- 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.
- Fifty more shapes: arches, paper cut-outs (leaves, coral, weed, organic
circles, a wonky star and sun), stamps, a postmark, a rosette, tags and
ticket stubs, sunbursts, ribbons and bands, speech bubbles, drawn arrows,
hearts, stars, photo frames and ornaments (scroll, laurel, fleuron, corner).
The broad ones are photo frames too, and each tile is drawn at its shape's
own proportions, which a new shape is also placed at.
- A cut edge on rectangles, circles, arches and the other broad shapes, painted
or not, and on a photo's cut: zigzag, scallop, a postage stamp's perforation,
wavy, torn and deckle, with a depth in millimetres. Cut in millimetres, so
holes stay round on a wide frame.
- A line element: two to 32 points dragged on the canvas (a handle pulled from
the middle adds one, a double-click removes it), straight or curved, solid,
dashed or dotted, a wave or a zigzag, a hand-drawn wobble, a head on either
end and an ornament in the middle. A shelf of lines and dividers places them.
- The assistant reaches all of it: add and style take the line (its points on
the spread in mm) and the edges, describe_book_page says them, and two new
findings say when a line is too thin to print and when an edge is set on a
shape that takes none. A photo's mask is checked against the shape set
rather than listed again, which keeps the page edit's schema smaller.
- BOOK_SCHEMA_REV goes to 6.
Photos get a look beyond crop, mask and frame style, in Studio and for the
assistant alike:
- border (width and colour, following the mask or the corner radius), a hard
offset shadow and a die-cut cutout edge, all flat vector shapes in print
- zoom 1 to 4 about the focal point and a left to right mirror
- brightness, contrast, saturation and warmth, and a duotone; these are
filters, labelled raster in print in the inspector
- the print resolution of the selected photo in the inspector, with a warning
under 200 dpi, measured from the original
PhotoView moves out of SpreadView into its own file and uses per instance
SVG ids, so a spread drawn twice keeps its clips and filters apart. The style
operation takes the look, describe-spread lists it, the dpi and crop findings
account for zoom and mirror, and a new raster_effect finding notes filters on
a large photo. BOOK_SCHEMA_REV goes to 6.
The Studio drew the page after a held edit or cover change by running the
card's operations on its own book, which knows nothing of the journey's
photos, words and figures, so a caption from a photo, a text from an entry
or a map from the route came out differently or not at all. The card now
carries the page the server's trial made with the full context, read with
the book's schema and within the card's size, and the Studio draws it while
its book stands at the version the trial ran on. A book that moved on, a
card from before and a page too heavy to carry still run the operations on
the book on screen, the book the change will run on. The receipt leaves the
page out, since an applied change is drawn from the book itself.
An answer or a refusal no longer overwrites a newer page choice, and Apply
waits for every page selection the chat has sent, also after the card was
closed. A delete of several pages draws each page it takes, the receipt opens
the first page the design wrote through the same rule the strip uses, and the
vacay group's choices wait while a change runs.
Maurice