard names fitting their artboard's width on screen when zoomed out (#949), Effect › Texture's Craquelure, Grain, Mosaic Tiles, Patchwork, Stained Glass and Texturizer (part of gap 2), Inner Glow's Center/Edge Source as a dropdown (#962), the macOS window buttons centred on the app bar (#968), a compact 32-point app bar starting at File (File › Exit quits) with a search icon, and User Interface › System Title Bar on Windows and Linux (#969), the German interface (#934), Graph Type's value axis on the left, right or both sides with separate scales (#971), Graph Type's tick marks per axis, category tick marks and value-axis label prefixes and suffixes (#974), Effect › Distort's Diffuse Glow, Glass and Ocean Ripple (part of gap 2), Variables (data merge): text and visibility variables, data sets and the Variables panel (#761), a window whose first frame never reaches the screen starting again on the next graphics processor (#964)). +After placed documents (File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file, linked), M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into floating panels that move, stack and dock again (#495), the 0.5.0 startup crash on dual-GPU Linux desktops under Wayland fixed: the desktop's own GPU by default and a restart on the next GPU when one can't show the window (#502), path editing while drawing: Cmd/Ctrl with the Pen borrowing Direct Selection and drawing on afterwards, Pen+Alt reshaping segments, handles of a whole selected path dragging, and handle drags no longer re-gathering snap targets every move (#494), the Control bar's and Properties panel's Convert buttons for a path selected as a whole with Direct Selection, the Pen and the anchor tools (#504), the Pen closing a path dragged out of its first anchor every time, without flicker (#501), the Paste menu checking the system clipboard on a background thread on Linux so an X11 clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window (#510), PDF/`.ai` import keeping a type object's outline stroke on the type, wrapped lines as area type, barcode digits in place and layers in the file's stacking order (#508), the Italian interface (#514), EPS images with several data sources read in turn (#498), `restore` undoing dictionary changes in EPS import (part of #505), the macOS menu bar laid out as a Mac app's (the VectorCraft menu with Settings, Language and Appearance, the system's Hide, Services and Window items; owner's request), Object › Image Trace › Make tracing with the Default preset instead of asking for a preset's name (#543), the rulers' unit menu (#528), Live Corners on stars, polygons and pen paths (#511), the drawing tools snapping to Smart Guides as the Selection tool does, with Construction Guides (#506), the in-window menus' Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste acting on the text field they were opened from (#516), Windows rendering through DX12 before Vulkan (#545), Image Trace tracing colour layers in parallel and refusing traces too large for memory, with the canvas outlining huge selections by their bounds (#525), SVGs of chosen artboards holding only the art over each artboard (#550), the font menu scrolling only its list, under a search field and filters that stay put (#555), a click on an object of a selection making it the key object that Align aligns to and Distribute Spacing spaces from, drawn with a thicker outline (#541), Shape Builder merges taken from the planar map itself, so merged regions leave no inner edge, hairline gap or spur in their outline (#569), `.ai` written by the exports and the CLI (`--export`, `convert`) as Save As writes it (#526), SVG round trips keeping hidden objects and `data-*` attributes (#522), the gradient stop popover staying open after the click that opens it from the Gradient panel (#577), standard ligatures kept under small tracking and dropped only past about −8% / +22% of a word space or when the character asks for them (#583), the Color panel keeping its height as warnings come and go so a drag on its spectrum no longer flickers near white (#578), fonts that font services such as Adobe Fonts load on Windows, listed through DirectWrite (#579), `.ai` files writing their layers and sublayers as PDF layers, hidden ones with their art, and PDF layers nested in layers importing as sublayers (#372), file dialogs on Linux shown off the UI thread so the compositor no longer finds the window not responding, and parented to the window on Linux and Windows (#592), anchors and handle ends picked from 2 px past their drawn size before the segments through them (#593), an image copied in a browser pasting as the picture, not its address (#597), the Free Transform widget with Constrain, Free Transform, Perspective Distort and Free Distort (#598), touch gestures: a two-finger tap undoes and a three-finger tap redoes (#585), the font menus' live preview staying on the text instead of flickering on and off every frame (#563), Edit Artboards showing the active artboard in the Properties panel with New Artboard, Delete Artboard and Exit (#530), the same DirectWrite fonts in `vectorcraft-cli` and its MCP server (#579), SVG layers keeping their names when wrapped and sublayers round-tripping through SVG (#372), a Layers panel that lays out only the rows in view and keeps a document's open rows in its file (#638), a panel dropped on the dock lights up the icon column it goes back to and pops out of its icon (#649), Image Trace's View modes and an Advanced section that stays as it was left (part of #641), Image Trace's Palette: Limited, Full Tone, Automatic and Document Library (part of #641), Image Trace's Create Strokes: line art traced as stroked centre lines (part of #641), a dual-GPU Mac falling back to its other GPU when one fails to start (#651), two fingers dragged on a touch screen panning the canvas (part of #449), the Home screen's Recent Files and a double-clicked New Document preset creating the document (part of #663), quitting no longer crashing on Macs with a