LYH Studio episode 6 (7:00) fills its photo frames with the caption
"Fit Content to Frame (Ctrl + Shift + Alt + C)", InDesign's shortcut for
Fill Frame Proportionally. DesignCraft's Fitting items were object.fit
variants without shortcuts (a menu shortcut belongs to a command id, and
the five modes share one).
- Five UI commands, one per mode, with InDesign's keys:
fit.fillFrameProportionally Cmd+Alt+Shift+C,
fit.contentProportionally Cmd+Alt+Shift+E, fit.frameToContent
Cmd+Alt+C, fit.contentToFrame Cmd+Alt+E, fit.centerContent
Cmd+Shift+E (Ctrl on Windows and Linux); each runs object.fit.
- Object > Fitting lists them (with their shortcuts), enabled as
object.fit is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LYH Studio episode 6 builds every gradient from C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0 to
C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0. InDesign blends a gradient's process stops as inks:
halfway is C 50 M 50, a light lilac. DesignCraft converted both ends to
RGB and blended there, so the middle came out a darker violet (117, 88,
189 instead of 135, 119, 181), and every Episode 6 gradient looked
different. A midpoint between CMYK stops also became an RGB colour, so
the PDF shading turned RGB with a conversion warning.
- color: `Color::lerp` blends CMYK with CMYK (or grey), and grey with
grey, in ink space; anything with RGB still blends in RGB.
- `Gradient::display_stops`: the expanded stops plus samples through
each span that isn't RGB at both ends, for renderers that interpolate
in RGB; the screen renderer uses it.
- pdf: a midpoint's expanded stop now keeps the stops' space; the
colour-space test expects no conversion for CMYK or grey midpoints.
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LYH Studio episode 6 starts with "Window > Workspace > Essential
Classic" and opens panels with "Window > Color > Gradient & Swatches".
DesignCraft's Window menu had no Workspace or Color submenu (panels sat
in one "Panels" list) and no Essentials Classic workspace.
- Window menu: Arrange, Workspace, then the panels alphabetically with
InDesign's groups (Color: Color, Gradient, Swatches; Editorial;
Interactive; Object & Layout; Output; Styles; Type & Tables;
Utilities). Every panel stays reachable; Next/Previous Document moved
into Arrange.
- Window > Workspace: the built-in workspaces as "[Essentials]", the
current one checked, Reset <current>, New Workspace. The app bar's
switcher uses the same list and order.
- Essentials Classic: the Control panel, no Properties stack, and an
icon column of named panel groups ([Pages, Layers, Links] [Stroke,
Color] [Swatches] [Effects] [Paragraph] [Text Wrap] [Character
Styles, Paragraph Styles] [Gradient]); Window > Pages opens Pages
from its group. Saved workspaces keep the groups.
- Flyouts and floating panels name Pages, Layers and Properties.
- Translations for Editorial, Object & Layout, Styles and Essentials
Classic.
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LYH Studio episode 6 (1:36-2:05) builds its gradient in the Gradient
panel: it drags C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0 from the Swatches panel onto the left
stop, drops C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0 on the ramp (a new stop at 68.636 %), then
drags the black stop off. DesignCraft's Gradient panel took no swatches,
showed only a hint until the fill was a gradient, and laid out its
fields differently.
- Gradient panel: InDesign's layout (thumbnail; Type; Location % and
Angle; Reverse; the ramp with midpoint diamonds above and stops below).
Until the fill is a gradient it shows the default White -> Black ramp;
clicking the thumbnail or using the ramp starts one. Midpoints drag
and take a Location. A stop's colour picker moved to its right-click
menu, so selecting a stop no longer grows the panel.
- Swatches panel rows are drag sources (the chip follows the pointer):
dropped on a stop a swatch colours it, elsewhere on the ramp it adds
a stop there.
- Stops keep their colour model through panel edits (CMYK used to turn
into hex RGB whenever a stop moved).
- engine: `object.gradient` stops accept `swatch` (its colour; gradient
swatches and [None] are refused) and colours accept `{gray}`.
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LYH Studio episode 6 (8:28) gives the "1969" headline the "New Gradient
Swatch" (magenta → cyan) from the Swatches panel. InDesign runs a gradient
on text across its text frame's box. DesignCraft resolved a character
fill to one solid colour, so a gradient swatch drew no text at all.
- render: a character fill or stroke that names a gradient swatch is
painted with that gradient over the frame's box in text space (type on
a path: the path's box).
- pdf: text runs take a gradient paint: the shading is laid out in the
frame's text space and mapped into each run's origin, so skew and
horizontal scale don't bend it; outlined runs and type on a path too.
