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>
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>
LYH Studio episode 6 colours the "1969" headline (8:28) and the loop's
stroke (9:15) from the Swatches panel, whose header holds InDesign's
Fill/Stroke proxy, Formatting Affects Container/Text and the Tint field.
- Header: a Fill/Stroke proxy showing the colours of what colour edits
apply to (panels::color_target; a click brings the other to the front,
as X does), the container/text buttons (app.formattingAffectsText) and
the tint of the colour in front.
- The Tint field sends only the tint, so each selected object (or run of
text) keeps its own swatch: object.fill takes a tint without a swatch,
and a stroke tint alone doesn't give a stroke-less object a stroke.
- Clicking a swatch applies it to the fill or stroke in front
(panels::apply_swatch, to the text when colours affect text); that row
is highlighted.
- Bottom row: New Color Group, New Swatch, Delete Swatch (the swatch last
clicked). Rows and the proxy are named for accessibility (and tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add multi-click text selection, pending caret formatting and clipboard support, text-aware colour controls, guide/grid snapping, and frame threading with loaded-port interactions.
Include the layout, drop-cap and IDML updates carried from #83, with safeguards for generated and linked stories, external text references, local IDs, locked frames and atomic colour edits.
Fixes#23.
Co-authored-by: Sean Hammond <sean.hammond@und.edu>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Chris Cicchino's "Adobe InDesign – Page Tool and Liquid Layout" (6:32–
9:58) clicks an object with the Page tool on an object-based page and
gets InDesign's on-canvas liquid controls: a pin outside each edge
("Object is pinned relative to the page edge. Click to release.") and a
padlock on the width and height lines ("The object's width is locked.
Click to let the object change width as the page changes width."). The
pins and resize settings existed (liquid.object, the Liquid Layout
panel) but the canvas showed none of it.
- tools: on an object-based page a Page tool click selects the object
with its page (layout.selectPage takes `ids`); its pins (14 px outside
each edge's middle) and width/height locks (beside the centre) toggle
liquid.object on click, show InDesign's tooltips on hover and a hand
cursor.
- canvas: LiquidPins (orange dashed width/height lines with padlocks,
open when the object follows the page; hollow pins, or a line to the
page edge when pinned) and Tip overlays; tooltip translations.
Builds on the Page tool PR (#862).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Chris Cicchino's "Adobe InDesign – Page Tool and Liquid Layout" (0:42–
2:06) selects a page with the Page tool, gets its bounding box with
handles, drags a handle (the page springs back: a liquid-rule preview),
holds Option to really resize it, Shift for proportions, and reads the
size in a tooltip by the cursor. DesignCraft's Page tool only opened a
generic Page Size dialog on click.
- tools: the Page tool selects the page under a click (none on the
pasteboard); the selected page shows its outline, eight handles and
its liquid page rule ("Scale", "Object-Based"…) above it. Dragging a
handle previews layout.pageSize (the liquid rule re-flows the
objects) and springs back on release; Alt resizes, Shift keeps the
proportions; a W/H readout follows the pointer; resize cursors on the
handles. Double-click a page for the Page Size dialog.
- doc: Selection.page (the Page tool's page); engine: layout.selectPage
(no undo step).
- layout.pageSize `anchor` (0-8): the page grows away from the
reference point and its objects and guides keep their place relative
to it (a handle drag anchors the opposite edge); liquid rules work
from that.
- canvas: PageHandles and Tag overlays; translations for the tags and
the Resize Page undo label.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Separable blend formulas work channel by channel, so the spread is drawn
twice through the ordinary renderer: C, M and Y complements into RGB, K
into a second raster, with the existing transparency groups, masks,
effects and parent-page placement. The inks are converted to sRGB once and
put over the paper. Two passes regardless of how many objects blend;
parent items, nested blends and effect blends (Multiply satin, shadows)
blend in CMYK too, and the pass covers the whole view, so blending
continues past the trim. An unchanged view is reused from a one-frame
cache (64 MiB cap). Spreads with Hue, Saturation, Color or Luminosity keep
the RGB-then-proof approximation. Effect blend layers sit outside their
clips and offscreen filters, so they see the object's backdrop (RGB too).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Route AppKit termination through the existing unsaved-document close transaction using the immutable winit patch. Restore pending prompts from hidden or minimized windows and preserve answers across repeated requests.
Validation: all six local gates, native cancellation/retry/save smoke, and hosted platform checks.
Fixes#544.
PR #623.
Keep recovered snapshots available through a second crash before autosave. Track checkpoint ownership across folders and restarted IDs; Save, Close and Revert clean only checkpoints owned by that document.
Follow-up to #506 and the retention concern in #380.
PR #616.
Prepare and stage every chapter before a book update writes files. Preserve imported IDML sources, reject open native chapters and report completed paths after a later write failure.
Follow-up to #485.
PR #615.
Route desktop writes and CLI raster exports through the engine atomic writer. Add actual-caller regressions for reader visibility, private modes, symlinks and valid long filenames.
Follow-up to #485.
PR #614.
Preserve document paths, revisions and collection contents when persistence fails. Rebase Save a Copy paths without changing the open document.
Follow-up to #485.
PR #613.
Edit > Step and Repeat opened the generic command form (Count 1..1000, Dx, Dy, Rows, Columns, Ids). It now has InDesign's dialog: Repeat (Count, or Rows and Columns when Create as a grid is on), Offset (Vertical, Horizontal, in the document's ruler units or any unit typed) and Preview, which shows the copies on the page while the dialog is open. Cancel, Esc and ui.dialog.cancel take the preview away; OK makes the copies once, as one undo step. A value that isn't a number keeps the dialog open and says so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Prompt for unsaved documents on window close and application/menu quit. Defer discarding documents until all approvals are current, retaining every tab when a later decision cancels quitting.
Refs #544. Cancelable macOS Dock Quit remains separate.
Co-authored-by: aiongg <aiongtaigi@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: skylar taylor-barrick <hi@skylar.cc>
Keep each app's recovery data in an owned run folder. Validate current folder and lock ownership and disable recovery when isolation fails instead of using the shared root.
Fixes#496.
Co-authored-by: noah1400 <48360809+noah1400@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: skylar taylor-barrick <hi@skylar.cc>
Replace native engine saves and engine/MCP exports atomically, preserving private permissions during staging and cleaning up failed writes. Add regressions for long filenames and caught writer unwinding.
Fixes#436.
Co-authored-by: aiongg <aiongtaigi@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: skylar taylor-barrick <hi@skylar.cc>
Brandon Thomas