What's Changed
- Updates: shared check-result dialog from craft-update by @aiongg in #4814
- docs: tidy agent, contributor and asset docs by @aiongg in #4807
- Shortcuts: in the web build a key-position shortcut uses the key of the same press by @dotCooCoo in #4867
- Fix #4864: a search pick of an Asset Export command opens the panel by @dotCooCoo in #4869
- Part of #4516: Windows renders start workers only for the cores the process may use by @dotCooCoo in #4874
- Fix #4819: Convert to Smooth and Corner convert a selected blend's spine by @dotCooCoo in #4857
- Select Same: Fill Color from a Live Paint face stays in its Live Paint group by @dotCooCoo in #4859
- Fix #4837: the saved color scheme, accent and canvas color show at launch by @dotCooCoo in #4848
- Docs: the type.underline line no longer repeats the end of the sentence before it by @dotCooCoo in #4847
- Swatches: the delete prompt for several swatches uses each language's plural forms by @dotCooCoo in #4844
- Find Font: Find leaves out hidden and locked text by @dotCooCoo in #4843
- Outline Stroke, Expand: hidden and locked objects stay hidden and locked by @dotCooCoo in #4842
- DXF export: an open path of one straight segment is written as a LINE by @dotCooCoo in #4839
- DXF export: ellipses and unevenly scaled circles are written as ELLIPSE by @dotCooCoo in #4841
- DXF export: Alter Paths for Appearance outlines only strokes a CAD line can't draw by @dotCooCoo in #4840
- Blob Brush: Tool Options set the brush's Angle and Roundness by @dotCooCoo in #4838
- Brushes: opacity masks on art brush pieces bend with the art by @dotCooCoo in #4828
- Render: an object used as an opacity mask keeps its own opacity mask by @dotCooCoo in #4789
- Render: pattern tiles draw undecoded-image marks when the view does by @dotCooCoo in #4787
- Transparency: Make Opacity Mask over several layers masks their art by @dotCooCoo in #4853
- Find Font: Change and Change All leave hidden and locked text alone by @dotCooCoo in #4852
- Part of #3229: setting type in a font or style that isn't available warns by @dotCooCoo in #4866
- Appearance: Add New Fill copies the selected fill row right above it by @dotCooCoo in #4863
- Appearance: Reduce to Basic Appearance keeps the selected fill or stroke row by @dotCooCoo in #4858
- Perspective Selection: Shift constrains a move to the plane's axes and diagonals by @dotCooCoo in #4804
- Geometry: a perspective point that overflows maps to nothing instead of infinity by @dotCooCoo in #4846
- Shortcuts: Shift+Comma and Shift+Period follow key positions only with Shift alone by @dotCooCoo in #4782
- Keyboard Shortcuts: a shortcut on the Turkish Q quotation-mark key shows " and runs by @dotCooCoo in #4851
- Fix #3592: a gradient mesh from a file is budgeted at about a million quads by @Taha-Mahmoodi in #4876
- SVG export: a gradient mesh patch is cut no finer than its colour changes by @mockydevs in #4811
- Fix #2651: Grid Repeat Options has a Preview checkbox by @Taha-Mahmoodi in #4875
- Fix #995: a width-profile stroke keeps its shape when the view zooms out by @Taha-Mahmoodi in #4871
- Swatch libraries: a library titled with a Windows device name is saved under another name (#3602) by @marshiyar in #4802
- Fix #3604: automation file access refuses an NTFS alternate data stream name on Windows by @Taha-Mahmoodi in #4868
- Snapping: a line end dragged with Direct Selection snaps square to straight paths and tangent to curves (#2530) by @Taha-Mahmoodi in #4850
- Fix closing smart quote read as opening after same-glyph quote by @Silvertree2010 in #4823
- Show 0.00 instead of -0.00 in Unit::readout for tiny negatives by @Silvertree2010 in #4810
- Reject multiple leading '#' in the colour panel hex parser by @Silvertree2010 in #4805
- fix(ai-import): type from the text document takes its character style's attributes by @mockydevs in #4801
- .ai/EPS import: area type's first line goes where the file lays it out by @mockydevs in #4791
