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---
title: Exporting
feat: export components as Storybook stories (#751)
* feat(cli): export components as Storybook stories
Add `openpencil export -f storybook`, which writes one CSF3 `.stories.ts`
file per component set or component. Each variant becomes a story and the
variant properties become select controls, so the story renders the matching
variant; an unknown combination throws instead of showing another variant.
Stories embed the existing inline-style HTML projection, so consumers need no
OpenPencil runtime. `--framework react|vue|html` only changes the render
wrapper and the Meta/StoryObj import. When the document sits under the current
directory, stories carry an `openpencil://` design link for
@storybook/addon-designs.
Refs #727
* fix(pen): size auto-width text from its content on import
Text without a width in an auto-layout parent was imported 10000px wide, a placeholder the app's text measurer replaces. Headless layout keeps stored sizes, so CLI HTML and Storybook exports stretched hugging frames to over 10000px. Import the width as 0 so the importer's existing text-length estimate applies, and headless layout estimates the rest.
* feat(app): follow layer links to other pages
openpencil:// and web ?node= links only searched the current page, so a Storybook story linking to a component on another page reported it missing. When the current page has no match, load the other pages without showing them and switch to the first that carries the name.
* feat(cli): add design images and watch mode to Storybook export
Each story now links to its own variant when the layer name is unique, and carries a 2x PNG of the variant for @storybook/addon-designs, imported so Vite bundles it. --watch re-exports on every save. Re-exports replace the stories a previous export of the same document generated, including those of deleted components, and refuse to overwrite hand-written stories or another document's.
Refs #727
* fix(cli): reference Storybook design images without ambient PNG types
Import design images with new URL(..., import.meta.url) instead of an import declaration, so consumers need no vite/client types to typecheck the stories. Document that exports should run from the same directory.
* fix(app): search other pages for a link without cancelling page switches
The cross-page layer search prepared each page with preparePage, which advances the page-switch generation, so a page switch the user had in progress could be dropped, and every searched page paid for fonts and layout. Add loadPageNodes, which populates a page's layers through the same worker path without touching the switch generation, and report a failed search as an error instead of a missing layer.
* fix(pen): never import width-less text zero wide
Text without a width now imports at width 0 and relies on the importer's text-length estimate, which skipped single-glyph text. Estimate zero-width text of any length.
* fix(cli): harden Storybook export ownership, titles, and links
- A --page export replaces only its own stories, and names files as a full export does, so it cannot delete or overwrite other pages' stories.
- Same-named components on a page get distinct titles, so Storybook story ids do not collide.
- Read the generated header through CRLF line endings, and refuse a source containing a line break, which would end the header comment and start code.
- Link a story only to a layer name no other layer carries.
- Document the --page default for Storybook export.
Refs #727
* fix(app): let a page switch overtake a link's layer search
A link search that loads other pages could resume after the user started switching pages and move them to the matching page. Expose pageSwitchCount, which advances whenever a page switch starts, and abandon the search when it changes. An overtaken search reports neither a match nor a missing layer.
* fix(pen): estimate only omitted text widths
Estimate a width-less text node's width when it is imported, instead of estimating every zero-width text node afterwards, so an explicit width of 0 is kept.
* fix(cli): track Storybook story ownership by document path and page
- Identify the document by its path relative to the output directory rather than a basename or cwd-relative path, so same-named documents do not share stories and the export no longer depends on the working directory.
- Record the page in each story's header; a --page export replaces all of that page's stories and asks for a full export when renumbered file names land on another page's.
- Check every target, including design images, before removing anything, and refuse to overwrite files this export does not own.
- Quote the header fields as JSON with U+2028/U+2029 escaped, so any path stays inside the comment, instead of refusing line breaks.
- Deduplicate titles by Storybook id, which ignores case and punctuation.
Refs #727
* fix(app): focus a searched page only after its switch committed
A page switch the user starts while the link search's own switch is pending can keep that switch from committing. Check that the search's switch was the only one and landed on its page before focusing; otherwise report the search as superseded.
* fix(pen): keep empty text without a width at zero
* fix(cli): remove only the design images a Storybook export generated
Replacing a story removed its whole .design folder, including files someone else put there. Read the images each owned story references, remove just those, and remove a .design folder only once it is empty.
Refs #727
* test(app): cover a page switch still pending during a link search
The previous test committed the overtaking switch, so the page check alone caught it. Advance the switch count without committing, so the test fails without the count check.
* fix(cli): stage Storybook exports and refuse linked design folders
- Write every file to a staging folder inside the output before removing the previous export, then move them into place, so a failed write no longer leaves the export half replaced.
- Refuse a .design path that is not a real folder, such as a symbolic link, before removing or writing images through it, so an export cannot reach outside the output directory.
Refs #727
* refactor(dom-css): print Storybook stories from a parsed template
Story modules were assembled from string fragments, so quoting and
layout were an implicit contract: the CLI found design images with a
regex that only matched double-quoted `new URL("…")` paths.
