feat(pdf-editor): select an area, and treat what it caught as one thing

Drag on empty page and a rubber band gathers every mark it sweeps over.
Touching counts rather than enclosing: a band you have to draw right
around a long arrow is a band you draw twice. Shift-click adds or removes
one, Ctrl+A takes the page.

What the group can then do is move, restyle, duplicate and delete, each as
a single undo step — six marks deleted is one thing the user did, so it
has to be one thing to undo. The selection bar offers only what is true of
every member: a group of shapes gets Fill, a group of stamps gets size and
weight, a mixed group gets neither, and none of them gets Edit, which
needs one mark to put a caret in.

No resize handles on a group. Stretching a mixed selection means deciding
what a stretch does to text, which scales by font size, and to a line,
which has no box at all; until there is an answer worth defending,
offering the grip would promise something this cannot keep.

Each member is outlined as well as the group, because a band that caught
one more mark than you meant is worth seeing before you press Delete.

A group lives on one page. A mark carries its page, and PDF user space
means nothing across two of them, so a band selects within the page it
was drawn on.

One trap found on the way: starting the band on a press means calling
preventDefault, which is also what gives a form field its caret — so the
band now keeps its hands off the annotation layer, and typing into a PDF
form still works.

bundled-addons/pdf-editor/addon.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "id": "pdf-editor",
   "name": "PDF Editor",
-  "version": "0.5.0",
+  "version": "0.6.0",
   "description": "Open a PDF in a full tab: read it, mark it up with highlight, underline, strike-through, pen, shapes, arrows, text and a drawn signature, then move, resize, restyle or delete anything you placed. Reorder, rotate or drop pages, fill in form fields, redact for real, and save a new copy. Build a PDF from pictures, one page each, or join several PDFs into one. Marks are written into the saved file as real PDF content. The original is never touched.",
   "author": "Silent Mode",
   "icon": "data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAyNCAyNCI+PHBhdGggZD0iTTYgMmg4bDYgNnYxMmEyIDIgMCAwIDEtMiAySDZhMiAyIDAgMCAxLTItMlY0YTIgMiAwIDAgMSAyLTJ6IiBmaWxsPSIjZGMyNjI2Ii8+PHBhdGggZD0iTTE0IDJ2Nmg2eiIgZmlsbD0iIzk5MWIxYiIvPjx0ZXh0IHg9IjEyIiB5PSIxNyIgdGV4dC1hbmNob3I9Im1pZGRsZSIgZm9udC1mYW1pbHk9InN5c3RlbS11aSwtYXBwbGUtc3lzdGVtLHNhbnMtc2VyaWYiIGZvbnQtc2l6ZT0iNS41IiBmb250LXdlaWdodD0iODAwIiBmaWxsPSIjZmZmIj5QREY8L3RleHQ+PC9zdmc+",

bundled-addons/pdf-editor/editor.css

@@ -268,6 +268,15 @@ body[data-mode="select"] .smOverlay .mark[data-fill="1"] { pointer-events: all;
 .smOverlay .mark.sel[data-fill="1"] { pointer-events: all; }
 .smOverlay .selbox { fill: none; stroke: var(--acid); stroke-width: 1;
                      stroke-dasharray: 4 3; vector-effect: non-scaling-stroke; }
+/* A group: one solid box round the lot, and a fainter one round each member
+   so it is obvious WHICH marks are in it — a marquee that caught one more
+   than you meant is worth seeing before you press Delete. */
+.smOverlay .selbox.group { stroke-dasharray: 2 4; stroke-width: 1.5; }
+.smOverlay .selbox.member { stroke-dasharray: none; stroke-opacity: .45; }
+/* The rubber band itself. */
+.smOverlay .marquee { fill: rgb(from var(--acid) r g b / .10); stroke: var(--acid);
+                      stroke-width: 1; stroke-dasharray: 5 3;
+                      vector-effect: non-scaling-stroke; }
 .smOverlay .handle { fill: var(--acid); stroke: #101418; stroke-width: 1;
                      vector-effect: non-scaling-stroke; cursor: pointer; pointer-events: all; }
 

