The canvas renderer and PDF export stroked text with the alignment
forced to centre, so Inside and Outside on text did nothing (SVG export
already honoured them). Glyph outlines are closed, so text strokes now
go through stroke_area like other shapes' strokes, with the same fill
rule: inside clips to the glyphs, outside to around them.
The tail of the text area, from the public documentation of the target app's text settings, with a table-driven behaviour suite (each case derived in one line; "silent" cases pin today's behaviour).
- **Lists per paragraph** (`TextData::paragraphs`, one `ParaList {list, indent}` per paragraph; empty when the layer has one list style at level 0, so old files load and save unchanged). The list buttons, Shift+Cmd+8 / Shift+Cmd+7, `text.listStyle` and Type settings act on the paragraphs the selection touches while editing (the whole layer otherwise). The per-paragraph list follows edits: a new paragraph copies the one it split from, joined paragraphs keep the first one's.
- **Nesting** up to 8 levels: Tab nests a list item, Shift+Tab moves it out; Enter on an empty item and Backspace at an item's start move it a level out, then out of the list. Typing `- `, `* ` or `1. ` at the start of a plain paragraph starts a list. Numbers count per level (1. a. i., then round again), bullets go • ◦ ▪; a plain paragraph, a shallower item or the other list kind starts the count again. Each level indents by one marker gutter; a nested bullet a font lacks comes from a fallback font.
- **List spacing** (space between two items of a list, in place of paragraph spacing), **hanging lists** (the outer gutter outside the box, item text lined up with plain paragraphs) and **hanging punctuation** (opening quotes and brackets outside the start edge of left-aligned and justified lines, closing punctuation outside the end edge of right-aligned and justified ones; hung punctuation takes no room when lines wrap).
- **Decoration look** per character (`TextStyle::decoration_look`, boxed, None by default): style (solid, dotted, wavy), thickness and underline offset (auto, px or % of the font size), skip ink (underlines break around descenders) and colour (its own style index in the layout, so canvas, PNG and PDF paint it without renderer changes). Decorations are drawn from `Decoration::path()` (bar, dots or wave) on the canvas, in PNG, PDF and outlined SVG.
- `node.set` keys: `listStyle` and `indentation` (range-aware with start/end), `listSpacing`, `hangingPunctuation`, `hangingList`, `textDecorationStyle`, `textDecorationThickness`, `textDecorationOffset`, `textDecorationSkipInk`, `textDecorationColor`; documented in `KEYS` and docs/mcp.md. `text.edit.key` documents Tab.
- Inspect: `listStyle`, or `lineTypes` and `lineIndentations` per paragraph; `listSpacing`, `hangingPunctuation`, `hangingList`, the decoration keys. CSS: `text-decoration-style`, `-thickness`, `-color`, `text-underline-offset`, `text-decoration-skip-ink: none` (browsers skip ink by default). Dev Mode rows: decoration style, list spacing.
- REST import: `lineTypes` with `lineIndentations` per paragraph (they collapsed to one list style for the layer before), `listSpacing`, `hangingPunctuation`, `hangingList`, the decoration style, thickness, offset, skip ink and colour; instance override names for them.
- Type settings ▸ Basics: decoration style, thickness and offset fields (with Auto), Skip ink, decoration colour; List spacing; Hanging punctuation and Hanging list checkboxes; the list control acts on the edited paragraphs. New strings in en/es.
- Components carry the new text fields in the characters and text-style override groups; scaling scales list spacing and px decoration lengths.
- `TextData::path` is boxed (`Option<Box<TextPath>>`) to keep `NodeKind` under clippy's enum size limit after the new fields.
Text layers can follow a path (start offset, flip, alignment; edited in place; canvas, PNG, SVG, PDF; SVG textPath imports as real text on a path). A new pattern paint tiles a source layer in grid or hex rows with scale, spacing and alignment, live as the source changes (SVG pattern, PDF vector tiling pattern).
PDF export gains print options, saved on PDF export settings and taken
by file.export, file.exportLayers, file.exportFramesPdf, export.add /
export.update, figcraft-cli export and the MCP export tool:
- a bleed (points or a length like 3mm / 0.125in, up to 2 in) that grows
each page and shows what lies past the frame: its fills reach out to
the bleed edge and its children are clipped there instead; a print
page of one frame is trimmed to the frame's box;
- crop and bleed marks: 0.25 pt hairlines outside the bleed in
registration colour;
- MediaBox / BleedBox / TrimBox;
- CMYK colour: fills, strokes, text, gradient stops, images and
rasterised effects converted from sRGB with the naive, deterministic
K = 1 - max(R, G, B) formula; DeviceCMYK without an output intent (no
CMYK ICC profile can ship in the repository), soft masks stay RGB.
