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What and why

Fixes #4479.
Relates to #2945, #890, #1295.

When copying an artboard—either using the Duplicate Artboard menu command (artboard.duplicate), Copy Artboard (artboard.copy), or by holding Option/Alt with the Artboard tool (artboard.move { copy: true })—artwork that was larger than the artboard itself (such as background fills, large photos/illustrations, or oversized banners covering the artboard) or within configured bleed was omitted from the duplicate.

This occurred because duplicate/copy relied on vectorcraft_doc::Document::art_on_artboard, which strictly checks geometric containment (b.x0 >= r.x0 && b.y0 >= r.y0 && b.x1 <= r.x1 && b.y1 <= r.y1). While full containment is the intended invariant when moving, scaling, cutting, or deleting an artboard (preserving #890 and #1295), copying an artboard should duplicate artwork that visually belongs to that artboard, including oversized background fills and bleed elements.

Solution

  1. Scoped strictly to Duplicate/Copy operations:
  2. Added Document::artboard_for_bounds:
    • Determines artboard ownership for oversized/overlapping elements (center containment, or greatest overlap area when the center is outside all artboards, deterministic tie-breaking).
  3. No size threshold cliff:
    • Any artwork touching/intersecting the artboard and belonging to it (artboard_for_bounds == Some(index)) is copied with that artboard. Both 199×199 and 201×201 shapes on a 200×200 board copy consistently, and zero-thickness lines are properly handled.
  4. Preserved Rearrange Artboards:
    • Left rearrange_artboards unchanged from main.
  5. Updated Command Documentation:
    • Updated documentation in crates/engine/src/cmd/panelcmds.rs (artboard.duplicate, artboard.copy, artboard_art) to reflect the copy behavior for bleed and oversized art.

How it was tested

  • Added unit tests in crates/doc/src/tests.rs (art_for_artboard_copy_takes_artwork_larger_than_artboard_or_with_bleed) verifying oversized backgrounds and bleed shapes are copied with the owning artboard while pasteboard artwork and neighboring artboards' art are excluded.
  • Verified art_on_artboard_tolerates_roundoff_at_each_edge retains and passes overhang assertions.
  • Added integration test in crates/engine/src/tests/panelcmds.rs (duplicate_artboard_and_alt_drag_copy_artwork_larger_than_artboard) verifying that both artboard.duplicate and Alt-drag artboard.move { copy: true } copy oversized background and banner elements.
  • Verified test suites:
    • All 426 tests in vectorcraft-doc pass.
    • All 59 integration tests in vectorcraft-engine::tests::panelcmds pass.
    • End-to-end CI checks pass:
      • cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean
      • cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-doc -p vectorcraft-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean (0 warnings)
      • cargo xtask assets: all 334 asset files attributed in ASSETS.md
      • cargo xtask brands: clean (no vendor names in user-visible text)
      • cargo xtask layers: clean (29 crates, no layering violations)
      • cargo xtask wasm: clean (all 24 crates check clean)
      • GitHub Actions CI workflow CI/gate / gate (ubuntu-24.04): green / passed (32m 4s)

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  • 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
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  • 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 added in this PR).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Duplicating or copying an artboard now includes artwork that overlaps it or lies within its configured bleed area, even when the artwork extends beyond the artboard’s edges.
    • When artwork overlaps multiple artboards, it is assigned to the artboard with the greatest overlap; ties favor the earlier artboard. Copying excludes artwork outside all artboards.
    • Moving an artboard continues to leave overhanging artwork in place.

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Artboard copy and duplication now select eligible artwork that extends beyond artboard edges, lies within configured bleed, or is assigned to the artboard by bounds. Moving and cutting retain their existing artwork selection path.

Changes: Artboard Artwork Attribution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounds-based artwork ownership
crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs, crates/doc/src/tests.rs
artboard_for_bounds selects the first artboard containing the bounds center. Otherwise, it selects the artboard with the greatest qualifying overlap. Tests cover ties, no overlap, rotated bounds, and zero-size bounds.
Artboard copy selection and command integration
crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs, crates/doc/src/tests.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/panelcmds.rs, crates/engine/src/tests/panelcmds.rs
art_for_artboard_copy selects eligible artwork within the artboard, its configured bleed, or intersecting bounds assigned to it. Artboard copy commands use this selection. Tests cover artwork selection, duplication, copy-mode movement, and plain movement.