bundled-addons/pdf-editor/editor.js

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import { Tools } from "./lib/tools.js";
 import { SignaturePad } from "./lib/signature.js";
 import { InlineText } from "./lib/inline.js";
 import { buildPdf, unencodableStamps, replacedRuns } from "./lib/save.js";
-import { boundsOf, clampFont } from "./lib/shape.js";
+import { boundsOf, clampFont, unionOf } from "./lib/shape.js";
 import { reflow } from "./lib/reflow.js";
 import { buildDocx } from "./lib/docx.js";
 import { imagesToPdf, mergePdfs } from "./lib/create.js";
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ $("redact-ok").addEventListener("click", () => closeModal(true));
 $("redact-cancel").addEventListener("click", () => closeModal(null));
 
 const TOOL_HINTS = {
-  select: "Click a mark to select it. Drag to move, drag a handle to resize, double-click text to edit.",
+  select: "Click a mark, or drag an area around several. Shift-click adds one, Ctrl+A takes the page.",
   highlight: "Drag across text to highlight it.",
   underline: "Drag across text to underline it.",
   strikeout: "Drag across text to strike it through.",
@@ -682,6 +682,33 @@ function paintSelectionBar(id) {
   delete selbar.dataset.mode;
   $("sb-dup").hidden = false;
   $("sb-del").hidden = false;
+
+  // Several at once: offer only what is true of every one of them. A bar
+  // showing a size for a group that is half shapes would be lying about what
+  // pressing it does.
+  const picked = session.tools?.selectedAnnots?.() || [a];
+  if (picked.length > 1) {
+    const isText = (m) => m.kind === "text" || m.kind === "textedit";
+    const allText = picked.every(isText);
+    const allShapes = picked.every((m) => m.kind === "rect" || m.kind === "ellipse");
+    $("sb-edit").hidden = true;      // one caret, one mark
+    $("sb-textsize").hidden = !allText;
+    $("sb-bold").hidden = !allText;
+    $("sb-italic").hidden = !allText;
+    $("sb-fill").hidden = !allShapes;
+    if (allText) {
+      const sizes = new Set(picked.map((m) => Math.round(m.size || 12)));
+      $("sb-size").textContent = sizes.size === 1 ? String([...sizes][0]) : "—";
+      $("sb-bold").classList.toggle("active", picked.every((m) => m.bold));
+      $("sb-italic").classList.toggle("active", picked.every((m) => m.italic));
+    }
+    if (allShapes) $("sb-fill").classList.toggle("active", picked.every((m) => m.fill));
+    selbar.dataset.mode = "group";
+    selbar.hidden = false;
+    positionSelectionBar();
+    status(`${picked.length} marks selected — drag to move them, Del to remove them`);
+    return;
+  }
   // A replaced run is text too. Leaving it out meant the one mark made of
   // words offered no way to change them — the exact gap this bar exists for.
   const isText = a.kind === "text" || a.kind === "textedit";
@@ -708,7 +735,11 @@ function positionSelectionBar() {
   const ov = strip?.overlayFor(a.page);
   const view = strip?.views.get(a.page);
   if (!ov?.viewport || !view) { selbar.hidden = true; return; }
-  const b = boundsOf(a);
+  // Over the whole group when there is one, so the bar does not cling to
+  // whichever mark happens to be the anchor.
+  const picked = (t.selectedAnnots?.() || [a]).filter((x) => x.page === a.page);
+  const b = picked.length > 1 ? unionOf(picked) : boundsOf(a);
+  if (!b) { selbar.hidden = true; return; }
   const [ax, ay] = ov.toView(b.x, b.y + b.h);
   const [bx, by] = ov.toView(b.x + b.w, b.y);
   const pr = view.pv.div.getBoundingClientRect();
@@ -873,6 +904,19 @@ function finishInlineText(s) {
   status("");
 }
 
