diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard/flavours.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard/flavours.rs
index b77df2017..50a2417a5 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard/flavours.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard/flavours.rs
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Clipboard as PNG",
             [],
             None,
-            "{scale?: 1 (pixels per point, up to 64)} → {dataBase64, width, height (px)} the copied objects cropped to their visual bounds, transparent around them (dataBase64 null when the clipboard is empty)",
+            "{scale?: 1 (pixels per point, up to 64)} → {dataBase64, width, height (px), warnings} the copied objects cropped to their visual bounds, transparent around them (dataBase64 null when the clipboard is empty); warnings as for document.export (an image that couldn't be decoded, type in the fallback font or that doesn't fit its frame)",
             always,
             export_png
         ),
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Clipboard as PDF",
             [],
             None,
-            "{} → {dataBase64} a one-page PDF of the copied objects, the page their visual bounds (null when the clipboard is empty)",
+            "{} → {dataBase64, warnings} a one-page PDF of the copied objects, the page their visual bounds (dataBase64 null when the clipboard is empty); warnings as for document.export",
             always,
             export_pdf
         ),
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ fn type_only(n: &Node) -> bool {
     }
 }
 
+/// A PNG of the copied objects: (bytes, width, height in pixels, the encoder's warnings).
+pub type Png = (Vec<u8>, u32, u32, Vec<String>);
+
 impl Clipboard {
     /// The copied type objects' text, one object per line (`None` unless it holds type only).
     pub fn text(&self) -> Option<String> {
@@ -243,21 +246,21 @@ impl Clipboard {
         Some((fileio::with_single_artboard(self.to_document(), b, "Clipboard"), b))
     }
 
-    /// A PNG of the objects at `scale` pixels per point → (bytes, width, height); `None` when
-    /// there are none.
-    pub fn png(&self, scale: f64) -> Result<Option<(Vec<u8>, u32, u32)>> {
+    /// A PNG of the objects at `scale` pixels per point → (bytes, width, height, the warnings
+    /// [`fileio::encode_with_warnings`] gives); `None` when there are none.
+    pub fn png(&self, scale: f64) -> Result<Option<Png>> {
         const C: &str = "clipboard.exportPng";
         let Some((doc, b)) = self.cropped() else { return Ok(None) };
         let (w, h) = vectorcraft_render::raster_size(b, scale).map_err(|e| bad(C, e))?;
-        let png = fileio::encode(&doc, "png", &json!({ "scale": scale, "background": "transparent" }))?;
-        Ok(Some((png, w, h)))
+        let (png, warnings) = fileio::encode_with_warnings(&doc, "png", &json!({ "scale": scale, "background": "transparent" }))?;
+        Ok(Some((png, w, h, warnings)))
     }
 
-    /// A one-page PDF of the objects (without the native document inside); `None` when there are
-    /// none.
-    pub fn pdf(&self) -> Result<Option<Vec<u8>>> {
+    /// A one-page PDF of the objects (without the native document inside) → (bytes, the encoder's
+    /// warnings); `None` when there are none.
+    pub fn pdf(&self) -> Result<Option<(Vec<u8>, Vec<String>)>> {
         let Some((doc, _)) = self.cropped() else { return Ok(None) };
-        fileio::encode(&doc, "pdf", &json!({ "preserveEditing": false })).map(Some)
+        fileio::encode_with_warnings(&doc, "pdf", &json!({ "preserveEditing": false })).map(Some)
     }
 
     /// The MIME types of [`Self::flavours`], without making them.
@@ -275,23 +278,38 @@ impl Clipboard {
     /// (`pdf`) as given (see `clipboard.flavours`). A [`Flavour`] that can't be made (art too large
     /// to render) is left out; the PNG is scaled down to at most [`COPY_PNG_SIDE`] pixels a side.
     pub fn flavours(&self, svg: bool, pdf: bool) -> Vec<Flavour> {
+        self.flavours_with_warnings(svg, pdf).0
+    }
+
+    /// [`Self::flavours`], with the warnings of the PDF and PNG encoders, each once (an image that
+    /// couldn't be decoded, type in the fallback font).
+    pub fn flavours_with_warnings(&self, svg: bool, pdf: bool) -> (Vec<Flavour>, Vec<String>) {
         let types = self.flavour_types(svg, pdf);
         let svg = types.contains(&SVG).then(|| self.svg()).flatten();
         let mut out = vec![];
+        let mut warnings: Vec<String> = vec![];
+        let mut keep = |(bytes, notes): (Vec<u8>, Vec<String>)| {
+            for w in notes {
+                if !warnings.contains(&w) {
+                    warnings.push(w);
+                }
+            }
+            bytes
+        };
         for mime in types {
             let data = match mime {
                 TEXT => self.text().or_else(|| svg.clone()).map(String::into_bytes),
                 SVG => svg.clone().map(String::into_bytes),
-                PDF => self.pdf().inspect_err(|e| log::warn!("clipboard PDF: {e}")).ok().flatten(),
+                PDF => self.pdf().inspect_err(|e| log::warn!("clipboard PDF: {e}")).ok().flatten().map(&mut keep),
                 _ => {
                     let side = self.bounds().map_or(1.0, |b| b.width().max(b.height()));
                     let scale = (COPY_PNG_SIDE / side).clamp(0.01, 1.0);
-                    self.png(scale).inspect_err(|e| log::warn!("clipboard PNG: {e}")).ok().flatten().map(|(png, ..)| png)
+                    self.png(scale).inspect_err(|e| log::warn!("clipboard PNG: {e}")).ok().flatten().map(|(png, _, _, notes)| keep((png, notes)))
                 }
             };
             out.extend(data.map(|data| Flavour { mime, data }));
         }
-        out
+        (out, warnings)
     }
 }
 
