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Upfront about how this was made: I'm not a programmer. The fix, the test and this description were written by Claude (Claude Code, Opus 5.5), on Windows 11.

Fixes #1153.

The bug

A slide with a slide-number field, exported to PDF, draws its number ("2"), but the invisible text layer holds the field's saved text ‹#›. So pdftotext, search and copy find ‹ instead of the number.

The PDF text layer (and the notes and handout pages' master text) built each run's text from the model runs' saved text. The text engine lays out something different: a field's current value, and a line break as \u{b}. The glyph runs' character ranges index into that laid-out text.

The fix

• deckcraft_text::shown_paragraphs returns each paragraph's text as layout lays it out. It shares one function (shown_run) with layout, so the two can't drift apart.
• PlacedText carries that text (shown).
• Both PDF text-layer writers take their text from it instead of the saved runs.

What's drawn doesn't change. Only the text layer does: it now matches the page.

Testing

• New test slide_number_fields_are_searchable_as_their_number:

  • a three-slide deck with "Page " plus a slidenum field on each slide, exported as slides
  • the text read back from each page through the font's ToUnicode map is "Page 1", "Page 2" and "Page 3"

  Without the fix, page 1 reads Page ‹, the bug as reported.

• The extraction code of supported_unicode_is_shaped_and_recovered_from_the_page_text_layer moved into a shared page_text helper, which both tests use. That test still passes.

• cargo xtask ci passes locally on Windows 11: fmt, pdf-deps, clippy, tests, assets, layers and wasm.

• ROADMAP.md progress-log line.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • PDF exports now make displayed field values searchable and copyable as shown. Slide-number fields appear as their rendered numbers rather than saved placeholder text.
  • Text extraction from PDFs now preserves the correct text after line breaks within a paragraph, so subsequent text remains in the right order and matches what is displayed.

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Walkthrough

Text layout now resolves displayed field values and stores displayed paragraph text with placed text. PDF text extraction uses that text. Tests verify slide-number extraction and text around a line break.

Changes: PDF displayed text

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Evaluate and place displayed text crates/text/src/lib.rs, crates/render/src/placed.rs	The text module adds text-layout logic and resolves displayed run text, including fields. place_text stores the resulting paragraph text in PlacedText.
Use displayed text in PDF extraction crates/pdf/src/lib.rs, crates/pdf/src/tests.rs, ROADMAP.md	Both PDF text paths use displayed run text. A reusable page-text helper supports extraction tests, which verify slide numbers on three pages and text around a line break. The roadmap records the change.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related issues

Suggested reviewers: xc4pr

Merge Risk: High · up to 9c7fb

The text crate does not compile at this revision. The PR copies the old single-file text engine back into the crate's main file, which conflicts with the newer module layout, so the text, render and PDF crates fail to build and CI fails. Rebase onto the module split and add only the small displayed-text helpers. Until then, the slide-number search fix cannot ship or be tested.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 9c7fb

The displayed-text change does not add privileges or external access. However, it duplicates an existing shared public API, creating a contract conflict that affects rendering and export integration.

Retained concerns

• Medium · architecture · observed: The shared text API has conflicting owners. The crate retains public re-exports of layout and the style-module Fields, NoFields, and Opts, while adding separate root declarations with those same names. The duplicate definitions invalidate the public namespace used by existing rendering callers; they do not constitute a compatible extension of the displayed-text contract.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected data-flow change affects text associated with exported slides and notes or handout master text. Its demonstrated reach is the caller's rendering and export path; no expansion into another tenant, service, credential store, or environment was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — In the inspected PDF path, displayed strings are supplied as text to glyph drawing, not interpreted as commands or action targets. Slide text-layer generation remains conditional on text_layer. Link annotations follow a separate action-selection path that retains the safe_url check.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes that implement #1153 are in crates/pdf, crates/render and the test module, plus a ROADMAP.md line. These fit the issue. However, the whole-PR summary reports crates/text/src/lib.rs with +2…	Provide readable diff output or file blobs for crates/text/src/lib.rs and the split modules (run.rs, layout.rs and others) between the merge base c2f3397 and head 9c7fb32, and for the incremental range 04b66cb..9c7fb32. Confirm that the PR …

