# storytold/printcraft

> 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: 4.8 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 90 total · +51 stars today, ≈ 66 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-09-30 · Last push: 2026-10-03
- GitHub: https://github.com/storytold/printcraft · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/printcraft

## 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

- 51 stars so far today, about 66 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 3 days old and already has 90 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #152.
- About 15 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (392 followers).

## 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: 15
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 26 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 10
- 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, 38, 51

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #152

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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 18:00 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.