DesignCraft
Learning Machines LLC
Open-source page layout app in the InDesign mould
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About
This is a community package of DesignCraft, maintained independently and unaffiliated with the DesignCraft project. It repackages the official upstream Linux release build unmodified.
DesignCraft is an open-source, native page layout app written in Rust that follows the Adobe InDesign workflow: the same layout, tools, menus, panels and shortcuts.
- Spreads and parent pages, frames and threaded text
- A Knuth-Plass paragraph composer with dictionary hyphenation
- IDML import and export, and PNG export
- Fast multithreaded rendering and instant undo
- Every menu item, tool and panel can be driven by AI agents
The headless command runner and MCP server is included: flatpak run --command=designcraft-cli ai.storyteller.designcraft --help
Permissions: this package uses the same sandbox as upstream's own Flatpak manifest: display (Wayland, with X11 as a fallback), the GPU device, and the Pictures folder. Files anywhere else are opened and saved through the system file chooser. No network access is granted.
Optional overrides:
- Let agents on the host reach the
--controlautomation server:flatpak override --user --share=network ai.storyteller.designcraft - Open files by path anywhere in your home folder (command line, Open Recent):
flatpak override --user --filesystem=home ai.storyteller.designcraft
Details
- Developer
- Learning Machines LLC
- License
- MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Runtime
- Freedesktop 26.08
- Architectures
- x86_64, aarch64
- Version
- 0.8.0 · 2026-10-14
- Website
- Homepage
- Source
- DesignCraft
- Packaging
- flatpark/registry
Permissions
1 to reviewFiles: xdg-pictures
X11 (fallback)
Inter-process communication
Shares the IPC namespace with the host
Wayland display
GPU acceleration
Packaging
UnmodifiedRuns the vendor's build as shipped — nothing added or changed.
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