Between paths, the Pen now adds an anchor where a click lands on a
segment of a selected path and deletes the anchor a click lands on,
with the add and delete cursors while hovering, as in the reference
app. The ends of a selected open path still continue it. Shift held,
or General > Disable Auto Add/Delete (a stored preference nothing read
until now, passed to tools as ToolContext::auto_add_delete), starts a
new path instead.
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While drawing, a click on the last anchor appended a second anchor at
the same spot, keeping the old outgoing handle, so the path got a
zero-length curve that showed as a spike. Now a click there retracts
the anchor's outgoing handle (the next segment leaves it as a corner)
and a drag pulls a new outgoing handle out on its own, with a convert
cursor (^) over it, as in the reference app. A one-anchor path no
longer closes on itself when its anchor is clicked again.
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The Pen ignored Space during a drag, so the anchor being placed stayed
where the button went down and its handles swung round it. Space held
now moves the anchor, handles and all, as far as the pointer moves
(the handle Alt kept moves along too); releasing Space goes back to
shaping the handles round the new place, as in the reference app.
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Pressing Alt while dragging out a smooth point set its incoming handle to
the anchor itself, so the segment just shaped turned straight. The Pen
now remembers the incoming handle it last previewed and keeps it while
Alt is held, so only the outgoing handle follows the pointer: a corner
with curves on both sides, as in the reference app. Alt held from the
start of the drag still gives an outgoing handle only.
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- Five app screenshots retaken from the current build at 2240x1400 (UI at
1.6x): the hero shows the Outer Glow settings in the Appearance panel, the
Live Blends shot shows the new Layers panel rows, and a new shot shows a
two-point Perspective Grid scene (examples/perspective-city.vectorcraft,
built through the command API).
- "A look around" is a 2x2 grid; captions and alt texts follow the shots.
- The "Made in VectorCraft" art is re-rendered with vectorcraft-cli (the
radial Repeat's gradients now turn with each instance).
- Every image is losslessly optimised with oxipng (7.2 MB -> 4.4 MB,
pixel-identical).
- ASSETS.md rows for the new screenshot and example.
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Rows at every depth highlight on click (Shift range, Ctrl toggle) and make
their layer current; selection squares select a row's art and drag the
selection to another row; eye and lock on every row with drag-down-the-column
in one undo step and Ctrl-click for Outline; Alt-click triangles; drag and drop
rows above, below or into layers and groups with a drop line (Alt copies);
Delete key; the full panel menu, Layer Options and Panel Options dialogs.
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Art in a sublayer is now selected as objects (clicks, marquee, Select All, the
Select menu), sublayers select in their own colour, and hidden, locked or
template sublayers block clicks. Layer Options gain Preview (per-layer outline)
and Dim Images. New and fixed layer.* commands for the Layers panel: setCurrent
and highlight (rows at any depth), selectAll, move (reparent with cycle and
nesting checks, Alt copies), delete/duplicate rows, merge, flatten, collect,
release to layers, reverse, template, hide/outline/lock others and their
show/preview/unlock all, locate.
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The » at the top of the right dock was only painted. Its header strip is
now a click target (hover highlight, "Collapse to Icons" tooltip) that
runs the new window.collapseDock UI command: the Properties | Layers |
Libraries group hides and its three panels become icons at the top of
the icon column, under a « strip ("Expand Panels") that expands them
again. While collapsed, those icons and window.panel pop the panel out
next to the column like the other icon panels (dock-width flyout, Layers
and Properties given a height that keeps them on screen); expanding with
one popped out shows its tab.
The flyout now follows the icon column's real left edge (recorded each
frame) instead of assuming a 300-point dock, so it also tracks a resized
or collapsed dock. The collapsed state is kept with the UI preferences
and in user workspaces; the built-in workspaces expand the dock.
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On hybrid-graphics laptops (an integrated GPU driving the display plus a
discrete one), egui-wgpu's default power preference is HighPerformance, so
VectorCraft rendered on the discrete GPU and its frames were copied to the
display through the integrated one. On an Asus ZenBook with Intel Iris + Arc
the window flickered whenever the mouse moved over it (#306, #305).