+/** Select every mark on the page the user is looking at. */
+function selectAllOnPage() {
+  const t = session.tools, m = session.model, strip = session.strip;
+  if (!t || !m || !strip) return;
+  const uid = strip.current || m.visible()[0];
+  if (!uid) return;
+  const ids = m.annotsFor(uid).map((a) => a.id);
+  if (!ids.length) { toast("Nothing on this page to select"); return; }
+  selectTool("select");
+  t.selectMany(ids);
+  toast(`${ids.length} mark${ids.length === 1 ? "" : "s"} selected`);
+}
+
 /** The style buttons, while a caret is open rather than a mark selected. */
 function paintInlineBar() {
   const st = inline?.state;
@@ -1412,6 +1456,14 @@ window.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
     return;
   }
   if (typing) return;
+  // Everything you added to the page you are looking at. Not the whole
+  // document: a group can only be moved within one page, so selecting across
+  // pages would offer a group half of which cannot come along.
+  if (meta && e.key.toLowerCase() === "a") {
+    e.preventDefault();
+    selectAllOnPage();
+    return;
+  }
 
   if (e.key === "Escape") {
     // Step back one level at a time: drop the selection first, and only then
@@ -1426,8 +1478,10 @@ window.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
   }
   if (e.key === "Enter") {
     const sel = session.tools?.selected;
+    if (session.tools?.selection?.size > 1) return;   // one caret, one mark
     const a = sel && session.model?.annot(sel);
-    if (a?.kind === "text" || a?.kind === "textedit") { onTextModal(sel, null); e.preventDefault(); }
+    if (a?.kind === "text") { beginText({ id: sel }); e.preventDefault(); return; }
+    if (a?.kind === "textedit") { onTextModal(sel, null); e.preventDefault(); }
     return;
   }
   if (e.key === "+" || e.key === "=") { session.strip?.stepScale(1); syncZoomSelect(); e.preventDefault(); return; }

bundled-addons/pdf-editor/lib/model.js

@@ -135,11 +135,18 @@ export class DocModel {
 
   // ---- mutations ----------------------------------------------------
   addAnnot(a) {
-    return this.edit(a.kind, () => {
+    return this.edit(a.kind, () => this.pushAnnot(a));
-      const full = { id: nextId("a"), ...a };
+  }
-      this.annots.push(full);
+  /**
-      return full;
+   * Add a mark WITHOUT journalling it.
-    });
+   *
+   * Only for callers already inside an `edit()` — duplicating six marks is
+   * one action and has to be one step, not six.
+   */
+  pushAnnot(a) {
+    const full = { id: nextId("a"), ...a };
+    this.annots.push(full);
+    return full;
   }
   removeAnnot(id) {
     const a = this.annot(id);
@@ -156,6 +163,34 @@ export class DocModel {
     return this.edit("move " + a.kind, () => { Object.assign(a, patch); return true; });
   }
 
+  // ---- several at once ----------------------------------------------
+  // One undo step for the whole group. Selecting six marks and pressing Del
+  // is one thing the user did, so it has to be one thing to undo.
+  removeAnnots(ids) {
+    const set = new Set(ids);
+    const hit = this.annots.filter((a) => set.has(a.id));
+    if (!hit.length) return false;
+    return this.edit(`delete ${hit.length} marks`, () => {
+      this.annots = this.annots.filter((a) => !set.has(a.id));
+      return true;
+    });
+  }
+  /**
+   * Apply a patch to several marks.
+   *
+   * `patch` may be a plain object, or a function of the mark — a move needs
+   * the second form, because every mark shifts from its own position.
+   */
+  moveAnnots(ids, patch) {
+    const set = new Set(ids);
+    const hit = this.annots.filter((a) => set.has(a.id));
+    if (!hit.length) return false;
+    return this.edit(`change ${hit.length} marks`, () => {
+      for (const a of hit) Object.assign(a, typeof patch === "function" ? patch(a) : patch);
+      return true;
+    });
+  }
+
   rotatePage(uid, deltaDeg) {
     return this.edit("rotate", () => {
       const p = this.pages.get(uid);

bundled-addons/pdf-editor/lib/overlay.js

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 // hit-testable, selectable and movable, and because it stays crisp when the
 // user zooms without us re-rasterising anything.
 
