Fix #555: the font menu scrolls only its list

egui's combo box puts its own scroll area around a combo's list, so the
font menu, which scrolls its families itself, had two scrollbars: once
the families reached their end the wheel scrolled the outer one, taking
the search field and the filters out of view.

The font menu (widgets::combo with searchable) now opens its list in a
popup of its own, drawn like the combo box, without that outer scroll
area: below the button, or above it when there is more room there. The
families list fills the popup's room under the search field and filters,
which stay at the top while the list scrolls.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Cargo.lock

@@ -4296,7 +4296,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "arboard",
  "block2 0.6.2",
@@ -4320,7 +4320,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-brush"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
  "serde",
@@ -4332,7 +4332,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-cad"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "image",
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
@@ -4348,7 +4348,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-cli"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "vectorcraft-color",
@@ -4364,7 +4364,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-color"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
  "moxcms",
@@ -4376,7 +4376,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-doc"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "image",
  "jpeg-encoder",
@@ -4393,7 +4393,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-effects"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
  "serde_json",
@@ -4407,7 +4407,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-engine"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "flate2",
  "image",
@@ -4439,7 +4439,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-eps"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "flate2",
  "image",
@@ -4457,7 +4457,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-format"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "flate2",
  "proptest",
@@ -4471,7 +4471,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-geom"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
  "proptest",
@@ -4483,7 +4483,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-mcp"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "image",
  "log",
@@ -4502,7 +4502,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-metafile"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "image",
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
@@ -4516,7 +4516,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-pathops"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
  "linesweeper",
@@ -4528,7 +4528,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-pdf"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aes",
  "flate2",
@@ -4557,7 +4557,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-plugins"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -4571,7 +4571,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-render"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "flate2",
  "gif",
@@ -4596,7 +4596,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-svg"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "flate2",
  "image",
@@ -4620,7 +4620,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-testkit"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "image",
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
@@ -4637,7 +4637,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-text"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "harfrust 0.13.3",
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
@@ -4655,7 +4655,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-tools"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "image",
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
@@ -4670,7 +4670,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-trace"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "image",
  "kurbo 0.13.1",
@@ -4683,7 +4683,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-ui-egui"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "egui",
  "egui_extras",
@@ -4712,7 +4712,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "vectorcraft-web"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "eframe",
  "egui",
@@ -5815,7 +5815,7 @@ checksum = "9440ea3e5aeabb0ac63af70daf835274065238cdd0cec83418f417eae38bacee"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xtask"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
 ]

Cargo.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ members = ["crates/*", "apps/*", "xtask"]
 default-members = ["crates/*", "apps/vectorcraft", "apps/vectorcraft-cli", "xtask"]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 rust-version = "1.95"

ROADMAP.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ VectorCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust reimplementation of the Adob
 
 This file tracks **how far we are and what's left**. Time estimates are wall-clock hours of continuous Claude Opus 5.5 agent work (including builds and the CI gate), given both for **one agent** and for **4–6 parallel agents** on disjoint crates. They are counted from the remaining work (see [Parity estimate](#parity-estimate)), calibrated against measured throughput, and updated as work lands.
 
-_Last updated: 2026-10-09 (after M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into flLine truncated
+_Last updated: 2026-10-09 (after M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into flLine truncated
 
 ## Where we are
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ since 2026-10-01.
 | **Bundled content:** brush, symbol, style and swatch libraries | ~30% | Ours are original and generated in code, and far fewer than Illustrator ships; brush and symbol libraries are still missing |
 | **Performance** | unverified | Multithreaded, off-thread rendering and caches are in place. The last budget run (2026-10-01, loaded machine) measured 290 ms for a 50k-path fit against a 16 ms budget. Re-run `vectorcraft-cli perf` on an idle machine |
 | **Robustness** | good, new | ~2,840 tests, property tests, no panics in shipped code (lints, the `guard` safety net, import fuzzing), Data Recovery. Missing: a corpus of real-world files, Windows/Linux/browser QA |
-| **Platforms and 1.0 polish** | ~60% | The macOS app and the web build work, and Finder opens every readable format with the macOS app (#295, #354); on macOS the menus are in the system menu bar, laid out as a Mac app's, with the in-window menus as a fallback (`--in-window-menus`; verified on Windows and by cross-compilation, not yet by hand on a Mac); hybrid-graphics laptops render on the power-saving GPU by default on Windows and macOS (#306), and Linux on the GPU the desktop runs on, since a Wayland compositor may refuse frames from the other one; a window that fails on its GPU while starting up starts again on the next one instead of crashing (#502; the dual-GPU Wayland case is verified by unit tests and cross-compilation, not on such hardware); web drops land in the document they were dropped on (#359); desktop drops carry no pointer position (winit 0.30), so a dropped document opens as a tab of its own and a picture or text is placed in the middle of the view, while the web places anything dropped on the canvas and opens what is dropped off it, as Illustrator does (#472); a web page that loses its WebGPU device or WebGL context restarts its graphics with the same documents (#369); on Linux/Wayland the clipboard reads the compositor's own (data-control) and copied image files paste, but files can't be dropped on the window under Wayland until eframe moves to winit 0.31 (#398; the Wayland side is verified by compilation only); on Linux the Paste menu checks the system clipboard on a background thread, so a clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window, while Windows and macOS keep their quick in-line check (#510; the X11 hang verified by the contributor, here by headless tests); on KDE Plasma 6.3+ under Wayland, pens and pen displays reach the app only under XWayland (`WAYLAND_DISPLAY=`) or with KWin's `KWIN_WAYLAND_EMULATE_TABLET=1`, since winit 0.30 has no Wayland tablet input (#491, not verified on hardware); Windows/Linux packaging and accessibility are pending; an experimental, unsupported Windows 7 x64 OpenGL build exists (community-contributed, not verified by maintainers) |
+| **Platforms and 1.0 polish** | ~60% | The macOS app and the web build work, and Finder opens every readable format with the macOS app (#295, #354); on macOS the menus are in the system menu bar, laid out as a Mac app's, with the in-window menus as a fallback (`--in-window-menus`; verified on Windows and by cross-compilation, not yet by hand on a Mac); hybrid-graphics laptops render on the power-saving GPU by default on Windows and macOS (#306), and Windows renders through DX12 before Vulkan (#545: Vulkan flickered black on an Intel GPU, DX12 and OpenGL didn't; verified by unit tests and the reporter's runs with `WGPU_BACKEND`), and Linux on the GPU the desktop runs on, since a Wayland compositor may refuse frames from the other one; a window that fails on its GPU while starting up starts again on the next one instead of crashing (#502; the dual-GPU Wayland case is verified by unit tests and cross-compilation, not on such hardware); web drops land in the document they were dropped on (#359); desktop drops carry no pointer position (winit 0.30), so a dropped document opens as a tab of its own and a picture or text is placed in the middle of the view, while the web places anything dropped on the canvas and opens what is dropped off it, as Illustrator does (#472); a web page that loses its WebGPU device or WebGL context restarts its graphics with the same documents (#369); on Linux/Wayland the clipboard reads the compositor's own (data-control) and copied image files paste, but files can't be dropped on the window under Wayland until eframe moves to winit 0.31 (#398; the Wayland side is verified by compilation only); on Linux the Paste menu checks the system clipboard on a background thread, so a clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window, while Windows and macOS keep their quick in-line check (#510; the X11 hang verified by the contributor, here by headless tests); on KDE Plasma 6.3+ under Wayland, pens and pen displays reach the app only under XWayland (`WAYLAND_DISPLAY=`) or with KWin's `KWIN_WAYLAND_EMULATE_TABLET=1`, since winit 0.30 has no Wayland tablet input (#491, not verified on hardware); Windows/Linux packaging and accessibility are pending; an experimental, unsupported Windows 7 x64 OpenGL build exists (community-contributed, not verified by maintainers) |
 | **Agent automation** | beyond Illustrator | Every command, gesture and dialog is drivable over MCP, the CLI and the control channel |
 | **Scrubby numeric fields** | beyond Illustrator | As in Photoshop, dragging a numeric field's label (`W:`, `Opacity:`, the Character panel's icons) left or right steps its value live; one undo step per drag, Escape cancels (#400) |
 
@@ -108,21 +108,22 @@ grade by behaviour against `plan/illustrator/`, not by whether a menu item exist
   - A canvas context menu: right-click selects the object under the pointer and lists what applies to the selection (Undo/Redo, clipboard, group, isolation, join, Remove Anchor Points when anchors are selected, masks, compound paths, guides, Transform, Arrange, Select, Export Selection), or the view commands on empty canvas.
   - Save / Don't Save / Cancel before closing or quitting with unsaved documents (tabs, Close, Close All, Quit, window close).
   - Four brightness themes, persistent preferences.
-  - Preferences that act (#394, in part): Show Tool Tips, Double Click To Isolate, Zoom with Mouse Wheel (the wheel zooms about the pointer, Shift-wheel scrolls up and down, Cmd/Ctrl-wheel sideways; Alt/Option-wheel and a trackpad pinch zoom about the pointer either way), Use Precise Cursors; Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance (objects, anchors and handles), Object Selection by Path Only, Command Click to Select Objects Behind (cycling down the stack), Zoom to Selection, anchor Size, Highlight anchors on mouse over; Type › Number of Recent Fonts (up to 15); Guides & Grid › guide and grid Color and Style (lines or dots) and Grids In Back. Then Snap to Point (its distance, for moves, drawn points and reference points), Move Locked and Hidden Artwork with Artboard, Enable Rubber Band for the Pen and Curvature tools, Handles style, Show handles when multiple anchors are selected, Hide Corner Widget for angles greater than; General › Transform Pattern Tiles (the transforms' and dialogs' Transform Patterns) and Select Same Tint %; Type › Size/Leading, Tracking and Baseline Shift increments (`type.step`, Cmd+Shift+. and Cmd+Shift+, for the size, the Type tool's Alt+arrows), Enable Missing Glyph Protection and Fill New Type Objects With Placeholder Text. Then Smart Guides › Color, Alignment Guides, Anchor/Path Labels, Measurement Labels, Transform Tools, Object Highlighting (with Smart Guides on) and Snapping Tolerance (4 px by default, for every smart guide snap). Then Type › Type Object Selection by Path Only (type is picked on the baseline of any of its lines, area type's frame or the path of type on a path, no longer anywhere in its bounds; the Type tools and the Eyedropper still take a click among the characters). Then General › Anti-aliased Artwork (off, the canvas draws the art with hard edges). Then Guides & Grid › Show Pixel Grid (Above 600% Zoom), a line at every document pixel over the art in Pixel Preview, turning with a rotated view as the document grid now does too. Then General › Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (off, closing the last document leaves an empty window; the Home button still opens the screen). Then Units › Numbers Without Units Are Points (on by default: a number typed with no unit into a field in picas is read in points, a typed unit still wins; dimmed unless a unit is Picas). Then User Interface › Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (off by default: on, a click away from a panel popped out of the icon column puts it away). They reach agents too (`prefs.set`, then `pointer_gesture` or `press_key`; `ui.wheel` on the control channel). About 32 stored options still do nothing yet (the rest of #394: Auto Size New Area Type, Show Font Names in English, Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Construction and Spacing Guides, performance, devices…).
+  - Preferences that act (#394, in part): Show Tool Tips, Double Click To Isolate, Zoom with Mouse Wheel (the wheel zooms about the pointer, Shift-wheel scrolls up and down, Cmd/Ctrl-wheel sideways; Alt/Option-wheel and a trackpad pinch zoom about the pointer either way), Use Precise Cursors; Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance (objects, anchors and handles), Object Selection by Path Only, Command Click to Select Objects Behind (cycling down the stack), Zoom to Selection, anchor Size, Highlight anchors on mouse over; Type › Number of Recent Fonts (up to 15); Guides & Grid › guide and grid Color and Style (lines or dots) and Grids In Back. Then Snap to Point (its distance, for moves, drawn points and reference points), Move Locked and Hidden Artwork with Artboard, Enable Rubber Band for the Pen and Curvature tools, Handles style, Show handles when multiple anchors are selected, Hide Corner Widget for angles greater than; General › Transform Pattern Tiles (the transforms' and dialogs' Transform Patterns) and Select Same Tint %; Type › Size/Leading, Tracking and Baseline Shift increments (`type.step`, Cmd+Shift+. and Cmd+Shift+, for the size, the Type tool's Alt+arrows), Enable Missing Glyph Protection and Fill New Type Objects With Placeholder Text. Then Smart Guides › Color, Alignment Guides, Anchor/Path Labels, Measurement Labels, Transform Tools, Object Highlighting (with Smart Guides on) and Snapping Tolerance (4 px by default, for every smart guide snap), then Construction Guides and their Angles (#506: a drawn point near a line at one of those angles through the point it leaves from lands on it). Then Type › Type Object Selection by Path Only (type is picked on the baseline of any of its lines, area type's frame or the path of type on a path, no longer anywhere in its bounds; the Type tools and the Eyedropper still take a click among the characters). Then General › Anti-aliased Artwork (off, the canvas draws the art with hard edges). Then Guides & Grid › Show Pixel Grid (Above 600% Zoom), a line at every document pixel over the art in Pixel Preview, turning with a rotated view as the document grid now does too. Then General › Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (off, closing the last document leaves an empty window; the Home button still opens the screen). Then Units › Numbers Without Units Are Points (on by default: a number typed with no unit into a field in picas is read in points, a typed unit still wins; dimmed unless a unit is Picas). Then User Interface › Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (off by default: on, a click away from a panel popped out of the icon column puts it away). They reach agents too (`prefs.set`, then `pointer_gesture` or `press_key`; `ui.wheel` on the control channel). About 30 stored options still do nothing yet (the rest of #394: Auto Size New Area Type, Show Font Names in English, Highlight Alternate Glyphs, Spacing Guides, performance, devices…).
   - Dialogs move by dragging their heading (the band down from the top edge, as a title bar), stay on screen and keep where they were moved for the session; the form dialogs' choices are dropdowns (Offset Path's Joins, Average's and Shear's and Reflect's axis), and Offset Path lists Offset, Joins, Miter Limit and previews (#423).
   - Dialogs open with their first field focused and its value selected: type a value and press Enter (Move, Rotate, Scale…). Number fields in panels, the Control bar and dialogs (preferences too) step with Up/Down, or with the mouse wheel over the focused field (#485: a notch a step; the panel under it then stays put, and an unfocused field leaves the wheel to scrolling) (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth of their unit), applied at once.
   - Scrubby labels (#400, beyond Illustrator, as in Photoshop): dragging a numeric field's label left or right (the ↔ cursor shows over it) steps the value one unit every 2 points (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth; counts stay whole), in the field's unit and within its limits, applied live as the art follows; the whole drag is one undo step and Escape puts the value back. A click on the label focuses the field; the text box itself never scrubs, and a field with no label doesn't. Text labels before a field (Transform, Properties, Control bar, Stroke, Transparency, form rows in dialogs) and the Character and Paragraph panels' icons act as labels. Preferences › General › Scrub Numeric Fields by Dragging (on by default) turns it off.
+  - The Control bar's underlined Transform link opens the Transform panel in a popover under it (reference point, X/Y/W/H, Rotate and Shear with their icons and angle presets, flips, shape properties, Scale Corners and Scale Strokes & Effects), as its Stroke link does the Stroke panel; X/Y/W/H also show inline while the bar has room. The reference point locator is nine squares, the outer eight joined around the box.
   - Tab shows and hides the panels (in the Type tool it types a tab) without moving the keyboard focus onto a field, so the next shortcut or letter still works; in dialogs and panel fields it moves between fields.
   - Cmd/Ctrl+A follows the keyboard: in a panel, dialog or search field it selects the field's text, while the Type tool edits it selects all of that text (also `select.all` over MCP), and only otherwise every object. On macOS the menu bar's Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste (keys or clicks) act on a focused field too, and elsewhere the in-window menus' do: the field that had the keyboard when the menu opened gets them, with its selection, and the keyboard back (#516). Not yet: Select All across threaded frames (one frame's text is selected).
   - On Windows and Linux the app bar is the window's title bar (its own minimize, maximize and close buttons, drag to move, edges to resize), with the dragon app icon as the brand mark; dialogs and menus size to their content. As on a native menu bar, once one menu is open, moving the pointer onto another title opens that one.
 - **Tools:**
   - **Selection:** Selection, Direct/Group Selection, Magic Wand, Lasso. A Shift-drag marquee toggles what it reaches: objects with the Selection tool, anchors with Direct and Group Selection (#483); the Lasso adds with Shift and subtracts with Alt. Dragging a path segment with Direct Selection bends it when it's curved (its anchors stay) and moves its two anchors when it's straight, one undo step; the fill, Shift or Alt still pick the whole path (Alt-drag copies it).
   - **Saved selections:** Select ▸ Save Selection… asks for a name and keeps the selection in the document (saved with the file, undoable, up to 25); each one is listed at the bottom of the Select menu and a click selects its objects again; Edit Selection… lists them to rename or delete, applied together on OK. A file's saved selections are capped and checked against its objects when it opens. Not yet: Update Selection and the Layers panel's saved-selection menu.
-  - **Drawing:** Pen, Curvature, anchor tools, Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, Smooth, Path Eraser, Join. Direction handles dragged with Direct Selection or the Anchor Point tool snap to smart guides, and Shift keeps them at 45° steps from their anchor.
+  - **Drawing:** Pen, Curvature, anchor tools, Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, Smooth, Path Eraser, Join. Direction handles dragged with Direct Selection or the Anchor Point tool snap to smart guides, and Shift keeps them at 45° steps from their anchor. Every point a drawing tool places snaps to Smart Guides through one snapper (#506): the Pen's and Curvature tool's anchors, the Pencil's ends, the shape tools' start and dragged corner or radius (Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star, Line Segment, Arc, Spiral, the grids), the Type tool's click and frame, a new artboard's corners.
   - **Shapes:** all shape tools (including Flare) and the line, arc, spiral and grid tools. Space held while dragging out a shape, line, arc, spiral or grid moves it at its current size. While a grid is dragged out, Up/Down change its rows (concentric dividers) and Left/Right its columns (radial dividers).
   - **Cutting:** Eraser, Scissors, Knife, Mirror & Cut, Line Cut and Rectangle Cut (real geometry, compound paths keep their holes).
   - **Transform:** Rotate, Reflect, Scale, Shear (click or Alt-click snaps the reference point to anchors and centres; Alt-click opens the tool's dialog, and a drag with Alt down at the release, from the press or pressed mid-drag, transforms a copy), Reshape, Free Transform (free and perspective distort and shear, switched by the keys held during a handle drag).
-  - **Live Corners:** drag a live rectangle's corner widgets (Selection or Direct Selection) to round all corners, with a radius readout; with Direct Selection, select corner anchors to show and round just those corners (#381). Each corner keeps its own radius and kind (Round, Inverted Round, Chamfer): Alt-click a widget to cycle the kind, double-click it for the Corners dialog, and the Properties and Transform radius fields set the selected corners (`object.setLiveShape {corners, radius, kind}`). Corners stay circular when the rectangle is scaled unevenly or along its own sides when rotated (the radius keeps its size, or scales by the mean scale with Scale Corners on); only a shear distorts them. On a rectangle that isn't square every corner is the same circle: a radius past half the shorter side stops there for all of them, the widgets sit on the corners as drawn and turn the edited corners red at that limit, CSS export writes the drawn radii, and rectangles saved stretched by older versions get circular corners when their corners are next set (#442).
+  - **Live Corners:** drag a live rectangle's corner widgets (Selection or Direct Selection) to round all corners, with a radius readout; with Direct Selection, select corner anchors to show and round just those corners (#381). Each corner keeps its own radius and kind (Round, Inverted Round, Chamfer): Alt-click a widget to cycle the kind, double-click it for the Corners dialog, and the Properties and Transform radius fields set the selected corners (`object.setLiveShape {corners, radius, kind}`). Corners stay circular when the rectangle is scaled unevenly or along its own sides when rotated (the radius keeps its size, or scales by the mean scale with Scale Corners on); only a shear distorts them. On a rectangle that isn't square every corner is the same circle: a radius past half the shorter side stops there for all of them, the widgets sit on the corners as drawn and turn the edited corners red at that limit, CSS export writes the drawn radii, and rectangles saved stretched by older versions get circular corners when their corners are next set (#442). Live Corners work on any path's corners too, as on a rectangle's (#511): a star's, a live polygon's (which also shows them to the Selection tool, has a Corner Radius field in the Properties and Transform panels and keeps its radius as its sides change) and a pen path's, wherever two straight sides meet at an anchor. Direct Selection shows the widgets of every corner, or of the corners holding selected anchors; each corner is a circle tangent to both sides, drawn no larger than takes its cut halfway along its shorter side; a path keeps its uncut outline so its corners stay editable, and the same command, dialog, angle preference and View › Hide Corner Widget apply.
   - **Pen:** Alt pressed in the middle of dragging out an anchor splits its handles and keeps the curve already shaped into it (only the outgoing handle follows the pointer); Space held while dragging out an anchor moves it, handles and all. A press on the first anchor of the path being drawn closes it whatever the drag then does: the drag shapes the closing curve (symmetric handles, Alt breaks them) and the release closes the path wherever it ends (#501). Clicking the last anchor of the path being drawn retracts its outgoing handle (convert cursor), and dragging from it pulls out a new one on its own. Auto Add/Delete: over a selected path, a click on a segment adds an anchor and a click on an anchor deletes it (add and delete cursors); Shift held, or Preferences › General › Disable Auto Add/Delete, starts a new path instead. Alt held over a handle end or an anchor of a selected path (the one being drawn too) works as the Anchor Point tool, with its convert cursor: dragging a handle moves it alone, clicking a smooth anchor makes it a corner, dragging an anchor pulls out new symmetric handles, dragging a segment reshapes it; drawing then goes on. Cmd (Ctrl) held drags with the selection tool chosen last, Direct Selection until one is (handles, anchors and segments of the path being drawn or another), and the Pen then goes on drawing its path while that stays selected; the pointer shows that tool's while Cmd is held. The same holds for agents (`pointer_gesture` with `mods.cmd`), as the borrowing now lives in the engine (#494).
   - **Path editing (#494):** the handles shown are the handles that drag: Direct Selection drags those of a path selected as a whole (as the Pen leaves it), the Anchor Point tool and Pen+Alt no longer grab handles that Show handles when multiple anchors are selected hides, a handle shorter than the tolerance leaves its anchor to be picked, and the anchor tools pick within Selection & Anchor Display › Tolerance. A dragged segment keeps a smooth anchor at either end smooth. With Direct Selection, the Pen, the Curvature and the anchor tools, a path selected as a whole shows all its anchors selected, and the Control bar and the Properties panel offer Convert (corner, smooth) for them too; Remove and Cut wait for anchors direct-selected (#504). A handle drag gathers its snap targets once per drag (it took 21 ms per pointer move on a 20,000-path document, now 1 ms; `vectorcraft-cli perf` measures handle and segment drags on a 5,000-anchor path).
   - **Graphs:** Column, Stacked Column, Bar, Stacked Bar, Line, Area, Scatter, Pie and Radar graph tools with Graph Data and Graph Type.
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   - **Panel drag and drop:** art dragged off the canvas onto the Symbols panel becomes a symbol, onto the Swatches panel a pattern swatch and onto the Brushes panel an Art brush; a symbol dragged onto the canvas places an instance where it is dropped, and a brush dragged onto a path is applied to it.
   - **Tool double-clicks:** double-clicking a tool's button opens its options: Hand fits the artboard in the window, Zoom shows 100 %, Rotate, Scale, Reflect and Shear open their Object › Transform dialogs, the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools the Move dialog (Enter opens these seven tools' dialogs too), Gradient, Eyedropper, Blend and the Liquify tools their panels or options, and the Pencil, Paintbrush, Smooth, Blob Brush and Eraser tools their Tool Options (Fidelity, fill, the tolerances, the brush size).
 - **Layers panel:** every layer, sublayer, group and object is a clickable row at any depth: a click highlights it and makes its layer current (new art goes there), Shift-click a range, Ctrl/Cmd-click toggles. Sublayers are no longer treated as objects: clicks, marquees, Select All and the Select menu take the art inside them, and each sublayer selects in its own colour. Selection squares on rows with selected art (click selects a row's art, Shift adds or removes; dragging the square moves the selection to another row, Alt copies), the eye and lock on every row with drag-down-the-column (one undo step), Ctrl/Cmd-click an eye for per-layer Outline, Alt-click an eye or lock to hide or lock the other layers (again: show or unlock them all), triangles with Alt to open or close everything inside, drag and drop rows above, below or into layers and groups with a drop line (Alt copies) and a dimmed copy of the row under the pointer (dropped on the trash rows are deleted, on New Layer duplicated, as in Illustrator), inline rename, Delete key on highlighted rows. Buttons and the full panel menu: New Layer/Sublayer (Alt: options, Ctrl: on top), Duplicate, Delete, Options for Selection, clipping mask, isolation, Locate Object, Merge Selected, Flatten Artwork, Collect in New Layer, Release to Layers (Sequence and Build), Reverse Order, Template, Hide/Outline/Lock Others and Show/Preview/Unlock All, Paste Remembers Layers, Panel Options (row size, thumbnails per kind, Show Layers Only). Layer Options: name, colour (presets, each with a chip of its colour, or custom), Template, Lock, Show, Print, Preview (outline drawing and clicking) and Dim Images to %. Every operation is a command (`layer.move`, `layer.highlight`, `layer.merge`…) with validation against cycles and invalid nesting.
-- **Drawing aids:** Smart Guides and snapping (moving, with the Selection, Group Selection or Direct Selection tool, and resizing by the bounding-box handles with the Selection or Free Transform tool, Shift and Alt too: the dragged corner or side lands on the other objects' anchors and centres ("anchor", "center") or lines up with their edges and centres (a line and "align"); the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools drag from the anchor they grab and snap the pointer the same way, so a corner dragged onto another object's anchor scales exactly onto it, #482; anchors dragged with Direct Selection: the one pressed on lands on other anchors, its own path's that stay put among them, on path segments or in line with them, the others following, Shift keeps 45° steps, and with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; the Artboard tool snaps artboards, and their bleed, to other artboards, bleeds and art, the grid or whole pixels while moving, copying and resizing them, and the Transform panel shows and edits the active artboard's X/Y/W/H), guides dragged out of the rulers (#451: they snap as moved guides do, Shift to the ruler's ticks; with the Artboard tool they are artboard guides, which run across their artboard only and move, copy and delete with it, `guide.add {artboard}`) that the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools then pick and drag (#414: the selected guides highlight and move together, Alt copies them, Shift snaps the dragged one to the ticks, otherwise it snaps to pixels, the grid or the edges, centres (so the sides' midpoints) and anchors of the art and the artboards, or with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; the arrow keys nudge them, Delete deletes them, dragging one back onto its ruler deletes it, Lock Guides and Hide Guides leave them alone; `guide.list`, `guide.select`, `guide.move` and `guide.remove` reach agents), and Draw Normal / Behind / Inside modes.
+- **Drawing aids:** Smart Guides and snapping (moving, with the Selection, Group Selection or Direct Selection tool, and resizing by the bounding-box handles with the Selection or Free Transform tool, Shift and Alt too: the dragged corner or side lands on the other objects' anchors and centres ("anchor", "center") or lines up with their edges and centres (a line and "align"); the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools drag from the anchor they grab and snap the pointer the same way, so a corner dragged onto another object's anchor scales exactly onto it, #482; anchors dragged with Direct Selection: the one pressed on lands on other anchors, its own path's that stay put among them, on path segments or in line with them, the others following, Shift keeps 45° steps, and with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; the Artboard tool snaps artboards, and their bleed, to other artboards, bleeds and art, the grid or whole pixels while moving, copying and resizing them, and the Transform panel shows and edits the active artboard's X/Y/W/H; drawn points, #506: hovering shows where the press goes, the point lands on the other objects' anchors, centres and paths ("anchor", "center", "path") or lines up with their anchors, edges and centres ("align"), the Pen's on the path being drawn too, near a construction guide through the anchor before it on that guide (Preferences › Smart Guides › Construction Guides and Angles), and with Shift kept to its 45° step or a square's diagonal it slides along that way into line; the targets are gathered once per document state, from the art in the window, and the anchors, centres and lines near the pointer are found by bisection, so hovering never rescans the document), guides dragged out of the rulers (#451: they snap as moved guides do, Shift to the ruler's ticks; with the Artboard tool they are artboard guides, which run across their artboard only and move, copy and delete with it, `guide.add {artboard}`) that the Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools then pick and drag (#414: the selected guides highlight and move together, Alt copies them, Shift snaps the dragged one to the ticks, otherwise it snaps to pixels, the grid or the edges, centres (so the sides' midpoints) and anchors of the art and the artboards, or with Smart Guides off Snap to Point pulls it onto anchors; the arrow keys nudge them, Delete deletes them, dragging one back onto its ruler deletes it, Lock Guides and Hide Guides leave them alone; `guide.list`, `guide.select`, `guide.move` and `guide.remove` reach agents), a right-click on either ruler or the origin box to pick the document's units (the current one checked; `document.setUnits`, one undo step, #528), and Draw Normal / Behind / Inside modes.
 - **Views:** the status bar's artboard navigator (first, previous, next, last; `view.goToArtboard`) goes to an artboard and fits it, and Fit Artboard in Window and Actual Size show the navigator's artboard. The Artboards panel highlights that active artboard: clicking a row makes it active (the Artboard tool's too, while it is chosen) as does clicking an artboard with the Artboard tool, double-clicking its number also fits it in the window and double-clicking its name renames it. Duplicate Artboards, or a row dragged onto New Artboard, copies the artboard with its art (#446). Escape leaves Presentation Mode, F from it goes back to Normal Screen Mode, and the screen mode isn't saved with the preferences: the app always starts in Normal Screen Mode with its menus and panels (#472).
 - **Geometry and effects:**
   - Pathfinder (10 exact curve booleans), Offset, Outline Stroke, Simplify, Clean Up, Split Into Grid, Divide Objects Below. Object › Path › Remove Anchor Points (`path.removeAnchors`) removes the direct-selected anchors without opening their paths (the Delete key still deletes them with their segments): the neighbours keep their handle directions and their facing handles are refitted so one cubic follows the two old segments, and straight sides stay straight. The Delete Anchor Point tool uses the same refit. The Control bar, the contextual task bar, the Properties quick actions and the canvas context menu offer it when anchors are selected. With anchors selected, the Control bar and the Properties panel also convert them to corner or smooth (`path.convertAnchors`), connect end points (Join) and cut the path at them (`path.cutAtAnchors`, also on the task bar and the context menu): a closed path opens there and an open one becomes one path per piece, each cut leaving one of its two coincident anchors selected so a drag pulls the path apart.
   - Live effects with previewing dialogs: Distort & Transform, Path, Convert to Shape, 15 Warp styles, Round Corners, Scribble, Effect → Pathfinder (all 10 operations, live on groups; several loose objects are grouped first, in one undo step), Color Adjustments (Brightness/Contrast, Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation, Shift to Color, Temperature/Tint, on vectors, live type and embedded images), and raster drop shadow, glows and feather. SVG and PDF export keep live effects (geometry baked; SVG raster effects as filters).
 - **Type:** Text Wrap, Type on a Path effects (Rainbow/Skew/3D Ribbon/Stair Step/Gravity) and Options (Flip, Align to Path, Spacing; OK keeps the type where it is), type on a path's start, centre and end brackets (Selection and Direct Selection drag them to set where the type runs, slide it along its path and, across the path, flip it: #429), Character and Paragraph Styles (override-preserving redefine), Area Type Options (rows/columns/inset/first baseline), threaded text across any closed shapes, Fit Headline. Area type resizes like Illustrator's type areas: a bounding-box handle drag (Selection tool) or Area Type Options Width/Height size the frame and the text reflows at its size (threads too); Direct Selection drags a frame corner or edge (`text.reshapeArea`). Point type still scales. The Selection tool shows the type widget beside selected type's bounding box (hollow on point type, filled on area type); double-clicking it converts between them (Type › Convert To Area Type / Convert To Point Type), keeping the text and its styles in place. Variable fonts list every named instance as a style of their family (Figtree Light to Black and their italics, Bahnschrift, Segoe UI Variable), and the instance chosen is shaped, drawn, outlined and measured at its axis settings; PDF and SVG embed it as that instance. Variation axis sliders are not done. Hebrew and Arabic are laid out right to left with the Unicode bidirectional algorithm (embedded Latin and numbers keep their direction, lines put in visual order after wrapping) in point, area and path type, with caret, selection and arrow keys in visual order; each paragraph's direction comes from its first strong character unless Paragraph Direction sets it (Paragraph panel with Show Indic Options, `text.setFormat {direction}`), and new type aligns to the start of its direction. SVG export outlines right-to-left text. Font Size and Leading are combo boxes in the Character and Properties panels (Font Size in the Control bar too, beside the Character link, font family and style): type, step with ↑/↓ or the spinner, scrub the label, or pick a preset (6–72 pt, shown in the type unit; Leading also Auto), each pick one undo step; Kerning and Tracking list -100…200; a size, leading, kerning or tracking the selected text doesn't share shows blank (#458).
-- **Interface languages, vertical type:** VectorCraft ▸ Language (or Preferences ▸ User Interface) picks Automatic (the system locale) or a registered language, persisted as `interfaceLanguage`. Translations come from per-language catalogs (`i18n/*.tsv`): Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish (neutral international Spanish, for every `es-*` locale) and Italian (every `it-*` locale) cover the whole interface, Czech and Brazilian Portuguese every menu label, Brazilian Portuguese the shell's `tl!` literals too (tested); Spanish and Italian also translate status-bar and error messages as they are shown (`@msg` templates, every message literal tested; the messages themselves stay English for agents); untranslated text stays English. Japanese and Chinese glyphs come from the craft-fonts build input (release builds) or the installed fonts, Czech, Spanish and Italian ones from the bundled UI fonts. The web app follows the browser's languages (or `?lang=`). The Basic toolbar's Type button holds Vertical Type in its flyout. Vertical Type, Vertical Area Type and Vertical Type on a Path create vertical text (columns right to left, upright CJK glyphs and marks with `vert` alternates, Latin and longer numbers on their side, two- and three-digit numbers set as tate-chu-yoko in one em of the column (kept whole when justified), upright glyphs centred on the column (tracked or justified too), point type's anchor on the first column's centre line); kinsoku (the strict set) applies to horizontal and vertical Japanese, and justified Japanese lines spread their room between characters (not inside Latin words); Paragraph panel › Mojikumi Set (shown with Preferences › Type › Show East Asian Options, `text.setFormat {mojikumi}`): None or Line-end Punctuation Half Width (new type's default, as in Illustrator; older documents and imported text keep None) shares one half-em space between consecutive punctuation, sets a closing mark ending a line half width and an opening bracket starting a wrapped line flush with its start, and puts a quarter em between Japanese and Latin letters or digits; Paragraph panel menu › Top-to-Top / Bottom-to-Bottom Leading measures leading from em box top to top (area type's first line touches the frame) or from baseline to baseline; Paragraph panel menu › Burasagari None / Regular / Force (`text.setFormat {burasagari: "none"|"standard"|"forced"}`) hangs an East Asian comma or full stop (、。，．､｡) ending an area type line outside it, Regular (new type's default) when it doesn't fit and Force always (the rest of the line then fills the measure; closing brackets and Latin punctuation don't hang); Character panel menu › Character Alignment (with the East Asian options; `text.setFormat` or `text.setRangeStyle {charAlign}`) lines characters smaller than the largest on their line up on the Roman baseline or the em box top/right, centre or bottom/left (ICF top and bottom not yet); Type ▸ Type Orientation switches existing text; caret, selection, hit testing and arrow keys follow the writing direction. Vertical text exports to PDF as real text and to SVG as outlines.
+- **Interface languages, vertical type:** VectorCraft ▸ Language (or Preferences ▸ User Interface) picks Automatic (the system locale) or a registered language, persisted as `interfaceLanguage`. Translations come from per-language catalogs (`i18n/*.tsv`): Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish (neutral international Spanish, for every `es-*` locale) and Italian (every `it-*` locale) cover the whole interface, Czech and Brazilian Portuguese every menu label, Brazilian Portuguese the shell's `tl!` literals too (tested); Spanish and Italian also translate status-bar and error messages as they are shown (`@msg` templates, every message literal tested; the messages themselves stay English for agents); untranslated text stays English. Japanese and Chinese glyphs come from the craft-fonts build input (release builds) or the installed fonts, Czech, Spanish and Italian ones from the bundled UI fonts. The web app follows the browser's languages (or `?lang=`). The Basic toolbar's Type button holds Vertical Type in its flyout. Vertical Type, Vertical Area Type and Vertical Type on a Path create vertical text (columns right to left, upright CJK glyphs and marks with `vert` alternates, Latin and longer numbers on their side, two- and three-digit numbers set as tate-chu-yoko in one em of the column (kept whole when justified), upright glyphs centred on the column (tracked or justified too), point type's anchor on the first column's centre line); kinsoku (the strict set) applies to horizontal and vertical Japanese, and justified Japanese lines spread their room between characters (not inside Latin words); Paragraph panel › Mojikumi Set (shown with Preferences › Type › Show East Asian Options, `text.setFormat {mojikumi}`): None or Line-end Punctuation Half Width (new type's default, as in Illustrator; older documents and imported text keep None) shares one half-em space between consecutive punctuation, sets a closing mark ending a line half width and an opening bracket starting a wrapped line flush with its start, and puts a quarter em between Japanese and Latin letters or digits; Paragraph panel menu › Top-to-Top / Bottom-to-Bottom Leading measures leading from em box top to top (area type's first line touches the frame) or from baseline to baseline (new type in a Japanese interface starts top to top, with em box centre character alignment, #432); Paragraph panel menu › Burasagari None / Regular / Force (`text.setFormat {burasagari: "none"|"standard"|"forced"}`) hangs an East Asian comma or full stop (、。，．､｡) ending an area type line outside it, Regular (new type's default) when it doesn't fit and Force always (the rest of the line then fills the measure; closing brackets and Latin punctuation don't hang); Character panel menu › Character Alignment (with the East Asian options; `text.setFormat` or `text.setRangeStyle {charAlign}`) lines characters smaller than the largest on their line up on the Roman baseline or the em box top/right, centre or bottom/left (ICF top and bottom not yet); Type ▸ Type Orientation switches existing text; caret, selection, hit testing and arrow keys follow the writing direction. Vertical text exports to PDF as real text and to SVG as outlines.
 - **Transparency:** opacity masks (clip/invert/disable/link), exported as SVG `<mask>` and PDF soft masks.
-- **Advanced art:** live Blends (steps/distance/smooth colour, editable spine, anchor-targeted Blend tool, faithful interpolation, knockout), Envelope Distort (warp/mesh/top object, Reset, full Envelope Options, mesh handles, Edit Contents; type, images, symbols, gradients, patterns and appearance distorted everywhere), Liquify tools with options and pen pressure, Puppet Warp with rotating pins, Perspective Grid with presets, movable planes and projected type (choosing a perspective tool shows the grid; Hide Grid hides it with the tool still chosen), Gradient Mesh, Shape Builder (stroke-only open paths and lines cut the regions they cross and enclose regions of their own; filled open paths count as closed; erase mode while Alt/Option is held: a minus pointer, red highlights of what will go, a click or drag deletes the regions touched, the pieces of open lines and the edges (outline pieces between the points where paths meet, opening their paths there) it passes over, one undo step, `shapeBuilder.merge {erase}` and `shapeBuilder.regions` edges over MCP), Live Paint (every path an edge, open lines included), Image Trace (12 presets; with an image selected the Control bar and the Properties panel show Image Trace, whose arrow traces with any preset, Mask (`object.maskImage`: a clipping path on the image's outline, selected so its handles crop), Crop Image and Embed or Unembed in place of Fill and Stroke; with an Image Trace object selected, its Preset (choosing another traces again), the Image Trace panel and Expand, plus Release in Properties; the View modes are not done), pattern swatches with pattern editing mode, live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror).
+- **Advanced art:** live Blends (steps/distance/smooth colour, editable spine, anchor-targeted Blend tool, faithful interpolation, knockout), Envelope Distort (warp/mesh/top object, Reset, full Envelope Options, mesh handles, Edit Contents; type, images, symbols, gradients, patterns and appearance distorted everywhere), Liquify tools with options and pen pressure, Puppet Warp with rotating pins, Perspective Grid with presets, movable planes and projected type (choosing a perspective tool shows the grid; Hide Grid hides it with the tool still chosen), Gradient Mesh, Shape Builder (stroke-only open paths and lines cut the regions they cross and enclose regions of their own; filled open paths count as closed; erase mode while Alt/Option is held: a minus pointer, red highlights of what will go, a click or drag deletes the regions touched, the pieces of open lines and the edges (outline pieces between the points where paths meet, opening their paths there) it passes over, one undo step, `shapeBuilder.merge {erase}` and `shapeBuilder.regions` edges over MCP), Live Paint (every path an edge, open lines included), Image Trace (12 presets; Object › Image Trace › Make and Make and Expand trace at once with the Default preset, #543; with an image selected the Control bar and the Properties panel show Image Trace, whose arrow traces with any preset, Mask (`object.maskImage`: a clipping path on the image's outline, selected so its handles crop), Crop Image and Embed or Unembed in place of Fill and Stroke; with an Image Trace object selected, its Preset (choosing another traces again), the Image Trace panel and Expand, plus Release in Properties; the View modes are not done), pattern swatches with pattern editing mode, live Repeat (radial/grid/mirror).
 - **Paint and appearance (M3):**
   - **Swatches:** names follow the colour model and are unique; Swatch Options (process/spot, Global, Gray/RGB/HSB/CMYK/Web, live preview); editing a global or spot swatch recolours every linked fill, stroke and text run in one undo step; multi-select and delete with confirmation; New Swatch and New Color Group dialogs (a group from the selected artwork's colours); swatches in colour groups convert, separate and count like any other. The Swatches panel selects ranges and whole groups, has a find field, and drags swatches to reorder, regroup or paint art; Add Used Colors, Select All Unused, Merge, Ungroup and Sort by Kind; a CMYK document keeps applied colours in CMYK. Swatch libraries: nine generated colour libraries and five gradient libraries in a library panel, saved and loaded as `.vcswatches`, `.gpl` or CSS. Tints of global and spot colours ("Name 40%") stay linked and separate as a percentage of their plate. Spot colours can be defined in Lab (Spot Colors options). A built-in [Registration] swatch prints on every plate.
   - **Colour:** a Color Picker (colour field, H/S/B/R/G/B channel slider, HSB/RGB/Lab/CMYK fields, hex, web-only snapping, out-of-gamut correction); the Color panel follows each colour's own model and Alt-click paints the other proxy; proxies look through groups and show "?" for mixed paint; Invert, Complement, Apply Last Color (`,`) and Apply Last Gradient (`.`) keep the colour model; every paint command feeds the recent colours. The Color Guide has 21 harmony rules, Steps and Variation options and Limit to Library. Adjust Color Balance (its Global mode shifts tints) and Saturate preview live; Edit Colors and Recolor also reach meshes, images and patterns. Recolor Artwork has colour reduction, five recolour methods, presets, Limit to Library, a colour-wheel Edit tab and Edit Color Group; a local Color Themes panel saves five-colour themes. Fill/Stroke chips open swatch and mixer popovers (the Properties panel has the Control bar's Fill and Stroke chips, Stroke link and weight spinner, with nothing selected too), panels have Illustrator's Window menu keys (Align Shift+F7, Transform Shift+F8, Pathfinder Cmd+Shift+F9, Layers F7, Character Cmd+T…; every panel can be given one in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts), and Eyedropper Options pick up and apply chosen attributes (Alt and Shift+Alt, image pixels). Fills and strokes can overprint (Attributes panel, Overprint Black options), and CMYK documents blend in inks on screen, in PDF and when flattening. Document Color Mode converts the art, symbols, pattern tiles and swatches through the colour settings: Gray stays Gray, RGB greys separate into four-colour greys and a rich black as Illustrator does, or go on the black plate only with `grays: "black"` (also for `document.open {colorMode}`).
@@ -159,7 +160,7 @@ grade by behaviour against `plan/illustrator/`, not by whether a menu item exist
   - EPS and DXF in and out, EMF/WMF in and out; PNG (with PNG-8), JPEG, WebP, GIF, TIFF, BMP, Targa and layered PSD export. EPS import runs a PostScript Level 3 interpreter written from the PostScript Language Reference: resource categories and `resourceforall`, local and global VM (`currentglobal`/`setglobal`/`gcheck`), `clipsave`/`cliprestore`, subarrays and substrings that share storage, the standard dictionaries in `systemdict`, `dictstack`, `internaldict`, executable filters and strings, `load` by any key, `//name` immediate names, `token`, `execform`, user paths, `cshow`, `rootfont`, `cachestatus`, colour rendering and halftone queries, file `status` and data read with `flushfile`, and `pdfmark` marks dropped (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474). Masked images (`ImageType 3` in its three interleavings) and reusable streams are read, and an image's several data sources are read in turn, as the reference defines (procedures that read one file get their own rows: such images came in banded, #498). `restore` puts dictionaries back as they were at the `save`, so programs that count their saves in a dictionary read to their end (part of #505). Tiling patterns come in as pattern swatches, uncoloured ones too; Type 3 fonts' glyphs as their outlines, spaced by `ashow`/`widthshow`/`xshow`/`kshow`; mesh and function-based shadings (types 1, 4–7) as gradient meshes; sampled functions (type 0) and Flate/LZW predictors are read. It is tested with programs written from the specification in the ways common generators use these features; Inkscape/cairo EPS files open as vectors. When a file's PostScript still can't be read, it opens as its TIFF preview, its Windows metafile preview (as vectors) or its EPSI preview, and the warning (in the status bar, `document.open`/`app.open`/MCP `open_file` replies and `vectorcraft-cli info`) names the error, the operator that raised it and the procedures it ran in. Legacy PostScript `.ai` files (Illustrator 3–8, written with the prolog that defines their operators) keep their groups and nested groups (`u` … `U`), between and inside clipping groups; EPS and EMF/WMF import nest clips (and groups) at most 128 deep, so a hostile file can't exhaust the stack. DXF TEXT justified Fit or Aligned spans its two points (stretched, or scaled as a whole).
   - Place and the Links panel, Package, File Info, Print with print presets, PostScript output and print tiling, slices and Save for Web, Export for Screens and Asset Export, CSS Properties, PNG/PDF/SVG/text clipboard flavours; files copied in a file manager paste as art (SVG, PDF, EMF/WMF, bitmaps) on every desktop platform, and Linux/Wayland reads the compositor's clipboard (#398); on Linux the Paste menu checks the clipboard off the UI thread, so an X11 owner that never answers can't freeze the window (#510); screenshots and other copied pictures paste as embedded images at the view centre everywhere, the web included (#457).
 - **Performance:** 20k shapes + 1k texts render in 27 ms per full-retina frame (7.8 ms zoomed), 7× faster than the first version. The UI thread never blocks. The web build is 7.1 MB gzipped.
-- **Graphics processor:** the canvas is rasterized on the CPU and the GPU only composites it, so any GPU that can show the window will do. Preferences › Performance › Graphics Processor (`gpuPreference`) is Automatic by default: the power-saving GPU on Windows and macOS (the integrated one on hybrid-graphics laptops, where presenting from the discrete GPU made the window flicker, #306), and the GPU the desktop runs on under Linux, where KWin on an NVIDIA GPU refused frames from a Ryzen's integrated GPU and 0.5.0 crashed at startup (#502). Power Saving and High Performance pick a kind of GPU; `WGPU_POWER_PREF`, `WGPU_ADAPTER_NAME` and `WGPU_BACKEND` override them. The app picks among the adapters that can present to the window (native backends before OpenGL, hardware before software), and if the window fails on one while starting up it starts again without it instead of crashing; Help › About, `ui.inspect` and the log name the adapter in use. When the browser drops the page's WebGPU device or WebGL context, the web build writes recovery copies, starts again on new graphics with the same app and uploads its textures again; if it can't, it removes the stale canvas and says to reload, which offers the copies back. The desktop app writes the copies and says to restart (#369). On Windows and Linux the tools' cursors are OS cursors (bitmaps rasterized once per display scale), which the system moves itself: painted into the window, they trailed the pointer by the frames waiting to be shown, and the window now queues one frame instead of two (#444). macOS and the web still paint them (macOS sizes cursor bitmaps in points, eframe has no bitmap cursors on the web). Pens and touch drive the tools as the mouse does, and a tap pressed and lifted within one frame clicks where it tapped (#491); pen pressure reaches the Liquify tools' Use Pressure Pen on Windows, while winit 0.30 reports none on macOS or Linux and egui none on the web. On Linux, see `docs/development.md` for pens under Wayland.
+- **Graphics processor:** the canvas is rasterized on the CPU and the GPU only composites it, so any GPU that can show the window will do. Preferences › Performance › Graphics Processor (`gpuPreference`) is Automatic by default: the power-saving GPU on Windows and macOS (the integrated one on hybrid-graphics laptops, where presenting from the discrete GPU made the window flicker, #306), and the GPU the desktop runs on under Linux, where KWin on an NVIDIA GPU refused frames from a Ryzen's integrated GPU and 0.5.0 crashed at startup (#502). Power Saving and High Performance pick a kind of GPU; `WGPU_POWER_PREF`, `WGPU_ADAPTER_NAME` and `WGPU_BACKEND` override them. The app picks among the adapters that can present to the window (native backends before OpenGL, hardware before software, and on Windows a GPU's DX12 adapter before its Vulkan one: Intel's Vulkan driver made the whole window flicker black, #545), and if the window fails on one while starting up it starts again without it instead of crashing; Help › About, `ui.inspect` and the log name the adapter in use. When the browser drops the page's WebGPU device or WebGL context, the web build writes recovery copies, starts again on new graphics with the same app and uploads its textures again; if it can't, it removes the stale canvas and says to reload, which offers the copies back. The desktop app writes the copies and says to restart (#369). On Windows and Linux the tools' cursors are OS cursors (bitmaps rasterized once per display scale), which the system moves itself: painted into the window, they trailed the pointer by the frames waiting to be shown, and the window now queues one frame instead of two (#444). macOS and the web still paint them (macOS sizes cursor bitmaps in points, eframe has no bitmap cursors on the web). Pens and touch drive the tools as the mouse does, and a tap pressed and lifted within one frame clicks where it tapped (#491); pen pressure reaches the Liquify tools' Use Pressure Pen on Windows, while winit 0.30 reports none on macOS or Linux and egui none on the web. On Linux, see `docs/development.md` for pens under Wayland.
 - **Tests and robustness:** ~2,840 automated tests: model-based property tests, a junk-parameter sweep over every command, import fuzzing (SVG, PDF, libraries), golden renders, and MCP end-to-end tests over stdio. Shipped code never panics (workspace lints and a rollback safety net; see `docs/development.md`).
 