The canvas is rasterized on the CPU (vello_cpu) and the GPU only composites
the canvas texture and draws the UI, so the integrated GPU is plenty. The
desktop app now asks wgpu for the power-saving adapter by default.
Single-GPU machines are unaffected.
- Preferences > Performance > Graphics Processor (`gpuPreference`:
powerSaving, the default, or highPerformance), with a note that it
applies after a restart. The app reads it from the saved preferences
before the window opens. WGPU_POWER_PREF still overrides it.
- Help > About and `ui.inspect` (`graphicsAdapter`) name the adapter in
use, and it is logged at startup, for future GPU bug reports.
- Docs (README, docs/development.md) and ROADMAP updated.
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The font database made one style per font file, so a variable font
such as Figtree[wght].ttf listed only its default instance (Light).
Faces now also yield their fvar named instances, each a style of the
family named by its subfamily name (the default instance is the face
itself; unnamed or duplicate instances are left out; axes and
instances read are capped). The system font scan reads the fvar table
beside the name table, so installed instances are listed before the
file is loaded and found by name and by PostScript name.
An instance face carries its axis settings: skrifa draws its outlines
and reads its metrics and advances at that location, harfrust shapes
with a ShaperInstance, so layout, the canvas, Create Outlines and hit
testing all use the instance. PDF export embeds it through krilla's
Font::new_variable, SVG @font-face through subsetter's
subset_with_variations: both write a static font of that instance.
Tests build a small variable font in code (test_fonts, via
write-fonts; no font file is committed) and check listing, resolving,
glyphs and advances, PDF and SVG export and damaged fvar/gvar tables;
Bahnschrift and Segoe UI Variable are checked where installed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On the in-window menu bar (Windows and Linux) each top-level menu needed
its own click: with File open, moving the pointer onto Edit or Object did
nothing. Now, as on a native menu bar, while one menu is open a moving
pointer that reaches another title opens that menu instead (ported from
PhotoCraft). A pointer resting on a title doesn't switch, and a tall menu
that covers the bar doesn't switch to the title underneath it. The native
macOS menu bar is unchanged.
Also adds a regression test for #292: the Simplify, Offset Path, Move,
Rotate, Split Into Grid and Average dialogs are 366 pt wide in a 1600 pt
window (already fixed by #239).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A live rectangle kept every transform in its `xf`, so a non-uniform scale
(a bounding-box drag, Object > Transform > Scale) stretched the rounded
corners built in untransformed space into elliptical arcs. Scale Corners
off divided the radii by the mean scale, which only compensated uniform
scales.
LiveShape::transform now folds a scale along the rectangle's own sides
(any rotation or reflection, no shear) into w/h and keeps only rotation,
reflection and position in `xf`, so the radii are document lengths and the
path is regenerated with circular corners. Radii scale by the mean scale
(sqrt|det|), which keep_corners undoes for Scale Corners off. Shears and
plain moves keep composing into `xf` as before, so files saved with a
scale in `xf` keep their exact geometry until next scaled or rotated.
A corner-widget drag starts from the radius as drawn (clamped to fit).
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Bump the workspace version 0.3.1 -> 0.4.0 (cargo xtask version set 0.4.0).
Minor release: 50 pull requests since v0.3.1 (#128-#289).
What changes for users:
- Interface languages: VectorCraft > Language picks Automatic or a
language; Traditional Chinese covers the whole interface, Czech and
Japanese every menu.
- Vertical type: kinsoku, tate-chu-yoko and upright CJK glyphs, each
character in its own cell down the column.
- Area type resizes its frame with the Selection tool's handles and is
reshaped with Direct Selection; the text reflows at its size.
- Canvas and tools: right-click context menu, guides dragged out of the
rulers, Cmd+Space / Cmd+Alt+Space zoom, Cmd drags with the selection
tool used last, double-clicking type places the caret, tool
double-clicks (Hand, Zoom, Rotate, Scale, Reflect, Shear), Free
Transform distort and shear by the keys held during a drag, the status
bar's artboard navigator, Symbols panel drag and drop, Shift+punctuation
shortcuts.
- Live Paint treats every path as an edge; Effect > Pathfinder works on
several objects.
- Files: EPS files from other apps open; PDF/.ai import finds fonts by
PostScript name, brings type on a path back as type on a path and keeps
each artboard's art on its own page; DXF Fit/Aligned text.