- .ai/EPS import: a transparency set in a dictionary's art stays after it by @mockydevs in #4790
- .ai/EPS import: an envelope's contents being edited aren't read as art by @mockydevs in #4793
- Engine guard: a recovered panic restores every document's undo history and the active document (#3599) by @marshiyar in #4798
- Fix #3085: DXF LAYOUT objects write only the group codes the DXF Reference defines by @mockydevs in #4796
- Keep an empty text value in dataset CSV export and import by @Silvertree2010 in #4788
- Type: lam-alef highlight follow-up: optional features, all marks, exact ligature test (#394) by @mockydevs in #4786
- SVG import: a feConvolveMatrix order that overflows usvg's multiply is refused by @SusieeTheLinuxUser in #4785
- PDF import: installed fonts named with hyphens or a composite font's CMap are found by @mockydevs in #4815
- EPS import: big operators are charged for the bytes and objects they touch (#3584) by @marshiyar in #4800
- Fix #4803: Enter or Escape in a floating panel's field stays in the field by @bflatastic in #4883
- Fix #4835: Artwork Cleanup's Duplicate Objects finds type set twice in the same place by @bflatastic in #4886
- Fix #4817: Properties' Quick Actions has Blend Options for a selected blend with any tool by @bflatastic in #4887
- i18n: Dutch names a brush "penseel" everywhere by @dotCooCoo in #4880
- Fix enhanced_preset Shapes for decorated High Fidelity Photo names by @Silvertree2010 in #4881
- Reject repeated '#' in perspective grid colour parser by @Silvertree2010 in #4884
- Respect SVG image-rendering pixelated attribute by @yssy1982 in #4888
- contributors: add names for marshiyar by @marshiyar in #4795
- Fix #4826: Artwork Cleanup's Join Point Text stacks one-line type into one object by @bflatastic in #4889
- Export for Screens: the dialog works as the reference app's by @bflatastic in #4895
- Add-ons: Arrange Tools — Arrange in Grid, Swap, Replace with Top Object, Set Size of Each, Zoom to Selection by @bflatastic in #4903
- Fix #4890, #4891: Direct Selection's Alt-marquee and center point by @bflatastic in #4904
- Docs: ROADMAP progress log for 2026-10-31 by @bflatastic in #4902
- Fix #4882: Rasterize to CMYK makes a CMYK image by @bflatastic in #4906
- Fix #4893: New Document saves a preset after More Settings by @bflatastic in #4907
- Smooth: Auto-Smooth takes a shaky line to one curve, and direct-selected anchors smooth only their section by @bflatastic in #4929
- Fix #4892: a file opened while VectorCraft runs opens in that window by @bflatastic in #4930
- Part of #3602: a node thumbnail reports the size it is drawn at by @dotCooCoo in #4915
- Appearance: paint, stroke and effect edits change the active row of the first selected object by @dotCooCoo in #4914
- Perspective: a homography product that overflows is refused instead of stored or drawn by @dotCooCoo in #4912
- Fix #3325: art nested in Affinity text is clipped to the characters by @dotCooCoo in #4910
- Blob Brush: the tip preview is a named Angle slider with arrow keys by @dotCooCoo in #4905
- fix(pathops): enable object.pathfinder.crop on single selected group by @WadahBadawi in #4896
- fix(intertwine): allow object.intertwine.arrange with explicit id without selection by @WadahBadawi in #4897
- PDF/EPS export: see-through and colorized pattern tile images are flattened by @dotCooCoo in #4783
- Images: SVG and EPS export write colorized grayscale and 1-bit images in their fill color by @dotCooCoo in #4813
- .ai import: type comes from the text document alone when every shown story reads by @dotCooCoo in #4865
- Intertwine: a right-click where three or more objects overlap arranges the nearest one by @dotCooCoo in #4862
- Eyedropper: Shift-click samples the color of a pattern or gradient mesh by @dotCooCoo in #4861
- Symbols: Delete Symbol asks first, and Alt-click deletes an unused symbol without asking by @dotCooCoo in #4860
- Contextual Task Bar: a basic shape shows its properties in place of Lock by @dotCooCoo in #4854
