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Fabio LussiandClaude Opus 5.5 3787187199 docs: re-verify against 0.7.1

- Open a file: missing IDML parts now open with an Import Warnings
  alert in the release; drop the "not in a release yet" note.
- Place: an image placed into a frame leaves Auto-Fit off (0.7.0).
- Install, supported systems: add the 32-bit Windows x86 builds and
  the RISC-V .deb and .rpm; example version 0.7.1.
- Set verified: 0.7.1 on every checked page.
- docs/user/CLAUDE.md: a regular file pointing to AGENTS.md instead of
  a symlink.

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Place images, PDFs and text	Bring images, PDF pages, Word and plain text files into a DesignCraft document with File, Place.	30	0.7.1

Choose File, then Place… (Ctrl+D), pick a file, and DesignCraft puts it into your document.

Shortcuts on this page use Ctrl. On macOS, use Cmd instead of Ctrl.

Steps

Open the File menu and choose Place….
Pick a file. The dialog's Graphics and text filter covers the file types below.
For an image, DesignCraft places it in the selected empty frame if there is one. The image fills the frame once and keeps its proportions. Auto-Fit stays off, so resizing the frame later crops the image instead of scaling it.
For a text file, it goes into the insertion point, the selected frame, or a new frame.

File types

Kind	Extensions
Images	png, jpg, jpeg, gif, webp, tif, tiff, bmp, psd, svg
Vector	pdf, ai, eps
Text	txt, docx, rtf, md
Table	xlsx (placed as a table)
Layout	idml, designcraft (one page's objects, placed as a group)
Media	mp4, m4v, mov, webm, mp3, m4a, wav, ogg (placed in a media frame)

The same dialog has separate filters for Graphics, Text (Word, RTF, plain, Excel) and Video and sound.

Place a page of a PDF

Choose File, then Place… and pick a PDF with more than one page.
In the Place PDF dialog, type the page number in Page. The label shows the page count.
Pick a box in Crop to:. The choices are Crop, Trim, Bleed, Art and Media.
Click OK.

A PDF with one page is placed without this dialog.

Place Word or RTF text with your styles

File, then Place with Import Options… (Ctrl+Shift+D) opens an Import Options dialog for .docx and .rtf files, where you can map the file's styles to your document's styles before the text lands. For other file types it places the file straight away.

If a file cannot be placed

DesignCraft shows an alert when a file cannot be opened or placed. Ask in Discord or see Report a problem.

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