"The whole book" now lays the book on the designed templates through
autoDesignedBook, in the book's own page format and theme (a recoloured
one of its own included), its title kept and every page holding a locked
element kept; each press takes a new seed, so a second press gives another
book, one undo away as before. "This spread" lays the page on another
design than the one on screen and its neighbours, its id kept, and now
works on the cover, the summary and the countries too, so the menu offers
it wherever the auto layout knows the page. Loose gallery photos reach the
layout with the day they were taken, which it shares them out by. The
menu's two hints say what the button now does, in every language. Nothing
here places the classic summary, countries or marks any more.
auto/auto-designed.ts holds what the Studio's Auto layout menu calls.
autoDesignedBook lays the whole book on the designed templates in the
book's own theme object (a recoloured one of its own included, the calm
fabric-classic theme for a book without one), over the stored book, its
page format kept and every page holding a locked element kept; another
seed lays another book. autoRelayoutSpread lays one page again around its
locks, its id kept: an entry's page on the best template other than the
one on screen and its neighbours', avoiding one that would cut its story
where it can; the cover on the next cover template of its archetype and
then of its kin; the summary and the countries in their next look, an old
classic summary included. Pages the engine did not make are left alone,
as before. autoRelayoutKind says which pages those are.
designBook's templated path is split so the relayout reads the same
setting (templatedSetting) as the whole book, and the page layer is
shared (layEntryPage); the parity digests are unchanged by it. buildBook
and relayoutSpread stay exported and unchanged.
The design_book tool says in one sentence that layouts: 'templates' lays
every page on the Studio's designed templates in the archetype of the
book's theme, as the Studio's Auto layout does, and that each plan row then
names its template; style classic alone stays the old built-in Auto
layout. The field comes from the directives contract in @trek/shared, so
the tool's schema takes it without a zod line of its own, and the answer's
plan row gains an optional template. The REST draft routes take no
directives, so nothing changes there. Without the field the answer is the
same as before, no row naming a template.
A new optional directive, layouts: 'templates', lays every entry on the
decorated spreads of the book theme's archetype and its kin
(design-templated.ts). An entry's photos are cut into page-sized parts that
leave no frame empty, at most twelve of them, the first part carrying its
story; each part takes the template that suits it best, poured from a page
of the entry's photos and story so the title, place, date and story stay
bound to the journal. A story longer than its frame is cut at a sentence
and goes on over a page of words. Date marks are set as stamps, never in
the classic styles. Loose gallery photos go to the entry they are linked
to, then to the entry of their day, then to the entry with the fewest
(shareGalleryByDay, beside distributeGallery, which stays as it is); what
no entry has room for closes the book on up to three pages of more
moments, and anything past that is said to be left out, so no photo is
dropped without a word.
The rest is the composer's: scope, the photo picker, the page budget, the
stored pages kept, repair and findings. A book can bring its own theme
object (BookDesignInput.theme), recoloured or not, and it is kept whole.
Plan rows name the template a page was laid on. Without the directive
every design is composed exactly as before, and classic is still buildBook.
AUTODSN-001..015 cover the rules, and AUTODSN-020 pins a digest of every
page on the auto layout's parity journeys and a fourth one in three themes.
design-templated.parity.json was computed with the spec's own canonical form
and digest over these inputs, run through tsx; CI checks it from here on.
design-templated-framing.ts builds the pages around the chapters of a book
laid on the designed templates. The cover is laid on one of the theme
archetype's cover templates, poured from a page whose title and subtitle
are bound to the journey, so the binding survives; an archetype with no
cover for the photos there are has its cover composed as before. The
journey at a glance is its map with a photo at every stop beside the
figures as a poster (tiles for the collage and grid books, a sign for the
postcard ones), a ticket stub of how far and how long, and the furthest
point on an odometer. The countries are one country's map cut to its shape
beside its stamp, a card each for up to twelve, one panel of stamps past
that. The back cover adds a band of days, places and photos and a row of
country stamps. A page of words, where no template takes a story, sets it
beside the stop's map, its day as a stamp and its country as a tag. None of
these sets a summary, a country or a mark in the classic look.