- Isolation mode: Lock, Unlock All, Hide and Show All work on the isolated art by @dotCooCoo in #4849
- Brushes: Delete Brush asks first, and Alt-click deletes unused brushes without asking by @dotCooCoo in #4829
- Brushes: each Pattern Brush Options tile can be set to a pattern swatch or None by @dotCooCoo in #4821
- Type: Kerning has an Optical option that spaces characters by their shapes by @dotCooCoo in #4825
- Character Styles: Style Options edits the name and Basic Character Formats by @dotCooCoo in #4809
- File formats: JPEG 2000 images open and place by @dotCooCoo in #4822
- Actions: Batch names data set files File + Number, File + Data Set Name or Data Set Name by @dotCooCoo in #4812
- i18n: package, missing-font, missing-link and CSS counts use plural catalog rows by @dotCooCoo in #4872
- Mesh tool: a click on a mesh's edge from just outside adds the lines there by @dotCooCoo in #4954
- Replace non-finite type values in DocSetup::keep_in_range by @Silvertree2010 in #4952
- Accessibility: Tab no longer stops on window, dialog, panel-grip and ruler drag regions by @dotCooCoo in #4951
- .ai import: a Zstandard frame that ends in a zero byte keeps it by @dotCooCoo in #4945
- Fix #2678: Ungroup no longer multiplies the group's opacity into its members by @dotCooCoo in #4932
- Fix #4931, #4933, #4944, #4953: save version menu, refused-save alert, Contributors header, freeform point swatch by @bflatastic in #4957
- Fix #4940, #4946: text is shaped in its language, with a Language setting per text and Indian languages (#4943) by @bflatastic in #4959
- Cursors: Caps Lock gives the drawing tools the crosshair by @dotCooCoo in #4960
- Part of #3187: a gradient mesh made from an ellipse keeps its shape by @dotCooCoo in #4958
- Add-ons: Group Overlapping Objects, Divide into Dashes, Save a Timestamped Copy, New Symbols from Layers by @bflatastic in #4974
- Fix #4942: native Indic digits in the Digits menu by @bflatastic in #4981
- Fix #4939: Global Edit finds and edits groups like the selected one by @bflatastic in #4983
- Fix #4937: artboard background colours are included in exports and print by @bflatastic in #4991
- Fix #4938: Dynamic symbols keep per-instance appearance linked to the symbol by @bflatastic in #4993
- Fix #2105: the window asks the GPU for no more than it offers by @dotCooCoo in #4989
- Objects on Path: double-clicking the tool opens its options, and Pivot and Rotate apply to the objects attached next by @dotCooCoo in #4984
- Properties: an Objects on Path group shows Objects on Path Options with Pivot and Rotate by @dotCooCoo in #4985
- Fix #2960: Recolor Artwork keeps its Preserve checkboxes between uses by @dotCooCoo in #4982
- Eyedropper: color samples match the canvas and stay within their work limit by @dotCooCoo in #4979
- Actions: Delete Selection deletes the selected action set by @dotCooCoo in #4976
- Appearance: effect.apply reports the new effect's index in the object whose row it names by @dotCooCoo in #4973
- Accessibility: Tab no longer stops on a dialog's backdrop by @dotCooCoo in #4970
- Perspective: a stored projection with large entries is judged by a scaled copy, so it reads back by @dotCooCoo in #4969
- Fix #3826: the toolbar's Gradient chip lines up with Color and None by @dotCooCoo in #4966
- PDF export: a gradient that mixes a spot color with process colors keeps the spot ink by @dotCooCoo in #4965
- Fix #4967: a drawing tablet's pen draws on a Wayland session by default by @bflatastic in #4998
- packaging(flatpak): add OCI image build and GHCR publishing helper by @dylanmtaylor in #4987
- Tests: artboard fill in EPS and print matches the red by hue on every platform by @bflatastic in #5003
- Fix #4980: Pen with Cmd/Ctrl drags the path, not hidden bounding-box handles by @bflatastic in #5004
- Fix #4978: Area Type Options › Text Flow by rows or by columns by @bflatastic in #5005
- EPS export: gradients of spot colors keep their spot inks by @dotCooCoo in #4994