A story module is now one TypeScript template, parsed once with acorn
and its TypeScript plugin. Data is filled into `$placeholder` nodes and
the module is printed with esrap, which owns quoting and escaping. The
CLI reads referenced design images back through `storyImagePaths()`
instead of matching text. Tests import generated modules and assert
values rather than formatting.
* refactor(storybook): track generated files in a manifest
The export recovered which files it owned by parsing its own output: a
header regex over JSON-quoted strings, line-separator escaping, CRLF
handling, an AST walk for design images, and a path regex in the CLI.
A `.openpencil-stories.json` manifest now records the document and page
behind each generated file. The CLI validates it with Valibot, including
that every listed path stays inside the output folder, and the story
header is a plain note. Story ids use a copy of Storybook's `sanitize`,
tested against the installed Storybook; the previous rule treated `A§B`
and `A-B` as the same story. Export names use es-toolkit's `pascalCase`.
The CLI export command moves into `commands/export/`, dom-css splits
grouping and naming out of the Storybook exporter, and the CLI takes the
framework list from dom-css.
* fix(pen): keep explicit narrow text widths
A post-import pass widened every multi-character text narrower than two
font sizes, including widths the `.pen` file set on purpose, such as
`width: 0`. Omitted widths are now estimated when the text node is
created, so the pass only overrode explicit widths and is removed.
---------
Co-authored-by: Danila Poyarkov <dev@dannote.net>
2026-09-29 23:16:47 +00:00
description: Export document content to images, PDF, PowerPoint, `.fig` , JSX, HTML, or Storybook stories, with font-substitution policies for raster and PDF output.
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---
# Exporting
feat: export components as Storybook stories (#751)
* feat(cli): export components as Storybook stories
Add `openpencil export -f storybook`, which writes one CSF3 `.stories.ts`
file per component set or component. Each variant becomes a story and the
variant properties become select controls, so the story renders the matching
variant; an unknown combination throws instead of showing another variant.
Stories embed the existing inline-style HTML projection, so consumers need no
OpenPencil runtime. `--framework react|vue|html` only changes the render
wrapper and the Meta/StoryObj import. When the document sits under the current
directory, stories carry an `openpencil://` design link for
@storybook/addon-designs.
Refs #727
* fix(pen): size auto-width text from its content on import
Text without a width in an auto-layout parent was imported 10000px wide, a placeholder the app's text measurer replaces. Headless layout keeps stored sizes, so CLI HTML and Storybook exports stretched hugging frames to over 10000px. Import the width as 0 so the importer's existing text-length estimate applies, and headless layout estimates the rest.
* feat(app): follow layer links to other pages
openpencil:// and web ?node= links only searched the current page, so a Storybook story linking to a component on another page reported it missing. When the current page has no match, load the other pages without showing them and switch to the first that carries the name.
* feat(cli): add design images and watch mode to Storybook export
Each story now links to its own variant when the layer name is unique, and carries a 2x PNG of the variant for @storybook/addon-designs, imported so Vite bundles it. --watch re-exports on every save. Re-exports replace the stories a previous export of the same document generated, including those of deleted components, and refuse to overwrite hand-written stories or another document's.
Refs #727
* fix(cli): reference Storybook design images without ambient PNG types
Import design images with new URL(..., import.meta.url) instead of an import declaration, so consumers need no vite/client types to typecheck the stories. Document that exports should run from the same directory.
* fix(app): search other pages for a link without cancelling page switches
The cross-page layer search prepared each page with preparePage, which advances the page-switch generation, so a page switch the user had in progress could be dropped, and every searched page paid for fonts and layout. Add loadPageNodes, which populates a page's layers through the same worker path without touching the switch generation, and report a failed search as an error instead of a missing layer.
* fix(pen): never import width-less text zero wide
Text without a width now imports at width 0 and relies on the importer's text-length estimate, which skipped single-glyph text. Estimate zero-width text of any length.
* fix(cli): harden Storybook export ownership, titles, and links
- A --page export replaces only its own stories, and names files as a full export does, so it cannot delete or overwrite other pages' stories.
- Same-named components on a page get distinct titles, so Storybook story ids do not collide.
- Read the generated header through CRLF line endings, and refuse a source containing a line break, which would end the header comment and start code.
- Link a story only to a layer name no other layer carries.
- Document the --page default for Storybook export.
Refs #727
* fix(app): let a page switch overtake a link's layer search
A link search that loads other pages could resume after the user started switching pages and move them to the matching page. Expose pageSwitchCount, which advances whenever a page switch starts, and abandon the search when it changes. An overtaken search reports neither a match nor a missing layer.
* fix(pen): estimate only omitted text widths
Estimate a width-less text node's width when it is imported, instead of estimating every zero-width text node afterwards, so an explicit width of 0 is kept.
* fix(cli): track Storybook story ownership by document path and page
- Identify the document by its path relative to the output directory rather than a basename or cwd-relative path, so same-named documents do not share stories and the export no longer depends on the working directory.