design-template-pick.ts says which decorated template a page of the auto
layout is laid on. Every built-in theme belongs to an archetype
(THEME_ARCHETYPE, the five new themes to their own five), and a book picks
from that archetype's spreads and from those of the archetypes that sit
well beside it (ARCHETYPE_KIN). A template that would leave a photo frame
empty, lose the story, draw a map with nothing to draw, repeat the page
before or follow a busy page loudly is never a candidate; of the rest the
best fit wins: the photos all used, the theme's own archetype, the story
fitting its frame (bodyCapacity measures each frame once per format and
face), the first frame the shape of the first photo, not used a few pages
back, and calm where the book should breathe. Equal ones are chosen by the
design's seed. chunkPhotos cuts an entry's photos into page-sized parts
that leave no frame empty, and pickCoverTemplate does the same for the
cover.
matchDecoratedTemplate reads a page's elements by kind and frame, rounded
to the millimetre, and compares them with every template laid on the same
page format: a template is the page's when nearly all of its design is
there and it explains most of the page, and of those the one explaining the
most wins. A page rearranged by hand reads as none. The auto layout's
"this spread" uses it to offer a template other than the one on screen.
The factories behind the Travel panel's cards (a summary as a poster, a
ticket or a sign, a figure on a medal or an odometer, a map of the journey
or of one country, a mark as a stamp or a tag, a country as a stamp, a visa
or a postcard, each dressed in the book's theme) move to
book/travel/book-travel-looks.ts, so the auto layout can build its framing
pages from the same looks. Where an element lands stays the caller's: the
panel still centres it on the spread on screen, through the same wrapper and
the same API, and a designed page names its frame. A mark can now also take
an entry's value rather than the journey's.
In a theme whose second ink is a mid tone (riviera's olive), neither white nor
near black reached 4.5:1 on the year's band. The band is taken towards the dark
until the year reads, as the other covers do for small words.
Figures a template draws as design, a film's timecode or a frame number, came
back as the page's words when another template was laid on the page, and took
its date line. Texts with no letter that are not a date and are bound to
nothing are design now, and the new templates spell their plate numbers and
REC marks so they read as such.
Every style now has four covers and five double spreads, 108 in all, and the
spreads of each style take different photo counts, from a words-only page to
eight photos, so a book can be laid on them without an empty frame. The five
new styles come with their own themes: Riso (overprinted spot inks), Magazine
(a travel magazine), Retro travel (vintage posters), Midnight (a dark film
look) and Field notes (a traveller's notebook). Each new style has a cover
composer for the design engine and a recipe for the assistant, and its chip,
theme and template names are translated into every language.
The card that opened claude.ai's custom connector dialog for this instance
goes, with its phone twin, the line in the assistant setup that jumped to it,
its endpoint and its contract. Anyone who wants Claude uses TREK's MCP
server under Integrations, or an Anthropic key in the assistant. It came with
the assistant and never shipped in a release.
Three photo frames in the templates kept the photo ids of the journey the
templates were read out of (68 and 69). Only empty frames take an entry's
photos, so every book laid out on those templates pointed at those ids: a
broken picture on most installs, and on one where the id exists, someone
else's photo or an unrelated one of the user's own. The frames are empty
now and take the entry's photos like the others. The parity digests of the
five spreads that use them are written anew, as the spec asks for a
deliberate layout change.
The screen texts name the top bar, the rail and the workbench as they are
after the redesign, the travel guide walks through the four tabs, and six
new guides cover what Studio gained since its help was written. Every
Studio picture is taken again, and all texts are translated.
The addons sit in a card per type now, the way every other admin tab sets
its cards, instead of three columns nested in one card. A head card shows
how many of each type are on and finds an addon by its name or description,
with a switch between all, the ones on and the ones off.
Absent means the classic look. Defaulting it wrote the field into every
element the auto layout and the templates build, which moved their parity
fixtures and grew the page tools past their schema ceiling; the new
descriptions are also shorter for the same reason.
The travel tab is four tabs now, figures, maps, countries and marks, and
offers only the newer looks, each dressed in the book's theme and linked to
it. The looks books already hold still draw on their pages exactly as
before; they are just no longer offered.
- Figures: a summary as a poster, a ticket, tiles, a road sign, an
odometer, a handwritten note, a pencil sketch or a band, and each figure
on its own as a medal, on odometer drums or ringed by hand.
- Maps: the route with its photographs, its stops numbered, its two ends
marked or on a dark ground, over satellite or relief imagery, a map per
trip, and a map of each country with its stops alone, cut to its shape.
- Countries: each country as a passport stamp, a visa, an airmail
postcard, its flag in cloth, a map pin, a luggage label or a sketch.
- Marks: the date, the day, the distance, the coordinates and the flag as
stamps, tags, pills, ribbons, die-cut stickers, embroidered patches and
sketches.
