App reimplementation
DesignCraft
Category: Desktop & productivity apps · Type: Reconstruction
Target: Adobe InDesign workflows · Rust
A Rust publishing app recreating InDesign-style page layout, text frames, typography and document export.
A Rust publishing app recreating InDesign-style page layout, text frames, typography and document export. The upstream README explicitly targets Adobe InDesign workflows and describes a separate Rust implementation. Source review does not establish clean-room legality or full behavioral parity; no REA involvement is claimed by this listing. The upstream roadmap reports incomplete manual text threading, INDD opening and real-file IDML validation. Typography and platform fidelity remain unfinished; a populated interface is not full parity. We have not installed, run or audited it.
Relationship
Independent reimplementation
Evidence scope
The upstream README explicitly targets Adobe InDesign workflows and describes a separate Rust implementation. Source review does not establish clean-room legality or full behavioral parity; no REA involvement is claimed by this listing.
Know before you try
The upstream roadmap reports incomplete manual text threading, INDD opening and real-file IDML validation. Typography and platform fidelity remain unfinished; a populated interface is not full parity. We have not installed, run or audited it.
Status
Pre-alpha; partial alternative
License
MIT OR Apache-2.0 (code)
The author offers MIT or Apache-2.0 at your option. Bundled assets have separate notices; ArtCraft names and logos are excluded from these code licenses and require rebranding in modified redistributions.
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