The source audit linked commercial template listings and other pages it
didn't use, and described the environment it ran in. Keep the two sources
the corpus uses, say in a sentence what kinds of sources were left out and
why, and state plainly that reopening our output in Affinity is still to do.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
With more documents open than the tab strip holds, the tabs past its
right edge were cut off with no way to reach them. As in Illustrator, a
» button at the strip's right end now lists every open document (the
active one checked) and picks one, and the strip always shows the active
tab, starting later when it has to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The PDF writer defaulted to Convert Text to Outlines, so every glyph of
every page became a path: a text-heavy PDF grew several times larger on
export (a 7-page document went from 27 KB to 226 KB) and its text could
no longer be selected or searched. Illustrator's PDF presets embed font
subsets and keep live text; that is now the default too
(advanced.outlineText: false). Outlining stays available as an option,
fonts that can't be embedded still become outlines with a warning, and
printer's marks (page information) are drawn as shapes as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
During a Selection-tool drag the bounding box and its handles stayed on
screen while the art moved, so the content looked as if it slid inside
a box of its own. The box now hides once a drag moves, scales or
rotates the selection, as in Illustrator, and comes back on release. A
press that hasn't moved, and a marquee, keep it. Tools gain
`transforming()` (Session::tool_transforming) for this.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Designers coming from page layout apps expect Cmd+Shift+B to bold the
text they are editing. Type > Bold and Type > Italic switch the selected
type (or the Type tool's selection) to its family's own Bold or Italic
face, and back to the regular weight or upright face when it already is,
keeping the face's other words (a Narrow face stays Narrow). There is no
fake bold or slant: a family without the face is left as it is and the
status bar says so. While the Type tool edits text, Cmd+Shift+B and
Cmd+Shift+I apply them; elsewhere Cmd+Shift+B still hides the bounding
box. Both can be given other shortcuts in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The Tabs panel's ruler was a fixed strip in the panel, at no relation to
the text on the canvas, so stops couldn't be placed by eye. Above Text
(Position Panel Above Text) floats the panel just above the selected
text, as wide as its ruler needs to put 0 on the text's left edge and
its marks at the canvas zoom: each stop sits over the column it sets.
Floating panel groups keep a width they are given.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Such a file's PDF part is a placeholder page, which was refused. When
the file carries editing data, it now opens from that alone: its
structure as a PDF-compatible file's, its point type made from the text
document, and type it can't make (area type, type on a path) left out
with a note that marks the import as lossy. Without editing data, or
with pages picked or layers off, the placeholder is refused as before;
damaged editing data says so.
The page-order note is no longer given when the page has no type.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Zstandard frames: the trailing zero padding is trimmed once, not looked
for again before each frame, and at most 4096 frames are read (more is
damaged data). A `]` finds its `[` from a list of where they are rather
than by scanning the operand stack back. Images are read up to 32
million pixels. Tests: thousands of tiny frames, and hundreds of
thousands of unmatched brackets, read in one pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The cached entries' key includes two global counters that tests running
alongside bump (shortcut edits, plug-in installs), so the 'kept while the
language stays' check failed now and then. It now compares two lookups
only when the key didn't change between them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
It was grey dashes only, which vanish on the grey pasteboard. It is now
dark dashes over a light line, so it reads on white artboards and on the
pasteboard alike.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The layers reader of the editing copy (operators translated into
PostScript for the interpreter, any file with RGB colours, gradients,
transparency or images falling back to its page) is replaced by a reader
of the whole structure (import/ai): layers and sublayers with their
options, groups, compound paths, clipping groups and layer clipping,
names, hidden and locked objects, RGB, CMYK, grey, named and spot
colours, gradients, transparency, fill rule, overprint, embedded images
with their alpha channel, guides and every artboard, and objects drawn
as their look when they have several fills or strokes, effects or a
brush. Containers: Zstandard, zlib or plain data in EPS and .ai.
The text placement, the comparison with the page and the overwrite guard
stay around it. The page's type takes its text object's place without a
group; the comparison is by lightness, on nothing, without layers that
don't print. Symbols, pattern fills, placed files and unknown operators
make the file come in as its page where they show, and are left out of
layers that don't.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The engine refuses to write over the file a document was read from when
reading it left something out, unless acknowledgeLoss is passed. In the
app that surfaced as an error naming a parameter. File > Save, Save As,
Save a Copy, Save as Template and Export As now ask instead ("Replace
'a.eps', the file this document was opened from?", with what would be
lost), and OK repeats the command with acknowledgeLoss. Closing a
document whose save asks keeps it open, and so does Package.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Laser and cutter software skips HATCH entities, so shapes that were only
filled (type, traced art) reached it as nothing. Each filled area is now
written as its outlines (polylines and splines, in the fill's colour)
followed by the solid hatch; R12 keeps writing the outlines alone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A PDF or PDF-compatible .ai whose ToUnicode map gives some glyphs U+FFFD (as
some files do for the digits of an embedded CID font) imported those glyphs as
type showing the replacement character, so every digit came in as "�".
