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Halftones 0.4.0

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@schwanksta schwanksta released this 08 Jun 18:07
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Halftones 0.4.0

New

  • Image pre-processing in the Transform panel — Blur (Gaussian), Sharpen (unsharp mask with radius), and Noise (film grain). Run after levels and before the halftone screen to clean up or crisp the source.
  • Reorganized control panels — Halftone split into Screen / Tone & Dots / Color groups (radial Origin now sits with the screen controls); Output sizing grouped together with a dedicated "PDF Export" subsection.

Export

  • Channel PNGs now include full page geometry — margin, crop marks, alignment marks, and a plate label, matching the PDF output. Background-bleed plates extend into the margin.
  • Layer-number plate labels — spot plates are labeled One, Two, Three… (key plate "Key") instead of color names. Fixes filename collisions when two colors share a name (e.g. two "dark purple" layers no longer overwrite each other).
  • Labels are sized to fill the crop-mark waste strip, staggered across the width so they don't overlap when plates are stacked, and nudged clear of the top-center alignment mark.
  • Dropped redundant threshold / flat-vs-halftone text from spot PDF labels.

Fixes

  • Blur and Sharpen now actually take effect (the old canvas-filter path was a no-op in the Tauri webview; replaced with a CPU separable box blur).
  • Color Proof now exports background bleed correctly into the margin.
  • Output readout shows the full printed sheet size in inches (image + margin + crop-mark waste) instead of raw pixels.