- Record the page in each story's header; a --page export replaces all of that page's stories and asks for a full export when renumbered file names land on another page's.
- Check every target, including design images, before removing anything, and refuse to overwrite files this export does not own.
- Quote the header fields as JSON with U+2028/U+2029 escaped, so any path stays inside the comment, instead of refusing line breaks.
- Deduplicate titles by Storybook id, which ignores case and punctuation.
Refs #727
* fix(app): focus a searched page only after its switch committed
A page switch the user starts while the link search's own switch is pending can keep that switch from committing. Check that the search's switch was the only one and landed on its page before focusing; otherwise report the search as superseded.
* fix(pen): keep empty text without a width at zero
* fix(cli): remove only the design images a Storybook export generated
Replacing a story removed its whole .design folder, including files someone else put there. Read the images each owned story references, remove just those, and remove a .design folder only once it is empty.
Refs #727
* test(app): cover a page switch still pending during a link search
The previous test committed the overtaking switch, so the page check alone caught it. Advance the switch count without committing, so the test fails without the count check.
* fix(cli): stage Storybook exports and refuse linked design folders
- Write every file to a staging folder inside the output before removing the previous export, then move them into place, so a failed write no longer leaves the export half replaced.
- Refuse a .design path that is not a real folder, such as a symbolic link, before removing or writing images through it, so an export cannot reach outside the output directory.
Refs #727
* refactor(dom-css): print Storybook stories from a parsed template
Story modules were assembled from string fragments, so quoting and
layout were an implicit contract: the CLI found design images with a
regex that only matched double-quoted `new URL("…")` paths.
A story module is now one TypeScript template, parsed once with acorn
and its TypeScript plugin. Data is filled into `$placeholder` nodes and
the module is printed with esrap, which owns quoting and escaping. The
CLI reads referenced design images back through `storyImagePaths()`
instead of matching text. Tests import generated modules and assert
values rather than formatting.
* refactor(storybook): track generated files in a manifest
The export recovered which files it owned by parsing its own output: a
header regex over JSON-quoted strings, line-separator escaping, CRLF
handling, an AST walk for design images, and a path regex in the CLI.
A `.openpencil-stories.json` manifest now records the document and page
behind each generated file. The CLI validates it with Valibot, including
that every listed path stays inside the output folder, and the story
header is a plain note. Story ids use a copy of Storybook's `sanitize`,
tested against the installed Storybook; the previous rule treated `A§B`
and `A-B` as the same story. Export names use es-toolkit's `pascalCase`.
The CLI export command moves into `commands/export/`, dom-css splits
grouping and naming out of the Storybook exporter, and the CLI takes the
framework list from dom-css.
* fix(pen): keep explicit narrow text widths
A post-import pass widened every multi-character text narrower than two
font sizes, including widths the `.pen` file set on purpose, such as
`width: 0`. Omitted widths are now estimated when the text node is
created, so the pass only overrode explicit widths and is removed.
---------
Co-authored-by: Danila Poyarkov <dev@dannote.net>
2026-09-29 23:16:47 +00:00
Export designs from the terminal — raster images, vectors, PDF, editable PowerPoint, `.fig` subsets, JSX code, HTML, or Storybook stories.
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## Image Export
```sh
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openpencil export design.fig # PNG (default)
openpencil export design.fig -f jpg -s 2 -q 90 # JPG at 2×
openpencil export design.fig -f webp -s 3 # WEBP at 3×
openpencil export design.fig -f svg # SVG vector
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openpencil export design.fig -f pdf # PDF
openpencil export design.fig -f pptx # editable PowerPoint
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openpencil export design.fig -f fig --page "Page 1" # export one page as .fig
openpencil export design.fig -f fig --node 1:23 # export one node as .fig
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openpencil export design.fig -f html --css tailwind # export an HTML fragment with Tailwind classes
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```
Options:
feat: export components as Storybook stories (#751)
* feat(cli): export components as Storybook stories
Add `openpencil export -f storybook`, which writes one CSF3 `.stories.ts`
file per component set or component. Each variant becomes a story and the
variant properties become select controls, so the story renders the matching
variant; an unknown combination throws instead of showing another variant.
Stories embed the existing inline-style HTML projection, so consumers need no
OpenPencil runtime. `--framework react|vue|html` only changes the render
wrapper and the Meta/StoryObj import. When the document sits under the current
directory, stories carry an `openpencil://` design link for
@storybook/addon-designs.
Refs #727
* fix(pen): size auto-width text from its content on import
Text without a width in an auto-layout parent was imported 10000px wide, a placeholder the app's text measurer replaces. Headless layout keeps stored sizes, so CLI HTML and Storybook exports stretched hugging frames to over 10000px. Import the width as 0 so the importer's existing text-length estimate applies, and headless layout estimates the rest.
* feat(app): follow layer links to other pages
openpencil:// and web ?node= links only searched the current page, so a Storybook story linking to a component on another page reported it missing. When the current page has no match, load the other pages without showing them and switch to the first that carries the name.
