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What and why

A PDF-compatible .ai saved with Include Editing Data for Other Apps wrote an envelope whose contents hold type as its distorted art, with the envelopes warning, so the file opened with the type as drawn art. The .ai reader already opens a live envelope of type (TypedEnvelope in crates/eps/src/import/ai/envelope.rs, with the text slots handled in crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/containers.rs), so the writer now writes the type as type in the envelope's contents, in the form that reader reads. One help page describes editing an envelope's contents while the distortion stays in place (Edit, reset, and remove envelopes), and another describes the AI format as keeping text editable along with the rest of the artwork (Save artwork in AI format). Writing an envelope of type as its art when its type is threaded, has text wrap options or is written as its outlines is VectorCraft's own rule.

  • record (crates/eps/src/ai_editing/writer/envelopes.rs) no longer rejects contents that hold type. Writer::envelope still writes the envelope as its art when its type is a frame of threaded type or has text wrap options, which the reader keeps as drawn art.
  • Writer::text (crates/eps/src/ai_editing/writer.rs) writes a text stub and its story for type in an envelope's contents, with Edit Contents off or on. Opacity masks, pattern tiles, symbols' art and art cut to a clipping object still get outlines.
  • When any type in the contents is written as its outlines (mirrored type, type the text document can't hold), the envelope is written as its art, since the reader would open that type as drawn art.
  • A record taken back, for the object limit or for outlined type, now also takes its stories back out of the text document (TextDoc::written and take_back in writer/texts.rs), so no story is left without its text object.
  • With Edit Contents off, the reader reads a copy of each text object in the envelope's dictionary. The writer charges one more object for each, so an envelope that would pass the object limit is written as its art with the object limit warning.
  • The envelopes warning now names "envelopes whose type is threaded, has text wrap options or is written as its outlines" in place of "envelopes of type". No catalog has a row for it.
  • docs/target-app-parity.md narrows the envelope entry's exception and adds one line after it.

Envelopes nested in another envelope's contents, uneven top objects and envelopes on a large canvas are still written as their art.

How it was tested

New tests in crates/eps/src/ai_editing/tests.rs, each failing without the change:

  • an_envelope_of_type_is_read_back_live_with_its_type: a warp, a mesh and a top object envelope holding point type, with Edit Contents off and on, saved and saved again, open as the same live envelope with the type as type in its contents, its other contents' colors, its name and Fidelity, and no envelopes or type warning.
  • an_envelope_of_type_written_as_its_art_leaves_no_story: the default save writes the envelope live; with room for every object the reader reads, the save has no object limit warning; with one object fewer, it is written as its art and the file has no text document. Mirrored type in the contents writes the envelope as its art, with no text document and no type warning.
  • an_envelope_of_type_in_a_symbol_or_a_thread_is_written_as_its_art: an envelope of type in a symbol's art, and one whose type is a frame of a thread, are written as their art with the envelopes warning.

envelopes_the_reader_cannot_open_live_are_written_as_their_art now checks type with text wrap options and mirrored type in place of plain type.

Focused checks on the final tree, on main at 1e4e3534f5e:

  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-eps --lib ai_editing::: 264 passed, 0 failed.
  • cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-eps --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo check --workspace --tests.
  • cargo xtask brands, layers and assets.
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check reports only crates/svg/src/lib.rs:491, which this branch does not change and which main at 1e4e3534f5e reports too.
  • cargo xtask ci runs in this pull request's CI.

Checklist

  • cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm).
  • No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or
    unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or
    messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user
    (why and how).
  • Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
  • Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Eligible warp, mesh, and top-object envelopes can preserve compatible text as editable content, including after saving and reopening.
    • Text remains visible and editable in supported live envelopes, with or without Edit Contents enabled.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Envelopes with wrapped, threaded, mirrored, or symbol-contained text are handled as artwork when they cannot preserve editable text.
    • Text written as artwork, including when an envelope exceeds the object limit, is omitted from editable text content.
    • Envelope output and text content are preserved when editable text cannot be serialized.

An envelope whose contents hold type was written to the editing data as
its distorted art, so the type opened as outlines. The type is now
written as type in the envelope's contents, in the form the .ai reader
opens as a live envelope of type (TypedEnvelope in
crates/eps/src/import/ai/envelope.rs), with Edit Contents off or on.

An envelope whose type is threaded, has text wrap options or is written
as its outlines (mirrored type, type in a symbol's art) is still written
as its distorted art, with the warning. A record taken back for the
object limit or for outlined type also takes its stories out of the text
document. The writer charges one more object for each text object in the
dictionary's contents, where the reader reads a copy of it.
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The writer now preserves editable type in eligible envelopes and writes envelopes as art when type or envelope content cannot be preserved. Tests cover supported envelope types, Edit Contents settings, and fallback cases. The parity documentation describes the supported cases and exclusions.

Changes: Envelope type serialization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Envelope and type eligibility
crates/eps/src/ai_editing/writer/envelopes.rs
The writer checks that nested type has no text-wrap options and is not threaded before preserving an envelope with type.
Editable text serialization and rollback
crates/eps/src/ai_editing/writer.rs, crates/eps/src/ai_editing/writer/envelopes.rs, crates/eps/src/ai_editing/writer/texts.rs
The writer tracks envelope-content state and outlined text. It accounts for copied text objects and restores text bookkeeping when envelope serialization rolls back.
Envelope type cases and round trips
crates/eps/src/ai_editing/tests.rs, crates/eps/src/import.rs, docs/target-app-parity.md
Tests verify live warp, mesh, and top-object envelopes with type, and art fallback for object-limit, mirrored-type, symbol-art, and threaded-text cases. Test-only exports expose envelope drawing flags. The documentation lists supported cases and exclusions.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EnvelopeWriter as Writer::envelope
  participant TypeCheck as type_reads_back
  participant TextWriter as Writer::text
  participant TextDoc
  EnvelopeWriter->>TypeCheck: Check wrapped and threaded type
  TypeCheck-->>EnvelopeWriter: Return read-back eligibility
  EnvelopeWriter->>TextWriter: Serialize editable envelope contents
  TextWriter->>TextDoc: Add text story
  EnvelopeWriter->>TextDoc: Restore text bookkeeping on rollback
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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 5c1ae

This change keeps type editable inside eligible envelopes when saving .ai files. Ineligible cases are still written as art, with a warning. No concrete merge-blocking risk was found.

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