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PDF export: vector slides with real text (carries #245) - #1470
Carries forward #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 #245; that PR is left open for the maintainers.
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.
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.
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New Features
PDF exports now use vector artwork by default for shapes, outlines, gradients, transparency, tables, and charts. Text remains selectable, and pictures are embedded in the PDF.
Effects and patterns that cannot be represented as vectors are rasterized locally. The dpi setting controls their resolution; set vector: false for whole-slide raster output.
Documentation
Updated PDF export guidance to describe vector output, rasterization behavior, and export options. The roadmap now lists printing as the remaining output task, estimated at 5–8 hours.
Each slide was one raster image under an invisible text layer: large files (0.1 to 2 MB a slide at
the default 200 dpi), blurry when zoomed or printed. Slides are now drawn by the same renderer
through a vector canvas, so shapes, outlines (width, dashes, caps, joins, arrowheads), solid and
linear/radial gradient fills, transparency, rotation, flips, groups, tables and charts become PDF
paths and paints, and text is real text in the embedded font subsets (searchable, selectable,
mapped back to Unicode cluster by cluster). JPEG and PNG pictures are embedded as they are (JPEG
stays DCT), others as lossless pixels; crops and picture transparency are kept. Backgrounds
(solid, gradient, picture) are vector too.
What a PDF can't express is rasterized locally, at `dpi`, in place: a shape with an outer or
inner shadow, glow, soft edges or reflection (its geometry and effects; its text stays vector) and
pattern fills. Undecodable pictures (EMF/WMF, SVG) show the placeholder they show on screen.
Glyphs from a variable font's non-default named instance are drawn as outlines over invisible
real text, since the embedded subset is the default instance.
The sample deck goes from 1.04 MB to 0.18 MB, a 21-slide public talk from 10.4 MB to 0.73 MB;
`vector: false` (file.export, MCP export) keeps the raster mode, byte for byte. Links, bookmarks,
notes pages, handouts and hidden-slide handling are unchanged.
- render: `Canvas` trait (canvas.rs) for every drawing call; `vello_cpu`'s RenderContext
implements it, so on-screen output is unchanged. `draw_slide` draws a slide on any canvas.
Effects need the pixel context; vector canvases get those shapes through `rasterize`, a
transparent pixmap covering the shape and its effects. Pictures hand the canvas the original
file when it is an unchanged JPEG or PNG.
- text: `TextLayout::texts`, each paragraph's characters as laid out (fields filled in), for
glyph-to-text mapping.
- pdf: krilla canvas (vector.rs) with font and image caches; `PdfOptions::vector` (default
true); `dpi` now also sets the resolution of local rasters.
- engine, mcp: `vector` export parameter.
- tests: decks generated in code; paths and text without a page image, extractable text, a
shadow rasterizes only its shape, pattern fills rasterize their area, JPEG embedded byte for
byte, links and bookmarks in slides and handouts, size against the raster mode; a recording
canvas checks what reaches a vector canvas; drawing on a pixel canvas matches render_slide.
The vector PDF canvas was rebased on renderer code that draws some
things only on the pixel context: pattern tiles, rectangle and outline
path gradients, blended fill overlays, text shadows and glows, colour
emoji (COLR glyphs) and WMF/EMF pictures. The rebase routes them
through the per-element raster fallback (canvas::pixels, text effects
and colour glyphs rasterized over their area) and draws gradient text
glyph by glyph as vector paths; these tests pin it down.
- render: a recording canvas checks each case: pixels over that element
only, glyph runs kept for the text around effects and emoji, compound
outlines as strokes, metafiles as decoded pixels.
- pdf: a vector PDF with a pattern, a path gradient, shadowed text with
an emoji and a WMF picture exports without panicking, with local
images and extractable text.
- file-format-parity.md (PDF row) and architecture.md list what
rasterizes.
…nd vertical text
The renderer now lights 3-D bevels and faces, casts a group's shadow from
its children, tiles pictures with flips, alignment and their recorded
resolution, draws circle gradients from an off-centre focus to the circle
around their tile, and stands East Asian vertical text upright. On a
vector canvas: bevels, lit faces and group shadows are local rasters over
their area (never dropped); tiles are one embedded picture per tile, the
mirrored ones flipped; circle gradients are two-circle PDF gradients;
upright glyphs are outlines over the same text drawn invisibly (still
searchable and copyable); children filled with the group fill keep it
laid out across the group inside a local raster.
- render: tests_vector.rs replays the vector route into pixels and
compares it with the pixel route on those cases (off-centre, tiled and
rotWithShape=0 gradients, flipped and aligned tiles, bevel and lit face,
group shadow, grpFill under a shadow, gradient lines and heads), and
counts the local rasters.
- pdf: upright vertical text exports as invisible text under outlines;
horizontal text stays plain text.