* feat(cli): add design images and watch mode to Storybook export
Each story now links to its own variant when the layer name is unique, and carries a 2x PNG of the variant for @storybook/addon-designs, imported so Vite bundles it. --watch re-exports on every save. Re-exports replace the stories a previous export of the same document generated, including those of deleted components, and refuse to overwrite hand-written stories or another document's.
Refs #727
* fix(cli): reference Storybook design images without ambient PNG types
Import design images with new URL(..., import.meta.url) instead of an import declaration, so consumers need no vite/client types to typecheck the stories. Document that exports should run from the same directory.
* fix(app): search other pages for a link without cancelling page switches
The cross-page layer search prepared each page with preparePage, which advances the page-switch generation, so a page switch the user had in progress could be dropped, and every searched page paid for fonts and layout. Add loadPageNodes, which populates a page's layers through the same worker path without touching the switch generation, and report a failed search as an error instead of a missing layer.
* fix(pen): never import width-less text zero wide
Text without a width now imports at width 0 and relies on the importer's text-length estimate, which skipped single-glyph text. Estimate zero-width text of any length.
* fix(cli): harden Storybook export ownership, titles, and links
- A --page export replaces only its own stories, and names files as a full export does, so it cannot delete or overwrite other pages' stories.
- Same-named components on a page get distinct titles, so Storybook story ids do not collide.
- Read the generated header through CRLF line endings, and refuse a source containing a line break, which would end the header comment and start code.
- Link a story only to a layer name no other layer carries.
- Document the --page default for Storybook export.
Refs #727
* fix(app): let a page switch overtake a link's layer search
A link search that loads other pages could resume after the user started switching pages and move them to the matching page. Expose pageSwitchCount, which advances whenever a page switch starts, and abandon the search when it changes. An overtaken search reports neither a match nor a missing layer.
* fix(pen): estimate only omitted text widths
Estimate a width-less text node's width when it is imported, instead of estimating every zero-width text node afterwards, so an explicit width of 0 is kept.
* fix(cli): track Storybook story ownership by document path and page
- Identify the document by its path relative to the output directory rather than a basename or cwd-relative path, so same-named documents do not share stories and the export no longer depends on the working directory.
- Record the page in each story's header; a --page export replaces all of that page's stories and asks for a full export when renumbered file names land on another page's.
- Check every target, including design images, before removing anything, and refuse to overwrite files this export does not own.
- Quote the header fields as JSON with U+2028/U+2029 escaped, so any path stays inside the comment, instead of refusing line breaks.
- Deduplicate titles by Storybook id, which ignores case and punctuation.
Refs #727
* fix(app): focus a searched page only after its switch committed
A page switch the user starts while the link search's own switch is pending can keep that switch from committing. Check that the search's switch was the only one and landed on its page before focusing; otherwise report the search as superseded.
* fix(pen): keep empty text without a width at zero
* fix(cli): remove only the design images a Storybook export generated
Replacing a story removed its whole .design folder, including files someone else put there. Read the images each owned story references, remove just those, and remove a .design folder only once it is empty.
Refs #727
* test(app): cover a page switch still pending during a link search
The previous test committed the overtaking switch, so the page check alone caught it. Advance the switch count without committing, so the test fails without the count check.
* fix(cli): stage Storybook exports and refuse linked design folders
- Write every file to a staging folder inside the output before removing the previous export, then move them into place, so a failed write no longer leaves the export half replaced.
- Refuse a .design path that is not a real folder, such as a symbolic link, before removing or writing images through it, so an export cannot reach outside the output directory.
Refs #727
* refactor(dom-css): print Storybook stories from a parsed template
Story modules were assembled from string fragments, so quoting and
layout were an implicit contract: the CLI found design images with a
regex that only matched double-quoted `new URL("…")` paths.
A story module is now one TypeScript template, parsed once with acorn
and its TypeScript plugin. Data is filled into `$placeholder` nodes and
the module is printed with esrap, which owns quoting and escaping. The
CLI reads referenced design images back through `storyImagePaths()`
instead of matching text. Tests import generated modules and assert
values rather than formatting.
* refactor(storybook): track generated files in a manifest
The export recovered which files it owned by parsing its own output: a
header regex over JSON-quoted strings, line-separator escaping, CRLF
handling, an AST walk for design images, and a path regex in the CLI.
A `.openpencil-stories.json` manifest now records the document and page
behind each generated file. The CLI validates it with Valibot, including
that every listed path stays inside the output folder, and the story
header is a plain note. Story ids use a copy of Storybook's `sanitize`,
tested against the installed Storybook; the previous rule treated `A§B`
and `A-B` as the same story. Export names use es-toolkit's `pascalCase`.
The CLI export command moves into `commands/export/`, dom-css splits
grouping and naming out of the Storybook exporter, and the CLI takes the
framework list from dom-css.