Touch Bar (#661), Animated Zoom, Large Tabs, Scale Cursor Proportional to UI and anti-aliased bitmaps in Pixel Preview acting (part of #394), Smart Guides › Spacing Guides (part of #394), Edit Artboards' Properties choosing an artboard's size preset and flipping it between portrait and landscape (#671), Preferences › Type › Additional Fonts Folder loading the fonts of a folder you choose (#683), Canvas Color's light, medium and dark grey (part of #663), a document tab's close box after its title on Windows and Linux, before it on macOS (part of #673), Rearrange All Artboards' layouts (a grid by row or by column, one row, one column) and right-to-left order, one click away in the Properties and Artboards panels (#681), User Interface › Show Tool Group Labels and Cmd+, opening Settings on the Mac (part of #663), the Windows taskbar and Alt+Tab showing VectorCraft's icon, a click with a selection tool making its artboard the active one, and Paste in Place, in Front and in Back pasting onto the active artboard (#693), Photoshop-style raster effects on a pixel-filter pipeline: Effect › Blur › Radial Blur and Smart Blur, Effect › Sharpen › Unsharp Mask (part of gap 2), the Properties panel's number fields all one width (#696), the rotate cursor drawn as a curved double arrow (#701), the Templates folder in the desktop's own documents folder, made when missing (#703), PDF and .ai glyphs whose ToUnicode names no character (U+FFFD) taking their character from the embedded font or keeping their outlines, with a warning (#708), Illustrator EPS and `.ai` files opening from their editing data with their colours, gradients, transparency, images, names and every artboard (part of #637), `.ai` files saved without PDF compatibility opening from their editing data (part of #637), guides left out of raster exports and Fit to Artwork Bounds, hidden art left out of Fit to Artwork Bounds, Illustrator files compared with their page object by object, and `editingData: false` opening only what the page prints (#735), art reaching past a PDF's page clipped to its crop box (#675), Package collecting what placed documents link to (#777), area type, threaded type and type on a path made whole from Illustrator files' text documents (part of #637), the missing-fonts dialog with Find Fonts and a folder search (#792), Effect › Stylize › Glowing Edges (#765), Offset Path's Joins and Zig Zag's Points as dropdowns and Relative/Absolute as radio buttons in the effect dialogs (#828), the control channel's `app.quit` reporting a pending save prompt (#830), blurred type that stays put while the view moves (#755), Windows starting on Direct3D 12 and loading no Vulkan driver unless asked (#806), the Artboard tool naming its artboard once (#824), Save for Web taking typed pixel sizes (#839), rulers ticked over their whole length in a rotated view (#826), the gradient stop popover opening beside the art (#862) and recent colours recolouring the selected stop (#835), every align button following Align To (#789), the Properties panel's Paragraph section with all seven alignments and Hyphenate (#775), isolation mode dimming and locking the art around the isolated group (#833), color books (`.acb`) opening as swatch libraries (#831), files that can't be opened reported in a dialog (#861), `run` and `command_batch` steps using earlier steps' results (#785), ruler guides pulling drawn points with Smart Guides on and Smart Guides labelling centres and anchors on hover (#812), shadows and glows keeping their blend modes in PDF (#827) and `.ai` import skipping layer checks that can't succeed (#758), the Curvature tool editing any selected path (#798), raster exports composited in floating point so translucent edges over opaque art stay opaque (#787), Calligraphic and Bristle Brush Options with pen-pressure Calligraphic brushes (part of #852), a polygon's Polygon Properties in the Properties and Transform panels, Flare Tool Options that last and more tools opening their options on a double-click (part of #812), MCP file access confined with --automation-read-root / --automation-write-root (#832), the Transform effect's dialog with the reference point, Random, sliders and an angle dial (part of #885), artboard X/Y edits in the Properties and Transform panels and Artboard Options taking their art along with Move Artwork with Artboard (#922), Effect › Pixelate's Color Halftone, Crystallize, Mezzotint and Pointillize (part of gap 2), linked files changed while the app was in the background following Update Links when its window comes back to the front (#925), the Tabs panel's Leader and Align On fields keeping what is typed until Enter (#924), the Properties panel's Gradient section with the gradient's type and a freeform gradient's Draw (Points or Lines) while the Gradient tool is active (#921), PSD and PSB files opened and placed, linked or embedded, as their merged image (#918), Direct Selection and Group Selection marquees selecting the type, images and other objects without anchors that they touch (#927), PDF and `.ai` glyphs that no mapping names found by their outline in the installed font, so their text stays one type object (#811), Effect › Video's De-Interlace and NTSC Colors (part of gap 2), the Libraries panel's search, groups and library export/import (#926), Live Corner widgets on every selected path, dragged together (#938), Scatter, Art and Pattern Brush Options with Colorization and Scatter values on pen pressure (part of gap 5), artboard names fitting their artboard's width on screen when zoomed out (#949), Effect › Texture's Craquelure, Grain, Mosaic Tiles, Patchwork, Stained Glass and Texturizer (part of gap 2), Inner Glow's Center/Edge Source as a dropdown (#962), the macOS window buttons centred on the app bar (#968), a compact 32-point app bar starting at File (File › Exit quits) with a search icon, and User Interface › System Title Bar on Windows and Linux (#969), the German interface (#934), Graph Type's value axis on the left, right or both sides with