-import { arrowBarbs, boundsOf, editLayout, handlesFor, signatureStrokes, textLayout, RULE_OFFSET, SEGMENT_KINDS } from "./shape.js";
+import { arrowBarbs, boundsOf, editLayout, handlesFor, signatureStrokes, textLayout, unionOf, RULE_OFFSET, SEGMENT_KINDS } from "./shape.js";
 
 const NS = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
 const HANDLE = 9;   // grab-handle size in CSS px, deliberately not scaled with zoom
@@ -58,9 +58,15 @@ export class Overlay {
     return [x, y];
   }
 
-  render(viewport, annots, selectedId) {
+  render(viewport, annots, selected) {
     this.viewport = viewport;
-    this._selId = selectedId;
+    // Callers pass either one id or a set of them; everything below works in
+    // sets, so a single id becomes a set of one here rather than at each of
+    // the dozen call sites.
+    const ids = selected instanceof Set ? selected
+      : new Set(Array.isArray(selected) ? selected : selected ? [selected] : []);
+    this._selIds = ids;
+    this._selId = ids.size === 1 ? [...ids][0] : null;
     this.svg.setAttribute("width", viewport.width);
     this.svg.setAttribute("height", viewport.height);
     this.svg.setAttribute("viewBox", `0 0 ${viewport.width} ${viewport.height}`);
@@ -76,10 +82,10 @@ export class Overlay {
       this._addHitArea(node, a);
       node.classList.add("mark");
       node.dataset.id = a.id;
-      if (a.id === selectedId) node.classList.add("sel");
+      if (ids.has(a.id)) node.classList.add("sel");
       this.marks.append(node);
     }
-    this._drawChrome(annots.find((a) => a.id === selectedId && !a._editing) || null);
+    this._drawChrome(annots.filter((a) => ids.has(a.id) && !a._editing));
   }
 
   // Scale a user-space length (a stroke width, a font size) into CSS pixels.
@@ -89,6 +95,17 @@ export class Overlay {
   _draw(a) {
     const g = el("g", {});
     switch (a.kind) {
+      // The rubber band. Not a mark and never saved — it is drawn through the
+      // same path only so it lands in the page's own coordinates and stays
+      // put while the page scrolls under it.
+      case "marquee": {
+        const b = {
+          x: Math.min(a.x0, a.x1), y: Math.min(a.y0, a.y1),
+          w: Math.abs(a.x1 - a.x0), h: Math.abs(a.y1 - a.y0),
+        };
+        g.append(el("rect", { ...this._box(b), class: "marquee" }));
+        return g;
+      }
       case "highlight": {
         for (const r of a.rects || []) {
           const b = this._box({ x: r.x, y: r.y, w: r.w, h: r.h });
@@ -193,7 +210,7 @@ export class Overlay {
             const w = widest / this.k;
             const changed = Math.abs((a._w ?? 0) - w) > 0.5;
             a._w = w;
-            if (changed && a.id === this._selId) this._drawChrome(a);
+            if (changed && a.id === this._selId) this._drawChrome([a]);
           } catch {}
         });
         return g;
@@ -285,9 +302,12 @@ export class Overlay {
   // so they stay grabbable at 50% zoom and do not swell into the artwork at
   // 400%. Each carries data-handle, which is what tools.js hit-tests to tell a
   // resize from a move.
-  _drawChrome(sel) {
+  _drawChrome(picked) {
     this.chrome.textContent = "";
-    if (!sel) return;
+    const list = Array.isArray(picked) ? picked : picked ? [picked] : [];
+    if (!list.length) return;
+    if (list.length > 1) return this._drawGroupChrome(list);
+    const sel = list[0];
     const b = boundsOf(sel);
     const r = this._box({ x: b.x, y: b.y, w: b.w, h: b.h });
     const pad = 3;
@@ -317,6 +337,40 @@ export class Overlay {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Several marks at once: one box round the lot, and a fainter one round
+   * each member.
+   *
+   * The member boxes are the part that earns its keep — a single outline
+   * round six marks tells you how much is selected but not which, and a
+   * marquee that quietly caught a seventh is exactly the mistake worth
+   * seeing before you press Delete.
+   *
+   * No handles. Resizing a group means deciding what a stretch does to text,
+   * which scales by font size, and to a line, which has no box at all; until
+   * there is an answer worth defending, offering the grip would be a promise
+   * this cannot keep.
+   */
+  _drawGroupChrome(list) {
+    for (const a of list) {
+      const b = boundsOf(a);
+      if (!b) continue;
+      const r = this._box(b);
+      this.chrome.append(el("rect", {
+        class: "selbox member", x: r.x - 2, y: r.y - 2,
+        width: r.width + 4, height: r.height + 4,
+      }));
+    }
+    const u = unionOf(list);
+    if (!u) return;
+    const r = this._box(u);
+    const pad = 6;
+    this.chrome.append(el("rect", {
+      class: "selbox group", x: r.x - pad, y: r.y - pad,
+      width: r.width + pad * 2, height: r.height + pad * 2,
+    }));
+  }
+
   _handle(name, cx, cy, cursor) {
     const h = el("rect", {
       class: "handle", x: cx - HANDLE / 2, y: cy - HANDLE / 2,