 ## Milestones and estimates
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ grade by behaviour against `plan/illustrator/`, not by whether a menu item exist
 |---|---|---|---|
 | M0 | Skeleton + vertical slice | ✅ done | — |
 | M1 | Selection, transform, layers, MCP | ✅ mostly done (transform reference point snaps to anchors/centres; rotated objects keep a rotated bounding box and their angle; Free Transform, Scale and Reflect along a rotated box pending) | 4–6 |
-| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed; Shaper, the remaining Pen modifier nuances) | 15–20 |
+| M2 | Drawing tools + smart guides | ✅ mostly done (Flare, Reshape, Live Corners widget dragging and per-corner radii and kinds landed, on any path's corners; Shaper, the remaining Pen modifier nuances) | 15–20 |
 | M3 | Paint & appearance (swatches, color, gradient, stroke, appearance, transparency, styles) | ✅ done (M3.7–M3.98): swatches, groups, libraries, tints, Lab spots and Registration; Color Picker, Color panel, Color Guide, Color Themes, Edit Colors and Recolor Artwork; gradients that follow every transform, the annotator, linked stops, freeform gradients, focal points, gradients on strokes and Expand; stroke geometry, arrowheads, dashes fitted to corners, stroke on type, width profiles and the Width tool, Scale Strokes and preview bounds; Appearance targeting, container appearance, target circles, Expand Appearance; knockout, isolation, blend accuracy, CMYK blending, overprint, Attributes, masks and clipping, Flatten Transparency; graphic styles, links and libraries. Left: freeform and mixed spot/process gradients export as stops or process colours to SVG/PDF; confirm the Scale Strokes & Effects default | 4–8 |
 | M4 | Files (native, SVG, PDF, raster, Export for Screens, clipboard interop) | ✅ done (M4.14–M4.98 on 2026-10-05): Save As/Save a Copy/Revert/templates, Data Recovery and background save, SVG import and export fidelity (units, text, symbols, filters, SVGZ, Preserve Editing, SVG Options), PDF import (colours, layers, masks, editable text, security) and export (presets, marks, bleed, ICC and output intent, raster effects, subset fonts, PDF/X-1a, X-3 and X-4, PDF layers, overprint, page thumbnails, fast web view, PDF 1.3), Place and Links, Package, EPS and DXF in and out, EMF/WMF, TIFF/BMP/Targa/PSD/GIF/PNG-8 export, Print and print presets, slices, Save for Web, Asset Export, clipboard flavours, File Info. Left: DWG (use DXF), PSD placement as layers, overprint read back from PDF, polish | 3–6 |
 | M5 | Performance | 🟡 background render + caches + MT done; `vectorcraft-cli bench` and `vectorcraft-cli perf` (budget suite); file format v2 opens 3× faster (50k paths: 722 → 244 ms); raster effects (glows, shadows, blur, feather) no longer force the whole frame single-threaded (filtered offscreen per effect, verified equal to the single-threaded reference); effect-heavy demos need a clean-machine benchmark; dirty-region rendering, GPU backend spike pending | 15–25 |
@@ -200,7 +201,7 @@ about 1–1.5 agent-hours each, so the other rows (estimated on the older scale)
 | Area | Weight | Done | Missing (main items) | One agent (h) |
 |---|---:|---:|---|---:|
 | Selection, transform & align tools | 6 | 85% | Free Transform/Scale/Reflect along a rotated box, Start Global Edit, transform nuances (the rotated persistent bounding box is done) | 4–6 |
-| Drawing tools | 7 | 85% | Shaper Groups (merge/punch overlapping shapes), pencil and the remaining pen modifier nuances, the freehand Tool Options' Keep selected, Alt to the Smooth tool, Blob Brush Merge Only with Selection and brush angle/roundness, Touch Type, Live Corners on plain paths and polygons (and Relative rounding) | 10–15 |
+| Drawing tools | 7 | 85% | Shaper Groups (merge/punch overlapping shapes), pencil and the remaining pen modifier nuances, the freehand Tool Options' Keep selected, Alt to the Smooth tool, Blob Brush Merge Only with Selection and brush angle/roundness, Touch Type, Live Corners on corners between curved sides (and Relative rounding) | 10–15 |
 | Path operations, Pathfinder, Shape Builder, Live Paint | 5 | 86% | Live Paint gap options, Shape Builder gap detection, options (Tool Options dialog, clicking a stroke in merge mode) and Shift-drag marquee | 3–6 |
 | Colour, swatches, gradients, patterns, mesh, recolor | 7 | 96% | freeform and mixed spot/process gradients in SVG/PDF (exported as stops or process colours), pattern fills in Expand | 2–4 |
 | Strokes, brushes, width profiles | 5 | 88% | brush options depth, brush libraries (generated in code), brushes driven by pen tilt, bearing and barrel rotation (6D art pens) | 12–20 |
@@ -214,12 +215,12 @@ about 1–1.5 agent-hours each, so the other rows (estimated on the older scale)
 | Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 70% | graph Design/Column/Marker, Create Object Mosaic, Crop Image polish (an on-canvas crop box), Image Trace View modes (Outlines, Source Image) (Vector Halftone is done) | 6–10 |
 | Layers, artboards, document setup | 5 | 82% | Layers panel: a confirmation before deleting layers that hold art, Collect for Export, row context menus, the Layer Options dialog for several rows with mixed values, Paste Remembers Layers for sublayers, drag-scrolling a long panel while dragging rows; artboard presets/rearrange polish (Document Setup, New Document and the rest of the Layers panel are done) | 4–7 |
 | View & navigation | 3 | 70% | New View/Edit Views, multiple windows/arrange, Snap to Pixel/Glyph (print tiling is done) | 9–14 |
-| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 82% | global/video rulers, smart-guide preference depth, Alt swapping a ruler guide's orientation, ruler guides selected together with art (marquee, Shift-click), ruler guides as Layers rows with their own lock and hide (#451: Lock Guides locks them all; Make Guides paths are Layers rows already) (dragging existing guides is done, #414; new guides snapping to side midpoints and artboards, and artboard guides, #451) | 3–5 |
+| Guides, grids, smart guides, snapping, rulers | 3 | 84% | global/video rulers, Spacing Guides, Smart Guides' angle and distance readouts while drawing, Alt swapping a ruler guide's orientation, ruler guides selected together with art (marquee, Shift-click), ruler guides as Layers rows with their own lock and hide (#451: Lock Guides locks them all; Make Guides paths are Layers rows already) (dragging existing guides is done, #414; new guides snapping to side midpoints and artboards, and artboard guides, #451; the drawing tools snapping, with Construction Guides, #506) | 2–4 |
 | File formats | 6 | 85% | DWG (no open spec: DXF instead), PSD placement as layers, EPS checked against more real files users send (Inkscape files open as vectors; other generators' constructs are tested with programs written from the PostScript Language Reference only; CID-keyed CJK type and `CCITTFaxDecode` images not read), legacy `.ai` files saved without the prolog that defines their operators (their own operator set isn't read yet), the remaining fidelity polish; EPS, DXF, EMF/WMF, TIFF, BMP, Targa, PSD export, SVGZ, PDF security, PDF/X, PDF layers and presets are done | 6–10 |
 | Export for Screens, Asset Export, slices, Save for Web | 3 | 85% | polish only (all four are done) | 2–4 |
 | Print, colour management, separations, flattener | 3 | 80% | print preview fidelity (flattener presets in PDF and print, overprint in PDF and composite print, Print dialog, presets, PostScript, marks, separations, Print Tiling, print overprint/flattener/bitmap options and printer profile are done) | 1–2 |
 | Automation | 3 | 60% | Variables (data merge), scripting surface, batch | 8–12 |
-| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 78% | Variables, SVG Interactivity, Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window and docked into any group, context menus beyond the canvas (Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes and the canvas context menu are done), about 32 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Construction and Spacing Guides, Auto Size New Area Type, Show Font Names in English, Highlight Alternate Glyphs, performance, devices…) | 14–22 |
+| UI chrome (panels, contextual Properties, workspaces, prefs) | 6 | 78% | Variables, SVG Interactivity, Properties per context, Consolidate All Windows, floating panels outside the app window and docked into any group, context menus beyond the canvas (Links, Asset Export, CSS Properties, Attributes and the canvas context menu are done), about 30 Preferences options stored but not yet acted on (#394: Spacing Guides, Auto Size New Area Type, Show Font Names in English, Highlight Alternate Glyphs, performance, devices…) | 14–22 |
 | Libraries, Links, Package | 2 | 50% | a local Libraries panel (no cloud by design); Links and Package are done | 5–8 |
 | **Feature parity** | **103** | **~75%** | | **~210–330** |
 | Interaction-fidelity pass (side by side with Illustrator: every tool modifier, cursor, dialog, Properties context) | | | | 60–90 |

apps/vectorcraft/src/gpu.rs

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 //! The canvas is rasterized on the CPU; the GPU only composites it and draws the UI, so any
 //! adapter that can present to the window will do. [`adapter_order`] ranks the adapters: those that
 //! can't present to the window's surface never, then the one `WGPU_ADAPTER_NAME` names, hardware
-//! before software, the native backends (Vulkan, Metal, DX12) before OpenGL, and the power
-//! preference ([`power_preference`]) among the rest. eframe is handed [`selector`], which takes
-//! the first of that order.
+//! before software, the native backends (Vulkan, Metal, DX12) before OpenGL, the power preference
+//! ([`power_preference`]) among the rest, and a GPU's DX12 adapter before its Vulkan one (#545).
+//! eframe is handed [`selector`], which takes the first of that order.
 //!
 //! An adapter can report that it presents to the window and still fail once it does: on a hybrid
 //! Linux desktop under Wayland, the compositor runs on one GPU and may refuse the frame buffers
@@ -89,15 +89,17 @@ fn key(backend: Backend, vendor: u32, device: u32) -> String {
 
 /// The order to try `candidates` in (their indices): only those that present to the window and
 /// aren't in `skip`; the one whose name contains `named` (any case) first; hardware before
-/// software; native backends before OpenGL; then by `power`, keeping the system's order among
-/// equals (all of it for [`PowerPreference::None`]).
+/// software; native backends before OpenGL; then by `power`; then DX12 before Vulkan, keeping the
+/// system's order among equals (all of it for [`PowerPreference::None`]). Windows lists each GPU
+/// under both, and Intel's Vulkan driver made the whole window flicker black where DX12 and OpenGL
+/// didn't (#545); elsewhere there is no DX12 adapter, so the order is unchanged.
 pub fn adapter_order(candidates: &[Candidate], power: PowerPreference, named: Option<&str>, skip: &[String]) -> Vec<usize> {
     let named = named.map(str::to_lowercase).filter(|n| !n.is_empty());
     let mut order: Vec<(usize, &Candidate)> = candidates.iter().enumerate().filter(|(_, c)| c.presents && !skip.contains(&c.key)).collect();
     // Stable, so equals keep the system's order.
     order.sort_by_key(|(_, c)| {
         let unnamed = named.as_ref().is_some_and(|n| !c.name.to_lowercase().contains(n));
-        (unnamed, c.device_type == DeviceType::Cpu, c.backend == Backend::Gl, power_rank(c.device_type, power))
+        (unnamed, c.device_type == DeviceType::Cpu, c.backend == Backend::Gl, power_rank(c.device_type, power), c.backend == Backend::Vulkan)
     });
     order.into_iter().map(|(i, _)| i).collect()
 }
@@ -361,7 +363,7 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     /// A Windows machine lists every GPU twice (Vulkan and DX12): power saving still takes the
-    /// integrated GPU first, as wgpu's own choice did (#306).
+    /// integrated GPU first, as wgpu's own choice did (#306), each GPU through DX12 first (#545).
     #[test]
     fn hybrid_laptop_on_windows_renders_on_the_integrated_gpu_with_power_saving() {
         let c = vec![
@@ -372,8 +374,25 @@ mod tests {
             gpu("Microsoft Basic Render Driver", Backend::Dx12, DeviceType::Cpu),
         ];
         let order = adapter_order(&c, PowerPreference::LowPower, None, &[]);
-        assert_eq!(order, [1, 3, 0, 2, 4]);
-        assert_eq!(adapter_order(&c, PowerPreference::HighPerformance, None, &[]), [0, 2, 1, 3, 4]);
+        assert_eq!(order, [3, 1, 2, 0, 4]);
+        assert_eq!(adapter_order(&c, PowerPreference::HighPerformance, None, &[]), [2, 0, 3, 1, 4]);
+    }
+
+    /// The machine of #545: one Intel GPU, whose Vulkan driver made the window flicker black.
+    /// DX12 comes first whatever the preference; Vulkan stays a fallback, and `WGPU_ADAPTER_NAME`
+    /// or a restart leaving DX12 out still reach it.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_windows_gpu_renders_through_dx12_before_vulkan() {
+        let c = vec![
+            gpu("Intel(R) Graphics", Backend::Vulkan, DeviceType::IntegratedGpu),
+            gpu("Intel(R) Graphics", Backend::Dx12, DeviceType::IntegratedGpu),
+            gpu("Microsoft Basic Render Driver", Backend::Dx12, DeviceType::Cpu),
+            gpu("Intel(R) Graphics", Backend::Gl, DeviceType::Other),
+        ];
+        for power in [PowerPreference::LowPower, PowerPreference::HighPerformance, PowerPreference::None] {
+            assert_eq!(adapter_order(&c, power, None, &[]), [1, 0, 3, 2], "{power:?}");
+        }
+        assert_eq!(adapter_order(&c, PowerPreference::LowPower, None, &[c[1].key.clone()]), [0, 3, 2], "DX12 failed: Vulkan next");
     }
 
     #[test]

apps/vectorcraft/src/open_documents.rs

@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ fn add_open_urls_method() {
 
 /// Queue the files among `urls` and wake the UI. Never panics: it runs inside AppKit.
 extern "C-unwind" fn open_urls(_delegate: &AnyObject, _cmd: Sel, _app: &AnyObject, urls: &NSArray<NSURL>) {
-    let paths = urls.iter().filter_map(|u| u.to_file_path()).map(|p| p.to_string_lossy().into_owned());
+    // Only file URLs: macOS 27 turns an https URL's path into a file path too (#433).
+    let paths = urls.iter().filter(|u| u.isFileURL()).filter_map(|u| u.to_file_path()).map(|p| p.to_string_lossy().into_owned());
     PENDING.lock().unwrap_or_else(PoisonError::into_inner).extend(paths);
     if let Some(ctx) = UI.get() {
         ctx.request_repaint();

crates/doc/src/corners.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,271 @@
+//! Live Corners on any path: the corners of its uncut outline (a live rectangle's or polygon's, a
+//! live path's, or a plain path's own), each one's radius and kind, and the anchors of the path as
+//! drawn that belong to each. [`set_corners`] edits them.
+
+use std::borrow::Cow;
+use std::collections::BTreeSet;
+
+use vectorcraft_geom::corners::{Corner, cut_corners, path_corners};
+use vectorcraft_geom::shapes::{self, CornerKind};
+use vectorcraft_geom::{Affine, PathData, Rect};
+
+use crate::node::{LiveShape, Node, NodeKind};
+use crate::selection::AnchorRef;
+
+/// The Live Corners of a path.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct LiveCorners<'a> {
+    /// The path with its corners uncut, in the corners' own space: a live rectangle's (its size
+    /// and radii in document units, see [`LiveShape::folded`]), else the document's.
+    pub base: Cow<'a, PathData>,
+    /// Maps `base` into the document.
+    pub xf: Affine,
+    /// The corners that can be cut, in anchor order ([`path_corners`] of `base`).
+    pub corners: Vec<Corner>,
+    radii: Vec<f64>,
+    kinds: Vec<CornerKind>,
+    /// For each anchor of the path as drawn (per subpath), the anchor of `base` it comes from.
+    sources: Vec<Vec<usize>>,
+}
+
+impl<'a> LiveCorners<'a> {
+    /// The Live Corners of `path` and its live shape; `None` for shapes without corners (ellipses,
+    /// lines).
+    pub fn new(path: &'a PathData, live: Option<&'a LiveShape>) -> Option<Self> {
+        let (base, xf, radii, kinds) = match live {
+            None => (Cow::Borrowed(path), Affine::IDENTITY, vec![], vec![]),
+            Some(l @ LiveShape::Rectangle { .. }) => {
+                let LiveShape::Rectangle { w, h, radii, kinds, xf } = l.folded() else { return None };
+                (Cow::Owned(shapes::rectangle(Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, w, h))), xf, radii.to_vec(), kinds.to_vec())
+            }
+            Some(l @ LiveShape::Polygon { radii, kinds, .. }) => (Cow::Owned(l.polygon_outline()), Affine::IDENTITY, radii.clone(), kinds.clone()),
+            Some(LiveShape::Path { base, radii, kinds }) => (Cow::Borrowed(base), Affine::IDENTITY, radii.clone(), kinds.clone()),
+            Some(LiveShape::Ellipse { .. } | LiveShape::Line { .. }) => return None,
+        };
+        let sources = if radii.iter().any(|r| *r > 0.0) {
+            cut_corners(&base, &radii, &kinds).1
+        } else {
+            let mut first = 0;
+            base.subpaths
+                .iter()
+                .map(|sp| {
+                    first += sp.anchors.len();
+                    (first - sp.anchors.len()..first).collect()
+                })
+                .collect()
+        };
+        Some(Self { corners: path_corners(&base), base, xf, radii, kinds, sources })
+    }
+
+    /// The Live Corners of a path object.
+    pub fn of(node: &'a Node) -> Option<Self> {
+        let NodeKind::Path { path, live, .. } = &node.kind else { return None };
+        Self::new(path, live.as_ref())
+    }
+
+    /// The corner at anchor `index` of `base`.
+    pub fn corner(&self, index: usize) -> Option<&Corner> {
+        self.corners.binary_search_by_key(&index, |c| c.index).ok().and_then(|i| self.corners.get(i))
+    }
+
+    /// The radius corner `index` is set to, in document units (drawn no larger than fits).
+    pub fn radius(&self, index: usize) -> f64 {
+        self.radii.get(index).copied().unwrap_or(0.0)
+    }
+
+    /// The kind corner `index` is cut with.
+    pub fn kind(&self, index: usize) -> CornerKind {
+        self.kinds.get(index).copied().unwrap_or_default()
+    }
+
+    /// Every corner.
+    pub fn all(&self) -> BTreeSet<usize> {
+        self.corners.iter().map(|c| c.index).collect()
+    }
+
+    /// The corners holding one of `anchors` (of the path as drawn).
+    pub fn corners_of(&self, anchors: &BTreeSet<AnchorRef>) -> BTreeSet<usize> {
+        anchors.iter().filter_map(|(si, ai)| self.sources.get(*si)?.get(*ai).copied()).filter(|k| self.corner(*k).is_some()).collect()
+    }
+
+    /// The corners Live Corners edit for a selection: those holding a selected anchor when the
+    /// path is partly selected (Direct Selection), else every corner.
+    pub fn picked(&self, partial: Option<&BTreeSet<AnchorRef>>) -> BTreeSet<usize> {
+        let picked = partial.map(|a| self.corners_of(a)).unwrap_or_default();
+        if picked.is_empty() { self.all() } else { picked }
+    }
+
+    /// The anchors of the path as drawn that belong to `corners` (to keep them selected as the
+    /// path changes).
+    pub fn anchors_of(&self, corners: &BTreeSet<usize>) -> BTreeSet<AnchorRef> {
+        let mut out = BTreeSet::new();
+        for (si, from) in self.sources.iter().enumerate() {
+            out.extend(from.iter().enumerate().filter(|(_, k)| corners.contains(k)).map(|(ai, _)| (si, ai)));
+        }
+        out
+    }
+
+    /// For each anchor of the path as drawn (per subpath), the anchor of `base` it comes from.
+    pub fn sources(&self) -> &[Vec<usize>] {
+        &self.sources
+    }
+
+    /// The radius (document units) and kind `corners` share (each `None` when they differ, or
+    /// for no corners).
+    pub fn style(&self, corners: &BTreeSet<usize>) -> (Option<f64>, Option<CornerKind>) {
+        fn shared<T: Copy>(mut it: impl Iterator<Item = T>, same: impl Fn(T, T) -> bool) -> Option<T> {
+            let first = it.next()?;
+            it.all(|x| same(x, first)).then_some(first)
+        }
+        let radius = shared(corners.iter().map(|k| self.radius(*k)), |a, b| (a - b).abs() < 1e-9);
+        (radius, shared(corners.iter().map(|k| self.kind(*k)), |a, b| a == b))
+    }
+}
+
+/// Set `radius` (document units; negative: 0) and/or `kind` on the `corners` (anchor indices of
+/// the uncut outline, see [`LiveCorners`]) of a path and its live shape, then cut the path again.
+/// A path that isn't a live shape keeps its uncut outline as a [`LiveShape::Path`], which is a
+/// plain path again once no corner is cut. Ellipses and lines have no corners: they stay as they
+/// are.
+pub fn set_corners(path: &mut PathData, live: &mut Option<LiveShape>, corners: &BTreeSet<usize>, radius: Option<f64>, kind: Option<CornerKind>) {
+    fn edit(radii: &mut [f64], kinds: &mut [CornerKind], corners: &BTreeSet<usize>, radius: Option<f64>, kind: Option<CornerKind>) {
+        for k in corners {
+            if let (Some(r), Some(slot)) = (radius, radii.get_mut(*k)) {
+                *slot = r.max(0.0);
+            }
+            if let (Some(kind), Some(slot)) = (kind, kinds.get_mut(*k)) {
+                *slot = kind;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    /// One radius and kind per corner of an outline of `n` anchors while editing; none saved
+    /// when all are sharp or round.
+    fn edit_vec(
+        n: usize,
+        radii: &mut Vec<f64>,
+        kinds: &mut Vec<CornerKind>,
+        corners: &BTreeSet<usize>,
+        radius: Option<f64>,
+        kind: Option<CornerKind>,
+    ) {
+        radii.resize(n, 0.0);
+        kinds.resize(n, CornerKind::Round);
+        edit(radii, kinds, corners, radius, kind);
+        if radii.iter().all(|r| *r <= 0.0) {
+            radii.clear();
+        }
+        if kinds.iter().all(|k| *k == CornerKind::Round) {
+            kinds.clear();
+        }
+    }
+    let l = live.get_or_insert_with(|| LiveShape::Path { base: path.clone(), radii: vec![], kinds: vec![] });
+    // Radii are document lengths and corners circular, also on a rectangle from a file that kept
+    // an uneven scale in its transform (#442).
+    l.fold_scale();
+    match l {
+        LiveShape::Rectangle { radii, kinds, .. } => edit(radii, kinds, corners, radius, kind),
+        LiveShape::Polygon { sides, radii, kinds, .. } => edit_vec(*sides as usize, radii, kinds, corners, radius, kind),
+        LiveShape::Path { base, radii, kinds } => edit_vec(base.anchor_count(), radii, kinds, corners, radius, kind),
+        LiveShape::Ellipse { .. } | LiveShape::Line { .. } => return,
+    }
+    match live {
+        Some(LiveShape::Path { base, radii, kinds }) if radii.is_empty() && kinds.is_empty() => {
+            *path = std::mem::take(base);
+            *live = None;
+        }
+        Some(l) => *path = l.to_path(),
+        None => {}
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use vectorcraft_geom::{Point, SubPath};
+
+    fn set(v: &[usize]) -> BTreeSet<usize> {
+        v.iter().copied().collect()
+    }
+
+    fn anchors(v: &[usize]) -> BTreeSet<AnchorRef> {
+        v.iter().map(|ai| (0, *ai)).collect()
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn rectangle_corners_map_to_their_anchors() {
+        let l = LiveShape::Rectangle { w: 100.0, h: 50.0, radii: [0.0, 10.0, 0.0, 0.0], kinds: Default::default(), xf: Affine::IDENTITY };
+        let path = l.to_path();
+        let c = LiveCorners::new(&path, Some(&l)).unwrap();
+        // Anchors: top-left, the top-right corner's two, bottom-right, bottom-left.
+        assert_eq!(c.sources(), [vec![0, 1, 1, 2, 3]]);
+        assert_eq!(path.anchor_count(), 5);
+        assert_eq!(c.corners_of(&anchors(&[2, 4])), set(&[1, 3]));
+        assert!(c.corners_of(&anchors(&[9])).is_empty(), "out of range");
+        assert_eq!(c.anchors_of(&set(&[1, 3])), anchors(&[1, 2, 4]));
+        // Partly selected: the corners of the selected anchors; wholly (or no anchor): all four.
+        assert_eq!(c.picked(Some(&anchors(&[0]))), set(&[0]));
+        assert_eq!(c.picked(None), set(&[0, 1, 2, 3]));
+        assert_eq!(c.picked(Some(&anchors(&[]))), set(&[0, 1, 2, 3]));
+        assert_eq!(c.style(&set(&[1])), (Some(10.0), Some(CornerKind::Round)));
+        assert_eq!(c.style(&set(&[0, 1])), (None, Some(CornerKind::Round)));
+        assert_eq!(c.style(&set(&[0, 2, 3])), (Some(0.0), Some(CornerKind::Round)));
+        let e = LiveShape::Ellipse { w: 1.0, h: 1.0, pie: (0.0, 360.0), xf: Affine::IDENTITY };
+        assert!(LiveCorners::new(&e.to_path(), Some(&e)).is_none());
+    }
+
+    /// #511: a plain path (a star) rounds its corners and keeps them editable; with none cut it
+    /// is plain again.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_plain_path_keeps_its_cut_corners_live() {
+        let star = shapes::star(Point::new(100.0, 100.0), 50.0, 25.0, 5, 0.0);
+        let (mut path, mut live) = (star.clone(), None);
+        set_corners(&mut path, &mut live, &set(&[0, 2]), Some(5.0), None);
+        let Some(LiveShape::Path { base, radii, kinds }) = &live else { panic!("live corners: {live:?}") };
+        assert_eq!((base, radii.len(), kinds.len()), (&star, 10, 0));
+        assert_eq!(path.anchor_count(), 12, "two corners cut");
+        let c = LiveCorners::new(&path, live.as_ref()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c.style(&set(&[0, 2])), (Some(5.0), Some(CornerKind::Round)));
+        assert_eq!(c.corners_of(&anchors(&[0, 11])), set(&[0]), "the first corner's cut ends the path");
+        // Kinds alone keep it live; squaring every corner makes it the plain star again.
+        set_corners(&mut path, &mut live, &set(&[0, 2]), Some(0.0), Some(CornerKind::Chamfer));
+        assert!(matches!(&live, Some(LiveShape::Path { radii, .. }) if radii.is_empty()));
+        set_corners(&mut path, &mut live, &set(&[0, 2]), None, Some(CornerKind::Round));
+        assert_eq!((path, live), (star, None));
+    }
+
+    /// A polygon's corners are cut in the document and survive a change of sides when shared.
+    #[test]
+    fn polygon_corners_follow_their_sides() {
+        let mut l = LiveShape::Polygon { radius: 50.0, sides: 6, xf: Affine::translate((100.0, 100.0)), radii: vec![], kinds: vec![] };
+        let (mut path, mut live) = (l.to_path(), Some(l.clone()));
+        set_corners(&mut path, &mut live, &set(&[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]), Some(8.0), None);
+        assert_eq!(path.anchor_count(), 12);
+        l = live.clone().unwrap();
+        l.set_sides(8);
+        assert!(matches!(&l, LiveShape::Polygon { radii, .. } if *radii == vec![8.0; 8]));
+        assert_eq!(l.to_path().anchor_count(), 16);
+        // Mixed radii: the new corners are sharp.
+        set_corners(&mut path, &mut live, &set(&[1]), Some(3.0), None);
+        let mut l = live.unwrap();
+        l.set_sides(7);
+        assert!(matches!(&l, LiveShape::Polygon { radii, .. } if *radii == [8.0, 3.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 0.0]));
+        // An uneven scale keeps the cuts circular: the radius scales by the mean scale.
+        let mut p = l.clone();
+        assert!(p.transform(Affine::scale_non_uniform(4.0, 1.0)));
+        assert!(matches!(&p, LiveShape::Polygon { radii, .. } if (radii[0] - 16.0).abs() < 1e-9));
+        assert!(!p.transform(Affine::translate((5.0, 0.0))), "a move needs no new cuts");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn open_paths_and_curves_keep_their_ends_and_smooth_anchors() {
+        let pen = PathData::single(SubPath::polyline(&[Point::new(0.0, 0.0), Point::new(100.0, 0.0), Point::new(100.0, 80.0)], false));
+        let c = LiveCorners::new(&pen, None).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c.all(), set(&[1]));
+        assert_eq!(c.picked(Some(&anchors(&[0]))), set(&[1]), "an end is no corner: every corner");
+        let (mut path, mut live) = (pen.clone(), None);
+        set_corners(&mut path, &mut live, &c.all(), Some(10.0), None);
+        assert_eq!(path.anchor_count(), 4);
+        assert_eq!(path.subpaths[0].anchors[0].p, Point::new(0.0, 0.0));
+        assert_eq!(path.subpaths[0].anchors[3].p, Point::new(100.0, 80.0));
+    }
+}

crates/doc/src/lib.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ pub mod assets;
 pub mod blend;
 pub mod clipnest;
 pub mod cmyk;
+pub mod corners;
 pub mod graph;
 pub mod hit;
 pub mod inks;
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ pub use appearance::{
     StrokeLayer, WidthProfile,
 };
 pub use assets::ExportAsset;
+pub use corners::LiveCorners;
 pub use graph::{GraphKind, GraphSpec};
 pub use hit::{Hit, HitKind};
 pub use links::{LinkInfo, PlacementOptions};

crates/doc/src/node.rs

@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 //! Document nodes.
 
-use std::collections::BTreeSet;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use vectorcraft_color::BlendMode;
+use vectorcraft_geom::corners::cut_corners;
 use vectorcraft_geom::shapes::{self, CornerKind};
 use vectorcraft_geom::{Affine, BezPath, FillRule, PathData, Point, Rect};
 
 use crate::appearance::Appearance;
 use crate::live::{BlendSpec, EnvelopeKind, GradientMesh, Outliner};
 use crate::pattern::RepeatSpec;
-use crate::selection::AnchorRef;
 use crate::text::TextObject;
 
 /// Stable per-document object id. Never reused.
@@ -104,11 +103,30 @@ pub enum LiveShape {
         radius: f64,
         sides: u32,
         xf: Affine,
+        /// Corner radii in document units, by vertex from the first one clockwise (none: sharp).
+        #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+        radii: Vec<f64>,
+        /// Corner kinds, in the same order (none: round).
+        #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "all_round")]
+        kinds: Vec<CornerKind>,
     },
     Line {
         a: Point,
         b: Point,
     },
+    /// Any other path whose corners Live Corners cut (a star, a pen path): it keeps its uncut
+    /// outline so the corners stay editable. Without a cut corner it is a plain path again.
+    Path {
+        /// The path with its corners uncut, in the document.
+        base: PathData,
+        /// Corner radii in document units, by anchor index of `base` (counting every subpath's
+        /// anchors in order; missing: sharp).
+        #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
+        radii: Vec<f64>,
+        /// Corner kinds, in the same order (missing: round).
+        #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "all_round")]
+        kinds: Vec<CornerKind>,
+    },
 }
 
 impl LiveShape {
@@ -119,6 +137,7 @@ impl LiveShape {
             LiveShape::Ellipse { .. } => "Ellipse",
             LiveShape::Polygon { .. } => "Polygon",
             LiveShape::Line { .. } => "Line",
+            LiveShape::Path { .. } => "Path",
         }
     }
     /// Regenerate the path.
@@ -128,10 +147,33 @@ impl LiveShape {
                 shapes::rectangle_with_corners(Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, *w, *h), *radii, *kinds).transformed(*xf)
             }
             LiveShape::Ellipse { w, h, xf, .. } => shapes::ellipse(Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, *w, *h)).transformed(*xf),
-            LiveShape::Polygon { radius, sides, xf } => shapes::polygon(Point::ZERO, *radius, *sides, 0.0).transformed(*xf),
+            LiveShape::Polygon { radii, kinds, .. } => cut_corners(&self.polygon_outline(), radii, kinds).0,
             LiveShape::Line { a, b } => shapes::line(*a, *b),
+            LiveShape::Path { base, radii, kinds } => cut_corners(base, radii, kinds).0,
         }
     }
+    /// A polygon's outline with its corners uncut, in the document (empty for other shapes).
+    pub fn polygon_outline(&self) -> PathData {
+        match self {
+            LiveShape::Polygon { radius, sides, xf, .. } => shapes::polygon(Point::ZERO, *radius, *sides, 0.0).transformed(*xf),
+            _ => PathData::default(),
+        }
+    }
+    /// Give a polygon `n` sides (3–1000). Its corners keep the radius and kind they shared; else
+    /// the corners past the old last one are sharp.
+    pub fn set_sides(&mut self, n: u64) {
+        let LiveShape::Polygon { sides, radii, kinds, .. } = self else { return };
+        *sides = n.clamp(3, 1000) as u32;
+        fn spread<T: Copy + PartialEq + Default>(v: &mut Vec<T>, n: usize) {
+            match v.first().copied() {
+                Some(x) if v.iter().all(|y| *y == x) => *v = vec![x; n],
+                Some(_) => v.resize(n, T::default()),
+                None => {}
+            }
+        }
+        spread(radii, *sides as usize);
+        spread(kinds, *sides as usize);
+    }
     /// Apply `a` to the shape. True when the shape is no longer `a` applied to the old path, so
     /// the caller must regenerate the path with [`LiveShape::to_path`].
     ///
@@ -140,19 +182,27 @@ impl LiveShape {
     /// only the rotation, reflection and position. The radii scale by the mean scale (the square
     /// root of the determinant), which [`LiveShape::keep_corners`] undoes for Scale Corners off.
     /// A shear can't keep circular corners: `xf` takes it, as do moves (so files saved with a
-    /// scale in `xf` keep their exact geometry until they're next transformed).
+    /// scale in `xf` keep their exact geometry until they're next transformed). A polygon's or a
+    /// path's corner radii are document lengths: they scale by the mean scale and the corners are
+    /// cut again, circular whatever `a` does.
     pub fn transform(&mut self, a: Affine) -> bool {
         match self {
             LiveShape::Rectangle { xf, .. } => {
                 *xf = a * *xf;
-                let [a0, a1, a2, a3, _, _] = a.as_coeffs();
-                let moves_only = (a0 - 1.0).abs() < 1e-12 && a1.abs() < 1e-12 && a2.abs() < 1e-12 && (a3 - 1.0).abs() < 1e-12;
-                !moves_only && self.fold_scale()
+                !moves_only(a) && self.fold_scale()
             }
-            LiveShape::Ellipse { xf, .. } | LiveShape::Polygon { xf, .. } => {
+            LiveShape::Ellipse { xf, .. } => {
                 *xf = a * *xf;
                 false
             }
+            LiveShape::Polygon { xf, radii, .. } => {
+                *xf = a * *xf;
+                scale_radii(radii, a)
+            }
+            LiveShape::Path { base, radii, .. } => {
+                base.transform(a);
+                scale_radii(radii, a)
+            }
             LiveShape::Line { a: p, b } => {
                 *p = a * *p;
                 *b = a * *b;
@@ -192,52 +242,16 @@ impl LiveShape {
     /// Divide live corner radii by `k`, the mean scale of a transform just applied, so the corners
     /// keep their size (Scale Corners off). False when nothing changed.
     pub fn keep_corners(&mut self, k: f64) -> bool {
-        match self {
-            LiveShape::Rectangle { radii, .. } if radii.iter().any(|r| *r > 0.0) && k > 1e-12 => {
-                radii.iter_mut().for_each(|r| *r /= k);
-                true
-            }
-            _ => false,
+        let radii: &mut [f64] = match self {
+            LiveShape::Rectangle { radii, .. } => radii,
+            LiveShape::Polygon { radii, .. } | LiveShape::Path { radii, .. } => radii,
+            LiveShape::Ellipse { .. } | LiveShape::Line { .. } => return false,
+        };
+        if !radii.iter().any(|r| *r > 0.0) || k <= 1e-12 {
+            return false;
         }
-    }
-    /// The corner (radii order) of each anchor of a rectangle's path; empty for other shapes.
-    pub fn anchor_corners(&self) -> Vec<usize> {
-        match self {
-            LiveShape::Rectangle { w, h, radii, .. } => shapes::rectangle_anchor_corners(Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, *w, *h), *radii),
-            _ => vec![],
-        }
-    }
-    /// The corners of a rectangle that hold one of `anchors` (of its only subpath).
-    pub fn corners_of(&self, anchors: &BTreeSet<AnchorRef>) -> [bool; 4] {
-        let map = self.anchor_corners();
-        let mut out = [false; 4];
-        for k in anchors.iter().filter(|(si, _)| *si == 0).filter_map(|(_, ai)| map.get(*ai)) {
-            if let Some(c) = out.get_mut(*k) {
-                *c = true;
-            }
-        }
-        out
-    }
-    /// The corners Live Corners edit for a selection: those holding a selected anchor when the
-    /// shape is partly selected (Direct Selection), else all four.
-    pub fn picked_corners(&self, partial: Option<&BTreeSet<AnchorRef>>) -> [bool; 4] {
-        let picked = partial.map_or([true; 4], |a| self.corners_of(a));
-        if picked.contains(&true) { picked } else { [true; 4] }
-    }
-    /// The anchors of a rectangle's `corners` (to keep them selected as its path changes).
-    pub fn corner_anchors(&self, corners: [bool; 4]) -> BTreeSet<AnchorRef> {
-        self.anchor_corners().into_iter().enumerate().filter(|(_, k)| corners.get(*k) == Some(&true)).map(|(ai, _)| (0, ai)).collect()
-    }
-    /// The radius (in document units, see [`LiveShape::folded`]) and kind the `corners` of a
-    /// rectangle share (each `None` when they differ).
-    pub fn corner_style(&self, corners: [bool; 4]) -> (Option<f64>, Option<CornerKind>) {
-        let LiveShape::Rectangle { radii, kinds, .. } = self.folded() else { return (None, None) };
-        fn shared<T: Copy>(v: [T; 4], corners: [bool; 4], same: impl Fn(T, T) -> bool) -> Option<T> {
-            let mut it = v.into_iter().zip(corners).filter(|(_, on)| *on).map(|(x, _)| x);
-            let first = it.next()?;
-            it.all(|x| same(x, first)).then_some(first)
-        }
-        (shared(radii, corners, |a, b| (a - b).abs() < 1e-9), shared(kinds, corners, |a, b| a == b))
+        radii.iter_mut().for_each(|r| *r /= k);
+        true
     }
     /// Rotation angle of the live shape in degrees (shown in the Properties panel).
     pub fn angle_deg(&self) -> f64 {
@@ -247,14 +261,33 @@ impl LiveShape {
                 c[1].atan2(c[0]).to_degrees()
             }
             LiveShape::Line { a, b } => (b.y - a.y).atan2(b.x - a.x).to_degrees(),
+            LiveShape::Path { .. } => 0.0,
         }
     }
 }
 