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title names the main change: PDF export text layer now shows a slide number as its displayed number instead of the saved field text. The raw summary confirms the changes in crates/pdf (text from P…
Linked Issues check		[#1153] requires the PDF text layer to contain the evaluated slide number, not the saved field text ‹#›. The whole-PR summary shows this chain: shown_run and shown_paragraphs in crates/text return…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is inconclusive: files from earlier reviews still need to be rechecked within the check's analysis limits. Not blocking.

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Explanation

The title names the main change: PDF export text layer now shows a slide number as its displayed number instead of the saved field text. The raw summary confirms the changes in crates/pdf (text from PlacedText.shown), crates/render (new shown field), crates/text (Fields trait and shown_paragraphs), and tests for slide-number extraction. The title matches the linked issue #1153 and the PR objectives. The title is specific and describes a user-visible behavior, so it passes. The title is long at 88 characters, but the length does not make it unclear.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

[#1153] requires the PDF text layer to contain the evaluated slide number, not the saved field text ‹#›. The whole-PR summary shows this chain: shown_run and shown_paragraphs in crates/text return the text as layout lays it out; place_text in crates/render/src/placed.rs fills PlacedText.shown from shown_paragraphs; master_text_pieces and Exporter::text_layer in crates/pdf/src/lib.rs take run text from PlacedText.shown and keep the character-range selection. The new test slide_number_fields_are_searchable_as_their_number reads "Page 1", "Page 2" and "Page 3" through the ToUnicode map. The rendered output is not changed, as the PR description states. Limit: the text crate diff could not be read (changed blobs missing from the checkout), so the shown_paragraphs behavior rests on the summary and the PR description, not on a direct read of the code. The previous PASS is kept because the affected modules are still described consistently.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes that implement #1153 are in crates/pdf, crates/render and the test module, plus a ROADMAP.md line. These fit the issue. However, the whole-PR summary reports crates/text/src/lib.rs with +2116/-0 and lists layout, autonum, shape and symbol functions in that file. At the merge base, crates/text/src/lib.rs exists and its history includes commit 838d51e, which splits the text code into run.rs, style.rs, autonum.rs, shape.rs, symbol.rs, breaking.rs and layout.rs. The reported addition therefore may mean that the PR moves layout code back into lib.rs, or it may be a summary artifact. The diff for crates/text/src/lib.rs (base c2f3397 to head 9c7fb32) could not be read because changed blobs are missing from the checkout. The file read at the merge base also failed. The incremental change from 04b66cb to 9c7fb32 (merge of main) could not be inspected either. Unresolved: whether the PR changes any text-layout code beyond the shown_paragraphs helper, and whether the module split is intact at head.

Resolution

Provide readable diff output or file blobs for crates/text/src/lib.rs and the split modules (run.rs, layout.rs and others) between the merge base c2f3397 and head 9c7fb32, and for the incremental range 04b66cb..9c7fb32. Confirm that the PR adds only the shown_run and shown_paragraphs changes in the text crate, and that no layout code is duplicated or moved out of the split modules.

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[xc4pr]

Thanks, I like that the shown text comes from one shown_run shared by the layout and the PDF code, so the two cannot drift apart again.

What I ran (PR head d0df6cb, debug build):

• cargo test -p deckcraft-pdf -p deckcraft-text -p deckcraft-render: 15 / 174 / 83 passed, including slide_number_fields_are_searchable_as_their_number.
• Reproduced on main: with the three source files reverted to main and the PR's test kept, the test fails with left: "Page ‹", right: "Page 1". With the PR, pages 1 to 3 extract as "Page 1/2/3" from the decoded text-showing operators.
• cargo clippy -p deckcraft-text -p deckcraft-pdf -p deckcraft-render --all-targets: clean.
• Extra probe (throwaway, not committed): a paragraph "one" + line break + "two" extracts as "onetwo" on this PR, so the break no longer shifts the offsets either. Running the same probe on #1192's branch gave "onewoo".