@@ -302,15 +320,15 @@ impl Session {
         self.clipboard.text()
     }
 
-    /// A PNG of the copied objects at `scale` pixels per point → (bytes, width, height); `None`
-    /// when the clipboard is empty.
-    pub fn clipboard_png(&self, scale: f64) -> Result<Option<(Vec<u8>, u32, u32)>> {
+    /// A PNG of the copied objects at `scale` pixels per point → (bytes, width, height, the
+    /// encoder's warnings); `None` when the clipboard is empty.
+    pub fn clipboard_png(&self, scale: f64) -> Result<Option<Png>> {
         self.clipboard.png(scale)
     }
 
-    /// A one-page PDF of the copied objects (without the native document inside); `None` when the
-    /// clipboard is empty.
-    pub fn clipboard_pdf(&self) -> Result<Option<Vec<u8>>> {
+    /// A one-page PDF of the copied objects (without the native document inside) → (bytes, the
+    /// encoder's warnings); `None` when the clipboard is empty.
+    pub fn clipboard_pdf(&self) -> Result<Option<(Vec<u8>, Vec<String>)>> {
         self.clipboard.pdf()
     }
 
@@ -356,13 +374,18 @@ fn export_png(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
         return Err(bad("clipboard.exportPng", "scale must be a number above 0, at most 64"));
     }
     Ok(match s.clipboard_png(scale)? {
-        Some((png, w, h)) => json!({ "dataBase64": vectorcraft_format::base64_encode(&png), "width": w, "height": h }),
+        Some((png, w, h, warnings)) => {
+            json!({ "dataBase64": vectorcraft_format::base64_encode(&png), "width": w, "height": h, "warnings": warnings })
+        }
         None => json!({ "dataBase64": null }),
     })
 }
 
 fn export_pdf(s: &mut Session, _: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
-    Ok(json!({ "dataBase64": s.clipboard_pdf()?.map(|b| vectorcraft_format::base64_encode(&b)) }))
+    Ok(match s.clipboard_pdf()? {
+        Some((pdf, warnings)) => json!({ "dataBase64": vectorcraft_format::base64_encode(&pdf), "warnings": warnings }),
+        None => json!({ "dataBase64": null }),
+    })
 }
 
 fn export_text(s: &mut Session, _: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/css.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/css.rs
index 7384c9d0d..d31656b04 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/css.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/css.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use serde_json::{Value, json};
 use vectorcraft_doc::NodeId;
 use vectorcraft_svg::{CssOptions, CssSheet, css_rules};
 
-use super::fileio::{default_name, encode, isolated, write_file};
+use super::fileio::{default_name, encode_with_warnings, isolated, write_file};
 use super::*;
 
 pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Export CSS",
             [],
             None,
-            "{path?, scope?: selection|all (default selection; ids? picks the objects), …options as css.selection, id?: object id (default: the selection)} write the CSS (css.selection, or css.generate for all) to path and, with rasterize, each picture its rules refer to next to it (PNG of the object's visual bounds, 1 px per point) → {path, bytes, rules: n, images: [path…], warnings}; no path → {data: the CSS, name: <document>.css, rules, images: [{name, dataBase64}], warnings}",
+            "{path?, scope?: selection|all (default selection; ids? picks the objects), …options as css.selection, id?: object id (default: the selection)} write the CSS (css.selection, or css.generate for all) to path and, with rasterize, each picture its rules refer to next to it (PNG of the object's visual bounds, 1 px per point) → {path, bytes, rules: n, images: [path…], warnings}; no path → {data: the CSS, name: <document>.css, rules, images: [{name, dataBase64}], warnings}; warnings are css.selection's and the pictures' as document.export gives them (an image that couldn't be decoded, type in the fallback font or that doesn't fit its frame), each once",
             has_doc,
             export
         ),
@@ -100,12 +100,19 @@ fn export(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
     }
     let css = format!("{}\n", sheet.text());
     let doc = &s.doc()?.doc;
-    // The pictures of rasterized art.
+    // Encode the pictures of rasterized art, and add each of their warnings once.
     let mut images = Vec::new();
+    let mut warnings = sheet.warnings.clone();
     for r in &sheet.rules {
         let Some(name) = &r.image else { continue };
         let (d, _) = isolated(doc, &[r.id], name).ok_or_else(|| bad(C, format!("{} paints nothing to rasterize", r.selector)))?;
-        images.push((name, encode(&d, "png", &json!({}))?));
+        let (png, notes) = encode_with_warnings(&d, "png", &json!({}))?;
+        images.push((name, png));
+        for w in notes {
+            if !warnings.contains(&w) {
+                warnings.push(w);
+            }
+        }
     }
     let n = sheet.rules.len();
     match str_param(p, "path") {
@@ -118,12 +125,12 @@ fn export(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
                 write_file(&at, bytes)?;
                 written.push(at);
             }
-            Ok(json!({ "path": path, "bytes": css.len(), "rules": n, "images": written, "warnings": sheet.warnings }))
+            Ok(json!({ "path": path, "bytes": css.len(), "rules": n, "images": written, "warnings": warnings }))
         }
         None => {
             let images: Vec<Value> =
                 images.iter().map(|(name, bytes)| json!({ "name": name, "dataBase64": vectorcraft_format::base64_encode(bytes) })).collect();
-            Ok(json!({ "data": css, "name": default_name(doc, "css"), "rules": n, "images": images, "warnings": sheet.warnings }))
+            Ok(json!({ "data": css, "name": default_name(doc, "css"), "rules": n, "images": images, "warnings": warnings }))
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/export.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/export.rs
index 87751dc48..c768999a8 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/export.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/export.rs
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ use crate::DocState;
 use super::super::*;
 use super::encode::single_artboard;
 use super::{
-    ARTBOARD_PARAMS, Format, default_name, encode, encode_all, encode_with_warnings, merge, with_black_output, writable, write_encoded,
-    write_or_return,
+    ARTBOARD_PARAMS, Format, default_name, encode_all, encode_with_warnings, merge, with_black_output, writable, write_encoded, write_or_return,
 };
 
 pub(super) fn serialize(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
@@ -224,7 +223,7 @@ pub(super) fn export_selection(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
 }
 