The Design panel shows a PDF row's print settings as a summary line that
opens them; the Export dialog has print options for its PDF preset.
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- Inner shadows paint over the fills and under the children and strokes, as documented (canvas,
PNG, PDF and SVG alike; text fills every run before the inner shadow and the strokes).
- Layer and background blur gain a progressive type: the radius ramps linearly from a start radius
at a start point to the end radius at an end point (unit-box points, like gradient handles).
Rendered by blending a few geometric blur levels, each blurred only around the pixels that use
it; bands and partial renders match one piece. Design panel type menu and Start/End fields,
on-canvas handles while the settings are open, effect.add/effect.set params, startRadius
variable bindings, scale tool, REST import (blurType, startRadius, startOffset, endOffset),
Inspect row; CSS leaves progressive blurs out.
- SVG export embeds renders for what filters can't match: noise grains over the vector layer
(crisp, blended), texture and progressive layer blur whole, background blur and glass from what
lies under the layer among the exported layers. PDF and SVG share the renderer's helpers.
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PDF export
- Vector masks clip to the mask's outline, luminance masks are luminosity
soft masks (alpha masks as before).
- Background blur: the backdrop the page draws under the layer is rendered,
blurred and cut to its shape, under the layer's vector content.
- Text hyperlinks become clickable link annotations (one per line and link).
- Frames-to-PDF shares one path (`frames_pdf`): sRGB conversion for Display
P3 files, hidden frames left out, the file name as the PDF title.
- `figcraft-cli export -o x.pdf` and `convert x.figcraft x.pdf` write the
page's frames one PDF page each.
- Tests: mask types, backdrops, links, image deduplication, page sizes in
points, hostile inputs; CLI end to end. Checked by rendering the PDFs back
to PNG and diffing against the PNG export.
Prototyping
- Model: conditional actions (if / else if / else blocks), set variable mode,
and expressions (literals, variable references, + - * /, comparisons,
and/or/not, negate) for set-variable values and conditions; walk helpers
for nested actions (remap on paste, colours, destination checks, library
copies and pruning, canvas connections).
- REST import maps CONDITIONAL, SET_VARIABLE_MODE and SET_VARIABLE with
variable references and EXPRESSION values; unsupported functions (mode
lookups) skip the action with a warning.
- The presenter runs them in order (`figcraft_engine::proto_run`); the
Prototype panel summarises conditionals, edits set-variable-mode, and
`ui.set {protoEditor}` opens an interaction's editor.
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- Inline IME composition: egui Preedit events become a composition held in the text edit
session (`TextEdit.preedit`), shown inline at the caret with an underline and the IME cursor,
reflowing the text; the document only gets the committed text (`text.edit.insert`). Composing
over a selection replaces it; moving the caret or ending the edit drops an uncommitted
composition. The IME candidate window follows the cursor inside the composition.
New command `text.edit.preedit {text, cursor?}`; `text.edit.selection` reports it.
- Variable fonts: faces read their fvar axes (tag, name, range, default, hidden) and named
instances. Named instances are offered as styles and resolve in `find`; a style name with no
instance implies weight/italic/slant on the axes and optical size follows the font size.
Per-run custom axis values (`TextStyle.variations`, serde default, omitted when empty) are applied
in HarfRust shaping (ShaperInstance) and skrifa outlines/advances (cached per coordinates).
PDF export outlines non-default instances instead of embedding the default one.
- Commands/props: `fontVariations` / `variationSettings` props (whole layer or start..end),
`text.setVariations {variations, replace?}` (merges; edited range while editing),
`text.fonts {family, style?, axes: true}`; `node.get` and copy/paste properties carry the axes.
Picking a named style (Bold/Italic toggles, weight steps, fontStyle/fontWeight) drops custom
wght/ital/slnt values and keeps the others.
- Type settings ▸ Variable tab for variable fonts: a slider (default tick, double-click to reset)
and a field per visible axis, "Mixed" across differing styles, live drag as one undo step,
"Reset to style". Long style/family names stay on one line with an ellipsis and a tooltip.
- Tests: variable font shaping/outlines/clamping/instances (skipped without a variable font),
serde backward compatibility, preedit lifecycle and undo, variation commands/props/undo/junk;
junk sweeps extended with variation and preedit params.
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Dylan M. Taylor