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DesignCraft

Page layout & publishing

Page layout and publishing, rebuilt in pure Rust.

DesignCraft interface preview

About DesignCraft

Spreads and parent pages, threaded stories, styles, swatches and text wrap in a native layout app with a professional paragraph composer. No subscription, no licence server, no telemetry.

Key Features

The layout tools you know01

Spreads and parent pages, frames and threaded stories, paragraph and character styles, swatches and text wrap, laid out the way you expect.

Beautiful type02

A Knuth–Plass paragraph composer, dictionary hyphenation, optical margin alignment and baseline grids. Line breaks match on screen and in PDF.

Print-ready PDF03

Real selectable text with embedded fonts, CMYK and spot colors, bleed, crop marks and archival PDF/A output.

Fast04

Multithreaded SIMD rendering, copy-on-write documents with instant undo, and cached composition.

Agent-native05

Every menu item, tool, panel and dialog can be driven over a JSON control channel and an MCP server.

Your Files Stay on Your Device

Zero File Uploads

All editorial copy and graphic layouts remain strictly confidential on your computer. All processing is computed in your browser using local device memory.

Saving & Exporting

Export as PDF/X-1a/PDF/X-4 or package project assets with File → Package. Work buffers stay in browser localStorage and are exported directly to your computer.

Specifications

Supported Import Formats
IDML (InDesign Interchange)MarkdownDOCXSVGPDF
Supported Export Formats
Print-ready PDF/XEPUBDesignCraft Document (.dcraft)
Versionv0.8.0 ↗