paged.draw — vector illustration

Illustrator-class drawing, on the page

Illustrator-class vector drawing inside the layout: pen and shape tools, pathfinder, live paint, symbols and blends, on the same page as your text.

AGPL-3.0 OR PMEL·canary — usable, moving fast·0.1.0-canary.16·github.com/paged-media/plugin-draw ↗

19

tools

101

commands

10

pathfinder operations

11

panels

Drawing that writes the document

Not a layer above the page — the page itself

paged.draw has no content type and no renderer of its own. Every tool and command writes the same polygons, paths and frames the engine already models, so a drawing is ordinary page geometry: it takes swatches, sits in layers and saves into IDML like anything else on the spread.

Curvature, Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, Eraser and Width draw; Add, Delete and Convert anchor edit polygons, rectangles, text frames and graphic lines. Shape Builder, Knife, Scissors, Lasso, Eyedropper, Measure, Corner Radius and the Gradient Annotator round out the 19 tools — with tool options in the host's popover and one undo step for almost every command.

The Drawing Office opener: a crest imported from an SVG file arrives as six native polygons wearing real swatches; two compound paths keep the paper visible through the ring.

Pathfinder and path commands

Ten pathfinder verbs, one planar kernel

Unite, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude are the shape modes; Divide, Trim, Merge, Crop, Outline and Minus back are region verbs resolved over one planar arrangement, with ownership following the z-order you see. Each lands as a single undo step, from the menu, the palette or a shortcut.

The pathfinder wall: ten fresh pairs, each shown before and after its verb — Unite, Subtract, Intersect, Exclude and Divide above; Trim, Merge, Crop, Outline and Minus back below.

Outline and offset: Outline stroke; Offset with miter, round or bevel joins and a miter limit.
Clean-up: Simplify, Join, Close, Average endpoints, Reverse path direction.
Compound paths: Make and release, with inner contours re-wound by nesting depth.
Constructions: Insert arc, spiral, rectangular grid and polar grid; Reflect and Transform again.
Selection by likeness: Select same fill, stroke or stroke weight, with a tolerance.
Create outlines: A text frame's glyphs become compound paths, one per fill colour, in one undo step.

Appearance, graphic styles, symbols

Several fills and strokes — and styles that stay linked

An IDML frame owns one fill and one stroke. The Appearance panel puts several of each on one object; Bake lowers the stack to a group of single-paint items any IDML reader understands, and Release restores it exactly.

Graphic styles are named appearances that objects stay linked to. Symbols are named artwork with placed instances. Both libraries are stored in the .paged file, each with its own panel.

The appearance stack: a live stack beside the same stack baked to single-paint items, rendering alike; below, three tiles linked to one graphic style — a redefine travels through every link still standing.

Constructions with a recipe

Repeat, blend, pattern, live paint

Radial, grid and mirror repeats; blends by specified steps, specified distance or smooth colour; objects distributed along a path; patterns; live paint buckets over the faces of crossing paths; opacity masks; type on a path; and image trace, which turns a placed raster image into grouped, filled paths (in a worker where the host offers one). Each construct keeps a stored recipe with commands to make, update and release it.

The Paged Annual — symbols — Left: a petal repeated eight times on a ring, a 3×3 grid and a mirrored pennant, then one badge defined as a symbol and placed three times. Right: blends by steps, by distance and by smooth colour, and seven dots distributed along a wave — the originals moved, nothing new minted.

The Paged Annual — blends — Left: a petal repeated eight times on a ring, a 3×3 grid and a mirrored pennant, then one badge defined as a symbol and placed three times. Right: blends by steps, by distance and by smooth colour, and seven dots distributed along a wave — the originals moved, nothing new minted.

Live — paged.draw as its own application

The drawing app, in this tab

Solo mode boots the real editor with paged.draw's cockpit: its tools on the rail, its panels docked, the page as an artboard. Nothing is installed and nothing leaves the browser.

The paged editor booted as paged.draw — Needs a browser with WebGPU (Chrome, Edge, Safari 26).open full screen ↗

How it lives in a document

Shapes are page items; recipes are parts

What you draw is native: polygons, paths, groups and swatches in the spread, exactly what the IDML that InDesign opens contains. What is not geometry — the recipe behind a blend or repeat, a symbol library, a graphic style, an appearance stack — is stored by the plugin as its own part types inside the .paged container. Baking an appearance lowers it to plain items, so nothing is lost on the way to InDesign. SVG comes in through an importer and goes out through an exporter for the selection.

A drawing tool that writes the document’s own geometry.

The full list of what ships and what does not is in the repository’s status record ↗.

