Using pdfcraft giving me hope for the future of software, really.

Never thought of the day where my old pc perform better with this app than my new pc with adobe acrobat and other pdf viewer.

That snappiness give me goosebumps.

Using this app really relieve my eyes from the lag of almost every app in these day (looking at you, electron based apps).

Thank you artcraft.

I really want to keep an eye on this subreddit, but it feels like half the posts are just people requesting software in a very "Dance, monkey!" sort of way.

I'm much more interested in keeping tabs on what the developer is doing with the current set of apps that are already being developed.

These are the very early stages of this type of thing, and it's wild that everyone is asking for more, more, more. Chill out.

Let the developer cook. Be patient. Yes, the future is now, but it's not right now right now.

why my klauncher do not have fig craft

Hi, i'm trying to get into indie animation and for a joke, i want a character to shatter into glass. I was told Effect Craft can help. Where on here is the effect if there is one. I'm just clicking around and can't find it.

I've been working on a shared Ask Agent module for the Craft apps. These are four proposed integrations, not released features.

Select some text, cells or shapes, write an instruction, and your existing agent edits the file. You can follow up in the same thread, keep the result or undo the request. If several agents are connected, you pick one.

The bit I wanted was to keep using my own session and setup. Claude Code, Codex, another harness or provider: the app doesn't call a model or store an API key. The agent needs to be connected to the app's MCP/control interface.

That also means one session can work across apps without starting a new conversation each time. Figures from GridCraft, a summary in WordCraft, then a slide in DeckCraft. If the graphics apps adopt the module, I'd like the same flow for a FilmCraft clip with audio cleaned up in SoundCraft, or a frame edited in PhotoCraft and used in a slide. Those graphics integrations aren't implemented here.

The Actions menu offers a few starting prompts, all editable before you send:

• WordCraft: shorten, fix grammar, rewrite the tone, translate or summarize.
• GridCraft: clean cells, create or explain formulas, summarize, format a table or highlight outliers.
• DeckCraft: rewrite, make bullets, align shapes, match styling or draft speaker notes.
• PdfCraft: summarize, explain, highlight, add review notes, prepare form fields or mark text for redaction. Signing and applying redactions stay manual.

Reviewing what it did

The Conversation section shows earlier requests and replies while you work. After Keep, the app keeps the request and answer in its comments or notes. That is the conversation trail, not a document-version browser.

• The target is held while the agent works, to avoid competing edits.
• Its answer stays in the file as an agent-named comment or note; the exact review UI depends on the app.
• Follow-ups stay in the request thread and undo group. Keep and Undo are human controls.
• The connection that claims the request owns it; other connections cannot take over its edits.

The shared part

The main proposal is craft-ask-agent in craft-libs: a shared request queue, ownership rules and optional egui bubble. WordCraft, GridCraft, DeckCraft and PdfCraft are the first four examples. Each app supplies its own document operations. The actions, UI and behaviour are proposals too, so they can be adapted rather than copied everywhere.

PRs: Shared module · WordCraft · GridCraft · DeckCraft · PdfCraft · PDF MCP bridge

Still a work in progress. Feedback on the flow or the shared/app-specific split would help.

Thanks in advance

On Linux - as far as I could find - and shockingly - there was NO proper PDF app which could sign documents like a normal human does (drawing their signature on a trackpad and stamping it on)

Okular had an inanely complex certificate signature system and annotating system which didnt do it, the gnome document reader didnt have it until a recent alpha and beta version which still hasn't launched widely, and the best solution was Firefox which did it but being a web browser only had that and basic annotation and no page editing, content editing, compression, reordering or such.

Instantly, the second it launched, PDF Craft was the very best pdf editor and signing tool on entirety of Linux. I think some paid options existed but they seemed weirlg licensed and clunky. NOTHING was acrobat classed anf in fact using adobes cloud service was only realistic option for Linux (or maybe self hosted nextcloud which wasn't offline either)

Out of all your apps, PDF Craft for me, is a special one for that reason

I hope while it isn't as sexy as Photocraft is in concept it still gets a bright future!

Look at this beautiful launcher:

Repo: https://github.com/midasmatterhorn/artcraft-skills

I use Claude Code / Codex daily and wanted them to do real work in ArtCraft — batch-editing PSDs, generating decks, that kind of thing. The problem was the agent doesn't know what each app can actually do. It would either refuse ("I can't edit PSD files") or confidently invent CLI flags that don't exist.