 /// File → Save for Office Documents: one artboard as a PNG at `ppi`, on white unless
-/// `transparent`.
+/// `transparent`, with the encoder's warnings.
 pub(super) fn export_for_office(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
     const C: &str = "document.exportForOffice";
     if let Some(path) = str_param(p, "path") {
@@ -242,8 +241,8 @@ pub(super) fn export_for_office(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
     }
     let background = if bool_or(p, "transparent", false) { "transparent" } else { "white" };
     let opts = with_black_output(s, &json!({ "ppi": ppi, "background": background, "artboard": artboard }));
-    let bytes = encode(doc, "png", &opts)?;
+    let (bytes, warnings) = encode_with_warnings(doc, "png", &opts)?;
     // The pixel size, from the PNG header.
     let side = |at: usize| bytes.get(at..at + 4).and_then(|b| b.try_into().ok()).map_or(0, u32::from_be_bytes);
-    write_or_return(path, &bytes, json!({ "width": side(16), "height": side(20) }))
+    write_or_return(path, &bytes, json!({ "width": side(16), "height": side(20), "warnings": warnings }))
 }
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/mod.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/mod.rs
index 7b1e170c9..dd3f54e7e 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/mod.rs
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Save for Office Documents…",
             ["File"],
             None,
-            "{path?, ppi?: 150 (72, 150, 300… pixels per inch), transparent?: false (else on white), artboard?: 0, acknowledgeLoss?: bool (write over the file the document was read from although reading it left things out)} the artboard as a PNG for office documents and slides → {path, bytes, width, height} (pixels); no path → {dataBase64, bytes, width, height}",
+            "{path?, ppi?: 150 (72, 150, 300… pixels per inch), transparent?: false (else on white), artboard?: 0, acknowledgeLoss?: bool (write over the file the document was read from although reading it left things out)} the artboard as a PNG for office documents and slides → {path, bytes, width, height, warnings} (pixels); no path → {dataBase64, bytes, width, height, warnings}; warnings as for document.export (an image that couldn't be decoded, type in the fallback font or that doesn't fit its frame)",
             has_doc,
             export::export_for_office
         ),
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_text.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_text.rs
index 9a41aead5..4ba819ff9 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_text.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_text.rs
@@ -85,3 +85,19 @@ fn save_for_office_writes_a_png_at_the_resolution() {
     let spec = crate::cmd::find_command("document.exportForOffice").unwrap();
     assert_eq!((spec.label, spec.menu), ("Save for Office Documents…", &["File"][..]));
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn save_for_office_says_when_an_image_or_a_font_is_missing() {
+    let mut s = Session::new();
+    s.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 200, "height": 100})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(s.execute("document.exportForOffice", &json!({"ppi": 72})).unwrap()["warnings"], json!([]));
+    // The renderer can't decode the placed image, and the type's family isn't installed.
+    crate::tests_menucmds::place_undecodable_png(&mut s);
+    s.execute("text.create", &json!({"x": 5, "y": 20, "text": "Ab", "font": "Nonexistent Sans Probe"})).unwrap();
+    let r = s.execute("document.exportForOffice", &json!({"ppi": 72})).unwrap();
+    let warnings: Vec<&str> = r["warnings"].as_array().unwrap().iter().filter_map(Value::as_str).collect();
+    assert_eq!(warnings.len(), 2, "{warnings:?}");
+    assert!(warnings.contains(&"an image couldn't be decoded and is missing from the picture"), "{warnings:?}");
+    assert!(warnings.iter().any(|w| w.contains("fallback font") && w.contains("Nonexistent Sans Probe")), "{warnings:?}");
+    assert_eq!((r["width"].as_u64(), r["height"].as_u64()), (Some(200), Some(100)), "the PNG is still written");
+}
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests_clipflavours.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests_clipflavours.rs
index 7e727ec23..759f0f83a 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests_clipflavours.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests_clipflavours.rs
@@ -97,6 +97,38 @@ fn exported_pdf_pastes_back_as_vectors() {
     assert!(t.execute("clipboard.importPdf", &json!({})).is_err());
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn the_png_and_pdf_say_when_an_image_or_a_font_is_missing() {
+    const NOTE: &str = "an image couldn't be decoded and is missing from the picture";
+    let warnings = |r: &Value| -> Vec<String> { r["warnings"].as_array().unwrap().iter().filter_map(Value::as_str).map(str::to_string).collect() };
+    let mut s = session();
+    copy_red_square(&mut s);
+    assert_eq!(run(&mut s, "clipboard.exportPng", json!({}))["warnings"], json!([]));
+    assert_eq!(run(&mut s, "clipboard.exportPdf", json!({}))["warnings"], json!([]));
+    // Type in a family that isn't installed: the PNG and the PDF each name it.
+    let text = run(&mut s, "text.create", json!({"x": 5, "y": 20, "text": "Ab", "font": "Nonexistent Sans Probe"}))["id"].clone();
+    run(&mut s, "select.set", json!({"ids": [text]}));
+    run(&mut s, "edit.copy", json!({}));
+    let png = warnings(&run(&mut s, "clipboard.exportPng", json!({})));
+    assert!(png.iter().any(|w| w.contains("Nonexistent Sans Probe")), "{png:?}");
+    let pdf = warnings(&run(&mut s, "clipboard.exportPdf", json!({})));
+    assert!(pdf.iter().any(|w| w.contains("Nonexistent Sans Probe")), "{pdf:?}");
+    // Copy's formats carry the notes of both, each once.
+    let (flavours, notes) = s.clipboard.flavours_with_warnings(false, true);
+    assert_eq!(flavours.iter().map(|f| f.mime).collect::<Vec<_>>(), [TEXT, PDF, PNG]);
+    for w in png.iter().chain(&pdf) {
+        assert_eq!(notes.iter().filter(|n| *n == w).count(), 1, "{w} in {notes:?}");
+    }
+    // An image the renderer can't decode: the PNG leaves it out and says so.
+    let image = crate::tests_menucmds::place_undecodable_png(&mut s);
+    run(&mut s, "select.set", json!({"ids": [image.0]}));
+    run(&mut s, "edit.copy", json!({}));
+    assert_eq!(warnings(&run(&mut s, "clipboard.exportPng", json!({}))), [NOTE]);
+    let (flavours, notes) = s.clipboard.flavours_with_warnings(false, false);
+    assert_eq!(flavours.iter().map(|f| f.mime).collect::<Vec<_>>(), [PNG]);
+    assert_eq!(notes, [NOTE]);
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn import_image_then_paste_gives_an_image() {
     let mut s = session();
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests_css.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests_css.rs
index e62e243a9..24976e1e6 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests_css.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests_css.rs
@@ -115,3 +115,25 @@ fn export_to_a_path_puts_the_pictures_next_to_the_sheet() {
     assert!(std::fs::read(&png).unwrap().starts_with(b"\x89PNG"));
     std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
 }
+
+#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+#[test]
+fn export_says_once_when_a_rasterized_image_could_not_be_decoded() {
+    const NOTE: &str = "an image couldn't be decoded and is missing from the picture";
+    let notes = |r: &Value| r["warnings"].as_array().unwrap().iter().filter(|w| w.as_str() == Some(NOTE)).count();
+    let mut s = session();
+    run(&mut s, "shape.star", json!({"cx": 100, "cy": 100, "radius1": 40, "radius2": 20}));
+    assert_eq!(notes(&run(&mut s, "css.export", json!({"scope": "all", "rasterize": true}))), 0);
+    // Two images the renderer can't decode, each rasterized to a picture of its own.
+    crate::tests_menucmds::place_undecodable_png(&mut s);
+    crate::tests_menucmds::place_undecodable_png(&mut s);
+    let r = run(&mut s, "css.export", json!({"scope": "all", "rasterize": true}));
+    assert_eq!(r["images"].as_array().unwrap().len(), 3, "{r}");
+    assert_eq!(notes(&r), 1, "{}", r["warnings"]);
+    let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("vc-css-undecoded-{}", std::process::id()));
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+    let r = run(&mut s, "css.export", json!({"path": dir.join("site.css").to_string_lossy(), "scope": "all", "rasterize": true}));
+    assert_eq!(r["images"].as_array().unwrap().len(), 3, "the pictures are still written");
+    assert_eq!(notes(&r), 1, "{}", r["warnings"]);
+    std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
+}
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_raster_formats.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_raster_formats.rs
index dcef576a2..15fa77fda 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_raster_formats.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/tests_raster_formats.rs
@@ -133,3 +133,25 @@ fn save_for_office_documents_picks_the_resolution() {
     let img = image::load_from_memory(&written.borrow()[1].1).unwrap().to_rgba8();
     assert_eq!((img.dimensions(), img.get_pixel(0, 0).0), ((60, 40), [255, 255, 255, 255]));
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn save_for_office_and_export_selection_say_when_an_image_could_not_be_decoded() {
+    const NOTE: &str = "with 1 note(s): an image couldn't be decoded and is missing from the picture";
+    let (mut app, written) = app(1);
+    app.run("document.exportForOffice", json!({"path": "/x/o.png", "ppi": 72})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(app.ui.status, "Saved /x/o.png");
+    // A PNG whose header reads (so it places at its size) but whose pixel data is cut short.
+    let mut png = Vec::new();
+    image::RgbaImage::from_pixel(64, 32, image::Rgba([200, 30, 30, 255]))
+        .write_to(&mut std::io::Cursor::new(&mut png), image::ImageFormat::Png)
+        .unwrap();
+    let idat = png.windows(4).position(|w| w == b"IDAT").unwrap();
+    png.truncate(idat + 8);
+    app.run("file.place", json!({"name": "cut.png", "dataBase64": vectorcraft_format::base64_encode(&png), "at": [10, 10]})).unwrap();
+    app.run("document.exportForOffice", json!({"path": "/x/o.png", "ppi": 72})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(app.ui.status, format!("Saved /x/o.png {NOTE}"));
+    // Export Selection of the placed image, which stays selected.
+    app.run("document.exportSelection", json!({"path": "/x/cut.png"})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(app.ui.status, format!("Saved /x/cut.png {NOTE}"));
+    assert_eq!(written.borrow().len(), 3, "the files are still written");
+}
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/io.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/io.rs
index 77dd4220e..fa3e33b4c 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/io.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/io.rs
@@ -718,10 +718,10 @@ pub fn export(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, format: Option<&str>, path: Option<Strin
 