-fn all_round(kinds: &[CornerKind; 4]) -> bool {
+fn all_round(kinds: &[CornerKind]) -> bool {
     kinds.iter().all(|k| *k == CornerKind::Round)
 }
 
+/// Whether `a` only moves (no rotation, scale, shear or reflection).
+fn moves_only(a: Affine) -> bool {
+    let [a0, a1, a2, a3, _, _] = a.as_coeffs();
+    (a0 - 1.0).abs() < 1e-12 && a1.abs() < 1e-12 && a2.abs() < 1e-12 && (a3 - 1.0).abs() < 1e-12
+}
+
+/// Scale corner radii in document units by the mean scale of `a`, applied to their path. True
+/// when the path must be cut again: some corner is cut and `a` does more than move it (an
+/// uneven scale would otherwise make the cuts elliptical).
+fn scale_radii(radii: &mut [f64], a: Affine) -> bool {
+    if moves_only(a) || !radii.iter().any(|r| *r > 0.0) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    let k = a.determinant().abs().sqrt();
+    radii.iter_mut().for_each(|r| *r *= k);
+    true
+}
+
 /// What a transform scales besides geometry, by its mean scale (the square root of its
 /// determinant). `Scaling::default()` (and `false`) scales nothing else; `true` scales stroke
 /// weights and dashes only. Transforms the user asks for take theirs from Scale Strokes & Effects
@@ -1214,7 +1247,7 @@ impl Node {
 
     /// Shapes drawn with the shape tools (live rectangles, ellipses and polygons) show their centre.
     pub fn shows_center_by_default(&self) -> bool {
-        matches!(&self.kind, NodeKind::Path { live: Some(l), .. } if !matches!(l, LiveShape::Line { .. }))
+        matches!(&self.kind, NodeKind::Path { live: Some(l), .. } if !matches!(l, LiveShape::Line { .. } | LiveShape::Path { .. }))
     }
 
     /// Change this object's attributes with `f`; all-default attributes are dropped.
@@ -1276,23 +1309,9 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn rectangle_corners_map_to_their_anchors() {
+    fn corner_kinds_save_only_when_some_corner_isnt_round() {
         let mut l = LiveShape::Rectangle { w: 100.0, h: 50.0, radii: [0.0, 10.0, 0.0, 0.0], kinds: Default::default(), xf: Affine::IDENTITY };
-        // Anchors: top-left, the top-right corner's two, bottom-right, bottom-left.
-        assert_eq!(l.anchor_corners(), [0, 1, 1, 2, 3]);
-        assert_eq!(l.to_path().anchor_count(), 5);
-        let set = |v: &[usize]| v.iter().map(|ai| (0, *ai)).collect::<BTreeSet<AnchorRef>>();
-        assert_eq!(l.corners_of(&set(&[2, 4])), [false, true, false, true]);
-        assert_eq!(l.corners_of(&set(&[9])), [false; 4], "out of range");
-        assert_eq!(l.corner_anchors([false, true, false, true]), set(&[1, 2, 4]));
-        // Partly selected: the corners of the selected anchors; wholly (or no anchor): all four.
-        assert_eq!(l.picked_corners(Some(&set(&[0]))), [true, false, false, false]);
-        assert_eq!(l.picked_corners(None), [true; 4]);
-        assert_eq!(l.picked_corners(Some(&set(&[]))), [true; 4]);
-        assert_eq!(l.corner_style([false, true, false, false]), (Some(10.0), Some(CornerKind::Round)));
-        assert_eq!(l.corner_style([true, true, false, false]), (None, Some(CornerKind::Round)));
-        assert_eq!(l.corner_style([true, false, true, true]), (Some(0.0), Some(CornerKind::Round)));
-        // Corner kinds save only when some corner isn't round, and older files read as round.
+        // Older files read as round.
         let json = serde_json::to_value(&l).unwrap();
         assert!(json.get("kinds").is_none(), "{json}");
         assert_eq!(serde_json::from_value::<LiveShape>(json).unwrap(), l);
@@ -1302,7 +1321,16 @@ mod tests {
         let json = serde_json::to_value(&l).unwrap();
         assert_eq!(json["kinds"], serde_json::json!(["round", "chamfer", "round", "round"]));
         assert_eq!(serde_json::from_value::<LiveShape>(json).unwrap(), l);
-        assert!(LiveShape::Ellipse { w: 1.0, h: 1.0, pie: (0.0, 360.0), xf: Affine::IDENTITY }.anchor_corners().is_empty());
+        // Polygons saved before Live Corners cut theirs read as sharp; a live path round-trips.
+        let p: LiveShape =
+            serde_json::from_value(serde_json::json!({"shape": "polygon", "radius": 10.0, "sides": 5, "xf": [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0]})).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(p, LiveShape::Polygon { radius: 10.0, sides: 5, xf: Affine::IDENTITY, radii: vec![], kinds: vec![] });
+        let star = shapes::star(Point::new(0.0, 0.0), 20.0, 10.0, 5, 0.0);
+        let path = LiveShape::Path { base: star, radii: vec![2.0; 10], kinds: vec![] };
+        let json = serde_json::to_value(&path).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((json["shape"].as_str(), json.get("kinds")), (Some("path"), None));
+        assert_eq!(serde_json::from_value::<LiveShape>(json).unwrap(), path);
+        assert_eq!(path.label(), "Path");
     }
 
     /// A node holding a live rectangle (`w` × `h`, all radii `r`, placed by `xf`) and its path.
@@ -1427,7 +1455,8 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(near_xf(*xf, Affine::translate((5.0, 5.0))));
         let (a, b) = (folded.to_path().bounds().unwrap(), live.to_path().bounds().unwrap());
         assert!(near(a.x0, b.x0) && near(a.y0, b.y0) && near(a.x1, b.x1) && near(a.y1, b.y1), "same place and size: {a:?} {b:?}");
-        assert_eq!(live.corner_style([true; 4]).0, Some(40.0), "the radius in document units");
+        let corners = crate::LiveCorners::of(&n).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(corners.style(&corners.all()).0, Some(40.0), "the radius in document units");
         // Nothing to fold: a moved, rotated or reflected rectangle and a sheared one stay as they are.
         let place = Affine::translate((5.0, 5.0)) * Affine::rotate(0.5) * Affine::scale_non_uniform(-1.0, 1.0);
         let shear = Affine::new([1.0, 0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0]);

crates/engine/src/cmd/create.rs

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Create Text",
             [],
             None,
-            "{x, y, text, vertical?: bool = false, size?: pt, font?: family, style?, color?, area?: {width, height}, placeholder?: bool (fill it with placeholder text instead, as the Type tools do with prefs placeholderText)} → {id}",
+            "{x, y, text, vertical?: bool = false, size?: pt, font?: family, style?, color?, area?: {width, height}, placeholder?: bool (fill it with placeholder text instead, as the Type tools do with prefs placeholderText), leadingModel?: \"romanBaseline\"|\"emBoxTop\", charAlign?: \"romanBaseline\"|\"emBoxTop\"|\"emBoxCenter\"|\"emBoxBottom\" (default: emBoxTop and emBoxCenter while the interface is in Japanese, else romanBaseline)} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             text_create
         ),
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ fn polygon(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
     let r = f64_req(p, "radius", "shape.polygon")?.abs();
     let sides = p.get("sides").and_then(Value::as_u64).unwrap_or(6).clamp(3, 1000) as u32;
     let rot = f64_or(p, "rotation", 0.0);
-    let live = LiveShape::Polygon { radius: r, sides, xf: Affine::translate(c.to_vec2()) * Affine::rotate(rot.to_radians()) };
+    let xf = Affine::translate(c.to_vec2()) * Affine::rotate(rot.to_radians());
+    let live = LiveShape::Polygon { radius: r, sides, xf, radii: vec![], kinds: vec![] };
     add_art(s, "Polygon", path_kind(live.to_path(), Some(live)), None)
 }
 
@@ -409,6 +410,7 @@ fn text_create(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
     let mut t = TextObject::point(Point::new(x, y), text, new_type_style(s, p));
     t.vertical = p.get("vertical").and_then(Value::as_bool).unwrap_or(false);
     t.para = new_type_para();
+    new_type_alignment(s, p, "text.create", &mut t)?;
     if let Some(a) = p.get("area") {
         let w = f64_or(a, "width", 200.0);
         let h = f64_or(a, "height", 100.0);
@@ -435,6 +437,40 @@ pub(crate) fn new_type_para() -> vectorcraft_doc::ParaStyle {
     }
 }
 
+/// The leading model and character alignment new type starts with (`t`'s paragraph and runs):
+/// `leadingModel` and `charAlign` from `p`, else em box top to top and em box centre while the
+/// interface is in Japanese (#432), else the Roman baseline for both. Noted in the journal, so a
+/// replay sets the same whatever the interface.
+pub(crate) fn new_type_alignment(s: &mut Session, p: &Value, cmd: &str, t: &mut TextObject) -> Result<()> {
+    use vectorcraft_doc::{CharAlign, LeadingModel};
+    let japanese = s.japanese_interface();
+    let leading = match p.get("leadingModel").filter(|v| !v.is_null()) {
+        Some(v) => match v.as_str() {
+            Some("romanBaseline") => LeadingModel::RomanBaseline,
+            Some("emBoxTop") => LeadingModel::EmBoxTop,
+            _ => return Err(bad(cmd, "`leadingModel` must be \"romanBaseline\" or \"emBoxTop\"")),
+        },
+        None => {
+            let l = if japanese { LeadingModel::EmBoxTop } else { LeadingModel::RomanBaseline };
+            s.note_journal("leadingModel", json!(l));
+            l
+        }
+    };
+    let align = match super::textedit::char_align_param(p, cmd)? {
+        Some(a) => a,
+        None => {
+            let a = if japanese { CharAlign::EmBoxCenter } else { CharAlign::RomanBaseline };
+            s.note_journal("charAlign", json!(a));
+            a
+        }
+    };
+    t.para.leading_model = leading;
+    for r in &mut t.runs {
+        r.style.char_align = align;
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 /// The character style new type gets: `size`, `font`, `style` and `color` from `p`, else the
 /// defaults, filled with the current fill unless that is None or white (black then).
 pub(crate) fn new_type_style(s: &Session, p: &Value) -> CharStyle {

crates/engine/src/cmd/object.rs

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 //! Object menu: transforms, arrange, group, lock/hide, compound paths, clipping masks, isolation,
 //! align & distribute, object properties.
 
+use std::collections::BTreeSet;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
 use vectorcraft_color::{BlendMode, Paint};
-use vectorcraft_doc::{Appearance, Document, Knockout, Node, NodeId, NodeKind, OrientedBox, Scaling};
+use vectorcraft_doc::corners::set_corners;
+use vectorcraft_doc::{Appearance, Document, Knockout, LiveCorners, LiveShape, Node, NodeId, NodeKind, OrientedBox, Scaling};
 use vectorcraft_geom::shapes::CornerKind;
 use vectorcraft_geom::{Affine, FillRule, Point, Rect, Vec2};
 
@@ -194,7 +196,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Live Shape Properties",
             [],
             None,
-            "{id?, ids?, radius?: pt, kind?: \"round\"|\"invertedRound\"|\"chamfer\", corners?: [0..3…], sides?: n} (Live Corners: radius and kind set a rectangle's corners: `corners` (0 top-left, 1 top-right, 2 bottom-right, 3 bottom-left), else the corners with a Direct-Selected anchor, else all four; sides: a polygon's)",
+            "{id?, ids?, radius?: pt, kind?: \"round\"|\"invertedRound\"|\"chamfer\", corners?: [i…], sides?: n} (Live Corners on any path: radius and kind set its corners (anchors without handles between two straight sides): `corners` (anchor indices of the path with its corners uncut, counting every subpath's anchors in order: a rectangle's 0 top-left, 1 top-right, 2 bottom-right, 3 bottom-left; a polygon's from the first vertex clockwise), else the corners with a Direct-Selected anchor, else every corner; each radius is drawn no larger than half the corner's shorter side allows; a path that isn't a live shape keeps its uncut outline so its corners stay editable, and is plain again once none is cut; sides: a polygon's, which keep the radius they shared)",
             has_selection,
             set_live_shape
         ),
@@ -1006,21 +1008,12 @@ fn expand_shape(s: &mut Session, _: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
     ok()
 }
 
-/// The `corners` of `object.setLiveShape`: a mask of corner indices 0–3.
-fn corners_param(p: &Value) -> Result<Option<[bool; 4]>> {
+/// The `corners` of `object.setLiveShape`: anchor indices of a path's uncut outline.
+fn corners_param(p: &Value) -> Result<Option<BTreeSet<usize>>> {
     let Some(v) = p.get("corners").filter(|v| !v.is_null()) else { return Ok(None) };
-    let err = || {
-        bad(
-            "object.setLiveShape",
-            format!("`corners` must list corner indices 0–3 (0 top-left, 1 top-right, 2 bottom-right, 3 bottom-left), not {v}"),
-        )
-    };
-    let mut mask = [false; 4];
-    for k in v.as_array().ok_or_else(err)? {
-        let slot = k.as_u64().and_then(|k| mask.get_mut(usize::try_from(k).ok()?)).ok_or_else(err)?;
-        *slot = true;
-    }
-    Ok(Some(mask))
+    let err = || bad("object.setLiveShape", format!("`corners` must list anchor indices (0, 1, 2…), not {v}"));
+    let list = v.as_array().ok_or_else(err)?;
+    list.iter().map(|k| k.as_u64().and_then(|k| usize::try_from(k).ok()).ok_or_else(err)).collect::<Result<_>>().map(Some)
 }
 
 fn set_live_shape(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
@@ -1035,39 +1028,37 @@ fn set_live_shape(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
         })
         .transpose()?;
     let radius = p.get("radius").and_then(Value::as_f64);
+    let sides = p.get("sides").and_then(Value::as_u64);
     s.edit("Live Shape", |d, sel| {
         for id in &ids {
-            let Some(NodeKind::Path { path, live: Some(live), .. }) = d.node_mut(*id).map(|n| &mut n.kind) else { continue };
-            // Radii are document lengths and corners circular, also on a rectangle from a file
-            // that kept an uneven scale in its transform (#442).
-            live.fold_scale();
-            let partial = sel.anchors.get_mut(id);
-            let picked = corners.unwrap_or_else(|| live.picked_corners(partial.as_deref()));
-            let (layout, selected) = (live.anchor_corners(), partial.as_deref().map(|a| live.corners_of(a)));
-            match live {
-                vectorcraft_doc::LiveShape::Rectangle { radii, kinds, .. } => {
-                    for ((_, r), k) in picked.iter().zip(radii.iter_mut()).zip(kinds.iter_mut()).filter(|((on, _), _)| **on) {
-                        if let Some(radius) = radius {
-                            *r = radius.max(0.0);
-                        }
-                        if let Some(kind) = kind {
-                            *k = kind;
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-                vectorcraft_doc::LiveShape::Polygon { sides, .. } => {
-                    if let Some(n) = p.get("sides").and_then(Value::as_u64) {
-                        *sides = n.clamp(3, 1000) as u32;
-                    }
-                }
-                _ => {}
+            let Some(NodeKind::Path { path, live, .. }) = d.node_mut(*id).map(|n| &mut n.kind) else { continue };
+            if let (Some(l @ LiveShape::Polygon { .. }), Some(n)) = (live.as_mut(), sides) {
+                l.set_sides(n);
+                *path = l.to_path();
             }
-            *path = live.to_path();
+            if radius.is_none() && kind.is_none() {
+                continue;
+            }
+            let partial = sel.anchors.get_mut(id);
+            // The corners to edit, the Direct-Selected ones and the anchor layout before the edit.
+            let Some(c) = LiveCorners::new(path, live.as_ref()) else { continue };
+            let picked = match &corners {
+                Some(k) if k.last().is_some_and(|k| *k >= c.base.anchor_count()) => {
+                    let n = c.base.anchor_count();
+                    let past: Vec<_> = k.range(n..).collect();
+                    return Err(bad("object.setLiveShape", format!("object {id} has anchors 0–{} for `corners`, not {past:?}", n.saturating_sub(1))));
+                }
+                Some(k) => k.clone(),
+                None => c.picked(partial.as_deref()),
+            };
+            let (selected, layout) = (partial.as_deref().map(|a| c.corners_of(a)), c.sources().to_vec());
+            set_corners(path, live, &picked, radius, kind);
             // Direct-Selected corners stay selected as they gain or lose anchors.
             if let (Some(anchors), Some(selected)) = (partial, selected)
-                && live.anchor_corners() != layout
+                && let Some(c) = LiveCorners::new(path, live.as_ref())
+                && c.sources() != layout
             {
-                *anchors = live.corner_anchors(selected);
+                *anchors = c.anchors_of(&selected);
             }
         }
         Ok(())

crates/engine/src/cmd/textedit.rs

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Area / Path Type",
             [],
             None,
-            "{path: id, mode: \"area\"|\"onPath\", text?: \"\", vertical?: bool = false, at?: [x, y] (on-path start: nearest point), size?, font?, placeholder?: bool (placeholder text instead, as text.create)} turn a path into an area-type frame or a type-on-a-path baseline (the path's paint is dropped) → {id}",
+            "{path: id, mode: \"area\"|\"onPath\", text?: \"\", vertical?: bool = false, at?: [x, y] (on-path start: nearest point), size?, font?, placeholder?: bool (placeholder text instead, as text.create), leadingModel?, charAlign? (as text.create)} turn a path into an area-type frame or a type-on-a-path baseline (the path's paint is dropped) → {id}",
             has_doc,
             create_in_path
         ),
@@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ fn create_in_path(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
         cached_bounds: None,
         cached_baselines: Vec::new(),
     };
+    super::create::new_type_alignment(s, p, C, &mut t)?;
     if bool_or(p, "placeholder", false) {
         super::typemenu::fill_with_placeholder(&mut t);
     } else {

crates/engine/src/cmd/textstyles.rs

@@ -261,6 +261,26 @@ fn attrs_param(p: &Value, kind: Kind, verb: &str) -> Result<Option<Map<String, V
     }
 }
 
+/// The attributes of a new style made from nothing (no `attrs`, no text selected): while the
+/// interface is in Japanese, new type's em box top-to-top leading (paragraph styles) and em box
+/// centre alignment (character styles); else none (the defaults).
+fn new_style_attrs(s: &Session, kind: Kind) -> Map<String, Value> {
+    if !s.japanese_interface() {
+        return Map::new();
+    }
+    let (set, default) = match kind {
+        Kind::Char => {
+            let st = CharStyle { char_align: vectorcraft_doc::CharAlign::EmBoxCenter, ..CharStyle::default() };
+            (to_attrs(&st), to_attrs(&CharStyle::default()))
+        }
+        Kind::Para => {
+            let st = ParaStyle { leading_model: vectorcraft_doc::LeadingModel::EmBoxTop, ..ParaStyle::default() };
+            (to_attrs(&st), to_attrs(&ParaStyle::default()))
+        }
+    };
+    set.into_iter().filter(|(k, v)| default.get(k) != Some(v)).collect()
+}
+
 // ---------- commands ----------
 
 fn list(s: &mut Session, kind: Kind) -> Result<Value> {
@@ -275,7 +295,14 @@ fn new(s: &mut Session, p: &Value, kind: Kind) -> Result<Value> {
     let c = kind.cmd("new");
     let attrs = match attrs_param(p, kind, "new")? {
         Some(a) => a,
-        None => selection_attrs(s, p, kind)?.unwrap_or_default(),
+        None => match selection_attrs(s, p, kind)? {
+            Some(a) => a,
+            None => {
+                let a = new_style_attrs(s, kind);
+                s.note_journal("attrs", Value::Object(a.clone()));
+                a
+            }
+        },
     };
     let d = &s.doc()?.doc;
     let base = if kind == Kind::Char { "Character Style" } else { "Paragraph Style" };

crates/engine/src/cmd/typecmd.rs

@@ -444,6 +444,73 @@ mod area_tests {
         assert_eq!(old.burasagari, Burasagari::None);
     }
 
+    /// #432: while the interface is in Japanese, new type (text.create, text.createInPath) starts
+    /// with em box top-to-top leading and em box centre alignment, and new styles made from nothing
+    /// carry them; params override; the values are journaled; imported text keeps the Roman
+    /// baseline.
+    #[test]
+    fn new_type_takes_the_japanese_defaults_while_the_interface_is_japanese() {
+        use vectorcraft_doc::{CharAlign, LeadingModel};
+        let mut s = Session::new();
+        s.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 400, "height": 400})).unwrap();
+        let made = |s: &mut Session, cmd: &str, p: Value| -> (LeadingModel, CharAlign) {
+            let id = s.execute(cmd, &p).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap();
+            match &s.doc().unwrap().doc.node(NodeId(id)).unwrap().kind {
+                NodeKind::Text(t) => (t.para.leading_model, t.runs[0].style.char_align),
+                _ => panic!("text"),
+            }
+        };
+        let roman = (LeadingModel::RomanBaseline, CharAlign::RomanBaseline);
+        let japanese = (LeadingModel::EmBoxTop, CharAlign::EmBoxCenter);
+        let point = json!({"x": 10, "y": 50, "text": "雅楽"});
+        assert!(!s.japanese_interface());
+        assert_eq!(made(&mut s, "text.create", point.clone()), roman, "headless, `auto`: the Roman defaults");
+        s.ui_language = Some("ja".into());
+        assert_eq!(made(&mut s, "text.create", point.clone()), japanese);
+        assert_eq!(made(&mut s, "text.create", json!({"x": 10, "y": 90, "text": "笙", "area": {"width": 100, "height": 50}})), japanese);
+        // Journaled: a replay in another language does the same.
+        let (_, logged) = s.journal.last().unwrap().clone();
+        assert_eq!((logged["leadingModel"].as_str(), logged["charAlign"].as_str()), (Some("emBoxTop"), Some("emBoxCenter")));
+        // Params override.
+        assert_eq!(
+            made(&mut s, "text.create", json!({"x": 10, "y": 120, "text": "a", "leadingModel": "romanBaseline", "charAlign": "romanBaseline"})),
+            roman
+        );
+        assert!(s.execute("text.create", &json!({"x": 0, "y": 0, "text": "a", "leadingModel": "middle"})).is_err());
+        // Area type in a path.
+        let path = s.execute("shape.rectangle", &json!({"x": 200, "y": 200, "width": 100, "height": 80})).unwrap()["id"].clone();
+        assert_eq!(made(&mut s, "text.createInPath", json!({"path": path, "mode": "area", "text": "篳篥"})), japanese);
+        // A preference set to Japanese counts without a UI; another language doesn't.
+        s.ui_language = None;
+        s.prefs.interface_language = "ja".into();
+        assert_eq!(made(&mut s, "text.create", point.clone()), japanese);
+        s.ui_language = Some("en".into());
+        assert_eq!(made(&mut s, "text.create", point.clone()), roman);
+        // New styles made from nothing.
+        s.execute("select.set", &json!({"ids": []})).unwrap();
+        s.ui_language = Some("ja".into());
+        let style = |s: &mut Session, kind: &str| {
+            let name = s.execute(&format!("{kind}.new"), &json!({})).unwrap()["name"].as_str().unwrap().to_string();
+            let list = s.execute(&format!("{kind}.list"), &json!({})).unwrap();
+            list["styles"].as_array().unwrap().iter().find(|st| st["name"] == name.as_str()).unwrap()["attrs"].clone()
+        };
+        assert_eq!(style(&mut s, "paraStyle"), json!({"leading_model": "emBoxTop"}));
+        assert_eq!(style(&mut s, "charStyle"), json!({"charAlign": "emBoxCenter"}));
+        s.ui_language = Some("en".into());
+        assert_eq!(style(&mut s, "paraStyle"), json!({}));
+        // Imported text keeps the Roman baseline.
+        s.ui_language = Some("ja".into());
+        let svg = r#"<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="200" height="100"><text x="10" y="50">雅楽</text></svg>"#;
+        s.execute("document.open", &json!({"name": "t.svg", "dataBase64": vectorcraft_format::base64_encode(svg.as_bytes())})).unwrap();
+        let mut found = vec![];
+        s.doc().unwrap().doc.walk(|n| {
+            if let NodeKind::Text(t) = &n.kind {
+                found.push((t.para.leading_model, t.runs[0].style.char_align));
+            }
+        });
+        assert_eq!(found, [roman]);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn leading_model_is_set_per_paragraph_and_saved_only_when_top_to_top() {
         use vectorcraft_doc::LeadingModel;

crates/engine/src/lib.rs

@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ impl Default for Prefs {
             object_highlighting: true,
             transform_tools_guides: true,
             construction_guides: true,
-            construction_angles: s("90° & 45° Angles"),
+            construction_angles: s(vectorcraft_tools::guides::DEFAULT_CONSTRUCTION_ANGLES),
             anchor_path_labels: true,
             measurement_labels: true,
             spacing_guides: true,
@@ -763,6 +763,10 @@ pub struct Session {
     pub style_libraries: cmd::stylelib::Libraries,
     /// URLs recently given in the Attributes panel (`attributes.set {url}`), newest first; not saved.
     pub recent_urls: Vec<String>,
+    /// The language the UI is drawn in (a language code, never `auto`), set by the UI each frame;
+    /// `None` without one (headless), where an explicit `interfaceLanguage` preference counts.
+    /// Japanese gives new type the Japanese defaults ([`Session::japanese_interface`]).
+    pub ui_language: Option<String>,
     /// Parameters the running top-level command resolved from the preferences or the clock, added
     /// to its journal entry so a replay does the same ([`Session::note_journal`]).
     journal_note: serde_json::Map<String, Value>,
@@ -825,6 +829,7 @@ impl Session {
             freeform_point: None,
             style_libraries: Default::default(),
             recent_urls: vec![],
+            ui_language: None,
             journal_note: Default::default(),
             note_depth: 1,
             batch_stash: None,
@@ -996,6 +1001,12 @@ impl Session {
         Ok(r)
     }
 
+    /// Is the interface in Japanese? Then new type starts with em box top-to-top leading and em
+    /// box centre character alignment (#432).
+    pub fn japanese_interface(&self) -> bool {
+        self.ui_language.as_deref().unwrap_or(&self.prefs.interface_language).eq_ignore_ascii_case("ja")
+    }
+
     /// Record `key: value` in the running top-level command's journal entry (or its interaction's
     /// preview, or its step in a batch) unless its params give `key`: a value it resolved from the
     /// preferences or the clock.
@@ -1477,6 +1488,8 @@ mod tests_scalestrokes;
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests_slices;
 #[cfg(test)]
+mod tests_smartguides;
+#[cfg(test)]
 mod tests_strokegeom;
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests_strokegradient;

crates/engine/src/tests_livecorners.rs

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-//! Live Corners on live rectangles: `object.setLiveShape` rounds the given corners, the
-//! Direct-Selected ones or all four, sets corner kinds, and keeps selected corners selected.
+//! Live Corners: `object.setLiveShape` rounds the given corners of a live rectangle, the
+//! Direct-Selected ones or all four, sets corner kinds, and keeps selected corners selected; and
+//! does the same on any path's corners: a star, a live polygon, a pen path (#511).
 
 use std::collections::BTreeSet;
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
-use vectorcraft_doc::{AnchorRef, LiveShape, NodeKind};
+use vectorcraft_doc::{AnchorRef, LiveCorners, LiveShape, NodeKind};
 use vectorcraft_geom::Affine;
 use vectorcraft_geom::shapes::CornerKind;
 
@@ -150,3 +151,131 @@ fn corners_of_a_non_square_rectangle_are_alike_circles() {
     run(&mut s, json!({"radius": 8}));
     assert_spans(&s, id, [8.0; 4]);
 }
+
+/// A selected five-pointed star at (200, 200) of radii 60 and 30: a plain path.
+fn star(s: &mut Session) -> NodeId {
+    NodeId(s.execute("shape.star", &json!({"cx": 200, "cy": 200, "radius1": 60, "radius2": 30})).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap())
+}
+
+fn node_path(s: &Session, id: NodeId) -> (vectorcraft_geom::PathData, Option<LiveShape>) {
+    let NodeKind::Path { path, live, .. } = &s.doc().unwrap().doc.node(id).unwrap().kind else { panic!("not a path") };
+    (path.clone(), live.clone())
+}
+
+/// The radius and kind every corner of `id` shares, and how many corners it has.
+fn style(s: &Session, id: NodeId) -> (Option<f64>, Option<CornerKind>, usize) {
+    let c = LiveCorners::of(s.doc().unwrap().doc.node(id).unwrap()).unwrap();
+    let (r, k) = c.style(&c.all());
+    (r, k, c.corners.len())
+}
+
+/// The radius set on each of the first `N` corners of `id`.
+fn radii<const N: usize>(s: &Session, id: NodeId) -> [f64; N] {
+    let c = LiveCorners::of(s.doc().unwrap().doc.node(id).unwrap()).unwrap();
+    std::array::from_fn(|k| c.radius(k))
+}
+
+/// #511: a star (a plain path) rounds all ten corners as one step, keeps them editable (a new
+/// radius cuts the outline again rather than the cut path), and is the plain star again at 0.
+#[test]
+fn a_star_rounds_its_corners_and_keeps_them_live() {
+    let (mut s, _) = session();
+    let id = star(&mut s);
+    let (sharp, _) = node_path(&s, id);
+    assert_eq!(style(&s, id), (Some(0.0), Some(CornerKind::Round), 10));
+    let undo = s.doc().unwrap().history.undo.len();
+    run(&mut s, json!({"radius": 4}));
+    assert_eq!(s.doc().unwrap().history.undo.len(), undo + 1);
+    let (path, live) = node_path(&s, id);
+    assert_eq!(path.anchor_count(), 20);
+    assert!(matches!(&live, Some(LiveShape::Path { base, .. }) if *base == sharp), "{live:?}");
+    assert_eq!(style(&s, id), (Some(4.0), Some(CornerKind::Round), 10));
+    assert_eq!(s.doc().unwrap().doc.node(id).unwrap().kind_label(), "Path");
+    run(&mut s, json!({"radius": 6, "kind": "chamfer"}));
+    assert_eq!((node_path(&s, id).0.anchor_count(), style(&s, id)), (20, (Some(6.0), Some(CornerKind::Chamfer), 10)));
+    run(&mut s, json!({"radius": 0, "kind": "round"}));
+    assert_eq!(node_path(&s, id), (sharp, None));
+    s.execute("edit.undo", &json!({})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(style(&s, id).0, Some(6.0));
+}
+
+/// Each corner stops at its own limit: its cut reaches halfway along its shorter side, so a
+/// star's neighbouring corners meet without overlapping.
+#[test]
+fn star_corners_stop_at_their_own_limit() {
+    let (mut s, _) = session();
+    let id = star(&mut s);
+    run(&mut s, json!({"radius": 1000}));
+    let (path, live) = node_path(&s, id);
+    let Some(LiveShape::Path { base, .. }) = live else { panic!("live corners") };
+    // Every cut ends at the middle of a side: each side's two cuts meet there.
+    let sp = &base.subpaths[0];
+    for (i, a) in sp.anchors.iter().enumerate() {
+        let mid = a.p.midpoint(sp.anchors[(i + 1) % 10].p);
+        assert!(path.anchors().any(|(_, _, b)| b.p.distance(mid) < 1e-9), "a cut ends at {mid:?}");
+    }
+    assert_eq!(style(&s, id).0, Some(1000.0), "the radius set is kept; it draws as large as fits");
+}
+
+/// #511: Direct Selection picks one of the star's anchors: that corner alone rounds, and both of
+/// its new anchors stay selected.
+#[test]
+fn a_direct_selected_star_anchor_rounds_its_corner_alone() {
+    let (mut s, _) = session();
+    let id = star(&mut s);
+    s.execute("select.anchors", &json!({"id": id.0, "anchors": [[0, 0]], "mode": "set"})).unwrap();
+    run(&mut s, json!({"radius": 5}));
+    assert_eq!(node_path(&s, id).0.anchor_count(), 11);
+    // The top tip's cut ends the path and starts it.
+    assert_eq!(selected_anchors(&s, id), Some(anchors(&[0, 10])));
+    assert_eq!(radii::<2>(&s, id), [5.0, 0.0]);
+    // Explicit corners, as MCP and the widgets give them.
+    run(&mut s, json!({"id": id.0, "corners": [1, 3], "radius": 2}));
+    assert_eq!(radii::<4>(&s, id), [5.0, 2.0, 0.0, 2.0]);
+    // Past the outline's last anchor is an error, and nothing changes.
+    assert!(s.execute("object.setLiveShape", &json!({"id": id.0, "corners": [10], "radius": 1})).is_err());
+    assert_eq!(node_path(&s, id).0.anchor_count(), 13);
+}
+
+/// A live polygon stays live with cut corners, which keep their radius as its sides change and
+/// stay circular when it is scaled unevenly (the radius scales by the mean scale).
+#[test]
+fn a_polygon_keeps_its_corners_through_sides_and_scales() {
+    let (mut s, _) = session();
+    let id = NodeId(s.execute("shape.polygon", &json!({"cx": 200, "cy": 200, "radius": 80, "sides": 6})).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap());
+    run(&mut s, json!({"radius": 10}));
+    let (path, live) = node_path(&s, id);
+    assert_eq!(path.anchor_count(), 12);
+    assert!(matches!(live, Some(LiveShape::Polygon { sides: 6, .. })));
+    run(&mut s, json!({"sides": 8}));
+    assert_eq!((node_path(&s, id).0.anchor_count(), style(&s, id)), (16, (Some(10.0), Some(CornerKind::Round), 8)));
+    s.execute("object.scale", &json!({"sx": 400, "sy": 100, "corners": true})).unwrap();
+    assert!(matches!(node_path(&s, id).1, Some(LiveShape::Polygon { .. })));
+    assert!((style(&s, id).0.unwrap() - 20.0).abs() < 1e-9);
+    // Every cut is a circle of that radius: its ends are as far from its centre.
+    let path = node_path(&s, id).0;
+    let c = LiveCorners::of(s.doc().unwrap().doc.node(id).unwrap()).unwrap();
+    for k in &c.corners {
+        let centre = k.on_bisector(20.0 / k.sin());
+        let ends = path.anchors().filter(|(_, _, a)| (a.p.distance(centre) - 20.0).abs() < 1e-6).count();
+        assert_eq!(ends, 2, "corner {} is circular", k.index);
+    }
+}
+
+/// #511: a pen path's corners round; its ends don't. An ellipse has no corners to round.
+#[test]
+fn a_pen_path_rounds_its_corners_but_not_its_ends() {
+    let (mut s, _) = session();
+    let pen = json!({"anchors": [{"x": 10, "y": 200}, {"x": 110, "y": 100}, {"x": 210, "y": 200}, {"x": 310, "y": 100}]});
+    let id = NodeId(s.execute("path.create", &pen).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap());
+    s.execute("select.set", &json!({"ids": [id.0]})).unwrap();
+    run(&mut s, json!({"radius": 8}));
+    let path = node_path(&s, id).0;
+    assert_eq!(path.anchor_count(), 6);
+    let sp = &path.subpaths[0];
+    assert_eq!((sp.anchors[0].p.x, sp.anchors[5].p.x), (10.0, 310.0), "the ends stay");
+    let e = NodeId(s.execute("shape.ellipse", &json!({"x": 0, "y": 0, "width": 50, "height": 30})).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap());
+    let before = node_path(&s, e);
+    run(&mut s, json!({"id": e.0, "radius": 8}));
+    assert_eq!(node_path(&s, e), before);
+}

crates/engine/src/tests_smartguides.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+//! Smart Guides for the drawing tools, driven through the session (#506): where the Rectangle
+//! tool's corners and the Pen's anchors land, and the guides they show.
+
+use serde_json::json;
+use vectorcraft_doc::NodeId;
+use vectorcraft_geom::{Point, Rect};
+use vectorcraft_tools::{Mods, Overlay, PointerEvent, PointerKind};
+
+use super::*;
+use crate::tooling::ViewInfo;
+
+/// An 800 × 600 document with a 100 × 100 square at (100, 100), nothing selected.
+fn session() -> Session {
+    let mut s = Session::new();
+    s.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 800, "height": 600})).unwrap();
+    s.execute("shape.rectangle", &json!({"x": 100, "y": 100, "width": 100, "height": 100})).unwrap();
+    s.execute("select.none", &json!({})).unwrap();
+    s
+}
+
+fn pointer(s: &mut Session, kind: PointerKind, x: f64, y: f64) {
+    s.pointer(&PointerEvent::new(kind, x, y), ViewInfo::default()).unwrap();
+}
+
+fn labels(s: &mut Session) -> Vec<(String, Point)> {
+    s.overlays(ViewInfo::default()).into_iter().filter_map(|o| if let Overlay::Label { text, p, .. } = o { Some((text, p)) } else { None }).collect()
+}
+
+/// The bounds of the object the last gesture made (it is selected).
+fn made(s: &Session) -> Rect {
+    let d = s.doc().unwrap();
+    let id: NodeId = d.selection.objects[0];
+    d.doc.node(id).unwrap().geometric_bounds().unwrap()
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_rectangle_corner_lands_on_another_objects_anchor() {
+    let mut s = session();
+    s.select_tool("rectangle", ViewInfo::default()).unwrap();
+    // Hovering near the square's corner already says where the press goes.
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Move, 302.0, 297.0);
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Move, 202.0, 203.0);
+    assert_eq!(labels(&mut s), [("anchor".to_string(), Point::new(200.0, 200.0))]);
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Down, 302.0, 297.0);
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Drag, 250.0, 250.0);
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Drag, 202.0, 203.0);
+    assert_eq!(labels(&mut s), [("anchor".to_string(), Point::new(200.0, 200.0))]);
+    let measure = s.overlays(ViewInfo::default()).into_iter().find_map(|o| if let Overlay::Measure { text, .. } = o { Some(text) } else { None });
+    assert!(measure.as_deref().is_some_and(|t| t.starts_with("W: 102") && t.contains("H: 100")), "{measure:?}");
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Up, 202.0, 203.0);
+    // The start lined up with the artboard's centre (y = 300), the corner on the anchor.
+    assert_eq!(made(&s), Rect::new(200.0, 200.0, 302.0, 300.0));
+}
+
+/// The corner being dragged never snaps to the rectangle's own preview: dragged slowly, it follows
+/// the pointer instead of sticking where the last step left it.
+#[test]
+fn a_rectangle_does_not_snap_to_itself_while_drawn() {
+    let mut s = session();
+    s.select_tool("rectangle", ViewInfo::default()).unwrap();
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Down, 320.0, 420.0);
+    for x in 370..=380 {
+        pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Drag, f64::from(x), 470.0 + f64::from(x - 370));
+    }
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Up, 380.0, 480.0);
+    assert_eq!(made(&s), Rect::new(320.0, 420.0, 380.0, 480.0));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn a_pen_anchor_lines_up_with_another_objects_centre() {
+    let mut s = session();
+    s.select_tool("pen", ViewInfo::default()).unwrap();
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Down, 300.0, 420.0);
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Up, 300.0, 420.0);
+    // Hovering: in line with the square's centre (150, 150), the guide running from it.
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Move, 151.5, 431.0);
+    let ov = s.overlays(ViewInfo::default());
+    assert!(ov.iter().any(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Line { a, b, .. } if *a == Point::new(150.0, 150.0) && *b == Point::new(150.0, 431.0))), "{ov:?}");
+    assert_eq!(labels(&mut s), [("align".to_string(), Point::new(150.0, 431.0))]);
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Down, 151.5, 431.0);
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Up, 151.5, 431.0);
+    // Shift: along the 45° step from it, slid into line with the square's left side (x = 100).
+    s.pointer(&PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 103.0, 386.0).with_mods(Mods { shift: true, ..Mods::default() }), ViewInfo::default()).unwrap();
+    pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Up, 103.0, 386.0);
+    let d = s.doc().unwrap();
+    let path = d.doc.node(d.selection.objects[0]).unwrap().path_data().unwrap();
+    let pts: Vec<Point> = path.subpaths[0].anchors.iter().map(|a| a.p).collect();
+    assert_eq!(pts[..2], [Point::new(300.0, 420.0), Point::new(150.0, 431.0)]);
+    assert!((pts[2] - Point::new(100.0, 381.0)).hypot() < 1e-9, "{pts:?}");
+}
+
+/// Preferences › Smart Guides › Construction Guides: on (the default), a Pen anchor near the
+/// 45° guide through the last one lands on it; off, it stays where it was clicked.
+#[test]
+fn construction_guides_follow_the_preference() {
+    for on in [true, false] {
+        let mut s = session();
+        s.execute("prefs.set", &json!({"key": "constructionGuides", "value": on})).unwrap();
+        s.select_tool("pen", ViewInfo::default()).unwrap();
+        pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Down, 500.0, 500.0);
+        pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Up, 500.0, 500.0);
+        pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Down, 561.0, 438.0);
+        pointer(&mut s, PointerKind::Up, 561.0, 438.0);
+        let d = s.doc().unwrap();
+        let last = d.doc.node(d.selection.objects[0]).unwrap().path_data().unwrap().subpaths[0].anchors[1].p;
+        let want = if on { Point::new(561.5, 438.5) } else { Point::new(561.0, 438.0) };
+        assert!((last - want).hypot() < 1e-9, "{on}: {last:?}");
+    }
+}