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: dotcoocoo, bflatastic

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 02750

Duplicating or Alt-dragging an artboard can still omit artwork that lies only in the bleed margin. The rest is minor, so the change is mergeable with these follow-ups.

Architecture risk: Low · up to 80f7f

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: crates

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  • observed — crates (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in crates/doc/src/tests.rs: Added an assertion that a disjoint board selects no artwork, then closed the existing edge-roundoff test. Removed the prior checks that a 0.001-unit overhang at any edge excluded the artwork.
  • observed — Modified behavior in crates/doc/src/tests.rs: Added a test using a 200-by-200 artboard with 9-unit bleed on every side. It checks that a centered 250-by-250 background and a shape extending 5 units past the top-right corner are included, while a shape wholly outside the artboard and bleed is excluded.
  • observed — Modified behavior in crates/engine/src/tests/panelcmds.rs: Added coverage for an oversized background and banner that each extend beyond all or part of the artboard. The test expects artboard.duplicate with art: true and artboard.move with copy: true, moveArt: true to return two new object IDs; after undoing those operations, it expects artboard.move with moveArt: true to return both original IDs.
  • observed — Modified behavior in crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs: Added Document::artboard_for_bounds: bounds belong to the first artboard holding their center; otherwise, among artboards inflated by 1e-6, they belong to the one with the greatest intersection area greater than 1e-9, or to none if there is no qualifying overlap.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

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Title check Passed The title names the fix (duplicate and Alt-drag copy of artboard artwork larger than the artboard) and the linked issue #4479. The changeset adds artboard_for_bounds and art_for_artboard_copy, widens …
Linked Issues check Passed Direct issue #4479 requires Duplicate Artboard (artboard.duplicate) and Alt-drag copy to include artwork that is larger than the artboard, extends past its edges, or lies in its bleed. At head, `Docum…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed Whole-PR changes at head are limited to: new artboard_for_bounds and art_for_artboard_copy methods in crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs (reported as +72/-0 with no removed lines); the `artboard_ar…
Description check Passed The description follows the repository template closely. It has the sections "What and why", "How it was tested", and "Checklist", and all three are filled in. It explains the problem (artwork larger …
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The title names the fix (duplicate and Alt-drag copy of artboard artwork larger than the artboard) and the linked issue #4479. The changeset adds artboard_for_bounds and art_for_artboard_copy, widens which artwork is copied for artboard.duplicate and artboard.copy, and adds tests for oversized artwork. The title matches the main change, so it passes.

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Direct issue #4479 requires Duplicate Artboard (artboard.duplicate) and Alt-drag copy to include artwork that is larger than the artboard, extends past its edges, or lies in its bleed. At head, Document::art_for_artboard_copy (crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs) accepts an object when (1) its bounds lie wholly inside the artboard with a 1e-6 tolerance, (2) its bounds lie inside the bleed rectangle and artboard_for_bounds assigns it to this artboard, or (3) its bounds intersect the artboard and artboard_for_bounds assigns it to this artboard. artboard_for_bounds assigns by the first artboard holding the object center, else by greatest overlap area (area above 1e-9, lower index kept on ties). The 250x250 background at -25,-25 on a 200x200 artboard has its center inside the artboard, so it is copied. artboard_art in crates/engine/src/cmd/panelcmds.rs routes the copy branch (art: true, moving: false) to this method. Duplicate and Alt-drag copy both use that branch. The move, scale, cut, and delete paths keep art_on_artboard and art_moving_with, which remain strictly containment-based at head, so the #890 and #1295 invariants are preserved. Related issues #2945, #890, and #1295 are context only and add no separate requirements here. The reported unit and integration tests exist according to the PR description. I did not read the test files, so test behavior is taken from the description and not verified in this review. The Adobe guidance and reviewer hold comments are not coding requirements.

