prefs.set (application) and document.preferences (units, increments, grids; undoable).
Scaling applies to content: paths and placed graphics take the scale, stroke weights follow
with Include Stroke Weight. X/Y/W/H and transform.set measure the stroke's outer edge.
The command palette becomes Quick Apply and lists styles.
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- designcraft-textimport (L3): DOCX (styles by name with spacing/indents/alignment and font,
size, bold/italic/underline/strike/caps/position; runs, tabs, breaks, footnotes, tables,
hyperlink/field results; used styles only), RTF (text, paragraphs, bold/italic/underline/
strike, size, Unicode/cp1252, skipped destinations), plain text (+ tests)
- engine: file.place routes text files into the insertion point, the selected frame or a new
frame on the page; imported styles added (existing win); removeStyles; autoflow adds pages
with threaded frames until the story fits (+ test)
- app/web: Place dialogs accept .docx/.rtf/.txt/.md
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- color: Swatch.hidden — unnamed colours (applied, not listed in Swatches until added)
- engine: object.color (reuses a swatch with the same colour, else an unnamed one; fill or
stroke), swatch.addToSwatches (optionally named; users follow the rename),
swatch.addUnnamed (+ test)
- UI: Color panel with fill/stroke proxy, CMYK/RGB/Lab, channel sliders with gradient tracks and
value fields, tint slider for named swatches, spectrum ramp, Add to Swatches; Color Picker
dialog (double-click a proxy chip); Swatches hides unnamed colours
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- Edit › Paste Into (⌥⌘V): copied objects (with their stories and images) become the selected
frame's content, clipped by it; Item::is_group / has_nested_items; renderer and PDF draw fill,
clipped content, stroke; IDML nests the items inside the frame both ways (verified in
InDesign 2026) (+ tests)
- Polygon Settings: sides and star inset as engine preferences used by the polygon tools and
frame.create; double-click the Polygon tool (+ test)
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- engine::recovery: unsaved documents written to a recovery folder (atomic write + metadata),
reopened as unsaved documents that remember their files; entries dropped on save/close
(+ tests); file.recovery.list/save/open, file.revert, file.saveACopy (+ test)
- app: recovery folder per platform, recovered on launch with a status message; UI writes
recovery data every 30 s while documents are unsaved; File › Save a Copy…, Revert
- parity: recovery, revert, save a copy done
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- doc: FOOTNOTE_REF marker + Story::notes (kept in sync on insert/delete/thread), FootnoteOptions,
NumberStyle::Symbols, footnote text addressed like cell text (CellAddr::footnote)
- compose: notes numbered (continuous / restart per page, spread, section), composed at column
width, body text makes room, stacked at the column bottom with the rule above
- render + PDF draw footnote text; IDML export/import in InDesign's structure (verified in
InDesign 2026), FootnoteOption preferences
- engine: footnote.insert/options/list/setText/delete/goToReference (+ tests)
- UI: caret/selection in footnote text, Footnote Options dialog, Type menu entries; menu items
labelled '…' with parameters open a dialog generated from the command's params doc
- sample magazine carries a footnote
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