A story that ends with a paragraph return has an empty last paragraph. When
it didn't fit, DesignCraft marked the story overset at the end of its text
(Preflight: "Overset text: 0 characters"; the out port turned red).
InDesign doesn't: Montilla Design's Flex Layout file has a caption ending
with a return, fitted to its three lines, and InDesign reports no errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Montilla Design's Flex Layout file names its body face "Regular " (with a
trailing space, as the designer's copy of Articulat CF did). Face lookup
already ignores spacing and case, so the text is drawn in Regular, but
font.list (Find Font) compared names exactly and reported the style
missing. It now uses the lookup's comparison (designcraft_fonts::same_style).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A Flex Layout container is a frame holding its objects as nested items
(as Edit › Paste Into makes), with a `flex` record: direction, wrap,
justification, cross-axis alignment, Fixed/Auto width and height, padding
and horizontal/vertical spacing. designcraft_doc::flex lays the objects
out (a Flexbox subset: lines, justification, alignment, Auto sizing), and
the engine runs it after every edit, so the container keeps its objects
in place whatever changes.
Commands: flex.add (Add to Flex Layout; detects aligned objects: their
direction, Auto size, Space Between at their own spacing, as InDesign
does), flex.convert (a group or rectangle frame), flex.remove (objects
stay, grouped), flex.set (every panel setting, plus the alignment grid
cell), flex.reorder. Resizing a container by its handles or W/H changes
its box and makes that side Fixed instead of scaling its objects;
dragging an object inside one drops it in the nearest place.
UI: Object › Flex Layout (Add to, Convert to, Remove, Show Flex Controls),
a Flex Layout panel (Window › Panels) laid out as InDesign's (Create Flex
Layout; alignment grid, W/H with Auto/Fixed; justification menu, four
directions, wrap; padding with the link button; spacing, greyed as
InDesign does when the justification works it out or nothing wraps), and
the same section in Properties. Icons are new drawings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Guides in an IDML page (<Guide> children of <Page>) were dropped on import,
and DesignCraft's own guides weren't written. Montilla Design's Flex Layout
file keeps its 16 column guides on the B-Parent page; none came in.
Import: Location is measured from View Preferences › Ruler Origin (the
spread's top left, the page's, or the spine); Orientation, FitToPage (off:
a spread guide), Locked and ItemLayer are kept. Export writes each page's
guides under its <Page> in spread-origin coordinates, which is the ruler
origin DesignCraft writes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
InDesign sets a text line when its baseline fits in the frame; the
descenders may hang below the frame's bottom. DesignCraft required the
baseline plus the descent to fit, so a frame sized to a heading's caps
oversets: Zero2Graphic's magazine tutorial draws 2.7682 cm frames for
103 pt headings (control bar, 4:12–5:44), and all three were overset.
The keep-lines IDML fixture's frames are now 236 pt tall, so they hold the
same 19 lines under either rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Tint row's value box was the egui Slider's own DragValue. The panel reads
the tint back from the document every frame, so egui dropped the text being
edited after the first digit (100 -> 6 -> 100 -> 1000, as #945 reports for
the CMYK fields), and a typed tint was never applied because the panel only
applied on the slider's drag_stopped().
The slider keeps applying on release, without its own value box; the value
is a widgets::NumField that buffers text while focused and applies on Enter
or focus loss, clamped to 0-100 %.
Part of #945.
InDesign's Pathfinder result takes the attributes (and content) of the
frontmost object, except Subtract, which keeps the backmost. DesignCraft
kept the backmost for every op but Minus Back, so a photo placed over
strips and intersected with them was deleted and the black strips stayed
(Zero2Graphic's magazine tutorial, 7:19).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
InDesign's Preferences › Appearance of Black defaults to Display All
Blacks as Rich Black on screen, so [Black] text and strokes look pure
black (RGB 0,0,0), as in Adobe's magazine-layout tutorial. DesignCraft
defaulted to Display All Blacks Accurately (#343334). Settings saved
with an explicit choice keep it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adobe's "Set up a modern magazine layout" (Brian Wood, 2:12–4:23) locks a
page frame drawn round the spread (Cmd+L), then draws the text frames on
top of it with the Type tool. In DesignCraft the press landed in the
locked frame, which the Type tool turned into a text frame, putting the
caret in it; no new frame was drawn.
- The Type tool takes a hit only on text frames (locked or not, as
InDesign lets you edit their text) and unlocked empty frames; over a
locked empty frame, the press starts a new text frame.
- text.placeCaret refuses to convert a locked empty frame (or one on a
locked layer).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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