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Adds a Polish catalog (i18n/pl.rs, 1,698 strings), registers Polski in
Edit › Interface Language, uses category-first count captions for Polish
(as for Ukrainian) and adds catalog and language-switch tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DukHNvUY45rjRnvtz91x33
A gradient swatch on a stroke drew nothing: strokes were painted with a
single resolved colour. LYH Studio episode 6 gives the loop on the right
page (9:13) and, at first by accident, the circle (1:19, "right now it
is on the stroke") a gradient stroke.
- doc: Stroke::gradient_angle / gradient_vector (as Fill's) and
Stroke::as_fill(), the stroke's paint as a fill.
- render and PDF: a gradient stroke is painted like a gradient fill,
across the path's box (dash gaps and arrowheads keep their paints).
- engine: object.gradient {target: stroke} edits the stroke's
gradient (kind, stops, angle, the Gradient Swatch tool's from/to);
scaling moves the stroke's vector with the shape.
- IDML: GradientStrokeStart/Length/Angle round-trip.
- Gradient panel: acts on the stroke when the toolbox's Stroke box is
in front, as InDesign's follows the Fill/Stroke proxy.
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.indd and .indt documents open through File › Open, drop, the web inbox,
file.open, file.openBytes, file.openIdml and the CLI. The engine converts
them to IDML in memory with storytold/indd-utils (pinned by rev, MIT OR
Apache-2.0, no dependencies, builds for wasm) and imports the result
through the existing IDML path. The converter's warnings come first in the
open result's `warnings`, before the IDML importer's and the font
warnings. A file the converter can't read is an open error, shown in the
Can't Open the File alert.
Routing: a path or name ending in .indd/.indt, or bytes starting with the
INDD signature (the web inbox passes the name without its extension).
opens_as_document and the desktop and web Open dialogs list indd/indt.
Tests use synthetic bytes only: signature-bearing junk, a zero-filled
.indd and a short .indt all fail as open errors with no document added;
a dropped unreadable .indd raises the open alert.
(cherry picked from commit bb8a6a23fa)
Callers from outside the app now get a parameter error for a key a
command's params description doesn't name, instead of the command
running with its defaults: `text.select {story, start, end}` and
`style.list {bogus: 1}` are refused with "unknown parameter `…`" and the
nearest or the accepted keys.
- engine: `cmd::params` (ported from VectorCraft #1442) reads the keys
from each params description; `check_params` / `check_keys`.
`Session::execute` itself stays lenient so old journals replay; in the
engine's own tests it checks too, as the audit of the descriptions.
- MCP: tools/call answers -32602 for an argument a tool doesn't take and
for params a command doesn't take (`execute`, every `batch` step before
the first runs); the headless backend checks as well.
- Control channel (`engine.execute`) and `designcraft-cli run --cmd`.
- Descriptions now name every key their commands read (table target
cells, anchored objects, gap.move, file.place, data merge, prefs.set,
…); type.char / type.para stay unchecked (their attributes may be the
params object itself; the setters refuse unknown attributes).
- Tests that passed keys the commands never read are fixed, and the pen
tool no longer sends the unread `notifyPen`.
Fixes#776
Save and Save a Copy put a picture of the first page in the .designcraft
zip as preview.png (320 px on the longer side). The start screen reads
only that entry and shows the last eight recent files as cards with the
picture and the name, below the community card. Files saved before have
a blank page until they are saved again.
The package fallback-font test writes its fixture without Save's preview:
drawing it before the document's fonts load pulled in a system font that
covers the test's characters (Unifont CSUR) ahead of the document's own.
Table cell paragraphs go through the same run and inline path as body paragraphs, so deleted and moved-from text and field instructions stay out of cells, and field results, tabs and breaks come in.
Word's Normal imports as a paragraph style named Normal whose definition is w:docDefaults with Normal's own properties on top; paragraphs without a style use Word's default paragraph style. A styleMap entry can still map Normal to [Basic Paragraph].
to_bytes returns a Result and every caller propagates it, so a document
that can't be written is an error: the existing file, the unsaved state
and the recovery checkpoint stay. Asset entries near or over 4 GiB are
written with zip64 sizes. On the web, Save marks the document saved only
after the browser download has started.
Fields, buttons and video or sound are collected with the page content's
inclusion rule: the item's layer is visible and printable, and neither the
item nor any group around it is hidden or non-printing.
InDesign draws a radial gradient in the object's bounding box: on a
non-square frame it's an ellipse reaching the frame's sides, and a
Gradient Swatch tool drag keeps those proportions. LYH Studio episode 6
(3:16) gives the left page's background a radial gradient: magenta in
the middle, cyan out to every edge. DesignCraft drew a circle reaching
only the longer side, so a portrait page stayed purple at its sides.
- doc: `Fill::radial_ellipse(bounds)`: centre and radii (default: the
box's centre and half its width and height; with a tool vector, its
start, and its length measured with the box made square).