 /// Run an engine command that returns `{dataBase64}` and write the bytes to a picked path
 /// (Export Selection, Save for Office Documents, Text Export Options and the presets dialogs'
-/// Export…).
+/// Export…), reported with the first of the command's warnings ([`report_saved`]).
 pub fn save_command_output(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, id: &str, ext: &str, params: Value) -> Result<String, String> {
-    let (path, _) = run_to_file(app, id, ext, params)?;
-    app.status(format!("Saved {path}"));
+    let (path, v) = run_to_file(app, id, ext, params)?;
+    report_saved(app, &path, &v);
     Ok(path)
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs
index d6a4e0889..747b7b12a 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ pub const UI_COMMANDS: &[(&str, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
         "css.exportFile",
         "Export CSS…",
         "",
-        "{path?, scope?: selection|all (default selection), …css.selection options} css.export written to path, else a picked file (the web downloads it), with the pictures of rasterized art next to it (CSS Properties panel: Export Selected CSS…, Export All…) → {path, rules, images: [path…]}",
+        "{path?, scope?: selection|all (default selection), …css.selection options} css.export written to path, else a picked file (the web downloads it), with the pictures of rasterized art next to it (CSS Properties panel: Export Selected CSS…, Export All…) → {path, rules, images: [path…], warnings (css.export's; the status bar shows the first)}",
     ),
     (
         "file.print",
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/css_properties.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/css_properties.rs
index e6cd65818..5b0fe407a 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/css_properties.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/css_properties.rs
@@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ pub(crate) fn copy(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, p: &Value) -> Result<Value, String>
 }
 
