From 5beed58f0fc4a08d7b7505a0e4a6d2788e29d23d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dotCooCoo Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 15:41:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] PDF export: the art-bounds warning appears only with Preserve Editing on A PDF of the art's bounds never carries Preserve Editing data, and the export adds its warning only when Preserve Editing was on. docs/mcp.md and the document.exportPdf params text now say so. --- crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/pdf.rs | 2 +- docs/mcp.md | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/pdf.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/pdf.rs index de55f14a02..acc22c7876 100644 --- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/pdf.rs +++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/pdf.rs @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec { "Export PDF", [], None, - "{path?, preset?: \"VectorCraft Default\" (built-in or saved: pdf.preset.list), artboard? | artboards?: [i…] | range?: \"1-3, 5\" (1-based; default all, one page each), useArtboards?: true (false: one page, the bounds of the visible art, as document.export writes it; artboard, artboards and range are then ignored, Preserve Editing is left out with a warning, and a document with no visible art is refused), standard?: none|pdfA2b|pdfX1a (CMYK, grey and spot colours only: colours and images converted to output.destination or the CMYK output intent, untagged; transparency flattened with flattenerPreset; PDF 1.3)|pdfX3 (colours ICC-tagged; transparency flattened; PDF 1.3)|pdfX4 (transparency and layers kept; colours ICC-tagged; PDF 1.6 at most) (PDF/X: a /GTS_PDFX output intent, by default the CMYK profile in effect, embedded; TrimBox, Trapped, GTS_PDFXVersion, title and dates; fonts embedded or outlined), compatibility?: 1.3 (no transparency: it is flattened with flattenerPreset, without the layers the file leaves out; images keep no see-through pixels)|1.4|1.5|1.6|1.7 (default)|2.0 (choosing a standard sets its version: 1.7 for pdfA2b, 1.6 for pdfX4, 1.3 for pdfX1a and pdfX3, which write 1.4 as 1.3 too; pdfA2b refuses 1.3; a page with a side longer than 14,400 pt keeps its size with a UserUnit from 1.6 on: 1.5 is then written as 1.6, with 1.5's encryption, and so is 1.4 in pdfA2b files, with a warning; PDF/X files and other 1.3 and 1.4 files write it in points, and 1.3 and 1.4 (pdfX1a and pdfX3 too) refuse a page past 32,767 pt whose size or art needs a real number past 32,767; a page whose short side is 3 pt or longer but would be under 3 units at that UserUnit gets a smaller one that keeps the short side at 3 units; a warning gives each such page's size), longPagesInPoints?: false (true: such a page is written at its size in points, without a UserUnit, at every version, and 1.5 stays 1.5, in files without a standard (PDF/A files keep the UserUnit); apps that keep to the limit cut it to 200 in), preserveEditing? (on in VectorCraft Default: the native document as an embedded file, which document.open restores; choosing a standard turns it off, a standard refuses it), thumbnails? (each page drawn as a /Thumb image, 106 px on its long side), fastWebView? (a linearised file: the first page shows while the rest downloads; it stays linearised when encrypted), viewAfterSaving? (the app opens the written file), createLayers? (each layer and sublayer but template layers as a PDF layer, an optional content group listed under its layer's: hidden layers off, non-printing ones /PrintState /OFF, locked ones locked; needs 1.5 or later; they reopen as layers; choosing pdfX1a or pdfX3 turns it off; they refuse it), includeNonPrinting? (keep layers whose Print option is off; left out by default unless createLayers), flattenerPreset?: \"\" (High Resolution) | high | medium | low | a saved preset (flattener.presets.list): what PDF 1.3 files flatten transparency with, flattener?: {object.flattenTransparency options over it}, compression?: {color?, gray?: {downsample: none|average|subsample|bicubic, ppi: 300, abovePpi: 450, compression: none|zip|jpeg|jpeg2000|auto, quality: minimum|low|medium|high|maximum}, mono?: {downsample, ppi: 1200, abovePpi: 1800, compression: none|ccittG3|ccittG4|zip|runLength} (black-and-white images), compressText?: true} (images above abovePpi are resampled to ppi; auto keeps JPEGs JPEG, the others lossless; JPEG needs opaque images; none, jpeg2000, CCITT and runLength are written as ZIP with a warning), marks?: {trim, registration, colorBars, pageInfo, kind: roman|japanese, weight: 0.25 (trim marks and targets), offset: 6 (pt from the artboard, at least the bleed)} (printer's marks in [Registration], every plate: trim marks, registration targets mid-side, CMYK/spot/black-tint colour bars on top, page information (title, artboard, date UTC) below), bleed?: {useDocument (the document's bleed, document.setup), top, bottom, left, right} (pt; art in the bleed is kept; a PDF/X file with no bleed on a side where the document's bleed has one comes back with a warning). Each page: TrimBox = artboard, BleedBox = artboard + bleed, MediaBox = that + the marks' room (art clipped to the