prefs.set (application) and document.preferences (units, increments, grids; undoable).
Scaling applies to content: paths and placed graphics take the scale, stroke weights follow
with Include Stroke Weight. X/Y/W/H and transform.set measure the stroke's outer edge.
The command palette becomes Quick Apply and lists styles.
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- designcraft-textimport (L3): DOCX (styles by name with spacing/indents/alignment and font,
size, bold/italic/underline/strike/caps/position; runs, tabs, breaks, footnotes, tables,
hyperlink/field results; used styles only), RTF (text, paragraphs, bold/italic/underline/
strike, size, Unicode/cp1252, skipped destinations), plain text (+ tests)
- engine: file.place routes text files into the insertion point, the selected frame or a new
frame on the page; imported styles added (existing win); removeStyles; autoflow adds pages
with threaded frames until the story fits (+ test)
- app/web: Place dialogs accept .docx/.rtf/.txt/.md
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- color: Swatch.hidden — unnamed colours (applied, not listed in Swatches until added)
- engine: object.color (reuses a swatch with the same colour, else an unnamed one; fill or
stroke), swatch.addToSwatches (optionally named; users follow the rename),
swatch.addUnnamed (+ test)
- UI: Color panel with fill/stroke proxy, CMYK/RGB/Lab, channel sliders with gradient tracks and
value fields, tint slider for named swatches, spectrum ramp, Add to Swatches; Color Picker
dialog (double-click a proxy chip); Swatches hides unnamed colours
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- Edit › Paste Into (⌥⌘V): copied objects (with their stories and images) become the selected
frame's content, clipped by it; Item::is_group / has_nested_items; renderer and PDF draw fill,
clipped content, stroke; IDML nests the items inside the frame both ways (verified in
InDesign 2026) (+ tests)
- Polygon Settings: sides and star inset as engine preferences used by the polygon tools and
frame.create; double-click the Polygon tool (+ test)
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- engine::recovery: unsaved documents written to a recovery folder (atomic write + metadata),
reopened as unsaved documents that remember their files; entries dropped on save/close
(+ tests); file.recovery.list/save/open, file.revert, file.saveACopy (+ test)
- app: recovery folder per platform, recovered on launch with a status message; UI writes
recovery data every 30 s while documents are unsaved; File › Save a Copy…, Revert
- parity: recovery, revert, save a copy done
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- engine: guide.add/move/delete/deleteAll/list, layout.createGuides (rows/columns with gutters,
margins or page) (+ test)
- UI: drag a guide out of either ruler (page guide, or spread guide on the pasteboard), drag one
with the selection tools to move it, drop it on a ruler to delete it; spread guides cross the
pasteboard; Layout › Create Guides…, View › Grids & Guides › Delete All Guides on Spread
- fix: the Contextual Task Bar called is_pointer_over_egui inside ctx.input — a deadlock that
froze the app while dragging with a selection
- ui_shot injects synthetic input (ui.click/ui.drag/ui.key now work offscreen)
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- doc: OBJECT_MARK with Story::objects (items normalized to the origin) kept in sync on edits,
copy/paste slices and threading
- compose: inline objects are wide glyphs sitting on the baseline (Y offset; auto leading grows);
above-line objects push their line down; placements per frame follow vertical justification
- render + PDF draw anchored items with their lines
- engine: anchored.insert/options/release/list; pasting copied items into text anchors them;
Options/Release act on the object at the insertion point (+ test)
- Object › Anchored Object menu
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- doc: Story::extract / insert_story carry formats, footnotes, cross-references, index markers
and tables through copy and paste
- engine: edit.copy/cut on text keep a formatted slice; edit.paste uses it while the system
clipboard matches (else plain text, no smart quotes); edit.pasteWithoutFormatting (⇧⌘V);
type.changeCase (upper/lower/title/sentence, run formats kept)
- UI: canvas copy/cut/paste go through the engine; Type › Insert Special Character (Symbols,
Markers, Hyphens and Dashes, Quotation Marks, Other), Insert White Space, Insert Break
Character, Change Case; nested submenus in the menu parser (+ test)
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- doc: INDEX_MARK with Story::index_refs kept in sync (topics 1–4 levels, sort keys, current
page / to end of story / next n paragraphs / suppressed / See / See also); index builder with
section headings, nested or run-in entries, merged page ranges; Document::index for updates
- engine: index.addReference (topic from the selection), index.list, index.generate, index.update
with Index Title / Section Head / Level 1–4 styles (+ tests)
- IDML: PageReference markers and the Index topic tree with See / See also cross-references,
both ways (verified in InDesign 2026)
- Layout › Index menu
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- doc: ANCHOR_MARK / XREF_MARK with Story::anchors / xrefs kept in sync on edits, 11 formats
(InDesign's building blocks + partial paragraph), paragraph anchors, typographic quotes
- compose: anchor pages via an XrefIndex (cached per document signature); cross-references are
resolved at composition, so they never go stale; '??' for missing destinations
- PDF: cross-references become link annotations to the destination page
- IDML: export/import as HyperlinkTextDestination / CrossReferenceSource / Hyperlink /
CrossReferenceFormat (+ XRef page variables); verified live in InDesign 2026
- engine: xref.insert/list/setFormat/defineFormat/formats, anchor.create/list (+ tests)
- UI: New Cross-Reference dialog (styles → paragraphs, format); menu pass adding TOC, sections,
text variables, hyperlinks, footnotes, step and repeat, spelling, fitting/content submenus,
effects, Data Merge, Preflight, EPUB; fixed-parameter menu variants; ui.menu.invoke opens
generated dialogs; every-menu-entry-is-a-command test
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- doc: FOOTNOTE_REF marker + Story::notes (kept in sync on insert/delete/thread), FootnoteOptions,
NumberStyle::Symbols, footnote text addressed like cell text (CellAddr::footnote)
- compose: notes numbered (continuous / restart per page, spread, section), composed at column
width, body text makes room, stacked at the column bottom with the rule above
- render + PDF draw footnote text; IDML export/import in InDesign's structure (verified in
InDesign 2026), FootnoteOption preferences
- engine: footnote.insert/options/list/setText/delete/goToReference (+ tests)
- UI: caret/selection in footnote text, Footnote Options dialog, Type menu entries; menu items
labelled '…' with parameters open a dialog generated from the command's params doc
- sample magazine carries a footnote
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