* fix(pen): keep explicit narrow text widths
A post-import pass widened every multi-character text narrower than two
font sizes, including widths the `.pen` file set on purpose, such as
`width: 0`. Omitted widths are now estimated when the text node is
created, so the pass only overrode explicit widths and is removed.
---------
Co-authored-by: Danila Poyarkov <dev@dannote.net>
2026-09-29 23:16:47 +00:00
- `-f` — format: `png` , `jpg` , `webp` , `svg` , `pdf` , `pptx` , `jsx` , `html` , `fig` , `storybook`
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- `-s` — export scale (default: `1` )
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- `-q` — quality: `0` –
- `-o` — output path
- `--page` — page name
- `--node` — specific node ID
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## Font Substitution Policy
For file-backed PNG, JPG, WEBP, and PDF exports, choose how missing or substituted fonts are handled:
```sh
openpencil export design.fig -f pdf --font-policy strict
openpencil export design.fig -f png --font-policy warn
openpencil export design.fig -f webp --font-policy allow
```
- `warn` (default) — report substitutions and continue exporting.
- `strict` — stop with a nonzero exit status if font preparation cannot faithfully resolve the requested faces.
- `allow` — export without the additional font-fidelity check.
Run [`openpencil fonts` ](./inspecting#font-diagnostics ) first to inspect affected faces. Export preparation may use configured font providers, so its result can differ from the offline file diagnostic.
This policy does not apply to exports from the running app, or to SVG, PowerPoint, JSX, HTML, and `.fig` output. It checks font resolution, not complete visual equivalence with Figma.
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## JSX Export
Export as JSX with Tailwind utility classes:
```sh
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openpencil export design.fig -f tailwind-jsx # or: -f jsx --style tailwind
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Output:
```html
< div className = "flex flex-col gap-4 p-6 bg-white rounded-xl" >
< p className = "text-2xl font-bold text-[#1D1B20]" > Card Title< / p >
< p className = "text-sm text-[#49454F]" > Description text< / p >
< / div >
```
Also supports `--style openpencil` for the native JSX format (see [JSX Renderer ](../jsx-renderer )).
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## HTML Export
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Export as an HTML fragment with inline styles by default, or Tailwind utility classes:
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```sh
openpencil export design.fig -f html
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openpencil export design.fig -f html --css tailwind
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```
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Use `--html standalone` for a browser-openable HTML document with reset styles and a page wrapper. Standalone HTML is intended as a useful visual/code handoff, not a pixel-perfect renderer replacement:
```sh
openpencil export design.fig -f html --html standalone --css inline
openpencil export design.fig -f html --html standalone --css tailwind
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openpencil export design.fig -f html --html standalone --css tailwind --assets external
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```
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Standalone Tailwind output is compiled during export; it does not depend on the Tailwind browser runtime. Use `--assets external` to write CSS and extracted image assets next to the HTML file. Use `--fonts assets` with external assets to resolve detected SceneGraph text fonts through OpenPencil's configured web-font providers and emit local `@font-face` files.
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HTML export is available in file mode.
feat: export components as Storybook stories (#751)
* feat(cli): export components as Storybook stories
Add `openpencil export -f storybook`, which writes one CSF3 `.stories.ts`
file per component set or component. Each variant becomes a story and the
variant properties become select controls, so the story renders the matching
variant; an unknown combination throws instead of showing another variant.
Stories embed the existing inline-style HTML projection, so consumers need no
OpenPencil runtime. `--framework react|vue|html` only changes the render
wrapper and the Meta/StoryObj import. When the document sits under the current
directory, stories carry an `openpencil://` design link for
@storybook/addon-designs.
Refs #727
* fix(pen): size auto-width text from its content on import
Text without a width in an auto-layout parent was imported 10000px wide, a placeholder the app's text measurer replaces. Headless layout keeps stored sizes, so CLI HTML and Storybook exports stretched hugging frames to over 10000px. Import the width as 0 so the importer's existing text-length estimate applies, and headless layout estimates the rest.
* feat(app): follow layer links to other pages
openpencil:// and web ?node= links only searched the current page, so a Storybook story linking to a component on another page reported it missing. When the current page has no match, load the other pages without showing them and switch to the first that carries the name.
* feat(cli): add design images and watch mode to Storybook export
Each story now links to its own variant when the layer name is unique, and carries a 2x PNG of the variant for @storybook/addon-designs, imported so Vite bundles it. --watch re-exports on every save. Re-exports replace the stories a previous export of the same document generated, including those of deleted components, and refuse to overwrite hand-written stories or another document's.
Refs #727
* fix(cli): reference Storybook design images without ambient PNG types
Import design images with new URL(..., import.meta.url) instead of an import declaration, so consumers need no vite/client types to typecheck the stories. Document that exports should run from the same directory.
* fix(app): search other pages for a link without cancelling page switches
The cross-page layer search prepared each page with preparePage, which advances the page-switch generation, so a page switch the user had in progress could be dropped, and every searched page paid for fonts and layout. Add loadPageNodes, which populates a page's layers through the same worker path without touching the switch generation, and report a failed search as an error instead of a missing layer.
