feat(docx-editor): blue page with a pilcrow, matching pdf-editor's badge
The mark now shares pdf-editor's silhouette, corner geometry and weight, in
blue against its red, so the two editors read as a pair in the dock. It
carries a pilcrow rather than a format label: at 16px "DOC" is a smudge
while the paragraph mark is still a glyph, and it says word processor rather
than file extension.
Drawn as paths, not <text>. An icon that needs a particular font installed
to make sense is an icon that eventually renders wrong somewhere.
Still nothing of Microsoft's: their blue sheet carries a white W, and the
page-with-a-folded-corner is the universal document glyph rather than
anyone's property.
Also adds docs/DESIGN-one-extension-catalogue.md, which writes down the
larger point this kept bumping into — that bundled and community extensions
are two systems for one kind of thing, with two trust rules and two lists in
Settings, and that "ships by default" should be a line of configuration
rather than a separate distribution path. Proposed only; the awkward part is
keeping a fresh offline install usable, which the note answers by treating
the shipped copies as a pre-seeded cache that still verifies like everything
else.
2026-09-22 00:06:50 +02:00
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feat(docx-editor): Save as…, PDF export, and a mark of our own
Three gaps, one theme: the editor could produce a file but not decide where
it went, what format it was in, or look like anything in the dock.
**Save as…** opens a real file dialog, and the extension typed there picks
the format. Save then writes to that file instead of dropping another copy
in Downloads every time. The renderer never names a path: the dialog returns
an opaque token, and the add-on will only write to a path a dialog actually
returned. An extension page is the least trusted thing in the add-on, and
"write these bytes anywhere" is not a capability it needs.
**PDF** goes through Chromium's own print pipeline in a hidden window — the
same engine as Ctrl+P — on the paper size read out of the document's own
sectPr. For that to match what the user was looking at, the page's
typography had to stop living in editor.css, which the export window can't
reach: it moves to lib/doc-css.js and both surfaces read the one string. The
result embeds subsetted fonts, keeps images, and turns hyperlinks into real
PDF link annotations.
**The icon** is ours. Microsoft's Word mark is a trademark and borrowing it
to look official is not something a browser that talks about sovereignty
should do. icon.svg says "text document" in its own words — a turned corner,
a heading rule, body lines, a pilcrow badge in Silent Mode green — and
`npm run icons` derives the PNGs and addon.json's copy from it, so there is
one drawing rather than several that drift.
Also: the scratch folder follows the profile rename to extensions-data/ via
the api.dataDir the host now provides, instead of creating a stale
addons-data/ beside it.
2026-09-21 03:35:55 +02:00
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Silent Mode's mark for the Word editor: a blue document badge, paired
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with pdf-editor's red one so the two editors read as a set in the dock.
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Originally drawn in commit 95c93f9 alongside the PDF badge; kept here as
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the single source that addon-build/docx-editor/make-icons.mjs rasterises
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to the PNGs and writes into addon.json.
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feat(docx-editor): Save as…, PDF export, and a mark of our own
Three gaps, one theme: the editor could produce a file but not decide where
it went, what format it was in, or look like anything in the dock.
**Save as…** opens a real file dialog, and the extension typed there picks
the format. Save then writes to that file instead of dropping another copy
in Downloads every time. The renderer never names a path: the dialog returns
an opaque token, and the add-on will only write to a path a dialog actually
returned. An extension page is the least trusted thing in the add-on, and
"write these bytes anywhere" is not a capability it needs.
**PDF** goes through Chromium's own print pipeline in a hidden window — the
same engine as Ctrl+P — on the paper size read out of the document's own
sectPr. For that to match what the user was looking at, the page's
typography had to stop living in editor.css, which the export window can't
reach: it moves to lib/doc-css.js and both surfaces read the one string. The
result embeds subsetted fonts, keeps images, and turns hyperlinks into real
PDF link annotations.
**The icon** is ours. Microsoft's Word mark is a trademark and borrowing it
to look official is not something a browser that talks about sovereignty
should do. icon.svg says "text document" in its own words — a turned corner,
a heading rule, body lines, a pilcrow badge in Silent Mode green — and
`npm run icons` derives the PNGs and addon.json's copy from it, so there is
one drawing rather than several that drift.
Also: the scratch folder follows the profile rename to extensions-data/ via
the api.dataDir the host now provides, instead of creating a stale
addons-data/ beside it.
2026-09-21 03:35:55 +02:00
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Deliberately not Microsoft's Word icon. Their mark is a blue sheet
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carrying a white "W", and dressing our extension up as theirs would be
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both a legal problem and a dishonest one. A folded-corner page is the
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universal document glyph, and "DOC" is the file format, not anyone's
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trademark.
