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I keep compatible glyphs on the same layout line in one draw_glyphs batch. Previously, a mark's vertical translation started a new batch and assigned its cluster's characters again. This affects both harakat in مُحَمَّد and Noto Sans Arabic's zero-advance dots in شنطة, exactly as reported in #6309.

I carry relative x/y positions in GlyphLine, retain horizontal placement through next_x - x advances, and pass -relative_y / size as each glyph's y_offset. The coordinate bounds and finite/range checks include the offsets. Font, size, linear transform, layout line/column, paint-run, list-marker and line-break-hyphen boundaries remain separate. Krilla still owns cluster mappings and ActualText; I add no dependencies, fonts or assets and make no importer changes.

I add decoded content-stream/ToUnicode regressions using the Noto Sans Arabic family from craft-fonts, with assertions that the fixture actually contains repeated cluster ranges, vertical offsets and zero-advance glyphs, and has no fallback or missing glyphs. They require one compatible batch per layout line, no duplicated cluster assignments in a font's ToUnicode map, one ActualText replacement per multi-glyph cluster, and exactly one effective semantic mapping per source cluster, counted without deduplication. Mixed Arabic/Latin/digits, vertical columns, different path rotations, and PDF/X-1a/3/4 are covered. Individual outline contours, including marks and dots, remain within 0.05 pt of outline export.

I update the File formats rows and M4 evidence, the PDF format row, the Middle Eastern type row, the G11 entry, the M4 milestone, and each touched document's status/history. Scores and estimates are unchanged.

Addresses #6309.

What this does not claim

The editable-text reader round-trip is still red on this base: the importer does not consume ActualText yet (#6165, fixed separately in #6327). With TextAs::Text, شنطة returns [] and مُحَمَّد returns ["د", "مَّ", "مَّ", "مُ"] instead of the original word. I keep both exact assertions as explicitly #[ignore]d tests with a #6165 reason. The active regression is the decoded stream/font-mapping assertion. I have not verified copy/search in an external viewer on this build. Separately styled marks, differently rotated clusters, bent glyphs, outlines-only/embedding-forbidden text, and text rasterized by transparency flattening remain outside this guarantee; PDF/X coverage here uses opaque real text, and wrapped Form XObjects with clip/opacity/overprint have no new marked-text regression.

How it was tested

At base c66cb516e on macOS (Rust 1.98.1), one Cargo invocation at a time, with CRAFT_FONTS_DIR pointing at a craft-fonts checkout, CRAFT_FONTS_REQUIRED=1, CARGO_NET_OFFLINE=true, CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=4:

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check and git diff --check: passed.
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-pdf --offline -j 4 mark_text: 5 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored (the reader tests); the Noto assertions ran.
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-pdf --offline -j 4 --no-fail-fast: 470 library tests passed, 1 known failure, 3 ignored; all 3 integration tests passed. The known failure is tests::import_fidelity::a_missing_font_is_split_only_before_a_style, which I reproduced with the two production files restored to HEAD (0 passed, 1 failed); it passes on CI.
  • Red/green: with only export/text.rs and export/exporter.rs restored to HEAD and tests/docs unchanged, mark_text gave 0 passed, 5 failed, 2 ignored (the harakat and dot exports each have 7 ToUnicode assignments for 4 unique cluster strings; the vertical fixture has 4 text batches instead of 2). With the fix restored: 5 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored.
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-pdf --offline -j 4 mark_text_reader_round_trip -- --ignored: 0 passed, 2 failed, as described above.
  • cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-pdf --all-targets --offline -j 4 -- -D warnings: passed.
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft --bins -j 4 (outside the sandbox so the control-server socket tests can bind): 248 passed, 0 failed.
  • cargo run -p xtask --offline -j 4 -- ci --offline: fmt and workspace clippy passed; the test stage stopped in the application test binary with 236 passed and 12 control_server socket failures (PermissionDenied) in the sandbox that run used; the same tests pass outside it (above). The remaining nine stages were skipped by xtask after that failure. This is not a green local cargo xtask ci.

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  • cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm).
  • No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user (why and how).
  • Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
  • Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md (no new assets).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • PDF exports preserve vertical glyph offsets for compatible marked-text clusters while keeping glyphs together on the same layout line.
  • Tests
    • Added regression coverage for Arabic text clusters, glyph placement, rotation, vertical columns, and PDF compatibility settings.
  • Documentation
    • Updated PDF export documentation to describe this behavior, its test coverage, and its limitations.

