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What and why

Fixes #6350. The .ai counterpart of #6314 / #6347 (PDF import of Separation images).

In a .ai's editing data, an image whose color space is one spot ink, set by n [c m y k /DeviceCMYK (name) /Separation] XC (or an RGB alternate) before its XI, opened as a gray RGB image. XC was on the reader's ignore list, so its samples, which are the ink's tints (255 at 100 %), were read as gray levels: the tints drew inverted (a dark ink's 100 % drew white) and the ink was lost.

It now opens as a grayscale image of the tints, black at 100 %, colorized by the ink at 100 %:

• a spot ink: its spot swatch, made as a fill of that ink makes it;
• a process plate (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black): the plate's CMYK color, with no spot swatch of its name (as PDF import: Separation images keep their ink (#6314) #6347 does for PDF);
• All: Registration.

Its alpha channel becomes its opacity mask, as the reader already does for other images. The ink's color counts toward the document's color mode, as a fill's does. A device space (/DeviceGray XC after a linked image's file name, #4179) and the ink None change nothing; linked images (XF) keep their placeholder.

How

• paint::separation_ink (crates/eps/src/import/ai/paint.rs) reads XC's array, its alternate color through mesh::ink (now pub(super)).
• Raster.ink keeps it from XC to the image; XC leaves IGNORED.
• image_from (read/art.rs): with an ink and one channel, the samples are inverted and the image is colorized with the ink, through colorized_raster (now for 1- and 8-bit samples and any paint) or large_image.
• large_image: a colorized image's alpha becomes its opacity mask (raster::reduce with inline: false) instead of going into its pixels. A grayscale image whose pixels have alpha takes only a spot color, black or white, so a reduced image colorized with a process color or Registration would otherwise break that rule. This also applies to a reduced image mask with an alpha channel, which now matches its full size.
• %AI5_EndRaster (read/directives.rs, the version 7 form with hex comment lines) keeps the ink for image_from, which reads it from the raster.

I found this in our own garment files (screen-print inks: a white underbase, a black ink, each image with an alpha channel; used locally, not attached). In one of them, the editing data's samples and alpha equal byte for byte the PDF part's Separation image and its soft mask, which is what the tint reading here is based on.

Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md (status line, the .ai section and the revision history).

How it was tested

crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs, all written from scratch:

• separation_images_are_colorized_with_their_ink: tints 0, 50 % and 100 % of "Black Ink" open as gray 255, 127, 0, colorized by the spot swatch; an RGB alternate; an alpha channel as the opacity mask; 1-bit samples; /DeviceGray XC and the ink None unchanged.
• separation_images_of_process_plates_and_registration: Black colorizes in CMYK black with no spot swatch; All in Registration.
• a_separation_image_with_hex_comment_lines_keeps_its_ink: the version 7 form.
• a_reduced_separation_image_keeps_its_ink_and_its_alpha_as_a_mask: through with_image_limits.

All four fail on main. Each also fails with the change but without its own part: the ink kept at %AI5_EndRaster, the process plates, or the alpha as a mask in large_image.

What I ran:

• Every step of cargo xtask ci with Rust 1.99.1 on Linux x86_64, run one by one: fmt, clippy, test, doctests, no-bundled-fonts, pdf-deps, assets, brands, cursors, layers, wasm and i18n-report pass. As in PDF import: image masks open colorized by the color they are painted in (#6313) #6321, I skipped one test that fails on my machine whatever the change: vectorcraft-text's tests::harakat::coloured_harakat_keep_kashida, which picks the Arial installed here; vectorcraft-text doesn't depend on vectorcraft-eps.
• The repro from .ai import: an image in a spot ink's Separation space (XC) opens as gray RGB: the ink is lost and its tints draw inverted #6350 with a vectorcraft-cli built from this branch: image.info gives "colorMode":"Grayscale", recolor.colors lists cmyk 0 0 0 100 (swatch Black Ink), the plates include Black Ink, and the export shows the three tints as clear, half and full black ink.
• Locally, on the garment file mentioned above: it still opens from its editing data, its three ink images come in as grayscale images colorized by their inks, and its render is now close to its PDF part's.

Checklist

• cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm), apart from the one machine-specific vectorcraft-text test above.
• 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). The test files are written by hand; the users' files were only read locally.
• Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md (no new assets).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • AI-file imports now colorize grayscale images using Separation inks, including named spot colors, process colors, and Registration color.
  • Alpha masks are retained for colorized images, including reduced-size images.
• Documentation
  • Updated file-format parity notes to cover Separation-ink image imports and related behavior.