bundled-addons/pdf-editor/lib/shape.js

@@ -42,6 +42,22 @@ export function textLayout(a) {
   }));
 }
 
+/** The one box that holds all of them, in user space. */
+export function unionOf(annots) {
+  const boxes = (annots || []).map(boundsOf).filter(Boolean);
+  if (!boxes.length) return null;
+  const x = Math.min(...boxes.map((b) => b.x));
+  const y = Math.min(...boxes.map((b) => b.y));
+  const x1 = Math.max(...boxes.map((b) => b.x + b.w));
+  const y1 = Math.max(...boxes.map((b) => b.y + b.h));
+  return { x, y, w: x1 - x, h: y1 - y };
+}
+
+/** Do two user-space boxes touch at all? */
+export function boxesOverlap(a, b) {
+  return a.x < b.x + b.w && b.x < a.x + a.w && a.y < b.y + b.h && b.y < a.y + a.h;
+}
+
 /** Height of a text stamp's block, for hit-testing and the selection box. */
 export function textBlockHeight(a) {
   const lines = String(a.text ?? "").split("\n").length;

bundled-addons/pdf-editor/lib/tools.js

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 // click stamps a second copy, which is almost never what was wanted, and it
 // puts the thing just placed immediately within reach of a nudge or a resize.
 
-import { ASCENT, boundsOf, normBox, translatePatch, resizeBox, scaleToBox } from "./shape.js";
+import { ASCENT, boundsOf, boxesOverlap, normBox, translatePatch, resizeBox, scaleToBox } from "./shape.js";
 
 const MIN_DRAG = 3;          // CSS px before a press counts as a drag
 const DOUBLE_CLICK_MS = 450; // window for a second click on the same mark
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ export class Tools {
     this.width = 2.5;
     this.fill = false;          // shapes: outline only, or filled
     this.fillOpacity = 0.25;
-    this.selected = null;
+    this.selected = null;        // the anchor of the selection, or null
+    this.selection = new Set();  // every selected mark
     this.drag = null;
     // Opening a second document builds a second Tools over the same container.
     // Without a way to unbind, the first one stays subscribed, keeps pointing
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ export class Tools {
     this._abort.abort();
     this.drag = null;
     this.selected = null;
+    this.selection = new Set();
   }
 
   get mode() {
@@ -81,57 +83,98 @@ export class Tools {
   }
 
   /** The one place selection changes, so the host never misses one. */
-  _setSelected(id) {
+  _setSelected(id) { this._setSelection(id ? [id] : []); }
-    this.selected = id;
+  /**
-    this.strip.refreshAllOverlays(id);
+   * Select a set of marks.
-    this.host.onSelectionChange?.(id);
+   *
+   * `selection` is the truth; `selected` is the one of them the single-mark
+   * paths work on — the anchor — and is null when nothing is selected. With
+   * exactly one mark the two say the same thing, which is why every existing
+   * caller kept working when this grew from an id into a set.
+   */
+  _setSelection(ids) {
+    const list = [...new Set(ids)].filter((id) => !!this.model.annot(id));
+    this.selection = new Set(list);
+    this.selected = list.length ? list[0] : null;
+    this.strip.refreshAllOverlays(this.selection);
+    this.host.onSelectionChange?.(this.selected);
   }
   select(id) { this._setSelected(id); }
+  selectMany(ids) { this._setSelection(ids); }
+  /** Every selected mark, as objects. */
+  selectedAnnots() {
+    return [...this.selection].map((id) => this.model.annot(id)).filter(Boolean);
+  }
 
