In a clip group or a clipping layer the bottom child is the clipping path.
Object › Arrange moved the selected children with no regard for that slot:
Send to Back (and Send Backward from just above it) put the art under the
clipping path, so the art became the clipping path, lost its role as art,
and the group drew nothing. Bring Forward / to Front on the clipping path
itself would likewise have made art the clip. Layers-panel moves already
keep the clipping path at the bottom (layer.rs, `index.max(1)`); arrange
didn't.
- object.rs `arrange`: in a parent that clips, the clipping path is left
where it is and the art is arranged within the slots above it (Back goes
to just above the clipping path, Backward stops there).
- tests: Back, Backward, several objects, and Forward/Front on the
clipping path in a clip group (with a render check); Send to Back in a
clipping layer.
layer.clippingMask.toggle {id?} -> {clip}: the top object of the current
layer (or of the one selected group, or of `id`) becomes the clipping path,
unpainted and moved to the bottom so art added later is clipped too; pressing
the button again releases the mask and leaves the path unpainted. One undo
step. The Layers panel button runs it and underlines clipping-path names.
Model: NodeKind::Layer.clip (skipped when false). Clipped layers render, hit
test, bound, and export to SVG and PDF like clip groups (Node::clips /
set_clips); the clip-path helpers are shared with Make/Release Clipping Mask.
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Clip groups clip by compound paths (with their holes), even-odd paths, text
outlines and groups (the union of their members) on screen, in raster
export, in SVG and in PDF alike, through one shared region:
Node::clip_outline (the model walk) and effects::clip_outline (text
outlined, several shapes united), cached per clipping path in the
renderer. Nothing to clip by hides the clipped art everywhere, and clicks
hit a clip group only inside its clipping region. Make Clipping Mask takes
a compound path or text object on top (it loses its paint) and Release
gives it back unchanged in kind.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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