"Copy image" and "Download SVG" on the Flow strip's header and in the Map's
side panel. The image is the distribution loop: a flow pasted into a review, a
map pasted into a README, read by somebody with no viewer open.
The exporter serialises the LAYOUT OBJECT rather than scraping the DOM — no
html-to-image, no foreignObject, no new dependency. buildFlowLayout and
buildMapLayout already compute every rectangle, port and curve before a
component renders, so the image and the screen come from one piece of
arithmetic and cannot drift apart, and the whole exporter is a pure function a
test runs with no browser. Output is presentation-only SVG (rect, line, path,
polygon, text, tspan, clipPath) — no script, no external reference, no data:
URL — which is what GitHub's sanitiser accepts in a README.
Light theme is forced whatever the viewer is set to: a dark strip on GitHub's
white comment background reads as a mistake, not a preference. 24px of paper
around the drawing, a caption naming the path or the root at the bottom left,
a CodeGraph mark at the bottom right.
Fonts travel as family stacks, not bytes (spec). An SVG loaded as an image may
not fetch a webfont, so a raster falls back to the platform's own monospace —
every fallback in the stack advances at ~0.6em like IBM Plex Mono, so the code
grid survives and only the letterforms change. Text is truncated
arithmetically with an ellipsis and clipped as well, so a wider fallback
cannot spill a source line out of a card.
`scale` multiplies only the root width/height while the viewBox stays in CSS
pixels, so the raster draws an image whose intrinsic size is already 2x
instead of upscaling a 1x bitmap. The clipboard write uses the ClipboardItem
promise form (Safari discards the gesture across an await) and falls back to
downloading the PNG, saying which happened rather than claiming a copy it did
not make.
Measured on this repo: execute -> rowToFileRecord (8 hops) exports 3690x253
CSS px, 491 kB PNG at 2x / 38 kB SVG; the 16-module map reproduces the canvas
exactly — 16 boxes, 52 links, 9 layer rules, both band labels, and with
src/index.ts selected 15 links and 4 dimmed boxes.
Colby McHenry
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