.fig files open through file.open, file.import, drag and drop, the dialogs, the CLI and MCP. A generic reader written from the public format description decodes the zip, the deflate/zstd chunks and the kiwi schema and message, then maps nodes by field name onto the REST importer: layer tree, geometry, paints with styles resolved, strokes, effects, text runs, vectors as outlines, auto layout including grid, constraints, components, sets, instances expanded from their main with overrides, styles, variables with modes and bindings, prototyping and image fills. Unsupported layers come back as warnings. Fuzzed; tested on fixtures generated in code. New dependency: ruzstd (pure-Rust zstd decoder).
Animated GIF image fills keep their frames (first frame on the canvas and in exports; the presenter and preview play them, capped frames and memory, idle when not playing). TIFF images open, import, place and drop (pure-Rust decoder already in the tree); SVG exports embed TIFF and BMP as PNG. HEIC and video stay out (non-Rust decoders).
figcraft-server hosts many files over the same hub the app uses for sessions, persists each as a checksummed snapshot plus an append-only log (synced before replies, compacted, damaged files skipped and reported) so restarts lose nothing confirmed, and gives per-file share links with edit or view access (hashed 128-bit tokens, revocable). The app can publish a file to a server and join server-hosted files; view-only tabs refuse edits. Protocol version 2.
PDF export gains print options, saved on PDF export settings and taken
by file.export, file.exportLayers, file.exportFramesPdf, export.add /
export.update, figcraft-cli export and the MCP export tool:
- a bleed (points or a length like 3mm / 0.125in, up to 2 in) that grows
each page and shows what lies past the frame: its fills reach out to
the bleed edge and its children are clipped there instead; a print
page of one frame is trimmed to the frame's box;
- crop and bleed marks: 0.25 pt hairlines outside the bleed in
registration colour;
- MediaBox / BleedBox / TrimBox;
- CMYK colour: fills, strokes, text, gradient stops, images and
rasterised effects converted from sRGB with the naive, deterministic
K = 1 - max(R, G, B) formula; DeviceCMYK without an output intent (no
CMYK ICC profile can ship in the repository), soft masks stay RGB.
The Design panel shows a PDF row's print settings as a summary line that
opens them; the Export dialog has print options for its PDF preset.
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SVG import comes in editable and looking right: groups named from their
ids with transforms baked into the layers (rotated, scaled and skewed
groups, viewBox scaling and <use> offsets used to be lost); rectangles,
ellipses and lines recognised and kept as those shapes; gradients with
exact handles, reflect/repeat and focal points; patterns as image fills;
clip paths and masks as vector, luminance and alpha masks; shadow and
blur filter chains as drop shadows, inner shadows and layer blurs; blend
modes; text as text layers (it used to vanish); images and nested SVG
images. What can't be represented is reported as import warnings
(file.import / file.open warnings, figcraft-cli info notes). Linked
files are never read, and documents nested too deep for the parser are
refused instead of crashing.
Pasted SVG is recognised after XML declarations, comments and doctypes
and lands centred in the view (file.import center). SVG export writes
vector masks as clip paths and alpha/luminance masks as the mask layer
drawn, so masks survive a round trip.
Tests: a corpus of 21 synthetic SVG files with hand-worked expected
pixels (158 probes), structure checks and export round trips; unit tests
for shape recognition, paints, filters, structure, mask export; hostile
input and byte-mangled corpus fuzzing; engine file command tests.
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PDF export
- Vector masks clip to the mask's outline, luminance masks are luminosity
soft masks (alpha masks as before).
- Background blur: the backdrop the page draws under the layer is rendered,
blurred and cut to its shape, under the layer's vector content.
- Text hyperlinks become clickable link annotations (one per line and link).
- Frames-to-PDF shares one path (`frames_pdf`): sRGB conversion for Display
P3 files, hidden frames left out, the file name as the PDF title.
- `figcraft-cli export -o x.pdf` and `convert x.figcraft x.pdf` write the
page's frames one PDF page each.
- Tests: mask types, backdrops, links, image deduplication, page sizes in
points, hostile inputs; CLI end to end. Checked by rendering the PDFs back
to PNG and diffing against the PNG export.
Prototyping
- Model: conditional actions (if / else if / else blocks), set variable mode,
and expressions (literals, variable references, + - * /, comparisons,
and/or/not, negate) for set-variable values and conditions; walk helpers
for nested actions (remap on paste, colours, destination checks, library
copies and pruning, canvas connections).
- REST import maps CONDITIONAL, SET_VARIABLE_MODE and SET_VARIABLE with
variable references and EXPRESSION values; unsupported functions (mode
lookups) skip the action with a warning.
- The presenter runs them in order (`figcraft_engine::proto_run`); the
Prototype panel summarises conditionals, edits set-variable-mode, and
`ui.set {protoEditor}` opens an interaction's editor.
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Large documents stay interactive: the canvas re-renders only what a pan uncovers or an edit
touches, the layers panel lays out only the rows in view, and per-frame work no longer walks the
whole page.
- Benchmark: `cargo xtask bench [SIZES]` builds synthetic pages (`figcraft_engine::synthetic`:
screens with an auto layout header, a card group, button instances and shapes/text) at
1k/10k/50k layers and prints engine/render timings (`figcraft-cli perf --layers 1000,10000`) and
headless whole-UI frame timings (an ignored ui-egui test).
