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>
Chris Nielsen's "The Adobe InDesign Toolbox" (InDesign 2020) walks the
Tools panel in one and two columns. Compared with it:
- Gradient Swatch and Gradient Feather are separate tools (one flyout
here before).
- In two columns InDesign lays out Content Collector and Content Placer,
Apply Color / Apply Gradient / Apply None and Normal / Preview (with
Bleed, Slug, Presentation in its flyout) side by side
(SPLIT_IN_TWO_COLUMNS). One column keeps one well with a flyout, which
now names what is in front (Apply Color, Apply Gradient or Apply None).
- The utility button is View Options: Frame Edges, Rulers, Guides, Smart
Guides, Baseline Grid and Hidden Characters, checked when shown, with
their shortcuts (17:40). It was Text Frame Options (Object › Text Frame
Options…, ⌘B, still opens it).
- Apply Color (,) applies the colour applied last ([Black] at first) and
Apply Gradient (.) the gradient applied last, else the document's first,
else white to black (InDesign's default), to the fill or stroke in front.
The flyout had Apply Color as [Black] and no Apply Gradient.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tool cursors are glyphs drawn in code (black ink, white halo): the filled
arrow for Selection, the hollow arrow for Direct Selection, the pen nib
with an add, delete, close or convert badge, and a curved double arrow
for rotating. Linux and Windows show them as OS cursor bitmaps,
rasterized per pixels-per-point and cached; macOS paints them at the
pointer, since it sizes cursor bitmaps in points; the web build keeps
the system cursors. Text, hand, zoom and resize cursors stay system
cursors.
The Pen tool reports what a click does: over the first anchor of the
path being drawn it closes the path, and between paths a click on a
selected path's anchor deletes it and a click on its outline adds one.
The Add, Delete and Convert Direction Point tools show the matching pen
badges.
The glyph geometry and the rasterizer are adapted from VectorCraft's
code-drawn tool cursors (same organisation, original work).
Fixes#438
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" (1:02–
2:06, 13:47) sizes pages from the Control panel with the Page tool
selected: X/Y, W/H, the page-size preset ("US Business Card"),
orientation, Liquid Page Rule ("Controlled by Parent"), Objects Move with
Page and Show Parent Page Overlay. DesignCraft's Control panel showed the
(empty) object controls.
- ui: with the Page tool, the Control panel shows the selected page (or
the page in view): the reference point (W/H, preset and orientation
keep it in place via layout.pageSize's anchor), X/Y (read-only),
W/H, the preset dropdown, portrait/landscape, Liquid Page Rule, Objects
Move with Page (always on: pages don't move within spreads yet) and
Show Parent Page Overlay.
- doc: LiquidRule::ControlledByParent (the parent page's rule, Off
without one; resolved by liquid::effective_rule); Page.show_parent_overlay.
- engine: layout.pageOptions {pages, showParentOverlay}; liquid.pageRule
takes controlledByParent.
- canvas: the parent page's size over a page with the overlay on.
- Liquid Layout panel and Control panel share InDesign's rule list
(Off, Scale, Re-center, Object-based, Guide-based, Controlled by
Parent); "US Business Card" preset; translations.
Builds on the Page tool PR (#862) for the selected page.
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>
As in InDesign, the Eyedropper applies a colour sampled from a placed image
to the fill or the stroke, whichever is in front in the toolbox: with the
Stroke box in front a selected line takes it on its stroke (it has no
fill to show it). The toolbox's state reaches tools through
ViewInfo/ToolContext::stroke_in_front.
Depends on #572.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Selected type on a path shows its start and end brackets across the path,
as in InDesign, and the Selection and Direct Selection tools drag them
along it (Move Bracket, one undo step): the text starts and ends where
they are, and text past the end bracket is overset.
- doc: PathType.end (None: the path's end)
- geom: PathWarp::nearest, the arc length of the nearest point
- engine: type.pathOptions {end}; brackets stay on the path and can't cross
- compose: the line runs from the start to the end bracket
- idml: EndBracket read and written
- tools: Cursor::PathBracket
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
As in InDesign, the Pen over an end point of an open path (selected, or
under the pointer) shows a continue cursor; clicking it carries on drawing
that path, new anchors going on its subpath, and clicking its other end
closes it. Dragging from the end point first reshapes its direction
lines. From the first anchor the subpath is reversed first.
- engine: path.reverse (Object > Paths > Reverse Path), path.setAnchor;
path.appendAnchor and path.close take a subpath, and appendAnchor
refuses a closed subpath
- tools: Cursor::PenContinue
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A placed PDF, EPS or SVG under the Eyedropper matches attributes again,
as before, instead of failing with "no placed image under the point"
(Asset::is_raster, shared by the tool and color.sample). color.sample
hands its colour to object.color, which now colours selected text, the
text of selected frames ({text: true}), or the typing colour of an empty
story; a caret in existing text is refused before a swatch or undo step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Eyedropper on a placed image now does what InDesign does: with text
selected, clicking the photo colours the text with the image's colour under
the pointer; with objects selected, it fills them. The colour is an unnamed
colour (reused when the same colour is sampled again). Images on locked
layers can be sampled, and unfilled frames over the image let it show through.
- color.sample {at, spread?, target?: fill|stroke, ids?} samples the frontmost
visible raster image at a spread point; one undo step; a caret or a point
with no image is refused without an edit.
- object.color shares its swatch lookup with it.
- The Eyedropper tool sends color.sample over an image, matchAttributes
elsewhere as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
File › Place (native picker, browser import, Place with Import Options
and the PDF page dialog) passes loadCursor to file.place. With no empty
or graphic frame selected and no x/y given, an image is added to the
document and loaded into the place cursor instead of landing in a new
frame on the first spread; a click places it at its natural size, a drag
draws its frame. The loaded graphic keeps the chosen PDF page and crop
box. Escape or choosing another tool unloads the cursor. Dropped files
and file.place without loadCursor behave as before.
- view.snapPreferences {alignEdges, alignCenters, smartDimensions,
smartSpacing, zone} sets the smart guide options; the Preferences
dialog goes through it, so the control channel and MCP reach them.
- Smart guide, gap and measurement colours come from theme::Tokens.
- Remove the unused closest-target helper (snap_rect and friends).
- Drop the agent planning docs (docs/superpowers) and the .worktrees
ignore line; ROADMAP entry for smart guides and snapping.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shift plus Alt restores the aspect from the original center after the size snaps. A line keeps the runner delta on both axes. Dimension guides are redrawn on the committed side. Grouped own size decomposes the absolute transform once.
Brandon Thomas