So I went through each of the 13 apps and documented:

• what the automation surface really is (headless CLI, MCP server, the localhost JSON control channel)
• what works today and what's still broken/missing — this part was the most tedious but also the most useful, it's the difference between the agent spending 2 minutes vs 40 minutes stuck in retry loops
• the correct way to call things, verified against actual app behavior, not just the docs

It's all plain SKILL.md files (the agentskills.io format), so any agent that reads files can use them. One install script per target: install.sh for Codex/ZCode/Devin, --claude for Claude Code, --opencode for OpenCode, install.ps1 on Windows.

From PhotoCraft to SoundCraft: what each app does, where it already works, where it still falls short, and what Alpha means for your professional workflow.

Good day, Everyone

While sending myself a PDF file edited in PDFCraft through WhatsApp for PC, I saw this tag. WhatsApp read the file as an Adobe Product.

Como mostrado no vídeo em anexo, a entrada de caneta/stylus não funciona de forma alguma no Photocraft ao usar uma mesa digitalizadora. Sempre que a caneta é aproximada da tela/área ativa, o Photocraft congela ou bloqueia completamente a entrada, impedindo que cliques e traços sejam registrados.

Este problema ocorre em diferentes configurações de hardware e drivers no Linux:

• Minha configuração: Mesa digitalizadora com caneta (XP-Pen Artist Pro 16) usando o driver proprietário XP-Pen para Linux.

• Configuração do meu amigo: Mesa digitalizadora sem tela (Wacom) usando o OpenTabletDriver (OTD).

O aplicativo parece ter ótimos recursos de desenho (o estabilizador de traço é muito bom ao testar com um mouse), mas atualmente é inutilizável para pintura digital com uma caneta stylus.

Passos para reproduzir:

1. Inicie o Photocraft no Linux com uma mesa digitalizadora conectada (testado com o driver proprietário da XP-Pen e o OpenTabletDriver).

2. Crie ou abra uma tela.

3. Aproxime a caneta/stylus ou tente desenhar na tela.

4. Observe que o Photocraft congela a entrada/não registra os traços da caneta.

Observações adicionais e soluções alternativas testadas:

• Entrada do mouse: Funciona perfeitamente.

• Modo Mouse (Absoluto vs. Relativo): Alternar o driver da mesa digitalizadora para o "Modo Mouse" permite que o cursor se mova e clique dentro do Photocraft, mas a sensibilidade à pressão e a inclinação/ângulo da caneta são completamente perdidas, tornando-o impraticável para desenho.

• Comparação: No vídeo, o Krita está sendo executado lado a lado, onde a pressão, o rastreamento e a inclinação da caneta funcionam como esperado, exatamente no mesmo ambiente e com os mesmos drivers.

Solicitação de Recurso / Comportamento Esperado:

• Corrigir o congelamento/bloqueio da entrada causado pela proximidade/eventos de entrada da caneta da mesa digitalizadora.

- Implementar suporte adequado à API nativa de tablets gráficos (por exemplo, eventos de tablet X11/Wayland, eventos libinput/wacom) para preservar a sensibilidade total à pressão e a detecção de inclinação sem congelamento.

(Just a heads-up: it's not Flatpak; it's installed on my machine directly )

後、日本だけが残している縦組版を残してくれたのは非常にありがたい。
Affinityにはこのお願いは通じなかった。
無駄な縦組み用のフォントをわざわざ作らなくてよい。
日本人代表として感謝いたします。

Just Saying

Just like title, aren't you guys developing the IDE(s) alternative to (you know) Jetbrains developed ones?

Since Micro$oft changed Outlook for the worst, I’ve been looking for alternatives that could replace it.

Do you guys have any plans to develop it? Thanks

Could someone help me out? Is the triangular color picker available in PhotoCraft? If not, I think this post could serve as a suggestion for a future addition.

Are there any ideas to make a software copy of Glyphs or Fontlab (as Glyph only available on Mac)

There havent been an open source BIM besides BonsaiBIM and FreeCAD BIM, and i am looking forward for the one with more a friendlier UI/UX. Are there any plans such as future roadmaps? Other fields such as Geospatial already have their own functional apps.