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fix: fit the chat agent's text annotations to their words, and refit them on a format change - #1160

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Summary

A text annotation the chat agent adds is now fitted to its words, and stays fitted when the format changes.

  • Root cause. The agent's tools run in the main process. measureTextBlock has no OffscreenCanvas there and falls back to a 0.56 em average advance. For "Demo OpenScreen" in bold Inter at 64 px that gives 538 px, while the real width is 587 px. The box left 554 px for the text inside the plate, so the compositor wrapped "OpenScreen" out of the box, in 16:9 already.
  • Measure in the shipped fonts. annotations/fontTables.ts reads cmap, hmtx and hhea from the TrueType files the compositor draws with. Kerning is ignored, and since it tightens, the sum of advances is an upper bound. electron/ai-edition/text-measure.ts finds those files: OPENSCREEN_FONTS_DIR, then <VITE_PUBLIC>/fonts, then <resources>/fonts. If no file is found, it falls back to the old estimate. The agent's placeTextOnFrame and setAspectRatio use this measure.
  • Refit on a format change. refitFrameAnnotations now refits a frame text box to its words in the new frame through the new fitTextInFrame, instead of scaling its shape. A box that was measured wrong does not stay wrong. When the frame cannot hold the font size on one line, the size comes down just enough (rounded down) and the box is refitted. 64 px of bold Inter does not fit a 9:16 frame's width, so this title becomes 61 px. Images and arrows keep their shape as before. In the renderer the editor's own format change goes through the same function with its canvas measure.

Related issue

Fixes #1159

Candidate for cherry-pick to release/v2.1.0.

Type of change

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  • Documentation
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  • Security

Release impact

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Desktop impact

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  • macOS
  • Linux
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None. The tests below measure the box against the font file.

Testing

  • electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.test.ts: new case that replays the e2e turn. It sets 16:9, adds the 64 px title, then switches to 9:16, and checks that the box leaves room for the measured words in both formats, that the box is at most 100 % wide, that the font size comes down below 64 and that the title stays centred. It also adds the same title straight into 9:16. On the old code the case fails with -32.9 px of room in 16:9.
  • src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/fontTables.test.ts: reads every shipped font, pins Inter bold "Demo OpenScreen" at 586.5 px, checks weights, families, scaling, lines, missing glyphs and the fallback.
  • placement.test.ts: fitTextInFrame, and the text refit in both directions (16:9 to 9:16 and back) with the same pixel width. Image shape keeping is unchanged. useEditorSettings.test.ts is updated to expect the refit.
  • npx tsc --noEmit, npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit, npm run lint, npx vitest --run src/lib/ai-edition electron/ai-edition (1615 tests), plus a full npm run test.

Not checked by hand: a 9:16 export of an agent title in the GUI. The tests cover the sizing logic against the real font file. Preview and export draw from the stored box, which is what changed.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Frame-placed text now fits its content and stays within the output frame. When changing aspect ratio, text boxes are refitted and font sizes are reduced as needed, while annotations remain centered.
    • Text sizing uses metrics from shipped fonts, with fallback estimates when font metrics are unavailable.

…and refit it on a format change

The agent's tools run in the main process, where there is no canvas, so a text box was sized from a 0.56 em average advance: 538 px for the 587 px of a bold Inter title at 64 px, and the compositor wrapped its last word out of the box. Measure with the advances of the font files the compositor draws (fontTables.ts, text-measure.ts). A format change now refits a text box to its words in the new frame instead of scaling its shape, and brings a size the frame cannot hold on one line down until it fits. Images and arrows keep their shape as before.

Fixes #1159
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Text annotations use shipped-font metrics when available. The annotation box is refitted to its text when added and when the output aspect ratio changes. If the text exceeds the frame width, its font size is reduced.

