Fix #550: an SVG of chosen artboards holds only their art

Exporting one artboard of many to SVG wrote the whole document's art into
that artboard's file, the other artboards' art outside its viewBox: an
editor opening it showed every artboard's art. A file for an artboard
named in the export (Use Artboards with a range or All, Export for
Screens) now holds the objects over that artboard only, at any depth of
layers, as DXF's crop leaves them; objects reaching into it stay whole
and a clipping layer keeps all of its objects. An SVG with no artboard
named (Save As) still holds the whole document.

Part of #546: Export As with a range writes the chosen artboard alone in
SVG, DXF, PDF and PNG, each file with that artboard's art (tested from
the dialogs).

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

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
 

crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/export.rs

@@ -87,6 +87,26 @@ fn selected_part(n: &Node, keep: &HashSet<NodeId>) -> Option<Node> {
     Some(out)
 }
 
+/// `doc` with only the art over `rect` (an artboard): objects whose visual bounds miss it are left
+/// out, at any depth of layers and sublayers, and objects that reach it stay whole (the file's
+/// bounds clip them), as DXF's crop leaves them. A clipping layer keeps every object, its clipping
+/// path among them. An artboard's file then holds its own art, not a whole document of artboards.
+pub(super) fn art_over(doc: &Document, rect: vectorcraft_geom::Rect) -> Document {
+    fn kept(n: &Arc<Node>, rect: vectorcraft_geom::Rect) -> Option<Arc<Node>> {
+        if matches!(n.kind, NodeKind::Layer { clip: false, .. }) {
+            let mut layer = Node::clone(n);
+            let children = layer.children_mut()?;
+            *children = children.iter().filter_map(|c| kept(c, rect)).collect();
+            return Some(Arc::new(layer));
+        }
+        let over = |b: vectorcraft_geom::Rect| b.x0 <= rect.x1 && rect.x0 <= b.x1 && b.y0 <= rect.y1 && rect.y0 <= b.y1;
+        n.visual_bounds().is_none_or(over).then(|| n.clone())
+    }
+    let mut d = doc.clone();
+    d.layers = doc.layers.iter().filter_map(|l| kept(l, rect)).collect();
+    d
+}
+
 /// `p` without its artboard choice, also inside its SVG options (for documents made of one
 /// synthetic artboard, and for callers that pick the artboard themselves).
 pub(super) fn without_artboards(p: &Value) -> Value {

crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/svg.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ pub const OPTIONS: &[FormatOption] = &[
         name: "useArtboards",
         ty: "boolean",
         default: "true",
-        description: "false: one SVG of the bounds of all art instead of artboards (several artboards write one file each)",
+        description: "false: one SVG of the bounds of all art instead of artboards (several artboards write one file each; a named artboard's file holds only the art over it)",
     },
     FormatOption {
         name: "styling",
@@ -125,8 +125,10 @@ pub fn options_map(p: &Value) -> Result<Map<String, Value>, String> {
     Ok(m)
 }
 
-/// The writer options and the artboards (`None`: the art bounds) an SVG export of `doc` covers.
-fn plan(doc: &Document, p: &Value) -> Result<(ExportOptions, Vec<Option<usize>>), String> {
+/// The writer options and the artboards (`None`: the art bounds) an SVG export of `doc` covers,
+/// and whether `p` named those artboards (else the first stands for the whole document, as Save
+/// writes it).
+fn plan(doc: &Document, p: &Value) -> Result<(ExportOptions, Vec<Option<usize>>, bool), String> {
     let mut m = options_map(p)?;
     // Fonts: unless chosen, Document Setup → Type → Export decides (appearance = outlines).
     if !m.contains_key("outlineText") && doc.setup.export_text == vectorcraft_doc::ExportText::Appearance {
@@ -138,21 +140,24 @@ fn plan(doc: &Document, p: &Value) -> Result<(ExportOptions, Vec<Option<usize>>)
     opts.check().map_err(|e| format!("SVG options: {e}"))?;
     let n = doc.artboards.len();
     if n == 0 || boards.use_artboards == Some(false) {
-        return Ok((opts, vec![None]));
+        return Ok((opts, vec![None], false));
     }
-    let picked = boards.pick.resolve(n)?.unwrap_or_else(|| vec![0]);
-    Ok((opts, picked.into_iter().map(Some).collect()))
+    let named = boards.pick.resolve(n)?;
+    let chosen = named.is_some();
+    Ok((opts, named.unwrap_or_else(|| vec![0]).into_iter().map(Some).collect(), chosen))
 }
 
 /// Encode `doc` as SVG (or gzipped, SVGZ): one file per chosen artboard, with the images they
 /// link to and the writer's warnings.
 pub(super) fn encode(doc: &Document, p: &Value, compressed: bool) -> Result<Encoded, String> {
-    let (opts, boards) = plan(doc, p)?;
+    let (opts, boards, chosen) = plan(doc, p)?;
     // Preserve editing embeds the native document (once, shared by every file).
     let native = opts.preserve_editing.then(|| vectorcraft_format::save(doc, false));
     let mut enc = Encoded::default();
     for artboard in boards {
-        let mut out = vectorcraft_svg::export_full(doc, &ExportOptions { artboard, ..opts.clone() }, native.as_deref());
+        // A chosen artboard's file holds the art over it (#550).
+        let over = artboard.filter(|_| chosen).and_then(|b| doc.artboards.get(b)).map(|a| super::export::art_over(doc, a.rect));
+        let mut out = vectorcraft_svg::export_full(over.as_ref().unwrap_or(doc), &ExportOptions { artboard, ..opts.clone() }, native.as_deref());
         let bytes = out.take_bytes();
         for l in out.linked {
             if !enc.linked.iter().any(|e| e.name == l.name) {