- MCP: prompts, resource templates, completions and logging; tool
descriptions and replies match the engine.
- Platforms: FreeBSD and Windows on ARM64 release packages; Japanese
fonts come from craft-fonts at build time.
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A regression test for non-ASCII paths. It saves to a Japanese file name, with
full-width brackets and a middle dot, inside a Japanese folder. It checks the
document's title, reopens the file with its Japanese text, and exports SVG, PNG
and PDF to Japanese names.
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A file with several artboards writes, on each page, the art of its
neighbours that reaches the page's box, shifted by its own artboard
spacing. Kept, those copies drew over the art of the page they came from
(a hologram over its card's stripes and title). With several pages, art
wholly outside a page's box now stays with the page it belongs to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Art dragged off the canvas and released over the Symbols panel's list
becomes a new symbol (symbol.new with the dragged ids), and a symbol
dragged out of the panel (PanelDrag::Symbol) is placed on the canvas
centred where it is dropped (symbol.place), showing its thumbnail at
the pointer on the way.
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The Selection tool's double-click on text only switched to the Type
tool, which then had nothing being edited, so typing went to the tool
shortcuts (X swapped the text's fill and stroke). After such a switch
the canvas passes the double-click on to the Type tool as a click, which
starts editing the type with the caret where it was clicked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
egui reports the character a key types, so Cmd+Shift+[ arrives as
Cmd+Shift+{ (], / likewise as }, ?) and Shift+` as the text ~, and these
default shortcuts never matched: Bring to Front, Send to Back, Search
Commands and the Curvature tool. Command chords now also take the
shifted character, single-key tool and command shortcuts also look up
Shift+<typed text>, and the Keyboard Shortcuts editor records such a
chord as its key (Cmd+Shift+], not Cmd+Shift+}), so conflicts show.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The path rebuilt through the glyphs ended where the last glyph ends, so
rounding in the spacing could push that glyph past the end, where type on
a path stops ("OFFICIAL ISSUED" lost its D). The path now runs an em
further.
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Held Space always panned, whatever else was held, so the temporary Zoom
tool keys did nothing. Held Space is now the Hand tool and Cmd+Space the
Zoom tool (Alt: out), whatever the active tool, for the press and the
cursor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The canvas always switched to the Selection tool for a Cmd press with a
non-selection tool. The UI state now remembers which of Selection,
Direct Selection and Group Selection was used last, and the temporary
switch uses it, so Cmd-dragging an anchor while drawing with the Pen
after using Direct Selection moves that anchor, not the whole path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Apps write type on a path one glyph at a time, each placed and turned along the
curve. The importer joined glyphs into a line only while they kept the first
glyph's direction. Type on a gentle curve was flattened into straight lines, and
type on a tighter curve fell apart into one object per glyph.
A glyph that starts about where the previous one ends, turned a little from it
(under about 20°), now continues the line. A line whose baseline turned more than
about 3° becomes type on a path: its path is a smooth curve (Catmull-Rom as cubic
Béziers) through the glyphs' baseline origins and the end of the last glyph.
Spaces between words are measured along the last glyph. Straight type, rotated or
not, imports as before.
Test: "ARCHING" written glyph by glyph along an arc imports as one
type-on-a-path object with that text and a curved path; slightly rotated straight
type stays point type.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dragging a bounding-box handle of area type with the Selection tool now
resizes the type area: the text reflows at its own size (threads too)
instead of being scaled, and History says "Resize Type Area". With other
objects selected they scale as before while the area type resizes its
frame. Direct Selection picks the frame's corners and edges and reshapes
the area ("Reshape Type Area", new command text.reshapeArea), and the
selected frame's anchors and outline show. Area Type Options gains Width
and Height. Point type, rotation, Object > Transform > Scale, the Scale
tool and the Transform panel still transform the type.
Root cause: every handle drag previewed object.transform, which folds the
matrix into the text's xf (TextObject::transform), so area type scaled its
glyphs; and Direct Selection's anchor hit test only looked at paths, so the
frame's corners could not be picked. object.transform now takes
typeAreas, which reshapes the frame in text space (xf^-1 * m * xf), and
the tools use it and text.reshapeArea.
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