A shortcut set another app saved as slash-name text (a .kys file whose
text starts with a slash name and "{", such as "/Menus {") opens in
Import Shortcut Set from File › Open, from Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts ›
Import… in the desktop app, or from a drop on the window, whether or
not a document is open. The dialog proposes a target for an entry when
an earlier import kept one for that name, or else when one tool,
command or panel matches the name clearly by its id or by one of its
labels. It decodes the file's key and modifier codes from the codes
earlier imports kept, from the example in the AiCommandPalette README
(/Key 48 for the 0 key, with /Modifiers 0 taken as no modifiers), and
from VectorCraft's default shortcuts where at least two entries vote and
four votes in five agree. The user picks the remaining targets, presses
the key for each unknown key code or marks it No equivalent, and chooses
the modifiers for each unknown modifier code. Apply assigns the ready
rows with the Keyboard Shortcuts rules: a tool takes a single key,
optionally with Shift. It goes through the rows from the last one back
and leaves a row out when a later row it applies has the same shortcut
or the same tool, command or panel. Keyboard Shortcuts then shows the
result as unsaved changes until the user clicks OK. Copy Report copies
the set's name, the rows Apply leaves out and the parts of the file that
weren't read.
- shortcutSet.read is a query command: it reads a set and does not
modify the document or the preferences. It returns each entry with
its section, codes and line, and up to 1,000 skipped tokens, each cut
to 80 characters. It reads at most 4 MiB of text and 20,000 entries,
skips blocks nested more than 16 deep and cuts names at 1,024 bytes.
With a path it reads at most 4 MiB and 4 bytes of the file, and with
--automation-read-root (#832) the path must lie inside the read root.
A file whose text starts with "<", such as an XML shortcut file saved
as UTF-8, fails with "This shortcut file is in a form VectorCraft
can't read."
- importMatches.list, importMatches.set and importMatches.reset read
and change the matches kept with the preferences; resetting the
preferences keeps them. With Remember My Choices on (the default),
Apply keeps the targets and codes the user chose, and for the rows it
assigns, it also keeps the matched targets and the codes decoded by
agreement. A later import proposes them.
- The name matcher compares a name with ids by exact match and shared
words. It compares the name with labels, in English and in the
interface language, by exact match, shared words and character
pairs. It proposes a match only when one tool, command or panel
scores at least 0.6 and at least 0.1 more than the next one.
- When Import Shortcut Set is opened from Keyboard Shortcuts, Cancel,
Escape and ui.dialog.cancel close it and return to Keyboard Shortcuts
as it was (dialogs::PARENT). A document's queued Missing Fonts dialog
(#792) opens after Keyboard Shortcuts closes.
- File › Open has a "Shortcut sets" filter, and in the desktop app
Keyboard Shortcuts' Import… shows .json and .kys files.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/development.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/roadmap.md.
65 KiB
Roadmap: milestones and what's next
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-14 · Change: minor (later 2026-10-14 merges: per-corner radius, #1682; Width Point Edit from the Width tool, #1814, #1630; guides, #1782, #1836; anchor X/Y/W/H, #1824; toolbar and All Tools, #1751; macOS save sheets, #1855; rendering caches, #1667–#1792; untrusted files, #1852, #1862–#1873; failed-save dialog, #1685; Dim Images, #1683; estimates unchanged; M12 row: Image Trace's enhanced presets; verified PngSuite downloads, #1729; synthetic control-input budgets, #1709; 2026-10-14 merges: anchor Align and Distribute, #1636; Direct Selection and Delete fixes, #1674, #1666, #1743; Expand on repeats, #1756; file and input hardening, #1776–#1783, #1786, #1807; MCP limits and envelope, #1727, #1728; Image Trace #1647, #1657; estimates unchanged; later 2026-10-13 merges: SVG import, #1565, #1596, #1568, #1601; Warp Arc, #1578; Pathfinder strokes, #1570; saves, #1620 in part; OpenType features, #1607; intersect Smart Guides, #1602 in part; estimates unchanged; TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged; G1/M11: Artboard deletion and history selection normalization; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged; per-corner radius fields with a link toggle, split from #1594; control transport deadlines, #1726; M12 row: Image Trace's presets and options as they are now; Polish interface, #1498; compact native saves, #1492; PDF and EPS paste as vector art, #1499; import fixes, #1528, #1530, #1531, #1544, #1551, #1553; guide objects, #1534; Join after Average, #1533; Keyboard Shortcuts, #1539; estimates unchanged; Direct Selection anchor precedence, #1508; dialog slider rails, #1483; template layers in Outline view, #1486; type that does not fit its frame is reported, #1471; 3D on outlined type, #1481; print-size images, #1517; French catalog, #1511; estimates unchanged; Split Into Grid options, #1462; Transform Objects and Reflect's angle, #1448 and #1460; Pathfinder on a group, #1450; unknown parameter keys refused, #1442; grayscale TIFFs with alpha, #1466 in part; estimates unchanged; M9: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate;