Upstream split the renderer, text layout and engine commands into modules, and
changed the raster PDF path (shared backdrops, a pixel cap) and chart text colour.
The vector canvas changes are carried onto the new module layout; the raster
path keeps upstream's backdrop reuse behind `vector: false`.
Co-authored-by: pierrevbc <101216765+pierrevbc@users.noreply.github.com>
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PDF export now defaults to vector slides with paths, embedded images, and real text. Full-slide raster output remains available. The renderer uses a shared canvas interface and rasterizes selected effects and fills locally.
Slide rendering and drawing helpers use Canvas. Vector output preserves supported artwork as drawing operations and uses local pixels for selected effects, fills, and glyphs. Tests compare vector-canvas output with pixel rendering.
PDF vector canvas crates/pdf/src/vector.rs
The PDF canvas converts paths, paints, images, and glyph runs into PDF content. It caches embedded fonts and images and records font-embedding errors.
PDF export modes and validation crates/pdf/src/lib.rs, crates/pdf/src/tests.rs, crates/pdf/Cargo.toml, crates/engine/src/cmd/file.rs, crates/mcp/src/tools.rs, crates/mcp/src/tests.rs, ROADMAP.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/parity-checklist.md, docs/roadmap.md
PDF export defaults to vector slides. vector: false selects full-slide raster output. Tests cover vector content, local rasterization, images, text, links, and raster mode. Export documentation and roadmap entries describe the output modes.
The upright-text effect bounds appear corrected. No remaining issue identified here prevents merging after normal checks.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to f74c8
Default PDF exports can retain complete pictures even when cropping hides part of them on the page. Recipients may therefore recover picture content that was absent from earlier raster exports. Raster mode remains available, and the inspected rendering paths retain clipping, work limits, and recovery controls.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Default vector export retains picture pixels hidden by cropping. The producer passes the complete source image to the PDF backend without excluding nonzero crops; the backend embeds that image and clips only its display. A recipient can consequently recover cropped-away content from a shared PDF when those pixels contain sensitive information. The previous raster artwork path exported rendered pixels instead. Source preservation is intentional and raster mode remains available, but neither prevents this change in default disclosure behavior.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The identified disclosure scope is source picture data embedded in an exported PDF. A recipient needs access to that PDF, but no editor or application privilege, to inspect its image objects. The inspected path does not establish exposure to other presentations, tenants, credentials, or services.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — If a shared presentation picture contains sensitive pixels outside its visible crop, default vector export carries the complete picture into a PDF image object. Extracting that object bypasses the visual crop. The source-preservation test confirms this is deliberate output behavior, although no sensitive production example or extraction experiment was supplied.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The repository-owned PDF caller supplies the canvas and page clip rather than accepting an input-provided implementation. Hidden-slide selection and safe-URL filtering remain in the exporter. These controls constrain rendering and annotations, but display clipping does not remove source pixels from embedded image objects.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The image cache retains pixmap ownership to prevent address reuse from aliasing cached images. Font-embedding errors are retained and returned when the canvas finishes, rather than silently substituting text. The cache belongs to one export and is shared across its pages.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Provide an explicit privacy-preserving image export policy that removes cropped-away pixels before embedding. Distinguish source-preserving vector output from sanitized output, and validate the distinction by inspecting extracted PDF image data rather than visual appearance alone.
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Carries forward #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 #245; that PR is left open for the maintainers.What changed since #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: theCanvaschanges (draw_slide,slide_on, shadows and glows rasterized per element,geometry_shape/geometry_art) are ported ontorenderer.rs,slide.rs,stroke.rs,text_draw.rsandgeometry.rs. Chart pattern fills and the colour-glyph path also go through the canvas now.crates/text:TextLayout::textsis re-added inlib.rsandlayout.rs.crates/engine: thevectorexport parameter is re-added tofile.exportandpdf_options, next to upstream'srtfandtransparentBackground.crates/pdf: upstream's shared backdrops, 64M-pixel cap andplan_pages/build_outlinestay for the raster mode (vector: false), and the vector path keeps its font cache. The raster backdrop test now setsvector: false.cargo xtask parity.Range-diff
The author's last head
bff0915bagainst this branch,git range-diff 9859da39..pr245 origin/main..dc-carry-245:All four are identical (
=); everything new is in the merge commit43e36bf5.What ran
On Linux (WSL2) with
CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=2:cargo fmt --checkandcargo clippy --all-targets -D warningson 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-fontscheckout, so no CJK face):upright_vertical_text_is_outlines_over_invisible_text,unembeddable_font_returns_error_instead_of_a_pdf_missing_textandeast_asian_vertical_text_stands_ideographs_upright. I did not run these tests onmainto confirm that, so CI is the check. Not run: the fullcargo 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
dpisetting controls their resolution; setvector: falsefor whole-slide raster output.