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Annotation text fitting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Font metrics and measurement
src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/fontTables.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/fontTables.test.ts
Font-table parsing measures glyph advances and line height. Missing glyphs use a one-em advance, and unavailable metrics use the existing fallback measurement. Tests cover shipped fonts, weights, multiline text, and fallback behavior.
Frame-space text fitting
src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/placement.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/placement.test.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/settingsPatch.ts, src/lib/ai-edition/store/useEditorSettings.test.ts
Frame-space text boxes are refitted to their content after aspect-ratio changes, with font size reduced when the box exceeds the frame width. Other frame annotations retain proportional resizing. Settings patches accept an optional measurement callback.
Agent tool integration
electron/ai-edition/text-measure.ts, electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.ts, electron/ai-edition/agent-tools.test.ts
The main process locates shipped font files and caches parsed metrics. Agent text placement and aspect-ratio changes use those measurements. Tests check title fitting in landscape and portrait formats.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium


Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9dd0f

Most annotations are unaffected, but exceptionally long text can extend beyond the frame at the minimum font size, and a malformed configured font can interrupt agent placement or aspect-ratio changes. These are bounded edge cases for owner awareness.

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Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: fitting chat-agent text annotations to their words and refitting them after format changes.
Description check Passed The description includes all required sections, identifies issue #1159, classifies the change, states release and desktop impact, explains the absence of screenshots, and documents testing and limitat…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1159 requires the text box to fit the title and keep the title on one line after a 16:9 to 9:16 change. The change measures shipped font advances, uses that measurement for agent placement, and…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The production changes implement issue #1159 through shipped-font measurement, text placement, and aspect-ratio refitting. The tests verify these behaviors and preserve image and arrow handling. No un…

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- Around line 215-228: Update fitTextInFrame to define and enforce what happens
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Comment thread src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/placement.ts
It keeps the 8 px floor and a box fitted to its one line, left-aligned on the frame, rather than wrapping out of its box.

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🟡 Minor · Catch deferred font-table failures and use the documented fallback. · fontTables.ts:100-124

src/lib/ai-edition/annotations/fontTables.ts:100-124
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Catch deferred font-table failures and use the documented fallback.

readFontMetrics validates only the initial table reads. A font can provide valid head, hhea, and cmap data while its hmtx table is truncated. If cmap maps annotation text to a nonzero glyph, advanceOf calls DataView.getUint16 outside the buffer. measureWithFontTables does not catch that exception, so placeTextOnFrame and setAspectRatio can abort instead of using measureTextBlock.

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 			if (!font) return measureTextBlock(content, style);
-			const scale = style.fontSize / font.unitsPerEm;
-			const lineWidth = (line: string) => {
-				let units = 0;
-				for (const char of line) {
-					const codePoint = char.codePointAt(0) ?? 0;
-					units += font.advanceOf(codePoint) ?? MISSING_ADVANCE_EM * font.unitsPerEm;
-				}
-				return units * scale;
-			};
-			const lines = content.split("\n");
-			return {
-				width: Math.max(0, ...lines.map(lineWidth)),
-				height: lines.length * font.lineHeight * scale,
-			};
+			try {
+				const scale = style.fontSize / font.unitsPerEm;
+				const lineWidth = (line: string) => {
+					let units = 0;
+					for (const char of line) {
+						const codePoint = char.codePointAt(0) ?? 0;
+						units += font.advanceOf(codePoint) ?? MISSING_ADVANCE_EM * font.unitsPerEm;
+					}
+					return units * scale;
+				};
+				const lines = content.split("\n");
+				return {
+					width: Math.max(0, ...lines.map(lineWidth)),
+					height: lines.length * font.lineHeight * scale,
+				};
+			} catch {
+				return measureTextBlock(content, style);
+			}
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Update the font-table measurement path in measureWithFontTables to catch errors
raised when deferred advanceOf calls read truncated hmtx data, and return
measureTextBlock(content, style) on failure. Preserve the existing font-table
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- Around line 100-124: Update the font-table measurement path in
measureWithFontTables to catch errors raised when deferred advanceOf calls read
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@coderabbitai The outside-diff finding on fontTables.ts (deferred hmtx reads) is fixed in 297ca9e: measureWithFontTables catches a failure while summing advances and falls back to measureTextBlock. A test covers it with a font whose advanceOf throws a RangeError.

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@EtienneLescot Confirmed by code inspection. measureWithFontTables catches failures from advanceOf and falls back to measureTextBlock. The regression test checks that an advanceOf function that throws a RangeError produces the same fallback result.

This addresses the deferred hmtx read finding. I did not run the test.


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[Bug]: the chat agent's text annotation is not fitted to its text, and wraps out of its box in 9:16

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