* fix(pen): never import width-less text zero wide
Text without a width now imports at width 0 and relies on the importer's text-length estimate, which skipped single-glyph text. Estimate zero-width text of any length.
* fix(cli): harden Storybook export ownership, titles, and links
- A --page export replaces only its own stories, and names files as a full export does, so it cannot delete or overwrite other pages' stories.
- Same-named components on a page get distinct titles, so Storybook story ids do not collide.
- Read the generated header through CRLF line endings, and refuse a source containing a line break, which would end the header comment and start code.
- Link a story only to a layer name no other layer carries.
- Document the --page default for Storybook export.
Refs #727
* fix(app): let a page switch overtake a link's layer search
A link search that loads other pages could resume after the user started switching pages and move them to the matching page. Expose pageSwitchCount, which advances whenever a page switch starts, and abandon the search when it changes. An overtaken search reports neither a match nor a missing layer.
* fix(pen): estimate only omitted text widths
Estimate a width-less text node's width when it is imported, instead of estimating every zero-width text node afterwards, so an explicit width of 0 is kept.
* fix(cli): track Storybook story ownership by document path and page
- Identify the document by its path relative to the output directory rather than a basename or cwd-relative path, so same-named documents do not share stories and the export no longer depends on the working directory.
- Record the page in each story's header; a --page export replaces all of that page's stories and asks for a full export when renumbered file names land on another page's.
- Check every target, including design images, before removing anything, and refuse to overwrite files this export does not own.
- Quote the header fields as JSON with U+2028/U+2029 escaped, so any path stays inside the comment, instead of refusing line breaks.
- Deduplicate titles by Storybook id, which ignores case and punctuation.
Refs #727
* fix(app): focus a searched page only after its switch committed
A page switch the user starts while the link search's own switch is pending can keep that switch from committing. Check that the search's switch was the only one and landed on its page before focusing; otherwise report the search as superseded.
* fix(pen): keep empty text without a width at zero
* fix(cli): remove only the design images a Storybook export generated
Replacing a story removed its whole .design folder, including files someone else put there. Read the images each owned story references, remove just those, and remove a .design folder only once it is empty.
Refs #727
* test(app): cover a page switch still pending during a link search
The previous test committed the overtaking switch, so the page check alone caught it. Advance the switch count without committing, so the test fails without the count check.
* fix(cli): stage Storybook exports and refuse linked design folders
- Write every file to a staging folder inside the output before removing the previous export, then move them into place, so a failed write no longer leaves the export half replaced.
- Refuse a .design path that is not a real folder, such as a symbolic link, before removing or writing images through it, so an export cannot reach outside the output directory.
Refs #727
* refactor(dom-css): print Storybook stories from a parsed template
Story modules were assembled from string fragments, so quoting and
layout were an implicit contract: the CLI found design images with a
regex that only matched double-quoted `new URL("…")` paths.
A story module is now one TypeScript template, parsed once with acorn
and its TypeScript plugin. Data is filled into `$placeholder` nodes and
the module is printed with esrap, which owns quoting and escaping. The
CLI reads referenced design images back through `storyImagePaths()`
instead of matching text. Tests import generated modules and assert
values rather than formatting.
* refactor(storybook): track generated files in a manifest
The export recovered which files it owned by parsing its own output: a
header regex over JSON-quoted strings, line-separator escaping, CRLF
handling, an AST walk for design images, and a path regex in the CLI.
A `.openpencil-stories.json` manifest now records the document and page
behind each generated file. The CLI validates it with Valibot, including
that every listed path stays inside the output folder, and the story
header is a plain note. Story ids use a copy of Storybook's `sanitize`,
tested against the installed Storybook; the previous rule treated `A§B`
and `A-B` as the same story. Export names use es-toolkit's `pascalCase`.
The CLI export command moves into `commands/export/`, dom-css splits
grouping and naming out of the Storybook exporter, and the CLI takes the
framework list from dom-css.
* fix(pen): keep explicit narrow text widths
A post-import pass widened every multi-character text narrower than two
font sizes, including widths the `.pen` file set on purpose, such as
`width: 0`. Omitted widths are now estimated when the text node is
created, so the pass only overrode explicit widths and is removed.
---------
Co-authored-by: Danila Poyarkov <dev@dannote.net>
2026-09-29 23:16:47 +00:00
## Storybook Export
Generate one CSF3 `.stories.ts` file per component set or component:
```sh
openpencil export design.fig -f storybook # React stories in ./design-stories/
openpencil export design.fig -f storybook --framework vue -o src/stories
openpencil export design.fig -f storybook --framework html --page "Components"
openpencil export design.pen -f storybook -o src/stories --watch # re-export on every save
```
Each variant of a component set becomes a story, and its variant properties become `select` controls, so switching a control shows the matching variant. Standalone components named with slashes, such as `Button/Primary` and `Button/Secondary` , are grouped into one `Button` file with a `Variant` control. A combination the design has no variant for throws a named error in Storybook rather than showing a different variant.