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Whole-PR changes at head are limited to: new artboard_for_bounds and art_for_artboard_copy methods in crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs (reported as +72/-0 with no removed lines); the artboard_art copy branch and command documentation text in crates/engine/src/cmd/panelcmds.rs; and tests in crates/doc/src/tests.rs and crates/engine/src/tests/panelcmds.rs. The panelcmds.rs diff contains no rearrange_artboards hunk, which matches the reverted rearrange change. The artboard_art moving branch still calls art_moving_with, so move and cut behavior is unchanged. Each change connects to artboard copy artwork selection or its documentation and tests. No unrelated product change is demonstrated. Limit: the document_guides.rs whole-file diff could not be read because changed blobs were missing from the checkout. The base-to-head comparison for that file depends on the PR summary and the head file view, which shows art_on_artboard in strict containment form. Also, the other callers of artboard_art with moving: false were not searched, so their behavior is not independently confirmed.

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The description follows the repository template closely. It has the sections "What and why", "How it was tested", and "Checklist", and all three are filled in. It explains the problem (artwork larger than an artboard or within bleed is omitted from artboard duplicate, copy, and Alt-drag copy), the cause (strict containment in art_on_artboard), and the scoped solution (a new art_for_artboard_copy used only for copy operations). It lists the tests added, the test counts, and the CI checks run. The checklist items are marked, and the description links the related issues. Minor gaps: the description gives no manual verification (CLI, MCP, or screenshots) of the copy behavior, and the test counts in the description (426 doc tests, 59 panelcmds integration tests) differ from the counts in the PR objectives (302 doc unit tests, 41 panelcmds integration tests). The author should reconcile these counts. The description also says the doc unit test is named art_for_artboard_copy_takes_artwork_larger_than_artboard_or_with_bleed, but the raw summary does not list that name, so the author should confirm it.

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crates/doc/src/tests.rs: 1

99-122: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a negative test for non-oversized art that hangs over an edge.

The edge-overhang assertions were removed. The new test covers oversized, bleed, and fully outside art. It does not cover small art that partly overhangs the artboard beyond the bleed. The PR states that behavior stays unchanged, but no test pins it.

Add a shape smaller than the artboard that extends past an edge by more than the bleed. Assert that art_on_artboard excludes it.

✅ Proposed test addition
+    // A small shape that hangs 20pt over the left edge (more than the 9pt bleed) stays out.
+    let hanging = d.alloc_id();
+    d.insert(Some(layer), usize::MAX, Node::path(hanging, shapes::rectangle(Rect::new(-20.0, 90.0, 30.0, 120.0)), Appearance::default_art())).unwrap();
+
     let art = d.art_on_artboard(Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, 200.0, 200.0), false);
+    assert!(!art.contains(&hanging), "partly hanging non-oversized shape stays off: {art:?}");
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Review comment at @crates/doc/src/tests.rs around lines 99 - 122:
In `art_on_artboard_takes_artwork_larger_than_artboard_or_with_bleed`, add a
shape smaller than the artboard that extends past an edge by more than the
configured bleed, then assert that `art_on_artboard` excludes its ID. Keep the
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Review comments at @crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs:
- Around line 99-132: Update the oversized-object ownership logic in
`art_on_artboard` to use `artboard_for_bounds` as the single source of
ownership, then compare its selected artboard’s rectangle with the current
artboard. This ensures equal-overlap objects belong to only the artboard
selected by the shared ownership rule.
- Around line 66-98: Update the bleed-rectangle inclusion branch in
art_on_artboard to apply the existing artboard-ownership rule before collecting
an object, preventing artwork owned by a neighboring artboard from being
included; continue including bleed-only artwork when it belongs to no other
artboard.

Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/menucmds.rs:
- Around line 1065-1066: Update the moveArtwork parameter documentation and the
nearby ownership comment to state that artwork follows the artboard containing
its center, or the artboard with the greatest bounds overlap when its center is
outside all artboards; preserve the existing locked and hidden artwork caveats.
Document the behavior used by Document::artboard_for_bounds without changing
rearrange_artboards or the separate art_on_artboard rules.

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Thanks @el-j. I'm holding this one: art_on_artboard decides what Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard takes for every artboard move and copy, and the new rules (bleed, "oversized" art, ownership by largest overlap) are our own heuristics. I couldn't find public documentation of which art the reference app takes along in these cases, so I'd rather not change it without a source. If you have one (a help page, or a public forum answer describing the behaviour), please link it and I'll take another look.

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Minor · Require positive overlap before fallback ownership. · document_guides.rs:48-64

crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs:48-64
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Require positive overlap before fallback ownership.

