VectorCraft v0.8.0

What's Changed

• Land #557 (fix #525: Image Trace of a large photo no longer crashes) by @bflatastic in #559
• Fix #525: Image Trace of a large photo no longer crashes the app by @bflatastic in #557
• Land #558 (fix #550: an SVG of chosen artboards holds only their art) by @bflatastic in #560
• Fix #550: an SVG of chosen artboards holds only their art by @bflatastic in #558
• Land #562 (fix #555: the font menu scrolls only its list) by @bflatastic in #566
• Fix #555: the font menu scrolls only its list by @bflatastic in #562
• Land #565 (fix #541: a click on a selected object makes it the key object) by @bflatastic in #567
• Fix #541: a click on a selected object makes it the key object by @bflatastic in #565
• Feat/vectorcraft placed documents by @Haven-King in #564
• Fix macOS native menu dismissal by @mo0kid in #571
• Fix #569: Shape Builder merges leave no stray edges in their outlines by @bflatastic in #572
• Land #574 (fix #526: the exports and the CLI write .ai as Save As does) by @bflatastic in #576
• Fix #526: the exports and the CLI write .ai as Save As does by @bflatastic in #574
• Land #580 (fix #522: SVG round trips keep hidden objects and data-* attributes) by @bflatastic in #582
• Fix #522: SVG round trips keep hidden objects and data-* attributes by @bflatastic in #580
• Land #581: Russian (ru) interface translation by @bflatastic in #586
• Add Russian (ru) interface translation by @MaksPV in #581
• Land #583, #584 (fix #577) with a ligature-threshold follow-up by @bflatastic in #590
• M7: keep ligatures under small tracking by @Haven-King in #583
• Fix #577: the gradient stop popover stays open after the click that opens it by @bflatastic in #584
• M7: Every-line Composer for ragged text by @Haven-King in #587
• Land #591 (fix #578: no flicker dragging the Color spectrum near white) by @bflatastic in #595
• Fix #578: a drag on the Color panel's spectrum no longer flickers near white by @bflatastic in #591
• Land #594 (fix #579: fonts from font services such as Adobe Fonts on Windows) by @bflatastic in #599
• Fix #579: fonts activated by font services such as Adobe Fonts are listed on Windows by @bflatastic in #594
• Land #600 (area type vertical alignment) and #601 (RTL shaping across runs) by @bflatastic in #604
• Fix RTL shaping across text runs by @omd0 in #601
• M7: area type vertical alignment by @Haven-King in #600
• Land #603 (part of #372: .ai layers and sublayers as PDF layers, hidden ones kept) by @bflatastic in #607
• Part of #372: .ai files write layers and sublayers as PDF layers, hidden ones kept by @bflatastic in #603
• Land #606: area type Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit by @bflatastic in #609
• M7: area type auto size and shrink text to fit by @Haven-King in #606
• Land #608 (fix #592: Linux file dialogs no longer stop the window answering) by @bflatastic in #614
• Fix #592: file dialogs on Linux no longer stop the window answering by @bflatastic in #608
• Land #612 (fix #593), #610 (Shaper groups), #611 (per-paragraph attributes) by @bflatastic in #617
• Fix Shaper recognition and add editable Shaper groups by @mo0kid in #610
• M7: per-paragraph paragraph attributes by @Haven-King in #611
• Fix #593: anchors and handle ends are easier to grab than the segments through them by @bflatastic in #612
• Land #616 (fix #597: a browser-copied image pastes as the picture) by @bflatastic in #618
• Fix #597: an image copied in a browser pastes as the picture, not its address by @bflatastic in #616
• Land #619 (fix #598: the Free Transform widget) by @bflatastic in #622
• Fix #598: the Free Transform widget by @bflatastic in #619
• Land #621 (fix #585: two-finger tap undoes, three-finger tap redoes) by @bflatastic in #624
• Fix #585: a two-finger tap undoes, a three-finger tap redoes by @bflatastic in #621
• Land #568 (fix #563), #570 (fix #530), #623 (part of #579) by @bflatastic in #626
• Fix #563: the font menu's live preview no longer flickers by @bflatastic in #568
• Fix #530: Edit Artboards adds, deletes and leaves artboards from Properties by @bflatastic in #570
• Part of #579: vectorcraft-cli lists the fonts font services load too by @bflatastic in #623
• Fix #536: the Fill/Stroke popover's Swatch Libraries button opens its menu by @DWAA1660 in #625
• Land #627 (inline symbols in text) and #628 (comment cleanup) by @bflatastic in #630
• M7: inline symbols in text by @Haven-King in #627
• Type: comments on new type's burasagari default state the default only by @imachus in #628
• Land #629 (pasted type keeps its layout bounds) by @bflatastic in #634
• Fix pasted type losing its layout bounds cache by @visuarte in #629
• Land #631 (ICF character alignment) and #632 (French interface) by @bflatastic in #635
• Type: Character Alignment on the ICF top and bottom (ideographic character face) by @imachus in #631
• Add French (fr) interface translation by @leblanc-simon in #632
• View › Pixel Preview: show the document pixels the art rasterizes to by @HEOJUNFO in #636
