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What and why

Since #7011, a geometry effect on a symbol instance's active fill or stroke reshapes the art the canvas draws. Effect › Pathfinder and hit testing still took the instance's art without those effects, so a Pathfinder result lost them and a click on the grown or moved art outside the instance's bounds selected nothing. The help page on effects describes applying an effect to one attribute of an object, such as its fill or stroke, by selecting that attribute in the Appearance panel (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/special-effects-styles/apply-filter-effects/apply-and-modify-effects.html). The help page on Pathfinder effects states that the original objects stay editable after a Pathfinder effect is applied (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/manage-objects/reshape-transform-objects/combine-objects-using-pathfinder-effects.html). Neither page says how these effects meet Pathfinder or clicks; the rules below are VectorCraft's own.

• Pathfinder effects (crates/effects/src/group.rs) take an instance's art with the instance's fill and stroke effects on the art's fills and strokes, through the existing add_instance_row_effects (crates/effects/src/reshape.rs, now pub(crate)). The result painted by the instance's art carries those effects, as it does for a path with the same effects. This also holds for an instance with geometry effects of its own (the row effects are added after the art's members are drawn, in the canvas order) and for instances nested in the art.
• A click where those effects paint the art outside the instance's bounds selects the instance (crates/doc/src/hit.rs): a fill only when Selection by Path Only is off, a stroke always, and outline mode still takes the instance's bounds alone. The shapes come from the existing set_image_paint callback, which effects::image_paint now also answers for instances: the art's paths with their own geometry effects, the fills and strokes of groups and images in the art, and nested instances, within MAX_DEPTH and SYMBOL_ART_MAX_NODES. Node::reach (crates/doc/src/node/ops.rs) takes those shapes in, so the click is not culled.
• Hit testing keeps those shapes on the thread, as it keeps live objects' art, and measures them again when the instance, the symbols, patterns, swatches, color groups, fonts or plug-ins change. They are not kept while a symbol's art holds an image, or while the instance or the document's symbols or patterns hold a placed document, so each click measures them again. Both kept evaluations are now also measured again when a symbol's 9-slice guides or natural size change.
• A compound shape's area still leaves out its members' fill and stroke effects, for symbol instances as for paths, since the compound shape paints the area with its own appearance.
• docs/target-app-parity.md has one line for the change.

This changes existing behavior: Pathfinder results of such instances now draw the fill and stroke effects, and clicks on the effect-painted art outside an instance's bounds now select it.

How it was tested

New tests, each shown failing without the change:

• tests::expand::pathfinder_takes_a_symbol_instance_fill_and_stroke_effects (vectorcraft-engine): Pathfinder › Add on a group holding an instance with a fill or stroke Offset Path keeps the offset; also with the instance's own Offset Path, and for a symbol nested in another.
• tests::expand::a_click_where_a_symbol_instance_fill_or_stroke_effect_paints_selects_it: clicks on the grown fill and the moved stroke select the instance; a click past the art, a fill with Selection by Path Only, a click between the moved stroke and the fill and outline mode do not; also for a nested symbol and for a path in the art with an Offset Path of its own.
• tests::expand::a_click_on_the_grown_fill_of_an_image_in_the_art_selects_the_instance: an image whose fill has Convert to Shape, in a symbol's art.
• Click assertions added to tests::expand::a_stroke_effect_reshapes_a_stroke_a_dynamic_instance_adds (the stroke a dynamic symbol adds) and tests::expand::a_fill_effect_reshapes_the_fill_of_a_group_in_the_art.
• hit::tests::clicks_measure_a_symbol_instances_painted_shapes_once_until_it_changes (vectorcraft-doc): three clicks measure the instance once; a changed instance or changed symbols measure it again; with an image in a symbol's art, every click does.
• hit::tests::a_kept_evaluation_is_stale_after_a_symbols_placement_changes (vectorcraft-doc).