crates/engine/src/tooling.rs

@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ impl Session {
         let (unit, stroke_unit) = (self.general_unit(), self.stroke_unit());
         let cx = ToolContext {
             doc: &st.doc,
+            revision: (st.uid, st.revision),
             selection: &st.selection,
             zoom: view.zoom,
             isolation: st.isolation,
@@ -222,6 +223,11 @@ impl Session {
             measurement_labels: self.prefs.measurement_labels,
             transform_tools_guides: self.prefs.transform_tools_guides,
             snapping_tolerance: self.prefs.snapping_tolerance,
+            construction_angles: if self.prefs.construction_guides {
+                vectorcraft_tools::guides::construction_angles(&self.prefs.construction_angles)
+            } else {
+                &[]
+            },
             screen: view.screen,
             plane_widget: self.prefs.perspective_widget.show.then_some(self.prefs.perspective_widget.position),
         };

crates/eps/src/import/data.rs

@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ impl Interp<'_> {
         let Some(mut img) = self.decode_image(image)? else { return Ok(None) };
         let Some(m) = self.decode_image(stencil)? else { return Ok(Some(img)) };
         let (w, h, mw, mh) = (img.w as usize, img.h as usize, m.w as usize, m.h as usize);
-        for (i, px) in img.rgba.chunks_exact_mut(4).enumerate() {
+        for (i, px) in img.rgba.as_chunks_mut::<4>().0.iter_mut().enumerate() {
             let (x, y) = (i % w, i / w);
             // The mask's pixel over this one (in 64 bits: rows times rows overflow 32).
             let at = (y as u64 * mh as u64 / h.max(1) as u64) * mw as u64 + x as u64 * mw as u64 / w.max(1) as u64;

crates/geom/src/corners.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,283 @@
+//! Live Corners on any path: the anchors where two straight sides meet at an angle, and the path
+//! with those corners cut round, inverted round or chamfered. Rectangles cut theirs the same way.
+
+use kurbo::{Point, Vec2};
+
+use crate::path::{Anchor, AnchorKind, PathData, SubPath};
+use crate::shapes::{CornerKind, KAPPA};
+
+/// Lengths and radii at or below this are none at all.
+const EPS: f64 = 1e-9;
+/// Sides closer than this to straight on (or folded back), as the sine of their angle, make no corner.
+const MIN_SINE: f64 = 1e-6;
+
+/// A corner Live Corners can cut: an anchor without handles between two straight sides that
+/// meet at an angle.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub struct Corner {
+    /// The anchor's index in its path, counting the anchors of every subpath in order.
+    pub index: usize,
+    /// Where the sides meet.
+    pub at: Point,
+    /// Unit directions along the sides: towards the previous anchor, then towards the next one.
+    pub u: Vec2,
+    pub v: Vec2,
+    /// The sides' lengths, in the same order.
+    pub lu: f64,
+    pub lv: f64,
+}
+
+impl Corner {
+    /// The corner of anchor `i` of `sp`, whose index in the path is `index`; `None` when the
+    /// anchor is an end of an open subpath, has handles or is smooth, when a side curves or has
+    /// no length, or when the sides run straight on.
+    fn of(sp: &SubPath, i: usize, index: usize) -> Option<Self> {
+        let n = sp.anchors.len();
+        let (prev, next) = if sp.closed { ((i + n).checked_sub(1)? % n, (i + 1) % n) } else { (i.checked_sub(1)?, i + 1) };
+        let (a, prev, next) = (sp.anchors.get(i)?, sp.anchors.get(prev)?, sp.anchors.get(next)?);
+        if a.kind == AnchorKind::Smooth || a.has_in() || a.has_out() || prev.has_out() || next.has_in() {
+            return None;
+        }
+        let (du, dv) = (prev.p - a.p, next.p - a.p);
+        let (lu, lv) = (du.hypot(), dv.hypot());
+        if !(lu > EPS && lv > EPS && lu.is_finite() && lv.is_finite()) {
+            return None;
+        }
+        let c = Self { index, at: a.p, u: du / lu, v: dv / lv, lu, lv };
+        (c.sin() > MIN_SINE).then_some(c)
+    }
+
+    /// The cosine of the angle between the sides.
+    pub fn cos(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.u.dot(self.v)
+    }
+
+    /// The sine of the angle between the sides.
+    pub fn sin(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.u.cross(self.v).abs()
+    }
+
+    /// The angle between the sides, in degrees (90 at a rectangle's corners).
+    pub fn angle_deg(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.sin().atan2(self.cos()).to_degrees()
+    }
+
+    /// How far from the corner a round cut of radius `r` meets each side: r / tan(angle / 2).
+    pub fn setback(&self, r: f64) -> f64 {
+        r * (1.0 + self.cos()) / self.sin()
+    }
+
+    /// The largest radius the corner draws: its cut then reaches halfway along the shorter side,
+    /// so neighbouring corners at their largest meet without overlapping (half the shorter side
+    /// at a rectangle's corners).
+    pub fn max_radius(&self) -> f64 {
+        self.lu.min(self.lv) / 2.0 * self.sin() / (1.0 + self.cos())
+    }
+
+    /// The radius the corner is drawn with: `radius`, no larger than [`Corner::max_radius`], 0 when
+    /// negative or not a number.
+    pub fn fitted(&self, radius: f64) -> f64 {
+        radius.max(0.0).min(self.max_radius())
+    }
+
+    /// The point `k` along the bisector, measured in (u + v): the centre of a round cut of radius
+    /// `r` is at `k = r / sin`.
+    pub fn on_bisector(&self, k: f64) -> Point {
+        self.at + (self.u + self.v) * k
+    }
+
+    /// How much the radius grows when the centre of the round cut moves by `d`: `d`'s part along
+    /// the bisector, in radius units.
+    pub fn radius_change(&self, d: Vec2) -> f64 {
+        d.dot(self.u + self.v) * self.sin() / (2.0 + 2.0 * self.cos())
+    }
+
+    /// The two anchors replacing the corner when cut with `radius` (> 0, fitted): where the cut
+    /// meets the arriving side, then the leaving one.
+    fn cut(&self, radius: f64, kind: CornerKind) -> [Anchor; 2] {
+        let t = self.setback(radius);
+        let (start, end) = (self.at + self.u * t, self.at + self.v * t);
+        let (h_out, h_in) = match kind {
+            // An arc of `radius` tangent to both sides, turning by 180° less the angle.
+            CornerKind::Round => {
+                let h = radius * arc_handle(-self.cos());
+                (start - self.u * h, end - self.v * h)
+            }
+            // An arc centred on the corner through both ends, spanning the angle.
+            CornerKind::InvertedRound => {
+                let h = t * arc_handle(self.cos());
+                (start + square_to(self.u, self.v) * h, end + square_to(self.v, self.u) * h)
+            }
+            CornerKind::Chamfer => (start, end),
+        };
+        [Anchor { p: start, h_in: start, h_out, kind: AnchorKind::Corner }, Anchor { p: end, h_in, h_out: end, kind: AnchorKind::Corner }]
+    }
+}
+
+/// The unit direction square to unit `a`, on `b`'s side.
+fn square_to(a: Vec2, b: Vec2) -> Vec2 {
+    let w = b - a * a.dot(b);
+    w / w.hypot()
+}
+
+/// The handle length, per unit of radius, of a cubic drawing a circular arc that spans an angle
+/// whose cosine is `cos`: 4/3 · tan(angle / 4) ([`KAPPA`] for a quarter circle).
+fn arc_handle(cos: f64) -> f64 {
+    if cos.abs() < 1e-12 {
+        return KAPPA;
+    }
+    let (sin_half, cos_half) = (((1.0 - cos) / 2.0).max(0.0).sqrt(), ((1.0 + cos) / 2.0).max(0.0).sqrt());
+    4.0 / 3.0 * sin_half / (1.0 + cos_half)
+}
+
+/// The corners of `path` Live Corners can cut, in anchor order.
+pub fn path_corners(path: &PathData) -> Vec<Corner> {
+    let mut out = vec![];
+    let mut first = 0;
+    for sp in &path.subpaths {
+        out.extend((0..sp.anchors.len()).filter_map(|i| Corner::of(sp, i, first + i)));
+        first += sp.anchors.len();
+    }
+    out
+}
+
+/// `path` with each of its corners ([`path_corners`]) cut by the radius in `radii` and the kind in
+/// `kinds` at its anchor index (missing: 0 and round), each radius no larger than fits
+/// ([`Corner::fitted`]). A cut corner becomes two anchors; a closed subpath whose first corner
+/// is cut starts where that cut ends, so the cut closes it. Also returns, per subpath, the
+/// anchor index in `path` each anchor comes from.
+pub fn cut_corners(path: &PathData, radii: &[f64], kinds: &[CornerKind]) -> (PathData, Vec<Vec<usize>>) {
+    let corners = path_corners(path);
+    let mut corners = corners.iter().peekable();
+    let (mut subpaths, mut sources) = (Vec::with_capacity(path.subpaths.len()), Vec::with_capacity(path.subpaths.len()));
+    let mut first = 0;
+    for sp in &path.subpaths {
+        let (mut anchors, mut from) = (Vec::with_capacity(sp.anchors.len()), Vec::with_capacity(sp.anchors.len()));
+        let mut closing = None;
+        for (i, a) in sp.anchors.iter().enumerate() {
+            let index = first + i;
+            let corner = corners.next_if(|c| c.index == index);
+            let radius = corner.map_or(0.0, |c| c.fitted(radii.get(index).copied().unwrap_or(0.0)));
+            match corner {
+                Some(c) if radius > EPS => {
+                    let [start, end] = c.cut(radius, kinds.get(index).copied().unwrap_or_default());
+                    if i == 0 && sp.closed {
+                        closing = Some(start);
+                    } else {
+                        anchors.push(start);
+                        from.push(index);
+                    }
+                    anchors.push(end);
+                    from.push(index);
+                }
+                _ => {
+                    anchors.push(*a);
+                    from.push(index);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if let Some(a) = closing {
+            anchors.push(a);
+            from.push(first);
+        }
+        first += sp.anchors.len();
+        subpaths.push(SubPath::new(anchors, sp.closed));
+        sources.push(from);
+    }
+    (PathData::new(subpaths), sources)
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::shapes;
+    use kurbo::Rect;
+
+    fn near(a: Point, b: Point) -> bool {
+        a.distance(b) < 1e-9
+    }
+
+    /// A five-pointed star's tips are acute corners, its inner corners obtuse: all ten cut, each
+    /// a circle of the radius tangent to both sides.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_star_has_ten_corners_cut_as_circles() {
+        let star = shapes::star(Point::new(100.0, 100.0), 50.0, 25.0, 5, 0.0);
+        let corners = path_corners(&star);
+        assert_eq!(corners.len(), 10);
+        let angles: Vec<_> = corners.iter().map(|c| c.angle_deg()).collect();
+        assert!(angles.iter().step_by(2).all(|a| *a < 90.0), "tips are acute: {angles:?}");
+        assert!(angles.iter().skip(1).step_by(2).all(|a| *a > 90.0), "inner corners are obtuse: {angles:?}");
+        let (cut, from) = cut_corners(&star, &[4.0; 10], &[]);
+        assert_eq!(cut.anchor_count(), 20);
+        assert_eq!(from, [vec![0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 0]]);
+        for c in &corners {
+            // Both ends of the cut lie `setback` along the sides, as far from the arc's centre as
+            // the radius, and that centre is `radius` from either side.
+            let t = c.setback(4.0);
+            let o = c.on_bisector(4.0 / c.sin());
+            for p in [c.at + c.u * t, c.at + c.v * t] {
+                assert!((p.distance(o) - 4.0).abs() < 1e-9);
+                assert!(cut.anchors().any(|(_, _, a)| near(a.p, p)), "{p:?} is an anchor");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn radii_stop_at_half_the_shorter_side_per_corner() {
+        let tri = PathData::single(SubPath::polyline(&[Point::new(0.0, 0.0), Point::new(100.0, 0.0), Point::new(0.0, 40.0)], true));
+        let corners = path_corners(&tri);
+        assert_eq!(corners.len(), 3);
+        for c in &corners {
+            let max = c.max_radius();
+            assert!((c.setback(max) - c.lu.min(c.lv) / 2.0).abs() < 1e-9);
+            assert_eq!(c.fitted(1e6), max);
+            assert_eq!(c.fitted(-3.0), 0.0);
+            assert_eq!(c.fitted(f64::NAN), 0.0);
+        }
+        // The right angle at (0, 0) takes up to 20, half its shorter side.
+        assert!((corners[0].max_radius() - 20.0).abs() < 1e-9);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn ends_curves_smooth_and_straight_anchors_are_no_corners() {
+        // An open zig-zag: its ends aren't corners, nor is the anchor its sides run straight on through.
+        let open = PathData::single(SubPath::polyline(
+            &[Point::new(0.0, 0.0), Point::new(50.0, 0.0), Point::new(100.0, 0.0), Point::new(100.0, 50.0), Point::new(150.0, 80.0)],
+            false,
+        ));
+        assert_eq!(path_corners(&open).iter().map(|c| c.index).collect::<Vec<_>>(), [2, 3]);
+        // A curve on either side, or handles on the anchor, leave it alone.
+        let mut sp = SubPath::polyline(&[Point::new(0.0, 0.0), Point::new(100.0, 0.0), Point::new(100.0, 100.0), Point::new(0.0, 100.0)], true);
+        sp.anchors[1].h_out = Point::new(110.0, 10.0);
+        let p = PathData::single(sp);
+        assert_eq!(path_corners(&p).iter().map(|c| c.index).collect::<Vec<_>>(), [0, 3]);
+        assert!(path_corners(&shapes::ellipse(Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, 10.0, 10.0))).is_empty());
+        // A second subpath counts on from the first one's anchors.
+        let two = PathData::new(vec![
+            SubPath::polyline(&[Point::new(0.0, 0.0), Point::new(10.0, 0.0), Point::new(0.0, 10.0)], true),
+            SubPath::polyline(&[Point::new(50.0, 0.0), Point::new(60.0, 0.0), Point::new(50.0, 10.0)], true),
+        ]);
+        let (cut, from) = cut_corners(&two, &[0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0], &[]);
+        assert_eq!(from, [vec![0, 1, 2], vec![3, 4, 5, 3]]);
+        assert_eq!(cut.anchor_count(), 7);
+    }
+
+    /// Inverted round and chamfer cuts end where the round one does, at any angle.
+    #[test]
+    fn kinds_share_their_ends() {
+        let star = shapes::star(Point::new(0.0, 0.0), 50.0, 25.0, 5, 0.0);
+        let ends = |k: CornerKind| -> Vec<Point> { cut_corners(&star, &[3.0; 10], &[k; 10]).0.anchors().map(|(_, _, a)| a.p).collect() };
+        let round = ends(CornerKind::Round);
+        assert_eq!(ends(CornerKind::InvertedRound), round);
+        assert_eq!(ends(CornerKind::Chamfer), round);
+        // The inverted arc stays on the circle about the corner.
+        let c = path_corners(&star)[0];
+        let [s, e] = c.cut(3.0, CornerKind::InvertedRound);
+        let bez = kurbo::CubicBez::new(s.p, s.h_out, e.h_in, e.p);
+        let r = c.setback(3.0);
+        for t in [0.25, 0.5, 0.75] {
+            use kurbo::ParamCurve;
+            assert!((bez.eval(t).distance(c.at) - r).abs() < r * 1e-3);
+        }
+    }
+}

crates/geom/src/lib.rs

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 pub mod arc;
 pub mod bez;
+pub mod corners;
 pub mod hit;
 pub mod path;
 pub mod projective;

crates/geom/src/shapes.rs

@@ -62,52 +62,10 @@ pub fn fitted_corner_radius(w: f64, h: f64, radius: f64) -> f64 {
 /// Rectangle whose corners (top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left, y down) each have
 /// their own radius and kind, every radius clamped to half the shorter side. A corner without a
 /// radius is one anchor, the others two (where the cut meets each side). Clockwise from the
-/// top-left corner, its anchor on the top side first.
+/// top-left corner, its anchor on the top side first. Cut as any path's corners are
+/// ([`crate::corners::cut_corners`]).
 pub fn rectangle_with_corners(r: Rect, radii: [f64; 4], kinds: [CornerKind; 4]) -> PathData {
-    PathData::single(SubPath::new(corner_anchors(r, radii, kinds).into_iter().map(|(_, a)| a).collect(), true))
-}
-
-/// The corner (index into `radii`) of each anchor of [`rectangle_with_corners`].
-pub fn rectangle_anchor_corners(r: Rect, radii: [f64; 4]) -> Vec<usize> {
-    corner_anchors(r, radii, [CornerKind::Round; 4]).into_iter().map(|(k, _)| k).collect()
-}
-
-/// The anchors of [`rectangle_with_corners`], each with its corner.
-fn corner_anchors(r: Rect, radii: [f64; 4], kinds: [CornerKind; 4]) -> Vec<(usize, Anchor)> {
-    let r = r.abs();
-    // Each corner, with the directions of the side arriving at it and of the side leaving it.
-    let corners = [
-        (Point::new(r.x0, r.y0), Vec2::new(0.0, -1.0), Vec2::new(1.0, 0.0)),
-        (Point::new(r.x1, r.y0), Vec2::new(1.0, 0.0), Vec2::new(0.0, 1.0)),
-        (Point::new(r.x1, r.y1), Vec2::new(0.0, 1.0), Vec2::new(-1.0, 0.0)),
-        (Point::new(r.x0, r.y1), Vec2::new(-1.0, 0.0), Vec2::new(0.0, -1.0)),
-    ];
-    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(8);
-    let mut top_left_start = None;
-    for (k, ((c, din, dout), (rad, kind))) in corners.into_iter().zip(radii.into_iter().zip(kinds)).enumerate() {
-        let rad = fitted_corner_radius(r.width(), r.height(), rad);
-        if rad <= 1e-9 {
-            out.push((k, Anchor::corner(c)));
-            continue;
-        }
-        // The cut runs from `start` on the arriving side to `end` on the leaving one.
-        let (start, end, h) = (c - din * rad, c + dout * rad, rad * KAPPA);
-        let (h_out, h_in) = match kind {
-            CornerKind::Round => (start + din * h, end - dout * h),
-            CornerKind::InvertedRound => (start + dout * h, end - din * h),
-            CornerKind::Chamfer => (start, end),
-        };
-        let start = Anchor { p: start, h_in: start, h_out, kind: AnchorKind::Corner };
-        let end = Anchor { p: end, h_in, h_out: end, kind: AnchorKind::Corner };
-        if k == 0 {
-            top_left_start = Some(start);
-        } else {
-            out.push((k, start));
-        }
-        out.push((k, end));
-    }
-    out.extend(top_left_start.map(|a| (0, a)));
-    out
+    crate::corners::cut_corners(&rectangle(r), &radii, &kinds).0
 }
 
 /// Ellipse inscribed in `r` with 4 smooth anchors (left, top, right, bottom).
@@ -244,6 +202,11 @@ pub fn polar_grid(r: Rect, concentric: u32, radial: u32) -> Vec<PathData> {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    /// The corner (index into `radii`) of each anchor of [`rectangle_with_corners`].
+    fn corner_sources(r: Rect, radii: [f64; 4]) -> Vec<usize> {
+        crate::corners::cut_corners(&rectangle(r), &radii, &[]).1.concat()
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn rect_is_4_corners_clockwise() {
         let p = rectangle(Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 50.0));
@@ -293,7 +256,7 @@ mod tests {
             a((x0, y0 + rad), (x0, y0 + rad), (x0, y0 + rad - k)),
         ];
         assert_eq!(rounded_rectangle(r, rad).subpaths[0].anchors, want);
-        assert_eq!(rectangle_anchor_corners(r, [rad; 4]), [0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 0]);
+        assert_eq!(corner_sources(r, [rad; 4]), [0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 0]);
         assert_eq!(rounded_rectangle(r, 0.0), rectangle(r));
     }
 
@@ -305,11 +268,11 @@ mod tests {
         let p = rectangle_with_corners(r, radii, [CornerKind::Round; 4]);
         let pts: Vec<Point> = p.subpaths[0].anchors.iter().map(|a| a.p).collect();
         assert_eq!(pts, [Point::new(0.0, 0.0), Point::new(90.0, 0.0), Point::new(100.0, 10.0), Point::new(100.0, 60.0), Point::new(0.0, 60.0)]);
-        assert_eq!(rectangle_anchor_corners(r, radii), [0, 1, 1, 2, 3]);
+        assert_eq!(corner_sources(r, radii), [0, 1, 1, 2, 3]);
         let quarter = PI * 25.0;
         assert!((p.subpaths[0].area() - (6000.0 - 100.0 + quarter)).abs() < 0.1, "a quarter circle off one corner");
         // The top-left corner rounded: its top-side anchor first, its left-side one last.
-        assert_eq!(rectangle_anchor_corners(r, [10.0, 0.0, 0.0, 200.0]), [0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 0]);
+        assert_eq!(corner_sources(r, [10.0, 0.0, 0.0, 200.0]), [0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 0]);
         // Inverted round cuts a quarter circle out; a chamfer cuts a triangle.
         let inverted = rectangle_with_corners(r, radii, [CornerKind::InvertedRound; 4]);
         assert!((inverted.subpaths[0].area() - (6000.0 - quarter)).abs() < 0.1);

crates/mcp/src/tests.rs

@@ -588,3 +588,30 @@ fn type_preferences_apply_to_agents() {
     assert_eq!(r["isError"], false, "{r}");
     assert_eq!(style(&mut s, 6), (size + 4.0, tracking + 50.0));
 }
+
+/// The drawing tools snap to Smart Guides over MCP as with the mouse (#506): a Rectangle drawn
+/// from near another object's corner starts on it, and a Pen anchor placed beside that object's
+/// centre lines up with it.
+#[test]
+fn drawing_gestures_snap_to_smart_guides() {
+    let mut s = server();
+    let r = call(&mut s, 1, "run_command", json!({"command": "file.new", "params": {"width": 800, "height": 600}}));
+    assert_eq!(r["isError"], false, "{r}");
+    let r = call(&mut s, 2, "draw_shape", json!({"shape": "rectangle", "x": 100, "y": 100, "width": 100, "height": 100}));
+    assert_eq!(r["isError"], false, "{r}");
+    let bounds = |s: &mut Server, n: u64, events: Value, tool: &str| {
+        let r = call(s, n, "pointer_gesture", json!({"tool": tool, "events": events}));
+        assert_eq!(r["isError"], false, "{r}");
+        let id = serde_json::from_str::<Value>(&text_of(&r)).unwrap()["selection"][0].clone();
+        let doc: Value = serde_json::from_str(&text_of(&call(s, n + 1, "inspect_document", json!({})))).unwrap();
+        let made = doc["layers"][0]["children"].as_array().unwrap().iter().find(|c| c["id"] == id).expect("drawn").clone();
+        let b = &made["bounds"];
+        [&b["x"], &b["y"], &b["width"], &b["height"]].map(|v| v.as_f64().unwrap())
+    };
+    let events = json!([{"kind": "move", "x": 202, "y": 203}, {"kind": "down", "x": 202, "y": 203}, {"kind": "drag", "x": 330, "y": 341}, {"kind": "up", "x": 330, "y": 341}]);
+    assert_eq!(bounds(&mut s, 3, events, "rectangle"), [200.0, 200.0, 130.0, 141.0]);
+    let r = call(&mut s, 5, "run_command", json!({"command": "select.none", "params": {}}));
+    assert_eq!(r["isError"], false, "{r}");
+    let events = json!([{"kind": "down", "x": 300, "y": 420}, {"kind": "up", "x": 300, "y": 420}, {"kind": "move", "x": 151.5, "y": 431}, {"kind": "down", "x": 151.5, "y": 431}, {"kind": "up", "x": 151.5, "y": 431}]);
+    assert_eq!(bounds(&mut s, 6, events, "pen"), [150.0, 420.0, 150.0, 11.0]);
+}

crates/svg/src/css.rs

@@ -621,7 +621,9 @@ fn corners(path: &PathData, live: Option<&LiveShape>) -> Option<Corners> {
             let sweep = (pie.1 - pie.0).abs();
             (sweep < 1e-6 || (sweep - 360.0).abs() < 1e-6).then_some(Corners::Ellipse)
         }
-        Some(LiveShape::Rectangle { .. } | LiveShape::Ellipse { .. } | LiveShape::Polygon { .. } | LiveShape::Line { .. }) => None,
+        Some(
+            LiveShape::Rectangle { .. } | LiveShape::Ellipse { .. } | LiveShape::Polygon { .. } | LiveShape::Line { .. } | LiveShape::Path { .. },
+        ) => None,
         None => is_upright_rectangle(path).then_some(Corners::Square),
     }
 }

crates/tools/src/corners.rs

@@ -1,187 +1,231 @@
-//! Live Corners: the widgets inside the corners of a selected live rectangle. Dragging one rounds
-//! (or sharpens) the corners whose widgets show together: all four when the whole shape is
-//! selected, those with a selected anchor when Direct Selection picked some. Alt-clicking a widget
-//! cycles their corner kind (round, inverted round, chamfer); double-clicking one opens the
-//! Corners dialog. The Selection and Direct Selection tools share this, and the canvas draws the
-//! widgets from the same geometry.
+//! Live Corners: the widgets inside the corners of a selected path. The Selection tool shows them
+//! on a live rectangle or polygon, Direct Selection on any path (a star, a pen path) at each corner
+//! anchor: one without handles between two straight sides. Dragging one rounds (or sharpens) the
+//! corners whose widgets show together: every corner when the whole path is selected, those with a
+//! selected anchor when Direct Selection picked some. Alt-clicking a widget cycles their corner
+//! kind (round, inverted round, chamfer); double-clicking one opens the Corners dialog. The
+//! Selection and Direct Selection tools share this, and the canvas draws the widgets from the same
+//! geometry.
 
 use serde_json::{Map, Value, json};
-use vectorcraft_doc::{Document, LiveShape, NodeId, NodeKind, Selection};
-use vectorcraft_geom::shapes::{self, CornerKind};
-use vectorcraft_geom::{Affine, BezPath, Point, Rect, Vec2};
+use vectorcraft_doc::{Document, LiveCorners, LiveShape, NodeId, NodeKind, Selection};
+use vectorcraft_geom::corners::{Corner, cut_corners};
+use vectorcraft_geom::shapes::CornerKind;
+use vectorcraft_geom::{Affine, BezPath, PathData, Point, Vec2};
 
 use crate::{Action, Overlay, PointerEvent, ToolContext};
 
 /// The dialog a double-click on a corner widget opens: `{id, corners}`.
 pub const DIALOG: &str = "corners";
 
-/// Widgets sit at least this far inside their corner (screen px), further in once the radius is.
+/// Widgets sit at least this far inside their corner along each side of a right angle (screen px;
+/// √2 times it along the bisector, at any angle), further in once the radius is.
 const MIN_INSET_PX: f64 = 10.0;
-/// Shapes whose shorter side is smaller than this on screen (px) hide their widgets.
+/// Corners with a side shorter than this on screen (px) hide their widgets.
 const MIN_SIDE_PX: f64 = 3.0 * MIN_INSET_PX;
-/// Corners in radii order (top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left): position as factors
-/// of (w, h) and the inward diagonal.
-const CORNERS: [((f64, f64), (f64, f64)); 4] =
-    [((0.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0)), ((1.0, 0.0), (-1.0, 1.0)), ((1.0, 1.0), (-1.0, -1.0)), ((0.0, 1.0), (1.0, -1.0))];
 
-/// The corner widgets of a selection that is exactly one editable live rectangle.
+/// One corner's widget.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+struct Widget {
+    /// The corner, in the corners' own space.
+    corner: Corner,
+    /// The radius it is set to (document units) and its kind.
+    radius: f64,
+    kind: CornerKind,
+    /// The angle between its sides in the document, in degrees.
+    angle: f64,
+    /// The widget's centre in the document.
+    at: Point,
+}
+
+/// The corner widgets of a selection that is exactly one editable path with corners.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
 pub struct CornerWidgets {
     pub id: NodeId,
-    w: f64,
-    h: f64,
-    radii: [f64; 4],
-    kinds: [CornerKind; 4],
+    /// Maps the corners' space into the document (a live rectangle's own; else none).
     xf: Affine,
-    /// Widget centres in document coordinates, in radii order.
-    pub points: [Point; 4],
-    /// The corners whose widgets show (and which a drag edits).
-    pub shown: [bool; 4],
+    /// The widgets that show (and which a drag edits), in anchor order.
+    widgets: Vec<Widget>,
+    /// Every corner of the path shows its widget.
+    all: bool,
 }
 
 impl CornerWidgets {
-    /// The widgets at `zoom` (screen px per document point), if the selection has them.
-    pub fn of(doc: &Document, selection: &Selection, zoom: f64) -> Option<Self> {
+    /// The widgets at `zoom` (screen px per document point), if the selection has them: on any
+    /// path with Direct Selection (`any_path`), on live rectangles and polygons with Selection.
+    pub fn of(doc: &Document, selection: &Selection, zoom: f64, any_path: bool) -> Option<Self> {
         let [id] = selection.objects[..] else { return None };
         if !doc.is_editable(id) {
             return None;
         }
-        let Some(NodeKind::Path { live: Some(live), .. }) = doc.node(id).map(|n| &n.kind) else { return None };
-        // In document units, as `object.setLiveShape` edits them.
-        let LiveShape::Rectangle { w, h, radii, kinds, xf } = live.folded() else { return None };
-        // Screen pixels per shape unit along each side (the shape may be scaled or skewed).
-        let c = xf.as_coeffs();
-        let (px, py) = (Vec2::new(c[0], c[1]).hypot() * zoom, Vec2::new(c[2], c[3]).hypot() * zoom);
-        if xf.determinant().abs() < 1e-12 || (w * px).min(h * py) < MIN_SIDE_PX {
+        let NodeKind::Path { path, live, .. } = &doc.node(id)?.kind else { return None };
+        if !any_path && !matches!(live, Some(LiveShape::Rectangle { .. } | LiveShape::Polygon { .. })) {
             return None;
         }
-        // Each widget sits on its corner's diagonal, at the centre of the arc as drawn.
-        let points = std::array::from_fn(|k| {
-            let ((fx, fy), (sx, sy)) = CORNERS[k];
-            let r = shapes::fitted_corner_radius(w, h, radii[k]);
-            let ix = r.max(MIN_INSET_PX / px).min(w / 2.0);
-            let iy = r.max(MIN_INSET_PX / py).min(h / 2.0);
-            xf * Point::new(fx * w + sx * ix, fy * h + sy * iy)
-        });
-        Some(Self { id, w, h, radii, kinds, xf, points, shown: live.picked_corners(selection.partial(id)) })
+        let lc = LiveCorners::new(path, live.as_ref())?;
+        let det = lc.xf.determinant().abs();
+        if det < 1e-12 {
+            return None;
+        }
+        // Screen pixels per unit of the corners' space (a rectangle's may be skewed).
+        let scale = zoom * det.sqrt();
+        let picked = lc.picked(selection.partial(id));
+        let widgets: Vec<_> = lc
+            .corners
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|c| picked.contains(&c.index) && c.lu.min(c.lv) * scale >= MIN_SIDE_PX)
+            .map(|c| {
+                // On the bisector at the centre of the arc as drawn, at least the minimum inset
+                // in and at most half the shorter side.
+                let radius = lc.radius(c.index);
+                let k = (c.fitted(radius) / c.sin()).max(MIN_INSET_PX / (scale * (1.0 + c.cos()).sqrt())).min(c.lu.min(c.lv) / 2.0);
+                Widget { corner: *c, radius, kind: lc.kind(c.index), angle: angle_in(lc.xf, c), at: lc.xf * c.on_bisector(k) }
+            })
+            .collect();
+        let all = widgets.len() == lc.corners.len();
+        (!widgets.is_empty()).then_some(Self { id, xf: lc.xf, widgets, all })
     }
 
     /// Selection & Anchor Display → Hide Corner Widget for angles greater than: the widgets of
-    /// corners wider than `max` degrees (a skewed rectangle's obtuse ones) hide; none if all do.
+    /// corners wider than `max` degrees (in the document) hide; none if all do.
     pub fn within_angle(mut self, max: f64) -> Option<Self> {
-        // The angle between the shape's sides where they meet at the top-left corner; the
-        // top-right and bottom-left corners are its supplement.
-        let c = self.xf.as_coeffs();
-        let (u, v) = (Vec2::new(c[0], c[1]), Vec2::new(c[2], c[3]));
-        let a = u.cross(v).abs().atan2(u.dot(v)).to_degrees();
-        for (k, shown) in self.shown.iter_mut().enumerate() {
-            let angle = if k % 2 == 0 { a } else { 180.0 - a };
-            *shown &= angle <= max + 1e-9;
-        }
-        self.shown.contains(&true).then_some(self)
+        let n = self.widgets.len();
+        self.widgets.retain(|w| w.angle <= max + 1e-9);
+        self.all &= self.widgets.len() == n;
+        (!self.widgets.is_empty()).then_some(self)
     }
 
-    /// The widgets the active tool can drag (View → Show Corner Widget on).
-    pub fn for_tool(cx: &ToolContext) -> Option<Self> {
-        if !cx.corner_widgets {
+    /// The widgets on show: [`Self::of`] with View → Show Corner Widget `on`, less those wider
+    /// than `max_angle` ([`Self::within_angle`]).
+    pub fn showing(doc: &Document, selection: &Selection, zoom: f64, any_path: bool, on: bool, max_angle: f64) -> Option<Self> {
+        if !on {
             return None;
         }
-        Self::of(cx.doc, cx.selection, cx.zoom)?.within_angle(cx.corner_widget_max_angle)
+        Self::of(doc, selection, zoom, any_path)?.within_angle(max_angle)
+    }
+
+    /// The widgets the active tool can drag (Direct Selection: `any_path`).
+    pub fn for_tool(cx: &ToolContext, any_path: bool) -> Option<Self> {
+        Self::showing(cx.doc, cx.selection, cx.zoom, any_path, cx.corner_widgets, cx.corner_widget_max_angle)
     }
 
     /// The centres of the widgets that show.
     pub fn visible(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = Point> + '_ {
-        self.points.iter().zip(self.shown).filter(|(_, on)| *on).map(|(p, _)| *p)
+        self.widgets.iter().map(|w| w.at)
     }
 
-    /// The indices of the shown corners.
-    fn shown_indices(&self) -> Value {
-        (0..4).filter(|k| self.shown[*k]).collect()
+    /// The corners whose widgets show: anchor indices of the path's uncut outline.
+    pub fn corners(&self) -> Vec<usize> {
+        self.widgets.iter().map(|w| w.corner.index).collect()
     }
 
-    /// Index of the shown widget nearest to `p` within `tol` (document units).
-    pub fn hit(&self, p: Point, tol: f64) -> Option<usize> {
-        let d = |k: &usize| self.points[*k].distance(p);
-        (0..4).filter(|k| self.shown[*k] && d(k) <= tol).min_by(|a, b| d(a).total_cmp(&d(b)))
+    /// The widget nearest to `p` within `tol` (document units).
+    fn hit(&self, p: Point, tol: f64) -> Option<usize> {
+        let d = |k: &usize| self.widgets.get(*k).map_or(f64::INFINITY, |w| w.at.distance(p));
+        (0..self.widgets.len()).filter(|k| d(k) <= tol).min_by(|a, b| d(a).total_cmp(&d(b)))
     }
 
-    /// `object.setLiveShape` params setting `key` on the shown corners (all four unless some are
-    /// hidden, which `corners` then leaves out).
+    /// `object.setLiveShape` params setting `key` on the shown corners (every corner unless some
+    /// are hidden, which `corners` then leaves out).
     fn command(&self, key: &str, value: Value) -> Value {
         let mut p = Map::new();
         p.insert("id".into(), json!(self.id.0));
         p.insert(key.into(), value);
-        if self.shown != [true; 4] {
-            p.insert("corners".into(), self.shown_indices());
+        if !self.all {
+            p.insert("corners".into(), json!(self.corners()));
         }
         Value::Object(p)
     }
 }
 
-/// Is `p` over a corner widget the active tool would drag?
-pub fn over_widget(cx: &ToolContext, p: Point) -> bool {
-    CornerWidgets::for_tool(cx).and_then(|w| w.hit(p, cx.tol(5.0))).is_some()
+/// The angle between corner `c`'s sides once `xf` maps them into the document, in degrees.
+fn angle_in(xf: Affine, c: &Corner) -> f64 {
+    let [a, b, cc, d, _, _] = xf.as_coeffs();
+    let map = |v: Vec2| Vec2::new(a * v.x + cc * v.y, b * v.x + d * v.y);
+    let (u, v) = (map(c.u), map(c.v));
+    u.cross(v).abs().atan2(u.dot(v)).to_degrees()
+}
+
+/// Is `p` over a corner widget the active tool would drag (Direct Selection: `any_path`)?
+pub fn over_widget(cx: &ToolContext, p: Point, any_path: bool) -> bool {
+    CornerWidgets::for_tool(cx, any_path).and_then(|w| w.hit(p, cx.tol(5.0))).is_some()
 }
 
 /// A double-click on a corner widget opens the Corners dialog for the shown corners.
-pub fn double_click(cx: &ToolContext, p: Point) -> Option<Action> {
-    let w = CornerWidgets::for_tool(cx)?;
+pub fn double_click(cx: &ToolContext, p: Point, any_path: bool) -> Option<Action> {
+    let w = CornerWidgets::for_tool(cx, any_path)?;
     w.hit(p, cx.tol(5.0))?;
-    Some(Action::Dialog(DIALOG.into(), json!({ "id": w.id.0, "corners": w.shown_indices() })))
+    Some(Action::Dialog(DIALOG.into(), json!({ "id": w.id.0, "corners": w.corners() })))
 }
 
-/// Dragging a corner widget: the radius follows the pointer along the corner's diagonal. An
+/// Dragging a corner widget: the radius follows the pointer along the corner's bisector. An
 /// Alt-click (no drag) cycles the corner kind instead.
-#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct CornerDrag {
     widgets: CornerWidgets,
-    corner: usize,
+    /// The dragged widget (index into the shown ones).
+    widget: usize,
+    /// The path's uncut outline with its corners' radii and kinds (to outline the corners at
+    /// their largest).
+    base: PathData,
+    radii: Vec<f64>,
+    kinds: Vec<CornerKind>,
     start: Point,
     began: bool,
     alt: bool,
     radius: f64,
-    /// The pointer went past fully round: the corners are at their largest radius.
+    /// The pointer went past fully round: the dragged corner is at its largest radius.
     at_limit: bool,
     at: Point,
 }
 
 impl CornerDrag {
-    /// Start a drag when the press `ev` is on a widget of the selection.
-    pub fn hit(cx: &ToolContext, ev: &PointerEvent) -> Option<Self> {
-        let (widgets, p) = (CornerWidgets::for_tool(cx)?, ev.pos);
-        let corner = widgets.hit(p, cx.tol(5.0))?;
-        Some(Self { widgets, corner, start: p, began: false, alt: ev.mods.alt, radius: widgets.radii[corner], at_limit: false, at: p })
+    /// Start a drag when the press `ev` is on a widget of the selection (Direct Selection:
+    /// `any_path`).
+    pub fn hit(cx: &ToolContext, ev: &PointerEvent, any_path: bool) -> Option<Self> {
+        let (widgets, p) = (CornerWidgets::for_tool(cx, any_path)?, ev.pos);
+        let widget = widgets.hit(p, cx.tol(5.0))?;
+        let radius = widgets.widgets.get(widget)?.radius;
+        let lc = cx.doc.node(widgets.id).and_then(LiveCorners::of)?;
+        let n = lc.base.anchor_count();
+        let (radii, kinds) = ((0..n).map(|k| lc.radius(k)).collect(), (0..n).map(|k| lc.kind(k)).collect());
+        let base = lc.base.into_owned();
+        Some(Self { widgets, widget, base, radii, kinds, start: p, began: false, alt: ev.mods.alt, radius, at_limit: false, at: p })
     }
 
     /// The start radius (as drawn: no larger than fits) plus the pointer's travel along the
-    /// corner's inward diagonal (in the shape's own units), from square to fully round; and
-    /// whether the travel reached fully round (the limit every corner shares).
+    /// corner's bisector (in the corners' own units), from square to fully round; and whether the
+    /// travel reached fully round.
     fn radius_at(&self, p: Point) -> (f64, bool) {
-        let w = &self.widgets;
-        let inv = w.xf.inverse();
-        let d = inv * p - inv * self.start;
-        let (_, (sx, sy)) = CORNERS[self.corner];
-        let max = shapes::max_corner_radius(w.w, w.h);
-        let r = shapes::fitted_corner_radius(w.w, w.h, w.radii[self.corner]) + (d.x * sx + d.y * sy) / 2.0;
+        let Some(w) = self.widgets.widgets.get(self.widget) else { return (self.radius, self.at_limit) };
+        let inv = self.widgets.xf.inverse();
+        let max = w.corner.max_radius();
+        let r = w.corner.fitted(w.radius) + w.corner.radius_change(inv * p - inv * self.start);
         (r.min(max).max(0.0), max > 0.0 && r >= max)
     }
 
-    /// The edited corners' cuts at the dragged radius, in document coordinates.
-    fn edited_corners(&self) -> BezPath {
-        let w = &self.widgets;
-        let rect = Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, w.w, w.h);
-        let radii = std::array::from_fn(|k| if w.shown[k] { self.radius } else { w.radii[k] });
-        let corner_of = shapes::rectangle_anchor_corners(rect, radii);
-        let path = shapes::rectangle_with_corners(rect, radii, w.kinds).transformed(w.xf);
+    /// The cuts of the edited corners that are at their largest radius, in document coordinates.
+    fn corners_at_limit(&self) -> BezPath {
+        let shown = &self.widgets.widgets;
+        let mut radii = self.radii.clone();
+        for w in shown {
+            if let Some(r) = radii.get_mut(w.corner.index) {
+                *r = self.radius;
+            }
+        }
+        let full = |k: &usize| shown.iter().any(|w| w.corner.index == *k && self.radius >= w.corner.max_radius() - 1e-9);
+        let (path, sources) = cut_corners(&self.base, &radii, &self.kinds);
         let mut out = BezPath::new();
-        let Some(sp) = path.subpaths.first() else { return out };
-        // A corner's cut is the segment between its two anchors (the last one, for the top-left).
-        for i in 0..sp.segment_count() {
-            let (a, b) = (corner_of.get(i), corner_of.get(i + 1).or(corner_of.first()));
-            if a == b && a.is_some_and(|k| w.shown.get(*k) == Some(&true)) {
-                let c = sp.segment(i);
-                out.move_to(c.p0);
-                out.curve_to(c.p1, c.p2, c.p3);
+        for (sp, from) in path.transformed(self.widgets.xf).subpaths.iter().zip(&sources) {
+            // A corner's cut is the segment between its two anchors (the last one, for a closed
+            // subpath's first corner).
+            for i in 0..sp.segment_count() {
+                let (a, b) = (from.get(i), from.get(i + 1).or(from.first()));
+                if a == b && a.is_some_and(full) {
+                    let c = sp.segment(i);
+                    out.move_to(c.p0);
+                    out.curve_to(c.p1, c.p2, c.p3);
+                }
             }
         }
         out
@@ -205,22 +249,21 @@ impl CornerDrag {
     pub fn finish(self) -> Vec<Action> {
         if self.began {
             vec![Action::Commit]
-        } else if self.alt {
-            let kind = self.widgets.kinds[self.corner].next();
-            vec![Action::Exec("object.setLiveShape".into(), self.widgets.command("kind", json!(kind)))]
+        } else if let Some(w) = self.widgets.widgets.get(self.widget).filter(|_| self.alt) {
+            vec![Action::Exec("object.setLiveShape".into(), self.widgets.command("kind", json!(w.kind.next())))]
         } else {
             vec![]
         }
     }
 