   setColor(c) {
     this.color = c;
-    const a = this.model.annot(this.selected);
+    // Redaction is black because it is a redaction; it does not take a colour.
-    if (a && a.kind !== "redact") this.patchSelected({ color: c });
+    const ids = this.selectedAnnots().filter((a) => a.kind !== "redact").map((a) => a.id);
+    if (ids.length) this.patchSelected({ color: c }, ids);
   }
   setFill(on) {
     this.fill = !!on;
-    const a = this.model.annot(this.selected);
+    const ids = this.selectedAnnots()
-    if (a && (a.kind === "rect" || a.kind === "ellipse")) this.patchSelected({ fill: this.fill });
+      .filter((a) => a.kind === "rect" || a.kind === "ellipse").map((a) => a.id);
+    if (ids.length) this.patchSelected({ fill: this.fill }, ids);
   }
   setWidth(w) {
     this.width = w;
-    const a = this.model.annot(this.selected);
+    const ids = this.selectedAnnots()
-    if (a && a.kind !== "text" && a.kind !== "redact") this.patchSelected({ width: w });
+      .filter((a) => a.kind !== "text" && a.kind !== "redact").map((a) => a.id);
+    if (ids.length) this.patchSelected({ width: w }, ids);
   }
 
-  /** Change the selected mark, as one undo step. */
+  /** Change the selected marks, as one undo step. */
-  patchSelected(patch) {
+  patchSelected(patch, ids = null) {
-    if (!this.selected) return false;
+    const list = ids || [...this.selection];
-    const ok = this.model.moveAnnot(this.selected, patch);
+    if (!list.length) return false;
-    this.strip.refreshAllOverlays(this.selected);
+    const ok = list.length === 1
+      ? this.model.moveAnnot(list[0], patch)
+      : this.model.moveAnnots(list, patch);
+    this.strip.refreshAllOverlays(this.selection);
     this.host.onSelectionChange?.(this.selected);
     this.host.onChange?.();
     return ok;
   }
 
   deleteSelected() {
-    if (!this.selected) return false;
+    const list = [...this.selection];
-    const ok = this.model.removeAnnot(this.selected);
+    if (!list.length) return false;
+    const ok = list.length === 1
+      ? this.model.removeAnnot(list[0])
+      : this.model.removeAnnots(list);
     this._setSelected(null);
     this.host.onChange?.();
     return ok;
   }
 
-  /** Drop a copy of the selected mark, offset so it is visibly a second one. */
+  /** Drop a copy of each selected mark, offset so they are visibly seconds. */
   duplicateSelected() {
-    const a = this.model.annot(this.selected);
+    const originals = this.selectedAnnots();
-    if (!a) return null;
+    if (!originals.length) return null;
     const off = 12;
-    const copy = { ...structuredClone(a), ...translatePatch(a, off, -off) };
+    const clone = (a) => {
-    delete copy.id;
+      const copy = { ...structuredClone(a), ...translatePatch(a, off, -off) };
-    delete copy._w;
+      delete copy.id;
-    const made = this.model.addAnnot(copy);
+      delete copy._w;
-    this._setSelected(made.id);
+      delete copy._editing;
+      return copy;
+    };
+    if (originals.length === 1) {
+      const made = this.model.addAnnot(clone(originals[0]));
+      this._setSelected(made.id);
+      this.host.onChange?.();
+      return made;
+    }
+    // One step for the group, and the copies end up selected so the next
+    // drag moves the copies rather than the originals.
+    const made = [];
+    this.model.edit(`duplicate ${originals.length} marks`, () => {
+      for (const a of originals) made.push(this.model.pushAnnot(clone(a)));
+      return true;
+    });
+    this._setSelection(made.map((m) => m.id));
     this.host.onChange?.();
     return made;
   }
@@ -181,8 +224,7 @@ export class Tools {
       const ovm = a && this.strip.overlayFor(a.page);
       if (a && spot && spot.uid === a.page && ovm?.viewport) {
         const [mx, my] = ovm.toPdf(spot.vx, spot.vy);
-        this.drag = { kind: "move", uid: a.page, id: a.id, x0: mx, y0: my,
+        this.drag = this._beginMove(a.page, a.id, mx, my, e);
-                      orig: structuredClone(a), cx: e.clientX, cy: e.clientY, moved: false };
         e.preventDefault();
         return;
       }
@@ -222,18 +264,41 @@ export class Tools {
       const double = !!id && this._lastClick?.id === id && now - this._lastClick.t < DOUBLE_CLICK_MS;
       this._lastClick = id ? { id, t: now } : null;
 