BleedBox), output?: {conversion: none (default)|destination (every colour into the destination profile's model, CMYK or RGB, also colours of that model in another profile)|preserveNumbers (only colours of the other model and Lab; those in the destination's model keep their numbers) (grey stays grey; images are converted too, printer's marks are not), destination: profile name (edit.colorSettings lists them; default: the document's profile for its colour mode), profiles: none (device colours)|all|destination|taggedSource (documents assigned a profile: edit.assignProfile) (ICC-based colours: CMYK with the destination or document CMYK profile, RGB as sRGB, grey with the sRGB tone curve; PDF/A, pdfX3 and pdfX4 always, whatever profiles says), outputIntent: profile name (embedded as the catalog's /GTS_PDFX output intent; a name that isn't a profile is only named, which pdfX1a and pdfX3 allow only with a registry and pdfX4 refuses; pdfX1a needs a CMYK one), outputCondition, outputConditionId (default: outputIntent), registry, trapped (/Trapped /True; /False when an output intent is written)} (PDF/A files keep their own output intent), advanced?: {fontSubsetPercent: 100 (below 100 is accepted with a warning: fonts are always embedded as subsets), outlineText: false (type as real, selectable and searchable text in embedded subset fonts with a ToUnicode map; fonts whose licence forbids embedding, or allows only whole fonts, stay outlines with a warning; true: every glyph as an outline), overprint: preserve (overprinting fills and strokes set /OP /op true, /OPM 1; white ones knock out with document.setup discardWhiteOverprint)|discard (they knock out)}, security?: {openPassword, permissionsPassword, printing: none|low|high, changes: none|pages|forms|comments|any, copy, screenReader, plaintextMetadata}, acknowledgeLoss?: bool (write over the file the document was read from although reading it left things out), format?: \"pdf\"} → {path, bytes, warnings}; no path → {dataBase64, bytes, warnings}. The options apply over the preset (null keeps its value); options accepted but not applied yet come back as warnings; a standard with a PDF version it doesn't allow and a password with a standard are refused, and so is a PDF/X file that would still break its standard (transparency the flattener left, RGB in pdfX1a, a font not embedded) or a PDF 1.3 file with transparency left. document.export {format: pdf} takes the same options. A key PDF doesn't take, and an unknown key inside one of the option objects, are refused", + "{path?, preset?: \"VectorCraft Default\" (built-in or saved: pdf.preset.list), artboard? | artboards?: [i…] | range?: \"1-3, 5\" (1-based; default all, one page each), useArtboards?: true (false: one page, the bounds of the visible art, as document.export writes it; artboard, artboards and range are then ignored, Preserve Editing is left out (with a warning when it is on), and a document with no visible art is refused), standard?: none|pdfA2b|pdfX1a (CMYK, grey and spot colours only: colours and images converted to output.destination or the CMYK output intent, untagged; transparency flattened with flattenerPreset; PDF 1.3)|pdfX3 (colours ICC-tagged; transparency flattened; PDF 1.3)|pdfX4 (transparency and layers kept; colours ICC-tagged; PDF 1.6 at most) (PDF/X: a /GTS_PDFX output intent, by default the CMYK profile in effect, embedded; TrimBox, Trapped, GTS_PDFXVersion, title and dates; fonts embedded or outlined), compatibility?: 1.3 (no transparency: it is flattened with flattenerPreset, without the layers the file leaves out; images keep no see-through pixels)|1.4|1.5|1.6|1.7 (default)|2.0 (choosing a standard sets its version: 1.7 for pdfA2b, 1.6 for pdfX4, 1.3 for pdfX1a and pdfX3, which write 1.4 as 1.3 too; pdfA2b refuses 1.3; a page with a side longer than 14,400 pt keeps its size with a UserUnit from 1.6 on: 1.5 is then written as 1.6, with 1.5's encryption, and so is 1.4 in pdfA2b files, with a warning; PDF/X files and other 1.3 and 1.4 files write it in points, and 1.3 and 1.4 (pdfX1a and pdfX3 too) refuse a page past 32,767 pt whose size or art needs a real number past 32,767; a page whose short side is 3 pt or longer but would be under 3 units at that UserUnit gets a smaller one that keeps the short side at 3 units; a warning gives each such page's size), longPagesInPoints?: false (true: such a page is written at its size in points, without a UserUnit, at every version, and 1.5 stays 1.5, in files without a standard (PDF/A files keep the UserUnit); apps that keep to the limit cut it to 200 in), preserveEditing? (on in VectorCraft Default: the native document as an embedded file, which document.open restores; choosing a standard turns it off, a standard refuses it), thumbnails? (each page drawn as a /Thumb image, 106 px on its long side), fastWebView? (a linearised file: the first page shows while the rest downloads; it stays linearised when encrypted), viewAfterSaving? (the app opens the written file), createLayers? (each layer and sublayer but template layers as a PDF layer, an optional content group listed under its layer's: hidden layers off, non-printing ones /PrintState /OFF, locked ones locked; needs 