# storytold/designcraft

> 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.

- Magnitude: 4.2 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 77 total · +47 stars today, ≈ 52 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-01 · Last push: 2026-10-03
- GitHub: https://github.com/storytold/designcraft · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/designcraft

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 47 stars so far today, about 52 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 25 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 19
- Issues and pull requests: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 27 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4
- Latest release: v0.1.1 (2026-10-03)

## Stars per day, last 7 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-27 … 2026-10-03: 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 28, 47

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #180

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-03 21:28 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.