A knockout group was written as a chain of soft masks, one inside the
next for each element, so a group of about 200 elements made a PDF that
VectorCraft's own PDF import refused (form nesting past 50) and an SVG
that the web build refused as too deep.
- PDF writes a knockout group as one transparency group with /K true,
with /I true when the group isolates, and PDF import reads it back as
a knockout group. An element with several paints is drawn as one
group inside it, so its own fills and strokes do not knock each other
out.
- Where an element knocks out less than the area it paints (its opacity
or mask defines its knockout shape, or it paints translucently), each
element is drawn through one soft mask of the overlapping elements
above it. Past 65,536 objects in a group's masks, or 2,048 elements,
the group is a PDF knockout group, with a warning.
- SVG draws each element through one mask of the overlapping elements
above it, built from one shared copy of each element's shape, so the
elements stay siblings. Past 65,536 shapes in a group's masks, or
2,048 elements, the group is written as a plain group, with a warning.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Move form transforms into page space so Quartz keeps gradients aligned with their artwork. Add macOS rendering regressions and round-trip coverage for transparency, masks, layers and overprint.
Update the fix for the shared craft-pdf writer and the split exporter modules. Preserve upstream mask, coordinate-limit and layer-box fixes, moving the layer's paper bounds into the form's new space too.
Verified all three Quartz regressions fail on upstream 65adb7b21 and all five gradient-form tests pass with the fix. The new translated-layer regression also fails without moving the layer's paper bounds.
Before the final rebase onto 782f213e4: 463 PDF tests passed (one existing ignored test), workspace fmt, PDF Clippy, wasm, pdf-deps, layers, assets and brands passed. The final rebase reconciles documentation only; the PDF crate is unchanged from that tested revision.
After the final rebase, workspace fmt and Clippy pass. Full cargo xtask ci timed out while compiling workspace tests, so the full test suite and remaining CI stages did not complete. The earlier macOS Clippy blocker has been fixed upstream.
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