• Land #639 (part of #372: SVG import keeps wrapped layers, round-trips sublayers) by @bflatastic in #640
• Part of #372: SVG import keeps wrapped layers and round-trips sublayers by @bflatastic in #639
• Land #643 (fix #638: Layers panel lays out only rows in view, keeps open rows in the file) by @bflatastic in #645
• Fix #638: Layers panel lays out only the rows in view and keeps open rows in the file by @bflatastic in #643
• Swatches: swatch exchange (.ase) files open as swatch libraries by @dotCooCoo in #644
• Part of #372: SVG import names the one layer from the root element by @bflatastic in #648
• Fix #649: a panel dropped on the dock lights up where it goes by @bflatastic in #652
• Artboard tool: Delete and Backspace delete the active artboard by @mateususa in #650
• Land #653, #654, #656: Image Trace View modes, Palette and Create Strokes (part of #641) by @bflatastic in #657
• Part of #641: Image Trace: Advanced as a section that stays open, and View modes by @bflatastic in #653
• Part of #641: Image Trace: Palette (Limited, Full Tone, Automatic, Document Library) by @bflatastic in #654
• Part of #641: Image Trace: Create Strokes by @bflatastic in #656
• Fix #651: a dual-GPU Mac falls back to its other GPU by @bflatastic in #658
• Part of #449: two fingers dragged on a touch screen pan the canvas by @bflatastic in #659
• Fix/text engine integration by @Haven-King in #660
• Part of #663: Home screen Recent Files; a double-clicked preset creates the document by @bflatastic in #668
• Fix #661: quitting no longer crashes on Macs with a Touch Bar by @bflatastic in #670
• Land #664, #669: Animated Zoom, Large Tabs, Scale Cursor, anti-aliased bitmaps, Spacing Guides (part of #394) by @bflatastic in #672
• Part of #394: Animated Zoom, Large Tabs, Scale Cursor and anti-aliased bitmaps act by @bflatastic in #664
• Part of #394: Smart Guides › Spacing Guides space a moved selection evenly by @bflatastic in #669
• Fix #671: Edit Artboards' Properties picks a size preset and flips the orientation by @bflatastic in #680
• Land #674, #676, #677, #678, #679: raster resolution, Crop Image trim, CMYK TIFF alpha, masked CMYK PDF images, direct ICC CMYK to RGB by @bflatastic in #684
• Open raster images at the size their resolution declares by @fastmikey99 in #674
• Crop Image: trim an image to its pixels that aren't fully transparent by @fastmikey99 in #676
• Open CMYK TIFFs with an alpha channel, and rasters past 512 MB by @fastmikey99 in #677
• PDF import: masked CMYK images stay CMYK, their mask an opacity mask by @fastmikey99 in #678
• Colour: ICC CMYK converts straight into the RGB profile, with black-point compensation by @fastmikey99 in #679
• Fix #683: Preferences › Type › Additional Fonts Folder by @bflatastic in #685
• Part of #663: Canvas Color offers light, medium and dark grey by @bflatastic in #686
• Part of #673: a document tab's close box sits where the platform puts it by @bflatastic in #688
• Land #687: Rearrange All Artboards layouts, order and one click (fix #681) by @bflatastic in #689
• Fix #681: Rearrange All Artboards layouts, order and one-click access by @bflatastic in #687
• Part of #663: Show Tool Group Labels option; Cmd+, opens Settings on the Mac by @bflatastic in #690
• Land #667: native Affinity import with artboards, vectors, text and images by @bflatastic in #691
• AF.2–AF.3: native Affinity import with artboards, vectors, text and images by @callmeBalloch in #667
• Windows: the taskbar and Alt+Tab show VectorCraft's icon by @bflatastic in #692
• Fix #693: a click activates its artboard; in-place pastes go onto it by @bflatastic in #695
• Land #694: Radial Blur, Smart Blur and Unsharp Mask by @bflatastic in #697
• Part of ROADMAP gap 2: Radial Blur, Smart Blur and Unsharp Mask by @bflatastic in #694
• Fix #696: the Properties panel's number fields are all one width by @bflatastic in #700
• Land #698, #699: a saved multi-artboard .ai reopens as its document; FreeBSD hexagon test by @bflatastic in #702
• Fix FreeBSD CI: hexagon orientation no longer depends on atan2 rounding by @callmeBalloch in #699
• Open: a saved .ai with several artboards restores its document instead of asking for pages by @llduyll10 in #698
• Fix #701: the rotate cursor is a curved double arrow by @bflatastic in #705
• Fix #703: the Templates folder is in the desktop's documents folder by @bflatastic in #709
• Fix #708: glyphs whose ToUnicode is U+FFFD don't import as "�" by @bflatastic in #711
• EPS import: a font name re-encoded as +* names the font by @DisasterAreaDesigns in #707
• Fix #546: DXF export writes each fill's outlines before its hatch by @bflatastic in #714
• MCP: common command tools, strict arguments and session resources by @storybored379 in #713
• Read Illustrator EPS and .ai layers from their editing data by @DisasterAreaDesigns in #715
• Affinity README: say which sample set the semantics were fitted on by @callmeBalloch in #720
• Image Trace: Flat Logo mode (sub-pixel edges, restored corners, true lines and circles) by @jax-spenser in #719