.aicompound path paint, #1410, overprint on import, #1388, text-only PDF parts, #1387; Transform dialogs preview, #1412, and transforms of direct-selected anchors, #1408; strokes wider than their shape, #1396; estimates unchanged;.aiediting-data follow-ups, #1390, #1391, #1392; dialog keyboard focus, #1367 and #1395; symbol instance redraw cache, #1386; font rescan, #1376; estimates unchanged; gradient shapes import as paths, #1304; white constant alpha masks, #1286 in part; Live Corners widget click, #1239; custom ruler origin, #1212; M11: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); estimate unchanged; Pathfinder single-result source names and SVG IDs retained, #1293; DXF control-point SPLINE closure read, #1299 follow-up; desktop print transport adopts craft-print, Windows 7 fallback retained, scores unchanged; Czech render-site localization follow-up; scores and estimates unchanged; Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged; Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged; M6: Simplify preview/counts and valid topology selection (#1272); estimates unchanged; G2: Film Grain added; Photoshop effects 29/57; 28 filters remain; M14: RPM runtime metadata (#1275); estimates unchanged; M5: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); clean-machine/platform drag measurements still pending; estimates unchanged; M2: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); estimates unchanged; M7: full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimates unchanged; M1: no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimates unchanged; M14: dedicated Eyedropper cursor (#1269); estimates unchanged; M3: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimates unchanged; M2: Direct Selection segment picks and Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged; M3: adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores 1 pt (#1253); estimates unchanged; M12: graph designs, graph data, Graph Type and label options; M14: native macOS save Format menu, #866; M6: compound appearance and member fill-rule fixes, #1197; estimates unchanged; M9: PDF raster-effect cap warnings; G11: #893 fixed, #937 open; M7: accurate character controls after scaling, #1034; estimates unchanged) · Target: Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
Forward-looking plan. Where VectorCraft stands is in ROADMAP.md and
target-app-parity.md; the ranked work list is gaps.md. Hours are Opus 5.5
agent wall-clock hours, one agent. There is no cargo xtask scorecard or cargo xtask parity in this repo yet
(the clean-room rule rules out a menu dump of Illustrator as an oracle; a checklist built from Illustrator's
public menu documentation would be allowed).
Alpha gate
The core-workflow gate from craftrules' progress-docs standard: what a typical professional does with
Illustrator every day, checked end to end on the main platform (macOS) with save and reopen in the native
.vectorcraft format (lossless, property-tested round trips in crates/format/tests/prop_format.rs).
Checked 2026-10-10 from the code, tests and open issues; no workflow fails, so VectorCraft passes and stays alpha.
| Core workflow | Works end to end? | Evidence | Hours to pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Desktop PDF spooler shared through craft-print; exact physical sizes, composed copies and Windows 7 fallback retained. Scores and remaining gaps unchanged. | |
| 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. 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 | 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); 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 |
| Print production: CMYK and spot colour, bleed and marks, PDF/X out, separations preview | yes | PDF/X-1a/3/4, presets, marks and bleed, ICC output intent, Separations Preview, Print with PostScript output | 0 |
Exchange files with Illustrator users: open their .ai/EPS/PDF, hand back a file they can open |
partial (doesn't block alpha) | .ai, EPS and PDF open as editable art, but real files can get the wrong layer structure (#951) and lose guides (#779); Save As .ai is PDF-compatible, which Illustrator opens without its own editing data (#868). This is the beta main-format gap (gaps.md G9) |
10–20 (for beta) |
Current focus
- Interaction-fidelity pass (G1) by tool, from ui-parity.md: Pen and Curvature, Direct Selection, smart guides and snapping first. 60–90 h, parallel by tool.
.aifiles from real users (G9): layer structure (#951), guides (#779). 10–20 h.- Launch and stability (G10): the Windows and Linux start-up reports. 20–35 h.
- Core-tool bugs (G11): Shape Builder regions (#937), Asset Export borders (#983). 8–15 h.
- Raster effects (G2) continue alongside: Artistic (Film Grain done; 14 left), Sketch, then the Effect Gallery. 23–39 h.
Next
- Then: advanced type (G4) and the Illustrator 2026 additions (G13), then 3D (G3), each with a plan in
plan/before coding. - Alongside: close the 28 stubbed menu items; run
vectorcraft-cli perfon an idle machine and fix any budget missed (G15). - Beta: G1, G9, G10, G11, G12, the corpus part of G8, type core, macOS pen pressure and the perf budgets (~170–270 h one agent, ~50–80 h with 4–6 agents).
- 1.0: feature parity plus the fidelity pass, hardening and packaging for all three desktop OSes and the web.