 /// `css.exportFile {path?, scope?, …css.selection options}`: `css.export` written to `path`, else
-/// a picked file (the web downloads it), its pictures next to it → `{path, rules, images}`.
+/// a picked file (the web downloads it), its pictures next to it → `{path, rules, images,
+/// warnings}`.
 pub(crate) fn export_file(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, p: &Value) -> Result<Value, String> {
     let mut q = p.clone();
     let path = q.as_object_mut().and_then(|o| o.remove("path")).and_then(|v| v.as_str().map(str::to_string));
@@ -202,8 +203,14 @@ pub(crate) fn export_file(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, p: &Value) -> Result<Value,
         io::write_to(&mut app.services, &at, &bytes)?;
         images.push(at);
     }
-    app.status(format!("Exported {path}"));
-    Ok(json!({ "path": path, "rules": r["rules"], "images": images }))
+    // The status bar shows the first warning in Export As's message.
+    let warnings: Vec<&str> = r["warnings"].as_array().map(|w| w.iter().filter_map(Value::as_str).collect()).unwrap_or_default();
+    let what = &path;
+    app.status(match warnings.first() {
+        Some(first) => format!("Exported {what} with {} note(s): {first}", warnings.len()),
+        None => format!("Exported {path}"),
+    });
+    Ok(json!({ "path": path, "rules": r["rules"], "images": images, "warnings": r["warnings"] }))
 }
 
 /// The panel (≡) menu: copy and export, Generate CSS and the export options.
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/tests_css_properties.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/tests_css_properties.rs
index a73e1164e..41cb6c0ab 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/tests_css_properties.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/panels/tests_css_properties.rs
@@ -101,3 +101,23 @@ fn copy_and_export_go_through_the_ui_commands() {
     assert!(css.contains(".rectangle {") && css.contains("background-image: url(path.png);"), "{css}");
     assert!(log[1].1.starts_with(b"\x89PNG"));
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn export_says_in_the_status_bar_when_an_image_could_not_be_decoded() {
+    const WARNING: &str = "an image couldn't be decoded and is missing from the picture";
+    let (mut app, log) = app();
+    app.run("css.exportFile", json!({"path": "/tmp/site/site.css", "scope": "all", "rasterize": true})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(app.ui.status, "Exported /tmp/site/site.css");
+    // A PNG whose header reads (so it places at its size) but whose pixel data is cut short.
+    let mut png = Vec::new();
+    image::RgbaImage::from_pixel(64, 32, image::Rgba([200, 30, 30, 255]))
+        .write_to(&mut std::io::Cursor::new(&mut png), image::ImageFormat::Png)
+        .unwrap();
+    let idat = png.windows(4).position(|w| w == b"IDAT").unwrap();
+    png.truncate(idat + 8);
+    app.run("file.place", json!({"name": "cut.png", "dataBase64": vectorcraft_format::base64_encode(&png)})).unwrap();
+    let r = app.run("css.exportFile", json!({"path": "/tmp/site/site.css", "scope": "all", "rasterize": true})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(r["warnings"], json!([WARNING]));
+    assert_eq!(app.ui.status, format!("Exported /tmp/site/site.css with 1 note(s): {WARNING}"));
+    assert_eq!(log.borrow().len(), 3, "the sheet and the image's picture are still written");
+}
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/sysclip.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/sysclip.rs
index 78a2a74d3..42aed4b4e 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/sysclip.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/sysclip.rs
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ impl VectorcraftApp {
     /// ([`Self::drop_formats_after_egui_copy`]), drops the formats not written yet. While the
     /// latest Copy or Cut's formats wait to be written, Paste takes the internal clipboard, and
     /// while a text field or type has the keyboard the app waits for them
-    /// ([`Self::write_formats_before_text_input`]).
+    /// ([`Self::write_formats_before_text_input`]). Once they are written, the status bar shows
+    /// the first of the PNG's and PDF's warnings.
     pub(crate) fn publish_clipboard(&mut self) {
         if self.services.system_clipboard.is_none() {
             if self.session.prefs.copy_as_svg {
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ impl VectorcraftApp {
             // These formats are not made when a later Copy or Cut, or a copy through egui, dropped them.
             if latest.load(Ordering::SeqCst) == n {
                 // The receiver is gone only when the job was dropped unapplied.
-                let _ = tx.send(clip.flavours(svg, pdf));
+                let _ = tx.send(clip.flavours_with_warnings(svg, pdf));
             }
             Ok(Value::Null)
         };
@@ -102,16 +103,27 @@ impl VectorcraftApp {
                 return Ok(Value::Null);
             }
             publishing.pending = false;
-            let flavours = r.and_then(|_| made.try_recv().map_err(|e| e.to_string()));
-            let written = flavours.and_then(|f| app.services.system_clipboard.as_mut().map_or(Ok(()), |cb| cb.write(&f)));
-            if let Err(e) = written {
-                app.ui.status = format!("Couldn't copy to the system clipboard: {e}");
+            let formats = r.and_then(|_| made.try_recv().map_err(|e| e.to_string()));
+            let written = formats.and_then(|(f, warnings)| {
+                app.services.system_clipboard.as_mut().map_or(Ok(()), |cb| cb.write(&f))?;
+                Ok(warnings)
+            });
+            match written {
+                Err(e) => app.ui.status = format!("Couldn't copy to the system clipboard: {e}"),
+                // Show the first of the PNG's and PDF's warnings (an image that couldn't be decoded,
+                // type in the fallback font).
+                Ok(warnings) => {
+                    if let Some(first) = warnings.into_iter().next() {
+                        app.ui.status = first;
+                    }
+                }
             }
             Ok(Value::Null)
         };
         // Only the formats of other copies (jobs without a label) may be ahead of these on the worker.
         let free = self.background.jobs.iter().all(|j| j.label.is_empty());
-        // No label: the status bar doesn't show the job, and the status stays as it is.
+        // No label: the status bar doesn't show the job, and only a failure or a warning changes
+        // the status.
         if let Err(e) = background::run(self, free, String::new(), None, work, then) {
             self.ui.status = e;
         }
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_sysclip.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_sysclip.rs
index 38ddbb012..272338683 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_sysclip.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests_sysclip.rs
@@ -243,6 +243,33 @@ fn a_copy_while_the_worker_saves_writes_the_formats_at_once() {
     assert_eq!(board.borrow().writes, 1);
 }
 
