From 7141a68f1850255e079e3089c448c499cd45e896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dylan M. Taylor" Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:39:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: drop references to competing commercial software (#1248) --- README.md | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 613f5102b..880433e33 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@

DesignCraft

- Page layout and publishing; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe InDesign, rebuilt in pure Rust. + Page layout and publishing; an open-source, modern desktop publishing and page layout studio, built in pure Rust.

- 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.
By the ArtCraft team.

@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ by its own renderer. Try it yourself with `File → New → Sample Document`, or ## 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. @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ by its own renderer. Try it yourself with `File → New → Sample Document`, or - **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. @@ -247,10 +247,10 @@ egui frontend is a separate crate, so the UI can be swapped without touching the | 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. -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. -