-    /// The radius readout next to the pointer; at the largest radius, the edited corners in red.
+    /// The radius readout next to the pointer; at the largest radius, the corners there in red.
     pub fn overlays(&self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Overlay> {
         if !self.began {
             return vec![];
         }
         let mut out = vec![Overlay::Measure { p: self.at, text: format!("Radius: {}", cx.len(self.radius)) }];
         if self.at_limit {
-            out.push(Overlay::Path { path: self.edited_corners(), color: crate::builder::HIGHLIGHT_RED, width: 2.0, dashed: false });
+            out.push(Overlay::Path { path: self.corners_at_limit(), color: crate::builder::HIGHLIGHT_RED, width: 2.0, dashed: false });
         }
         out
     }
@@ -240,24 +283,38 @@ mod tests {
 
     /// A live `w` × `h` rectangle with corner radius `r`.
     fn live_shape(w: f64, h: f64, r: f64, xf: Affine) -> (Document, NodeId) {
+        let live = LiveShape::Rectangle { w, h, radii: [r; 4], kinds: Default::default(), xf };
+        doc_with(live.to_path(), Some(live))
+    }
+
+    /// A document holding one path with its live shape.
+    fn doc_with(path: PathData, live: Option<LiveShape>) -> (Document, NodeId) {
         let mut d = Document::new(500.0, 500.0);
         let l = d.layers[0].id;
         let id = d.alloc_id();
-        let live = LiveShape::Rectangle { w, h, radii: [r; 4], kinds: Default::default(), xf };
-        let mut n = Node::path(id, live.to_path(), Appearance::default_art());
+        let mut n = Node::path(id, path, Appearance::default_art());
         if let NodeKind::Path { live: slot, .. } = &mut n.kind {
-            *slot = Some(live);
+            *slot = live;
         }
         d.insert(Some(l), 0, n).unwrap();
         (d, id)
     }
 
+    /// A five-pointed star at (200, 200) of radii 60 and 30 (#511): a plain path.
+    fn star() -> (Document, NodeId) {
+        doc_with(vectorcraft_geom::shapes::star(Point::new(200.0, 200.0), 60.0, 30.0, 5, 0.0), None)
+    }
+
     fn selected(id: NodeId) -> Selection {
         let mut s = Selection::default();
         s.add(id);
         s
     }
 
+    fn pts(w: &CornerWidgets) -> Vec<Point> {
+        w.visible().collect()
+    }
+
     fn radius(a: &Action) -> f64 {
         let Action::Preview(c, v) = a else { panic!("not a preview: {a:?}") };
         assert_eq!(c, "object.setLiveShape");
@@ -267,17 +324,19 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn widgets_sit_inside_each_corner() {
         let (d, id) = live_rect(0.0, Affine::translate((100.0, 100.0)));
-        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(w.points, [Point::new(110.0, 110.0), Point::new(190.0, 110.0), Point::new(190.0, 190.0), Point::new(110.0, 190.0)]);
+        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0, false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(pts(&w), [Point::new(110.0, 110.0), Point::new(190.0, 110.0), Point::new(190.0, 190.0), Point::new(110.0, 190.0)]);
         // A larger radius moves them to the arc centres; zooming in keeps a 10 px minimum.
         let (d, id) = live_rect(20.0, Affine::translate((100.0, 100.0)));
-        assert_eq!(CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0).unwrap().points[0], Point::new(120.0, 120.0));
-        assert_eq!(CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 4.0).unwrap().points[2], Point::new(180.0, 180.0));
-        // Hidden when the shape is tiny on screen, for plain paths and without a single selection.
-        assert!(CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 0.2).is_none());
+        assert_eq!(pts(&CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0, false).unwrap())[0], Point::new(120.0, 120.0));
+        assert_eq!(pts(&CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 4.0, false).unwrap())[2], Point::new(180.0, 180.0));
+        // Hidden when the shape is tiny on screen and without a single selection; a plain path
+        // shows them with Direct Selection only.
+        assert!(CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 0.2, true).is_none());
         let (d, id) = doc_with_rect();
-        assert!(CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0).is_none());
-        assert!(CornerWidgets::of(&d, &Selection::default(), 1.0).is_none());
+        assert!(CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0, false).is_none());
+        assert_eq!(pts(&CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0, true).unwrap())[0], Point::new(110.0, 110.0));
+        assert!(CornerWidgets::of(&d, &Selection::default(), 1.0, true).is_none());
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -307,9 +366,9 @@ mod tests {
     fn widgets_of_a_non_square_rectangle_follow_the_drawn_corners() {
         let (d, id) = live_shape(200.0, 80.0, 60.0, Affine::translate((100.0, 100.0)));
         let s = selected(id);
-        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &s, 1.0).unwrap();
+        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &s, 1.0, false).unwrap();
         let centres = [Point::new(140.0, 140.0), Point::new(260.0, 140.0), Point::new(260.0, 140.0), Point::new(140.0, 140.0)];
-        assert_eq!(w.points, centres);
+        assert_eq!(pts(&w), centres);
         let p = paint();
         let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
         let red = |t: &dyn crate::Tool| {
@@ -339,8 +398,8 @@ mod tests {
         // 50 × 80 with 10 pt corners stretched 4 × 1: drawn 200 × 80, a mean radius of 20.
         let (d, id) = live_shape(50.0, 80.0, 10.0, Affine::translate((100.0, 100.0)) * Affine::scale_non_uniform(4.0, 1.0));
         let s = selected(id);
-        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &s, 1.0).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(w.points[0], Point::new(120.0, 120.0));
+        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &s, 1.0, false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(pts(&w)[0], Point::new(120.0, 120.0));
         let p = paint();
         let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
         let mut t = crate::create("directSelection");
@@ -357,8 +416,8 @@ mod tests {
         let s = selected(id);
         let p = paint();
         let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
-        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &s, 1.0).unwrap();
-        assert!(w.points[0].distance(Point::new(190.0, 110.0)) < 1e-9);
+        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &s, 1.0, false).unwrap();
+        assert!(pts(&w)[0].distance(Point::new(190.0, 110.0)) < 1e-9);
         let mut t = crate::create("directSelection");
         t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 190.0, 110.0));
         let a = t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, 180.0, 120.0));
@@ -377,10 +436,10 @@ mod tests {
         s.anchors.insert(id, [(0, 2)].into());
         let p = paint();
         let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
-        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &s, 1.0).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(w.shown, [false, false, true, false]);
-        assert_eq!(w.visible().collect::<Vec<_>>(), [Point::new(190.0, 190.0)]);
-        assert!(!over_widget(&cx, Point::new(110.0, 110.0)), "the other corners hide theirs");
+        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &s, 1.0, true).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(w.corners(), [2]);
+        assert_eq!(pts(&w), [Point::new(190.0, 190.0)]);
+        assert!(!over_widget(&cx, Point::new(110.0, 110.0), true), "the other corners hide theirs");
         let mut t = crate::create("directSelection");
         assert!(t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 190.0, 191.0)).is_empty());
         let a = t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, 175.0, 176.0));
@@ -423,20 +482,20 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn corners_wider_than_the_preference_hide_their_widgets() {
         let (d, id) = live_rect(0.0, Affine::translate((100.0, 100.0)));
-        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(w.within_angle(177.0).map(|w| w.shown), Some([true; 4]));
-        assert_eq!(w.within_angle(90.0).map(|w| w.shown), Some([true; 4]));
+        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0, false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(w.clone().within_angle(177.0).map(|w| w.corners()), Some(vec![0, 1, 2, 3]));
+        assert_eq!(w.clone().within_angle(90.0).map(|w| w.corners()), Some(vec![0, 1, 2, 3]));
         assert!(w.within_angle(89.0).is_none());
         // Sheared by 30°: 60° at the top-left and bottom-right corners, 120° at the others.
         let shear = Affine::translate((100.0, 100.0)) * Affine::new([1.0, 0.0, 30f64.to_radians().tan(), 1.0, 0.0, 0.0]);
         let (d, id) = live_rect(0.0, shear);
-        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(w.within_angle(100.0).map(|w| w.shown), Some([true, false, true, false]));
+        let w = CornerWidgets::of(&d, &selected(id), 1.0, false).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(w.clone().within_angle(100.0).map(|w| w.corners()), Some(vec![0, 2]));
         let s = selected(id);
         let p = paint();
         let c = ToolContext { corner_widget_max_angle: 100.0, ..cx(&d, &s, &p) };
-        assert!(over_widget(&c, w.points[0]));
-        assert!(!over_widget(&c, w.points[1]), "the 120° corner's widget is hidden");
+        assert!(over_widget(&c, pts(&w)[0], false));
+        assert!(!over_widget(&c, pts(&w)[1], false), "the 120° corner's widget is hidden");
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -445,14 +504,113 @@ mod tests {
         let s = selected(id);
         let p = paint();
         let mut c = cx(&d, &s, &p);
-        assert!(over_widget(&c, Point::new(110.0, 110.0)));
-        assert!(!over_widget(&c, Point::new(150.0, 150.0)));
+        assert!(over_widget(&c, Point::new(110.0, 110.0), false));
+        assert!(!over_widget(&c, Point::new(150.0, 150.0), false));
         c.corner_widgets = false;
-        assert!(!over_widget(&c, Point::new(110.0, 110.0)));
+        assert!(!over_widget(&c, Point::new(110.0, 110.0), true));
         // With the widgets hidden, a drag from the same spot moves the object.
         let mut t = crate::create("selection");
         t.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 110.0, 110.0));
         let a = t.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, 130.0, 110.0));
         assert_eq!(a[0], Action::Begin("Move".into()));
     }
+
+    /// #511: Direct Selection shows a widget in each of a star's ten corners (the Selection tool
+    /// none: a star isn't a live shape); dragging a tip's inward rounds them all as one step.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_star_shows_widgets_in_every_corner_with_direct_selection() {
+        let (d, id) = star();
+        let s = selected(id);
+        let p = paint();
+        let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
+        assert!(CornerWidgets::for_tool(&cx, false).is_none());
+        let w = CornerWidgets::for_tool(&cx, true).expect("widgets on a plain path");
+        assert_eq!(w.corners(), (0..10).collect::<Vec<_>>());
+        // The top tip's widget sits 10 √2 px down its bisector.
+        let tip = pts(&w)[0];
+        assert!(tip.distance(Point::new(200.0, 140.0 + 10.0 * 2f64.sqrt())) < 1e-9, "{tip:?}");
+        let mut t = crate::create("directSelection");
+        assert!(t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, tip.x, tip.y)).is_empty());
+        let a = t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, tip.x, tip.y + 10.0));
+        assert_eq!(a[0], Action::Begin("Corner Radius".into()));
+        // The widget follows the arc's centre: r / sin(angle / 2) along the bisector.
+        let c = vectorcraft_geom::corners::path_corners(&star_path(&d, id))[0];
+        let want = 10.0 * (c.angle_deg() / 2.0).to_radians().sin();
+        assert!((radius(&a[1]) - want).abs() < 1e-9, "{a:?} want {want}");
+        assert!(matches!(&a[1], Action::Preview(_, v) if v["id"] == id.0 && v.get("corners").is_none()), "every corner: {a:?}");
+        // The Selection tool drags the star instead.
+        let mut t = crate::create("selection");
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, tip.x, tip.y));
+        assert_eq!(t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, tip.x, tip.y + 10.0))[0], Action::Begin("Move".into()));
+    }
+
+    fn star_path(d: &Document, id: NodeId) -> PathData {
+        let Some(NodeKind::Path { path, .. }) = d.node(id).map(|n| &n.kind) else { panic!("not a path") };
+        path.clone()
+    }
+
+    /// #511: a Direct-Selected anchor of the star shows its corner's widget alone, and the
+    /// preference hides the star's wide inner corners (about 125°) below their angle.
+    #[test]
+    fn star_corners_follow_the_anchors_and_the_angle_preference() {
+        let (d, id) = star();
+        let mut s = selected(id);
+        s.anchors.insert(id, [(0, 3)].into());
+        let p = paint();
+        let c = cx(&d, &s, &p);
+        let w = CornerWidgets::for_tool(&c, true).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(w.corners(), [3]);
+        let mut t = crate::create("directSelection");
+        let at = pts(&w)[0];
+        t.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, at.x, at.y));
+        let a = t.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, at.x + 20.0, at.y + 20.0));
+        assert!(matches!(&a[1], Action::Preview(_, v) if v["corners"] == json!([3])), "{a:?}");
+        // Corners wider than 90° hide: the five tips keep theirs.
+        let whole = selected(id);
+        let c = ToolContext { corner_widget_max_angle: 90.0, ..cx(&d, &whole, &p) };
+        let w = CornerWidgets::for_tool(&c, true).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(w.corners(), [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]);
+        assert_eq!(w.command("radius", json!(4.0))["corners"], json!([0, 2, 4, 6, 8]));
+    }
+
+    /// A live polygon shows its widgets to the Selection tool too; past every corner's limit the
+    /// cuts outline in red.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_live_polygon_rounds_with_either_tool() {
+        let live = LiveShape::Polygon { radius: 80.0, sides: 6, xf: Affine::translate((200.0, 200.0)), radii: vec![], kinds: vec![] };
+        let (d, id) = doc_with(live.to_path(), Some(live));
+        let s = selected(id);
+        let p = paint();
+        let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
+        for any_path in [false, true] {
+            assert_eq!(CornerWidgets::for_tool(&cx, any_path).unwrap().corners().len(), 6);
+        }
+        let tip = pts(&CornerWidgets::for_tool(&cx, false).unwrap())[0];
+        let mut t = crate::create("selection");
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, tip.x, tip.y));
+        let a = t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, 200.0, 300.0));
+        // A hexagon's 120° corners stop where their cuts meet: 40 · tan 60°.
+        assert!((radius(&a[1]) - 40.0 * 3f64.sqrt()).abs() < 1e-9, "{a:?}");
+        let red = t
+            .overlays(&cx)
+            .into_iter()
+            .any(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Path { color, path, .. } if color == crate::builder::HIGHLIGHT_RED && path.elements().len() == 12));
+        assert!(red, "six arcs at the limit");
+    }
+
+    /// A pen path's middle corner shows a widget; its ends and curved corners don't.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_pen_path_shows_widgets_on_its_corners_only() {
+        let mut sp = vectorcraft_geom::SubPath::polyline(
+            &[Point::new(100.0, 100.0), Point::new(300.0, 100.0), Point::new(300.0, 300.0), Point::new(100.0, 300.0)],
+            false,
+        );
+        sp.anchors[2].h_out = Point::new(250.0, 350.0);
+        let (d, id) = doc_with(PathData::single(sp), None);
+        let s = selected(id);
+        let p = paint();
+        let w = CornerWidgets::for_tool(&cx(&d, &s, &p), true).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(w.corners(), [1]);
+        assert_eq!(pts(&w), [Point::new(290.0, 110.0)]);
+    }
 }

crates/tools/src/direct.rs

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 //! steps), drag a direction handle to
 //! reshape (Shift keeps it at 45° steps round its anchor, Alt moves it alone; smart guides snap
 //! it), marquee to select anchors (Shift-drag toggles them: the selected ones inside are
-//! deselected, the others selected), drag a live rectangle's corner widget to round its corners
+//! deselected, the others selected), drag a corner widget of any path (a star, a pen path) to round its corners
 //! (the selected ones when anchors are selected; Alt-click cycles their kind, double-click opens
 //! the Corners dialog).
 //! Group Selection: click selects the leaf; each further click on it adds the next enclosing group;
@@ -317,13 +317,13 @@ impl Tool for DirectSelectionTool {
                     vec![Action::Exec("select.set".into(), json!({"ids": [target.0]}))]
                 }
             }
-            (PointerKind::DoubleClick, _) if !self.group => corners::double_click(cx, p).into_iter().collect(),
+            (PointerKind::DoubleClick, _) if !self.group => corners::double_click(cx, p, true).into_iter().collect(),
             (PointerKind::Move, State::Idle) => {
                 self.hover = if self.group || !cx.highlight_anchors { None } else { hovered_anchor(cx, p) };
                 vec![]
             }
             (PointerKind::Down, _) => {
-                if let Some(c) = CornerDrag::hit(cx, ev) {
+                if let Some(c) = CornerDrag::hit(cx, ev, true) {
                     self.state = State::Corner(c);
                     return vec![];
                 }
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ impl Tool for DirectSelectionTool {
         }
     }
     fn cursor(&self, cx: &ToolContext, p: Point, _m: Mods) -> Cursor {
-        if !self.group && (matches!(self.state, State::Corner(_)) || over_widget(cx, p)) {
+        if !self.group && (matches!(self.state, State::Corner(_)) || over_widget(cx, p, true)) {
             return Cursor::CornerRadius;
         }
         if !self.group && (matches!(self.state, State::Bracket(_)) || over_bracket(cx, p)) {

crates/tools/src/draw2/curvature.rs

@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@
 //! Each click adds a point and the path curves smoothly through all points. Alt-click or
 //! double-click a point toggles it between smooth and corner; drag a point to move it; click the
 //! first point to close; Backspace/Delete removes the last touched point; Esc/Enter ends the path.
-//! A rubber band shows the curve to the cursor (Enable Rubber Band for Curvature Tool).
+//! A rubber band shows the curve to the cursor (Enable Rubber Band for Curvature Tool). Each point
+//! placed or dragged snaps to Smart Guides ([`DrawSnap`]), as the Pen's anchors do.
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
-use vectorcraft_doc::NodeId;
+use vectorcraft_doc::{NodeId, Selection};
 use vectorcraft_geom::Point;
 
 use super::{FEEDBACK, catmull_rom};
+use crate::guides::{DrawSnap, Leave, Targets};
 use crate::{Action, Cursor, Mods, Overlay, PointerEvent, PointerKind, Tool, ToolContext, ToolKey};
 
 #[derive(Default)]
@@ -22,6 +24,7 @@ pub struct CurvatureTool {
     /// Last touched point (Backspace removes it).
     current: Option<usize>,
     hover: Option<Point>,
+    snap: DrawSnap,
 }
 
 impl CurvatureTool {
@@ -55,6 +58,12 @@ impl CurvatureTool {
         self.id = None;
         self.drag = None;
         self.current = None;
+        self.snap.clear();
+    }
+
+    /// The segment to the next point leaves the last one.
+    fn leave(&self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Option<Leave> {
+        self.pts.last().map(|(p, _)| Leave::segment(cx, *p, false))
     }
 }
 
@@ -73,11 +82,12 @@ impl Tool for CurvatureTool {
         }
         match ev.kind {
             PointerKind::Move => {
-                self.hover = Some(p);
+                let from = active.and_then(|_| self.leave(cx));
+                self.hover = Some(self.snap.hover(cx, p, active.as_slice(), from.as_ref()));
                 vec![]
             }
             PointerKind::Down => {
-                if active.is_some() {
+                if let Some(id) = active {
                     if let Some(i) = self.hit_point(cx, p) {
                         self.current = Some(i);
                         if ev.mods.alt {
@@ -88,10 +98,15 @@ impl Tool for CurvatureTool {
                             self.closed = true;
                             return vec![Action::Exec("path.curvature".into(), self.params())];
                         }
+                        // The point dragged and the curve through it move: the rest pull.
+                        let sel = Selection { objects: vec![id], anchors: [(id, [(0, i)].into())].into(), ..Selection::default() };
+                        self.snap.hold(cx, || Targets::for_anchor_drag(cx.doc, &sel));
                         self.drag = Some((i, p, false));
                         return vec![];
                     }
                     if !self.closed {
+                        let from = self.leave(cx);
+                        let p = self.snap.press(cx, p, &[id], from.as_ref());
                         self.pts.push((p, ev.mods.alt));
                         self.current = Some(self.pts.len() - 1);
                         return vec![Action::Exec("path.curvature".into(), self.params())];
@@ -99,6 +114,7 @@ impl Tool for CurvatureTool {
                 }
                 // Start a new path.
                 self.reset();
+                let p = self.snap.press(cx, p, &[], None);
                 self.pts.push((p, false));
                 self.current = Some(0);
                 vec![Action::Exec("path.curvature".into(), self.params()), Action::Notify("created".into())]
@@ -113,16 +129,20 @@ impl Tool for CurvatureTool {
                     out.push(Action::Begin("Curvature".into()));
                     self.drag = Some((i, start, true));
                 }
+                let p = self.snap.drag(cx, p, None);
                 if let Some(pt) = self.pts.get_mut(i) {
                     pt.0 = p;
                 }
                 out.push(Action::Preview("path.curvature".into(), self.params()));
                 out
             }
-            PointerKind::Up => match self.drag.take() {
-                Some((_, _, true)) => vec![Action::Commit],
-                _ => vec![],
-            },
+            PointerKind::Up => {
+                self.snap.clear();
+                match self.drag.take() {
+                    Some((_, _, true)) => vec![Action::Commit],
+                    _ => vec![],
+                }
+            }
             PointerKind::DoubleClick => {
                 if active.is_none() {
                     return vec![];
@@ -163,10 +183,10 @@ impl Tool for CurvatureTool {
         if dragging { vec![Action::Commit] } else { vec![] }
     }
     fn overlays(&self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Overlay> {
+        let mut o = self.snap.guides().to_vec();
         if self.active(cx).is_none() {
-            return vec![];
+            return o;
         }
-        let mut o = vec![];
         if cx.curvature_rubber_band
             && !self.closed
             && self.drag.is_none()
@@ -217,4 +237,19 @@ mod tests {
         let a = t.pointer(&cx2, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 400.0, 400.0));
         assert!(matches!(&a[0], Action::Exec(_, v) if v["id"] == id.0 && v["points"].as_array().unwrap().len() == 5));
     }
+
+    /// Points snap to Smart Guides (#506): the first lands on another object's anchor and says so.
+    #[test]
+    fn points_snap_to_smart_guides() {
+        let (d, _) = doc_with_rect();
+        let s = Selection::default();
+        let p = paint();
+        let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
+        let mut t = CurvatureTool::default();
+        let a = t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 202.0, 99.0));
+        assert!(matches!(&a[0], Action::Exec(_, v) if v["points"][0]["x"] == 200.0 && v["points"][0]["y"] == 100.0), "{a:?}");
+        assert!(t.overlays(&cx).iter().any(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Label { text, .. } if text == "anchor")));
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Up, 202.0, 99.0));
+        assert!(t.overlays(&cx).is_empty());
+    }
 }

crates/tools/src/draw2/family.rs

@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 //! Line Segment family drag tools: Arc, Spiral, Rectangular Grid and Polar Grid.
 //!
 //! Drag draws (Shift = equal axes / square, Alt = from the centre for arc and grids, Space held
-//! moves the shape being drawn); a click without dragging asks the UI for the options dialog.
+//! moves the shape being drawn); a click without dragging asks the UI for the options dialog. The
+//! start point and the dragged corner snap to Smart Guides ([`DrawSnap`]), hovering too.
 //! While dragging, ↑/↓ change the spiral's segments, the grid rows or the concentric dividers; ←/→
 //! change grid columns / radial dividers.
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
-use vectorcraft_geom::{Point, Rect, Vec2};
+use vectorcraft_geom::Point;
 
+use crate::guides::{DrawSnap, Leave, square};
+use crate::shape::drag_rect;
 use crate::{Action, Cursor, Mods, Overlay, PointerEvent, PointerKind, Tool, ToolContext, ToolKey};
 
 pub struct FamilyTool {
@@ -24,6 +27,7 @@ pub struct FamilyTool {
     pub rows: u32,
     /// Columns / radial dividers.
     pub columns: u32,
+    snap: DrawSnap,
 }
 
 impl FamilyTool {
@@ -46,6 +50,7 @@ impl FamilyTool {
             clockwise: true,
             rows: 5,
             columns: 5,
+            snap: DrawSnap::default(),
         }
     }
 
@@ -58,13 +63,10 @@ impl FamilyTool {
         }
     }
 
-    fn rect(start: Point, p: Point, m: Mods) -> Rect {
-        let mut d = p - start;
-        if m.shift {
-            let s = d.x.abs().max(d.y.abs());
-            d = Vec2::new(s * d.x.signum(), s * d.y.signum());
-        }
-        if m.alt { Rect::from_points(start - d, start + d) } else { Rect::from_points(start, start + d) }
+    /// How the dragged point keeps to the start: a spiral's radius goes anywhere, the arc's and
+    /// the grids' corner keeps to a diagonal with Shift.
+    fn leave(&self, start: Point, m: Mods) -> Option<Leave> {
+        (self.id != "spiral").then(|| Leave::diagonal(start, m.shift))
     }
 
     /// The command for a drag from `start` to `p`.
@@ -78,25 +80,21 @@ impl FamilyTool {
                 )
             }
             "rectangularGrid" => {
-                let r = Self::rect(start, p, m);
+                let r = drag_rect(start, p, m);
                 (
                     "shape.rectangularGrid".into(),
                     json!({"x": r.x0, "y": r.y0, "width": r.width(), "height": r.height(), "rows": self.rows, "columns": self.columns}),
                 )
             }
             "polarGrid" => {
-                let r = Self::rect(start, p, m);
+                let r = drag_rect(start, p, m);
                 (
                     "shape.polarGrid".into(),
                     json!({"x": r.x0, "y": r.y0, "width": r.width(), "height": r.height(), "concentric": self.rows, "radial": self.columns}),
                 )
             }
             _ => {
-                let mut d = p - start;
-                if m.shift {
-                    let s = d.x.abs().max(d.y.abs());
-                    d = Vec2::new(s * d.x.signum(), s * d.y.signum());
-                }
+                let d = if m.shift { square(p - start) } else { p - start };
                 let (a, b) = if m.alt { (start - d, start + d) } else { (start, start + d) };
                 ("shape.arc".into(), json!({"x1": a.x, "y1": a.y, "x2": b.x, "y2": b.y, "closed": self.closed}))
             }
@@ -113,8 +111,12 @@ impl Tool for FamilyTool {
     }
     fn pointer(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, ev: &PointerEvent) -> Vec<Action> {
         match ev.kind {
+            PointerKind::Move => {
+                self.snap.hover(cx, ev.pos, &[], None);
+                vec![]
+            }
             PointerKind::Down => {
-                let (p, _) = crate::guides::snap_draw(cx, ev.pos, &[]);
+                let p = self.snap.press(cx, ev.pos, &[], None);
                 self.start = Some(p);
                 self.last = p;
                 self.began = false;
@@ -122,6 +124,8 @@ impl Tool for FamilyTool {
             }
             PointerKind::Drag => {
                 let Some(mut s) = self.start else { return vec![] };
+                let pos = self.snap.drag(cx, ev.pos, self.leave(s, ev.mods).as_ref());
+                let ev = &PointerEvent { pos, ..*ev };
                 crate::shape::space_moves(&mut s, &mut self.last, ev, self.began);
                 self.start = Some(s);
                 self.mods = ev.mods;
@@ -139,6 +143,7 @@ impl Tool for FamilyTool {
             }
             PointerKind::Up => {
                 let Some(s) = self.start.take() else { return vec![] };
+                self.snap.clear();
                 if std::mem::take(&mut self.began) { vec![Action::Commit] } else { vec![Action::Dialog(self.id.into(), json!({"x": s.x, "y": s.y}))] }
             }
             _ => vec![],
@@ -179,19 +184,21 @@ impl Tool for FamilyTool {
         } else if key == ToolKey::Escape {
             self.start = None;
             self.began = false;
+            self.snap.clear();
             vec![Action::Cancel]
         } else {
             vec![]
         }
     }
     fn overlays(&self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Overlay> {
-        match self.start {
-            Some(s) if self.began && cx.measurement_labels => {
-                let d = self.last - s;
-                vec![Overlay::Measure { p: self.last, text: cx.size_label(d.x.abs(), d.y.abs()) }]
-            }
-            _ => vec![],
+        let mut o = self.snap.guides().to_vec();
+        if let Some(s) = self.start.filter(|_| self.began && cx.measurement_labels) {
+            // The size as drawn (from the centre with Alt, square with Shift).
+            let r = drag_rect(s, self.last, self.mods);
+            let (w, h) = if self.id == "spiral" { ((self.last - s).x.abs(), (self.last - s).y.abs()) } else { (r.width(), r.height()) };
+            o.push(Overlay::Measure { p: self.last, text: cx.size_label(w, h) });
         }
+        o
     }
     fn cursor(&self, _cx: &ToolContext, _p: Point, _m: Mods) -> Cursor {
         Cursor::Crosshair
@@ -267,4 +274,23 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(c, "shape.arc");
         assert_eq!(v, json!({"x1": 0.0, "y1": 0.0, "x2": 10.0, "y2": 10.0, "closed": false}));
     }
+
+    /// The start and the dragged corner snap to Smart Guides (#506), Shift sliding the corner of
+    /// a square grid along its diagonal into line.
+    #[test]
+    fn corners_snap_to_smart_guides() {
+        let (d, _) = doc_with_rect();
+        let s = Selection::default();
+        let p = paint();
+        let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
+        let mut t = FamilyTool::new("rectangularGrid");
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 202.0, 99.0));
+        let shift = Mods { shift: true, ..Mods::default() };
+        let a = t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, 255.0, 147.0).with_mods(shift));
+        assert!(
+            matches!(&a[..], [Action::Begin(_), Action::Preview(_, v)] if v["x"] == 200.0 && v["y"] == 100.0 && v["width"] == 50.0 && v["height"] == 50.0),
+            "{a:?}"
+        );
+        assert!(t.overlays(&cx).iter().any(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Label { text, .. } if text == "align")));
+    }
 }

crates/tools/src/draw2/gesture.rs

@@ -3,14 +3,17 @@
 //!
 //! Pencil and Paintbrush preview the fitted path live (`path.freehand` re-applied on the snapshot)
 //! and commit on release; Alt on release (or ending near the start) closes the path, and starting
-//! near an end of a selected open path continues it. The other tools collect the drag polyline
-//! (shown as an overlay) and run one command on release.
+//! near an end of a selected open path continues it. The Pencil's new path starts and ends on
+//! Smart Guides ([`DrawSnap`]: an anchor, a path, in line with the art), hovering too; the points
+//! between follow the hand. The other tools collect the drag polyline (shown as an overlay) and run
+//! one command on release.
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
 use vectorcraft_doc::NodeId;
 use vectorcraft_geom::Point;
 
 use super::{FEEDBACK, points_json, polyline};
+use crate::guides::DrawSnap;
 use crate::{Action, Cursor, Mods, Overlay, PointerEvent, PointerKind, Tool, ToolContext, ToolKey};
 
 pub struct GestureTool {
@@ -30,6 +33,8 @@ pub struct GestureTool {
     pub edit_within: f64,
     /// "Close paths when ends are within N pixels".
     pub close_within: f64,
+    /// Smart Guides for the Pencil's ends.
+    snap: DrawSnap,
 }
 
 impl GestureTool {
@@ -56,9 +61,15 @@ impl GestureTool {
             fill: false,
             edit_within: 12.0,
             close_within: 15.0,
+            snap: DrawSnap::default(),
         }
     }
 
+    /// Do the ends of its strokes snap (the Pencil)?
+    fn snaps(&self) -> bool {
+        self.id == "pencil"
+    }
+
     fn draws_path(&self) -> bool {
         matches!(self.id, "pencil" | "paintbrush")
     }
@@ -147,17 +158,27 @@ impl Tool for GestureTool {
     fn pointer(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, ev: &PointerEvent) -> Vec<Action> {
         let p = ev.pos;
         match ev.kind {
+            PointerKind::Move if self.snaps() => {
+                self.snap.hover(cx, p, &[], None);
+                vec![]
+            }
             PointerKind::Down => {
-                self.points = vec![p];
                 self.active = true;
                 self.began = false;
                 self.extend = if self.draws_path() { self.find_extend(cx, p) } else { None };
+                // A path continued starts at its end; a new one where it snaps.
+                let start = if self.snaps() && self.extend.is_none() { self.snap.press(cx, p, &[], None) } else { p };
+                self.points = vec![start];
                 vec![]
             }
             PointerKind::Drag => {
                 if !self.active {
                     return vec![];
                 }
+                if self.snaps() {
+                    // Where the stroke would end: shown, taken on release.
+                    self.snap.drag(cx, p, None);
+                }
                 if self.points.last().is_some_and(|l| l.distance(p) < cx.tol(1.0)) {
                     return vec![];
                 }
@@ -177,8 +198,16 @@ impl Tool for GestureTool {
                 if !self.active {
                     return vec![];
                 }
+                let end = if self.snaps() { self.snap.drag(cx, p, None) } else { p };
+                self.snap.clear();
                 if self.points.last().is_some_and(|l| l.distance(p) >= cx.tol(1.0)) {
-                    self.points.push(p);
+                    self.points.push(end);
+                } else if self.snaps()
+                    && self.points.len() > 1
+                    && let Some(last) = self.points.last_mut()
+                {
+                    // The last step was where the button went up: it moves where that snaps.
+                    *last = end;
                 }
                 let out = self.finish(cx, ev.mods);
                 self.active = false;
@@ -194,6 +223,7 @@ impl Tool for GestureTool {
         match key {
             ToolKey::Escape if self.active => {
                 let began = self.began;
+                self.snap.clear();
                 self.active = false;
                 self.began = false;
                 self.points.clear();
@@ -212,21 +242,24 @@ impl Tool for GestureTool {
     }
     fn deactivate(&mut self, _cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Action> {
         let began = self.began;
+        self.snap.clear();
         self.active = false;
         self.began = false;
         self.points.clear();
         if began { vec![Action::Commit] } else { vec![] }
     }
     fn overlays(&self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Overlay> {
+        let mut o = self.snap.guides().to_vec();
         if !self.active || self.points.len() < 2 || self.began {
-            return vec![];
+            return o;
         }
         let width = match self.id {
             "blobBrush" | "eraser" => (self.size * cx.zoom) as f32,
             _ => 1.0,
         };
         let color = if self.id == "eraser" { [0x80, 0x80, 0x80] } else { FEEDBACK };
-        vec![Overlay::Path { path: polyline(&self.points), color, width, dashed: self.id == "knife" }]
+        o.push(Overlay::Path { path: polyline(&self.points), color, width, dashed: self.id == "knife" });
+        o
     }
     fn cursor(&self, _cx: &ToolContext, _p: Point, _m: Mods) -> Cursor {
         Cursor::Crosshair
@@ -269,6 +302,25 @@ mod tests {
         v
     }
 
+    /// The Pencil's new path starts and ends on Smart Guides (#506), the points between where
+    /// the hand went.
+    #[test]
+    fn pencil_ends_snap_to_smart_guides() {
+        let (d, _) = doc_with_rect();
+        let s = Selection::default();
+        let p = paint();
+        let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
+        let mut t = GestureTool::new("pencil");
+        let acts = drag(&mut t, &cx, &[(102.0, 98.0), (151.0, 300.0), (250.0, 320.0), (198.0, 203.0)], Mods::default());
+        let Some(Action::Preview(_, v)) = acts.last().and_then(|a| a.first()) else { panic!("{acts:?}") };
+        assert_eq!(v["points"], json!([[100.0, 100.0], [151.0, 300.0], [250.0, 320.0], [200.0, 200.0]]));
+        // The Paintbrush follows the hand all the way.
+        let mut t = GestureTool::new("paintbrush");
+        let acts = drag(&mut t, &cx, &[(102.0, 98.0), (151.0, 300.0)], Mods::default());
+        let Some(Action::Preview(_, v)) = acts.last().and_then(|a| a.first()) else { panic!("{acts:?}") };
+        assert_eq!(v["points"][0], json!([102.0, 98.0]));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn pencil_previews_and_commits() {
         let (d, _) = doc_with_rect();

crates/tools/src/guides.rs

@@ -1,15 +1,23 @@
-//! Smart Guides: snapping to anchors, path segments (for dragged anchors), object bounds
-//! (edges/centres), artboards, with the magenta construction lines and labels Illustrator users
-//! expect. Preferences › Smart Guides sets their colour, which of them show ([`GuideStyle`]) and
-//! how near a target pulls (`ToolContext::snapping_tolerance`).
+//! Smart Guides: snapping to anchors, path segments (for dragged anchors and drawn points), object
+//! bounds (edges/centres), artboards, with the magenta construction lines and labels Illustrator
+//! users expect. Preferences › Smart Guides sets their colour, which of them show ([`GuideStyle`]),
+//! how near a target pulls (`ToolContext::snapping_tolerance`) and the angles of the construction
+//! guides drawn points land on (`ToolContext::construction_angles`).
+//!
+//! The drawing tools (Pen, Curvature, Pencil, the shape tools, Type, Artboard) all snap the points
+//! they place through one [`DrawSnap`]: their targets are gathered once per document state, sorted,
+//! and each pointer move looks up the few near the pointer by bisection.
+
+use std::collections::HashSet;
+use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use vectorcraft_doc::hit::{HitOptions, hit_test};
-use vectorcraft_doc::{Document, NodeId, NodeKind, OrientedBox, Selection};
+use vectorcraft_doc::{Document, Node, NodeId, NodeKind, OrientedBox, Selection};
 use vectorcraft_geom::kurbo::ParamCurveNearest;
-use vectorcraft_geom::{Affine, Line, ParamCurve, PathSeg, Point, Rect, SubPath, Vec2};
+use vectorcraft_geom::{Affine, Line, ParamCurve, PathSeg, Point, Rect, SubPath, Vec2, constrain_angle_from};
 
 use crate::bbox::Handle;
-use crate::{Overlay, ToolContext};
+use crate::{Overlay, ScreenFrame, ToolContext};
 
 pub const MAGENTA: [u8; 3] = [0xff, 0x3d, 0xfc];
 
@@ -102,9 +110,93 @@ impl Ruler {
 /// How many anchors, and how many segments, the targets gather at most.
 const BUDGET: usize = 20_000;
 
+/// What [`Targets::collect_inner`] gathers from each path besides its anchors and bounds.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+enum Gather {
+    /// Nothing more: a moved or resized selection lines up with bounds.
+    Bounds,
+    /// Its segments, which a dragged anchor lands on.
+    Segments,
+    /// Its segments, and its anchors as lines too: a drawn point lines up with them.
+    Drawing,
+}
+
+/// The entries of `sorted` (ascending by `key`) whose key is within `tol` of `v`, found by
+/// bisection.
+fn within<T>(sorted: &[T], key: impl Fn(&T) -> f64, v: f64, tol: f64) -> &[T] {
+    let lo = sorted.partition_point(|e| key(e) < v - tol);
+    let hi = sorted.partition_point(|e| key(e) <= v + tol);
+    sorted.get(lo..hi).unwrap_or_default()
+}
+
+/// Visit `nodes` and everything inside them, but the nodes in `skip` and everything inside those:
+/// one pass, however many are skipped.
+fn walk_but<'a>(nodes: &'a [Arc<Node>], skip: &HashSet<NodeId>, f: &mut impl FnMut(&'a Node)) {
+    for n in nodes.iter().filter(|n| !skip.contains(&n.id)) {
+        f(n);
+        if let Some(ch) = n.children() {
+            walk_but(ch, skip, f);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The lines of `lines` (sorted by where they run) within `tol` of `v`.
+fn lines_near(lines: &[(f64, Point, Kind)], v: f64, tol: f64) -> &[(f64, Point, Kind)] {
+    within(lines, |l| l.0, v, tol)
+}
+
 impl Targets {
     pub fn collect(doc: &Document, exclude: &[NodeId], visible: Option<Rect>) -> Self {
-        Self::collect_inner(doc, exclude, None, visible, false)
+        Self::collect_inner(doc, exclude, None, visible, Gather::Bounds)
+    }
+
+    /// Targets for a drawn point: the art in `visible` (all of it for None) but `exclude`, its
+    /// anchors, centres, edges and path segments, its anchors in line too. The anchors and
+    /// segments of `exclude` (the path being drawn, whose bounds grow with it) stay targets.
+    pub fn for_drawing(doc: &Document, exclude: &[NodeId], visible: Option<Rect>) -> Self {
+        let mut t = Self::collect_inner(doc, exclude, None, visible, Gather::Drawing);
+        t.push_paths(doc, exclude, true);
+        t.index()
+    }
+
+    /// Targets for a dragged direction handle of path `id`: the other art, and the anchors of `id`
+    /// (its bounds and the segments through the handle move with it, so they would chase it).
+    pub fn for_handle(doc: &Document, id: NodeId) -> Self {
+        let mut t = Self::collect_inner(doc, &[id], None, None, Gather::Bounds);
+        t.push_paths(doc, &[id], false);
+        t.index()
+    }
+
+    /// The anchors of the paths `ids` as targets, on them and in line, and their segments too
+    /// when `segments`: at most [`BUDGET`] of each.
+    fn push_paths(&mut self, doc: &Document, ids: &[NodeId], segments: bool) {
+        let (mut anchors, mut segment_budget) = (BUDGET, if segments { BUDGET } else { 0 });
+        for path in ids.iter().filter_map(|id| doc.node(*id)?.path_data()) {
+            for sp in &path.subpaths {
+                for a in sp.anchors.iter().take(anchors) {
+                    self.push_anchor(a.p);
+                    anchors -= 1;
+                }
+                self.push_segments(sp, |_| false, &mut segment_budget);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Sort the targets so that [`within`] finds those near a point by bisection: the anchors
+    /// and centres by x, the lines by where they run. Every constructor ends with it (the sort
+    /// is stable: of targets alike, the first gathered still wins).
+    fn index(mut self) -> Self {
+        self.points.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.x.total_cmp(&b.0.x));
+        self.xs.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.total_cmp(&b.0));
+        self.ys.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.total_cmp(&b.0));
+        self
+    }
+
+    /// Anchor `a` as a target: a point lands on it and lines up with it.
+    fn push_anchor(&mut self, a: Point) {
+        self.points.push((a, Kind::Anchor));
+        self.xs.push((a.x, a, Kind::Anchor));
+        self.ys.push((a.y, a, Kind::Anchor));
     }
 
     /// The same targets drawing their guides as the Smart Guides preferences in `cx` ask
@@ -127,29 +219,27 @@ impl Targets {
     /// Targets for dragging artboard `index`: everything except that artboard and `exclude` (the
     /// art that moves along with it).
     pub fn for_artboard(doc: &Document, index: usize, exclude: &[NodeId]) -> Self {
-        Self::collect_inner(doc, exclude, Some(index), None, false)
+        Self::collect_inner(doc, exclude, Some(index), None, Gather::Bounds)
     }
 
     /// Targets for dragging the direct-selected anchors of `sel` (and its objects selected as a
     /// whole): the other art, its path segments too, and the anchors and segments that stay put on
     /// the paths being reshaped (their bounds move along, so they are no targets).
     pub fn for_anchor_drag(doc: &Document, sel: &Selection) -> Self {
-        let mut t = Self::collect_inner(doc, &sel.objects, None, None, true);
+        let mut t = Self::collect_inner(doc, &sel.objects, None, None, Gather::Segments);
         let (mut anchors, mut segments) = (BUDGET, BUDGET);
         for (id, set) in &sel.anchors {
             let Some(path) = doc.node(*id).and_then(|n| n.path_data()) else { continue };
             for (si, sp) in path.subpaths.iter().enumerate() {
                 let moving = |ai: usize| set.contains(&(si, ai));
                 for a in sp.anchors.iter().enumerate().filter(|(ai, _)| !moving(*ai)).map(|(_, a)| a.p).take(anchors) {
-                    t.points.push((a, Kind::Anchor));
-                    t.xs.push((a.x, a, Kind::Anchor));
-                    t.ys.push((a.y, a, Kind::Anchor));
+                    t.push_anchor(a);
                     anchors -= 1;
                 }
                 t.push_segments(sp, moving, &mut segments);
             }
         }
-        t
+        t.index()
     }
 