The schema gains a summary's and a country's look, seven mark styles and
the numbered and ends stops of a map, all additive, as revision 11.
Also in Studio: the save state is a tile beside who is here, a book a newer
Studio saved is said by an overlay that holds the whole Studio until it
reloads, and the page rail draws the first and the last page beside the
blank inside of their cover. The notifications page and the bell's panel
take the dialogs' look: a head with a tile, cards with an unread dot, and
tools that come forward on hover.
Every piece of the head row is one raised tile of one height: the format
picker moved beside the tools, the assistant and help stand alone, the
close button is square like the rest, and the beta mark is gone. The
layouts tab lays the book's own and the built-in layouts out in sections
and in the same grid as the designed pages. In the theme panel the accent
dots sit in the sheet's corner, the three accents share one name, a font
keeps its name ahead of its kind, a doubled rule is gone, and the
inspector's empty hint is shorter.
About 2900 strings still carried the `// en-fallback` placeholder and some
3100 more were unmarked English copies, most of them from the Studio, the
assistant, OAuth and the date picker. Every one of them is translated now;
where the English word is the locale's own one (German "Status", "Backup"),
it is kept and marked `// same-as-en`. Placeholders, markup and product names
are unchanged.
"Studio", the photo book editor's name, joins Atlas and Vacay on the
untranslated check's list of names. The baseline drops from 2900 marked and
3100 identical strings to 1 and 158.
Removing a member deleted their membership row only, and the invite link
checked nothing but its own token, so whoever kept the link walked straight
back in (GHSA-wr4c-964p-39jg).
trip_member_removals now notes who another member took off a trip. The invite
link refuses them on preview and on accept with a 403 that says so, old link
or regenerated, and the join page shows that instead of the join button.
Adding them back by name, or through a trip-bound invite or a plugin acting
for a member manager, lifts the note. Leaving a trip yourself leaves none, so
the link keeps working for whoever left and for everybody else.
Paste style wrote the copied fields straight onto the element, although a
pasted look is meant to be the style operation the assistant sends. It now
runs the engine's own restyle (bookElementStyled): a colour or face pasted by
hand takes the element off the theme, so the next theme applied no longer
brings the old colour back; a plain fill replaces the paint of the shape it
lands on instead of staying hidden under it; and a line takes another line's
look without its points, which are its course, not its look.
A background picked by hand in the inspector kept the page's link to the
theme, so the next theme applied set the page back to the theme's colour. The
picker and the background operation now paint through one helper that takes
the link away (withSpreadPaintByHand). Giving one page's background to every
page carries that page's link along, or takes the others' away when it was
painted by hand.
A built-in layout, a book's own layout and laying a page out again from its
entry ignored locks in the Studio: a locked shape was dropped and a locked
photo poured into a slot unlocked, while the assistant's layout operation left
both where they were. All four now lay a page out around its locked elements
through one function (layoutAroundLocks), which the engine's layout operation
uses too.
Fill page and fill spread kept the photo in its group, so the background
picture was selected and dragged with its caption and listed under the group
at the front. It leaves its group as the engine's fill does, and a group left
with one member goes.
restore_book_layout took any layout the caller sent, so a layout naming a
photo of another journey was kept, and laying a page out on it put that photo
into this book while place_photo refused the same id. The layout is now held
to the rule a page restore states: every photo it names, in a frame, on a map
marker or in the letters of a text, is in the gallery or on a page of the book
already, or the call is refused with photo_not_in_gallery.
restore_book_page and the design apply read the photos of a page in one place
now (book-photo-refs.ts), which counts the photo a text is filled with. A page
put back with letters filled with a photo from outside the gallery is refused
as a frame of it would be, and a designed page whose letter fill photo left
the gallery since is skipped as photo_gone; on a new book's cover the letters
keep their colour instead, as its frame is emptied.
A saved layout keeps no photo of the page it was taken from in its letters, as
it keeps none in its frames, so laying another page out on it no longer
carries that photo along. A layout kept before this fills such letters with
the first photo of the page it is laid on, or leaves them in their colour.
The style operation checks a letter fill photo only when the change sets the
fill, so a title whose photo left the gallery can still be resized or
recoloured, as the text operation already allowed.
The names on the rail and in the tab rows the rebuild puts first (Pages,
Content, Layouts, Elements, Shapes, Text, Photos, Entries) were still English
placeholders in twenty one languages. They carry each language's own word now,
and so does the quotation mark, which the Text tab shows as a word under its
tile instead of only in a tooltip. The Frames tab's name was already translated
in those languages and loses the placeholder mark it still carried.