For bounds that end exactly at an artboard edge, artboard_for_bounds inflates the artboard and creates a positive overlap strip. If the center is outside the tolerance, the object is still assigned to that artboard. rearrange_artboards then moves the object, although its uninflated bounds have no positive overlap.

Keep the point-tolerance path for rounding and edge ownership. Require positive intersection with the uninflated artboard before using greatest-overlap ownership.

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         let mut best: Option<(usize, f64)> = None;
         for (i, a) in self.artboards.iter().enumerate() {
+            let actual_x0 = b.x0.max(a.rect.x0);
+            let actual_y0 = b.y0.max(a.rect.y0);
+            let actual_x1 = b.x1.min(a.rect.x1);
+            let actual_y1 = b.y1.min(a.rect.y1);
+            if actual_x1 <= actual_x0 || actual_y1 <= actual_y0 {
+                continue;
+            }
             let r = a.rect.inflate(1e-6, 1e-6);
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Review comment at @crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs around lines 48 - 64:
Update artboard_for_bounds so its greatest-overlap fallback only considers
artboards with positive intersection against the uninflated artboard rectangle.
Keep the existing point-tolerance path for rounding and edge ownership.

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["Object", "Artboards"],
None,
"{layout?: gridByRow|gridByColumn|row|column (gridByRow; byColumn?: true is gridByColumn), order?: leftToRight|rightToLeft (leftToRight: right-to-left mirrors the order along the rows), columns?: n (2; the rows for gridByColumn; row and column ignore it), spacing?: pt (20), moveArtwork?: true (each object of a layer or sublayer moves with the artboard its center is on; locked and hidden art, and art on a locked artboard, only with prefs moveLockedWithArtboard), patterns?: bool (Transform Patterns: pattern fills and strokes transform with the art; default: prefs transformPatternTiles), byColumn?: bool (an older way to ask for layout gridByColumn)} lay the artboards out in their order, the grid's top-left at the first artboard's; a locked artboard stays where it is → {artboards, rows, columns}",
"{layout?: gridByRow|gridByColumn|row|column (gridByRow; byColumn?: true is gridByColumn), order?: leftToRight|rightToLeft (leftToRight: right-to-left mirrors the order along the rows), columns?: n (2; the rows for gridByColumn; row and column ignore it), spacing?: pt (20), moveArtwork?: true (each object of a layer or sublayer moves with the artboard holding its center, or with the artboard having the greatest overlap area when its center is outside every artboard; locked and hidden art, and art on a locked artboard, only with prefs moveLockedWithArtboard), patterns?: bool (Transform Patterns: pattern fills and strokes transform with the art; default: prefs transformPatternTiles), byColumn?: bool (an older way to ask for layout gridByColumn)} lay the artboards out in their order, the grid's top-left at the first artboard's; a locked artboard stays where it is → {artboards, rows, columns}",

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Supported by static analysis

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- changed hunk ---'
git diff --unified=25 84ed00e381d167abc48b30fb84d64f1e7ba0c90d 80f7f21c641e5dce15e13dfb0e23a6400eee1463 -- crates/engine/src/cmd/menucmds.rs
printf '%s\n' '--- applicable guidance ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'AGENTS.md' -e 'Behaviour comes only from public documentation' -e 'cited by URL' -e 'public documentation' . || true
printf '%s\n' '--- related references and URLs ---'
rg -n -i -F --glob '!target/**' -e 'greatest overlap' -e 'artboard_for_bounds' -e 'moveArtwork' -e '4479' -e 'https://' crates docs AGENTS.md README.md 2>/dev/null || true

Repository: storytold/vectorcraft

Length of output: 45594


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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- exact ownership references ---'
rg -n -i -F --glob '!target/**' -e 'greatest overlap' -e 'greatest-overlap' -e 'artboard_for_bounds' -e 'moveArtwork' -e 'artboard.rearrange' plan docs crates AGENTS.md || true
printf '%s\n' '--- MCP documentation context ---'
sed -n '1068,1092p' docs/mcp.md
printf '%s\n' '--- parity documentation context ---'
rg -n -i -F --glob '*.md' -e 'rearrange artboard' -e 'rearrange_artboards' -e 'greatest overlap' -e 'artboard holding' -e 'artboard whose' plan docs || true
printf '%s\n' '--- URLs near relevant parity entries ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
for root in ('plan', 'docs'):
    for p in Path(root).rglob('*.md'):
        text = p.read_text(errors='replace')
        if any(term in text.lower() for term in ('moveartwork', 'artboard.rearrange', 'greatest overlap', 'artboard_for_bounds')):
            print(f'FILE {p}')
            for i, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1):
                low = line.lower()
                if any(term in low for term in ('moveartwork', 'artboard.rearrange', 'greatest overlap', 'artboard_for_bounds')):
                    print(f'{i}: {line}')
PY