     /// The segments of `sp` that stay put while the anchors `moving` accepts move, as targets, at
@@ -171,9 +261,8 @@ impl Targets {
         }
     }
 
-    fn collect_inner(doc: &Document, exclude: &[NodeId], skip_artboard: Option<usize>, visible: Option<Rect>, segments: bool) -> Self {
+    fn collect_inner(doc: &Document, exclude: &[NodeId], skip_artboard: Option<usize>, visible: Option<Rect>, gather: Gather) -> Self {
         let mut t = Targets::default();
-        let excluded = |id: NodeId| exclude.iter().any(|e| doc.ancestry(id).is_some_and(|a| a.contains(e)));
         let add_rect = |t: &mut Targets, r: Rect, kind: Kind| {
             let c = r.center();
             for p in [Point::new(r.x0, r.y0), Point::new(r.x1, r.y0), Point::new(r.x1, r.y1), Point::new(r.x0, r.y1)] {
@@ -194,8 +283,8 @@ impl Targets {
             }
         }
         let (mut budget, mut segment_budget) = (BUDGET, BUDGET);
-        doc.walk(|n| {
-            if budget == 0 || n.is_container() || !n.visible || excluded(n.id) {
+        walk_but(&doc.layers, &exclude.iter().copied().collect(), &mut |n| {
+            if budget == 0 || n.is_container() || !n.visible {
                 return;
             }
             let Some(b) = n.geometric_bounds() else { return };
@@ -207,10 +296,14 @@ impl Targets {
             }
             if let NodeKind::Path { path, .. } = &n.kind {
                 for (_, _, a) in path.anchors() {
-                    t.points.push((a.p, Kind::Anchor));
+                    if gather == Gather::Drawing {
+                        t.push_anchor(a.p);
+                    } else {
+                        t.points.push((a.p, Kind::Anchor));
+                    }
                     budget = budget.saturating_sub(1);
                 }
-                if segments {
+                if gather != Gather::Bounds {
                     for sp in &path.subpaths {
                         t.push_segments(sp, |_| false, &mut segment_budget);
                     }
@@ -218,7 +311,7 @@ impl Targets {
             }
             add_rect(&mut t, b, Kind::Edge);
         });
-        t
+        t.index()
     }
 
     /// Only these targets' anchors pull (View → Snap to Point).
@@ -265,25 +358,55 @@ impl Targets {
                 t.points.push((b.center(), Kind::Center));
             });
         }
-        t
+        t.index()
     }
 
     /// Snap a single point: onto the nearest anchor or centre, else onto the nearest segment, else
     /// into line with targets. Returns the snapped point and guide overlays.
     pub fn snap_point(&self, p: Point, tol: f64) -> (Point, Vec<Overlay>) {
+        self.snap_from(p, None, tol)
+    }
+
+    /// Snap a drawn point `p` as [`Self::snap_point`] does, and when it leaves `from` (the anchor
+    /// before it, a shape's start): with Shift held it keeps to its angles round it, sliding along
+    /// that way into line with the nearest target; else, before lining up, it lands on a
+    /// construction guide through it, where a target's line crosses the guide if one does nearby.
+    pub fn snap_from(&self, p: Point, from: Option<&Leave>, tol: f64) -> (Point, Vec<Overlay>) {
+        if let Some(f) = from
+            && let Some(q) = f.constrained(p)
+        {
+            return match self.slide(f.at, q - f.at, q, tol, true) {
+                Some((q, target)) => (q, self.lined_up(q, target)),
+                None => (q, vec![]),
+            };
+        }
         if let Some((q, k)) = self.nearest_point(p, tol) {
             return (q, self.label(q, k.label()).into_iter().collect());
         }
         if let Some(q) = self.on_segment(p, tol) {
             return (q, self.label(q, Kind::Edge.label()).into_iter().collect());
         }
+        if let Some(f) = from
+            && let Some((dir, q)) = f.construction(p, tol)
+        {
+            let construction = |q: Point| Overlay::Line { a: f.at, b: q, color: self.style.color, dashed: false };
+            return match self.slide(f.at, dir, q, tol, false) {
+                Some((q, target)) => (q, std::iter::once(construction(q)).chain(self.lined_up(q, target)).collect()),
+                None => (q, vec![construction(q)]),
+            };
+        }
         let mut out = p;
         let mut ov = vec![];
         // The targets' lines along one axis and the ruler guides running past `p`, the nearest
         // within reach of `v`.
         let nearest = |lines: &[(f64, Point, Kind)], vertical: bool, v: f64| {
             let rulers = self.rulers.iter().filter(|r| r.vertical == vertical).filter_map(|r| r.line_at(p, tol));
-            lines.iter().copied().chain(rulers).filter(|(t, ..)| (t - v).abs() <= tol).min_by(|a, b| (a.0 - v).abs().total_cmp(&(b.0 - v).abs()))
+            lines_near(lines, v, tol)
+                .iter()
+                .copied()
+                .chain(rulers)
+                .filter(|(t, ..)| (t - v).abs() <= tol)
+                .min_by(|a, b| (a.0 - v).abs().total_cmp(&(b.0 - v).abs()))
         };
         let mut aligned = false;
         if let Some((x, from, _)) = nearest(&self.xs, true, p.x) {
@@ -304,7 +427,47 @@ impl Targets {
 
     /// The anchor or centre nearest `p`, within `tol`.
     fn nearest_point(&self, p: Point, tol: f64) -> Option<(Point, Kind)> {
-        self.points.iter().copied().filter(|(q, _)| q.distance(p) <= tol).min_by(|a, b| a.0.distance(p).total_cmp(&b.0.distance(p)))
+        within(&self.points, |q| q.0.x, p.x, tol)
+            .iter()
+            .copied()
+            .filter(|(q, _)| q.distance(p) <= tol)
+            .min_by(|a, b| a.0.distance(p).total_cmp(&b.0.distance(p)))
+    }
+
+    /// Slide `q`, on the line through `at` along `dir` (beyond `at` only, for a `ray`), to where
+    /// the nearest target line crosses it, at most twice `tol` away: where it lands and the
+    /// target's own point (where its line starts).
+    fn slide(&self, at: Point, dir: Vec2, q: Point, tol: f64, ray: bool) -> Option<(Point, Point)> {
+        if !dir.hypot2().is_finite() || dir.hypot2() <= 1e-18 {
+            return None;
+        }
+        let reach = 2.0 * tol;
+        let mut best: Option<(f64, Point, Point)> = None;
+        for (vertical, lines, d, a, v) in [(true, &self.xs, dir.x, at.x, q.x), (false, &self.ys, dir.y, at.y, q.y)] {
+            if d.abs() <= 1e-9 {
+                continue;
+            }
+            // A line that far across the way crosses it at least that far along.
+            for (t, from, _) in lines_near(lines, v, reach) {
+                let s = (t - a) / d;
+                // Exactly on the line, whatever the rounding along the way.
+                let hit = if vertical { Point::new(*t, at.y + dir.y * s) } else { Point::new(at.x + dir.x * s, *t) };
+                let moved = hit.distance(q);
+                if moved <= reach && (!ray || s > 0.0) && best.is_none_or(|b| moved < b.0) {
+                    best = Some((moved, hit, *from));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        best.map(|(_, hit, from)| (hit, from))
+    }
+
+    /// The guides of a point `q` slid into line with the target at `from`: the line from it and
+    /// "align", or the target's own label when `q` sits right on it.
+    fn lined_up(&self, q: Point, from: Point) -> Vec<Overlay> {
+        if let Some((on, k)) = self.nearest_point(q, 1e-9) {
+            return self.label(on, k.label()).into_iter().collect();
+        }
+        self.line(from, q).into_iter().chain(self.label(q, "align")).collect()
     }
 
     /// The nearest point within `tol` of `p` on a target segment.
@@ -323,7 +486,7 @@ impl Targets {
     pub fn snap_guide(&self, vertical: bool, v: f64, tol: f64) -> (f64, Vec<Overlay>) {
         let along = |q: &Point| if vertical { q.x } else { q.y };
         let lines = if vertical { &self.xs } else { &self.ys };
-        let best = lines
+        let best = lines_near(lines, v, tol)
             .iter()
             .map(|(t, from, k)| (*t, *from, *k))
             .chain(self.points.iter().map(|(q, k)| (along(q), *q, *k)))
@@ -370,7 +533,7 @@ impl Targets {
             rects
                 .iter()
                 .flat_map(|r| along(r).into_iter().map(move |v| (v, *r)))
-                .flat_map(|(v, r)| targets.iter().map(move |(t, from, _)| (t - v, *from, v, r)))
+                .flat_map(|(v, r)| lines_near(targets, v, tol).iter().map(move |(t, from, _)| (t - v, *from, v, r)))
                 .filter(|(d, ..)| d.abs() <= tol)
                 .min_by(|a, b| a.0.abs().total_cmp(&b.0.abs()))
         };
@@ -410,7 +573,11 @@ impl Targets {
         // A scale that collapses or flips the box is no snap.
         let valid = |n: f64, s: f64| n.is_finite() && n * s > 0.0;
         let nearest = |v: f64, ts: &[(f64, Point, Kind)]| -> Hit {
-            ts.iter().map(|(t, from, _)| (*t, *from)).filter(|(t, _)| (t - v).abs() <= tol).min_by(|p, q| (p.0 - v).abs().total_cmp(&(q.0 - v).abs()))
+            lines_near(ts, v, tol)
+                .iter()
+                .map(|(t, from, _)| (*t, *from))
+                .filter(|(t, _)| (t - v).abs() <= tol)
+                .min_by(|p, q| (p.0 - v).abs().total_cmp(&(q.0 - v).abs()))
         };
         let (mut nx, mut ny) = (sx, sy);
         let mut snap: Snap = (None, None, None);
@@ -540,24 +707,225 @@ impl PointSnap {
 
     /// Where `p` goes, and the guides showing why.
     pub fn snap(&self, cx: &ToolContext, p: Point) -> (Point, Vec<Overlay>) {
+        self.snap_from(cx, p, None)
+    }
+
+    /// Where a drawn point `p` leaving `from` goes ([`Targets::snap_from`]), and the guides
+    /// showing why. Pixels and the grid round it before Shift turns it onto its angle.
+    pub fn snap_from(&self, cx: &ToolContext, p: Point, from: Option<&Leave>) -> (Point, Vec<Overlay>) {
+        let keep = |q: Point| from.and_then(|f| f.constrained(q)).unwrap_or(q);
         if cx.snap_to_pixel {
-            return (Point::new(p.x.round(), p.y.round()), vec![]);
+            return (keep(Point::new(p.x.round(), p.y.round())), vec![]);
         }
         if cx.snap_to_grid {
-            return (vectorcraft_geom::snap::snap_point_to_grid(p, cx.grid_step()), vec![]);
+            return (keep(vectorcraft_geom::snap::snap_point_to_grid(p, cx.grid_step())), vec![]);
         }
         match &self.targets {
-            Some((t, tol)) => t.snap_point(p, cx.tol(*tol)),
-            None => (p, vec![]),
+            Some((t, tol)) => t.snap_from(p, from, cx.tol(*tol)),
+            None => (keep(p), vec![]),
         }
     }
 }
 
-/// Snapping for a dragged direction handle: Shift keeps it at 45° steps round its anchor, else it
-/// snaps as a drawn point does. The targets are gathered on the first move that needs them and
-/// kept for the rest of the drag (gathering them takes as long as the document is big).
+/// The Construction Guides angle set new preferences start with.
+pub const DEFAULT_CONSTRUCTION_ANGLES: &str = "90° & 45° Angles";
+
+/// The angles (degrees) of the construction guides of a Smart Guides › Angles set: "90°" gives the
+/// horizontal and the vertical, "45°" the diagonals, "60°" and "30°" their multiples between those.
+pub fn construction_angles(set: &str) -> &'static [f64] {
+    match set {
+        "30° Angles" => &[30.0, 60.0, 120.0, 150.0],
+        "45° Angles" => &[45.0, 135.0],
+        "60° Angles" => &[60.0, 120.0],
+        "90° Angles" => &[0.0, 90.0],
+        "90° & 45° & 30° Angles" => &[0.0, 30.0, 45.0, 60.0, 90.0, 120.0, 135.0, 150.0],
+        _ => &[0.0, 45.0, 90.0, 135.0],
+    }
+}
+
+/// How Shift keeps a drawn point to the point it leaves from.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+enum Keep {
+    /// At steps of `step` degrees counted from `base` (a segment).
+    Angle { step: f64, base: f64 },
+    /// On a diagonal, as far along as the pointer's farther axis (a square's corner).
+    Square,
+}
+
+/// The point a drawn point leaves from (the anchor before it, a shape's start) and how it keeps
+/// to it: with Shift held at fixed angles round it, and onto the construction guides through it
+/// (Smart Guides › Construction Guides).
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
+pub struct Leave {
+    pub at: Point,
+    /// Shift held: how the point keeps to `at`.
+    shift: Option<Keep>,
+    /// The angles of the construction guides through `at` (none with them off).
+    angles: &'static [f64],
+}
+
+impl Leave {
+    /// A segment from `at` (Pen, Curvature, Line Segment): Shift keeps it at 45° steps from
+    /// General › Constrain Angle; with Smart Guides on it lands on the construction guides.
+    pub fn segment(cx: &ToolContext, at: Point, shift: bool) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            at,
+            shift: shift.then_some(Keep::Angle { step: 45.0, base: cx.constrain_angle }),
+            angles: if cx.smart_guides { cx.construction_angles } else { &[] },
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A box dragged from its corner or centre `at` (Rectangle, Ellipse, Arc, the grids,
+    /// Artboard): Shift keeps the dragged corner on a diagonal, the box a square.
+    pub fn diagonal(at: Point, shift: bool) -> Self {
+        Self { at, shift: shift.then_some(Keep::Square), angles: &[] }
+    }
+
+    /// Where Shift puts `p`: none without it.
+    fn constrained(&self, p: Point) -> Option<Point> {
+        let v = p - self.at;
+        Some(match self.shift? {
+            Keep::Angle { step, base } => self.at + constrain_angle_from(v, step, base),
+            Keep::Square => self.at + square(v),
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// The construction guide through `at` nearest `p`, within `tol` of it (and `p` farther than
+    /// that from `at`, where every guide meets): its direction and where `p` lands on it.
+    fn construction(&self, p: Point, tol: f64) -> Option<(Vec2, Point)> {
+        let v = p - self.at;
+        if v.hypot() <= tol {
+            return None;
+        }
+        self.angles
+            .iter()
+            // Counter-clockwise as seen on the y-down page.
+            .map(|a| Vec2::new(a.to_radians().cos(), -a.to_radians().sin()))
+            .map(|d| (d, self.at + d * v.dot(d)))
+            .map(|(d, q)| (d, q, q.distance(p)))
+            .filter(|(.., dist)| *dist <= tol)
+            .min_by(|a, b| a.2.total_cmp(&b.2))
+            .map(|(d, q, _)| (d, q))
+    }
+}
+
+/// `d` made square: as long on both axes as on its longer one, each keeping its sign.
+pub fn square(d: Vec2) -> Vec2 {
+    let s = d.x.abs().max(d.y.abs());
+    Vec2::new(s * d.x.signum(), s * d.y.signum())
+}
+
+/// Smart Guides for the points a drawing tool places: the Pen's and Curvature tool's anchors,
+/// the Pencil's ends, the shape tools' start and dragged corner, the Type tool's click and the
+/// Artboard tool's new artboard. Each such tool keeps one and asks it for every point, hovering
+/// too, so they all snap alike, and shows its [`Self::guides`].
+///
+/// The targets ([`Targets::for_drawing`], the art in the window) are gathered once per document
+/// state: hovering gathers them again only after the document, the selection, what is left out,
+/// the window or the snapping options changed; a press always gathers them afresh, and the drag
+/// it starts keeps them, the document then showing the drag's own previews.
 #[derive(Default)]
-pub struct HandleSnap(Option<PointSnap>);
+pub struct DrawSnap {
+    /// The targets, and what they were gathered for (none: for one drag only).
+    targets: Option<(Option<SnapKey>, PointSnap)>,
+    guides: Vec<Overlay>,
+}
+
+/// What a [`DrawSnap`]'s targets were gathered for: the document state, the art left out, the
+/// window and every option [`PointSnap::new`] reads.
+#[derive(PartialEq)]
+struct SnapKey {
+    revision: (u64, u64),
+    exclude: Vec<NodeId>,
+    screen: Option<ScreenFrame>,
+    view: [bool; 5],
+    style: GuideStyle,
+    tolerances: [f64; 2],
+}
+
+impl SnapKey {
+    fn of(cx: &ToolContext, exclude: &[NodeId]) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            revision: cx.revision,
+            exclude: exclude.to_vec(),
+            screen: cx.screen,
+            view: [cx.smart_guides, cx.snap_to_point, cx.snap_to_pixel, cx.snap_to_grid, cx.guides],
+            style: GuideStyle::of(cx),
+            tolerances: [cx.snapping_tolerance, cx.snap_tolerance],
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The part of the document the window shows (none headless: all of it).
+fn visible(cx: &ToolContext) -> Option<Rect> {
+    let s = cx.screen?;
+    let (w, h) = s.size;
+    Some(Rect::from_points(s.at(0.0, 0.0), s.at(w, h)).union_pt(s.at(w, 0.0)).union_pt(s.at(0.0, h)))
+}
+
+impl DrawSnap {
+    /// Snap the pointer hovering at `p` (the art but `exclude` as targets, the anchors of
+    /// `exclude` still pulling), reusing the targets while nothing they depend on changed.
+    pub fn hover(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, p: Point, exclude: &[NodeId], from: Option<&Leave>) -> Point {
+        let key = SnapKey::of(cx, exclude);
+        if self.targets.as_ref().is_none_or(|(k, _)| k.as_ref() != Some(&key)) {
+            self.gather(cx, key);
+        }
+        self.snap(cx, p, from)
+    }
+
+    /// Snap the point pressed at `p`, the targets gathered afresh: the drag that follows keeps
+    /// them ([`Self::drag`]).
+    pub fn press(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, p: Point, exclude: &[NodeId], from: Option<&Leave>) -> Point {
+        self.gather(cx, SnapKey::of(cx, exclude));
+        self.snap(cx, p, from)
+    }
+
+    /// Gather `targets` other than the art for the drag a press starts (a point being dragged
+    /// leaves itself out); the next hover gathers its own again.
+    pub fn hold(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, targets: impl FnOnce() -> Targets) {
+        self.targets = Some((None, PointSnap::new(cx, targets)));
+        self.guides.clear();
+    }
+
+    /// Snap `p`, dragged since the press, with the targets the press gathered.
+    pub fn drag(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, p: Point, from: Option<&Leave>) -> Point {
+        if self.targets.is_none() {
+            self.gather(cx, SnapKey::of(cx, &[]));
+        }
+        self.snap(cx, p, from)
+    }
+
+    /// The guides of the last snap.
+    pub fn guides(&self) -> &[Overlay] {
+        &self.guides
+    }
+
+    /// Hide the guides (the gesture ended).
+    pub fn clear(&mut self) {
+        self.guides.clear();
+    }
+
+    fn gather(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, key: SnapKey) {
+        let snap = PointSnap::new(cx, || Targets::for_drawing(cx.doc, &key.exclude, visible(cx)));
+        self.targets = Some((Some(key), snap));
+    }
+
+    fn snap(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, p: Point, from: Option<&Leave>) -> Point {
+        let (q, guides) = match &self.targets {
+            Some((_, t)) => t.snap_from(cx, p, from),
+            None => (p, vec![]),
+        };
+        self.guides = guides;
+        q
+    }
+}
+
+/// Snapping for a dragged direction handle: Shift keeps it at 45° steps round its anchor, else it
+/// snaps as a drawn point does ([`DrawSnap`]). The targets ([`Targets::for_handle`]) are gathered
+/// on the first move that needs them and kept for the rest of the drag.
+#[derive(Default)]
+pub struct HandleSnap(DrawSnap);
 
 impl HandleSnap {
     /// Where the handle of anchor `ai` of subpath `si` of path `id` goes with the pointer at `p`,
@@ -565,22 +933,13 @@ impl HandleSnap {
     pub fn snap(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, (id, si, ai): (NodeId, usize, usize), p: Point, shift: bool) -> (Point, Vec<Overlay>) {
         let path = cx.doc.node(id).and_then(|n| n.path_data());
         if shift && let Some(a) = path.and_then(|pd| pd.subpaths.get(si)?.anchors.get(ai)) {
-            return (a.p + vectorcraft_geom::constrain_angle_from(p - a.p, 45.0, cx.constrain_angle), vec![]);
+            return (a.p + constrain_angle_from(p - a.p, 45.0, cx.constrain_angle), vec![]);
         }
-        let snap = self.0.get_or_insert_with(|| {
-            PointSnap::new(cx, || {
-                // The path's bounds move with the handle, so they would chase it: its anchors
-                // (which stay put) are the targets instead, the handle lining up with them too.
-                let mut t = Targets::collect(cx.doc, &[id], None);
-                for (_, _, a) in path.into_iter().flat_map(|pd| pd.anchors()).take(20_000) {
-                    t.points.push((a.p, Kind::Anchor));
-                    t.xs.push((a.p.x, a.p, Kind::Anchor));
-                    t.ys.push((a.p.y, a.p, Kind::Anchor));
-                }
-                t
-            })
-        });
-        snap.snap(cx, p)
+        if self.0.targets.is_none() {
+            self.0.hold(cx, || Targets::for_handle(cx.doc, id));
+        }
+        let q = self.0.drag(cx, p, None);
+        (q, self.0.guides().to_vec())
     }
 }
 
@@ -758,9 +1117,138 @@ mod tests {
         s.anchors.insert(id, [(0, 0)].into_iter().collect());
         let t = Targets::for_anchor_drag(&d, &s);
         let anchors: Vec<Point> = t.points.iter().filter(|(_, k)| *k == Kind::Anchor).map(|(p, _)| *p).collect();
-        assert_eq!(anchors, [Point::new(200.0, 100.0), Point::new(200.0, 200.0), Point::new(100.0, 200.0)]);
+        assert_eq!(anchors, [Point::new(100.0, 200.0), Point::new(200.0, 100.0), Point::new(200.0, 200.0)], "by x");
         assert_eq!(t.segments.len(), 2);
         assert!(!t.points.iter().any(|(p, k)| *k == Kind::Center && *p == Point::new(150.0, 150.0)), "the rect's centre moves");
         assert_eq!(t.snap_point(Point::new(101.0, 99.0), 4.0).0, Point::new(100.0, 100.0), "in line with its neighbours, not on itself");
     }
+
+    fn labels(ov: &[Overlay]) -> Vec<&str> {
+        ov.iter().filter_map(|o| if let Overlay::Label { text, .. } = o { Some(text.as_str()) } else { None }).collect()
+    }
+
+    fn lines(ov: &[Overlay]) -> Vec<(Point, Point)> {
+        ov.iter().filter_map(|o| if let Overlay::Line { a, b, .. } = o { Some((*a, *b)) } else { None }).collect()
+    }
+
+    /// A drawn point (#506): on another object's anchors, in line with them too (not only with its
+    /// bounds), onto its paths; Shift slides it along its 45° step into line; near a construction
+    /// guide through the point it leaves from it lands on the guide, where a target's line crosses
+    /// it if one does nearby.
+    #[test]
+    fn drawn_points_land_on_anchors_paths_alignments_and_construction_guides() {
+        let (d, _) = doc_with_rect();
+        let (s, p) = (Selection::default(), paint());
+        let c = cx(&d, &s, &p);
+        let t = Targets::for_drawing(&d, &[], None).styled(&c);
+        // The rect is 100..200: its corner, a point on its side, and in line with an anchor.
+        let (q, ov) = t.snap_from(Point::new(202.0, 198.0), None, 4.0);
+        assert_eq!((q, labels(&ov)), (Point::new(200.0, 200.0), vec!["anchor"]));
+        let (q, ov) = t.snap_from(Point::new(202.0, 160.0), None, 4.0);
+        assert_eq!((q, labels(&ov)), (Point::new(200.0, 160.0), vec!["path"]));
+        let (q, ov) = t.snap_from(Point::new(330.0, 102.0), None, 4.0);
+        assert_eq!((q, labels(&ov)), (Point::new(330.0, 100.0), vec!["align"]));
+        // Shift from (300, 300): the pointer at 2° keeps to 0°, then slides onto x = 200.
+        let shift = Leave::segment(&c, Point::new(300.0, 300.0), true);
+        let (q, ov) = t.snap_from(Point::new(203.0, 303.0), Some(&shift), 4.0);
+        assert!((q - Point::new(200.0, 300.0)).hypot() < 1e-9, "{q:?}");
+        assert_eq!(labels(&ov), ["align"]);
+        assert_eq!(lines(&ov).len(), 1, "{ov:?}");
+        // Nothing in reach: on its angle, as far as the pointer.
+        let (q, ov) = t.snap_from(Point::new(300.0, 380.0), Some(&shift), 4.0);
+        assert_eq!((q, ov.len()), (Point::new(300.0, 380.0), 0));
+        // Construction guides through (300, 320): onto the 135° one…
+        let from = Leave::segment(&c, Point::new(300.0, 320.0), false);
+        let (q, ov) = t.snap_from(Point::new(352.0, 373.0), Some(&from), 4.0);
+        assert!((q - Point::new(352.5, 372.5)).hypot() < 1e-9, "{q:?}");
+        assert_eq!(lines(&ov), vec![(Point::new(300.0, 320.0), q)]);
+        // …where x = 200 crosses it.
+        let (q, ov) = t.snap_from(Point::new(203.0, 222.5), Some(&from), 4.0);
+        assert!((q - Point::new(200.0, 220.0)).hypot() < 1e-9, "{q:?}");
+        assert_eq!((lines(&ov).len(), labels(&ov)), (2, vec!["align"]));
+        // Construction Guides off (or Smart Guides off): in line, not on a guide.
+        let off = ToolContext { construction_angles: &[], ..cx(&d, &s, &p) };
+        let (q, _) = t.snap_from(Point::new(352.0, 373.0), Some(&Leave::segment(&off, Point::new(300.0, 320.0), false)), 4.0);
+        assert_eq!(q, Point::new(352.0, 373.0));
+        // A box's corner keeps to a diagonal with Shift, the farther axis giving its size.
+        let (q, _) = t.snap_from(Point::new(340.0, 310.0), Some(&Leave::diagonal(Point::new(300.0, 300.0), true)), 4.0);
+        assert_eq!(q, Point::new(340.0, 340.0));
+    }
+
+    /// The angle sets of Preferences › Smart Guides › Construction Guides.
+    #[test]
+    fn construction_angle_sets() {
+        assert_eq!(construction_angles(DEFAULT_CONSTRUCTION_ANGLES), [0.0, 45.0, 90.0, 135.0]);
+        assert_eq!(construction_angles("90° Angles"), [0.0, 90.0]);
+        assert_eq!(construction_angles("30° Angles"), [30.0, 60.0, 120.0, 150.0]);
+        assert_eq!(construction_angles("90° & 45° & 30° Angles").len(), 8);
+        assert_eq!(construction_angles("nonsense"), construction_angles(DEFAULT_CONSTRUCTION_ANGLES));
+    }
+
+    /// The sorted targets find by bisection just what a scan of all of them finds, whatever
+    /// gathered them.
+    #[test]
+    fn bisection_finds_what_a_scan_finds() {
+        use vectorcraft_doc::{Appearance, Node};
+        let (mut d, id) = doc_with_rect();
+        let l = d.layers[0].id;
+        for i in 0..60 {
+            let (x, y) = ((i * 37 % 450) as f64, (i * 53 % 430) as f64);
+            let tri = vectorcraft_geom::PathData::single(SubPath::polyline(
+                &[Point::new(x, y), Point::new(x + 13.0, y + 3.0), Point::new(x + 5.0, y + 17.0)],
+                true,
+            ));
+            let n = d.alloc_id();
+            d.insert(Some(l), 1, Node::path(n, tri, Appearance::default_art())).unwrap();
+        }
+        let mut s = Selection::default();
+        s.set([id]);
+        s.anchors.insert(id, [(0, 1)].into_iter().collect());
+        for t in [Targets::collect(&d, &[], None), Targets::for_drawing(&d, &[id], None), Targets::for_anchor_drag(&d, &s)] {
+            for q in (0..40).flat_map(|i| (0..40).map(move |j| Point::new(i as f64 * 12.7, j as f64 * 11.3))) {
+                let scan = t.points.iter().copied().filter(|(a, _)| a.distance(q) <= 6.0).min_by(|a, b| a.0.distance(q).total_cmp(&b.0.distance(q)));
+                assert_eq!(t.nearest_point(q, 6.0).map(|h| h.0.distance(q)), scan.map(|h| h.0.distance(q)), "{q:?}");
+                for (lines, v) in [(&t.xs, q.x), (&t.ys, q.y)] {
+                    let mut near: Vec<f64> = lines_near(lines, v, 6.0).iter().map(|l| l.0).collect();
+                    let mut all: Vec<f64> = lines.iter().map(|l| l.0).filter(|w| (w - v).abs() <= 6.0).collect();
+                    near.sort_by(f64::total_cmp);
+                    all.sort_by(f64::total_cmp);
+                    assert_eq!(near, all);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// A drawing tool's snapper reuses its targets while hovering over the same document state, and
+    /// gathers them again when it changes, and on every press.
+    #[test]
+    fn draw_snap_gathers_once_per_document_state() {
+        let (d, _) = doc_with_rect();
+        let empty = vectorcraft_doc::Document::new(500.0, 500.0);
+        let (s, p) = (Selection::default(), paint());
+        let at = Point::new(202.0, 198.0);
+        let mut snap = DrawSnap::default();
+        let c = ToolContext { revision: (1, 1), ..cx(&d, &s, &p) };
+        assert_eq!(snap.hover(&c, at, &[], None), Point::new(200.0, 200.0));
+        assert_eq!(labels(snap.guides()), ["anchor"]);
+        // The same revision: the targets are the ones gathered (the document isn't read again).
+        let c = ToolContext { revision: (1, 1), ..cx(&empty, &s, &p) };
+        assert_eq!(snap.hover(&c, at, &[], None), Point::new(200.0, 200.0));
+        // A new revision, or a press, reads it.
+        let c = ToolContext { revision: (1, 2), ..cx(&empty, &s, &p) };
+        assert_eq!(snap.hover(&c, at, &[], None), at);
+        assert!(snap.guides().is_empty());
+        let c = ToolContext { revision: (1, 2), ..cx(&d, &s, &p) };
+        assert_eq!(snap.press(&c, at, &[], None), Point::new(200.0, 200.0));
+        // The drag keeps what the press gathered, though the document now shows its preview.
+        let c = ToolContext { revision: (1, 3), ..cx(&empty, &s, &p) };
+        assert_eq!(snap.drag(&c, at, None), Point::new(200.0, 200.0));
+        snap.clear();
+        assert!(snap.guides().is_empty());
+        // Snap to Grid wins over Smart Guides, Shift still keeping the angle.
+        let c = ToolContext { snap_to_grid: true, ..cx(&d, &s, &p) };
+        let from = Leave::segment(&c, Point::ZERO, true);
+        let q = snap.press(&c, Point::new(31.0, 2.0), &[], Some(&from));
+        assert!((q.y - 0.0).abs() < 1e-9, "{q:?}");
+    }
 }

crates/tools/src/lib.rs

@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@ impl ScreenFrame {
 /// Read-only context a tool sees.
 pub struct ToolContext<'a> {
     pub doc: &'a Document,
+    /// Which open document `doc` is (its process-unique id) and its revision, which moves with
+    /// every change of the document or the selection: what a tool keeps between pointer events
+    /// for the document as it is (the snap targets of hovering) is keyed on it.
+    pub revision: (u64, u64),
     pub selection: &'a Selection,
     /// Screen pixels per document point.
     pub zoom: f64,
@@ -234,7 +238,7 @@ pub struct ToolContext<'a> {
     /// points (a transform's reference point) land on anchors and ruler guides within
     /// [`Self::snap_tolerance`].
     pub snap_to_point: bool,
-    /// View → Show Corner Widget: live rectangles show draggable Live Corners widgets.
+    /// View → Show Corner Widget: paths show draggable Live Corners widgets in their corners.
     pub corner_widgets: bool,
     /// Which paint proxy is in front (true = Fill): the one the Gradient tool edits.
     pub fill_active: bool,
@@ -319,6 +323,10 @@ pub struct ToolContext<'a> {
     /// Smart Guides → Snapping Tolerance (screen pixels): how near a smart guide target pulls the
     /// pointer, a dragged edge or a drawn point.
     pub snapping_tolerance: f64,
+    /// Smart Guides → Construction Guides: the angles (degrees, counter-clockwise from the x axis
+    /// as seen on the page) of the lines through the point a drawn point leaves from, onto which a
+    /// point near one lands ([`guides::construction_angles`]); none with the option off.
+    pub construction_angles: &'static [f64],
     /// The document window (none headless): screen-fixed widgets sit in it.
     pub screen: Option<ScreenFrame>,
     /// Where the Plane Switching Widget sits (Perspective Grid Options); None while it's hidden.
@@ -631,6 +639,7 @@ pub(crate) mod testutil {
     pub fn cx<'a>(d: &'a Document, s: &'a Selection, p: &'a PaintDefaults) -> ToolContext<'a> {
         ToolContext {
             doc: d,
+            revision: (0, 0),
             selection: s,
             zoom: 1.0,
             isolation: None,
@@ -675,6 +684,7 @@ pub(crate) mod testutil {
             measurement_labels: true,
             transform_tools_guides: true,
             snapping_tolerance: 4.0,
+            construction_angles: guides::construction_angles(guides::DEFAULT_CONSTRUCTION_ANGLES),
             screen: None,
             plane_widget: Some(Default::default()),
         }

crates/tools/src/pen.rs

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 //! segment of a selected path adds an anchor there and a click on one of its anchors deletes it
 //! (Shift held or General → Disable Auto Add/Delete starts a new path instead). On a selected
 //! blend's spine a click adds a point (on a point no key object sits on: deletes it).
+//! Each anchor placed snaps to Smart Guides ([`DrawSnap`]): onto the anchors, centres and paths of
+//! the other art and of the path being drawn, into line with them, onto the construction guides
+//! through the last anchor; with Shift held it slides along its 45° step into line. Hovering shows
+//! where the next one would go.
 
 use serde_json::json;
 use vectorcraft_doc::{NodeId, NodeKind};
@@ -23,6 +27,7 @@ use vectorcraft_geom::{BezPath, Point};
 
 use crate::direct::hit_handle;
 use crate::draw2::AnchorTool;
+use crate::guides::{DrawSnap, Leave};
 use crate::{Action, Cursor, Mods, Overlay, PointerEvent, PointerKind, Tool, ToolContext, ToolKey};
 
 #[derive(Default)]
@@ -43,6 +48,8 @@ pub struct PenTool {
     handle: Option<(NodeId, usize, usize, Point)>,
     /// The Anchor Point tool, while an Alt gesture on a selected path's handle or anchor lasts.
     convert: Option<AnchorTool>,
+    /// Smart Guides for the anchors placed (and the pointer hovering).
+    snap: DrawSnap,
 }
 
 /// An anchor being placed, as the press decided: where it is, the path it goes on (none: the
@@ -116,8 +123,6 @@ impl Tool for PenTool {
         self.drag.is_some() || self.handle.is_some() || self.convert.is_some()
     }
     fn pointer(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, ev: &PointerEvent) -> Vec<Action> {
-        let exclude: Vec<vectorcraft_doc::NodeId> = if self.drawing { cx.selection.objects.clone() } else { vec![] };
-        let (mut p, _) = if matches!(ev.kind, PointerKind::Down) { crate::guides::snap_draw(cx, ev.pos, &exclude) } else { (ev.pos, vec![]) };
         let tol = cx.tol(5.0);
         // The path a press began is the selected one by the next event.
         if self.drawing && self.path.is_none() {
@@ -127,6 +132,14 @@ impl Tool for PenTool {
         if self.drawing && active.is_none() && ev.kind == PointerKind::Down {
             self.stop();
         }
+        // The path being drawn moves its bounds as it grows: only its anchors and segments pull.
+        let drawn = active.map(|a| a.0);
+        let from = active.map(|(_, _, last, _)| Leave::segment(cx, last, ev.mods.shift));
+        let p = match ev.kind {
+            PointerKind::Move => self.snap.hover(cx, ev.pos, drawn.as_slice(), from.as_ref()),
+            PointerKind::Down => self.snap.press(cx, ev.pos, drawn.as_slice(), from.as_ref()),
+            _ => ev.pos,
+        };
         match ev.kind {
             PointerKind::Move => {
                 self.hover = Some(p);
@@ -135,9 +148,6 @@ impl Tool for PenTool {
             PointerKind::Down => {
                 self.last = ev.pos;
                 if let Some((id, first, last, _)) = active {
-                    if ev.mods.shift {
-                        p = last + vectorcraft_geom::constrain_angle(p - last, 45.0);
-                    }
                     let end = last_anchor(cx, id);
                     // A one-anchor path doesn't close on itself: its anchor is the last one too.
                     if p.distance(first) <= tol && end.is_some_and(|(_, ai)| ai > 0) {
@@ -230,6 +240,7 @@ impl Tool for PenTool {
                 )]
             }
             PointerKind::Up => {
+                self.snap.clear();
                 if let Some(mut t) = self.convert.take() {
                     return t.pointer(cx, ev);
                 }
@@ -251,6 +262,7 @@ impl Tool for PenTool {
                 self.stop();
                 self.drag = None;
                 self.handle = None;
+                self.snap.clear();
                 // An Alt gesture under way ends as it stands.
                 self.convert.take().map(|mut t| t.deactivate(cx)).unwrap_or_default()
             }
@@ -259,25 +271,30 @@ impl Tool for PenTool {
     }
     fn deactivate(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Action> {
         self.stop();
+        self.snap.clear();
         self.convert.take().map(|mut t| t.deactivate(cx)).unwrap_or_default()
     }
     fn overlays(&self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Overlay> {
         if let Some(t) = &self.convert {
             return t.overlays(cx);
         }
-        if !cx.pen_rubber_band || self.drag.is_some() || self.handle.is_some() {
-            return vec![];
+        let mut o = vec![];
+        if cx.pen_rubber_band
+            && self.drag.is_none()
+            && self.handle.is_none()
+            && let (Some((id, _, last, out)), Some(h)) = (self.active(cx), self.hover)
+        {
+            let mut bp = BezPath::new();
+            bp.move_to(last);
+            if out.distance(last) > 1e-9 {
+                bp.quad_to(out, h);
+            } else {
+                bp.line_to(h);
+            }
+            o.push(Overlay::Path { path: bp, color: cx.doc.layer_color(id), width: 1.0, dashed: false });
         }
-        let (Some((id, _, last, out)), Some(h)) = (self.active(cx), self.hover) else { return vec![] };
-        let mut bp = BezPath::new();
-        bp.move_to(last);
-        if out.distance(last) > 1e-9 {
-            bp.quad_to(out, h);
-        } else {
-            bp.line_to(h);
-        }
-        let c = cx.doc.layer_color(id);
-        vec![Overlay::Path { path: bp, color: c, width: 1.0, dashed: false }]
+        o.extend_from_slice(self.snap.guides());
+        o
     }
     fn cursor(&self, cx: &ToolContext, p: Point, m: Mods) -> Cursor {
         let tol = cx.tol(5.0);
@@ -614,6 +631,31 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(matches!(&a[..], [Action::Begin(_), Action::Preview(c, _)] if c == "path.create"), "{a:?}");
     }
 
+    /// Each anchor snaps to Smart Guides (#506): hovering shows where it goes (the rubber band ends
+    /// there), in line with another object's centre; Shift slides it along its 45° step into line.
+    #[test]
+    fn anchors_snap_to_smart_guides() {
+        let (d, id, s) = drawing(vectorcraft_geom::SubPath::polyline(&[Point::new(10.0, 300.0), Point::new(60.0, 300.0)], false));
+        let p = paint();
+        let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
+        let mut t = PenTool { drawing: true, ..PenTool::default() };
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Move, 152.0, 318.0));
+        let o = t.overlays(&cx);
+        assert!(o.iter().any(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Label { text, p, .. } if text == "align" && *p == Point::new(150.0, 318.0))), "{o:?}");
+        assert!(o.iter().any(
+            |o| matches!(o, Overlay::Path { path, .. } if path.elements().last().and_then(|e| e.end_point()) == Some(Point::new(150.0, 318.0)))
+        ));
+        let a = click(&mut t, &cx, 152.0, 318.0, Mods::default());
+        assert_eq!(a[1], Action::Preview("path.appendAnchor".into(), json!({"id": id.0, "x": 150.0, "y": 318.0})));
+        let shift = Mods { shift: true, ..Mods::default() };
+        let a = click(&mut t, &cx, 152.0, 310.0, shift);
+        assert_eq!(a[1], Action::Preview("path.appendAnchor".into(), json!({"id": id.0, "x": 150.0, "y": 300.0})));
+        // The first anchor of a new path lands on the rect's corner.
+        let mut t = PenTool::default();
+        let a = click(&mut t, &cx, 102.0, 99.0, Mods::default());
+        assert_eq!(a[1], Action::Preview("path.create".into(), json!({"anchors": [{"x": 100.0, "y": 100.0}]})));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn alt_over_a_shown_handle_or_an_anchor_converts() {
         // The middle anchor is smooth: handles at (150, 100) and (250, 100) round (200, 100).

crates/tools/src/select.rs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //! the selected ones are deselected, the others selected), move (Alt copies, Shift constrains; Smart
 //! Guides, or with them off View › Snap to Point, snap it),
 //! bounding-box scale (Shift proportional, Alt from centre) and rotate (outside corners, Shift 45°),
-//! drag a live rectangle's corner widget to round its corners (Alt-click cycles their kind,
+//! drag a live rectangle's or polygon's corner widget to round its corners (Alt-click cycles their kind,
 //! double-click opens the Corners dialog), double-click to enter isolation mode (Double Click To
 //! Isolate), Cmd/Ctrl-click to select the object behind (Command Click to Select Objects Behind),
 //! click or drag a ruler guide ([`crate::rulerguide`]), drag the brackets of type on a path
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ impl Tool for SelectionTool {
         match (ev.kind, self.state.clone()) {
             (PointerKind::DoubleClick, _) => {
                 self.state = State::Idle;
-                if let Some(a) = corners::double_click(cx, p).or_else(|| typewidget::double_click(cx, p)) {
+                if let Some(a) = corners::double_click(cx, p, false).or_else(|| typewidget::double_click(cx, p)) {
                     return vec![a];
                 }
                 if crate::rulerguide::guide_at(cx, p).is_some() {
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ impl Tool for SelectionTool {
             (PointerKind::Down, _) => {
                 // 1. Live Corners widgets and type on a path's brackets, then the bounding-box
                 // handles of the current selection.
-                if let Some(c) = CornerDrag::hit(cx, ev) {
+                if let Some(c) = CornerDrag::hit(cx, ev, false) {
                     self.state = State::Corner(c);
                     return vec![];
                 }
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ impl Tool for SelectionTool {
         if self.guide.busy() {
             return self.guide.cursor(cx, p).unwrap_or_default();
         }
-        if over_widget(cx, p) {
+        if over_widget(cx, p, false) {
             return Cursor::CornerRadius;
         }
         if over_bracket(cx, p) {

crates/tools/src/shape.rs

@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 //!
 //! Drag draws (Shift constrains to square/circle/45°, Alt draws from the centre, Space held moves
 //! the shape being drawn); a click without a drag asks the UI for the size dialog (like
-//! Illustrator). ↑/↓ during a polygon/star drag change the side/point count.
+//! Illustrator). ↑/↓ during a polygon/star drag change the side/point count. The start point and
+//! the dragged corner snap to Smart Guides ([`DrawSnap`]), hovering before the press too.
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
 use vectorcraft_geom::{Point, Rect};
 