Points:

1. In crates/text/src/lib.rs the #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)] now sits above the new shown_run doc comment, so it attaches to shown_run and no longer to shape_para. Harmless here (the workspace allows that lint), but it looks like a stray move; the attribute should go back directly above shape_para.
2. PlacedText is public and now carries shown next to body; any other code that builds a PlacedText or reads body for offsets (not only the two PDF sites) has to know to use shown. A doc line on body saying its text does not match the layout offsets for fields/breaks would help the next reader.
3. Minor: shown_paragraphs resolves each run's language again after the layout already did; fine for correctness.

For context, #1192 targets the same issue (#1153) differently: it rewrites the field runs in PlacedText.body to their evaluated text in place_text, without a new field or a change to the PDF crate, whereas this PR leaves body as saved and adds shown.

[Harrison-Booth]

This now conflicts with main after the module split in #1433 (the files moved into modules; see docs/ path map PR 1468). If you would rather not, I can open a PR that credits you, keeps your commits and shows a git range-diff against this one, so you'll still get credit and have visible work.

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Critical · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Rebase onto the module split and add only shown_run/shown_paragraphs.

Lines 122-2237 copy the whole pre-split text engine back into lib.rs. On this revision, lib.rs already declares mod autonum; mod breaking; mod layout; mod run; mod shape; mod style; at Lines 37-42. Those modules already define the same items. The copied definitions conflict with the imports from those modules. The CI gate fails with these errors:

• E0255 duplicate-name errors for Fields, NoFields, Opts, Cell, autonum, chinese_num, layout, layout_scaled, LAYOUT_PASSES, and the symbol, breaking, and shape helpers.
• E0425/E0433 at Lines 160 and 272. Underline is pub(crate) in run.rs and is not in scope here.
• Unused-import errors from -D warnings.

The crate does not compile. deckcraft-render and deckcraft-pdf fail to build as a result.

The PR comments say the branch conflicts with main after #1433 moved these files into modules. The intended delta is small:

1. Add shown_run and shown_paragraphs to the module that owns run shaping. Re-export shown_paragraphs from lib.rs.
2. In that module's existing shape_para, replace the run-text extraction with shown_run(run, rp.lang.as_deref(), opts.fields). Layout and shown_paragraphs then produce the same characters, so GlyphRun::chars offsets index into the correct text.
3. Delete the duplicated Lines 122-2237.

🐛 Proposed shape of the fix (in the module that defines `shape_para`)

+/// The characters run `run` lays out: a field's current value (in the run's language `lang`), a
+/// line break as `\u{b}`, otherwise its text.
+pub(crate) fn shown_run(run: &deckcraft_model::text::Run, lang: Option<&str>, fields: &dyn Fields) -> String {
+    match &run.kind {
+        RunKind::Text | RunKind::Math { .. } => run.text.clone(),
+        RunKind::Break => "\u{b}".into(),
+        RunKind::Field { field } => fields.field_in(field, lang).unwrap_or_else(|| run.text.clone()),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Each paragraph's text as [`layout`] lays it out, fields evaluated (#1153).
+pub fn shown_paragraphs(ctx: &Ctx, shape: &Shape, body: &TextBody, fields: &dyn Fields) -> Vec<String> {
+    body.paragraphs
+        .iter()
+        .map(|para| para.runs.iter().map(|run| shown_run(run, resolve::run(ctx, shape, para, &run.props).lang.as_deref(), fields)).collect())
+        .collect()
+}

In lib.rs, re-export the function and remove the copied definitions:

+pub use shape::shown_paragraphs; // or the module that owns it
-/// Values for fields (`slidenum`, `datetime…`, `footer`). ...
-pub trait Fields { ... }
-... (Lines 122-2237 removed)

