docs: drop references to competing commercial software (#1248)

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<h1 align="center">DesignCraft</h1>
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<b>Page layout and publishing; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe InDesign, rebuilt in pure Rust.</b>
<b>Page layout and publishing; an open-source, modern desktop publishing and page layout studio, built in pure Rust.</b>
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A fast, open-source, clean-room take on the Adobe InDesign workflow. It runs natively on macOS,
A fast, open-source desktop publishing and page layout workflow. It runs natively on macOS,
Windows and Linux, and in the browser via WebAssembly.<br>
<i>By the ArtCraft team.</i>
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## Why DesignCraft
- **Familiar.** InDesign's layout, tools, menus, panels and shortcuts: spreads and parent pages,
frames and threaded stories, the Control panel, paragraph and character styles, swatches, text
wrap and more. If you know InDesign, you already know how to use it.
- **Familiar.** A familiar layout, tools, menus, panels and shortcuts: spreads and parent pages,
master pages, text frames, threaded text, paragraph and character styles, tables, text wrap and
more. Everything is right where you expect it.
- **Beautiful type.** A Knuth–Plass paragraph composer (plus single-line), dictionary hyphenation
(the public-domain Moby word list plus our own trained patterns), word, letter and glyph-scaling
justification, keeps, optical margin alignment, columns, baseline grid, tabs, rules and shading.
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- **Fast.** Multithreaded SIMD rendering (vello_cpu), copy-on-write documents with O(1) undo
snapshots, and cached composition.
- **Open.** A documented native format, IDML import and export, INDD import (through
[indd-utils](https://github.com/storytold/indd-utils)), editable PowerPoint export, and PNG, PDF
[indd-utils](https://github.com/storytold/indd-utils)), editable .pptx export, and PNG, PDF
(PDF/X-4, PDF/A-2b) and EPUB export.
No subscription, no licence server, no telemetry.
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| L3 | `render` (vello_cpu) |
| L4 | `tools` (pointer events → commands + overlays) |
| L5 | `engine` (session, history, command registry) |
| L6 | `ui-egui` (InDesign-style UI, control channel) |
| L6 | `ui-egui` (publishing UI, control channel) |
| L7 | `apps/designcraft`, `apps/designcraft-cli`, `apps/designcraft-web` |
- **Status and milestones:** [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md) (stage: pre-alpha); how close to InDesign: [`docs/target-app-parity.md`](docs/target-app-parity.md); known gaps: [`docs/gaps.md`](docs/gaps.md)
- **Status and milestones:** [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md) (stage: pre-alpha); feature assessment: [`docs/target-app-parity.md`](docs/target-app-parity.md); known gaps: [`docs/gaps.md`](docs/gaps.md)
- **Contributor and agent rules** (clean-room, asset policy, quality gates): [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md)
- **Bundled assets:** every one is listed with its licence in [`ASSETS.md`](ASSETS.md)
- **App icon and colour:** a calico cat in a polka-dot scarf on DesignCraft green `#7bb51c`; see [`assets/app-icon/`](assets/app-icon/README.md)
@@ -373,8 +373,6 @@ ArtCraft Team and are not covered by this license. They may be used only unmodif
part of this repository and DesignCraft, under [`docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt`](docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt).
Forks and modified versions must remove them.
<sub>Adobe, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, Acrobat, After Effects and InDesign are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adobe Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. DesignCraft is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Adobe Inc.; these names are used only to describe the workflows it is compatible with.</sub>
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