+/// Copy of an image the renderer can't decode: the PNG leaves it out, and once the formats are
+/// written the status bar shows the PNG's note, made at once or on the worker.
+#[test]
+fn copy_says_in_the_status_bar_when_an_image_could_not_be_decoded() {
+    const WARNING: &str = "an image couldn't be decoded and is missing from the picture";
+    // A PNG whose header reads (so it places at its size) but whose pixel data is cut short.
+    let mut png = Vec::new();
+    image::RgbaImage::from_pixel(64, 32, image::Rgba([200, 30, 30, 255]))
+        .write_to(&mut std::io::Cursor::new(&mut png), image::ImageFormat::Png)
+        .unwrap();
+    let idat = png.windows(4).position(|w| w == b"IDAT").unwrap();
+    png.truncate(idat + 8);
+    for worker in [false, true] {
+        let (mut app, board) = if worker { app_with_worker() } else { app() };
+        app.status("Ready");
+        copy_rect(&mut app);
+        background::wait_all(&mut app);
+        assert_eq!(app.ui.status, "Ready", "worker {worker}: no note");
+        run(&mut app, "file.place", json!({"name": "cut.png", "dataBase64": vectorcraft_format::base64_encode(&png)}));
+        app.status("Ready");
+        run(&mut app, "edit.copy", json!({}));
+        background::wait_all(&mut app);
+        assert_eq!(written(&board), [TEXT, SVG, PNG], "worker {worker}");
+        assert_eq!(app.ui.status, WARNING, "worker {worker}");
+    }
+}
+
 /// Text copied in a field or with the Type tool after Copy, before the formats are written: they
 /// are not written, the system clipboard keeps the text, and Paste takes it.
 #[test]
@@ -476,7 +503,7 @@ fn a_pdf_from_another_app_pastes_as_vectors_ahead_of_its_bitmap() {
     let id = other.execute("shape.ellipse", &json!({"x": 0, "y": 0, "width": 30, "height": 30})).unwrap()["id"].clone();
     other.execute("select.set", &json!({"ids": [id]})).unwrap();
     other.execute("edit.copy", &json!({})).unwrap();
-    let pdf = other.clipboard_pdf().unwrap().unwrap();
+    let (pdf, _) = other.clipboard_pdf().unwrap().unwrap();
     copy_elsewhere(&board, vec![(PNG, blue_png()), (PDF, pdf)]);
     run(&mut app, "edit.paste", json!({}));
     let p = pasted(&app);
diff --git a/docs/control-protocol.md b/docs/control-protocol.md
index 563f72bca..5ee2e9c97 100644
--- a/docs/control-protocol.md
+++ b/docs/control-protocol.md
@@ -116,13 +116,13 @@ the two can still win that race.
 | `app.export` JPEG options | `{path?, format: jpg, quality?: 0–100, colorModel?: rgb \| cmyk \| gray, method?: baseline \| optimized \| progressive, scans?: 3–5, embedIcc?, imageMap?: none \| client \| server}` | `cmyk` writes ink amounts in the working CMYK space (CMYK colours keep their inks; RGB ones are separated with the colour settings); `embedIcc` (default true) embeds sRGB, the working CMYK profile or a grey profile, generated by the CMS; `imageMap` also writes `<stem>.html` (client-side `<map>`) or `<stem>.map` (NCSA) beside the image for the objects with a URL and an Image Map shape (`attributes.set`), returned in `linked`. The `jpgOptions` dialog has these fields too (`quality` is shown 0–10; a CMYK document defaults to `cmyk`) |
 | `app.export` PNG-8 and GIF | `{path?, format: png8 \| gif, colors?: 2–256, reduction?: perceptual \| selective \| adaptive \| web \| blackWhite \| gray, dither?: none \| diffusion \| pattern \| noise, ditherAmount?: 0–100, transparency?, matte?, interlaced?, …raster options}` | a palette of at most `colors` entries (art with that many colours or fewer keeps them exactly); pixels under half opacity become one transparent entry unless `transparency` is false, partly transparent edges are blended over `matte` (`none` keeps their colour). `png8` writes an indexed `.png` (1–8 bits per pixel); Export for Screens rows take both. The `png8Options` / `gifOptions` dialogs have these fields |
 | `app.export` Text and WebP | `{path?, format: txt, encoding?: utf8 \| utf16, lineEndings?: lf \| crlf, selectionOnly?}` / `{format: webp, lossless?, quality?}` | Text writes the stories in stacking order (back to front; a thread once; hidden objects and template layers left out), each line ended by `lineEndings`; `utf16` is little-endian with a byte order mark. Export As → Text opens `txtOptions` (fields `path`, `encoding`, `lineEndings`, `selectionOnly`; OK writes the file). WebP is always lossless: `lossless: false` adds a warning |
-| `engine.execute` `document.exportForOffice` | `{}` / `{path?, ppi?: 72 \| 150 \| 300, transparent?, artboard?}` | File → Save for Office Documents…: without params opens `saveForOffice` (fields `ppi`, `transparent`, `artboard`; OK picks the file); with params writes the artboard as a PNG (`path`, else a picked file) → `{path}`. Headless it returns `{dataBase64, width, height}` |
+| `engine.execute` `document.exportForOffice` | `{}` / `{path?, ppi?: 72 \| 150 \| 300, transparent?, artboard?}` | File → Save for Office Documents…: without params opens `saveForOffice` (fields `ppi`, `transparent`, `artboard`; OK picks the file); with params writes the artboard as a PNG (`path`, else a picked file) → `{path}`, and the status bar shows the first of the export's `warnings` as Save As shows a save's notes. Headless it returns `{dataBase64, width, height, warnings}` |