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feat(docx-editor): Save as…, PDF export, and a mark of our own
Three gaps, one theme: the editor could produce a file but not decide where
it went, what format it was in, or look like anything in the dock.
**Save as…** opens a real file dialog, and the extension typed there picks
the format. Save then writes to that file instead of dropping another copy
in Downloads every time. The renderer never names a path: the dialog returns
an opaque token, and the add-on will only write to a path a dialog actually
returned. An extension page is the least trusted thing in the add-on, and
"write these bytes anywhere" is not a capability it needs.
**PDF** goes through Chromium's own print pipeline in a hidden window — the
same engine as Ctrl+P — on the paper size read out of the document's own
sectPr. For that to match what the user was looking at, the page's
typography had to stop living in editor.css, which the export window can't
reach: it moves to lib/doc-css.js and both surfaces read the one string. The
result embeds subsetted fonts, keeps images, and turns hyperlinks into real
PDF link annotations.
**The icon** is ours. Microsoft's Word mark is a trademark and borrowing it
to look official is not something a browser that talks about sovereignty
should do. icon.svg says "text document" in its own words — a turned corner,
a heading rule, body lines, a pilcrow badge in Silent Mode green — and
`npm run icons` derives the PNGs and addon.json's copy from it, so there is
one drawing rather than several that drift.
Also: the scratch folder follows the profile rename to extensions-data/ via
the api.dataDir the host now provides, instead of creating a stale
addons-data/ beside it.
2026-09-21 03:35:55 +02:00
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feat(docx-editor): blue page with a pilcrow, matching pdf-editor's badge
The mark now shares pdf-editor's silhouette, corner geometry and weight, in
blue against its red, so the two editors read as a pair in the dock. It
carries a pilcrow rather than a format label: at 16px "DOC" is a smudge
while the paragraph mark is still a glyph, and it says word processor rather
than file extension.
Drawn as paths, not <text>. An icon that needs a particular font installed
to make sense is an icon that eventually renders wrong somewhere.
Still nothing of Microsoft's: their blue sheet carries a white W, and the
page-with-a-folded-corner is the universal document glyph rather than
anyone's property.
Also adds docs/DESIGN-one-extension-catalogue.md, which writes down the
larger point this kept bumping into — that bundled and community extensions
are two systems for one kind of thing, with two trust rules and two lists in
Settings, and that "ships by default" should be a line of configuration
rather than a separate distribution path. Proposed only; the awkward part is
keeping a fresh offline install usable, which the note answers by treating
the shipped copies as a pre-seeded cache that still verifies like everything
else.
2026-09-22 00:06:50 +02:00
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<path d="M6 2h8l6 6v12a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H6a2 2 0 0 1-2-2V4a2 2 0 0 1 2-2z" fill="#2563eb"/>
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<path d="M14 2v6h6z" fill="#1e40af"/>
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<text x="12" y="17" text-anchor="middle" font-family="system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif" font-size="5.5" font-weight="800" fill="#fff">DOC</text>
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feat(docx-editor): Save as…, PDF export, and a mark of our own
Three gaps, one theme: the editor could produce a file but not decide where
it went, what format it was in, or look like anything in the dock.
**Save as…** opens a real file dialog, and the extension typed there picks
the format. Save then writes to that file instead of dropping another copy
in Downloads every time. The renderer never names a path: the dialog returns
an opaque token, and the add-on will only write to a path a dialog actually
returned. An extension page is the least trusted thing in the add-on, and
"write these bytes anywhere" is not a capability it needs.
**PDF** goes through Chromium's own print pipeline in a hidden window — the
same engine as Ctrl+P — on the paper size read out of the document's own
sectPr. For that to match what the user was looking at, the page's
typography had to stop living in editor.css, which the export window can't
reach: it moves to lib/doc-css.js and both surfaces read the one string. The
result embeds subsetted fonts, keeps images, and turns hyperlinks into real
PDF link annotations.
**The icon** is ours. Microsoft's Word mark is a trademark and borrowing it
to look official is not something a browser that talks about sovereignty
should do. icon.svg says "text document" in its own words — a turned corner,
a heading rule, body lines, a pilcrow badge in Silent Mode green — and
`npm run icons` derives the PNGs and addon.json's copy from it, so there is
one drawing rather than several that drift.
Also: the scratch folder follows the profile rename to extensions-data/ via
the api.dataDir the host now provides, instead of creating a stale
addons-data/ beside it.
2026-09-21 03:35:55 +02:00
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</svg>
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