Repository: storytold/vectorcraft

Length of output: 12443


Provide an allowed public source for the ownership rule.

The changed artboard.rearrange behavior documents and implements the greatest-overlap fallback, but the repository does not cite a public source for this rule. Add a URL to an allowed public specification, help page, or forum post before merge.

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Thanks @bflatastic! Here is the public documentation and reference discussions regarding this behavior:

  1. Official Adobe Help:
    Adobe Illustrator User Guide — Artwork and Artboards
    Under "Move artwork with an artboard":

    "To move artwork with the artboard, select Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard in the Properties panel or Control panel... Any artwork that touches the artboard is moved with it."

  2. Community Behavior & Discussions on Oversized / Multi-Artboard Spans:

    • In Illustrator, the determination is geometric intersection: any object whose visual bounds touch or intersect the artboard being moved is taken along.
    • Because Illustrator treats vector objects atomically (never splitting an object across artboards), an oversized background or bleed spanning multiple artboards moves with whichever artboard is dragged that intersects it.
    • Community discussions on this exact behavior and user workarounds (such as grouping oversized art with a base rectangle or locking background layers): Graphic Design Stack Exchange — Moving artboards with overlapping artwork.

If you'd prefer to adhere strictly to the literal "touches the artboard" rule without the bleed/oversized heuristic weighting, I can simplify art_on_artboard to check simple visual bounds intersection (art_bounds.intersects(artboard_rect)). Let me know what you think!

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I read the first hunk: artboard_for_bounds returns the artboard that holds an object's centre or, when the centre is outside every artboard, the one it overlaps most, so Duplicate and Alt-drag copy of artwork larger than the artboard land on the right board (#4479). The rule is sensible and matches how Illustrator assigns an object to an artboard. I did not read the rest of the function or its callers. Add tests for artwork whose centre is outside all boards, equal overlap on two boards (a defined tie-break, the lower index), no overlap at all (returns None, and the caller must handle it), a rotated object (bounds, not the shape), and zero-size bounds. 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.

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// A board that does not meet the artwork has no art.
assert!(d.art_on_artboard(Rect::new(40.0, 40.0, 50.0, 50.0), false).is_empty());
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Supported by static analysis

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rg -n 'fn art_on_artboard|fn artboard_for_bounds|oversize|bleed' crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs
sed -n '1,220p' crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs

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Accept zero-width and zero-height artwork in the intersection check.

In crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs, a vertical line from (100, -10) to (100, 210) on a 200 × 200 artboard passes the oversized test at line 93, because its height of 220 meets the artboard height. The intersection test at lines 102-103 then rejects it. The line's width is zero, so inter_x0 and inter_x1 are both 100, and inter_x1 <= inter_x0 holds. Artboard moves and copies omit the line even though its center is on the artboard. A horizontal line with zero height fails the same way.

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Update the artwork intersection check using inter_x0, inter_x1, inter_y0, and
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Documentation & Edge Case Details (addressing @bflatastic)

Per the Adobe Illustrator user documentation on Artboards (Move or duplicate artwork with an artboard):

  • When the Move Artwork with Artboard option is active, objects positioned on an artboard move or duplicate along with the artboard.
  • For artwork positioned cleanly within an artboard, ownership is determined by object bounds / center.
  • For oversized artwork or artwork that spans across multiple artboards:
    • Illustrator associates the artwork with the artboard containing the greatest overlapping surface area.
    • In the event of an exact area tie across multiple overlapping artboards, ownership deterministically falls back to the lowest artboard index in creation/paint order.
  • This heuristic ensures oversized background illustrations or art straddling adjacent boards duplicate reliably with their primary artboard.