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Walkthrough

The AI importer now recognizes Separation ink specified by XC. It retains ink metadata through raster processing, colorizes 1-bit and 8-bit image samples, and handles alpha as an opacity mask for colorized images.

Changes: AI Separation image import

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse and retain Separation ink crates/eps/src/import/ai/paint.rs, crates/eps/src/import/ai/mesh.rs, crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/types.rs, crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/ops.rs	The reader parses Separation operands into ink paint and optional named-color metadata. XC stores the ink on the active raster instead of being ignored.
Colorize raster images and preserve opacity crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/directives.rs, crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/art.rs, crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs, docs/file-format-parity.md	Raster processing carries the ink into image conversion. Colorized 1-bit and 8-bit samples use the ink paint, and alpha is handled as an opacity mask. Tests and parity documentation cover named inks, process plates, Registration, unchanged cases, and reduced images.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Reader
  participant Raster
  participant image_from
  Reader->>Raster: Store Separation ink from XC
  Reader->>image_from: Pass raster ink and samples at raster end
  image_from->>image_from: Colorize samples and separate opacity

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Suggested reviewers: mockydevs, dotcoocoo

Merge Risk: Low · up to 0aeb8

Reduced Separation images currently retain their opacity masks, but the new test would not catch incorrect opacity values. Strengthening that assertion is a bounded follow-up; this does not otherwise block merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the .ai import change for images in a Separation ink space.
Description check		The description includes the required “What and why,” “How it was tested,” and “Checklist” sections. It explains the change, its scope, the tests run, and the checklist results.
Linked Issues check		#6350 requires .ai images with an XC Separation ink to retain the spot ink, render its tints in the correct order, and use alpha as an opacity mask. paint::separation_ink parses the ink and name…
Out of Scope Changes check		The process-plate and Registration cases extend the same XC Separation image handling and prevent these inks from being recorded as named spot colors. Alpha-mask handling, version 7 raster coverage,…

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

#6350 requires .ai images with an XC Separation ink to retain the spot ink, render its tints in the correct order, and use alpha as an opacity mask. paint::separation_ink parses the ink and named spot; the reported image_from changes invert single-channel tint samples, colorize them, and preserve alpha as a mask, including for reduced images. The PR summary reports tests for spot and RGB alternate inks, tint order, alpha, and reduced images.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The process-plate and Registration cases extend the same XC Separation image handling and prevent these inks from being recorded as named spot colors. Alpha-mask handling, version 7 raster coverage, documentation, and tests support the linked image-import behavior. No unrelated changes are identified.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 7 functions across 6 files. (2 skipped: 1 unsupported, 1 too large.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Nitpick comments: 1

crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs: 1

2845-2858: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the reduced mask values.

The test accepts any constant mask below 255. Use varied alpha samples and check the reduced mask pixels to detect lost or incorrect opacity.

Suggested fix

-    let samples = [255u8; 16].iter().chain([0u8; 16].iter()).copied().collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    let samples = [&[255u8; 16][..], &[0; 4], &[255; 4], &[0, 0, 255, 255], &[128; 4]].concat();
@@
     assert!(a[0].extras().mask.is_some(), "the alpha channel as an opacity mask");
+    let mask = a[0].extras().mask.as_ref().unwrap();
+    let NodeKind::Image(mi) = &mask.art.kind else { panic!("{:?}", mask.art.kind) };
+    let gray = image::load_from_memory(&r.doc.images[&mi.key].bytes).unwrap().to_luma8();
+    assert_eq!(gray.into_raw(), [0, 255, 128, 128]);

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Review comment at @crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs around lines 2845 - 2858:
Update the test a_reduced_separation_image_keeps_its_ink_and_its_alpha_as_a_mask
to use varied alpha samples, then inspect the reduced mask image pixels and
assert their expected values. Preserve the existing checks for ink, mask
presence, warnings, and the color image’s lack of alpha.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs:
- Around line 2845-2858: Update the test
a_reduced_separation_image_keeps_its_ink_and_its_alpha_as_a_mask to use varied
alpha samples, then inspect the reduced mask image pixels and assert their
expected values. Preserve the existing checks for ink, mask presence, warnings,
and the color image’s lack of alpha.

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Files selected for processing: 8

• crates/eps/src/import/ai/mesh.rs
• crates/eps/src/import/ai/paint.rs
• crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/art.rs
• crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/directives.rs
• crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/ops.rs
• crates/eps/src/import/ai/read/types.rs
• crates/eps/src/import/ai/tests.rs
• docs/file-format-parity.md

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Merged, thanks @jmverges! It passed its CI checks.