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Review fixes for text editing, paste and threading (fix84-text,
fix84-thread), the Italian/Japanese/Portuguese/Ukrainian Swatches hint
and #83's update merged into the PR branch.
Conflict: ROADMAP.md: header combines #84's threading change with next's 2026-10-11 changes; progress lines and change-log rows both (#84's 2026-10-12 first); stage line #84's (alpha ~5–7 h away)
Conflict: docs/gaps.md: #84's header text plus next's kerning/fonts/print changes
Conflict: docs/roadmap.md: next's M1 row (#186 done), #84's M2 row
Conflict: crates/engine/src/cmd/style.rs: next's side; add_to_swatches calls next's Document::rename_swatch_refs, #84's rename_in_story/rename_in dropped (next's covers text, tables, cells, notes and items); #84's test kept
Conflict: crates/idml/src/tests.rs: next's side (#84 carries #83's tests.rs, already merged in 9196a164)
Conflict: crates/tools/src/select.rs: overlays keeps next's content-move ghosts and live corners, plus #84's snapped loaded-cursor drag frame; a Place click without a drag shows nothing
Conflict: crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/it.rs: next's side (the Swatches hint entry is already further down)
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# Where DesignCraft falls short of InDesign
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (Optical kerning from outlines (#181); gap 6: macOS lists fonts that font services and managers activate; shared print spooler; Windows CI passes) · **Target:** Adobe InDesign 2026 (21.6)
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (gap 0 shrunk: text threads by hand; threading gaps added; Optical kerning from outlines (#181); gap 6: macOS lists fonts that font services and managers activate; shared print spooler) · **Target:** Adobe InDesign 2026 (21.6)
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Every known shortfall against InDesign 2026, one entry each, ranked by how much it stops an
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InDesign professional from doing real work. This is the work list: agents pick from the top.
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@@ -14,20 +14,14 @@ Kind: **F** feature · **U** UI/UX · **T** typography · **FF** file format ·
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## Alpha blocker (the core-workflow gate in [roadmap.md](roadmap.md#alpha-gate))
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### 0. Text can't be threaded by hand (F, U) · **ALPHA BLOCKER**
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- **Missing:** threading a story from one frame to another. The canvas draws in and out ports
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(`crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs`), but clicking the out port does nothing: no loaded text
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cursor, no click-a-frame or draw-a-frame to continue the story, no unthread by double-clicking
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a port, and no `frame.thread` / `frame.unthread` command for the control channel or MCP
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(`Document::thread` exists in `crates/doc/src/edit.rs` but only autoflow, IDML import and the
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sample call it). Long text flows only through autoflow on Place and Primary Text Frame, which
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users report adding pages they can't delete (#165).
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- **Evidence:** #352, #194, #165, #140 (Windows and unspecified platforms; the code shows it's
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missing everywhere).
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- **Impact:** a story can't run from page 2 to page 7, or from one column frame to the next
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that the designer drew. That is InDesign's core text workflow.
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- **Estimate:** 15–25 h (commands with undo and tests 4–6, out-port loaded cursor and
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click/draw/unthread 6–12, Primary Text Frame page add/delete fixes 5–7).
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### 0. Primary Text Frame autoflow adds pages users can't delete (F) · **ALPHA BLOCKER**
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- **Missing:** fixes to Smart Text Reflow on the Primary Text Frame, which users report adding
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pages they can't delete (#165). Threading by hand works (ports, loaded text cursor, `text.thread` / `text.unthread` /
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`text.removeFromThread`).
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- **Evidence:** #165.
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- **Impact:** a long story in a Primary Text Frame document can leave pages the designer can't
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remove.
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- **Estimate:** 5–7 h.
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- **Doc:** [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md)
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## Blocking (beta can't be declared while these are open)
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### 1. Basic editing fails for many users (U, S)
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- **Missing:** object copy/paste on Windows and Linux (#351, #348, #312, #185, #164, #201, text RTF
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paste #212); Paste in Place onto the selected page (#348); right-click context menus that don't
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open (#238, #187, #160, #312); threading (gap 0); double-click word selection in fields
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open (#238, #187, #160, #312); double-click word selection in fields
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(#189); character formatting set at a caret is discarded (#289).
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- **Evidence:** 16 issues from 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-10, mostly against the 0.4/0.5 release builds.
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- **Impact:** a layout artist can't finish the simplest job. This dominates the
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parallel story composition.
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- **Estimate:** 40–80 h.
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### 26. Autoflow fills the following pages before it adds pages (F)
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- **Missing:** Shift-click autoflow (and autoflow on Place) always adds new pages after the
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story's last frame, one margin-sized frame each. InDesign first threads a frame per column on
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the existing pages that follow, then adds pages at the end of the document.
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- **Impact:** autoflowing into a document that already has pages inserts new pages in the
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middle of it instead of using the empty pages.
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- **Estimate:** 4–8 h.
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### 27. Loaded text cursor can't thread into a frame inside a group (F, U)
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- **Missing:** a click with the loaded text cursor on a text frame inside a group hits the group,
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so the cursor shows it can't thread there.
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- **Estimate:** 2–4 h.
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## Lower
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### 21. Localization breadth (L)
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-10-12 | minor | Gap 0 shrunk to the Primary Text Frame page fixes (#165): text threads by hand; gaps added for autoflow onto existing pages and threading into grouped frames |
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| 2026-10-10 | minor | Gap 0 added and marked alpha blocker: manual text threading is missing (stage re-normalized to pre-alpha) |
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| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: 25 ranked gaps from the full re-measure against InDesign 2026 21.6 and issues #1–#352 |
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