1.5 or later; they reopen as layers; choosing pdfX1a or pdfX3 turns it off; they refuse it), includeNonPrinting? (keep layers whose Print option is off; left out by default unless createLayers), flattenerPreset?: \"\" (High Resolution) | high | medium | low | a saved preset (flattener.presets.list): what PDF 1.3 files flatten transparency with, flattener?: {object.flattenTransparency options over it}, compression?: {color?, gray?: {downsample: none|average|subsample|bicubic, ppi: 300, abovePpi: 450, compression: none|zip|jpeg|jpeg2000|auto, quality: minimum|low|medium|high|maximum}, mono?: {downsample, ppi: 1200, abovePpi: 1800, compression: none|ccittG3|ccittG4|zip|runLength} (black-and-white images), compressText?: true} (images above abovePpi are resampled to ppi; auto keeps JPEGs JPEG, the others lossless; JPEG needs opaque images; none, jpeg2000, CCITT and runLength are written as ZIP with a warning), marks?: {trim, registration, colorBars, pageInfo, kind: roman|japanese, weight: 0.25 (trim marks and targets), offset: 6 (pt from the artboard, at least the bleed)} (printer's marks in [Registration], every plate: trim marks, registration targets mid-side, CMYK/spot/black-tint colour bars on top, page information (title, artboard, date UTC) below), bleed?: {useDocument (the document's bleed, document.setup), top, bottom, left, right} (pt; art in the bleed is kept; a PDF/X file with no bleed on a side where the document's bleed has one comes back with a warning). Each page: TrimBox = artboard, BleedBox = artboard + bleed, MediaBox = that + the marks' room (art clipped to the BleedBox), output?: {conversion: none (default)|destination (every colour into the destination profile's model, CMYK or RGB, also colours of that model in another profile)|preserveNumbers (only colours of the other model and Lab; those in the destination's model keep their numbers) (grey stays grey; images are converted too, printer's marks are not), destination: profile name (edit.colorSettings lists them; default: the document's profile for its colour mode), profiles: none (device colours)|all|destination|taggedSource (documents assigned a profile: edit.assignProfile) (ICC-based colours: CMYK with the destination or document CMYK profile, RGB as sRGB, grey with the sRGB tone curve; PDF/A, pdfX3 and pdfX4 always, whatever profiles says), outputIntent: profile name (embedded as the catalog's /GTS_PDFX output intent; a name that isn't a profile is only named, which pdfX1a and pdfX3 allow only with a registry and pdfX4 refuses; pdfX1a needs a CMYK one), outputCondition, outputConditionId (default: outputIntent), registry, trapped (/Trapped /True; /False when an output intent is written)} (PDF/A files keep their own output intent), advanced?: {fontSubsetPercent: 100 (below 100 is accepted with a warning: fonts are always embedded as subsets), outlineText: false (type as real, selectable and searchable text in embedded subset fonts with a ToUnicode map; fonts whose licence forbids embedding, or allows only whole fonts, stay outlines with a warning; true: every glyph as an outline), overprint: preserve (overprinting fills and strokes set /OP /op true, /OPM 1; white ones knock out with document.setup discardWhiteOverprint)|discard (they knock out)}, security?: {openPassword, permissionsPassword, printing: none|low|high, changes: none|pages|forms|comments|any, copy, screenReader, plaintextMetadata}, acknowledgeLoss?: bool (write over the file the document was read from although reading it left things out), format?: \"pdf\"} → {path, bytes, warnings}; no path → {dataBase64, bytes, warnings}. The options apply over the preset (null keeps its value); options accepted but not applied yet come back as warnings; a standard with a PDF version it doesn't allow and a password with a standard are refused, and so is a PDF/X file that would still break its standard (transparency the flattener left, RGB in pdfX1a, a font not embedded) or a PDF 1.3 file with transparency left. document.export {format: pdf} takes the same options. A key PDF doesn't take, and an unknown key inside one of the option objects, are refused", has_doc, export_pdf ), diff --git a/docs/mcp.md b/docs/mcp.md index be2c6ee513..5e86a9c64b 100644 --- a/docs/mcp.md +++ b/docs/mcp.md @@ -956,7 +956,8 @@ or `range`), named `-.`, and returns `{path, files}` (a PDF SVG writes one file per artboard of a `range`); `useArtboards: false` exports the bounds of the visible art with what its effects paint, the effects of groups, type and images included. `artboard.fitToArt` measures the art the same way. `document.exportPdf {useArtboards: false}` writes that one page as well, and ignores `artboard`, `artboards` and -`range`. A PDF of that page, from either command, carries no Preserve Editing data and comes back with a warning. +`range`. A PDF of that page, from either command, carries no Preserve Editing data; when Preserve Editing is on (as it +is in VectorCraft Default), the export comes back with a warning that says so. Export As PDF continues in the Save PDF dialog with Use Artboards on or off; with it off, the dialog has no Artboards section and the page is the bounds of the visible art.