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Review comment at @crates/text/src/lib.rs around lines 122 - 2237:
Remove the duplicated pre-split text-engine definitions from lib.rs and keep the
existing module declarations and imports. Add shown_run and shown_paragraphs to
the module that owns shape_para, using the run’s resolved language and
opts.fields when extracting laid-out text; update shape_para to use the same
shown_run behavior so GlyphRun::chars offsets match shown_paragraphs. Re-export
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ReviewerA — source-read COMMENT (not an approval)

I read the head of the diff: PDF export writes the text of a slide number as the number and not the saved field text (‹#›), fixing #1153. The PDF crate now reads the text as drawn (shown) instead of the paragraphs' saved runs, so the text layer holds what a field shows and the number is searchable and copies correctly. That is the right fix for the symptom, and it applies to every field (date, slide number, footer), so a test with a date field and a slide number in the text layer is the proof. I read the code hunk and the ROADMAP row. I have not run it, and no exact-head CI result exists for this head. Nothing was run.

I ran nothing and have no exact-head CI result for this PR, so this is not an approval. Where a diff was long I read its code hunks rather than every generated or documentation line.

Status: waiting_author.

[aiongg]

AI-generated review (Opus). Not a maintainer decision.

Changes needed:

Taking the PDF text layer from the laid-out text instead of the saved run text is the right fix for a slide number extracting as its placeholder, and the PDF side is done correctly. The text crate change, however, does not build on the current layout.

• crates/text/src/lib.rs:122-2237 brings back the whole pre-split text engine (Fields, Opts, Cell, shape_para, layout, the symbol, breaking and autonum helpers). The same file already declares and re-exports these from the autonum, breaking, layout, run, shape, style and symbol modules (lib.rs:37-63), so the names clash (for example Fields at lib.rs:123 against the re-export at lib.rs:60) and the crate does not compile.
• The layout that actually runs builds each run's text in crates/text/src/shape.rs:48-52. The new shown_run at lib.rs:508 is only called by the duplicated shape_para at lib.rs:526, so it is not yet shared with layout. Put shown_run and shown_paragraphs in shape.rs, have shape_para call shown_run in place of its own match, and re-export shown_paragraphs from lib.rs.
• crates/pdf/src/lib.rs:308 and :566 now read run text from PlacedText::shown, for both the slide pages and the master text on notes and handout pages. That covers both text-layer writers.
• crates/render/src/placed.rs:169-170 computes shown from the same fields used for layout, so the character ranges of glyph runs index into the right string once the text crate builds.
• The #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)] that belongs to shape_para now sits above shown_run's doc comment. This goes away when the duplicated code is removed.

Claims checked:

• contradicted: A slide-number field in PDF export is searchable and copies as its number instead of the saved placeholder (crates/text/src/lib.rs:123 defines pub trait Fields while lib.rs:60 re-exports style::Fields, and lib.rs:526 defines shape_para alongside mod shape (lib.rs:41). The duplicated definitions kee…
• contradicted: shown_paragraphs shares one function (shown_run) with layout, so the two cannot drift apart (crates/text/src/lib.rs:508 shown_run is used only by the duplicated shape_para at lib.rs:526. The layout that runs (layout.rs:3 imports shape::shape_para) builds run text with its own match at crates/text/s…
• verified: Both PDF text-layer writers (slides, and the master text on notes and handout pages) take their text from the laid-out text (crates/pdf/src/lib.rs:308 (master_text_pieces) and crates/pdf/src/lib.rs:566 (Exporter) read pt.shown.get(run.para), and crates/render/src/placed.rs:169-170 fills shown.)
• verified: A line break counts as one character (\u{b}) in the text-layer text, the same as in layout (crates/text/src/lib.rs:511 maps RunKind::Break to \u{b}, matching the running layout at crates/text/src/shape.rs:50.)
• unverified: What is drawn does not change; only the text layer does (The drawing path in crates/text/src/shape.rs and layout.rs is untouched, but the duplicated engine in crates/text/src/lib.rs:122-2237 stops the crate from building, so this cannot be confirmed.)

Recommendation: update the pull request; it will be reviewed again.

Reviewed at 9c7fb32.