A mark glyph's vertical translation started a new draw_glyphs batch, so
krilla received the cluster's source range again and mapped its
characters twice. Copying or searching the exported PDF then found
doubled letters for Arabic harakat in any font, and for every dotted
letter in fonts that draw dots as zero-advance mark glyphs (Noto Sans,
Naskh and Kufi Arabic).

Keep compatible glyphs on the same layout line in one batch and carry
their relative vertical placement as per-glyph y_offset; horizontal
placement is unchanged (next_x - x advances). Font, size, linear
transform, line/column, paint run, list marker and hyphen boundaries
still split batches. Krilla keeps owning cluster mappings and
ActualText. No importer change.

Regressions decode the content stream and ToUnicode maps: one batch per
layout line, no duplicated cluster assignment, one ActualText per
multi-glyph cluster, contours within 0.05 pt of outline export; mixed
scripts, vertical columns, path rotations and PDF/X variants covered.
The reader round-trip stays an ignored test until the importer consumes
ActualText (storytold#6165).

Addresses storytold#6309.
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PDF text export now groups compatible glyphs on a layout line and retains per-glyph vertical offsets. Regression tests check Arabic mark text mappings and placement. Documentation records the export evidence and remaining validation limits.

Changes: PDF marked-text export

Layer / File(s) Summary
Glyph grouping and placement
crates/pdf/src/export/exporter.rs, crates/pdf/src/export/text.rs
GlyphLine stores a layout-line identifier and Point positions. Glyph grouping checks layout line, font face, size, and marker. Placement, bounds, and spacing checks account for vertical offsets.
Arabic export regression tests
crates/pdf/src/tests/realtext.rs
Tests cover Arabic mark clusters, text batches, semantic mappings, contour placement, vertical columns, rotated glyphs, and PDF/X variants. Two editable-text round-trip tests remain ignored.
Export coverage and limitations
docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/type-parity.md
The documents record export evidence and identify importer ActualText support, styled or differently rotated clusters, and external-viewer validation as separate limits. The target-app parity document also updates its .ai editing-copy gap description and other format evidence.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

  • storytold/vectorcraft#6309 — The PR batches compatible glyphs on a layout line with per-glyph offsets, and tests check cluster mappings.

Suggested reviewers: aiongg

Merge Risk: Low · up to 95a25

The PDF export change looks sound. One documentation sentence in the file-format parity table is missing a separator and reads as a run-on. This is cosmetic and can be fixed before or after merge.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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docs/target-app-parity.md: 1

229-231: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Keep one File formats area row. Fix the separator in it.

Lines 229, 230 and 231 are three File formats rows with the same weight and score. They differ only in the .ai gap text and the evidence list. This PR adds the same PDF marked-text sentence to all three. The area table is the authoritative parity table. Duplicate rows can diverge and can double-count the area. Keep one row and merge any unique evidence from the others into it.

The inserted sentence also has the same punctuation problem in each row. It follows verified after two spaces, with no ; or .. The remain.| ending has no space before the pipe.

📝 Proposed fix for the surviving row

-EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified  PDF marked-text batching covered by M4 evidence (#6309); import ActualText (#6165) and styled-cluster limits remain.| 10–20 |
+EPS legacy mesh/opacity-mask and raster comparison follow-up verified; PDF marked-text batching covered by M4 evidence (#6309); import ActualText (#6165) and styled-cluster limits remain. | 10–20 |
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Review comment at @docs/target-app-parity.md around lines 229 - 231:
Keep a single File formats row in the parity table, merging any unique scope
details and evidence from the three duplicates without losing relevant
information. In the surviving row, separate the PDF marked-text evidence with
proper punctuation and ensure the final sentence has a space before the
table-cell delimiter.

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Review comments at @docs/file-format-parity.md:
- Line 283: Add a semicolon after the PDF/X flattening reference (#2160) in the
PDF row so it separates that statement from the following PDF export statement
about harakat and zero-advance Noto Arabic dot glyphs.

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Review comments at @docs/target-app-parity.md:
- Around line 229-231: Keep a single File formats row in the parity table,
merging any unique scope details and evidence from the three duplicates without
losing relevant information. In the surviving row, separate the PDF marked-text
evidence with proper punctuation and ensure the final sentence has a space
before the table-cell delimiter.