U+FFFD now counts as no mapping. Such a glyph takes its character from the
embedded font where it can (Adobe's CID tables for CID-keyed CFF, as before,
then the font program's own cmap), and otherwise keeps its outline from the
embedded font, so it looks as the file draws it. The import warns which font
had characters the file doesn't name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
New from Template... and Save as Template opened their dialog in
~/Documents/VectorCraft Templates. On desktops whose documents folder has
another name (Italian ~/Documenti) or where the folder was never made, the
dialog started in a folder that doesn't exist and showed an error.
- The default Templates folder is now in the user's documents folder: on Linux
and the BSDs the one XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR names in user-dirs.dirs, elsewhere
~/Documents.
- The folder a dialog starts in is made when missing; where it can't be, the
dialog starts in the nearest folder above it that exists, else home.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The rotate cursor drew an arc with a large triangle under each end, both
pointing straight down and away from the arc, so it didn't read as an arrow.
Each end now has a slim arrowhead pointing on along the arc's tangent, with
the same halo as the other cursors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The Transform fields were sized from the row's room, the rotation field was
70 pt, the corner radius 80, Opacity 64, the stroke weight 90 and Keyboard
Increment 80, so the fields didn't line up. One `panels::field_width`, the
Transform fields' width measured from the full row, now sizes all of them (and
the Edit Artboards fields, and the Transform panel's corner radius).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The brands check keeps other products' names out of user-facing text; #694's
SVG warnings called Radial Blur, Smart Blur and Unsharp Mask "Photoshop-style
raster effects". They are "pixel effects" now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- A press with a selection tool inside an artboard makes it the active one, as
the Artboard tool's does; before, only the navigator and the Artboards panel
changed it.
- Paste in Place, in Front and in Back take `artboard` (the UI passes the active
one): the objects go where they were on the artboard they were copied from,
on that artboard. Without it, they paste where they were, as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Effect › Blur › Radial Blur (spin/zoom, draft/good/best) and Smart Blur
(Normal mode), Effect › Sharpen › Unsharp Mask: Photoshop-style filters in
vectorcraft_effects::pixel, run by the renderer on the object's pixels in
stack order with Gaussian Blur and Feather, cached while panning; lengths in
points, bounded work per pixel. PDF, Expand Appearance and SVG export write
the effected objects as images. Dialogs with preview (method/quality
dropdowns, fields in documented order), menu entries, translations, tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Windows shows a window's big icon (ICON_BIG) in the taskbar and Alt+Tab.
eframe sets only the window icon (the small one, in the title bar), so the
taskbar showed a generic window instead of VectorCraft's icon. The app now sets
the big icon from the same 256 px image when the window is created.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Cmd+, is how every Mac app opens its settings. It now opens Preferences on
macOS beside its own Cmd+K, unless a command or one of the user's shortcuts
already has the chord.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The toolbar names its tool groups (Select, Shapes, Draw, Modify...). A new
preference, on by default, turns the names off for a cleaner toolbar: a faint
dash then separates the groups.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Document tabs drew their close box before the title on every platform, the
macOS convention. On Windows, Linux and the web it now comes after the title,
as those platforms' tabs (and Adobe's own apps there) put it; macOS keeps it
before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- artboard.rearrange takes layout (gridByRow, gridByColumn, row, column;
byColumn stays as an alias of gridByColumn) and order (leftToRight,
rightToLeft); Columns is the row count of a grid by column and is
ignored by row and column. It returns {artboards, rows, columns}.
- A Rearrange All Artboards dialog: Layout and Layout Order toggles drawn
in code (widgets::layout_button, previewing the order), Columns/Rows,
Spacing, Move Artwork with Artboard and the artboard count.
- One click: Rearrange All in the Properties panel (Document section with
several artboards, Edit Artboards' Quick Actions); the Artboards panel's
Rearrange button and menu item now open the dialog too.