Milestones
| # | Milestone | Status | Est. remaining, one agent (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| M0 | Skeleton + vertical slice | ✅ done | — |
| M1 | Selection, transform, layers, MCP (common command tools, strict keys, session resources and version-aware result hints) | ✅ mostly done (bounded control socket waits and connection-slot recovery, #1726; bounded synthetic control input, #1709; no-op anchor Align keeps Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); transform reference point snaps to anchors/centres; rotated objects keep a rotated bounding box and their angle; Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box pending) | 4–6 |
| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (Curvature point markers without direction handles (#1236, in part); Direct Selection segment click/Delete preserves neighboring edges, #1278; Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper rough-shape recognition and orientation steps, the remaining Pen modifier nuances; Shaper Groups with editable sources and separate fill/stroke edits landed; custom ruler origin with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y fields and native round-trip (#1212); construction widget/refinements pending) | 12–18 |
| M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork; gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; visible strokes when paint is added to inherited None/zero-width art (#1253); stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool (Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment in Width Point Edit), Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries. Left: freeform and mixed spot/process gradients export as stops or process colours to SVG/PDF; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default | 4–8 |
| M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | ✅ done (M4.14–M4.98 on 2026-10-05): Save As/Save a Copy/Revert/templates, Data Recovery and background save, SVG import and export fidelity (units, text, symbols, filters, SVGZ, Preserve Editing, SVG Options), PDF import (colours, layers, masks, editable text, security) and export (presets, marks, bleed, ICC and output intent, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X-1a, X-3 and X-4, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3), Place and Links, Package, EPS and DXF in and out (closed SPLINE flags round-trip, #1299), EMF/WMF, TIFF/BMP/Targa/PSD/GIF/PNG-8 export, Print and print presets, slices, Save for Web, TIFF in Export for Screens and Asset Export, clipboard flavours, File Info; AF.1–AF.4 add Affinity import (native layers, artboards, vectors, text and images from Affinity 1–3 files; the embedded preview only as a warned fallback; AF.4 expands current .af fixtures and every-board round-trip validation). Left: DWG (use DXF), PSD placement as layers, overprint read back from PDF, Affinity export, polish |
3–6 (existing scope; Affinity export unestimated) |
| M5 | Performance | 🟡 background render + caches + MT done; vectorcraft-cli bench and vectorcraft-cli perf (budget suite); file format v2 opens 3× faster (50k paths: 722 → 244 ms); raster effects (glows, shadows, blur, feather) no longer force the whole frame single-threaded (filtered offscreen per effect, verified equal to the single-threaded reference); Craquelure/Mosaic Tiles/Stained Glass distance searches optimized with pixel-invariance checks and the texture_drag_perf probe (#1257); effect-heavy demos need a clean-machine benchmark; dirty-region rendering, GPU backend spike pending |
15–25 |
| M6 | Path operations (Pathfinder, Shape Builder, offset…) | ✅ mostly done (single-result Pathfinder names and SVG IDs retained (#1293); Divide open-cutting-path geometry, appearance and history verified (#1307; existing segment cap remains); Simplify preview/counts and rewritten-path component selection verified (#1272; auto/slider/advanced UI remains open); Compound appearance and member fill-rule edits verified (#1197); Boolean precision on almost-horizontal edges fixed and the property tests made deterministic; Shape Builder gap detection, large-offset bug open) | 3–6 |
| M7 | Type (point/area/path, editing, styles, OpenType, threading, glyphs) | 🟡 Document-point character controls after object/group scaling (#1034; optional font-size preservation remains separate), Character/Paragraph Styles (explicit Auto-leading resets and local leading overrides), per-paragraph paragraph attributes, mixed paragraph alignment indication (headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass), Area Type Options (with Width/Height, Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit; overflow reported to agents and vertical Align), type areas resized by their handles and reshaped with Direct Selection, threaded text, Fit Headline, Glyphs, OpenType panel, Find Font, installed system fonts in every font menu (fonts registered with Windows outside its font folders, the XDG and Flatpak host font folders on Linux, and fonts installed while the app runs, listed when it comes back to the front; searchable; the Character and Properties menus show each family's sample of the selected text, preview it live under the pointer or ↑/↓, filter by script and kind, list a family's styles, and star favourites; the Glyphs panel and Find Font's Replace With use the same menu without the live preview) and found by name on open/import (full-name aliases and Missing Fonts searches verified, #1258; Windows font-service QA pending), variable fonts' named instances as styles, CJK names in the UI, input methods (marked text in place, candidate window at the caret; Japanese IME), Text Wrap (offset, invert, both sides of an object; follows edits), Type on a Path effects and Options with draggable start/centre/end brackets (slide, flip), tab stops + Tabs panel (Above Text floats it over the selected text, its ruler at the canvas zoom so stops line up with the columns, #729), inline symbols in text (beyond parity), Hebrew/Arabic bidirectional text, Paragraph Direction, Every-line/Single-line Composer per object (ragged text too) done; tab leaders, spell check, vertical type pending | 45–60 |