-      this._setSelected(id);
+      if (!id) {
-      if (!id) return;
+        // Empty page: start a rubber band. A press that never moves is just
+        // a click on nothing, and onUp treats it as one — it clears the
+        // selection, exactly as it always did.
+        this._setSelected(null);
+        // ...unless the press is on one of the document's own form fields.
+        // Starting a band there means calling preventDefault, and that is
+        // what gives a text field its caret, so the field would go dead.
+        if (e.target?.closest?.(".annotationLayer")) return;
+        this.drag = { kind: "marquee", uid: hit.uid, x0: x, y0: y, x, y,
+                      cx: e.clientX, cy: e.clientY, moved: false };
+        e.preventDefault();
+        return;
+      }
+      // Shift adds to, or takes away from, what is already selected.
+      if (e.shiftKey) {
+        const next = new Set(this.selection);
+        next.has(id) ? next.delete(id) : next.add(id);
+        this._setSelection([...next]);
+        e.preventDefault();
+        return;
+      }
+      // Pressing on a mark that is already part of a group keeps the group,
+      // so the drag moves all of it. Pressing on any other mark selects just
+      // that one.
+      if (!this.selection.has(id)) this._setSelected(id);
       e.preventDefault();
-      if (double) {
+      if (double && this.selection.size === 1) {
         const a = this.model.annot(id);
         // A stamp is edited where it sits; a replaced run keeps its dialog,
         // which is where it explains what it is replacing.
         if (a?.kind === "text") { this.host.beginText?.({ id }); return; }
         if (a?.kind === "textedit") { this.host.editText?.(id, null); return; }
       }
-      this.drag = { kind: "move", uid: hit.uid, id, x0: x, y0: y,
+      this.drag = this._beginMove(hit.uid, id, x, y, e);
-                    orig: structuredClone(this.model.annot(id)), cx: e.clientX, cy: e.clientY, moved: false };
       return;
     }
 
@@ -256,6 +321,26 @@ export class Tools {
     e.preventDefault();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * A move drag, of one mark or of the whole group.
+   *
+   * `origs` holds every mark's starting geometry: each one shifts from where
+   * IT was, not from where the one under the cursor was.
+   */
+  _beginMove(uid, id, x, y, e) {
+    const ids = this.selection.has(id) ? [...this.selection] : [id];
+    const origs = new Map();
+    for (const i of ids) {
+      const a = this.model.annot(i);
+      // A group can only be dragged within one page: a mark carries its page,
+      // and PDF user space means nothing across two of them.
+      if (a && a.page === uid) origs.set(i, structuredClone(a));
+    }
+    return { kind: "move", uid, id, x0: x, y0: y, origs,
+             orig: origs.get(id) || structuredClone(this.model.annot(id)),
+             cx: e.clientX, cy: e.clientY, moved: false };
+  }
+
   onMove(e) {
     const d = this.drag;
     if (!d) return;
@@ -273,14 +358,19 @@ export class Tools {
     d.x = x; d.y = y;
     if (!d.moved && Math.hypot(e.clientX - (d.cx ?? e.clientX), e.clientY - (d.cy ?? e.clientY)) > MIN_DRAG) d.moved = true;
 
+    if (d.kind === "marquee") {
+      this.strip.setPreview(d.uid, { kind: "marquee", x0: d.x0, y0: d.y0, x1: x, y1: y });
+      return;
+    }
     if (d.kind === "move") {
-      const a = this.model.annot(d.id);
-      if (!a) return;
       // Live and un-journalled; the whole gesture is committed once on release
       // so undo steps back over the drag, not over each mouse move.
-      Object.assign(a, translatePatch(d.orig, x - d.x0, y - d.y0));
+      for (const [id, orig] of d.origs) {
+        const a = this.model.annot(id);
+        if (a) Object.assign(a, translatePatch(orig, x - d.x0, y - d.y0));
+      }
       d.moved = true;
-      this.strip.refreshOverlay(d.uid, d.id);
+      this.strip.refreshOverlay(d.uid, this.selection);
       return;
     }
     if (d.kind === "resize") {
@@ -305,9 +395,8 @@ export class Tools {
 