+use crate::guides::{DrawSnap, Leave, square};
 use crate::{Action, Cursor, Mods, Overlay, PointerEvent, PointerKind, Tool, ToolContext, ToolKey};
 
 pub struct ShapeTool {
@@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ pub struct ShapeTool {
     pub corner_radius: f64,
     /// Star inner radius as a fraction of the outer radius.
     pub star_ratio: f64,
-    guides: Vec<Overlay>,
+    snap: DrawSnap,
 }
 
 impl ShapeTool {
@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ impl ShapeTool {
             points: 5,
             corner_radius: 12.0,
             star_ratio: 0.5,
-            guides: vec![],
+            snap: DrawSnap::default(),
         }
     }
 
@@ -58,7 +60,18 @@ impl ShapeTool {
         }
     }
 
-    /// The command for the current drag.
+    /// How the dragged point keeps to the start: a polygon's or star's radius goes anywhere, a
+    /// line is a segment (Shift: 45° steps), the rest are boxes (Shift: a square).
+    fn leave(&self, cx: &ToolContext, start: Point, m: Mods) -> Option<Leave> {
+        match self.id {
+            "polygon" | "star" => None,
+            "lineSegment" => Some(Leave::segment(cx, start, m.shift)),
+            _ => Some(Leave::diagonal(start, m.shift)),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The command for a drag from `start` to `p` (snapped: a line's end already keeps Shift's
+    /// angle).
     pub fn command(&self, start: Point, p: Point, m: Mods) -> (String, Value) {
         match self.id {
             "polygon" | "star" => {
@@ -76,7 +89,6 @@ impl ShapeTool {
             }
             "lineSegment" => {
                 let (a, b) = if m.alt { (start - (p - start), p) } else { (start, p) };
-                let b = if m.shift { a + vectorcraft_geom::constrain_angle(b - a, 45.0) } else { b };
                 ("shape.line".into(), json!({ "x1": a.x, "y1": a.y, "x2": b.x, "y2": b.y }))
             }
             _ => {
@@ -104,11 +116,7 @@ pub(crate) fn space_moves(start: &mut Point, last: &mut Point, ev: &PointerEvent
 /// The rectangle a drag from `start` to `p` draws: Shift makes it a square, Alt draws it from its
 /// centre.
 pub(crate) fn drag_rect(start: Point, p: Point, m: Mods) -> Rect {
-    let mut d = p - start;
-    if m.shift {
-        let s = d.x.abs().max(d.y.abs());
-        d = vectorcraft_geom::Vec2::new(s * d.x.signum(), s * d.y.signum());
-    }
+    let d = if m.shift { square(p - start) } else { p - start };
     if m.alt { Rect::from_points(start - d, start + d) } else { Rect::from_points(start, start + d) }
 }
 
@@ -121,8 +129,12 @@ impl Tool for ShapeTool {
     }
     fn pointer(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, ev: &PointerEvent) -> Vec<Action> {
         match ev.kind {
+            PointerKind::Move => {
+                self.snap.hover(cx, ev.pos, &[], None);
+                vec![]
+            }
             PointerKind::Down => {
-                let (p, _) = crate::guides::snap_draw(cx, ev.pos, &[]);
+                let p = self.snap.press(cx, ev.pos, &[], None);
                 self.start = Some(p);
                 self.last = ev.pos;
                 self.began = false;
@@ -130,8 +142,7 @@ impl Tool for ShapeTool {
             }
             PointerKind::Drag => {
                 let Some(mut s) = self.start else { return vec![] };
-                let (pos, g) = crate::guides::snap_draw(cx, ev.pos, &[]);
-                self.guides = g;
+                let pos = self.snap.drag(cx, ev.pos, self.leave(cx, s, ev.mods).as_ref());
                 let ev = &PointerEvent { pos, ..*ev };
                 space_moves(&mut s, &mut self.last, ev, self.began);
                 self.start = Some(s);
@@ -150,7 +161,7 @@ impl Tool for ShapeTool {
             }
             PointerKind::Up => {
                 let Some(s) = self.start.take() else { return vec![] };
-                self.guides.clear();
+                self.snap.clear();
                 if self.began {
                     self.began = false;
                     vec![Action::Commit]
@@ -196,23 +207,26 @@ impl Tool for ShapeTool {
         } else if key == ToolKey::Escape {
             self.start = None;
             self.began = false;
+            self.snap.clear();
             vec![Action::Cancel]
         } else {
             vec![]
         }
     }
     fn overlays(&self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Overlay> {
-        match self.start {
-            Some(s) if self.began => {
-                let d = self.last - s;
-                let mut o = self.guides.clone();
-                if cx.measurement_labels {
-                    o.push(Overlay::Measure { p: self.last, text: cx.size_label(d.x.abs(), d.y.abs()) });
+        let mut o = self.snap.guides().to_vec();
+        if let Some(s) = self.start.filter(|_| self.began && cx.measurement_labels) {
+            // A box's size as drawn (from its centre with Alt, square with Shift).
+            let (w, h) = match self.id {
+                "polygon" | "star" | "lineSegment" => ((self.last - s).x.abs(), (self.last - s).y.abs()),
+                _ => {
+                    let r = drag_rect(s, self.last, self.mods);
+                    (r.width(), r.height())
                 }
-                o
-            }
-            _ => vec![],
+            };
+            o.push(Overlay::Measure { p: self.last, text: cx.size_label(w, h) });
         }
+        o
     }
     fn cursor(&self, _cx: &ToolContext, _p: Point, _m: Mods) -> Cursor {
         Cursor::Crosshair
@@ -310,4 +324,36 @@ mod tests {
         let a = t.key(&cx, ToolKey::Up, Mods::default());
         assert!(matches!(&a[0], Action::Preview(_, v) if v["sides"] == 7));
     }
+
+    /// The start and the dragged corner land on another object's anchors (#506), hovering shows
+    /// it before the press, and the measurement label gives the size drawn.
+    #[test]
+    fn corners_snap_to_smart_guides() {
+        let (d, _) = doc_with_rect();
+        let s = Selection::default();
+        let p = paint();
+        let cx = cx(&d, &s, &p);
+        let mut t = ShapeTool::new("rectangle");
+        let anchor = |o: &[Overlay], at: Point| o.iter().any(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Label { text, p, .. } if text == "anchor" && *p == at));
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Move, 98.0, 102.0));
+        assert!(anchor(&t.overlays(&cx), Point::new(100.0, 100.0)));
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 98.0, 102.0));
+        let a = t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, 198.0, 202.0));
+        assert_eq!(a[1], Action::Preview("shape.rectangle".into(), json!({"x": 100.0, "y": 100.0, "width": 100.0, "height": 100.0})));
+        let o = t.overlays(&cx);
+        assert!(anchor(&o, Point::new(200.0, 200.0)), "{o:?}");
+        assert!(o.iter().any(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Measure { text, .. } if text == &cx.size_label(100.0, 100.0))));
+        // Alt draws from the centre: the label gives the whole size.
+        let alt = Mods { alt: true, ..Mods::default() };
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, 198.0, 202.0).with_mods(alt));
+        assert!(t.overlays(&cx).iter().any(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Measure { text, .. } if text == &cx.size_label(200.0, 200.0))));
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Up, 198.0, 202.0));
+        assert!(t.overlays(&cx).is_empty());
+        // A line with Shift keeps to 45° steps, sliding into line with the rect's right side.
+        let mut t = ShapeTool::new("lineSegment");
+        t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 300.0, 300.0));
+        let shift = Mods { shift: true, ..Mods::default() };
+        let a = t.pointer(&cx, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, 203.0, 302.0).with_mods(shift));
+        assert!(matches!(&a[..], [_, Action::Preview(_, v)] if v["x2"] == 200.0 && (v["y2"].as_f64().unwrap() - 300.0).abs() < 1e-9), "{a:?}");
+    }
 }

crates/tools/src/text.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 //! Type: click places point type, drag draws an area-type frame, clicking into existing text
 //! places the caret. Area Type / Type on a Path: click a path to turn it into a text frame or a
 //! baseline (`text.createInPath`). Point type placed by a click and left empty is discarded when
-//! editing ends (`text.discardEmpty`); frames keep their shape.
+//! editing ends (`text.discardEmpty`); frames keep their shape. Where new type goes (the click, the
+//! frame's corners) snaps to Smart Guides ([`DrawSnap`]), hovering too.
 //!
 //! While editing: caret movement by character / word (Cmd or Alt) / line (Up/Down) / line ends
 //! (Home/End; Cmd = whole text), Shift extends the selection, drag selects, double-click selects a
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ use vectorcraft_doc::{NodeId, NodeKind, TextKind, TextObject, TextRun};
 use vectorcraft_geom::{BezPath, Point, Rect, Shape};
 use vectorcraft_text::{FontDb, TextLayout, edit};
 
+use crate::guides::DrawSnap;
 use crate::{Action, Cursor, Mods, Overlay, PointerEvent, PointerKind, Tool, ToolContext, ToolKey};
 
 /// Which of the Type tools this is.
@@ -68,8 +70,12 @@ pub struct TypeTool {
     goal_x: Option<f64>,
     typing: Option<Typing>,
     preedit: Option<Preedit>,
-    press: Option<Point>,
+    /// Where the button went down, and where new type goes from there (snapped to Smart Guides).
+    press: Option<(Point, Point)>,
+    /// The other corner of an area dragged out (snapped).
     drag: Option<Point>,
+    /// Smart Guides for where new type goes.
+    snap: DrawSnap,
     /// The press landed in the edited text: dragging selects.
     selecting: bool,
     /// Click counting for double/triple click (position of the last click, count).
@@ -252,7 +258,8 @@ impl TypeTool {
         Some(out)
     }
 
-    fn on_up(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, start: Point) -> Vec<Action> {
+    /// The button released after a press at `start` (new type goes at `at`).
+    fn on_up(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, start: Point, at: Point) -> Vec<Action> {
         // Click into existing text: place the caret.
         if let Some(out) = self.edit_at(cx, start) {
             return out;
@@ -272,10 +279,10 @@ impl TypeTool {
                 return out;
             }
         }
-        let area = drag.map(|d| Rect::from_points(start, d)).filter(|r| r.width() > cx.tol(6.0) && r.height() > cx.tol(6.0));
+        let area = drag.map(|d| Rect::from_points(at, d)).filter(|r| r.width() > cx.tol(6.0) && r.height() > cx.tol(6.0));
         let mut params = match area {
             Some(r) => json!({"x": r.x0, "y": r.y0, "text": "", "area": {"width": r.width(), "height": r.height()}}),
-            None => json!({"x": start.x, "y": start.y, "text": ""}),
+            None => json!({"x": at.x, "y": at.y, "text": ""}),
         };
         params["vertical"] = json!(self.vertical);
         params["placeholder"] = json!(cx.placeholder_text);
@@ -386,7 +393,7 @@ impl Tool for TypeTool {
                     self.selecting = true;
                     return out;
                 }
-                self.press = Some(ev.pos);
+                self.press = Some((ev.pos, self.snap.press(cx, ev.pos, self.editing.as_slice(), None)));
                 self.drag = None;
                 vec![]
             }
@@ -398,7 +405,7 @@ impl Tool for TypeTool {
                         self.clicks = (None, 0);
                     }
                 } else if self.press.is_some() {
-                    self.drag = Some(ev.pos);
+                    self.drag = Some(self.snap.drag(cx, ev.pos, None));
                 }
                 vec![]
             }
@@ -407,8 +414,9 @@ impl Tool for TypeTool {
                     self.selecting = false;
                     return vec![];
                 }
-                let Some(start) = self.press.take() else { return vec![] };
-                self.on_up(cx, start)
+                self.snap.clear();
+                let Some((start, at)) = self.press.take() else { return vec![] };
+                self.on_up(cx, start, at)
             }
             PointerKind::DoubleClick => {
                 if self.editing.is_some() && self.hit_edited(cx, ev.pos).is_some() {
@@ -417,7 +425,11 @@ impl Tool for TypeTool {
                 }
                 vec![]
             }
-            PointerKind::Move => vec![],
+            PointerKind::Move => {
+                // The type being edited is no target: its guides would only point at itself.
+                self.snap.hover(cx, ev.pos, self.editing.as_slice(), None);
+                vec![]
+            }
         }
     }
     fn text_input(&mut self, cx: &ToolContext, s: &str) -> Vec<Action> {
@@ -700,8 +712,8 @@ impl Tool for TypeTool {
         }
     }
     fn overlays(&self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Overlay> {
-        let mut o = vec![];
-        if let (Some(s), Some(d)) = (self.press, self.drag) {
+        let mut o = self.snap.guides().to_vec();
+        if let (Some((_, s)), Some(d)) = (self.press, self.drag) {
             o.push(Overlay::Marquee(Rect::from_points(s, d)));
         }
         // Overflow markers on selected text.

crates/tools/src/text_tests.rs

@@ -335,3 +335,24 @@ fn hebrew_typing_and_visual_arrows_keep_logical_text() {
     let NodeKind::Text(t) = &d.node(id).unwrap().kind else { panic!() };
     assert_eq!(t.plain_text(), "שלום");
 }
+
+/// Where new type goes snaps to Smart Guides (#506): a click beside a rect lines up with its
+/// centre, and hovering shows it first; an area's corners land on its anchors.
+#[test]
+fn new_type_snaps_to_smart_guides() {
+    let (d, _) = crate::testutil::doc_with_rect();
+    let (sel, p) = (Selection::default(), paint());
+    let c = cx(&d, &sel, &p);
+    let mut tool = TypeTool::new("type");
+    tool.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Move, 151.0, 330.0));
+    assert!(tool.overlays(&c).iter().any(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Label { text, p, .. } if text == "align" && *p == Point::new(150.0, 330.0))));
+    tool.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 151.0, 330.0));
+    let acts = tool.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Up, 151.0, 330.0));
+    assert!(acts.iter().any(|a| matches!(a, Action::Exec(cmd, v) if cmd == "text.create" && v["x"] == 150.0 && v["y"] == 330.0)), "{acts:?}");
+    let mut tool = TypeTool::new("type");
+    tool.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Down, 102.0, 98.0));
+    tool.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Drag, 199.0, 202.0));
+    let acts = tool.pointer(&c, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::Up, 199.0, 202.0));
+    let area = json!({"width": 100.0, "height": 100.0});
+    assert!(acts.iter().any(|a| matches!(a, Action::Exec(cmd, v) if cmd == "text.create" && v["x"] == 100.0 && v["area"] == area)), "{acts:?}");
+}

crates/tools/src/xform/artboard.rs

@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@
 //! the Selection tool. Moving and resizing snap like drawing
 //! does: to whole pixels, to the grid, or with Smart Guides to other artboards, their bleed and
 //! objects (never to the dragged artboard or the art moving with it); the artboard's own bleed edges
-//! snap too.
+//! snap too. A new artboard's corners snap as drawn points do ([`DrawSnap`]).
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
 use vectorcraft_geom::{Point, Rect, Vec2};
 
 use super::{BLUE, polygon, rect_corners};
 use crate::bbox::{Handle, hit_handle, move_delta, scale_for_drag};
-use crate::guides::Targets;
+use crate::guides::{DrawSnap, Leave, Targets};
 use crate::{Action, Cursor, Mods, Overlay, PointerEvent, PointerKind, Tool, ToolContext, ToolKey};
 
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
@@ -57,11 +57,13 @@ pub struct ArtboardTool {
     copy_targets: Option<Targets>,
     /// Smart Guides shown while dragging.
     guides: Vec<Overlay>,
+    /// Smart Guides for the corners of a new artboard.
+    draw: DrawSnap,
 }
 
 impl Default for ArtboardTool {
     fn default() -> Self {
-        Self { active: 0, move_art: true, drag: None, preview: None, targets: None, copy_targets: None, guides: vec![] }
+        Self { active: 0, move_art: true, drag: None, preview: None, targets: None, copy_targets: None, guides: vec![], draw: DrawSnap::default() }
     }
 }
 
@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@ impl ArtboardTool {
         self.targets = None;
         self.copy_targets = None;
         self.guides.clear();
+        self.draw.clear();
     }
 }
 
@@ -171,7 +174,7 @@ impl Tool for ArtboardTool {
                     self.active = i;
                     self.drag = Some(Drag::Move { index: i, start: p, rect: a.rect, began: false, copy: false });
                 } else {
-                    let (p, _) = crate::guides::snap_draw(cx, p, &[]);
+                    let p = self.draw.press(cx, p, &[], None);
                     self.drag = Some(Drag::Create { start: p, cur: p });
                 }
                 vec![]
@@ -213,12 +216,7 @@ impl Tool for ArtboardTool {
                 out
             }
             (PointerKind::Drag, Some(Drag::Create { start, .. })) => {
-                let (mut cur, _) = crate::guides::snap_draw(cx, p, &[]);
-                if m.shift {
-                    let d = cur - start;
-                    let s = d.x.abs().max(d.y.abs());
-                    cur = start + Vec2::new(s.copysign(d.x), s.copysign(d.y));
-                }
+                let cur = self.draw.drag(cx, p, Some(&Leave::diagonal(start, m.shift)));
                 self.drag = Some(Drag::Create { start, cur });
                 vec![]
             }
@@ -289,6 +287,7 @@ impl Tool for ArtboardTool {
     fn overlays(&self, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Overlay> {
         let mut o = vec![];
         if let Some(Drag::Create { start, cur }) = self.drag {
+            o.extend_from_slice(self.draw.guides());
             let r = Rect::from_points(start, cur);
             o.push(Overlay::Marquee(r));
             if cx.measurement_labels {

crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs

@@ -864,9 +864,14 @@ fn ruler_rects(full: egui::Rect) -> [egui::Rect; 3] {
 /// ruler, snapped as a moved guide is (with Shift to the ruler's ticks). Released anywhere else,
 /// it makes none.
 fn ruler_guides(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &Ui, full: egui::Rect, canvas: egui::Rect, xf: &Xf) {
-    let [top, left, _] = ruler_rects(full);
+    let [top, left, corner] = ruler_rects(full);
+    // Right-click on a ruler or the origin box: the document units, to swap between them as
+    // Preferences ▸ Units ▸ General does ([`crate::menus::ruler_menu_body`]).
+    let mut unit_clicked = None;
     for (r, vertical, id) in [(top, false, "ruler-top"), (left, true, "ruler-left")] {
-        let resp = ui.interact(r, egui::Id::new(id), Sense::drag());
+        // Click-and-drag so the same widget drags out guides (left) and opens the unit menu (right).
+        let resp = ui.interact(r, egui::Id::new(id), Sense::click_and_drag());
+        resp.context_menu(|ui| crate::menus::ruler_menu_body(app, ui, &mut unit_clicked));
         let kind = if resp.drag_stopped() {
             PointerKind::Up
         } else if resp.dragged() {
@@ -885,6 +890,11 @@ fn ruler_guides(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &Ui, full: egui::Rect, canvas: egu
             app.status(e.to_string());
         }
     }
+    let corner = ui.interact(corner, egui::Id::new("ruler-corner"), Sense::click());
+    corner.context_menu(|ui| crate::menus::ruler_menu_body(app, ui, &mut unit_clicked));
+    if let Some((id, p)) = unit_clicked {
+        crate::menus::invoke(app, &id, p);
+    }
 }
 
 fn rulers(ui: &Ui, full: egui::Rect, xf: &Xf, hover: Option<Point>, unit: Unit, t: &Tokens) {
@@ -1419,11 +1429,16 @@ fn selection_overlay(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, p: &egui::Painter, xf: &Xf) {
             anchor_square(p, xf.to_screen(a.p), color, false, anchor(direct));
         }
     }
-    // Live Corners widgets (Selection / Direct Selection on a single live rectangle).
+    // Live Corners widgets (Selection on a live rectangle or polygon, Direct Selection on any path).
     if matches!(tool, "selection" | "directSelection")
-        && app.ui.view.corner_widgets
-        && let Some(w) = vectorcraft_tools::corners::CornerWidgets::of(&st.doc, &st.selection, xf.zoom)
-            .and_then(|w| w.within_angle(app.session.prefs.hide_corner_widget_above))
+        && let Some(w) = vectorcraft_tools::corners::CornerWidgets::showing(
+            &st.doc,
+            &st.selection,
+            xf.zoom,
+            tool == "directSelection",
+            app.ui.view.corner_widgets,
+            app.session.prefs.hide_corner_widget_above,
+        )
     {
         let color = c32(st.doc.layer_color(w.id));
         for sp in w.visible().map(|q| xf.to_screen(q)) {
@@ -2249,6 +2264,25 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(widgets(&mut app), 0);
     }
 
+    /// #511: a star shows a widget in each of its ten corners with Direct Selection (none with
+    /// the Selection tool: it isn't a live shape); View → Hide Corner Widget hides them.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_star_shows_corner_widgets_with_direct_selection() {
+        let mut app = VectorcraftApp::new(Session::new(), Default::default());
+        app.session.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 400, "height": 300})).unwrap();
+        app.session.execute("shape.star", &json!({"cx": 200, "cy": 150, "radius1": 80, "radius2": 40})).unwrap();
+        let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+        let widgets = |app: &mut VectorcraftApp| {
+            shapes(app, &ctx).iter().filter(|s| matches!(s, Shape::Circle(c) if c.radius == 3.0 && c.fill == Color32::WHITE)).count()
+        };
+        app.select_tool("selection");
+        assert_eq!(widgets(&mut app), 0);
+        app.select_tool("directSelection");
+        assert_eq!(widgets(&mut app), 10);
+        app.run("view.cornerWidget", json!({})).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(widgets(&mut app), 0);
+    }
+
     /// The type widget beside selected type's bounding box: hollow (white) on point type, filled
     /// in the layer colour on area type.
     #[test]

crates/ui-egui/src/chrome.rs

@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ pub fn anchor_buttons(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui, controls: AnchorCon
     }
 }
 
+/// The room the Control bar's inline X/Y/W/H fields need; with less, only the Transform link shows.
+const INLINE_TRANSFORM_WIDTH: f32 = 440.0;
+
 /// The Control bar (Window → Control), context-sensitive like Illustrator's.
 pub fn control_bar(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
     let t = Tokens::get(ui.ctx());
@@ -280,9 +283,13 @@ pub fn control_bar(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
                     }
                 }
                 ui.separator();
-                // Transform fields.
+                // The Transform link opens the whole Transform panel (reference point, rotate,
+                // shear, options) in a popover; X/Y/W/H follow inline while the bar has room.
+                crate::panels::transform::link(app, ui);
                 // The bounding box, rotated with rotated objects: its centre and its own sides.
-                if let Some(b) = app.selection_box() {
+                if let Some(b) = app.selection_box()
+                    && ui.available_width() >= INLINE_TRANSFORM_WIDTH
+                {
                     let c = b.center();
                     let link = app.session.prefs.constrain_proportions;
                     for (k, lbl, v) in [("x", "X:", c.x), ("y", "Y:", c.y), ("width", "W:", b.rect.width()), ("height", "H:", b.rect.height())] {

crates/ui-egui/src/cursors.rs

@@ -348,8 +348,7 @@ fn rasterize(c: Cursor, ppp: f32) -> Option<CustomCursorImage> {
     let (w, h) = (size.x as usize, size.y as usize);
     let mut px = vec![[0.0; 4]; w * h];
     let corner = |v: &Vertex| (v.pos.to_vec2() * ppp - min, v.color);
-    for tri in mesh.indices.chunks_exact(3) {
-        let &[i, j, k] = tri else { continue };
+    for &[i, j, k] in mesh.indices.as_chunks::<3>().0 {
         if let (Some(a), Some(b), Some(c)) = (mesh.vertices.get(i as usize), mesh.vertices.get(j as usize), mesh.vertices.get(k as usize)) {
             fill_triangle(&mut px, w, [corner(a), corner(b), corner(c)]);
         }
@@ -463,7 +462,7 @@ mod tests {
                 assert_eq!(img.rgba.len(), w * h * 4, "{c:?}");
                 assert!(img.hotspot[0] < img.size[0] && img.hotspot[1] < img.size[1], "{c:?} at {ppp}: {img:?}");
                 assert!(w as f32 <= 50.0 * ppp && h as f32 <= 50.0 * ppp, "{c:?} at {ppp}: {img:?}");
-                assert!(img.rgba.chunks_exact(4).any(|p| p[3] == 255), "{c:?}: nothing opaque");
+                assert!(img.rgba.as_chunks::<4>().0.iter().any(|p| p[3] == 255), "{c:?}: nothing opaque");
             }
         }
         for c in [Cursor::Hand, Cursor::HandGrab, Cursor::ZoomIn, Cursor::ZoomOut, Cursor::NotAllowed] {
@@ -482,7 +481,7 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(pixel(&img, hx, hy)[3] > 0, "{:?}", pixel(&img, hx, hy));
         let body = pixel(&img, hx + 2, hy + 8);
         assert!(body[3] == 255 && body[..3].iter().all(|&c| c < 40), "{body:?}");
-        assert!(img.rgba.chunks_exact(4).any(|p| p[3] == 255 && p[..3].iter().all(|&c| c > 215)), "no white halo");
+        assert!(img.rgba.as_chunks::<4>().0.iter().any(|p| p[3] == 255 && p[..3].iter().all(|&c| c > 215)), "no white halo");
         // Nothing left of or above the tip but the halo.
         assert!((0..img.size[1] as usize).all(|y| pixel(&img, 0, y)[..3].iter().all(|&c| c > 100) || pixel(&img, 0, y)[3] < 128));
         // At twice the pixels per point, twice the pixels.

crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/corners.rs

@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 //! Corners: double-clicking a Live Corners widget (or `ui.corners`) sets the corner kind and
-//! radius of a live rectangle's corners: those whose widgets show (the Direct-Selected ones, else
-//! all four). OK runs `object.setLiveShape` for them, one undo step.
+//! radius of a path's corners: those whose widgets show (the Direct-Selected ones, else every
+//! corner). OK runs `object.setLiveShape` for them, one undo step.
 //!
-//! Fields: `id`, `corners` (indices 0–3: top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left), `kind`
-//! ("round", "invertedRound" or "chamfer") and `radius` (pt). While the corners differ in kind
-//! or radius, that field is absent and OK leaves it as it is.
+//! Fields: `id`, `corners` (anchor indices of the path with its corners uncut: a rectangle's 0–3
+//! from the top-left clockwise), `kind` ("round", "invertedRound" or "chamfer") and `radius`
+//! (pt). While the corners differ in kind or radius, that field is absent and OK leaves it as it
+//! is.
+
+use std::collections::BTreeSet;
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
-use vectorcraft_engine::doc::{NodeId, NodeKind};
+use vectorcraft_engine::doc::{LiveCorners, NodeId};
 use vectorcraft_geom::shapes::CornerKind;
 
 use super::swatch_options::{grid, label};
@@ -20,7 +23,7 @@ pub const KIND: &str = vectorcraft_tools::corners::DIALOG;
 
 pub(super) const SPEC: DialogSpec = DialogSpec { heading: |_| tl!("Corners").into(), body, confirm, min_width: 280.0, ..DialogSpec::FORM };
 
-/// Open Corners for `{id?, corners?}`: the live rectangle `id` (default: the selected one) and its
+/// Open Corners for `{id?, corners?}`: the path `id` (default: the selected one) and its
 /// `corners` (default: the selected corners), filled in with their kind and radius.
 pub fn open(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, p: &Value) -> Result<Value, String> {
     let st = app.session.active().ok_or("no document")?;
@@ -28,22 +31,21 @@ pub fn open(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, p: &Value) -> Result<Value, String> {
         Some(id) => NodeId(id),
         None => match st.selection.objects[..] {
             [id] => id,
-            _ => return Err("select one live rectangle, or give its `id`".into()),
+            _ => return Err("select one path, or give its `id`".into()),
         },
     };
-    let Some(NodeKind::Path { live: Some(live @ vectorcraft_engine::doc::LiveShape::Rectangle { .. }), .. }) = st.doc.node(id).map(|n| &n.kind)
-    else {
-        return Err("Corners edits a live rectangle".into());
+    let Some(live) = st.doc.node(id).and_then(LiveCorners::of) else {
+        return Err("Corners edits the corners of a path".into());
     };
-    let corners = match p.get("corners").and_then(Value::as_array) {
-        Some(a) => std::array::from_fn(|k| a.iter().any(|v| v.as_u64() == Some(k as u64))),
-        None => live.picked_corners(st.selection.partial(id)),
+    let corners: BTreeSet<usize> = match p.get("corners").and_then(Value::as_array) {
+        Some(a) => a.iter().filter_map(Value::as_u64).filter_map(|k| usize::try_from(k).ok()).filter(|k| live.corner(*k).is_some()).collect(),
+        None => live.picked(st.selection.partial(id)),
     };
-    if !corners.contains(&true) {
-        return Err("give corners 0–3".into());
+    if corners.is_empty() {
+        return Err("give corners of the path: anchors between two straight sides".into());
     }
-    let (radius, kind) = live.corner_style(corners);
-    let mut fields = json!({"id": id.0, "corners": (0..4).filter(|k| corners[*k]).collect::<Vec<_>>()});
+    let (radius, kind) = live.style(&corners);
+    let mut fields = json!({"id": id.0, "corners": corners});
     if let Some(k) = kind {
         fields["kind"] = json!(k);
     }
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ fn confirm(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, d: &Dialog) -> Result<Value, String> {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
     use vectorcraft_engine::Session;
-    use vectorcraft_engine::doc::LiveShape;
+    use vectorcraft_engine::doc::{LiveShape, NodeKind};
     use vectorcraft_tools::corners::CornerWidgets;
     use vectorcraft_tools::{PointerEvent, PointerKind};
 
@@ -121,7 +123,7 @@ mod tests {
     /// The radius the Properties panel's Corner Radius field shows.
     fn panel_radius(app: &VectorcraftApp, id: u64) -> Option<f64> {
         let n = app.session.active().unwrap().doc.node(NodeId(id)).unwrap().clone();
-        crate::panels::corner_radius(app, &n, &live(app, id))
+        crate::panels::corner_radius(app, &n)
     }
 
     fn shown(app: &mut VectorcraftApp) -> Vec<String> {
@@ -151,7 +153,7 @@ mod tests {
         app.select_tool("directSelection");
         let view = app.view_info();
         let st = app.session.active().unwrap();
-        let at: Vec<_> = CornerWidgets::of(&st.doc, &st.selection, view.zoom).unwrap().visible().collect();
+        let at: Vec<_> = CornerWidgets::of(&st.doc, &st.selection, view.zoom, true).unwrap().visible().collect();
         assert_eq!(at.len(), 1);
         crate::canvas::dispatch(&mut app, &PointerEvent::new(PointerKind::DoubleClick, at[0].x, at[0].y), view);
         let d = app.ui.dialog.clone().expect("Corners opened");
@@ -192,8 +194,25 @@ mod tests {
         app.ui.dialog.as_mut().unwrap().fields.insert("radius".into(), json!("3 pt"));
         super::super::confirm(&mut app).unwrap();
         assert_eq!(corners(&app, id), ([3.0; 4], before.1));
-        // Only live rectangles, and only real corners.
+        // Only paths, and only real corners.
         assert!(app.run("ui.corners", json!({"id": 9999})).is_err());
         assert!(app.run("ui.corners", json!({"corners": [7]})).is_err());
+        let e = app.run("shape.ellipse", json!({"x": 0, "y": 0, "width": 50, "height": 30})).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap();
+        assert!(app.run("ui.corners", json!({"id": e})).is_err());
+    }
+
+    /// #511: a star's corners open in Corners too; OK rounds them.
+    #[test]
+    fn corners_edits_a_star() {
+        let (mut app, _) = app();
+        let id = app.run("shape.star", json!({"cx": 200, "cy": 200, "radius1": 60, "radius2": 30})).unwrap()["id"].as_u64().unwrap();
+        app.run("ui.corners", json!({})).unwrap();
+        let d = app.ui.dialog.as_mut().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!((d.fields.get("corners"), d.f64("radius", -1.0)), (Some(&json!((0..10).collect::<Vec<_>>())), 0.0));
+        d.fields.insert("radius".into(), json!(5));
+        super::super::confirm(&mut app).unwrap();
+        let n = app.session.active().unwrap().doc.node(NodeId(id)).unwrap().clone();
+        assert!(matches!(&n.kind, NodeKind::Path { live: Some(LiveShape::Path { .. }), .. }));
+        assert_eq!(crate::panels::corner_radius(&app, &n), Some(5.0));
     }
 }

crates/ui-egui/src/font_menu.rs

@@ -307,12 +307,10 @@ fn list(ui: &mut Ui, state_id: egui::Id, st: &mut MenuState, current: &str, samp
         widgets::dim_label(ui, tl!("No matching fonts"));
         return None;
     }
-    // The rows: only those in view are laid out (there are thousands of families). The list fills
-    // what the popup shows below the filters (its clip: the popup doesn't grow past its own size,
-    // and a taller list would scroll inside a scrolling popup), down to the window's bottom.
-    const BOTTOM_GAP: f32 = 12.0;
-    let bottom = ui.clip_rect().bottom().min(ui.ctx().content_rect().bottom() - BOTTOM_GAP);
-    let room = (bottom - ui.next_widget_position().y).max(120.0);
+    // The rows: only those in view are laid out (there are thousands of families). The list is
+    // the menu's one scrolling part, under the search field and filters (#555): it fills the
+    // menu's room (its max rect) below them.
+    let room = (ui.max_rect().bottom() - ui.next_widget_position().y).clamp(120.0, 600.0);
     let mut area = egui::ScrollArea::vertical().max_height(room).min_scrolled_height(room.min(row_h * rows.len() as f32));
     // The highlight in view: centred as the menu opens, scrolled just enough as the keys move it.
     if let Some(top) = st.highlight.map(|i| i as f32 * row_h) {

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/cs.tsv

@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@
 	Make Pixel Perfect	Zarovnat na obrazové body
 	Slice	Řez
 	Make	Vytvořit
+	Make and Expand	Vytvořit a rozložit
 	Release	Uvolnit
 	Create from Guides	Vytvořit z vodítek
 	Create from Selection	Vytvořit z výběru
@@ -199,8 +200,6 @@
 	Merge	Sloučit
 	Gap Options…	Možnosti mezer…
 	Image Trace	Vektorizace obrazu
-	Make…	Vytvořit…
-	Make and Expand…	Vytvořit a rozložit…
 	Text Wrap	Obtékání textu
 	Text Wrap Options…	Možnosti obtékání textu…
 	Clipping Mask	Ořezová maska

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/es.tsv

@@ -1369,7 +1369,6 @@
 	Make a theme on Create and save it.	Crea un tema en Crear y guárdalo.
 	Make all bleed settings the same	Usar el mismo valor en todos los sangrados
 	Make and Expand	Crear y expandir
-	Make and Expand…	Crear y expandir…
 	Make Clipping Mask	Crear máscara de recorte
 	Make Compound Shape	Crear forma compuesta
 	Make Envelope	Crear envolvente
@@ -1382,7 +1381,6 @@
 	Make with Top Object	Crear con objeto superior
 	Make with Warp…	Crear con deformación…
 	Make/Release Clipping Mask	Crear/soltar máscara de recorte
-	Make…	Crear…
 	Manage Workspaces	Administrar espacios de trabajo
 	Manage Workspaces…	Administrar espacios de trabajo…
 	Manually	Manualmente
@@ -2546,6 +2544,7 @@
 	Character:	Carácter:
 	Character options	Opciones de carácter
 	Stroke options	Opciones de trazo
+	Transform options	Opciones de transformación
 	Stroke Weight	Grosor de trazo
 	Stroke:	Trazo:
 	Stroke: click for swatches, Shift-click for the color mixer	Trazo: clic para muestras, Shift+clic para el mezclador de colores
@@ -3072,7 +3071,7 @@ axis	Both	Ambos
 @msg	Convert to Artboards: selection has no area	Convertir en mesas de trabajo: la selección no tiene área
 @msg	Convert to Shape: no rectangles or ellipses selected	Convertir en forma: no hay rectángulos ni elipses seleccionados
 @msg	Copied the CSS of {rules} object(s)	Se copió el CSS de {rules} objeto(s)
-@msg	Corners edits a live rectangle	Esquinas edita un rectángulo interactivo
+@msg	Corners edits the corners of a path	Esquinas edita las esquinas de un trazado
 @msg	Couldn't copy to the system clipboard: {e}	No se pudo copiar al portapapeles del sistema: {e}
 @msg	Couldn't open {name}: {e}	No se pudo abrir {name}: {e}
 @msg	Couldn't place {name}: the document it was dropped on was closed	No se pudo colocar {name}: se cerró el documento en el que se soltó
@@ -3238,7 +3237,7 @@ axis	Both	Ambos
 @msg	file version {0} is newer than this VectorCraft supports ({VERSION})	la versión de archivo {0} es más reciente de lo que admite este VectorCraft ({VERSION})
 @msg	freeform point {i} needs `at` [x, y] and a valid `color`	el punto de forma libre {i} necesita `at` [x, y] y un `color` válido
 @msg	give both `start` and `end` [x, y] (or neither)	indica `start` y `end` [x, y] (o ninguno de los dos)
-@msg	give corners 0–3	indica esquinas de 0 a 3
+@msg	give corners of the path: anchors between two straight sides	indica esquinas del trazado: puntos de ancla entre dos lados rectos
 @msg	give the path `id` and the width point `index`	indica el `id` del trazado y el `index` del punto de anchura
 @msg	guides are locked	las guías están bloqueadas
 @msg	image '{key}' has no pixels and was left out	la imagen '{key}' no tiene píxeles y se omitió
@@ -3422,7 +3421,7 @@ axis	Both	Ambos
 @msg	select artwork (or a colour group) to recolor	selecciona la ilustración (o un grupo de colores) que quieres volver a colorear
 @msg	select at least two objects	selecciona al menos dos objetos
 @msg	select objects, not layers	selecciona objetos, no capas
-@msg	select one live rectangle, or give its `id`	selecciona un rectángulo interactivo o indica su `id`
+@msg	select one path, or give its `id`	selecciona un trazado o indica su `id`
 @msg	select paths to join	selecciona los trazados que quieres unir
 @msg	select the art to repeat	selecciona la ilustración que quieres repetir
 @msg	select the artwork to warp	selecciona la ilustración que quieres deformar

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/it.tsv

@@ -1369,7 +1369,6 @@
 	Make a theme on Create and save it.	Crea un tema nella scheda Crea e salvalo.
 	Make all bleed settings the same	Usa lo stesso valore per tutte le abbondanze
 	Make and Expand	Crea ed espandi
-	Make and Expand…	Crea ed espandi…
 	Make Clipping Mask	Crea maschera di ritaglio
 	Make Compound Shape	Crea forma composta
 	Make Envelope	Crea involucro
@@ -1382,7 +1381,6 @@
 	Make with Top Object	Crea con oggetto superiore
 	Make with Warp…	Crea con alterazione…
 	Make/Release Clipping Mask	Crea/rilascia maschera di ritaglio
-	Make…	Crea…
 	Manage Workspaces	Gestisci aree di lavoro
 	Manage Workspaces…	Gestisci aree di lavoro…
 	Manually	Manualmente
@@ -2546,6 +2544,7 @@
 	Character:	Carattere:
 	Character options	Opzioni carattere
 	Stroke options	Opzioni traccia
+	Transform options	Opzioni di trasformazione
 	Stroke Weight	Spessore traccia
 	Stroke:	Traccia:
 	Stroke: click for swatches, Shift-click for the color mixer	Traccia: fai clic per i campioni, Shift+clic per il miscelatore colori
@@ -3072,7 +3071,7 @@ axis	Both	Entrambi
 @msg	Convert to Artboards: selection has no area	Converti in tavole da disegno: la selezione non ha area
 @msg	Convert to Shape: no rectangles or ellipses selected	Converti in forma: nessun rettangolo o ellisse selezionato
 @msg	Copied the CSS of {rules} object(s)	Copiato il CSS di {rules} oggetto/i
-@msg	Corners edits a live rectangle	Angoli modifica un rettangolo dinamico
+@msg	Corners edits the corners of a path	Angoli modifica gli angoli di un tracciato
 @msg	Couldn't copy to the system clipboard: {e}	Impossibile copiare negli appunti di sistema: {e}
 @msg	Couldn't open {name}: {e}	Impossibile aprire {name}: {e}
 @msg	Couldn't place {name}: the document it was dropped on was closed	Impossibile inserire {name}: il documento su cui è stato rilasciato è stato chiuso
@@ -3238,7 +3237,7 @@ axis	Both	Entrambi
 @msg	file version {0} is newer than this VectorCraft supports ({VERSION})	la versione del file {0} è più recente di quelle supportate da questo VectorCraft ({VERSION})
 @msg	freeform point {i} needs `at` [x, y] and a valid `color`	il punto a forma libera {i} richiede `at` [x, y] e un `color` valido
 @msg	give both `start` and `end` [x, y] (or neither)	specifica sia `start` sia `end` [x, y] (o nessuno dei due)
-@msg	give corners 0–3	specifica angoli da 0 a 3
+@msg	give corners of the path: anchors between two straight sides	specifica angoli del tracciato: punti di ancoraggio tra due lati diritti
 @msg	give the path `id` and the width point `index`	specifica l'`id` del tracciato e l'`index` del punto di larghezza
 @msg	guides are locked	le guide sono bloccate
 @msg	image '{key}' has no pixels and was left out	l'immagine '{key}' non ha pixel ed è stata omessa
@@ -3422,7 +3421,7 @@ axis	Both	Entrambi
 @msg	select artwork (or a colour group) to recolor	seleziona la grafica (o un gruppo colori) da ricolorare
 @msg	select at least two objects	seleziona almeno due oggetti
 @msg	select objects, not layers	seleziona oggetti, non livelli
-@msg	select one live rectangle, or give its `id`	seleziona un rettangolo dinamico o specifica il suo `id`
+@msg	select one path, or give its `id`	seleziona un tracciato o specifica il suo `id`
 @msg	select paths to join	seleziona i tracciati da unire
 @msg	select the art to repeat	seleziona la grafica da ripetere
 @msg	select the artwork to warp	seleziona la grafica da alterare

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ja.tsv

@@ -233,8 +233,6 @@
 	Image Trace	画像トレース
 	Image Tracing	画像トレースオブジェクト
 	Tracing Presets	トレースプリセット
-	Make…	作成…
-	Make and Expand…	作成して拡張…
 	Text Wrap	テキストの回り込み
 	Text Wrap Options…	テキストの回り込みオプション…
 	Clipping Mask	クリッピングマスク
@@ -2352,6 +2350,7 @@
 	Character:	文字:
 	Character options	文字オプション
 	Stroke options	線オプション
+	Transform options	変形オプション
 	Stroke:	線:
 	Style	スタイル
 	Style Name:	スタイル名:

