Part of #579: vectorcraft-cli lists the fonts font services load too

The DirectWrite font lister (#594) was installed in the desktop app only:
`vectorcraft-cli` (convert, run, MCP) didn't see fonts that font services
such as Adobe Fonts load on Windows, so its exports set such type in a
fallback font.

- The CLI shares the app's `system_fonts.rs` and installs it first thing
  on Windows (not the win7 build). The text crate stays free of unsafe
  code; the CLI denies unsafe code instead of forbidding it, so the
  shared module's own allowance applies.

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

Cargo.lock

@@ -4352,6 +4352,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "vectorcraft-cli"
 version = "0.7.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "log",
  "serde_json",
  "vectorcraft-color",
  "vectorcraft-doc",
@@ -4362,6 +4363,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "vectorcraft-render",
  "vectorcraft-svg",
  "vectorcraft-testkit",
+ "vectorcraft-text",
+ "windows",
 ]
 
 [[package]]

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 placed documents (File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file, linked), 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 windoLine truncated
+_Last updated: 2026-10-09 (after placed documents (File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file, linked), 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 windoLine truncated
 
 ## Where we are
 

apps/vectorcraft-cli/Cargo.toml

@@ -22,7 +22,14 @@ vectorcraft-geom = { workspace = true }
 vectorcraft-svg = { workspace = true }
 vectorcraft-mcp = { workspace = true }
 vectorcraft-render = { workspace = true }
+vectorcraft-text = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
+log = { workspace = true }
+
+# DirectWrite's system font collection (the desktop app's src/system_fonts.rs, shared): fonts that
+# font services such as Adobe Fonts load in place (#579). MIT OR Apache-2.0.
+[target.'cfg(all(windows, not(target_vendor = "win7")))'.dependencies]
+windows = { version = "0.62", features = ["Win32_Graphics_DirectWrite"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 vectorcraft-testkit = { workspace = true }

apps/vectorcraft-cli/src/main.rs

@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@
 //! vectorcraft-cli bench FILE [--size 2880x1800] [--iters 5]
 //! vectorcraft-cli perf [--paths 50000]
 //! ```
-#![forbid(unsafe_code)]
+// Denied, not forbidden: the DirectWrite font lister shared with the desktop app (Windows) allows
+// it for its COM calls, and nothing else may.
+#![deny(unsafe_code)]
 
 use std::io::Write;
 use std::process::ExitCode;
@@ -35,6 +37,10 @@ macro_rules! out {
 }
 
 mod perf;
+/// The desktop app's DirectWrite font lister, shared: exports and MCP find the same fonts.
+#[cfg(all(windows, not(target_vendor = "win7")))]
+#[path = "../../vectorcraft/src/system_fonts.rs"]
+mod system_fonts;
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
 use vectorcraft_mcp::{Backend, DEFAULT_ADDR, Headless, Remote, Server};
@@ -93,6 +99,9 @@ fn usage() -> String {
 }
 
 fn main() -> ExitCode {
+    // Before any font lookup: the fonts font services load (#579).
+    #[cfg(all(windows, not(target_vendor = "win7")))]
+    system_fonts::install();
     let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().skip(1).collect();
     let r = match args.first().map(String::as_str) {
         Some("mcp") => mcp(&args[1..]),