Focused checks on the final tree (head 19227e899d5, main at 1e4e3534f5e merged in), on Linux with rustc 1.100.0:

• cargo test -p vectorcraft-doc --lib hit::tests::: 55 passed.
• cargo test -p vectorcraft-engine --lib tests::expand::: 29 passed.
• cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-doc -p vectorcraft-effects -p vectorcraft-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo check --workspace --tests pass.
• cargo xtask brands, cargo xtask layers (30 crates) and cargo xtask assets (337 files) pass.
• cargo fmt --all -- --check reports only crates/svg/src/lib.rs, which this branch does not change; main at 1e4e3534f5e reports the same.
• cargo xtask ci runs in this pull request's CI.

The branch merges cleanly with main at 1e4e3534f5e, checked right before posting.

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

• Bug Fixes
  • Symbol instances now correctly reflect fill and stroke geometry effects in their rendered shapes, including effects applied to nested symbols.
  • Instance bounds and hit testing now account for areas painted beyond the original bounds. Selection by Path Only and Outline mode continue to follow their existing hit-testing restrictions.
  • Pathfinder effects now apply consistently to symbol-instance fills and strokes, including symbols nested within other symbol artwork.

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Walkthrough

Symbol-instance fill and stroke geometry effects now contribute painted shapes to bounds and hit testing. Symbol-art traversal applies those effects to nested instances. Shared evaluation caches support painted shapes and live art. Tests cover cache invalidation, nested art, and selection behavior.

Changes: Symbol-instance geometry effects

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Apply geometry effects during symbol-art painting crates/effects/src/group.rs, crates/effects/src/reshape.rs	Symbol-art traversal applies active fill and stroke geometry effects to instances, including nested and warped instances. Painted-shape traversal skips specified art and observes depth and node-count limits.

Painted shapes in bounds and selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Use painted shapes for bounds and hit testing crates/doc/src/hit.rs, crates/doc/src/node/ops.rs	Bounds and hit testing include geometry-effect-painted shapes on symbol instances. Shared cache helpers handle live-art and paint evaluations, and cache validity includes document unknown data.
Validate selection and cache behavior crates/doc/src/hit/tests.rs, crates/engine/src/tests/expand.rs, docs/target-app-parity.md	Tests cover cache reuse and invalidation, nested art, Pathfinder and Shaper results, and selection modes. The parity document records the behavior.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HitTesting
  participant image_paint
  participant SymbolArtTraversal
  participant hit_painted
  HitTesting->>image_paint: Request symbol-instance painted shapes
  image_paint->>SymbolArtTraversal: Evaluate symbol art and geometry effects
  SymbolArtTraversal-->>image_paint: Return painted shapes
  image_paint-->>HitTesting: Return painted shapes
  HitTesting->>hit_painted: Test painted shapes

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Suggested reviewers: bflatastic, aiongg

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b6cdc

Symbol-instance fill and stroke effects now feed bounds and hit testing, and the earlier review findings are fixed with tests. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/doc/src/node/ops.rs:
- Line 263: In reach_bounds_with, split SymbolInstance from the combined Image |
SymbolInstance arm so the dedicated instance logic is reachable. Have the
SymbolInstance arm union self.visual(symbols), image_paint contributions, and
the placed reshaped clip region; preserve the existing result when symbols are
None or reshaped is absent.

Review comments at @crates/effects/src/reshape.rs:
- Line 529: Update the evaluation condition using has_container_appearance so
nodes with Pathfinder effects are also passed to evaluate_container before their
shapes are collected; preserve the existing appearance check. Add a regression
for a symbol containing a subtractive Pathfinder operation, verifying an
instance fill offset does not make the subtracted empty area selectable.
- Around line 534-535: Update the child traversal in painted_in to skip child 0
when the current node is a Shaper group, matching the repository’s existing
traversal behavior. Continue visiting all children for non-Shaper groups and
later children for Shaper groups.

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