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thePR0M3TH3ANandClaude Opus 4.7 e9f3682bff docs: sidebar-panel pages — left fieldsets + right Tool Options pane
Adds a "Sidebar panels" group to the in-app docs:

- panels.md             — overview + a table of every sidebar panel
                          with where it lives + a one-liner
- panel-metadata.md     — Project Metadata fields (title, category,
                          IMDb/UPC/TVDB/MBID/custom-tag/language)
                          + how they feed publish + designer-mode
                          equivalent
- panel-layers.md       — Layers panel — per-mode surface scoping
                          (Cover/Disc/Jewel/Custom Art/Slide/Deck/
                          Pixel/Book), per-row controls, reorder +
                          group + multi-select, layer-options
                          field list
- panel-export.md       — Export options panel — show/print toggles
                          for guides/bleed/safe/crops/fold, mode-
                          specific hides
- panel-print-save.md   — Save / Open project JSON + Print/Save-as-
                          PDF print-dialog tips + Export JPEG/PNG +
                          mode-specific gotchas
- panel-credits.md      — Credits panel — Linked Designs contributor
                          surfacing, tip button, publish-time tag
                          emission, private-publish behaviour
- panel-tool-options.md — Right-side floating Tool Options pane —
                          how it switches between tool options and
                          layer options, cross-links to per-tool docs

Registered as a new "Sidebar panels" group ordered after Vector
tools in the docs sidebar.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
2026-06-04 09:08:27 -04:00

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Export options panel

Lives below the metadata + above the print/save panel. Controls what print marks render on the canvas + what gets included in the exported file.

Show / hide toggles

These affect the on-screen display only — they're separate from the print* toggles below.

  • Show guides — trim lines around the artwork.
  • Show bleed — outer bleed boundary line.
  • Show safe area — interior safe zone.
  • Show crops — corner cut marks outside the trim.
  • Show fold — for cover wrap, the back↔spine + spine↔front fold lines.

Print toggles

These affect what gets included in the exported file (JPEG / PNG / PDF / print-dialog output):

  • Print guides — embed the trim guides in the output.
  • Print crops — embed corner cut marks in the output.
  • Print bleed — extend the output to include the bleed area.

Printers usually want crop marks ON + bleed ON; production PDF + JPEG usually wants both OFF.

Mode interaction

  • The toggles are global per project; they apply to whichever mode is active.
  • Pixel-art mode hides the export options entirely (pixel-art has its own PNG / sprite-sheet / GIF exporters in the pixel toolbox).
  • Book mode hides them too while editing chapter markdown (chapter pagination has its own controls); they reappear in the per-page canvas editor + cover editor.

Tips

  • Toggle "Show crops" ON while designing to leave room around the trim edges; toggle "Print crops" ON only when exporting for a printer.
  • For social-media exports, leave every print* off — the output is pixel-perfect to the trim.