DesignCraft
A free page layout and publishing app with spreads, text frames, styles and document export.
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About DesignCraft
DesignCraft is a native Rust publishing app from the ArtCraft team. It offers spreads, parent pages, text frames, paragraph and character styles, IDML interchange, and PDF or EPUB export.
The current roadmap marks it pre-alpha. It still fails a core manual text-threading workflow, and native InDesign INDD import remains future work. It is suitable for exploration rather than a proven replacement for an established publishing workflow.
Strengths
- Page layouts with spreads, frames and text styles
- IDML interchange and PDF/EPUB export
- CLI and MCP control
Limitations
- Pre-alpha with a core text-threading workflow still incomplete
- Native INDD import remains future work
- Publishing and interchange behavior needs further validation
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under MIT OR Apache-2.0.
- License
- MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Developer
- storytold contributors
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line. Windows, macOS and Linux desktop builds; browser build can be hosted on a static server. CLI and MCP controls are also documented.
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Self-hosted
- Best suited for
- A free page layout and publishing app with spreads, text frames, styles and document export.
- Categories
- Image editors
- Last verified
- Added