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designcraft/docs/user/index.md
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Fabio LussiandClaude Opus 5.5 2dca7e220e docs: add user docs for DesignCraft
Baseline user docs in docs/user/ (published at getartcraft.com/docs/designcraft),
the docs-check and docs-publish workflows, and a "User docs" rule in AGENTS.md.

Source notes per page:
- index.md: README (intro, features, license), website crafting-apps.ts entry.
- getting-started/index.md: crates/ui-egui/src/chrome.rs start_screen buttons.
- getting-started/install.md: README Downloads, gh release view v0.6.0 asset list,
  packaging/windows/designcraft.wxs (Start Menu shortcut), launcher catalog.rs.
- guides/create-a-document.md: dialogs.rs newDocument dialog, build.rs PRESETS,
  menus.rs UI_COMMANDS, chrome.rs start screen.
- guides/open-a-file.md: apps/designcraft main.rs open_filters, engine file.rs and
  interchange.rs docs, lib.rs import warnings test, issue #110.
- guides/place-images-and-text.md: main.rs place filters, engine file.rs file.place,
  dialogs.rs pdfImport, menus.rs placeWithOptions, release notes (#80).
- guides/export-a-pdf.md: dialogs.rs pdf_export and apply_pdf_preset, menus.rs.
- troubleshooting/app-closes-at-start.md: README graphics backend and logs,
  apps/designcraft/src/gpu.rs, issues #167, #192, #220, #273.
- troubleshooting/get-help.md: README Logs section.
- faq/is-it-free.md: README, docs/gaps.md. faq/supported-systems.md: README,
  release assets. faq/indesign-files.md: main.rs open filters, issues #450, #451, #110.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 04:05:27 +02:00

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DesignCraft DesignCraft is a free, open-source page layout app for print and screen, an alternative to Adobe InDesign. 0.6.0

DesignCraft is a page layout and publishing app. It is an open-source alternative to Adobe InDesign, built from scratch by the ArtCraft team. If you know InDesign's tools, menus and panels, you will find them here.

It has spreads and parent pages, text frames that thread from one to the next, paragraph and character styles, swatches and text wrap. It opens and saves InDesign Markup (IDML) files and exports PDF, PNG and EPUB. It is free, with no subscription, licence server or telemetry. The project is in pre-alpha, so expect gaps.

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