 | Native file dialogs | any command with no `path` that needs one (`file.open`, `file.saveAs`, `file.place`, exports…) | on macOS (a sheet on the window) and Linux the dialog doesn't hold the window: the call returns `"cancelled"` at once, `ui.inspect` reports `fileDialog`, and when the person at the computer picks a file the command runs again on the document it was asked for. While it is open another dialog is refused: that call returns `"cancelled"` too, and the status bar (`ui.inspect` → `ui.status`) says `"A file dialog is open: choose there first"`; on macOS `app.quit`, `file.close` and `file.closeAll` return that message and the menu bar does nothing (#592, #867). On Windows the dialog is shown in line: the call returns once it closes. Pass `path` to skip the dialog |
 | Background Save / Export | `app.save`, `app.export {path}`, `file.save`, `file.saveAs`, `file.saveCopy` | with the `backgroundSave` / `backgroundExport` preferences on (the default) the desktop app writes the file from a snapshot on a worker thread: the call returns `{path, background: true, status}` at once, `ui.inspect` lists the jobs still running in `background` (labels such as `"Saving a.vectorcraft"`), and the document counts as saved (as of the snapshot) once its file is written. Quit and Close wait for them. With the preferences off (`prefs.set`), saves return once written |
 | `engine.execute` `file.exportForScreens` | `{}` / `{…document.exportForScreens params}` | without params opens `exportForScreens` on the settings the document last exported with (`document.exportSettings`). While the Artboard tool is in use, the artboards it has selected (its `selected` option, the rows the Artboards panel highlights) are checked instead, and `select` is `range`, or `all` when every artboard is selected. Fields: `tab` (`artboards` \| `assets` \| `layers` \| `selection`; OK reads Export Layer or Export Selection on those), `layers` ([layer id…] checked), `selectionMode` (`one` \| `each`), `name` (the file name pattern of `document.exportForScreens`), `counterStart`, `folders` (`none` \| `rows` \| `format` \| `item` \| `itemFormat`), `exportPreset` (the preset applied last), `__savePreset` (the name typed to save one), `select` (`all` \| `range` \| `full`), `range` ("1-3, 5"), `boards` (a bool per artboard; checking them sets `select` and `range`), `includeBleed`, `folder` (desktop; default the Desktop, else home), `openLocation`, `subfolders`, `prefix`, `preset` (`""` \| `mobile` \| `density`), `formats` (rows `{format, scale: "2x" \| "100w" \| "100h" \| "72ppi", suffix, quality?, folder?}`), `settings` (`{png \| png8 \| jpg \| webp \| gif \| svg \| pdf: {…options}}`, the gear's Format Settings; `__settings` names the format shown). `ui.dialog.confirm` exports (a bad range or no folder keeps it open); on the web OK reads "Download" and the files download (several as one `.zip`). With params it runs `document.exportForScreens`: no `folder` returns the files (or with `zip: true` one store-only zip) as `dataBase64`; with `openLocation` the first file is shown in the file manager. When `warnings` is not empty, an export into a folder or a download shows the first in the status bar as Save As shows a save's notes |
 | Export for Screens' Assets tab, Asset Export panel | `ui.dialog.set` `tab: "assets"`, `assets: [asset id…]`; `window.panel {panel: "assetExport"}` | on the Assets tab of `exportForScreens` the `assets` field lists the checked asset ids (all of them when it opens); `ui.dialog.confirm` runs `document.exportForScreens {assets}` (nothing checked keeps it open) and OK reads "Export Asset". The Asset Export panel acts through `assets.*` and shares the format rows with the dialog (`assets.settings.set`) |
 | `engine.execute` `file.exportSelection` | `{multiple?}` | File › Export Selection…: collects the selected objects as assets (`assets.add`; one per object unless `multiple` is false) and opens `exportForScreens` on its Assets tab with just them checked → `{assets}`. `document.exportSelection` still exports the selection in one go, without the dialog |
-| CSS Properties panel | `window.panel {panel: "cssProperties"}`; `engine.execute` `css.copy` / `css.exportFile` | the panel shows `css.selection` of the selection (after Generate CSS, while nothing is selected, `css.generate`); its menu holds the options the commands take (`units`, `position`, `dimensions`, `unnamed`, `rasterize`). `css.copy {scope?, …options}` copies the CSS to the clipboard → `{css, rules}`; `css.exportFile {path?, scope?, …options}` writes `css.export` to `path` (else a picked file; the web downloads it) with the pictures of rasterized art next to it → `{path, rules, images}` |
+| CSS Properties panel | `window.panel {panel: "cssProperties"}`; `engine.execute` `css.copy` / `css.exportFile` | the panel shows `css.selection` of the selection (after Generate CSS, while nothing is selected, `css.generate`); its menu holds the options the commands take (`units`, `position`, `dimensions`, `unnamed`, `rasterize`). `css.copy {scope?, …options}` copies the CSS to the clipboard → `{css, rules}`; `css.exportFile {path?, scope?, …options}` writes `css.export` to `path` (else a picked file; the web downloads it) with the pictures of rasterized art next to it → `{path, rules, images, warnings}`, and the status bar shows the first of `warnings` as Export As shows an export's notes |
 
