storytold/designcraft

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About the project

An open-source clean-room reimplementation of Adobe InDesign in pure Rust for page layout and publishing. Runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and in the browser via WebAssembly, with IDML support and MCP-driven control.

Useful for

Lay out a magazine spread with threaded columns and text wrap
Export document pages to PNG via the headless CLI
Drive layout from Claude or another agent through the MCP server

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4.4 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 3, 2026, 20:46 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

47 stars so far today, about 54 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 2 days old and already has 77 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #180.
About 19 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (392 followers).

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Numbers

Total stars: 77
Today: 47 · ≈ 54 by evening
Forks: 19
Issues and pull requests: 2
Watchers: 1
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v0.1.1 · October 3, 2026
Created: October 1, 2026
Last push: October 3, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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October 3, 2026Top new repositories this week: #179

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