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>
Brandon Thomas