- Tests for every layout x order (artboards, art riding along, one undo
step), the dialog, the Properties button; the command sweep covers the
new params. Translations for ja, es, it, ru, fr, zh-hans, zh-hant and
pt-br; ROADMAP updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Preferences > User Interface > Canvas Color offered Match User Interface
Brightness and White only: with a dark interface the first is a high-contrast
dark canvas around the white page, and White hides where the page ends. Light
Gray, Medium Gray and Dark Gray keep the page's edge in view at a gentler
contrast.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
VectorCraft found fonts only in the system's font folders (and, on Windows,
those font services activate). A new preference names one more folder, read
with its subfolders after the platform's: its fonts are listed in the font
menus and used as if installed, without installing them.
- vectorcraft_text::set_user_font_dirs / user_font_dirs: folders
system_font_dirs adds to every scan (none on wasm).
- prefs fontsFolder (Type > Options > Additional Fonts Folder), trimmed; when
it changes after the first scan, the fonts are scanned again at once, so the
folder's fonts appear (or go) and type in them lays out again.
- The label is translated where Additional Plug-ins Folder is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
#677 lets one image decode take up to 2 GB, so large print sheets open on the
desktop. wasm32 can address only 4 GB and aborts when an allocation fails, so
the web app keeps the decoder's default 512 MB and reports larger images as an
error instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
With the Artboard tool, the Properties panel showed the active artboard's name,
position and size but no quick way to turn it between portrait and landscape.
It now has a row with:
- Preset: New Document's saved and built-in presets, by category, matched in
either orientation (Custom when none matches); choosing one sizes the
artboard in its current orientation;
- Portrait and Landscape (the New Document toggle): the other one swaps the
artboard's width and height.
The artboard's top-left corner stays put, so no art moves with it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- Performance › Animated Zoom (with GPU Performance, which dims it when
off): the Zoom tool dragged sideways zooms about the press (right in,
left out) and held still zooms on (Alt: out); a click still steps. Off,
a drag zooms to the area dragged across, now drawn as a marquee. The
hint bar says which.
- User Interface › Large Tabs: taller document tabs with larger titles.
- User Interface › Scale Cursor Proportional to UI: off, the tool cursors
keep their size whatever the UI Scaling (OS and painted cursors alike).
- File Handling › Display Bitmaps as Anti-aliased Images in Pixel
Preview: off (the default), Pixel Preview samples images nearest-pixel
(`RenderOptions::smooth_images`).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A selection moved with the Selection or Direct Selection tool that lines
up with nothing along an axis lands as far from its neighbour as two
other objects of its row (or column) are apart, or halfway between its
two neighbours, within the snapping tolerance; the equal gaps are marked
with a line and end ticks in the Smart Guides colour. The objects are
taken as wholes on their layers (groups too), and inside a group holding
the selection, its other objects. Off, moves only line up as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
On every quit (Cmd+Q, VectorCraft > Quit, the close button) on a MacBook Pro
with a Touch Bar, AppKit threw from -[_NSTouchBarFinderObservation invalidate]
and macOS reported a crash. AccessKit's macOS adapter subclasses the window's
content view and gives it back its own class when the window is torn down;
AppKit's Touch Bar support observes the view under the subclass, so removing
that observation throws (the same cause Zed fixed in zed-industries/zed#65186).
On macOS with accessibility, the app now ends the process at the end of
on_exit, once the preferences are saved, before eframe tears the window down.
Nothing after the window is needed on a normal quit. While the window is still
starting up it doesn't, so a graphics failure still starts the app again on
another adapter (#651).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- The Home screen lists the first six of File > Open Recent Files, each by name
(a click opens it) and folder; one that can't be opened says so in the status
bar. With none, there is no section.
- In New Document, a double-click on a preset card creates the document from
it; a click still only chooses it. The Create buttons no longer overwrite a
create asked for earlier in the frame.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A pinch already zoomed the canvas and a second finger already cancelled the
first finger's press, but dragging two fingers together did nothing: the
canvas only read wheel scrolls, and a touch screen sends touches. The fingers'
movement (egui's multi-touch translation) now scrolls the canvas under either
Zoom with Mouse Wheel setting, and zoom and scroll apply in the same frame, so
a pinch that also slides pans too. Trackpads send scrolls, so nothing counts
twice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Metal reports no PCI ids, so both GPUs of a dual-GPU Mac had the adapter key
Metal:0000:0000. When the integrated GPU failed at start-up, the restart left
out both and the app quit, although the discrete GPU works. An adapter without
ids is now keyed by its name, so the restart leaves out only the one that
failed.
The failure itself was wgpu's indirect-call validation compute shader, which
OCLP-patched Metal on an Iris Pro can't compile. Nothing in VectorCraft or
egui draws indirectly, so that validation is off (WGPU_VALIDATION_INDIRECT_CALL=1
turns it back on).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
