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DesignCraft

Learning Machines LLC

Open-source page layout app in the InDesign mould

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Graphics & DesignMIT OR Apache-2.0v0.8.0202downloads+81 in 30 days
Laying out a magazine spread
Laying out a magazine spread

About

This is a community package of DesignCraft, maintained independently and unaffiliated with the DesignCraft project. It repackages the official upstream Linux release build unmodified.

DesignCraft is an open-source, native page layout app written in Rust that follows the Adobe InDesign workflow: the same layout, tools, menus, panels and shortcuts.

  • Spreads and parent pages, frames and threaded text
  • A Knuth-Plass paragraph composer with dictionary hyphenation
  • IDML import and export, and PNG export
  • Fast multithreaded rendering and instant undo
  • Every menu item, tool and panel can be driven by AI agents

The headless command runner and MCP server is included: flatpak run --command=designcraft-cli ai.storyteller.designcraft --help

Permissions: this package uses the same sandbox as upstream's own Flatpak manifest: display (Wayland, with X11 as a fallback), the GPU device, and the Pictures folder. Files anywhere else are opened and saved through the system file chooser. No network access is granted.

Optional overrides:

  • Let agents on the host reach the --control automation server: flatpak override --user --share=network ai.storyteller.designcraft
  • Open files by path anywhere in your home folder (command line, Open Recent): flatpak override --user --filesystem=home ai.storyteller.designcraft

Details

Developer
Learning Machines LLC
License
MIT OR Apache-2.0
Runtime
Freedesktop 26.08
Architectures
x86_64, aarch64
Version
0.8.0 · 2026-10-14
Website
Homepage

Permissions

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  • Files: xdg-pictures

  • X11 (fallback)

  • Inter-process communication

    Shares the IPC namespace with the host

  • Wayland display

  • GPU acceleration

Packaging

Unmodified

Runs the vendor's build as shipped — nothing added or changed.

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