# storytold/pdfcraft

> Cross-platform PDF workbench written in Rust: read, search, organize pages, combine, split and secure PDFs, plus a CLI. An open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat with no account or telemetry.

- Magnitude: 8.3 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 2,118 total · +1,012 stars measured 2026-10-07, 00:19–20:21 UTC, ≈ 1,174 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-09-30 · Last push: 2026-10-07
- GitHub: https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft · Homepage: https://getartcraft.com/apps/printcraft · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/pdfcraft

## Useful for

- Combine several PDFs into one with bookmarks via printcraft-cli combine
- Split a document every n pages or extract selected pages into a new file
- Open an encrypted PDF, enter the owner password and lift editing restrictions

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-07 (UTC), 00:19–20:21: 1106 → 2118 stars (+1012). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +1,174 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 18× that of the previous 5 days.
- The repository is 7 days old and already has 2,118 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this month: #49.
- About 280 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: 734
- Issues and pull requests: 180
- Watchers: 13
- Average over the last week: 372 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 64
- Latest release: v0.2.1 (2026-10-06)

## Stars per day, last 11 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-27 … 2026-10-07: 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 38, 108, 142, 197, 940, 1012

## Magnitude by day, last 5 days

10-03 5.1, 10-04 5.4, 10-05 6.6, 10-06 7.4, 10-07 8.6

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this month: #49

## More in this category

1. **storytold/photocraft** — 9.8 · Breakout · Apps · Rust · +9,126 stars measured 2026-10-07, 00:19–20:20 UTC, ≈ 10,572 by evening
   An open-source clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust: layers, masks, adjustment layers, styles, type, vectors, brushes and real PSD files in a native app.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/photocraft.md
2. **storytold/vectorcraft** — 8.2 · Breakout · Apps · Rust · +993 stars measured 2026-10-07, 00:19–20:21 UTC, ≈ 1,150 by evening
   Open-source vector illustration editor in pure Rust — a clean-room take on the Adobe Illustrator workflow for macOS, Windows, Linux and the browser. Supports control via an MCP server and JSON channel for agents.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/vectorcraft.md
3. **alejandrobujan/tendedero** — 7.3 · Early signal · Apps · Swift · +389 stars measured 2026-10-07, 09:32–20:21 UTC, ≈ 444 by evening
   A native macOS app that intercepts new screenshots and hangs them on a hidden line at the top of the screen instead of the Desktop. Runs offline, with no account or analytics.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/alejandrobujan/tendedero.md
4. **storytold/designcraft** — 7.3 · Early signal · Apps · Rust · +364 stars measured 2026-10-07, 00:19–20:21 UTC, ≈ 423 by evening
   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.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/designcraft.md
5. **robbietilton/Compositor** — 6.2 · Breakout · Apps · Swift · +1,757 stars measured 2026-10-07, 00:20–20:21 UTC, ≈ 2,035 by evening
   A free, open-source raster image editor for macOS written in Swift — a Photoshop alternative focused on compositing and post-processing.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/robbietilton/Compositor.md

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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 2026-10-07 20:36 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.