- render: the radial paint is that circle, stretched by the paint
transform; PDF: the shading's transform does the same.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
InDesign's Swatches panel New Swatch takes what is current: a gradient
built in the Gradient panel becomes "New Gradient Swatch" (applied, and
listed), an unnamed colour a listed swatch, a selected named swatch a
"… copy". DesignCraft's button always added the same orange swatch, and
gradient swatches could not be created at all (LYH Studio episode 6,
2:12: "this is our Swatch … create a new swatch for it").
- engine: `swatch.new {swatch?, target?}` does the above for the
selection's fill (or stroke) or a named swatch; `swatch.create` also
takes `gradient: {kind?, stops: [{location, swatch | color, opacity?,
midpoint?}]}`, its stops taking colour swatches by name, as swatches
dragged onto the Gradient panel's stops.
- Swatches panel: New Swatch runs `swatch.new`, and with nothing
selected still adds a colour.
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Opening or saving a document moves it to the front of File › Open Recent
(no duplicates; Save a Copy and exports don't count). The submenu lists the
files by name with the full path as tooltip, then Clear Recent Files; the
start screen shows the last eight with their folders. A file that is gone is
dimmed and, when chosen, says so in an alert and stays listed (a disk that
isn't connected comes back). Preferences › File Handling sets how many are
kept (default 20, 0–100).
Engine: Prefs.recent_files / recent_files_max (saved in prefs.json),
file.openRecent {index}, file.recentFiles, file.clearRecent. UI:
app.openRecent; the macOS menu bar rebuilds the submenu when the list
changes.
InDesign's Text Frame Options has a section list (General, Baseline
Options, Column Rules, ...). General holds Columns (Fixed Number / Fixed
Width with Number, Width, Gutter), Balance Columns, Inset Spacing as a
2x2 grid with a link button, Vertical Justification and Ignore Text
Wrap; Baseline Options holds First Baseline Offset and Min. DesignCraft
showed one flat list without the columns type, width, balance, link,
ignore-wrap or baseline settings, although the model keeps them.
- dialogs: a section list (General, Baseline Options, Column Rules);
General as above (Width shows what Fixed Number columns get, editable
for Fixed Width; a side typed while linked sets all four insets);
Baseline Options; Column Rules as before. Enum captions translated.
- OK sends the new fields only when edited, as before.
- engine: `object.textFrameOptions` takes `columnWidth` (Fixed Width)
and `firstBaselineMin`, which compose already honours.
LYH Studio episode 14 sets two columns (9:45) and a 0.1875 in inset
(10:57) here.
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InDesign's Text Wrap panel has the five wrap buttons with Invert, then
Top, Left, Bottom and Right offsets around a link button that makes them
all the same. DesignCraft's panel had a single Offset field that always
showed 0 (the object's offset was never read), and Invert only in
Properties.
- SelInfo carries the wrap offsets; the panel shows each side's value
in the document's units and sets one side, or all four while linked
(linked by default when they're equal).
- Invert sits next to the wrap buttons; fields are disabled without a
wrap.
LYH Studio episode 14 (11:13) opens Window › Text Wrap to give the quote
a Jump Object wrap.
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- designcraft-color: ICC profiles (built-in RGB working spaces, user .icc files) go through
craft-cms from storytold/craft-libs. The default CMYK working space is craft-cms's Coated
FOGRA39; CMYK swatches show relative colorimetric with the settings' black point
compensation. Generic CMYK and Device CMYK stay selectable. A CMYK profile name resolves
through Builtin::stand_in_for; a name with no stand-in is an UnknownProfile error.
ColorSettings::with_known_profiles replaces unavailable saved names with the defaults; the UI
uses it when it restores saved settings at startup. Lab, gamut error and proofing of ICC CMYK
spaces use craft-cms transforms. The Generic CMYK output profile is encoded by craft-cms.
- designcraft-pdf: the PDF/X output intent is the working CMYK space's profile: the FOGRA39
built-in with identifier FOGRA39, user profiles as loaded, Generic CMYK otherwise.
- moxcms is no longer a direct dependency of designcraft-color.
With a placed graphic selected (Direct Selection, or the content
grabber), the graphic's own brown bounding box has eight handles:
dragging one resizes the image inside its frame (Shift keeps its
proportions, Alt from its centre) and leaves the frame as it is.
- tools: a content-handle hit test on the selected graphic's bounds
(after the frame's anchors under Direct Selection), a ContentResize
drag previewing `transform.set {content, bounds}`, the handle cursors,
and the content ghost while dragging. The frame's handles don't resize
the frame while its graphic is selected.
- engine: `transform.set` takes `bounds` for content: the graphic's new
bounding box on the spread (normalized, never empty).
- canvas: the brown content box gets its handles; the frame's handles
are hidden while the graphic is selected.
(cherry picked from commit 8e0e6c2f2e)
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