apps/vectorcraft-web/src/web.rs

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use std::rc::Rc;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 
 use vectorcraft_engine::Session;
-use vectorcraft_engine::cmd::clipboard::{FILE_HEAD, Flavour, PASTE_ORDER, file_flavour};
+use vectorcraft_engine::cmd::clipboard::{FILE_HEAD, Flavour, PASTE_ORDER, file_flavour, is_address};
 use vectorcraft_engine::cmd::fileio;
 use vectorcraft_engine::cmd::recovery::{self, Hold, RecoveryStore};
 use vectorcraft_ui_egui::graphics::GraphicsLoss;
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ fn track_paste(pasted: &Rc<RefCell<Pasted>>) {
     let on_paste = wasm_bindgen::closure::Closure::<dyn FnMut(web_sys::ClipboardEvent)>::new(move |e: web_sys::ClipboardEvent| {
         let Some(data) = e.clipboard_data() else { return };
         let Some(files) = data.files().filter(|f| f.length() > 0) else { return };
-        if data.get_data("text").is_ok_and(|t| !t.is_empty()) {
+        // Text is egui's, but for the address a browser's Copy Image puts next to the picture.
+        if data.get_data("text").is_ok_and(|t| !t.is_empty() && !is_address(&t)) {
             return;
         }
         e.prevent_default();

apps/vectorcraft/src/system_fonts.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 //! Windows: the font files in DirectWrite's system font collection, scanned with the font folders
-//! (`vectorcraft_text::set_platform_font_files`).
+//! (`vectorcraft_text::set_platform_font_files`). The desktop app and `vectorcraft-cli` (exports,
+//! MCP) both install it; the CLI shares this file.
 //!
 //! Font services such as Adobe Fonts load their fonts with GDI at run time, from files in their
 //! own folders, without installing them: the font folders and the registry don't list them. Since

crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard.rs

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ use vectorcraft_color::Swatch;
 use vectorcraft_doc::{Document, GraphicStyle, ImageBlob, Node, NodeId, PatternDef, Symbol, TextStyleDef};
 use vectorcraft_geom::Rect;
 
-pub use flavours::{BITMAP, EMF, FILE_HEAD, Flavour, PASTE_ORDER, PDF, PNG, SVG, TEXT, file_flavour};
+pub use flavours::{BITMAP, EMF, FILE_HEAD, Flavour, PASTE_ORDER, PDF, PNG, SVG, TEXT, file_flavour, is_address};
 pub(crate) use resources::SwatchChoices;
 
 use super::*;
@@ -220,6 +220,25 @@ mod tests {
         s
     }
 
+    /// The address a browser's Copy Image puts next to the picture (#597), and text that isn't one.
+    #[test]
+    fn an_address_alone_is_told_from_other_text() {
+        for a in [
+            "https://example.com/cat.png",
+            " http://x.org/a?b=1
+",
+            "HTTPS://EXAMPLE.COM",
+            "file:///C:/art/cat.png",
+            "data:image/png;base64,iVBOR",
+            "blob:https://x.org/1",
+        ] {
+            assert!(is_address(a), "{a}");
+        }
+        for t in ["Pasted words", "see https://example.com", "https://a.org https://b.org", "https://", "example.com/cat.png", ""] {
+            assert!(!is_address(t), "{t}");
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn copy_exports_svg_that_round_trips_through_paste() {
         let mut s = session();

crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard/flavours.rs

@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ pub const EMF: &str = "image/emf";
 /// What Paste reads from other apps, best first: vector art before text, text before bitmaps
 /// (word processors offer a picture of copied text too).
 pub const PASTE_ORDER: [&str; 5] = [SVG, PDF, EMF, TEXT, BITMAP];
+/// Is `text` only an address (a web page's, an image's, a file's)? A browser's Copy Image puts the
+/// image's address as text next to the picture: then the picture is what Paste takes (#597). An
+/// address alone pastes as text, and nothing is fetched.
+pub fn is_address(text: &str) -> bool {
+    const SCHEMES: [&str; 6] = ["http://", "https://", "file://", "ftp://", "data:", "blob:"];
+    let t = text.trim();
+    !t.chars().any(char::is_whitespace) && SCHEMES.iter().any(|s| t.get(..s.len()).is_some_and(|h| h.eq_ignore_ascii_case(s)) && t.len() > s.len())
+}
+
 /// How much of a copied file [`file_flavour`] needs to tell what it is.
 pub const FILE_HEAD: usize = 4096;
 

crates/ui-egui/src/sysclip.rs

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 //! reads from a paste itself ([`VectorcraftApp::paste_from_host`]).
 
