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Carries forward storytold#245, vector PDF output (beta gap 14), by @pierrevbc. The author replied on 2026-10-27 that they don't plan to bring it up to date themselves and asked us to go ahead. Their four commits are kept as they are, with their authorship; this branch only adds one merge commit of origin/main (no rebase), so the work credit stays theirs. It supersedes storytold#245; that PR is left open for the maintainers.

What changed since storytold#245

Upstream split the renderer, text layout and engine commands into modules on 10-26 and changed the raster PDF path, so the merge needed more than a textual resolve:

• crates/render: the Canvas changes (draw_slide, slide_on, shadows and glows rasterized per element, geometry_shape / geometry_art) are ported onto renderer.rs, slide.rs, stroke.rs, text_draw.rs and geometry.rs. Chart pattern fills and the colour-glyph path also go through the canvas now.
• crates/text: TextLayout::texts is re-added in lib.rs and layout.rs.
• crates/engine: the vector export parameter is re-added to file.export and pdf_options, next to upstream's rtf and transparentBackground.
• crates/pdf: upstream's shared backdrops, 64M-pixel cap and plan_pages / build_outline stay for the raster mode (vector: false), and the vector path keeps its font cache. The raster backdrop test now sets vector: false.
• Docs: upstream's headers and rows taken, the PDF row and the closed-gap entry from PDF export: vector slides with real text; effects rasterize per element storytold/deckcraft#245 kept, parity score regenerated with cargo xtask parity.

Range-diff

The author's last head bff0915b against this branch, git range-diff 9859da39..pr245 origin/main..dc-carry-245:

1:  f84c7382 = 1:  f84c7382 PDF export: vector slides with real text; effects rasterize per element
2:  ffc3d77c = 2:  ffc3d77c Progress docs: vector PDF export closes the PDF artwork gap
3:  c882f78c = 3:  c882f78c PDF export: tests for newer drawing on vector pages
4:  bff0915b = 4:  bff0915b PDF export: vector pages for the newer bevels, group shadows, tiles and vertical text

All four are identical (=); everything new is in the merge commit 43e36bf5.

What ran

On Linux (WSL2) with CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=2: cargo fmt --check and cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings on pdf, render, text, engine and mcp are clean. Tests: text 89 of 89, mcp, and the engine pdf test pass; pdf 24 of 26 and render 197 of 198.

The three failures need fonts that this machine lacks (the craft-fonts checkout, so no CJK face): upright_vertical_text_is_outlines_over_invisible_text, unembeddable_font_returns_error_instead_of_a_pdf_missing_text and east_asian_vertical_text_stands_ideographs_upright. I did not run these tests on main to confirm that, so CI is the check. Not run: the full cargo xtask ci, the app build, Windows and macOS (the code is platform independent), and a visual check of an exported PDF in a viewer.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • PDF exports now default to vector artwork and real, extractable text. Shapes, gradients, transparency, tables, charts, and supported pictures can be included in vector output.
  • Effects and patterns that require pixel rendering are rasterized individually at the configured DPI. Set vector: false to export entire slides as raster images, with an optional invisible text layer.
• Documentation
  • Updated PDF export guidance to explain vector output, which elements are rasterized, and the available export options.
• Packaging
  • Linux builds can access the network for update checks. The optional control server remains limited to local connections.

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PDF export now defaults to vector slide content, including real text and embedded pictures. Elements that require pixels can rasterize individually. Callers can select whole-slide raster output with vector: false.

Changes: Vector PDF Export

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Canvas contract and rendering data crates/render/src/canvas.rs, crates/render/src/images.rs, crates/render/src/geometry.rs, crates/render/src/colr.rs, crates/render/src/lib.rs, crates/text/src/layout.rs, crates/text/src/lib.rs	The renderer adds a Canvas interface, paint and image types, and clipped raster fallback support. TextLayout now includes paragraph text, and the renderer exposes the canvas types and related helpers.
Render slides through Canvas crates/render/src/renderer.rs, crates/render/src/slide.rs, crates/render/src/paint.rs, crates/render/src/text_draw.rs, crates/render/src/chart.rs, crates/render/src/chartex.rs, crates/render/src/extrude.rs, crates/render/src/radar.rs, crates/render/src/stroke.rs, crates/render/src/table.rs, crates/render/src/warp.rs, crates/render/src/tests.rs, crates/render/src/tests_vector.rs	Slide and content rendering use Canvas instead of requiring RenderContext. Effects and pixel-only operations use raster paths, and tests check canvas operations and compare vector and pixel rendering.
PDF vector canvas and export selection crates/pdf/Cargo.toml, crates/pdf/src/vector.rs, crates/pdf/src/lib.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/file.rs, crates/mcp/src/tools.rs, crates/mcp/src/tests.rs	PDF export selects vector or raster output through the vector option, which defaults to true. PdfCanvas writes paths, images, and text, and handles raster fallbacks. The command and MCP export schemas expose the option.
Export validation and documentation crates/pdf/src/tests.rs, ROADMAP.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/parity-checklist.md, docs/roadmap.md	PDF tests cover vector and raster output, text extraction, images, links, bookmarks, and localized rasterization. Documentation updates describe vector PDF output and revise the recorded parity and roadmap status.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ExportCommand
  participant PdfExporter
  participant Renderer
  participant PdfCanvas
  participant PdfWriter
  ExportCommand->>PdfExporter: pass vector PDF options
  PdfExporter->>Renderer: draw slide through PdfCanvas
  Renderer->>PdfCanvas: send paths, images, text, and raster fallbacks
  PdfCanvas->>PdfWriter: write PDF drawing operations

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Possibly related PRs

• Harrison-Booth/deckcraft#5: Both changes update the PDF exporter; this PR extends the exporter with vector slides and real text.