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/pt-br.tsv

@@ -1242,13 +1242,11 @@
 	Make a theme on Create and save it.	Crie um tema em Criar e salve-o.
 	Make all bleed settings the same	Tornar todas as configurações de sangria iguais
 	Make and Expand	Criar e Expandir
-	Make and Expand…	Criar e Expandir…
 	Make the bleed values differ	Fazer os valores de sangria diferirem
 	Make with Mesh…	Criar com Malha…
 	Make with Top Object	Criar com Objeto Superior
 	Make with Warp…	Criar com Distorção…
 	Make/Release Clipping Mask	Criar/Liberar Máscara de Recorte
-	Make…	Criar…
 	Manage Workspaces	Gerenciar Espaços de Trabalho
 	Manage Workspaces…	Gerenciar Espaços de Trabalho…
 	Manually	Manualmente
@@ -2248,6 +2246,7 @@
 	Character:	Caractere:
 	Character options	Opções de caractere
 	Stroke options	Opções de traçado
+	Transform options	Opções de transformação
 	Stroke:	Traçado:
 	Style	Estilo
 	Style Name:	Nome do Estilo:

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/tests.rs

@@ -171,6 +171,29 @@ fn partial_catalogs_only_translate_strings_the_ui_shows() {
     }
 }
 
+/// The engine learns the language the UI is drawn in each frame: new type takes the Japanese
+/// defaults while it is Japanese (#432). The frames stay in English: the drawing language is
+/// process-wide, and a Japanese frame would translate the tests running beside this one.
+#[test]
+fn the_engine_follows_the_interface_language() {
+    let mut app = crate::VectorcraftApp::new(vectorcraft_engine::Session::new(), crate::Services::default());
+    let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+    let frame = |app: &mut crate::VectorcraftApp| {
+        ctx.run_ui(egui::RawInput::default(), |ui| app.logic(ui.ctx())).textures_delta.clear();
+    };
+    frame(&mut app);
+    assert_eq!(app.session.ui_language.as_deref(), Some("en"), "tests resolve `auto` to English");
+    assert!(!app.session.japanese_interface());
+    // Each frame hands the engine the language it draws in, whatever the engine had.
+    app.session.ui_language = Some("ja".into());
+    assert!(app.session.japanese_interface());
+    frame(&mut app);
+    assert_eq!(app.session.ui_language.as_deref(), Some("en"));
+    // The language a frame would draw in follows the preference.
+    app.session.prefs.interface_language = "ja".into();
+    assert_eq!(app.ui_language().code(), "ja");
+}
+
 /// VectorCraft › Language (`app.language`) sets the `interfaceLanguage` preference, which is what
 /// persists; the checked item follows the preference, and a bad code is an error, not a change.
 #[test]

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hans.tsv

@@ -1351,7 +1351,6 @@
 	Make a theme on Create and save it.	在“创建”中制作主题并存储。
 	Make all bleed settings the same	使所有出血设置相同
 	Make and Expand	创建并扩展
-	Make and Expand…	制作并展开…
 	Make Clipping Mask	制作剪切蒙版
 	Make Compound Shape	创建复合形状
 	Make Envelope	制作封套
@@ -1364,7 +1363,6 @@
 	Make with Top Object	用顶层对象创建
 	Make with Warp…	用变形创建…
 	Make/Release Clipping Mask	创建/释放剪切蒙版
-	Make…	制作…
 	Manage Workspaces	管理工作区
 	Manage Workspaces…	管理工作区…
 	Manually	手动
@@ -2484,6 +2482,7 @@
 	Character:	字符：
 	Character options	字符选项
 	Stroke options	描边选项
+	Transform options	变换选项
 	Stroke Weight	描边粗细
 	Stroke:	描边：
 	Stroke: click for swatches, Shift-click for the color mixer	描边：单击开启色板，按住 Shift 单击开启混色器

crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/zh-hant.tsv

@@ -1387,7 +1387,6 @@
 	Make a theme on Create and save it.	按一下「建立」即可製作主題並儲存。
 	Make all bleed settings the same	將所有出血設定設為相同
 	Make and Expand	製作並展開
-	Make and Expand…	製作並展開…
 	Make Clipping Mask	製作剪裁遮色片
 	Make Compound Shape	製作複合形狀
 	Make Envelope	製作封套
@@ -1400,7 +1399,6 @@
 	Make with Top Object	以最上層物件製作
 	Make with Warp…	以彎曲製作…
 	Make/Release Clipping Mask	製作／釋放剪裁遮色片
-	Make…	製作…
 	Manage Workspaces	管理工作區
 	Manage Workspaces…	管理工作區…
 	Manually	手動
@@ -2566,6 +2564,7 @@
 	Character:	字元：
 	Character options	字元選項
 	Stroke options	筆畫選項
+	Transform options	變形選項
 	Stroke Weight	筆畫寬度
 	Stroke:	筆畫：
 	Stroke: click for swatches, Shift-click for the color mixer	筆畫：按一下開啟色票，按住 Shift 按一下開啟混色器

crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs

@@ -726,7 +726,12 @@ impl VectorcraftApp {
     }
 
     fn logic_frame(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context) {
-        i18n::set_current(self.ui_language());
+        let lang = self.ui_language();
+        i18n::set_current(lang);
+        // The engine gives new type the Japanese defaults while the UI is in Japanese.
+        if self.session.ui_language.as_deref() != Some(lang.code()) {
+            self.session.ui_language = Some(lang.code().to_string());
+        }
         self.adopt_context(ctx);
         if !self.styled {
             theme::install_fonts(ctx);

crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs

@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ pub const UI_COMMANDS: &[(&str, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
         "ui.corners",
         "Corners…",
         "",
-        "{id?, corners?: [0..3…]} open Corners for live rectangle `id` (default: the selected one) and its corners (0 top-left, 1 top-right, 2 bottom-right, 3 bottom-left; default: the Direct-Selected corners, else all four) (dialog `corners`: kind (round|invertedRound|chamfer), radius (pt); double-clicking a corner widget opens it too): OK runs object.setLiveShape",
+        "{id?, corners?: [i…]} open Corners for path `id` (default: the selected one) and its corners (anchor indices of the path with its corners uncut, as object.setLiveShape takes them: a rectangle's 0 top-left, 1 top-right, 2 bottom-right, 3 bottom-left; default: the Direct-Selected corners, else every corner) (dialog `corners`: kind (round|invertedRound|chamfer), radius (pt); double-clicking a corner widget opens it too): OK runs object.setLiveShape",
     ),
     (
         "ui.colorGuideLimit",
@@ -1414,6 +1414,10 @@ pub fn checked(app: &VectorcraftApp, id: &str, p: &Value) -> Option<bool> {
             let cmyk = app.session.active().is_some_and(|d| d.doc.color_mode == vectorcraft_engine::doc::ColorMode::Cmyk);
             p.get("mode").and_then(Value::as_str) == Some(if cmyk { "cmyk" } else { "rgb" })
         }
+        // The ruler context menu lists the document units, the current one checked.
+        "document.setUnits" => {
+            p.get("units").and_then(Value::as_str).and_then(vectorcraft_engine::doc::Unit::named) == Some(app.session.general_unit())
+        }
         _ => return None,
     })
 }
@@ -2153,8 +2157,11 @@ pub fn menu_tree() -> Vec<(&'static str, Vec<Item>)> {
                 sub(
                     "Image Trace",
                     vec![
-                        cp("Make…", "imageTrace.make", json!({"preset": "Black and White Logo"})),
-                        cp("Make and Expand…", "imageTrace.makeAndExpand", json!({"preset": "6 Colors"})),
+                        // Traced at once with the Default preset, as the Control bar's Image Trace
+                        // button does; other presets come from its arrow or the Image Trace panel
+                        // (#543: the "…" form asked for a preset's name in a text box).
+                        cp("Make", "imageTrace.make", json!({"preset": "Default"})),
+                        cp("Make and Expand", "imageTrace.makeAndExpand", json!({"preset": "Default"})),
                         c("Release", "imageTrace.release"),
                         c("Expand", "imageTrace.expand"),
                     ],
@@ -2638,6 +2645,21 @@ pub fn context_menu_body(app: &VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui, clicked: &mut
     });
 }
 
+/// The document units a right-click on a ruler offers: each runs `document.setUnits`, exactly as
+/// Preferences ▸ Units ▸ General does, with the current one checked ([`checked`]).
+pub fn ruler_unit_items() -> Vec<Item> {
+    vectorcraft_engine::doc::Unit::ALL.iter().map(|u| cp(u.label(), "document.setUnits", json!({ "units": u.label() }))).collect()
+}
+
+/// The ruler context menu's popup (right-click a ruler or the origin box); the unit clicked goes in
+/// `clicked`, for [`invoke`].
+pub fn ruler_menu_body(app: &VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui, clicked: &mut Option<(String, Value)>) {
+    widgets::menu_scroll(ui, |ui| {
+        ui.set_min_width(160.0);
+        render_items(app, ui, &ruler_unit_items(), true, clicked);
+    });
+}
+
 /// Render the menu bar.
 /// The in-window menu bar. Returns where its titles end (x): the bar itself takes the full width.
 pub fn menu_bar(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui) -> f32 {
@@ -3761,6 +3783,19 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(pretty_shortcut(""), "");
     }
 
+    /// #543: Object › Image Trace › Make and Make and Expand trace with the Default preset at once,
+    /// with no form asking for a preset's name.
+    #[test]
+    fn image_trace_make_traces_with_the_default_preset() {
+        let mut app = VectorcraftApp::new(vectorcraft_engine::Session::new(), crate::Services::default());
+        app.run("file.new", json!({})).unwrap();
+        for cmd in ["imageTrace.make", "imageTrace.makeAndExpand"] {
+            let e = menu_entries(&app).into_iter().find(|e| e.command.as_deref() == Some(cmd)).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(e.path, ["Object", "Image Trace"]);
+            assert_eq!(click_target(&e.label, cmd, &e.params), (cmd.to_string(), json!({"preset": "Default"})), "{}", e.label);
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn expand_appearance_is_an_object_menu_item_only() {
         let mut app = VectorcraftApp::new(vectorcraft_engine::Session::new(), crate::Services::default());

crates/ui-egui/src/panels/mod.rs

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ pub mod transparency;
 use egui::{Rect, Sense, Ui, vec2};
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
 use vectorcraft_color::{BlendMode, Color, Paint};
-use vectorcraft_doc::{LiveShape, Node, StrokeLayer};
+use vectorcraft_doc::{LiveCorners, Node, StrokeLayer};
 use vectorcraft_engine::inspect::StrokeMixed;
 
 use crate::theme::Tokens;
@@ -57,11 +57,24 @@ pub fn first_selected(app: &VectorcraftApp) -> Option<Node> {
     first_node(app).cloned()
 }
 
-/// The radius the Live Corners of live rectangle `n` show in the panels: that of the corners the
-/// panels set (the Direct-Selected ones, else all four), blank when they differ.
-pub(crate) fn corner_radius(app: &VectorcraftApp, n: &Node, live: &LiveShape) -> Option<f64> {
+/// The radius the Live Corners of path `n` show in the panels: that of the corners the panels set
+/// (the Direct-Selected ones, else every corner), blank when they differ.
+pub(crate) fn corner_radius(app: &VectorcraftApp, n: &Node) -> Option<f64> {
     let partial = app.session.active().and_then(|d| d.selection.partial(n.id));
-    live.corner_style(live.picked_corners(partial)).0
+    let corners = LiveCorners::of(n)?;
+    corners.style(&corners.picked(partial)).0
+}
+
+/// The Corner Radius field of a live rectangle's or polygon's properties: [`corner_radius`],
+/// which a new value sets on those corners.
+pub(crate) fn corner_radius_row(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui, n: &Node, id: &str) {
+    let units = app.session.general_unit();
+    ui.horizontal(|ui| {
+        dim_label(ui, tl!("Corner Radius:"));
+        if let Some(r) = crate::widgets::num_field(ui, id, corner_radius(app, n), units, 80.0) {
+            app.run("object.setLiveShape", json!({"radius": r})).ok();
+        }
+    });
 }
 
 /// Number of selected objects.

crates/ui-egui/src/panels/properties.rs

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 use egui::Ui;
 use serde_json::json;
-use vectorcraft_doc::{NodeKind, Unit};
+use vectorcraft_doc::{LiveShape, NodeKind, Unit};
 
-use super::{corner_radius, first_selected, pstate, set_pstate};
+use super::{corner_radius_row, first_selected, pstate, set_pstate};
 use crate::theme::Tokens;
 use crate::widgets::{self, dim_label, divider, section_header};
 use crate::{VectorcraftApp, icons};
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
     divider(ui);
     section_header(ui, tl!("Quick Actions"));
     let is_group = matches!(first.as_ref().map(|n| &n.kind), Some(NodeKind::Group { .. }));
-    let is_live = matches!(first.as_ref().map(|n| &n.kind), Some(NodeKind::Path { live: Some(_), .. }));
+    let is_live = matches!(first.as_ref().map(|n| &n.kind), Some(NodeKind::Path { live: Some(l), .. }) if !matches!(l, LiveShape::Path { .. }));
     let mut actions: Vec<(&str, &str)> = vec![];
     if n_sel > 1 {
         actions.push((tl!("Group"), "object.group"));
@@ -335,14 +335,7 @@ pub fn transform_section(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
         && let NodeKind::Path { live: Some(live), .. } = &n.kind
     {
         match live {
-            vectorcraft_doc::LiveShape::Rectangle { .. } => {
-                ui.horizontal(|ui| {
-                    dim_label(ui, tl!("Corner Radius:"));
-                    if let Some(r) = widgets::num_field(ui, "radius", corner_radius(app, &n, live), units, 80.0) {
-                        app.run("object.setLiveShape", json!({"radius": r})).ok();
-                    }
-                });
-            }
+            vectorcraft_doc::LiveShape::Rectangle { .. } => corner_radius_row(app, ui, &n, "radius"),
             vectorcraft_doc::LiveShape::Polygon { sides, .. } => {
                 ui.horizontal(|ui| {
                     dim_label(ui, tl!("Sides:"));
@@ -350,6 +343,7 @@ pub fn transform_section(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
                         app.run("object.setLiveShape", json!({"sides": s as u32})).ok();
                     }
                 });
+                corner_radius_row(app, ui, &n, "radius");
             }
             _ => {}
         }

crates/ui-egui/src/panels/transform.rs

@@ -7,12 +7,14 @@ use serde_json::json;
 use vectorcraft_doc::NodeKind;
 use vectorcraft_geom::Rect;
 
-use super::{corner_radius, first_selected, pstate, set_pstate};
+use super::{corner_radius_row, first_selected, pstate, set_pstate};
 use crate::theme::Tokens;
 use crate::widgets::{self, menu_item};
 use crate::{VectorcraftApp, icons};
 
 pub const ANGLE_PRESETS: [f64; 9] = [-180.0, -135.0, -90.0, -45.0, 0.0, 45.0, 90.0, 135.0, 180.0];
+/// The shear angle's presets: steep enough to be useful, short of the degenerate ±90°.
+pub const SHEAR_PRESETS: [f64; 9] = [-60.0, -45.0, -30.0, -15.0, 0.0, 15.0, 30.0, 45.0, 60.0];
 
 /// Proportional size: the other dimension when one changes with the link on.
 pub fn constrained(w: f64, h: f64, new_w: Option<f64>, new_h: Option<f64>) -> (f64, f64) {
@@ -151,8 +153,10 @@ pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
             ui.add_space(4.0);
             let icon = icons::icon(ui, "dc-shear", 16.0, t.icon).on_hover_text(tl!("Shear"));
             crate::scrub::note_label(ui, icon.rect);
-            if let Some(a) = widgets::plain_field(ui, "xfp-shear", 0.0, "°", 1, 56.0)
+            // Shear is relative: the field rests at 0° and a new value shears by it.
+            if let Some(a) = widgets::spin_plain(ui, "xfp-shear", 0.0, "°", 2, 96.0, 15.0, -89.0, &SHEAR_PRESETS)
                 && a != 0.0
+                && a.abs() < 90.0
             {
                 app.run("object.shear", json!({"angle": a, "axis": "horizontal", "origin": origin})).ok();
             }
@@ -166,20 +170,16 @@ pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
             app.run("object.reflect", json!({"axis": "horizontal", "origin": origin})).ok();
         }
     });
-    // Live shape properties.
+    // Live shape properties (a path with live corners is no shape).
     if let Some(n) = first_selected(app)
         && let NodeKind::Path { live: Some(live), .. } = &n.kind
+        && !matches!(live, vectorcraft_doc::LiveShape::Path { .. })
     {
         widgets::divider(ui);
         match live {
             vectorcraft_doc::LiveShape::Rectangle { .. } => {
                 widgets::subheader(ui, tl!("Rectangle Properties:"));
-                ui.horizontal(|ui| {
-                    widgets::dim_label(ui, tl!("Corner Radius:"));
-                    if let Some(r) = widgets::num_field(ui, "xfp-radius", corner_radius(app, &n, live), units, 80.0) {
-                        app.run("object.setLiveShape", json!({"radius": r})).ok();
-                    }
-                });
+                corner_radius_row(app, ui, &n, "xfp-radius");
             }
             vectorcraft_doc::LiveShape::Polygon { sides, .. } => {
                 widgets::subheader(ui, tl!("Polygon Properties:"));
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
                         app.run("object.setLiveShape", json!({"sides": s.clamp(3.0, 20.0) as u32})).ok();
                     }
                 });
+                corner_radius_row(app, ui, &n, "xfp-radius");
             }
             _ => {
                 widgets::subheader(ui, tl!("Shape Properties:"));
@@ -209,6 +210,17 @@ pub fn show(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
     }
 }
 
+/// The Control bar's underlined "Transform" link: a click toggles the Transform panel in a
+/// popover under it, as the Stroke link does with the Stroke panel.
+pub fn link(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {
+    let t = Tokens::get(ui.ctx());
+    let resp = ui.link(egui::RichText::new(tl!("Transform")).size(12.0).color(t.text).underline()).on_hover_text(tl!("Transform options"));
+    widgets::popover(&resp, resp.clicked(), |ui| {
+        ui.set_width(300.0);
+        show(app, ui);
+    });
+}
+
 /// The link between W and H (Transform panel, Properties panel, Control bar): one toggle, the
 /// `constrainProportions` preference, which the size fields pass on as `proportional`.
 pub fn constrain_link(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut Ui) {

crates/ui-egui/src/tests_contextmenu.rs

@@ -110,6 +110,32 @@ fn right_click_on_empty_canvas_offers_the_view_and_a_dismissing_click_does_nothi
     assert_eq!(app.session.active().unwrap().doc.art_bounds(), None);
 }
 
+/// #528: right-clicking a ruler offers the document units, the current one checked, and choosing one
+/// swaps them — the same effect as Preferences ▸ Units ▸ General (`document.setUnits`).
+#[test]
+fn right_clicking_a_ruler_swaps_the_document_units() {
+    use vectorcraft_doc::Unit;
+    let mut app = app();
+    app.ui.view.rulers = true;
+    let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+    frame(&mut app, &ctx, vec![]);
+    assert_eq!(app.session.general_unit(), Unit::Points, "a new document starts in the prefs unit");
+    // Right-click on the top ruler (the band along the top, past the origin box).
+    let texts = click(&mut app, &ctx, pos2(400.0, 8.0), PointerButton::Secondary);
+    for label in ["Points", "Picas", "Inches", "Millimeters", "Feet & Inches", "Pixels"] {
+        assert!(has(&texts, label), "{label} in {texts:?}");
+    }
+    assert!(texts.iter().any(|(t, _)| t == "✓  Points"), "the current unit is checked: {texts:?}");
+    // Choosing a unit runs document.setUnits and closes the menu.
+    let mm = texts.iter().find(|(t, _)| t.trim_start_matches(['✓', ' ']) == "Millimeters").map(|(_, r)| r.center()).expect("Millimeters");
+    let texts = click(&mut app, &ctx, mm, PointerButton::Primary);
+    assert_eq!(app.session.general_unit(), Unit::Millimeters, "the ruler's unit changed");
+    assert!(!has(&texts, "Inches"), "the menu closed");
+    // The left ruler offers the same menu, now checking the new unit.
+    let texts = click(&mut app, &ctx, pos2(8.0, 300.0), PointerButton::Secondary);
+    assert!(texts.iter().any(|(t, _)| t == "✓  Millimeters"), "the left ruler reflects the current unit: {texts:?}");
+}
+
 fn labels(items: &[Item]) -> Vec<&'static str> {
     items
         .iter()

crates/ui-egui/src/tests_font_menu.rs

@@ -270,3 +270,51 @@ fn menus_that_only_pick_a_font_leave_the_document_alone() {
     assert_eq!(picked(&mut app, Some(FontPick::Favorite("inter".into()))), None);
     assert!(app.ui.favorite_fonts.is_empty());
 }
+
+/// #555: the menu's search field and filters stay at its top while the wheel scrolls the families,
+/// past the list's end too: the list is the menu's one scrolling part.
+#[test]
+fn the_search_field_stays_put_while_the_list_scrolls() {
+    let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+    crate::theme::install_fonts(&ctx);
+    let frame = |events: Vec<egui::Event>| {
+        let input =
+            egui::RawInput { events, screen_rect: Some(egui::Rect::from_min_size(egui::Pos2::ZERO, egui::vec2(600.0, 500.0))), ..Default::default() };
+        let mut at = egui::Pos2::ZERO;
+        let mut out = ctx.run_ui(input, |ui| {
+            // Low in the window, as in a panel at the bottom of the dock: the menu opens upwards.
+            ui.add_space(390.0);
+            at = ui.next_widget_position();
+            font_menu(ui, "test-scroll", "Inter", 260.0, None, MenuLook::default());
+        });
+        out.textures_delta.clear();
+        let search = out.shapes.iter().find_map(|s| match &s.shape {
+            egui::Shape::Text(t) if t.galley.text() == "Search" => Some(t.pos),
+            _ => None,
+        });
+        (at, search)
+    };
+    let (at, _) = frame(vec![]);
+    let click = at + egui::vec2(40.0, 10.0);
+    let button = |pressed| egui::Event::PointerButton { pos: click, button: egui::PointerButton::Primary, pressed, modifiers: Default::default() };
+    frame(vec![egui::Event::PointerMoved(click), button(true)]);
+    frame(vec![button(false)]);
+    let mut field = None;
+    for _ in 0..5 {
+        field = frame(vec![]).1;
+    }
+    let field = field.expect("the search field shows");
+    let over_list = egui::pos2(field.x + 40.0, field.y + 120.0);
+    for dy in [-400.0, -4000.0, -4000.0] {
+        let wheel = egui::Event::MouseWheel {
+            unit: egui::MouseWheelUnit::Point,
+            delta: egui::vec2(0.0, dy),
+            modifiers: Default::default(),
+            phase: egui::TouchPhase::Move,
+        };
+        frame(vec![egui::Event::PointerMoved(over_list), wheel]);
+        for _ in 0..10 {
+            assert_eq!(frame(vec![]).1, Some(field), "the field stays where it was");
+        }
+    }
+}

crates/ui-egui/src/tests_paintchips.rs

@@ -242,3 +242,31 @@ fn the_window_menu_panel_keys() {
     app.ui.shortcut_overrides.clear();
     shortcut_editor::sync(&app.ui);
 }
+
+/// Where `shapes` paint the text `s`.
+fn text_rect(shapes: &[Shape], s: &str) -> Option<Rect> {
+    shapes.iter().find_map(|sh| match sh {
+        Shape::Text(t) if t.galley.text() == s => Some(t.visual_bounding_rect()),
+        Shape::Vec(v) => text_rect(v, s),
+        _ => None,
+    })
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn the_transform_link_opens_the_transform_panel() {
+    let mut app = app();
+    app.run("shape.rectangle", json!({"x": 10, "y": 10, "width": 50, "height": 50})).unwrap();
+    let ctx = context();
+    frame(&mut app, &ctx, vec![], Modifiers::NONE, control_bar);
+    let shapes = frame(&mut app, &ctx, vec![], Modifiers::NONE, control_bar);
+    let link = text_rect(&shapes, "Transform").expect("the Control bar shows the Transform link");
+    assert!(text_rect(&shapes, "Scale Corners").is_none());
+    click(&mut app, &ctx, link.center(), Modifiers::NONE, control_bar);
+    let shapes = frame(&mut app, &ctx, vec![], Modifiers::NONE, control_bar);
+    for s in ["Scale Corners", "Scale Strokes & Effects", "0°"] {
+        assert!(text_rect(&shapes, s).is_some(), "the popover shows {s}");
+    }
+    // A click outside closes it.
+    click(&mut app, &ctx, Pos2::new(1300.0, 900.0), Modifiers::NONE, control_bar);
+    assert!(text_rect(&frame(&mut app, &ctx, vec![], Modifiers::NONE, control_bar), "Scale Corners").is_none());
+}

crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs

@@ -655,11 +655,13 @@ pub(crate) fn combo<R>(
         .stroke(Stroke::new(1.0, t.input_border))
         .corner_radius(CornerRadius::same(3))
         .show(ui, |ui| {
+            if searchable {
+                return searchable_combo(ui, ui.id().with(id), current, width - 4.0, list);
+            }
             egui::ComboBox::from_id_salt(ui.id().with(id))
                 .selected_text(egui::RichText::new(current).size(12.0))
                 .width(width - 4.0)
-                .close_behavior(if searchable { egui::PopupCloseBehavior::CloseOnClickOutside } else { egui::PopupCloseBehavior::CloseOnClick })
-                .height(if searchable { f32::INFINITY } else { ui.spacing().combo_height })
+                .height(ui.spacing().combo_height)
                 .show_ui(ui, list)
                 .inner
                 .flatten()
@@ -667,6 +669,58 @@ pub(crate) fn combo<R>(
         .inner
 }
 
+/// A dropdown whose list keeps its own search field and scrolling rows (the font menu): drawn as
+/// egui's combo box, but in a popup without the scroll area egui puts around a combo's list, so
+/// the field stays at the top and only the rows scroll (#555). A click outside closes it.
+fn searchable_combo<R>(ui: &mut Ui, id: egui::Id, current: &str, width: f32, list: impl FnOnce(&mut Ui) -> Option<R>) -> Option<R> {
+    let popup = id.with("popup");
+    let open = egui::Popup::is_id_open(ui.ctx(), popup);
+    let pad = ui.spacing().button_padding;
+    let icon = Vec2::splat(ui.spacing().icon_width);
+    let galley = egui::WidgetText::from(egui::RichText::new(current).size(12.0)).into_galley(
+        ui,
+        Some(egui::TextWrapMode::Truncate),
+        width - 2.0 * pad.x - ui.spacing().icon_spacing - icon.x,
+        egui::TextStyle::Button,
+    );
+    let height = (galley.size().y.max(icon.y) + 2.0 * pad.y).max(ui.spacing().interact_size.y);
+    let (rect, resp) = ui.allocate_exact_size(vec2(width, height), Sense::click());
+    if ui.is_rect_visible(rect) {
+        let v = if open { ui.visuals().widgets.open } else { *ui.style().interact(&resp) };
+        ui.painter().rect(rect.expand(v.expansion), v.corner_radius, v.weak_bg_fill, v.bg_stroke, StrokeKind::Inside);
+        let inner = rect.shrink2(pad);
+        ui.painter().galley(egui::Align2::LEFT_CENTER.align_size_within_rect(galley.size(), inner).min, galley, v.text_color());
+        // egui's combo arrow: a downward triangle.
+        let arrow =
+            Rect::from_center_size(egui::Align2::RIGHT_CENTER.align_size_within_rect(icon, inner).center(), vec2(icon.x * 0.7, icon.y * 0.45));
+        ui.painter().add(egui::Shape::convex_polygon(
+            vec![arrow.left_top(), arrow.right_top(), arrow.center_bottom()],
+            v.fg_stroke.color,
+            Stroke::NONE,
+        ));
+    }
+    // It opens below the button, or above it when there is more room there, and the list gets
+    // the room left (the popup's frame aside).
+    const GAP: f32 = 12.0;
+    let screen = ui.ctx().content_rect();
+    let frame = ui.spacing().menu_margin.sum().y + GAP;
+    let (below, above) = (screen.bottom() - rect.bottom() - frame, rect.top() - screen.top() - frame);
+    let (align, room) = if below >= above { (egui::RectAlign::BOTTOM_START, below) } else { (egui::RectAlign::TOP_START, above) };
+    egui::Popup::menu(&resp)
+        .id(popup)
+        .width(rect.width())
+        .align(align)
+        .align_alternatives(&[])
+        .close_behavior(egui::PopupCloseBehavior::CloseOnClickOutside)
+        .show(|ui| {
+            ui.set_min_width(ui.available_width());
+            ui.set_max_height(room);
+            ui.style_mut().wrap_mode = Some(egui::TextWrapMode::Extend);
+            list(ui)
+        })
+        .and_then(|r| r.inner)
+}
+
 /// A popover anchored to `resp`, opened and closed by `toggle` (usually `resp.clicked()`), and
 /// closed by Escape, a click outside it and outside any popup it opened, or a frame in which its
 /// anchor isn't shown. Use it instead of `egui::Popup::menu` when the popover holds dropdowns or
@@ -806,18 +860,23 @@ pub fn opacity_blend(
     edit
 }
 
-/// The 3×3 reference point locator. Returns a new index when clicked.
+/// The 3×3 reference point locator: nine squares, the eight outer ones joined by a line around
+/// the box (the centre one stands alone), the current one filled. Returns a new index when clicked.
 pub fn reference_point(ui: &mut Ui, current: usize) -> Option<usize> {
     let t = Tokens::get(ui.ctx());
-    let size = 22.0;
+    // 5 pt squares with 4 pt gaps; the origin is snapped to whole points so the 1 pt lines through
+    // the squares' centres stay crisp.
+    let (sq, step) = (5.0, 9.0);
+    let size = 2.0 * step + sq;
     let (rect, _) = ui.allocate_exact_size(Vec2::splat(size), Sense::hover());
+    let o = rect.min.round();
+    let centre = |i: usize| o + Vec2::new(sq / 2.0 + (i % 3) as f32 * step, sq / 2.0 + (i / 3) as f32 * step);
+    let line = Stroke::new(1.0, t.text_dim);
+    ui.painter().rect_stroke(Rect::from_two_pos(centre(0), centre(8)), 0.0, line, StrokeKind::Middle);
     let mut out = None;
-    let step = size / 2.0 - 2.5;
-    ui.painter().rect_stroke(rect.shrink(4.5), 0.0, Stroke::new(1.0, t.text_dim), StrokeKind::Middle);
     for i in 0..9 {
-        let c = Pos2::new(rect.left() + 3.0 + (i % 3) as f32 * step + 1.5, rect.top() + 3.0 + (i / 3) as f32 * step + 1.5);
-        let r = Rect::from_center_size(c, Vec2::splat(5.0));
-        let resp = ui.interact(r.expand(1.5), ui.id().with(("refpt", i)), Sense::click());
+        let r = Rect::from_center_size(centre(i), Vec2::splat(sq));
+        let resp = ui.interact(r.expand(2.0), ui.id().with(("refpt", i)), Sense::click());
         if resp.clicked() {
             out = Some(i);
         }
@@ -825,7 +884,7 @@ pub fn reference_point(ui: &mut Ui, current: usize) -> Option<usize> {
             ui.painter().rect_filled(r, 0.0, t.text);
         } else {
             ui.painter().rect_filled(r, 0.0, t.panel);
-            ui.painter().rect_stroke(r, 0.0, Stroke::new(1.0, t.text_dim), StrokeKind::Inside);
+            ui.painter().rect_stroke(r, 0.0, Stroke::new(1.0, if resp.hovered() { t.text } else { t.text_dim }), StrokeKind::Inside);
         }
     }
     out

docs/control-protocol.md

@@ -291,9 +291,9 @@ Width Point Edit: double-clicking a width point with the Width tool, or `ui.widt
 value: true}` then confirm (the Delete button) removes the point with `stroke.widthPoint.remove`.
 
 Corners: double-clicking a Live Corners widget with the Selection or Direct Selection tool, or `ui.corners {id?,
-corners?}`, opens the `corners` dialog for a live rectangle's corners (the Direct-Selected ones, else all four; fields
-`id`, `corners`: indices 0–3 clockwise from the top-left, `kind`: round, invertedRound or chamfer, `radius` in points;
-`kind` or `radius` is absent while the corners differ). `ui.dialog.confirm` runs `object.setLiveShape` with them.
+corners?}`, opens the `corners` dialog for a path's corners (the Direct-Selected ones, else every corner; fields `id`,
+`corners`: anchor indices of the path with its corners uncut, a rectangle's 0–3 clockwise from the top-left, `kind`:
+round, invertedRound or chamfer, `radius` in points; `kind` or `radius` is absent while the corners differ). `ui.dialog.confirm` runs `object.setLiveShape` with them.
 
 Perspective plane options: double-clicking a plane widget of the perspective grid, or `ui.perspectivePlane {plane}`,
 opens the `perspectivePlane` dialog (fields `plane`: left, right or ground; `location`: points along the plane's

docs/development.md

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ How the web shell (`apps/vectorcraft-web/src/web.rs`) differs from desktop:
 
 The canvas is rasterized on the CPU (`vectorcraft-render`, vello_cpu); the GPU (wgpu, through eframe) only composites the canvas texture and draws the UI, so any GPU that can show the window will do. The desktop app picks the window's adapter itself (`apps/vectorcraft/src/gpu.rs`, eframe's `native_adapter_selector`) and logs every adapter it found and the one it uses.
 
-- **Order:** adapters that report they can't present to the window are never tried; then the one `WGPU_ADAPTER_NAME` names; hardware before software (llvmpipe, WARP); the native backends (Vulkan, Metal, DX12) before OpenGL; then the power preference, keeping the system's order among equals.
+- **Order:** adapters that report they can't present to the window are never tried; then the one `WGPU_ADAPTER_NAME` names; hardware before software (llvmpipe, WARP); the native backends (Vulkan, Metal, DX12) before OpenGL; then the power preference; then, on Windows, where each GPU is listed under both, a GPU's DX12 adapter before its Vulkan one (Intel's Vulkan driver made the whole window flicker black, #545), keeping the system's order among equals. `WGPU_BACKEND=vulkan` still picks Vulkan.
 - **Preferences › Performance › Graphics Processor** (`gpuPreference`): `automatic` (the default), `lowPower` (Power Saving, the integrated GPU) or `highPerformance` (the discrete GPU). The adapter is chosen when the window opens, so a change applies after a restart.
   - **Automatic on Windows and macOS** is power saving: the system shows frames from any GPU, and presenting frames rendered on a discrete GPU through the integrated one made the window flicker on some hybrid laptops (#306).
   - **Automatic on Linux and the BSDs** keeps the system's order: Mesa's Vulkan device-select layer puts the GPU the desktop runs on first (the integrated one on hybrid laptops; `DRI_PRIME` and `MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT` steer it). A Wayland compositor may not accept frames from another GPU: on a desktop whose compositor ran on an NVIDIA GPU, rendering on the Ryzen's integrated GPU made KWin end the window's connection ("importing the supplied dmabufs failed") and 0.5.0 crashed at startup (#502).

docs/mcp.md

@@ -1135,21 +1135,32 @@ size. The journal entry of a scaling command records the `strokes` and `corners`
 
 ## Live Corners
 
-`object.setLiveShape {id?, ids?, radius?, kind?, corners?}` sets the corners of live rectangles (one undo step):
-`radius` (pt) and `kind` (`round`, `invertedRound` or `chamfer`) go to the `corners` given (0 top-left, 1 top-right,
-2 bottom-right, 3 bottom-left), else to the corners holding a Direct-Selected anchor (`select.anchors`), else to all
-four. Each corner keeps its own radius and kind (the shape's `live` in queries has `radii` and, when a corner isn't
-round, `kinds`); a corner with no radius is one anchor, a cut one two, and Direct-Selected corners stay selected as
-that changes. Every corner is a circular arc, whatever the rectangle's proportions: a radius past half the shorter
-side draws at half of it (the same limit for every corner), and a rectangle from a file that kept an uneven scale in its
-transform (elliptical corners) gets circular ones in document units when its corners are next set. With the Selection or
-Direct Selection tool, dragging a corner widget rounds the corners whose widgets show (all four, or the Direct-Selected
-ones), outlining them in red once they reach that limit; Alt-clicking one cycles their kind and double-clicking one
-opens Corners (`ui.corners {id?, corners?}`, dialog `corners`: `kind`, `radius`; OK runs `object.setLiveShape`).
+`object.setLiveShape {id?, ids?, radius?, kind?, corners?}` sets the corners of any path (one undo step): a live
+rectangle's or polygon's, a star's, a pen path's. A corner is an anchor without handles between two straight sides
+(not an open path's ends, not a smooth anchor, not one the sides run straight on through). `radius` (pt) and `kind`
+(`round`, `invertedRound` or `chamfer`) go to the `corners` given, else to the corners holding a Direct-Selected
+anchor (`select.anchors`), else to every corner. `corners` are anchor indices of the path with its corners uncut,
+counting every subpath's anchors in order: a rectangle's 0 top-left, 1 top-right, 2 bottom-right, 3 bottom-left; a
+polygon's from its first vertex clockwise; a star's from its first tip; an index past the last anchor is an error.
+Each corner keeps its own radius and kind (the shape's `live` in queries has `radii` and, when a corner isn't round,
+`kinds`); a corner with no radius is one anchor, a cut one two, and Direct-Selected corners stay selected as that
+changes. A path that isn't a live shape keeps its uncut outline (`live` `{"shape": "path", "base", "radii"}`) so its
+corners stay editable, and is a plain path again once no corner is cut; a polygon stays a live polygon, its corners
+keeping the radius they shared when `sides` changes. Every corner is a circular arc tangent to both sides: a radius
+draws no larger than takes the cut halfway along the corner's shorter side (half the shorter side of a rectangle, the
+same limit for its four corners), the corners stay circular through uneven scales (the radius scales by the mean scale,
+or keeps its size with Scale Corners off), and a rectangle from a file that kept an uneven scale in its transform
+(elliptical corners) gets circular ones in document units when its corners are next set. Dragging a corner widget
+rounds the corners whose widgets show (every corner, or the Direct-Selected ones), outlining in red those that reach
+their limit; the Selection tool shows the widgets of live rectangles and polygons, the Direct Selection tool those of
+any path. Alt-clicking one cycles their kind and double-clicking one opens Corners (`ui.corners {id?, corners?}`,
+dialog `corners`: `kind`, `radius`; OK runs `object.setLiveShape`).
 
 ```json
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.setLiveShape","params":{"id":12,"corners":[1],"radius":16}}}
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.setLiveShape","params":{"id":12,"corners":[0,3],"radius":8,"kind":"chamfer"}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"shape.star","params":{"cx":200,"cy":200,"radius1":60,"radius2":30}}}
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"object.setLiveShape","params":{"radius":5}}}
 ```
 
 ## Use Preview Bounds
@@ -1215,8 +1226,8 @@ off, an empty window, and the Home button or `app.home` still shows the screen)
 default: on, a click away from a panel popped out of the icon column puts it away).
 
 The Smart Guides preferences (Preferences › Smart Guides) apply to `pointer_gesture` with Smart Guides on (the
-default view) and to the mouse; they change what the tools show and how far a target pulls, never where a snapped
-point lands:
+default view) and to the mouse; they change what the tools show and how far a target pulls, and only Construction
+Guides change where a snapped point lands:
 
 - `smartGuideColor` (`#ff3dfc` by default): the colour of the smart guides' lines and labels.
 - `alignmentGuides` (on by default): off, no line is drawn along the edge or centre the art lines up with; the art
@@ -1231,6 +1242,11 @@ point lands:
 - `snappingTolerance` (0–40 px, 4 by default): how near an anchor, edge, centre or artboard edge pulls a drawn point,
   a dragged selection, a bounding-box handle, a ruler guide or an artboard. With Smart Guides off, Snap to Point uses
   `snapToPointTolerance` instead.
+- `constructionGuides` (on by default) and `constructionAngles` (`90° & 45° Angles` by default; also `90° Angles`,
+  `45° Angles`, `60° Angles`, `30° Angles`, `90° & 45° & 30° Angles`): a point drawn near a line at one of those
+  angles through the point it leaves from (the Pen's or Curvature tool's last anchor, a line's start) lands on that
+  line, where a target's alignment line crosses it if one does nearby. "90°" gives the horizontal and the vertical,
+  "45°" the diagonals, "60°" and "30°" the multiples of those angles in between. Off, the point only lines up.
 
 With Smart Guides on, a bounding-box handle dragged with the Selection or Free Transform tool (`mods.shift`
 proportional, `mods.alt` from the centre) lands on another object's anchor or centre (labelled "anchor" or
@@ -1242,7 +1258,26 @@ snap the pointer as drawing tools do, so dragging a corner onto another object's
 {"name":"pointer_gesture","arguments":{"tool":"scale","events":[{"kind":"down","x":100,"y":100},{"kind":"up","x":100,"y":100},{"kind":"down","x":199,"y":198},{"kind":"drag","x":302,"y":262},{"kind":"up","x":302,"y":262}]}}
 ```
 
-Not read yet: Construction Guides and their Angles, and Spacing Guides (the tools draw neither).
+Every point a drawing tool places snaps the same way, through one snapper (#506): the Pen's and Curvature tool's
+anchors, the Pencil's first and last point, the shape tools' start and dragged corner or radius (`rectangle`,
+`roundedRectangle`, `ellipse`, `polygon`, `star`, `lineSegment`, `arc`, `spiral`, `rectangularGrid`, `polarGrid`), the
+Type tool's click and frame, and a new artboard's corners. The point lands on another object's anchor, centre or
+path ("anchor", "center", "path"), else lines up with the anchors, edges and centres of the art and the artboards (a
+line from the target and "align"); the Pen's lands on the path being drawn too, so a click on its first anchor closes
+it exactly. With `mods.shift` the point keeps to its 45° step from the anchor before it (from `constrainAngle`; a box
+dragged keeps its corner on a diagonal) and slides along that way into line with the nearest target. A `move` event
+before the press shows where it would go, as hovering does with the mouse. The targets are the art in the window (all
+of it headless), gathered once per document state; the shape being drawn is never one of them:
+
+```json
+{"name":"pointer_gesture","arguments":{"tool":"rectangle","events":[{"kind":"down","x":202,"y":203},{"kind":"drag","x":330,"y":341},{"kind":"up","x":330,"y":341}]}}
+{"name":"pointer_gesture","arguments":{"tool":"pen","events":[{"kind":"down","x":300,"y":420},{"kind":"up","x":300,"y":420},{"kind":"down","x":151.5,"y":431},{"kind":"up","x":151.5,"y":431}]}}
+```
+
+With a 100 × 100 square at (100, 100), the first starts the rectangle on its corner (200, 200); the second puts the
+Pen's second anchor at (150, 431), in line with the square's centre.
+
+Not read yet: Spacing Guides (the tools draw none).
 
 ## Type preferences
 
@@ -2179,6 +2214,19 @@ undo step.
 {"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setFormat","params":{"burasagari":"forced"}}}
 ```
 
+## New type in a Japanese interface
+
+While the interface is in Japanese (VectorCraft › Language, or `auto` on a Japanese system), new type starts with em
+box top-to-top leading (`leadingModel: "emBoxTop"`) and em box centre character alignment (`charAlign: "emBoxCenter"`);
+in other languages it starts on the Roman baseline (#432). This covers the Type tools,
+`text.create` and `text.createInPath`, which also take `leadingModel` and `charAlign` to choose, and `paraStyle.new` /
+`charStyle.new` made with no `attrs` and no text selected. The values used are kept in the journal, so a replay sets the
+same in any language. Saved documents keep what they say, and imported text (PDF, SVG, DXF…) keeps the Roman baseline.
+
+```json
+{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.create","params":{"x":40,"y":60,"text":"雅楽","leadingModel":"emBoxTop","charAlign":"emBoxCenter"}}}
+```
+
 ## Moving and flipping type on a path
 
 Type on a path flows between a start and an end bracket, stored as fractions of its path's length.