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Comment thread docs/file-format-parity.md Outdated
| Illustrator template `.ait` | open, save | yes | PDF-compatible only, from Save as Template (`.vctemplate` stays its default) | New from Template opens a saved `.ait` untitled with its layers and art (`tests_pdfedit.rs`) |
| Illustrator `.ai` | open, save | yes (PDF-compatible + editing-data structure with template layers and ruler guides, File Info) | PDF-compatible, or legacy version 7 (layers and groups) | see above; no real-file corpus |
| PDF | open, place, save | yes (layers, masks, editable text, security, overprint, File Info from the XMP packet and the document information dictionary; Crop To › Trim takes the bleed box as the document's bleed) | yes (presets, PDF/X-1a/3/4, layers, marks and bleed, ICC, fast web view, 1.3+; objects' URLs as link annotations, not in PDF/X) | fuzzed import; shared guarded writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), metadata, incomplete-content and dependency-source regressions; PDF text opens where the file draws it, glyph by glyph (#722: kerning or none, spacing per character, text rise as baseline shift, vertical writing, justified text boxes); alpha soft masks drawn as images import with the mask (#1551); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); a PDF another app copied pastes as editable vector art (#1499); letter-spaced type on a path keeps its length and its glyph-by-glyph stroke comes in as one text object (#1586, #1585); a crafted name tree with shared nodes no longer takes exponential time on open (#1781); fonts named with hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold`) or with a composite font's CMap (`Name-Identity-H`) find the installed family; invisible text (rendering mode 3: a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke and saves back as invisible, searchable text (#2675); PDF/X-1a and X-3 flattening in a CMYK document keeps CMYK inks where it rasterizes (#2160) |
| PDF | open, place, save | yes (layers, masks, editable text, security, overprint, File Info from the XMP packet and the document information dictionary; Crop To › Trim takes the bleed box as the document's bleed) | yes (presets, PDF/X-1a/3/4, layers, marks and bleed, ICC, fast web view, 1.3+; objects' URLs as link annotations, not in PDF/X) | fuzzed import; shared guarded writer and windowed reader ([pdf-backend.md](pdf-backend.md)), metadata, incomplete-content and dependency-source regressions; PDF text opens where the file draws it, glyph by glyph (#722: kerning or none, spacing per character, text rise as baseline shift, vertical writing, justified text boxes); alpha soft masks drawn as images import with the mask (#1551); a clip only counts as covering the page when its shape does (#1542); a PDF another app copied pastes as editable vector art (#1499); letter-spaced type on a path keeps its length and its glyph-by-glyph stroke comes in as one text object (#1586, #1585); a crafted name tree with shared nodes no longer takes exponential time on open (#1781); fonts named with hyphens (`Noto-Sans-Bold`) or with a composite font's CMap (`Name-Identity-H`) find the installed family; invisible text (rendering mode 3: a scanned page's recognized text) opens as type with no fill or stroke and saves back as invisible, searchable text (#2675); PDF/X-1a and X-3 flattening in a CMYK document keeps CMYK inks where it rasterizes (#2160) PDF export keeps harakat and zero-advance Noto Arabic dot glyphs in one compatible batch per layout line, with per-glyph vertical offsets (#6309). `crates/pdf/src/tests/realtext.rs` (`mark_text_*`) checks decoded cluster mappings, mixed Arabic/Latin/digits, contour placement against outline export, vertical columns, differing path rotations and PDF/X-1a/3/4. Editable-text import still needs ActualText support (#6165); separately styled or differently rotated clusters and external viewer search/copy remain outside this export-only evidence. |

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add a separator before the new PDF marked-text sentence.

The previous text ends with (#2160), then two spaces, then PDF export keeps harakat…. No ; or . joins the two. The Fidelity cell reads as one run-on clause.

📝 Proposed fix

-PDF/X-1a and X-3 flattening in a CMYK document keeps CMYK inks where it rasterizes (#2160)  PDF export keeps harakat
+PDF/X-1a and X-3 flattening in a CMYK document keeps CMYK inks where it rasterizes (#2160); PDF export keeps harakat
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Review comment at @docs/file-format-parity.md at line 283:
Add a semicolon after the PDF/X flattening reference (#2160) in the PDF row so
it separates that statement from the following PDF export statement about
harakat and zero-advance Noto Arabic dot glyphs.

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Thanks @thisisgomaa! I reviewed this and it's approved, but it now conflicts with main after the latest merges (likely the progress docs). Could you merge main? It'll go in once it's clean and its CI is green.

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Thanks @bflatastic! Merged main in 95a2527 (progress docs only: gaps and target-app-parity; upstream rows kept, ours added once). The 5 mark_text tests pass locally; CI is running on the new head.

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Prompt to fix all issues
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Merged, thanks @thisisgomaa! It passed its CI checks.

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