separate scales (#971), Graph Type's tick marks per axis, category tick marks and value-axis label prefixes and suffixes (#974), Effect › Distort's Diffuse Glow, Glass and Ocean Ripple (part of gap 2), Variables (data merge): text and visibility variables, data sets and the Variables panel (#761), a window whose first frame never reaches the screen starting again on the next graphics processor (#964), Shape Builder merges across a grid of lines leaving no seam inside the merged shape (#893)). ## Revision history | Date | Change | Summary | |---|---|---| +| 2026-10-11 | minor | #893 (Shape Builder seams on grids of lines) fixed; G11 keeps #937 and its 8–15 h | | 2026-10-10 | minor | M7: document-point character sizes, leading and baseline shift, and resettable horizontal stretching after object/group scaling (#1034). Optional group font-size preservation remains separate; scores/hours unchanged. | | 2026-10-10 | minor | M9 row from main: initial Revolve | | 2026-10-10 | minor | Added the Alpha gate table (core-workflow gate): all six workflows work end to end, `.ai` exchange partial but not blocking; stage stays alpha | diff --git a/docs/target-app-parity.md b/docs/target-app-parity.md index fb59aaf1..947a0f1e 100644 --- a/docs/target-app-parity.md +++ b/docs/target-app-parity.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Parity with Adobe Illustrator -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** minor (#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) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026) +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** minor (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) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026) The authoritative parity assessment. [`ROADMAP.md`](../ROADMAP.md) summarizes it; [`gaps.md`](gaps.md) is the work list made from it. Deep areas have their own checklists: [UI and interaction](ui-parity.md), @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ dominate; 3D, graphs and automation are specialist). They sum to 105. Feature de |---|---:|---:|---|---:|---| | Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Start Global Edit, transform nuances | 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 on curved corners; see [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) | 8–13 | estimated | -| Path operations, Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint | 5 | 80% | Shape Builder misses planar regions in real files (#937, #893), its gap detection and options; Live Paint Gap Options | 4–8 | estimated (lowered from 86%: open issues) | +| 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 | 4–8 | estimated (lowered from 86%: open issues) | | 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) | | Strokes, brushes, width profiles | 5 | 88% | Art brush Overlap, Pattern brush auto corners, brush libraries, pen pressure on macOS, tilt/bearing/rotation | 8–15 | estimated | | Appearance, transparency, graphic styles, masks | 5 | 97% | raster effect reach in preview bounds | 1–2 | estimated | @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Depth here is "does the basic use work", not the area's full score. | 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, #893) | +| 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 | 88% | ghost borders in some Asset Export output (#983) | @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur - **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 (every `de-*` locale), Spanish (neutral international Spanish, for every `es-*` locale), French (every `fr-*` locale), Italian (every `it-*` locale) Russian (every `ru-*` locale) and Ukrainian (every `uk-*` locale) cover the whole interface, Czech and Brazilian Portuguese every menu label, Brazilian Portuguese the shell's `tl!` literals too (tested); German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian also translate status-bar and error messages as they are shown (`@msg` templates, 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 with `vert` alternates, 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.setFormat` or `text.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 (OpenType `palt`) in horizontal type, and Line-end Punctuation Half Width takes nothing more off the punctuation it re-spaced (vertical type's `vpal` not yet); 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. - **Transparency:** opacity masks (clip/invert/disable/link), exported as SVG `` and PDF soft masks. - **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. *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. -- **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; 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}` and `shapeBuilder.regions` edges 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 or an image over 64 megapixels is refused with advice rather than running out of memory, 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 and `imageTrace.setView` sets 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). +- **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}` and `shapeBuilder.regions` edges 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 or an image over 64 megapixels is refused with advice rather than running out of memory, 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 and `imageTrace.setView` sets 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). - **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`, `.gpl` and `.ase` files (`.ase` both 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.copyToUser` copies 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 follows each colour's own model and 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. 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 with `grays: "black"` (also for `document.open {colorMode}`). @@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur | Date | Change | Summary | |---|---|---| +| 2026-10-10 | 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 |