Suggested reviewers: dylanmtaylor, echelon

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review f74c8

The Flatpak builds now share the host network. If the optional control server is enabled, it should be confirmed that other local sandboxed apps cannot drive it without authentication before merging. A minor, pre-existing misalignment of stock chart marks on reversed or forecast axes is also carried into the new vector path.

Security architecture risk: High · up to f74c8

Network access weakens the isolation protecting the optional control interface. When that interface is enabled, another process on the same host may gain control of open presentations and files accessible to the app without authenticating. The listener remains optional and loopback-only; this is not evidence of direct Internet exposure.

Retained concerns

• High · security · inferred: Default shared-network access removes the sandbox network isolation protecting the opt-in, unauthenticated control listener. Reachable host processes can acquire application automation authority without the previously required network override.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The affected security scope is a Flatpak app instance with its control listener enabled, its open presentations, and app-accessible files. Potential callers are processes able to reach host/shared-network loopback. The inspected binding does not establish direct off-host reachability or unrestricted host access.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The retained finding's path is reachable local process to TCP JSON requests to unauthenticated control dispatch to application commands. Authentication was already absent; the PR worsens exposure by granting the shared-network permission previously requiring an override. Connected automation inherits running-app authority rather than the standalone automation-root restrictions.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Explicit listener startup, loopback binding, request-size limits, queue limits and malformed-request rejection are meaningful controls. They limit activation and resource consumption but do not establish caller identity or method authorization after a connection is accepted.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The unchanged control lifecycle arbitrates pending request execution against abandonment, preventing abandoned queued requests from executing later. An already-started request may continue after timeout, with its outcome reported as uncertain. These lifecycle protections do not mitigate unauthorized callers.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Separate outbound networking from control-channel trust: require authenticated pairing for TCP control, or use a permission-restricted local transport with peer identity. Treat loopback location as reachability, not authorization.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: PDF export now supports vector slides with real text. The reference to issue #245 is relevant.
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90-90: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Update two roadmap statements that now contradict the vector PDF change.

This PR updates lines 22, 50 and 122 to say vector PDF has landed. Two unchanged statements still say it has not:

• Line 90, the M11 row, lists "vector PDF" under open work.
• Lines 148-149 say the writer consolidation "preserves the current raster-artwork export" and "does not advance vector-PDF". Raster export is now only the vector: false mode.

Remove "vector PDF" from the M11 open list. Reword or delete the closing paragraph.

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Update the M11 row to remove vector PDF from the open-work list, and revise the
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Minor · Include the reflection blur in the spill for vector shapes. · renderer.rs:564-573

crates/render/src/renderer.rs:564-573
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include the reflection blur in the spill for vector shapes.

extent::spill sizes the reflection reach as h + dist. The reflection is then drawn with a Gaussian blur, and the blur tail extends past that reach. For vector output, the reflection is rasterized into area, so the tail is cut at the area edge. The raster canvas has no such cut, so the tail appears there.

For example, with h = 100, dist = 0, blur = 40, start_alpha = 1, and end_pos = 1:

• The reflection reach is 100. The area ends at 2h + dist = 200 below the shape.
• The blur sigma is blur * 0.5 = 20. The blurred edge is at y = 200 in slide space, and the content there has opacity of about 0.6 * 1 * 0.08 ≈ 5%. That tail is cut in vector output.
• The shadow branch already adds fin(sh.blur) to its reach. The reflection branch does not add its blur.

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Suggested fix

         if let Some(r) = &e.reflection {
-            s = s.max(fin(h) + fin(r.dist));
+            // The blur sigma is `blur * 0.5`; three sigma of blur tail is `1.5 * blur`.
+            s = s.max(fin(h) + fin(r.dist) + fin(r.blur) * 1.5);
         }

This change also widens the slide extent computed by shape_box, which uses the same spill call.

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Review comment at @crates/render/src/renderer.rs around lines 564 - 573:
Update the reflection reach calculation in extent::spill to include the blur
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distance reach. Preserve the current shadow reach logic and ensure the updated
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crates/render/src/chart.rs: 1

788-791: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Align stock marks with slot(i).

When cat_reversed or forecast padding shifts the data slots, stock marks do not align with category labels and other slot-based elements. A forward-only forecast on a normal, non-reversed axis does not shift the data slots.

This is pre-existing. The merge base uses the same unslotted expression, so this PR preserves the issue rather than introducing it.

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-            crate::radar::stock_marks(ctx, rctx, c, m, plot.x0 + band * (i as f64 + 0.5), band, i, &|v| to_axis(false, v));
+            crate::radar::stock_marks(ctx, rctx, c, m, plot.x0 + band * (slot(i) + 0.5), band, i, &|v| to_axis(false, v));

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Broken Authentication

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function

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Authenticate the control server before exposing host loopback.

When a user starts DeckCraft with --control, --share=network makes its listener reachable from other network-enabled Flatpaks. The server accepts JSON requests without authentication. Another sandboxed app can use ui.render to read a slide or app.quit to close DeckCraft without confirmation. The HTTP rejection does not block these raw TCP requests. (github.com)

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