The help on Studio and the wiki describe the rail as it is: seven sections,
Theme and Layers set apart, the stickers under Elements, and the inspector's
order.
The rail lists its sections in the order a book is made: Pages, Content,
Layouts, Elements and Travel, then Theme and Layers set apart below a rule.
Stickers are a tab of Elements beside the icons instead of a rail section of
their own, and Elements has six tabs (text, shapes, lines, frames with the
grids, icons, stickers). The quotation mark moved to the text styles, the
outline rectangle to the basic shapes and the plain rule to the lines. The rail
and every tab row are tab lists the arrow keys walk through, and a long name
wraps instead of being cut. The icon and sticker searches say in the field how
many match, which the sticker library's own head used to.
Every panel on both sides opens on the same head, and every labelled control
uses one row that moves the control under its label when the two do not fit,
so no label sits in a fixed column any more. Number fields, chips, sliders,
tab labels, theme names and travel cards wrap the same way, a country beside
a stop wraps under itself, and an upload cell holds its words to two lines
with the whole label in its tooltip. The heads, shelves and groups are real
headings, so a screen reader can walk the panels by them.
The inspector shows every kind in one order: what the element is and says,
its position and size, its look, its effects, then Arrange. Align and the
stacking buttons are one Arrange group with a button that opens the page in
Layers; its rows sit under their labels, each in two sets that move to a
second line whole. Rarely used groups start folded and open on an element
that already uses them (a turned element, a map held at a zoom, a summary set
in another face), and every group mounts afresh for the next selection. A
sticker's duplicate angle and opacity are gone in favour of the shared
position group, which now has the turn buttons for every kind. With several
elements selected it keeps their angle, opacity and turn, and the mirror when
all of them are stickers, and leaves the frame's numbers to one element. A
photo's fill page and fill spread sit under its crop. With nothing selected
the inspector shows the page background, the book's theme with the way to the
Theme panel, and the page numbers.
Seventeen translation keys nothing has used since before the rebuild (the old
inspector title, the empty spread note, the summary and country list names,
the roads buttons and others) are gone from every language. The broad key
template the old panels used had counted them as reached; the format names,
the empty photo grid messages and the map source hints are now named where the
key check can read them.
Also fixed on the way: the travel stops list shared its class with the
gradient stops and was laid out as sixteen pixel handles; the alignment
buttons were named in raw English; the map's print resolution note joined its
two halves with a dash.
Both go straight to the server. While an edit of the same tour still waited in
the queue, the restore went out first and its answer replaced the cached edit,
and the edit replayed afterwards planned the track over again. A copy copied
the server's older line instead of the one on screen. Both now wait the way the
actual track writes do: offline, behind a queued write of the tour, or for a
tour the server has not got yet they refuse with OnlineOnlyError, and the
planner says a connection is needed and the waiting changes go first, in all
27 languages.
- design_book takes a brief (energy, decoration, collages, theme), a cover
archetype and a cover lockup, and pages.overrides that give single pages of
the plan another beat or layout. Directives written before parse as they
did, and a design asked for none of it is composed exactly as before.
- The engine composes the seven cover archetypes from the book's own photos,
words, theme faces and colours, lockups, shapes and stickers, varied by the
seed: spine band, poster pop, cut-out, illustrated postcard, grid and
badge, minimal serif and stamp collage. A title the directives give a
display tier is held to it, and the notes say when a band, a badge or a
stamp holds it smaller or a cover leaves a layout out.
- A lively or loud book turns two in five hero and grid spreads into
collages, script overlays, badge grids, stamp rows or two-tone splits, the
first of them always, turns and frames the prints of its other pages, sets
its cover title larger and takes one or two, or three to six, stickers of
its theme's motifs a spread, never over words, a photo's detail or the
fold. A calm book asked for collages gets them and nothing else.
- Every turn the engine gives a print or a sticker stays within what the
brief's energy takes, a calm book's within its theme's own, so a design is
never judged against its own brief.
- New checks name a flat cover, a page without a lead, colours or faces off
the theme and, for a design made with a brief, a book livelier or calmer
than it asked, on the pages the design made and on a page revised in the
draft. Page edits answer with the art checks too, and the assistant's
cards name them in every language.
- list_book_assets lists the shapes, faces, lockups, themes and patterns
beside the stickers, and the Studio's shape groups and photo frames are one
list the assistant reads too.