| M8 | Transform & distort (Puppet Warp, Liquify tools, Envelopes, Blends, Perspective Grid) | ✅ done (M8.1–M8.20 on 2026-10-06, fidelity pass): Liquify Tool Options with one shared brush, pen pressure, hold-to-apply, a safe scope and incremental strokes; tool options that last; Puppet Warp rotation, multi-select, Control bar and a rest-shape session that follows Undo; Width tool on compound paths; Envelope dialogs with preview, Reset with Warp/Mesh, full Envelope Options, type/images/symbols/appearance/gradients/patterns distorted on canvas and in every export, warps that keep their frame, Edit Contents, mesh handles and Control bar; Blend Options, anchor-targeted Blend tool, editable spine, keys picked on the canvas, faithful interpolation and knockout; Perspective Grid with Define Grid, presets, lock/snap/rulers, widgets, the 1–4 plane switch, movable planes, Perspective Selection scale/copy/perpendicular/Transform Again, and type and symbols truly projected with Edit Text. Left: Anti-Alias and Preserve Shape output, warp-envelope point editing, brush interpolation in blends, Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box | 2–4 |
| M9 | Live effects (+ 3D & Materials) | 🟡 2D effects done incl. Effect → Pathfinder, Color Adjustments and Document Raster Effects Settings; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Artistic › Film Grain done (29/57 Photoshop filters); initial Revolve, Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate; SVG Filters, remaining raster effects and 3D materials, lights and shadows pending | 81–130 |
| M10 | Brushes, symbols, patterns, Repeat | 🟡 pattern swatches (5 tile types, Pattern Options, editing mode, SVG <pattern>/PDF export) and live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror) done; brushes/symbols in progress |
23–37 |
| M11 | Artboards & views (selected-set deletion shared by Artboards menu, trash and Properties, retaining artboard 1 when all are selected; Artboard deletion keys keep the first of an all-selected set and protect artwork; history prunes invalid indices while preserving valid multiselection (history tests and full workspace CI pass); click-to-fit objects with the Artboard tool (#1227), artboard escape routing and document setup modal handoff done; artboard panel/tool with Move Artwork for X/Y fields and Artboard Options, Trim View, middle-button pan, print tiling and the status bar's artboard navigator with synchronized Artboard tool selection done; multiple windows, presentation polish) | 🟡 | 15–25 |
| M12 | Advanced color & art (CMYK/ICC, separations, Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace, Graphs) | 🟡 Gradient Mesh, Live Paint, Image Trace (15 presets, the 14 documented ones each with an enhanced version; Ignore Color, Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options; measured in image-trace-quality.md; the Flat Logo mode places edges to a fraction of a pixel, restores sharp corners, snaps lines and circles, and refuses gradients), Recolor Artwork, colour management (ICC, soft proofing, separations preview), Graphs (all 9 tools, Graph Data/Type, group-selected series colours persist through regenerate/save/open) done; Graph Design and Marker designs, Transpose and Switch x/y, ` |
` label line breaks, the pie options, drop shadows, the legend across the top, overlapping widths, First Row/Column in Front, filled lines, kept label formatting and the Graph Data worksheet done; graph Column designs pending |
| M13 | Automation (Actions ✅ record/playback, persisted; variables, scripting, batch) | 🟡 | 18–27 |
| M14 | 1.0 polish (preferences, shortcut editor, workspaces, accessibility, packaging for all OSes) | 🟡 Numeric-field pointer selection and focus regression-tested (#1326, in part; short movements still select all); RPM runtime capabilities and glibc floor checked (#1275; real-distro install/start-up pending), Eyedropper cursor with precise-setting checks (#1269), Preferences, shortcut editor (chords with Shift and a punctuation key fire as typed; other apps' text shortcut sets imported), workspaces, a custom title bar on Windows/Linux with a Home button, content-sized dialogs, menus that scroll when longer than the window and macOS native menu dismissal done (M14.8), and native macOS save sheets with a Format menu (#866); an experimental, unsupported Windows 7 x64 portable OpenGL build (not verified by maintainers); accessibility and broader Windows/Linux packaging/QA pending | 18–28 |
| — | Interaction fidelity pass (every tool's modifiers, Properties panel per context, isolation, nuance; width-point creation and adjoining adjustment regression-tested; dialog layout reviewed) | ⬜ (new ruler-guide Alt orientation implemented; broader pass remains) | 60–90 |
| — | Hardening at scale (big-file corpus, fuzzing, cross-platform + browser QA) | 🟡 PngSuite integrity and bounded fetching verified (#1729); real-world corpus/manual QA remain | 50–80 |
| Total to full parity (one agent; from target-app-parity.md) | ~360–590 |
Milestone estimates predate the 2026-10-10 re-measure for M1–M14; the area table in target-app-parity.md is authoritative when they disagree.
Progress log before the progress-docs standard
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), Shape Builder merges across a grid of lines leaving no seam inside the merged shape (#893)).