Stories render the component as HTML with inline styles, like `-f html` , so they need no OpenPencil runtime; `--framework` (`react`, `vue` , or `html` ) only changes the wrapper and the `Meta` /`StoryObj` import from `@storybook/react-vite` , `@storybook/vue3-vite` , or `@storybook/html-vite` . Text uses the document's font families, which Storybook has to load itself. Text, boolean, and instance-swap properties are not exported yet.
Stories carry `parameters.design` entries for [`@storybook/addon-designs` ](https://github.com/storybookjs/addon-designs ):
- **OpenPencil** — when the document path is inside the current directory, an [`openpencil://` link ](../index#url-scheme ) that opens the document in the desktop app and selects the variant, or its component set when another layer shares the variant's name. The scheme addresses layers by name, so a story whose variant and component names are both shared by other layers gets no link.
- **Design** — a 2× `<Name>.design/` next to the story and referenced with `new URL(…, import.meta.url)` , so Vite bundles it. Copy the parameter onto the story of your own component to compare the implementation with the design. `--no-design-images` skips rendering; font substitution follows `--font-policy` as in raster export.
`-o` names the output directory. A `.openpencil-stories.json` manifest there records which document, as a path relative to the output directory, and which page generated each story and design image; commit it with the stories. An export replaces the files that a previous export of the same document generated there, including those of components since deleted or renamed; with `--page` , only that page's. It refuses, before changing anything, to overwrite any other file — a hand-written story, another document's, or a stray image. A one-page export whose file names shifted onto another page's stories asks for a full export instead. Without the manifest, existing stories count as someone else's, so remove them before exporting again. `--watch` keeps the command running and re-exports whenever the document is saved, so Storybook's hot reload follows the design; a save that cannot be read is reported and the watch continues. A missing `--page` or a `--font-policy strict` substitution still ends the command.
Add Programmable docs section with CLI, JSX, MCP, AI, Collab
New top-level nav section documenting OpenPencil's programmability:
- CLI: inspecting, exporting, analyzing, scripting (eval)
- JSX Renderer: elements, style props, visual diffing
- MCP Server: moved from Reference (setup + tool list)
- AI Chat: setup, 87 tools, example prompts
- Collaboration: room sharing, cursors, follow mode
Restructured sidebar:
- Programmable added to nav bar (7 locales)
- Context Menu moved from User Guide to Reference
- MCP and eval-command removed from Reference
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## Live App Mode
Omit the file to export from the running app:
```sh
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openpencil export -f png # export from the current document
Add Programmable docs section with CLI, JSX, MCP, AI, Collab
New top-level nav section documenting OpenPencil's programmability:
- CLI: inspecting, exporting, analyzing, scripting (eval)
- JSX Renderer: elements, style props, visual diffing
- MCP Server: moved from Reference (setup + tool list)
- AI Chat: setup, 87 tools, example prompts
- Collaboration: room sharing, cursors, follow mode
Restructured sidebar:
- Programmable added to nav bar (7 locales)
- Context Menu moved from User Guide to Reference
- MCP and eval-command removed from Reference
2026-03-08 10:22:36 +00:00
```
2026-09-15 19:52:41 +00:00
feat: export components as Storybook stories (#751)
* feat(cli): export components as Storybook stories
Add `openpencil export -f storybook`, which writes one CSF3 `.stories.ts`
file per component set or component. Each variant becomes a story and the
variant properties become select controls, so the story renders the matching
variant; an unknown combination throws instead of showing another variant.
Stories embed the existing inline-style HTML projection, so consumers need no
OpenPencil runtime. `--framework react|vue|html` only changes the render
wrapper and the Meta/StoryObj import. When the document sits under the current
directory, stories carry an `openpencil://` design link for
@storybook/addon-designs.
Refs #727
* fix(pen): size auto-width text from its content on import
Text without a width in an auto-layout parent was imported 10000px wide, a placeholder the app's text measurer replaces. Headless layout keeps stored sizes, so CLI HTML and Storybook exports stretched hugging frames to over 10000px. Import the width as 0 so the importer's existing text-length estimate applies, and headless layout estimates the rest.
* feat(app): follow layer links to other pages
openpencil:// and web ?node= links only searched the current page, so a Storybook story linking to a component on another page reported it missing. When the current page has no match, load the other pages without showing them and switch to the first that carries the name.
* feat(cli): add design images and watch mode to Storybook export
Each story now links to its own variant when the layer name is unique, and carries a 2x PNG of the variant for @storybook/addon-designs, imported so Vite bundles it. --watch re-exports on every save. Re-exports replace the stories a previous export of the same document generated, including those of deleted components, and refuse to overwrite hand-written stories or another document's.
Refs #727
* fix(cli): reference Storybook design images without ambient PNG types
Import design images with new URL(..., import.meta.url) instead of an import declaration, so consumers need no vite/client types to typecheck the stories. Document that exports should run from the same directory.