 | `ui.dialog.*` on `importPdf` | `{field: "page" \| "allPages" \| "range" \| "cropTo" \| "password", value}` | opening (`app.open`, `file.open`) a PDF or `.ai` with several pages or a password, or placing one (`file.place` without `page`), opens the Import PDF dialog (`mode`: `open` or `place`; `pageCount`). While `__locked` is true, set `password` and `ui.dialog.confirm` to unlock it (a one-page file then opens or is placed). Then set `allPages: false` and `range` ("2-3, 5") to open some pages, or `page` to place one, and `cropTo` (`bounding`, `art`, `crop`, `trim`, `bleed`, `media`); `ui.dialog.confirm` opens or places them (placing keeps the other `file.place` params, such as `link`, `template` and `at`, in `__place`). `document.open {pages, cropTo, password}` and `file.place {page, crop, password}` do the same without the dialog |
 
@@ -572,7 +572,8 @@ dialog, a drop) opens the `textImport` dialog (fields `platform`: `windows`/`mac
 type with those options (`file.place {text: {…}}`).
 
 System clipboard formats: through the desktop app, `edit.copy` and `edit.cut` publish what `clipboard.flavours`
-lists to the system clipboard, and every Paste command first loads what another app copied (`clipboard.importSvg`,
+lists to the system clipboard (once they are written, the status bar shows the first of the PNG's and PDF's
+`warnings`, such as an image that couldn't be decoded), and every Paste command first loads what another app copied (`clipboard.importSvg`,
 `importPdf`, `importEps`, `importText` or `importImage`, centred in the view; the desktop app reads PDF and EPS from
 the Windows clipboard and, with SVG, from the macOS pasteboard, and an `.eps` file, or a `.ai` or `.ait` file that holds a PDF or PostScript, copied in a file manager anywhere); an import error answers the Paste with that error
 and pastes nothing. Cmd+V also pastes a bitmap or PDF with no text beside it (on the key's release, as egui sends no
diff --git a/docs/mcp.md b/docs/mcp.md
index e026708a5..e0e962bf9 100644
--- a/docs/mcp.md
+++ b/docs/mcp.md
@@ -2725,7 +2725,9 @@ preferences: `text/plain` (the text of a type-only copy, else the SVG markup wit
 area). Each one has a query command:
 `clipboard.exportSvg`, `clipboard.exportText` (null unless every copied object is type), `clipboard.exportPdf`
 (a one-page PDF, the page the objects' visual bounds) and `clipboard.exportPng {scale?}` (cropped to the objects,
-transparent around them).
+transparent around them). As in `document.export`, the PDF's and the PNG's replies list their notes in `warnings`
+(type written in the fallback font…; the PNG's also say when an image couldn't be decoded). After Copy or Cut the app
+shows the first note of the PDF and PNG it offers in the status bar.
 
 What other apps copied goes into the clipboard with `clipboard.importSvg`, `clipboard.importPdf {dataBase64, page?,
 password?}` (the page's objects), `clipboard.importEps {dataBase64}` (an EPS or other PostScript picture's objects,
@@ -3178,8 +3180,10 @@ says when CSS can't describe the art exactly (`unsupported`: other shapes, image
 written as its box, or with `rasterize: true` as `background-image: url(<class>.png)`. `units` is `px` (1 px per
 point, as in SVG export), `pt`, `mm`, `cm` or `in`; `unnamed: false` leaves out unnamed objects (counted in
 `skipped`). `css.generate` does the same for the whole document, and `css.export {path?, scope?: selection|all}`
-writes the `.css` file with the PNGs of rasterized art next to it (no path: `data` and `images` as base64). In the app,
-`css.copy` copies the CSS and `css.exportFile` writes it through a save panel (the web downloads it).
+writes the `.css` file with the PNGs of rasterized art next to it (no path: `data` and `images` as base64). Its
+`warnings` add the PNGs' notes to the CSS's, each once (an image that couldn't be decoded, type written in the
+fallback font…). In the app, `css.copy` copies the CSS and `css.exportFile` writes it through a save panel (the web
+downloads it) and shows the first note in the status bar.
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"css.selection","params":{"units":"px","position":true}}}