   onUp(e) {
     // A handle or move drag is finished here whatever tool is armed. Without
-    // this the
+    // this the text-markup tools would return on the line below and strand a
-    // text-markup tools would return on the line below and strand a resize
+    // resize half-done: applied to the live mark, never journalled, and with
-    // half-done: applied to the live mark, never journalled, and with
     // this.drag still set so the next press behaves oddly.
     const inFlight = this.drag;
     const live = inFlight && (inFlight.kind === "resize" || inFlight.kind === "move");
@@ -320,11 +409,20 @@ export class Tools {
     if (!d) return;
     this.strip.setPreview(null, null);
 
+    if (d.kind === "marquee") {
+      // A press that never moved is a click on empty space: the selection is
+      // already cleared, and there is nothing to gather.
+      if (d.moved) this._selectWithin(d.uid, d.x0, d.y0, d.x, d.y);
+      else this.strip.refreshAllOverlays(this.selection);
+      this.host.onChange?.();
+      return;
+    }
     if (d.kind === "move" || d.kind === "resize") {
       const a = this.model.annot(d.id);
-      if (!a || !d.moved) { this.strip.refreshOverlay(d.uid, this.selected); return; }
+      if (!a || !d.moved) { this.strip.refreshOverlay(d.uid, this.selection); return; }
-      this._commitLiveEdit(a, d.orig);
+      if (d.origs && d.origs.size > 1) this._commitGroupMove(d);
-      this._setSelected(d.id);
+      else this._commitLiveEdit(a, d.orig);
+      this._setSelection([...this.selection]);
       this.host.onChange?.();
       return;
     }
@@ -334,7 +432,7 @@ export class Tools {
       const made = this.model.addAnnot(a);
       this._setSelected(made.id);
     } else {
-      this.strip.refreshAllOverlays(this.selected);
+      this.strip.refreshAllOverlays(this.selection);
     }
     this.host.onChange?.();
   }
@@ -342,6 +440,50 @@ export class Tools {
   // A live drag mutates the mark in place so the screen keeps up. To land it
   // on the undo stack as ONE step, put the original back and re-apply the
   // result through the model.
+  /**
+   * Everything the rubber band touched, on the page it was drawn on.
+   *
+   * Touching counts, not enclosing. A band you have to draw right around a
+   * long arrow to catch it is a band you draw twice; catching what you swept
+   * over is what people expect from sweeping.
+   */
+  _selectWithin(uid, x0, y0, x1, y1) {
+    const box = {
+      x: Math.min(x0, x1), y: Math.min(y0, y1),
+      w: Math.abs(x1 - x0), h: Math.abs(y1 - y0),
+    };
+    const hits = this.model.annotsFor(uid)
+      .filter((a) => { const b = boundsOf(a); return b && boxesOverlap(b, box); })
+      .map((a) => a.id);
+    this._setSelection(hits);
+    // Only the empty case is worth a toast; when it caught something, the
+    // boxes on screen and the status line have already said so.
+    if (!hits.length) this.host.toast?.("Nothing in that area");
+  }
+
+  /** A group drag, landed on the undo stack as one step. */
+  _commitGroupMove(d) {
+    const after = new Map();
+    for (const id of d.origs.keys()) {
+      const a = this.model.annot(id);
+      if (a) after.set(id, structuredClone(a));
+    }
+    // Put every mark back before re-applying through the model, so the
+    // journal's "before" is the state the drag actually started from.
+    for (const [id, orig] of d.origs) {
+      const a = this.model.annot(id);
+      if (a) Object.assign(a, orig);
+    }
+    this.model.moveAnnots([...after.keys()], (a) => {
+      const to = after.get(a.id);
+      const patch = {};
+      for (const k of Object.keys(to)) {
+        if (k !== "id" && k !== "page" && k !== "kind") patch[k] = to[k];
+      }
+      return patch;
+    });
+  }
+
   _commitLiveEdit(a, orig) {
     const after = structuredClone(a);
     Object.assign(a, orig);