• Type: Kinsoku Set — Hard (today's set), Soft and None (#633) by @imachus in #721
• Type: an opening bracket at a paragraph's start is set flush too, JIS X 4051's principle (#633) by @imachus in #723
• Fix #725: the selection marquee shows on the pasteboard too by @bflatastic in #728
• Part of #637: Illustrator editing data read whole: colours, gradients, transparency, names, images, artboards by @bflatastic in #727
• Fix #729: the Tabs panel's Above Text puts its ruler over the text by @bflatastic in #731
• Part of #637: .ai files saved without PDF compatibility open from their editing data by @bflatastic in #730
• Fix #724: Type › Bold and Italic, Cmd+Shift+B / Cmd+Shift+I while typing by @bflatastic in #736
• Fix #712: the bounding box hides while a drag moves, scales or rotates by @bflatastic in #737
• Fix #733: PDF export keeps type as text in embedded subset fonts by @bflatastic in #741
• Fix #602: Scale Artwork with Artboard by @AutoHenry in #739
• PDF import: slanted type keeps its slant by @jmverges in #742
• Fix #743: raster export leaves guides out by @jmverges in #744
• Fix #746: document tabs that don't fit are reached from a » list by @bflatastic in #749
• Add Ukrainian (uk) interface translation by @dmatviichuk in #751
• Fix #745: a working Libraries panel of graphics, colours and text styles by @bflatastic in #756
• Part of #758: .ai import draws the page once when weighing the layers by @jmverges in #759
• Packaging: Windows MSI setup wizard (folder choice, progress, version, launch on finish) by @bflatastic in #760
• Fix #740: moved art snaps to the grid by @bflatastic in #769
• Fonts: find suitcase fonts, whose font data is in the resource fork by @DisasterAreaDesigns in #762
• AF.4: harden current .af artboards, text and images with a pinned corpus by @callmeBalloch in #763
• Clippy 1.99: use as_chunks for constant-size chunks by @DisasterAreaDesigns in #771
• Clippy 1.99: as_chunks in the Affinity raster tests by @bflatastic in #790
• Fix #734: Crop Image shows a crop box on the image by @bflatastic in #791
• Fix #776: the Pen continues any open path and joins two paths by @bflatastic in #794
• Native menu test: judge idle frames while the global generations hold still by @bflatastic in #796
• Part of #793: Artboard Options lists Name, Width, Height; one-key shortcuts follow the key on any layout by @bflatastic in #800
• Validate selection IDs and clear exact compound members by @DWAA1660 in #795
• i18n: correct Ukrainian wording and spelling by @dmatviichuk in #802
• i18n: Japanese translations for error and status-bar messages by @haranishi in #803
• Part of #579: macOS fonts registered from other folders are listed too by @dotCooCoo in #781
• Package: fonts found by any of their names are copied, and skipped fonts are named by @dotCooCoo in #782
• Swatches: Save Swatch Library writes swatch exchange (.ase) files by @dotCooCoo in #770
• feat(text): load craft-fonts' Arabic families, fetch them on web by @hamada147 in #754
• Fix #808: the toolbar's scroll bar stays a slim line by @bflatastic in #815
• Fix #807: All Tools shows every tool with its icon, under headings by @bflatastic in #816
• Fix #813: type can name an installed version of its font by @jmverges in #814
• Part of #812: an ellipse's Pie Start and End Angle and Invert Pie by @bflatastic in #820
• Part of #394: Hyphenation › Exceptions reach the hyphenator by @Messhias in #810
• Hyphenation exceptions: unit tests read only their thread's list by @bflatastic in #848
• Fix #847: draw Underline and Strikethrough by @bflatastic in #850
• Swatches: swatch.library.copyToUser copies a loaded library into User Defined by @dotCooCoo in #845
• Fix clippy on main: Create Outlines passes the text, not a reference to it by @bflatastic in #853
• Fix #849: draw on the GPU that drives the primary display by @rschuerer in #851
• chore: bump github actions to fix Node 20 deprecation warnings by @dylanmtaylor in #855
• Fix #735: Illustrator EPS and .ai files match their page in Fit to Artwork Bounds and the page check by @bflatastic in #748

New Contributors

• @mo0kid made their first contribution in #571
• @MaksPV made their first contribution in #581
• @omd0 made their first contribution in #601
• @visuarte made their first contribution in #629
• @leblanc-simon made their first contribution in #632
• @HEOJUNFO made their first contribution in #636
• @dotCooCoo made their first contribution in #644
• @mateususa made their first contribution in #650
• @llduyll10 made their first contribution in #698
• @DisasterAreaDesigns made their first contribution in #707
• @jax-spenser made their first contribution in #719
• @AutoHenry made their first contribution in #739
• @jmverges made their first contribution in #742
• @dmatviichuk made their first contribution in #751
• @haranishi made their first contribution in #803
• @hamada147 made their first contribution in #754
• @Messhias made their first contribution in #810
• @dylanmtaylor made their first contribution in #855

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0