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Corner Radius has a link button in Properties and Transform: unlinked, a live rectangle shows a radius field for each corner (#1682); With the Width tool, double-clicking a stroke opens Width Point Edit to create a width point there, and Shift-double-click on a width point opens it with Adjust Adjoining Width Points ticked (#1814, #1630); Holding Alt while dragging a guide out of a ruler switches it between horizontal and vertical (#1782), and a marquee with the Selection or Direct Selection tool also selects the unlocked ruler guides it crosses (#1836); The Transform panel's, Properties panel's and Control bar's X/Y/W/H show and edit only the anchor points selected with Direct Selection (#1839, fixes #1824); With Snap to Grid on, anchors and objects snap to the grid even when Snap to Pixel is also ticked (#1840; #1816 waits for the reporter); Artboards are deleted the same way from the Artboards panel, its menu, Properties and Delete/Backspace (#1631); The toolbar shows no group labels by default (a preference brings them back) and runs on in one or two columns; the All Tools drawer lists the tools by flyout group with their shortcuts, has a menu (Reset, Basic, Advanced) and a Show section for the Fill/Stroke, Coloring, Draw Mode and Screen Mode controls (#1751); An action clicked in the Actions panel stays selected, so Play Current Selection and Delete Selection act on it (#1853, part of #1629); Redo during a drag keeps the drag as a step (#1856, #1719); Preferences are written as soon as OK is pressed (#1857; #1747 waits for the reporter); Preferences › Appearance of Black › Printing / Exporting and Units › Identify Objects By act (#1750, #1809); The paragraph alignment buttons show none selected for paragraphs with different alignments (#1784); redefining a character style to Auto leading updates the text that uses it and keeps local overrides (#1633); New and Redefine Character Style take the format of the selected text range, also while typing (#1634); Type inside symbols, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks gets its layout bounds back when a native file opens, so warped type in a symbol looks the same after save and reopen (#1833, #1738); Editing, renaming, deleting or merging a global swatch reaches the art of opacity masks (#1830, #1735); macOS: Save As, Save a Copy and the first Save show their sheet again; the sheet's Format menu (#866, reopened) is withdrawn until it can be set before the sheet opens (#1855); Rendering: copies, symbol instances and repeats that share an appearance keep their stroke outlines between frames (#1667); the canvas no longer reads its whole picture back for each non-isolated group that blends (#1687); envelopes, blends, repeats and meshes redraw when a pattern, symbol, font or colour setting they show changes (#1688); Outline view draws from geometry kept between frames (#1689); CMYK documents with transparency compose their ink planes on several threads (#1755); an edit re-flows a threaded story only when it changes one of the story's frames (#1792); opening a file reads its linked files and lays out its type on the opening thread (#1767); Instances of imported symbols are measured, selected, aligned, culled and exported by their art instead of a 20 pt square (#1744); Export for Screens and the Asset Export panel offer TIFF (#1632); SVG import looks style rules up by id, class and type (#1690), applies :not() selectors (#1799, #1557), no longer stalls on stacked descendant selectors over deep nesting (#1834, #1703) and reads linked files within the automation roots again (#1870); DXF export writes the VPORT view direction once (#1789); Untrusted files: nesting is capped at 32 objects in SVG, PDF, EPS and native files and symbols or patterns that use themselves open without the offending instance or paint (#1852); deeply nested PDF and .ai data, page trees holding themselves and functions or colour spaces built on themselves (#1871), decompression bombs and impossible predictor parameters (#1873, #1700, #1701), brushes that draw themselves (#1872) and hostile EPS, Affinity and native data (#1863: #1715, #1714, #1704, #1699) no longer crash or exhaust the app; the save fallback keeps the old file until the new one is in (#1695); Files whose ids sit at their largest value, a failed command.batch, control requests that timed out and images too large as RGBA for the Eyedropper are handled (#1862: #1718, #1697, #1725, #1717); Effects: wide shadows and glows at high zoom stay within the raster budget, stacked Transform effects are bounded, 3D keeps the area a nonzero compound path fills, pattern tiles redraw when the art they show changes, and a template layer dims its images by Dim Images (#1864: #1706, #1705, #1724, #1723, #1683); A failed save or export is reported in a dialog that names the file and stays until closed (#1865, #1685); a browser download that can't start fails the save (#1693); a file that finishes opening waits while a dialog is open (#1694); krilla's text shaping is no longer built in (#1874, #1730); the CI gate compiles the web app for wasm (#1875); milestone rows and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | M12 row: each documented Image Trace preset has an enhanced version (#1847) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Pinned PngSuite HTTPS files verified by SHA-256 before publication; bounded downloads replace archive extraction (#1729). Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Bounded synthetic control input (#1709): counts and queued events validated before mutation; control-channel bursts yield between frames. Scores and hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Align and Distribute act on the anchor points selected with Direct Selection: the points of one path align to each other, not to the artboard, and Distribute spaces them (#1641, fixes #1636; aligning to a key anchor is still missing); Delete removes every selected anchor of a closed path (it used to remove the wrong ones), removes objects selected whole along with the selected anchors of others, and keeps the remainder selected so a second Delete removes it (#1674); In isolation mode Direct Selection and Group Selection pick only inside the isolated object (#1666); Escape cancels a Direct Selection drag (#1803, #1743); Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656); A filled Pencil path keeps a stroke of None (#1804, part of #1679); With the Pen, a press that moves under 3 screen pixels is a click (a corner without handles), and a Precise Cursors command toggles the existing preference and can take a shortcut (#1663); The [ and ] keys reach the Blob Brush, the Eraser and the Symbolism tools in the app (#1734, part of #1661); In the Pathfinder panel a group selected alone counts its nested shapes, so an expanded stroked object keeps the Shape Modes enabled (#1642, #1635); Object › Expand turns radial, grid and mirror repeats