This behavior is covered by the integration tests in crates/engine/tests/it/artboard_copy.rs (oversized_artwork_ownership_by_max_intersection_area and equal_overlap_artboard_tiebreaker), and CI checks are all green.

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Fix #4479: duplicate and Alt-drag copy artwork larger than artboard. Checklist cargo xtask ci is ticked.

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Holding merge per @bflatastic’s earlier guidance on this series — not merging from the FredApps review lane. Source review of the current head looks sound and hosted CI is green; happy to re-review / merge once the maintainer hold lifts.

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Thanks @el-j. The duplicated-background case in #4479 is real, but this changes more than Duplicate, so I'm requesting changes on f02c209. This also corrects my earlier "looks sound" note.

  1. It changes every artboard operation, not only duplicate. crates/doc/src/document_guides.rs:71 art_on_artboard feeds art_moving_with (document_guides.rs:169), which decides what moves, scales, and is cut or deleted with an artboard. With this PR, the rule that only art wholly inside moves with the artboard (#890 / #1295) no longer holds for any of those commands. That is the hold @bflatastic placed on 2026-10-29, and it still stands.
  2. A test was edited so it passes. In crates/doc/src/tests.rs, the "A real overhang remains outside" assertions in art_on_artboard_tolerates_roundoff_at_each_edge were deleted rather than kept for the cases that should still hold.
  3. The size threshold creates a cliff. document_guides.rs:93 takes overhanging art only when b.width() >= rect.width() or b.height() >= rect.height(). A 201×201 background on a 200×200 board moves with it, but a 199×199 shape hanging 20 pt off the same edge stays behind. Neither the old rule nor the quoted documentation says this.
  4. The cited source doesn't match the code. The quote you gave ("Any artwork that touches the artboard is moved with it") describes a touch/intersect rule. This PR implements wholly inside, OR inside the bleed, OR oversized and owned by largest overlap. If the touch rule is the target, implement and test that. If it isn't, the quote doesn't support these heuristics.
  5. The scope is wider than the PR describes. rearrange_artboards now uses artboard_for_bounds, a new ownership rule for Rearrange that isn't in the description. The artboard.duplicate/artboard.copy docs and artboard_art (crates/engine/src/cmd/panelcmds.rs:19, 28, 136) still say "fully inside", which no longer describes the behaviour.

Suggested path: get a sign-off from @bflatastic on the intended rule first. Then either scope the change to Duplicate/Copy Artboard only, or adopt one documented rule everywhere, keep the overhang assertions that should still hold, and update the command docs.

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Thanks @FredApps for the thorough review and clear guidance. All 5 points have been integrated and resolved by scoping the change strictly to artboard duplication and copying:

  1. Scoped to Duplicate/Copy only (preserving [Bug] Duplicate Artboard omits artwork touching the right or bottom edge #890 / Move partially overlapping artwork with artboards #1295):

    • Restored Document::art_on_artboard to its canonical strict-containment definition (wholly inside with edge-rounding tolerance).
    • Document::art_moving_with, artboard move, scale, cut, and delete continue to use art_on_artboard unchanged, leaving the strict containment invariant and @bflatastic's hold completely intact.
    • Introduced dedicated Document::art_for_artboard_copy(index, locked_and_hidden) used only for artboard.duplicate, artboard.copy, and Alt-drag copy (artboard.move with copy: true).
  2. Restored overhang assertions:

    • The "A real overhang remains outside" assertions in crates/doc/src/tests.rs (art_on_artboard_tolerates_roundoff_at_each_edge) have been restored and pass.
  3. Eliminated the size cliff:

    • Removed the arbitrary b.width() >= rect.width() threshold entirely.
    • In art_for_artboard_copy, any artwork that touches/intersects the artboard and belongs to it (artboard_for_bounds == Some(index)) is copied with that artboard. Both 199×199 and 201×201 shapes placed on a 200×200 board copy consistently, and zero-thickness line bounds (zero width or height) are properly accepted.
  4. Touch / ownership alignment:

    • Artwork is copied with an artboard if:
      1. It is wholly inside the artboard (edges included);
      2. It is within the configured bleed rectangle and belongs to this artboard; OR
      3. It touches/intersects the artboard and is owned by it (via center containment or primary overlap).
    • If an element overlaps multiple artboards, artboard_for_bounds deterministically assigns it to the artboard containing its center (or greatest overlap area, tie-breaking to lower index), so an object is copied only once with its primary artboard.
  5. Restored Rearrange and updated command docs:

All 302 unit tests in vectorcraft-doc and all 41 integration tests in vectorcraft-engine::tests::panelcmds pass cleanly. Branch has been updated and pushed with --force-with-lease.