 use serde_json::{Value, json};
-use vectorcraft_engine::cmd::clipboard::{EMF, Flavour, PASTE_ORDER, PDF, SVG, TEXT, looks_like_svg};
+use vectorcraft_engine::cmd::clipboard::{BITMAP, EMF, Flavour, PASTE_ORDER, PDF, SVG, TEXT, is_address, looks_like_svg};
 
 use crate::VectorcraftApp;
 
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ impl VectorcraftApp {
                     return Ok(());
                 }
                 let Some(f) = cb.read(&PASTE_ORDER) else { return Ok(()) };
+                // Text that is only an address goes with a browser's copied picture: the picture.
+                let f = if f.mime == TEXT && is_address(&String::from_utf8_lossy(&f.data)) { cb.read(&[BITMAP]).unwrap_or(f) } else { f };
                 import_command(&f, center)
             }
             // Text only: SVG markup is art, other text is left alone.

crates/ui-egui/src/tests_sysclip.rs

@@ -167,6 +167,22 @@ fn text_from_another_app_pastes_as_point_text_and_svg_text_as_art() {
     assert_eq!(count(&app), before);
 }
 
+/// A browser's Copy Image: the picture with its address as text (and HTML, which Paste doesn't
+/// read). The picture is pasted; an address alone pastes as text, nothing is fetched (#597).
+#[test]
+fn an_image_copied_in_a_browser_pastes_as_the_picture_not_its_address() {
+    let (mut app, board) = app();
+    let url = b"https://example.com/images/cat.png".to_vec();
+    copy_elsewhere(&board, vec![(TEXT, url.clone()), ("text/html", b"<img src=\"https://example.com/images/cat.png\">".to_vec()), (PNG, blue_png())]);
+    run(&mut app, "edit.paste", json!({}));
+    let NodeKind::Image(im) = &pasted(&app)[0].kind else { panic!("not an image: {:?}", pasted(&app)[0].kind) };
+    assert!(im.link.is_none() && (im.width, im.height) == (4, 2));
+    copy_elsewhere(&board, vec![(TEXT, url)]);
+    run(&mut app, "edit.paste", json!({}));
+    let NodeKind::Text(t) = &pasted(&app)[0].kind else { panic!("not type") };
+    assert_eq!(t.plain_text(), "https://example.com/images/cat.png");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn a_pdf_from_another_app_pastes_as_vectors_ahead_of_its_bitmap() {
     let (mut app, board) = app();

docs/mcp.md

@@ -2382,8 +2382,8 @@ tone (mono, or CMYK screens multiplied over each other), clipped to the art's ou
 
 Type can use the bundled fonts, fonts added to the session and the fonts installed on the system (none on the web):
 the system's and the user's font folders (Windows: `Fonts` and `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts`, plus fonts
-registered outside them, such as fonts installed as shortcuts, and in the desktop app the fonts in DirectWrite's system
-font collection, such as those Adobe Fonts activates while Creative Cloud runs; macOS: `/System/Library/Fonts`, `/Library/Fonts`,
+registered outside them, such as fonts installed as shortcuts, and in the desktop app and `vectorcraft-cli` (MCP
+included) the fonts in DirectWrite's system font collection, such as those Adobe Fonts activates while Creative Cloud runs; macOS: `/System/Library/Fonts`, `/Library/Fonts`,
 `/Network/Library/Fonts`, `~/Library/Fonts` and downloaded system fonts; Linux and BSD: `/usr/share/fonts`,
 `/usr/local/share/fonts`, `~/.fonts` and the XDG data folders' `fonts`, `~/.local/share/fonts` among them, and in a
 Flatpak sandbox the host's fonts). The installed fonts are cataloged once per session (in the background when the app starts, else on the first lookup