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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Preferences OK stored whatever number the dialog held as the Story
Editor font size. One that is not finite ("nan", "inf", or a number
too large for an f32) was written to ui.json as null; the next launch
could not read the file, started with the default UI settings and
saved them over it on exit. The size is now kept between 8 and 36 pt,
the slider's range, and a value that is not a finite number leaves
the size as it was.
An EPS that came in with a document (InDesign embeds its QR codes as
EPS) drew nothing: only File › Place converted EPS to a proxy. Now
`decode_rgba` draws any EPS through `eps_proxy` and `natural_size` measures
it by its bounding box in points, so screen, PNG and PDF show it while the
document keeps the EPS itself.
`eps_proxy` also draws PostScript that only fills rectangles in solid
colours (setcmykcolor, setrgbcolor, setgray, rectfill and procedures that
stand for them, as InDesign's QR codes are written), at 8 px per point so
modules stay crisp. Anything else keeps the preview or placeholder. Input is
bounded: tokens, rectangles, painted area and procedure definitions.
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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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The paragraph composer counted a trailing space (or several) before the
paragraph end or a forced line break in the line's width, so "2 VOOR " in a
frame exactly as wide as "2 VOOR" broke before "VOOR" and the frame went
overset. InDesign lets those spaces hang past the edge. They now add no
width; the line's visible range already left them out.
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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.
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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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Preferences OK read the vertical units by indexing the dialog's
fields. A dialog opened through `ui.dialog.open` with horizontal
units only made that panic on the UI thread, outside the crash
guard, and the app exited. The units are now read with `get`, and a
ruler the dialog doesn't name keeps its units.
.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)
file.open on a .indd reported "not a DesignCraft document: expected value at
line 1 column 1"; file.openBytes with a .indd name failed the same way, and a
dropped .indd was placed as a graphic. All now say InDesign documents and
templates can't be opened yet and point to File > Export > InDesign Markup
(IDML), which DesignCraft already opens. The check is by extension, before
anything is read.
Also adds my contributors/people.toml entry.
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File times are whole seconds (as in Data Merge's fingerprint), so a
same-size change saved within the same second as the last check kept
both size and time, and the Links panel said OK. A size and time are now
only remembered (on place, update, relink, and in the session's check
cache) once the file has been unchanged for two seconds; a file changed
more recently is checked by content on each poll. Found by the Update
Link dialog test, which rewrites a file within the same second; the
polling test now also changes a file twice in one second.
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The Links panel lists links about twice a second, and each listing
hashed every linked text file. A linked text file now also remembers
its modification time (as Data Merge does for its source, through the
same size-and-time fingerprint): while size and time match, it isn't
read. A different size is Modified without reading. When only the time
changed, the content hash still decides (a file saved or synced again
without changes stays OK), and the session remembers that check by
size and time, so the next poll doesn't read the file again. Update and
Relink record the size and time from before their read. Test: polls of
an unchanged file don't read it (it is made unreadable), a touched but
unchanged file is read once and stays OK, a changed file is Modified.
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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.
The whole book was one content.xhtml, which is slow on e-readers and
loses chapter starts. The body is now split before each h1 into
content.xhtml, content2.xhtml, …: a section a split goes through is
closed and reopened, and a story that opens with its h1 starts in the
new file with its id. The manifest and spine list the files in order,
and the navigation links each heading to the file it is in. HTML export
stays one page.
Fixes#768
- describe style.paragraph.create (and .edit, style.character.create,
.edit) gave chars?: {…} and para?: {…}. The descriptions now say they
take type.char's and type.para's attributes and name the common ones.
- A wrong attribute gave "invalid parameters for `style`: unknown
attribute `font`". The error now names the command and the group,
and the attribute meant (nearest name, or one the key starts or ends)
or else lists them all: "invalid parameters for
`style.paragraph.create`: chars: unknown attribute `font`; did you
mean `fontFamily`?". The suggestion comes from set_json, so
type.char, type.para and find.change get it too.
- chars or para that isn't an object is an error instead of ignored.
Fixes#777
- Every font-family fell back to serif, sans-serif typefaces included.
The fallback now comes from the font's classification (PANOSE, OS/2
class, name: serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive, fantasy), passed
in by the engine; without one, from the family name.
- file.exportEpub takes embedFonts: the faces the stylesheet names are
packaged (OEBPS/fonts, @font-face, manifest items with font/ttf, otf,
woff or woff2). Faces that aren't available, whose licence (OS/2
fsType) forbids embedding, or that sit in a font collection are left
out and listed in the new warnings array. Fonts are packaged whole;
subsetting is a follow-up.
Fixes#775
- An image without alt text (Object Export Options) got its file name as
alt, which a screen reader then reads aloud. It is now decorative
(alt=""), and file.exportEpub lists those images in a new warnings
array so they can be given alt text.
- Images and media were packaged as images/<asset id>.<ext>. They are
now <name>-<asset id>.<ext>, the name from the original file name
(lowercase ASCII); the id keeps two files of the same name apart.
Fixes#774
- dcterms:modified was always 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z. It is now the
export time (from the command; on the web, and in the crate without
one, the document's last save or creation time).
- The default dc:identifier was urn:designcraft:<title>, shared by
books with the same title. It is now a urn:uuid derived from the
title and the document's creation time: stable from export to export,
different between documents. file.exportEpub takes identifier to set
it (an ISBN, say).
- file.exportEpub takes coverImage, a PNG or JPEG file used as the
cover (cover-image); a JPEG is packaged as cover.jpg/image/jpeg.
Fixes#771Fixes#773
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