into groups of their instances (#1765, #1756); Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737); Fields commit what was typed when you click away or move to another field, as Enter does; Escape still discards it (#1787); Up and Down move through the command search results and Enter runs the highlighted one (#1798, #1757); Slider rails show on Medium Dark (#1808, #1662); On Windows the custom title bar's window stays truly borderless, so the pointer lines up with what is drawn on systems where the hidden caption offset it (#1791, #1758; awaiting the reporter's confirmation); Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed); Roughen with Smooth keeps turn-backs smooth instead of making cusps that draw as spikes (#1646, #1643); Scribble draws one zig-zag per region, with no lines across holes and notches; convex shapes are unchanged (#1651, #1648); EPS import: a stitched shading keeps its hard colour changes (#1654, #1653); WMF/EMF import refuses an oversized embedded PNG or JPEG from its header, before any pixels are decoded (#1776); PDF open no longer takes exponential time on a crafted name tree with shared nodes when it looks for the editing data (#1781); The size limits on a native file's embedded data also apply to files read from memory, not only streamed ones (#1783); Saving over a private file on Unix no longer leaves a readable temporary copy beside it while the file is written (#1778); An Export for Screens suffix can no longer place files outside the export folder (#1777); Package refuses a folder where it would overwrite the open document or one of its linked files (#1786); ruzstd 0.9.1 fixes a decompression bomb (RUSTSEC-2026-0344) reachable from EPS/.ai and Affinity import (#1807); File Info dates are stamped only after a save succeeds, so a failed save no longer changes them (#1774); Linked files that change during a drag are updated after the drag instead of being missed (#1773); Scatter graph data near the largest number is refused with a message instead of hanging the app (#1780); One very long Liquify stroke segment can no longer create an unbounded number of dabs (#1779); A drag whose last preview failed is no longer recorded as a committed command in the journal that actions and scripts read (#1775); Tests: text import fuzzing no longer searches installed fonts (#1785); Tests: render tests that add fonts no longer race the frame cache tests (#1795); text.create, text.createInPath and the MCP add_text tool take justify, so point type can be centred on or end at its point (#1752, #1748); MCP limits: 16 MiB lines, 64-message batches, 256-step command_batch with 8 MiB of kept results and 256 MiB control replies (#1764, fixes #1727); MCP requires the JSON-RPC 2.0 envelope and matches control replies by id, and an app refusal without an id reports the app's reason (#1768, fixes #1728); The MCP server reconnects to the app before a call when the connection was closed or holds stray bytes, after an app restart or an idle expiry (#1739); Image Trace, measured in image-trace-quality.md: snap Curves To Lines moves no end of a line by more than 1.6 px, so long lines a degree or two off stay as the image has them (#1647: Technical Drawing's largest distance 4.21 px to 1.46); flat Logo takes the tones a scan's uneven paper makes of one colour for one colour (#1657: on scans 470 paths and 21 px off to 8.5 paths and 0.09 px); milestone rows and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | SVGs that move objects with a CSS transform (translate(100px, 0), rotate(45deg)) or style type with the font shorthand import as drawn (#1565); SVG symbols whose shapes use percentage lengths import at the size and place they are drawn, the percentages being of the symbol's viewBox (#1596); Inkscape's flowed text (flowRoot) opens as area type in its rectangle, a paragraph per flowPara, instead of being dropped, and a region that can't be read is left out with a warning (#1569, fixes #1568); The warning for an unsupported SVG filter names the filter, its primitives and the object, and says the object is drawn without it (#1599, fixes #1598); The pages of an Inkscape multi-page SVG become artboards, named by their labels (#1603, fixes #1601); SVG export with CSS classes or style entities stays fast in documents with many distinct styles (#1567); PDF and .ai import: evenly letter-spaced or tightened type on a path keeps its length along the path instead of closing up to the font's advances (#1586), and type on a path whose stroke is written glyph by glyph comes in as one text object with its stroke, not one object per glyph (#1585); The ICC profiles embedded in JPEG, TIFF and PSD exports have every tag on a 4-byte boundary (ICC.1 §7.1.2), so strict readers accept them (#1589, fixes #1584); GIF, PNG-8 and other indexed exports find each pixel's palette colour through an index instead of a scan, with identical output (#1576); Saving to a network drive on macOS falls back to a plain fsync when the share refuses a full flush (#1625, part of #1620; not confirmed on a real share), and a save still succeeds when a folder refuses the temporary file, the rename over the document or copying permissions: the content is written elsewhere first and copied in, and a failed copy keeps the temporary file and names it (#1649, part of #1620); A document opened by a relative path finds its relatively linked images, and vectorcraft-cli convert lists what reading the input left out as importWarnings (#1606, fixes #1604); A zero-length subpath draws its round cap as a dot and its projecting cap as a square, so dots in imported .ai and SVG files show (#1619, fixes #1613); Pathfinder's Trim, Merge and Crop remove the objects' strokes, and Merge joins same-fill objects whatever their strokes were, as the public Pathfinder page describes (#1572, fixes #1570); Offset Path with an inset larger than the shapes says the offset leaves nothing, instead of asking to select paths (#1591, fixes #1590); The Symbols panel's New Symbol opens Symbol Options to name the symbol first, and Alt-click skips it (#1566, fixes #1560); Tool flyouts are as wide as their longest translated name and shortcut need, so names no longer run into shortcuts in Spanish and other languages (#1650, fixes #1616); Smart Guides: a point drawn with the Pen or a shape tool, and an anchor dragged with Direct Selection, snaps to where paths and ruler guides cross, labelled "intersect" (#1658, part of #1602; a moved selection's own anchors don't); The Transform panel shows a selected ruler guide's X or Y, and typing a value moves it (#1659, part of #1597). This is not established by the documentation we could find: the public help pages on guides, rulers and the Transform, Control and Properties panels (read again on 2026-10-14) describe selecting and dragging unlocked guides and the panels' X and Y for a selection, not a guide's position in a panel, and the one public statement of it is a user's community answer, which is not