The report asks for a placement the export walk reaches whose asset is still a PDF, so it cannot
name a choice anchored inside a table cell or a note. The paragraph now says that rather than
leaving the scope to the sentence above.
The placed-PDF doc said every placement counts. Both exports and the PDF/A-2b rasterisation pass
walk document and parent spreads, groups and objects anchored in a story; a placement anchored
inside a table cell's or a footnote's text is not reached yet, so the doc now says what happens
to it instead of claiming it is carried. Gap 19 states the same boundary in one line.
Gap 19 now states in one sentence that DesignCraft does not apply retained IDML
graphic-layer visibility to raster or PDF output, so it no longer reads as contradicting
placed-PDF layer choices, which are applied. The placed-PDF doc records that parent-page
and anchored placements get variants, and what a package's IDML copy cannot carry.
skylartaylor's review: a PDF can list readable layers yet fail the visibility
rewrite. On a synthetic 33-section xref history, object.layerOptions with
useDefaults:false and an empty hidden list was accepted (only hidden names
triggered #1670's rewrite check), the canvas could not draw the choice and
PDF export then failed.
Every explicit choice now runs one actual pdf_hide_layers rewrite per
distinct source before any item is edited or undo is recorded; this subsumes
the separate layerless check. Resetting to file defaults (useDefaults:true
or the legacy empty list) needs no variant and bypasses the check. #1670's
fail-closed canvas handling is kept alongside the explicit-override state: a
stored explicit choice (including all-on) whose source can no longer be
rewritten draws nothing rather than the unmodified source, and export errors.
The new regression test fails before this change (the all-on request is
accepted) and covers both selection orders, atomicity, undo depth, reset
bypass and the stale all-on fail-closed path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
skylar taylor-barrick