crates/engine/src/cmd/fileio/tests_svgenc.rs

@@ -49,3 +49,28 @@ fn profile_and_embedded_fonts_reach_the_writer() {
     assert!(s.execute("document.serialize", &json!({"format": "svg", "svg": {"profile": "svg2"}})).is_err(), "unknown profiles are refused");
     assert!(s.execute("document.serialize", &json!({"format": "svg", "encoding": "ebcdic"})).is_err(), "unknown encodings are refused");
 }
+
+/// #550: an SVG of chosen artboards holds the art over each, not every artboard's art; with no
+/// artboard named (as Save writes it) the whole document's art is there.
+#[test]
+fn a_chosen_artboard_s_svg_holds_only_its_own_art() {
+    let mut s = Session::new();
+    s.execute("file.new", &json!({"width": 100, "height": 100, "artboards": 3})).unwrap();
+    let x = |s: &Session, b: usize| s.doc().unwrap().doc.artboards[b].rect.x0;
+    let (first, third) = (x(&s, 0), x(&s, 2));
+    s.execute("shape.rectangle", &json!({"x": first + 10.0, "y": 10, "width": 30, "height": 30})).unwrap();
+    s.execute("shape.ellipse", &json!({"x": third + 10.0, "y": 10, "width": 30, "height": 30})).unwrap();
+    // A rectangle has straight sides only; the ellipse is curves.
+    let shapes = |svg: &str| (svg.matches("<path").count() + svg.matches("<rect").count(), svg.contains(" C") || svg.contains("<ellipse"));
+    let text = |v: &serde_json::Value| v["text"].as_str().unwrap().to_string();
+    let third_only = text(&s.execute("document.serialize", &json!({"format": "svg", "useArtboards": true, "range": "3"})).unwrap());
+    assert_eq!(shapes(&third_only), (1, true), "{third_only}");
+    let all = s.execute("document.serialize", &json!({"format": "svg", "useArtboards": true, "range": "all"})).unwrap();
+    let files: Vec<String> = all["files"].as_array().unwrap().iter().map(text).collect();
+    assert_eq!(files.iter().map(|f| shapes(f)).collect::<Vec<_>>(), [(1, false), (0, false), (1, true)]);
+    // Export for Screens names one artboard at a time the same way.
+    let screen = text(&s.execute("document.serialize", &json!({"format": "svg", "artboard": 0})).unwrap());
+    assert_eq!(shapes(&screen), (1, false));
+    let whole = text(&s.execute("document.serialize", &json!({"format": "svg"})).unwrap());
+    assert_eq!(shapes(&whole).0, 2, "nothing named: the whole document's art");
+}

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

@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ mod tests {
         let f = &mut app.ui.dialog.as_mut().unwrap().fields;
         f.insert("decimals".into(), json!(1));
         f.insert("allArtboards".into(), json!(false));
-        f.insert("range".into(), json!("2"));
+        f.insert("range".into(), json!("1"));
         super::super::confirm(&mut app).unwrap();
         assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_none());
         let svg = text(&written, 0);

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

@@ -240,3 +240,29 @@ fn pdf_artboards_continue_in_the_save_pdf_dialog() {
     let pdf = vectorcraft_pdf::import(&written.borrow()[0].1).unwrap();
     assert_eq!(pdf.artboards.len(), 2, "one page per artboard in the range");
 }
+
+/// #546, #550: Export As with Use Artboards and a range writes the chosen artboard alone in every
+/// format, each file holding that artboard's art (the ellipse is on artboard 1).
+#[test]
+fn export_as_writes_only_the_chosen_artboard_in_every_format() {
+    for (format, ellipse) in [("svg", "<path"), ("dxf", "HATCH"), ("pdf", ""), ("png", "")] {
+        for (range, on) in [("1", true), ("3", false)] {
+            let (mut app, written) = app(3);
+            app.run("file.exportAs", json!({"format": format})).unwrap();
+            set(&mut app, "useArtboards", json!(true));
+            set(&mut app, "all", json!(false));
+            set(&mut app, "range", json!(range));
+            confirm(&mut app).unwrap();
+            // The format's own options, then the file.
+            while app.ui.dialog.is_some() {
+                frame(&mut app);
+                confirm(&mut app).unwrap();
+            }
+            assert_eq!(names(&written), [format!("/out/Untitled-1.{format}")], "{format} {range}");
+            if !ellipse.is_empty() {
+                let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&written.borrow()[0].1).into_owned();
+                assert_eq!(text.contains(ellipse), on, "{format} {range}: {text}");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

docs/mcp.md

@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ colour group (one undo step).
 SVG Options: `export` to SVG takes them in `options`, flat or as `{"svg": {…}}`: `styling` (`presentation`,
 `style`, `entities`, `css`), `outlineText`, `images` (`embed`, or `link`: embedded images are written next to the
 SVG, or returned as `linked`), `objectIds` (`layerNames`, `minimal`, `unique`), `decimals` (1–7), `minify`,
-`responsive`, `useArtboards`, `range: "all"` (one SVG per artboard, listed in `files`), `preserveEditing` (the SVG
+`responsive`, `useArtboards`, `range: "all"` (one SVG per artboard, listed in `files`, each holding only the art over its artboard), `preserveEditing` (the SVG
 reopens as the full document), `metadata` and `fewerTspans` (one `<tspan>` per line of type). Unknown keys inside `svg` are rejected; `run_command document.formats`
 lists every option with its default. `encoding` is `utf8`, `utf16` (big-endian after a byte order mark) or `latin1`
 (ISO 8859-1, other characters as `&#x…;` references); `document.serialize` still answers `text`, plus `dataBase64`