- Fix #4820: the Layers panel lists a blend's spine by @mockydevs in #5000
- i18n(pt-br): translate the rows the sibling catalogs cover by @RicSchonfelder in #4996
- Tabs: Ctrl-dragging a tab stop moves all the stops together by @dotCooCoo in #4997
- Fix #4977: Blob Brush and Eraser show their tip's outline at the pointer by @bflatastic in #5009
- Place: Word 97-2003 .doc files place as area type with their formatting by @dotCooCoo in #5008
- OpenType: the panel turns Stylistic and Titling Alternates on and off, and offers Proportional Lining figures by @dotCooCoo in #5006
- i18n: link, font and export status messages use real plural forms instead of "(s)" by @dotCooCoo in #5002
- Fix #4918: Symbols panel Select All Unused by @mockydevs in #5007
- Languages: Serbian (Cyrillic, Latin) and Croatian, with their quote marks by @VladimirCeric in #4975
- Fix #4925: Randomize Opacity gives each selected object a random opacity in a range by @bflatastic in #5016
- Fix #4917: Sort Objects sorts the selection by one attribute and applies that order to another by @bflatastic in #5017
- Tests: the backtick menu test passes on macOS by @dotCooCoo in #5014
- ci(xtask): print the i18n report without recompiling the workspace by @FredApps in #5001
- Transparency: a layer on top gives its topmost object as the opacity mask by @dotCooCoo in #5010
- PDF export: a Perceptual gradient of one spot ink's tints keeps its ink by @dotCooCoo in #5018
- Type: Standard Vertical Roman Alignment stands half-width characters upright in vertical type by @dotCooCoo in #5020
- Live Paint: Live Paint Bucket Options set what a click paints and the highlight by @dotCooCoo in #5021
- Grid tools: F, V, X and C change the divider skews by 10 while a grid is dragged out by @dotCooCoo in #5019
- Fix #4908: Glyphs panel highlights the selected character by @bflatastic in #5047
- Fix #4922: Expand Dashes into Paths by @bflatastic in #5048
- Tests: .doc import fuzzing also damages the compound-file container by @dotCooCoo in #5045
- Knife: a straight cut's ends snap to the anchors and paths Smart Guides snap to by @dotCooCoo in #5044
- Eyedropper: Shift-click samples a blend's steps and an envelope's distorted art by @dotCooCoo in #4949
- .ai import: one object the reader can't read comes in as the page's art, and the layers stay by @dotCooCoo in #5050
- Fix #4920: Document Tools exports every open document by @mockydevs in #5022
- Fix #4687: the Artboards panel reorders artboards by dragging a row by @bflatastic in #5060
- .ai import: template layers and ruler guides open as they were set by @dotCooCoo in #5057
- .ai import: Objects on Path groups open live with their path, Pivot and Rotate by @dotCooCoo in #5059
- .ai import: envelopes open as live envelopes by @dotCooCoo in #5065
- Character: Font Size can measure the cap height, x-height or ICF box
by @dotCooCoo in #5026 - Type: Character panel toggles show off for a mixed selection, and text.setFormat checks on/off values by @dotCooCoo in #5063
- Type: Touch Type moves a character rotated near 90 degrees across its line by @dotCooCoo in #5061
- Symbols: Edit Symbol opens the symbol in its own editing mode, and every instance follows each edit by @dotCooCoo in #5064
- Export for Screens: a second file with a taken name is numbered instead of skipped
by @dotCooCoo in #5028 - PDF export: a Perceptual gradient that mixes spot and process inks keeps its inks by @dotCooCoo in #5056
- Export All Open Documents: one file per copy (#4920 follow-up) by @mockydevs in #5055
- Fix #4923: Find Nearest Swatch in the document or a swatch library by @bflatastic in #5067
- ci: run the desktop printing check through the shared gate by @FredApps in #5062
New Contributors
- @marshiyar made their first contribution in #4802
- @SusieeTheLinuxUser made their first contribution in #4785
- @yssy1982 made their first contribution in #4888
- @WadahBadawi made their first contribution in #4896
- @VladimirCeric made their first contribution in #4975
Full Changelog: v0.19.0...v0.20.0