- The Studio prompt gains an index of themes, archetypes and faces and JSON
recipes of the elements to add and style for each cover and three lively
spreads, and a turn that designs the book may preview sixteen pages, still
three images a request; a viewer is told of none of it.
The Templates section of the rail now opens on the decorated templates of
the page's kind, covers two to a row and spreads at full width, each card
the page renderer drawing the page the click will lay: this page's photos
and words in it, in the book theme, a cover in the journey's title and
subtitle as the assistant's layout sets it. A row of style chips narrows
the set to one archetype. A click is one undo step on the page as it is
then, refused for the other kind of page, and opens the photos when frames
are left empty. The book's own layouts and the built-in wireframes follow
below, and the help guide and the wiki describe the panel as it now is.
The panel moved out of StudioSidebar into its own file; the sidebar keeps the
rail, and its two physical sides went with the code, so the rtl baseline
entry goes too. The Travel panel and a template's map build the journey
they draw with one helper.
A decorated template is a whole designed page kept as data: full document
elements in fractions of the page they were drawn on, with roles for the
photos and words a page brings, links to the theme for its colours and
faces, groups for its lockups (a title with its date line, a badge with its
words, a stamp with its postmark) and an archetype with tags. Seven cover
archetypes in three variants each and sixteen double spreads ship in
shared/src/book/templates/data.
Laying a page out on one pours its photos into the photo roles in order and
its words into the title, subtitle, date, story and caption roles, takes
the words it has none for from the book or the journal entry, sets the
template in the book theme, scales it to the page format with its bleeds
on the bleed of that page, and parks what has no room, a date line the date
mark was not made of included. A text set on a colour is made to read there
at the size it was fitted to, on a band of ink or paper when neither reads.
A mark set as text, such as a large quotation mark, is design to every
layout and never taken for the words of a page.
A fitted text keeps the size it was drawn at as its ceiling, so a shorter
title grows back, and every fitted text is now solved with eight percent of
headroom on letter width: set in the browser, the bold condensed faces and
several scripts run that much wider than the letter measure, and a fit at
exactly the measure wrapped its last word out of the frame.
The layout operation of edit_book_page and revise_book_design takes the new
ids as a checked string and keeps the name of a locked group,
list_book_layouts lists them with archetype, tags and roles, and the design
prompt names them. A sibling extract script reads a page drawn in the
Studio back into the format, roles, tints and groups kept.
- The element, spread, document, page operation and card unions carry a
name of their own, so the declarations of every schema that holds them
refer to them instead of spelling them out again. The shared declarations
shrink from 9 to 5.5 MB and the server's typecheck from 4.4 to 2.9 GB, so
the build fits the image's 4 GB again.
- edit_book_page and revise_book_design take add by what the element is,
with an id of its own; its look follows with style by that id in the same
call, every look field described once. A change an assistant card kept
with its look on add still reads and runs.
- restore_book_page states what every element has once, then each kind's
own fields and the type the five travel kinds share, without defaults; the
page is read as a spread again before it goes back.
- The theme links are explained once in the page edit's description, and
style points a text's face, a shape's paint and outline and a photo's crop
look at their one full description.
- The lockup roles live in a module of their own, so the operation schemas
no longer import the lockup engine, whose cycle left the operations unset
in the shared tests.
- The theme switches no longer fall through a comment, the newer document
test follows the current revision, the line inspector names its stroke
keys, a text's anchor reads no physical side, two shapes record the
proportions they are drawn at, and the photo look and line tests follow
the slider and the folded ornaments.
- A text can be cased (capitals, lower case, small caps), placed at the top,
middle or foot of its frame, outlined, given a hard shadow or a marker band,
bent on an arc or round a circle, filled with a gallery photo or left
hollow, and shrunk to fit its frame. Every effect prints as vector: copies
and strokes for HTML type, textPath and a clip over an <image> for SVG.
- Fitting is solved when the text is edited, in the Studio and in the edit
engine, and stored; the chosen size is kept as the ceiling.
- Text sizes reach 400 pt and tracking 1.5 em.
- The Elements panel opens on a Text tab: the plain styles and 24 lockups
(titles, badges and stamps, chapter marks, quotes, captions, places), each
drawn with the book's own title and placed as one group.
- The assistant sets every effect through style and add, places a lockup with
add_lockup, reads the effects in describe_book_page and gets two new
findings (curve_overflow, effect_heavy) beside photo-fill and band checks.
- Book format revision 6.
Maurice