- Retained canvas rendering (`figcraft_render::Retained`, used by the render worker): views snap
to whole device pixels, so a pan shifts the previous image in place and renders only the
uncovered strips; an edit renders only where changed layers were and are
(`Document::changed_ids` diffs the two versions skipping shared structure; ancestors that paint
from their children's pixels - booleans, effects, masks - count whole; background blur reach
and noise are allowed for). Zoom, page, options, font or page-level changes, or large changes,
render the whole view as before. `ui.inspect` reports `canvas.renderWork`.
- The texture image is converted on the render thread, not the UI thread.
- Layers panel: only visible rows are laid out (stable ids while scrolling); rows are cached per
document version, page, expanded set and filter.
- Frame labels and layout grids of off-screen top-level frames are skipped; the Prototype tab's
connection sources are cached per document version.
- Text: the layout cache keys by a cheap fingerprint confirmed by `TextData` equality (no Debug
formatting per lookup, 32k entries) and hands out shared layouts; a layout generation marks
renders stale when fonts arrive. Overflowing text is culled by its glyphs, so it no longer
vanishes while its box is off screen.
Before -> after (release, Windows, 1440x900 view, ms; 10k / 50k layers):
- move one layer, re-render @100%: 7.65 / 6.49 -> 0.18 / 0.81
- move one layer, re-render zoomed out: 11.95 / 24.10 -> 0.16 / 0.77
- pan 40 px @100%: 7.53 / 6.82 -> 0.69 / 0.81
- pan 40 px zoomed out: 12.07 / 24.30 -> 1.62 / 4.17
- full render @100% / zoomed to fit: 7.78 / 44.22 -> 6.56 / 38.83 (10k @100%, 50k fit)
- UI frame, every screen expanded in layers: 6.16 / 39.07 -> 0.24 / 0.57
- UI frame, scrolling that panel: 6.11 / 40.18 -> 0.43 / 0.40
- UI frame, layers filtered by name: 1.03 / 6.92 -> 0.17 / 0.36
- UI frame, Prototype tab: 0.89 / 6.45 -> 0.18 / 0.80
- UI frame, idle: 0.31 / 1.43 -> 0.11 / 0.39
Unchanged and within budget: single-layer edits through the engine ~0.01 ms, normalize after a
one-node edit < 0.01 ms, hit test 26 / 93 us. Left: save/load at 50k (~0.7 s each), zoomed-out
renders at 50k (~40 ms).
Tests: retained renders match full renders after pans, moves, recolours, hide/remove/add, undo,
masks, overflowing text, edits under a background blur and an inner-shadow/noise layer, a drop-
shadowed group, and a blur panned in from the view's edge; zoom/page/options/page background
render full; junk views don't panic. Layer-row and prototype-source caches follow edits, undo,
page switches, expansion and the filter. `changed_ids`, the text cache, and the perf CLI.
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- New `figcraft_format::rest`: imports the public REST API file JSON (`GET /v1/files/:key`, and
the nodes endpoint's response) using the published reference only. Pages (name, background,
flow starting points), the layer tree, names, visibility, lock, opacity, blend mode, masks.
- Geometry from `relativeTransform` (children of groups/booleans checked against
`absoluteBoundingBox` to settle their space), else absolute bounds + rotation; sizes, corner
radii (uniform and per corner), smoothing, clip content, constraints, export settings, layout
grids.
- Paints: solid, linear/radial/angular/diamond gradients (handles map 1:1), image fills (fill,
fit, tile, stretch, rotation, filters) with bytes from a resolver or a grey placeholder keyed by
the imageRef; paint opacity, visibility and blend. Strokes: weight, per-side weights, align,
caps, join, dashes, miter angle. Effects: drop/inner shadow (offset, radius, spread, show behind),
layer and background blur.
- Vectors from `fillGeometry` (stroke-only vectors use the `strokeGeometry` outline), ellipse arc
data, stars/polygons, boolean operations. Text: characters, type style (family, style or weight
+ italic, size, line height px/%/auto, letter spacing, case, decoration, alignment, auto resize,
truncation, paragraph spacing/indent, OpenType flags, links), per-character overrides → styled
runs (UTF-16 aware), list type.
- Auto layout: direction incl. grid, alignment, padding, gaps, wrap, hug/fixed/fill sizing (legacy
and per-axis fields), absolute positioning, min/max, grid cells.
- Components and sets with descriptions and property definitions (names lose their `#id`
suffix); instances of components in the file become instances with their property values and
listed overrides; outside components and component cycles stay frames. Shared styles are created
from the layers that use them, named from the metadata.
- Unknown types and fields are skipped with a counted warning list; sizes, depth (256), layer count
(200,000), path length and list lengths are capped; nothing panics on junk.
- Engine: `file.open` / `file.import` / CLI detect the JSON by content, link imported instances to
their mains (sources and overrides), read image fills from an `images` folder next to the file,
never save over the JSON, and return `warnings`. `file.import` now remaps ids across all
imported pages at once (instances keep their main and layer sources) and brings styles and page
backgrounds along. `figcraft-cli info` prints load notes.
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