Spec sheet — from the registry, not from marketing

paged.draw features

Plugin · draw · 39

Add-anchor plan (split segment at on-curve click) plugin-draw.anchor-add	stable· 16 tests
Convert-anchor plan (corner ↔ smooth) plugin-draw.anchor-convert	stable· 14 tests
Delete-anchor plan (nearest within tolerance, contour floor) plugin-draw.anchor-delete	stable· 13 tests
Appearance model — multi fill/stroke metadata stack + baked top layer (Tier B) plugin-draw.appearance	stable· 6 tests
Appearance panel v0 — the metadata stack, with the bake limit stated in the UI plugin-draw.appearance-panel	stable· untested
Blends v1 — three spacing modes over a real spine (grew the tool-wave-2 blend v0) plugin-draw.blends	stable· 2 tests
Brush tools v0 — paintbrush, blob brush, eraser (calligraphic nib sweep) plugin-draw.brush-tools	stable· untested
paged.draw bundle manifest (media.paged.draw) + activate skeleton plugin-draw.bundle-manifest	stable· 5 tests
Compound paths — make / release, with real non-zero holes plugin-draw.compound-paths	stable· 2 tests
On-canvas corner-radius tool — the live-corners row's predicted handle plugin-draw.corner-radius-tool	stable· 1 test
vectorGraphic edit context — live enter/exit via contribute.editContext plugin-draw.edit-context-live	stable· 2 tests
Eyedropper — sample element properties and apply to the selection plugin-draw.eyedropper	stable· untested
Fill panel as a declarative schema panel — the second W3.1 consumer, with a published binding plugin-draw.fill-schema-panel	stable· untested
Cubic bezier kernel — de Casteljau split, eval, closest-t, flatten plugin-draw.geometry-bezier	stable· 2 tests
Anchor/handle math — corner, mirror, smooth-from-drag, angle constrain, affine plugin-draw.geometry-handles	stable· 2 tests
RDP polyline simplification + perpendicular segment distance plugin-draw.geometry-rdp	stable· 2 tests
Graphic styles — a named, LINKED complete appearance with override DETECTION plugin-draw.graphic-styles	stable· 2 tests
Headless conformance corpus over published canvas-wasm plugin-draw.headless-conformance	stable· 3 tests
Image Trace v0 — raster to editable vector over visioncortex plugin-draw.image-trace	experimental· untested
Layers BINDING PROVIDER — paged.draw serves the HOST Layers panel (ADR 023 phase D) plugin-draw.layers-binding-provider	stable· untested
Layers panel — the panels/layers.panel.json prototype made real (expert-leaf React) plugin-draw.layers-panel	deprecated· untested
Live Corners — Rounded/Inverse/Bevel/Fancy/None presets via frameCornerOption/Radius + live marker (Tier B) plugin-draw.live-corners	stable· 2 tests
Live Paint v0 — regenerable face paint over the planar arrangement (NOT live) plugin-draw.live-paint	experimental· 2 tests
Measure readout drawn on-canvas via the overlay text primitive plugin-draw.measure-overlay-text	stable· untested
Objects on a Path — distribute / align / pivot / reorder by TRANSFORM; it moves your objects and creates none plugin-draw.objects-on-path	stable· 2 tests
Opacity-mask commands — the paged.draw consumer of the C-28 protocol-58 door plugin-draw.opacity-mask-commands	stable· 2 tests
True Join — closePath / joinPaths over the v56 engine ops plugin-draw.path-weld	stable· 2 tests
Pattern editing v1 — a re-editable tile field (step-and-repeat artwork, NOT a pattern swatch) plugin-draw.pattern-bake	experimental· 2 tests
Pen tool state machine (click/drag anchors, modifier matrix, close, commit) plugin-draw.pen-machine	stable· 12 tests
Pressure-aware pencil — variable-width strokes via outlineStrokeVariable plugin-draw.pencil-pressure	stable· 5 tests
Phase 4c pro path toolset — curvature/pencil/measure machines + simplify/join/average/offset/outline/pathfinder/gradient/arrowheads commands plugin-draw.pro-path-toolset	stable· 8 tests
Repeats v1 — radial / grid / mirror, and the repo's first ONE-undo build plugin-draw.repeats	stable· 2 tests
Select-same by fill / stroke / stroke-weight (Tier A — pure selection, no mutation) plugin-draw.select-same	stable· 2 tests
Shape Builder gesture tool — drag-unite / Alt-drag-subtract over pathfinderBoolean (Tier B) plugin-draw.shape-builder	stable· 2 tests
Stroke dash-pattern command presets (Solid/Dashed/Dotted/DashDot) plugin-draw.stroke-dash-commands	stable· 2 tests
Stroke panel as a declarative schema panel (W3.1 adoption) plugin-draw.stroke-schema-panel	stable· 2 tests
SVG import + export — the K-2 interchange round-trip (Phase 8) plugin-draw.svg-io	stable· 2 tests
Symbols v0 — a named artwork DEFINITION and instances that follow it plugin-draw.symbols	experimental· 2 tests
Width, blend, lasso-select, parent-group cycling, parametric generators plugin-draw.tool-wave-2	stable· 2 tests

39 features · commit-pinned snapshot · the same rows the team plans by