documentation. It is kept as a convenience pending the owner's decision, with no parity claim and nothing counted towards a score; Select Behind (Ctrl/Cmd-click) tests each object once, so a deep stack of overlapping objects no longer slows it; same objects in the same order (#1571); Commands that take ids run on the objects given with nothing selected, over MCP, the control channel and the CLI too (#1577, fixes #1575); Zig Zag spaces its ridges evenly along each segment, so lines and curves get a regular wave in Corner and Smooth (#1558); Warp › Arc (the effect and Envelope › Make with Warp) bends in the object's real proportions: a circular arc with concentric edges and no fold-over at 100%, so Arc on art that isn't square draws differently from before (#1581, fixes #1578); effect.apply and effect.setParams give an error for a misspelt or wrongly typed effect parameter instead of running the effect with its default (#1623, #1592); Area type in a non-rectangular shape moves a word too wide for the top lines down to the first line that holds it instead of breaking it (#1617, fixes #1615); Stylistic sets (ss01–ss20), stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, and superscript and subscript glyphs can be turned on as OpenType features of a character style (text.setStyle {features}), and the OpenType panel keeps them (#1611, fixes #1607); The Polish translator confirmed the Polish rows the maintainers had added after the catalog was written (#1614); milestone rows and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | G1/M11: Artboard panel deletion, protected deletion keys and navigator/tool synchronization before and after deletion; history normalization preserves valid multiselection; history regressions and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | M7: mixed paragraph alignment indication implemented; headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass; other mixed paragraph fields, scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Interaction fidelity: Alt swaps a new ruler guide's orientation during creation; preview, snapping, release, cancellation and Undo/Redo have event regressions. Scores and hours unchanged (estimated). |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | G1: create width points through Width Point Edit with optional adjoining adjustment; command/pointer/history regressions and full CI passed; dialog layout reviewed; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Corner Radius: a link toggle behind the field in the Properties and Transform panels; off, a live rectangle shows a radius field for each corner (Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Right, Bottom Left), each setting its own corner (singleCornerRadius preference); split from #1594; score unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Control transport deadlines (#1726): idle and partial clients and blocked replies release connection slots; parity scores and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | M12 row: Image Trace has 15 presets and the Ignore Color, Shapes, Auto Grouping and Gradients options (#1574, #1609, #1618, #1627); its speed figure, measured before these, is dropped for the measurements in image-trace-quality.md |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | The interface is available in Polish (pl): menus, panels, dialogs and messages, with one/few/many plurals; AI-drafted, native review pending (#1498); Native documents with a lot of path data (traced or generated art, in layers, symbols or patterns) are saved as compact JSON, about a fifth of the size; small documents stay pretty-printed (#1492); Paste takes a PDF or EPS another app copied as editable vector art: from the macOS pasteboard (with SVG), EPS on Windows beside PDF, and .eps files copied in a file manager, with the new command clipboard.importEps (#1538, fixes #1499); Opening or placing a file with an image too large to decode says so, and the Links panel shows it on the row (#1540, part of #1479); a multi-artboard .ai with notes beside its artboards opens from its editing data, a page's art past its artboard no longer lying over the page before it (#1528); a .ai gradient whose stops are listed upwards keeps each midpoint on the stop that starts its part of the ramp (#1530); SVG text on a path follows basic shapes (circle, ellipse, rect, line, polyline, polygon) as their SVG 2 equivalent paths (#1531, fixes #1527); PDFs whose alpha soft masks are drawn as images import with the mask instead of empty art (#1551); EPS and PostScript type set in Type 42 (TrueType) fonts imports at its size instead of 1000 times too large (#1553); PDF and EPS import keep a clipping path whose bounding box covers the page but whose shape doesn't (#1544, fixes #1542); Make Compound Path on a group (such as outlined type) keeps the paint of its backmost path instead of drawing nothing, and compound paths joined into one keep their holes (#1537); a round corner next to a curved side curves smoothly instead of sticking out of the shape and the Smooth tool smooths only the stretch of path under the drag (#1547, fixes #1512); Join merges the selected anchor points that lie on one another, as after Average, into one anchor (#1582, fixes #1533); Lock Guides also locks the objects made into guides: they can't be selected, moved or deleted (#1543); they are drawn in the guide colour and style of Preferences, and a dragged selection snaps to ruler guides with Smart Guides on (#1583, fixes #1534); Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists Edit › Duplicate and the other commands that are in no menu but run without parameters (panel-menu commands such as Break Link to Symbol), so they can be given shortcuts (#1549, #1580, fixes #1539); Raster effects (blur, shadow, glow, grain) drawn after a pattern, radial or freeform gradient fill export at their place and size (#1541, fixes #1536); the font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Direct Selection takes the selected object's anchor where anchors of overlapping objects coincide (#1508); commands and MCP add_text report area type that does not fit its frame (#1471), a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed (#1458); M9: 3D and Materials on outlined type and other shapes of many small curves (#1481), Twist 0° to 360° (#1524), twisted walls keep their faces (#1525); print-size images draw, export and crop (#1517), vectorcraft-cli perf reports load and memory on Windows (#1502); sliders in dialogs show their rail (#1483), a template layer stays in Preview in Outline view (#1486), French catalog complete again (#1511), a Hungarian message in the informal address (#1474); graph.setData's CSV keeps each value exactly (#1485); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Width Point Edit: Shift-double-click enables adjoining adjustment; plain double-click keeps it off; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | M6: Split Into Grid has its documented