* fix(app): search other pages for a link without cancelling page switches
The cross-page layer search prepared each page with preparePage, which advances the page-switch generation, so a page switch the user had in progress could be dropped, and every searched page paid for fonts and layout. Add loadPageNodes, which populates a page's layers through the same worker path without touching the switch generation, and report a failed search as an error instead of a missing layer.
* fix(pen): never import width-less text zero wide
Text without a width now imports at width 0 and relies on the importer's text-length estimate, which skipped single-glyph text. Estimate zero-width text of any length.
* fix(cli): harden Storybook export ownership, titles, and links
- A --page export replaces only its own stories, and names files as a full export does, so it cannot delete or overwrite other pages' stories.
- Same-named components on a page get distinct titles, so Storybook story ids do not collide.
- Read the generated header through CRLF line endings, and refuse a source containing a line break, which would end the header comment and start code.
- Link a story only to a layer name no other layer carries.
- Document the --page default for Storybook export.
Refs #727
* fix(app): let a page switch overtake a link's layer search
A link search that loads other pages could resume after the user started switching pages and move them to the matching page. Expose pageSwitchCount, which advances whenever a page switch starts, and abandon the search when it changes. An overtaken search reports neither a match nor a missing layer.
* fix(pen): estimate only omitted text widths
Estimate a width-less text node's width when it is imported, instead of estimating every zero-width text node afterwards, so an explicit width of 0 is kept.
* fix(cli): track Storybook story ownership by document path and page
- Identify the document by its path relative to the output directory rather than a basename or cwd-relative path, so same-named documents do not share stories and the export no longer depends on the working directory.
- Record the page in each story's header; a --page export replaces all of that page's stories and asks for a full export when renumbered file names land on another page's.
- Check every target, including design images, before removing anything, and refuse to overwrite files this export does not own.
- Quote the header fields as JSON with U+2028/U+2029 escaped, so any path stays inside the comment, instead of refusing line breaks.
- Deduplicate titles by Storybook id, which ignores case and punctuation.
Refs #727
* fix(app): focus a searched page only after its switch committed
A page switch the user starts while the link search's own switch is pending can keep that switch from committing. Check that the search's switch was the only one and landed on its page before focusing; otherwise report the search as superseded.
* fix(pen): keep empty text without a width at zero
* fix(cli): remove only the design images a Storybook export generated
Replacing a story removed its whole .design folder, including files someone else put there. Read the images each owned story references, remove just those, and remove a .design folder only once it is empty.
Refs #727
* test(app): cover a page switch still pending during a link search
The previous test committed the overtaking switch, so the page check alone caught it. Advance the switch count without committing, so the test fails without the count check.
* fix(cli): stage Storybook exports and refuse linked design folders
- Write every file to a staging folder inside the output before removing the previous export, then move them into place, so a failed write no longer leaves the export half replaced.
- Refuse a .design path that is not a real folder, such as a symbolic link, before removing or writing images through it, so an export cannot reach outside the output directory.
Refs #727
* refactor(dom-css): print Storybook stories from a parsed template
Story modules were assembled from string fragments, so quoting and
layout were an implicit contract: the CLI found design images with a
regex that only matched double-quoted `new URL("…")` paths.
A story module is now one TypeScript template, parsed once with acorn
and its TypeScript plugin. Data is filled into `$placeholder` nodes and
the module is printed with esrap, which owns quoting and escaping. The
CLI reads referenced design images back through `storyImagePaths()`
instead of matching text. Tests import generated modules and assert
values rather than formatting.
* refactor(storybook): track generated files in a manifest
The export recovered which files it owned by parsing its own output: a
header regex over JSON-quoted strings, line-separator escaping, CRLF
handling, an AST walk for design images, and a path regex in the CLI.
A `.openpencil-stories.json` manifest now records the document and page
behind each generated file. The CLI validates it with Valibot, including
that every listed path stays inside the output folder, and the story
header is a plain note. Story ids use a copy of Storybook's `sanitize`,
tested against the installed Storybook; the previous rule treated `A§B`
and `A-B` as the same story. Export names use es-toolkit's `pascalCase`.
The CLI export command moves into `commands/export/`, dom-css splits
grouping and naming out of the Storybook exporter, and the CLI takes the
framework list from dom-css.
* fix(pen): keep explicit narrow text widths
A post-import pass widened every multi-character text narrower than two
font sizes, including widths the `.pen` file set on purpose, such as
`width: 0`. Omitted widths are now estimated when the text node is
created, so the pass only overrode explicit widths and is removed.
---------
Co-authored-by: Danila Poyarkov <dev@dannote.net>
2026-09-29 23:16:47 +00:00
Live app mode supports PNG, JPG, WEBP, SVG, and PDF. PowerPoint, JSX, HTML, Storybook, and `.fig` exports require a file argument. File-mode thumbnail export is not currently supported.