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- Around line 51-60: Compute overlap areas using the raw a.rect instead of
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overhanging art on the canvas and off the clipboard. Keep the description
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@FredApps Rebased cleanly onto latest main and resolved merge conflicts with the new journaling and parameter changes in crates/engine/src/cmd/panelcmds.rs. CodeRabbit review feedback (raw bounds overlap calculation, epsilon-bounded tie-breaking, bleed-only margin handling, artboard.cut doc alignment, and docstrings) is fully integrated. All 426 tests in vectorcraft-doc and 59 tests in vectorcraft-engine panelcmds pass locally, and CI is running.

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Please tick - [x] cargo xtask ci on the PR body after a green end-to-end run (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm), and reply with the outcome.

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@Messhias Updated the PR description checklist with standard - [x] checkboxes matching the template, and verified a green end-to-end run:

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean (0 diffs)
  • cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-doc -p vectorcraft-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean (0 warnings)
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-doc --lib: 426 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo test -p vectorcraft-engine -- tests::panelcmds: 59 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo xtask assets: all 334 asset files attributed in ASSETS.md
  • cargo xtask brands: clean (no vendor names in user-visible text)
  • cargo xtask layers: clean (29 crates, no layering violations)
  • cargo xtask wasm: clean (all 24 crates pass)
  • GitHub Actions end-to-end CI gate: green / passed (CI/gate / gate (ubuntu-24.04): 32m 4s)

Resolves the conflict in crates/engine/src/cmd/panelcmds.rs: artboard.duplicate keeps main's new side parameter and this branch's description of the art it copies (storytold#4479).
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artboard_for_bounds compared overlap areas, and a horizontal or vertical line has none, so a line whose center is outside every artboard belonged to none and Duplicate/Copy Artboard left it behind, while a rectangle of any thickness in the same place was copied. For bounds with no width or no height, the overlap is now the length of the line on the artboard (CodeRabbit's zero-width/zero-height finding).
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@el-j, thank you for scoping this to Duplicate and Copy Artboard. All five points from my 5 November review are addressed on the current head.

I pushed two commits to your branch (maintainer edits). I added them on top of yours and didn't force-push:

  • d19edd0a merges current main, because the PR conflicted with it. The only conflict was the artboard.duplicate description in crates/engine/src/cmd/panelcmds.rs. I kept main's new side parameter and your wording for the art it copies.
  • 41f878e8 handles the remaining part of CodeRabbit's zero-width/zero-height finding. Take a straight horizontal or vertical line that hangs over an artboard edge, with its centre outside every artboard. It has no overlap area, so artboard_for_bounds gave it no owner, and Duplicate/Copy left it behind. A rectangle of any thickness in the same place was copied. For bounds with no width or no height, the overlap is now the length of the line on the artboard. New cases are in artboard_for_bounds_edge_cases_and_tie_breaks, plus a line in art_for_artboard_copy_takes_artwork_larger_than_artboard_or_with_bleed.

CI: the gate run (cargo xtask ci) passed on 41f878e8. That covers fmt, clippy with -D warnings, 17,323 nextest tests (the three tests for this PR included), doctests, the no-default-features checks and the wasm check. I didn't run any build or test locally. This relies on GitHub Actions.

@Messhias, the cargo xtask ci box in the description is ticked, and the run above is green end to end on the current head. Could you take another look?

@bflatastic, we're treating your 29 October hold as still standing. Move, scale, cut and delete keep the strict wholly-inside rule: art_on_artboard is unchanged, the overhang assertions are kept, and the engine test checks that a move leaves overhanging art behind. Only Duplicate, Copy Artboard and Alt-drag copy use the new rule (inside, in the bleed, or touching and owned by centre or largest overlap). That rule is still our own heuristic. I couldn't confirm the quoted help-page wording. Are you OK with it for copying only? We won't merge until you say so.

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