options (#1462), the Pathfinder panel works on a group selected alone (#1450); M2: Transform Objects in the Transform dialogs and Transform Each, Reflect across an angle (#1448, #1460); M4: grayscale TIFFs with an alpha channel or extra channels place (#1466 in part), strokes kept apart from a faded or masked fill on PDF and .ai import (#1434), SVG knockout groups without masks (#1435); M7: Fit Headline in a frame one line tall (#1444), frames beyond a billion points hold no text (#1451); M13: commands refuse a parameter key they don't take (#1442); M5: edits and Alt-drags of thousands of objects (#1429 in part); M14: a focused field follows its value (#1457), selected text in value fields is readable (#1465 in part), a window surface past 8192 px no longer closes the app (#1459 in part); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | TIFF is available in Export for Screens and Asset Export with shared format settings; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M9: Extrude & Bevel, Inflate and Rotate (initial 3D types, three-d.md) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M4: a .ai compound path takes its last path's paint (#1410), PDF and .ai import keep overprint (#1388), a .ai whose PDF part draws only text opens from it (#1387); M2: the Transform dialogs preview and step with the arrow keys (#1412), the transform tools and commands act on direct-selected anchors (#1408), the bounding box hides during a corner drag (#1229); M5: a stroke wider than its closed shape paints solid on the canvas (#1396); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M4: .ai editing data follow-ups to #1264 (gradient stops #1390, type placement #1391, short area-type frames #1392) and PDF bleed with editing data (#1379); M14: dialogs take the keyboard focus on every open (#1367, #1395); M5: symbol instance art kept between frames (#1386); M7: characters no font had are looked for again after a font rescan (#1376); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M4: gradient-filled shapes from a PDF or .ai open as paths (#1304); constant alpha soft masks export white (#1286, in part); M2: a Direct Selection click on a Live Corners widget selects its corner (#1239); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M2: custom ruler origin (#1212), with drag preview, active-artboard reset, relative X/Y and native round-trip; remaining ruler modes and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M11: Artboard object clicks create a fitted artboard (#1227); estimate unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Pathfinder single-result booleans preserve source names and SVG IDs (#1293); paint-order, grouped/compound sources, unchanged geometry/appearance and Undo/Redo regression tests; scores and estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | DXF reads control-point SPLINE closure (#1299 follow-up after #1320); open curves stay open and curves retained; rational/non-rational import and export versions regression-tested; scores/hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech render-site follow-up: file-dialog filters, diagnostics, preset numbering, contributor tooltips/plurals, gradient grammar and contextual printer mark styles; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Document Setup: Edit Artboards closes the modal after applying valid settings; pointer-click regressions; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Artboards: Escape exits editing; an active drag cancels first; shortcut-routing regression; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: Simplify preview/counts and valid selection after topology changes (#1272); auto/slider/advanced UI remains open; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | G2: Artistic › Film Grain added with live controls and raster exports; measured Photoshop filters 29/57, 28 remaining (23–39 h). |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M14: RPM runtime dependencies use shared-library capabilities and glibc 2.35 (#1275); metadata verified, distro QA pending; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M5: squared-distance texture redraws (#1257); clean-machine/platform drag measurements still pending; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M2: Curvature point display improved (#1236, in part); existing-path interpolation unchanged; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M7: full-name font matching and Missing Fonts searches (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M1: repeated or rounding-only anchor Align preserves Undo, Redo and saved state (#1180 follow-up); estimate unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M14: Eyedropper cursor distinguished from its precise crosshair (#1269); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M3: Eyedropper reads visible locked and outside-isolation sources (#1251); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M2: independent segment selection/display and geometry-preserving Delete (#1278); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M3: adding paint to an unpainted zero-width stroke restores 1 pt (#1253); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M12: the Graph Data worksheet. Scores/hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M12: graph label formatting kept through regeneration. Scores/hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M12: Graph Type's widths past 100%, First Row/Column in Front, Draw Filled Lines. Scores/hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M12: Graph Type's Add Drop Shadow and Add Legend Across Top. Scores/hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M12: Graph Data's Transpose and Switch x/y, ` |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M12: Object › Graph › Design… and Marker… (graph designs, marker designs); column designs remain. Scores/hours unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M14: native macOS save Format menu (#866); filename regression tests, actual SVG save and PDF selection/cancel verified; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: compound paths inherit the backmost appearance; selected members read and change the compound fill rule (#1197); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: Divide accepts open cutting paths (#1307), preserving filled-face appearance and Undo; the existing segment cap remains; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M14: numeric-field focus and text-drag selection regression-tested (#1326, in part); estimates unchanged; short movements below the click threshold remain open |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M9: PDF raster-effect resolution-cap warnings verified with real capped/uncapped exports; scores and hours unchanged |
| 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 |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created from ROADMAP.md's milestone table and "Where we're going"; added Current focus and the beta list |