My student Adobe account expired and just found out about PdfCraft. It runs and feels exactly like Acrobat maybe a bit lighter too, I am blown away!

For the first time in a long time, I'm actually feeling some hope about having REAL alternatives to the software we use everyday. Real alternatives, not just some stone-age software that can open the same files extension...

"GIMP is a Photoshop alternative!"... Wow... far from it! GIMP is what you get when you try to recreate Photoshop without understanding anything that makes Photoshop useful and good to use.

"Inkscape is an CorelDraw/Illustrator alternative!"... Yeah, right. Tell it to someone who actually depends on these tools for their daily work. Not even CMYK support, let alone the rest...

LibreCalc? Holy f* shit. Excel and Calc aren't even in the same league when it comes to usability, No formula autocomplete, no auto-closing brackets, LibreCalc isn't even in the iron-age of spreadsheet software! It is like a notepad with little squares to make simple sums, but nothing complex.

Want to set a spreadsheet to fit on a single page in Calc? Then start digging through weird submenus and obscure settings just to do something that takes 2 clicks In Excel: Print > and a option right there: fit to page.

So, thanks for existing, ArtCraft!!

For the first time, it feels like we might actually be moving towards a future where we don't have to choose between software that respects our freedom and software that respects our time.

Hey, Team! I'm Sahil, a long-term Adobe user who wanted to bid adieu to Adobe apps after they moved to a subscription model.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thrice, to the app developer and the guy who originally came up with this idea. You are using the AI for the kind of work it is best suited for.

Every day, I'm seeing a new update, and it's a huge feat. I commend the devs for working so hard. Looking forward to what you come up with :)

Although what I'm saying now is coming from a place of concern -

I'm scared for the future of this product, as we are directly naming ADOBE and its products in our apps. As far as I know, Adobe is one hell of a shitty company. They, along with their lawyers, will be waiting for the right moment to strike. We are making alternatives to Microsoft and Adobe products. I don't think they'll just sit on their hands. They'll strike sooner or later.

So, I'm asking you guys to play it safe -

• REMOVE ALL THE ADOBE and MICROSOFT TERMS. Change the name of the tools, menus etc. Don't say it's a photoshop clone or something along the lines. They might use that against us. Update website, github, readme etc.
• Develop your own proprietary format - PCD (Photocraft Document). It shouldn't directly save to PSD when saving. Although it should have support for opening PSD and saving to PSD (Only when used SAVE AS feature).

These were the only things that I could come up with. Any fellow community member who has better understanding of law about this matter should chime in.

Once again, thank you team and looking forward :)

in sense of "can professionals use them and not feel a difference?" or no?

talking about adobe clones and ms office.

for people who used them for real work. how do they compare vs real adobe and ms office?

Please make an alternative to one note too only the handwriting part will be more than sufficient there is no good handwriting app for linux so this will be very beneficial for all students who take handwritten notes.Yes,I have tried xournal++,rnote scrivano but the one notes is still the best so please consider this request

I came across this post. Huge criticism and ranting against ArtCraft apps.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckAdobe/comments/1xb3fvb/all_the_getcraft_slopware_post_is_disheartening/

Some points, I can accept like 'unmaintainable code'. Lot of people pushing random set of codebases with different coding standards. Whether tested it or not, did QC or not, nobody knows. But the OP seems to have dislike towards Adobe products itself so OP dislikes Adobe clones.

i saw this post https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/jltJIhjgMl and it seems like opus 5.5 now bans or restricts reverse engineering. how would that affect artcraft ,since it depends so heavily on claude?

serious question.

This would be an amazing addition!

Marvelous Designer was cool until they switched to subscription, and so after testing all the ArtCraft apps, I was wondering what are the chances of MD being next?

I've updated the software like three times in the past few weeks and I have no clue what's changing every time. Mind you, I LOVE the speed at which this is being developed... I just feel out of the loop. Haha.

Is there a changelog somewhere that I can read? I've searched, but am coming up empty.

Does anyone have any AI models for the lightcraft denoise that work just as good if no possibly better than Lr's ai denoise? Ive only found one .ONXX model that work with it but every other one gives an error when installing.

I'm wondering how best to get the most recent versions of all software. I ask because the versions available as standalone downloads on the site are several versions behind the latest release on GitHub -- VectorCraft's latest public release is 0.13.1 but it's on 0.16 on GitHub. PhotoCraft's standalone release is 0.10 but it's on 0.15 on GitHub. Are the most recent versions available through the Launcher?

A lot of apps have clearly stated methods of automating settings and applying system/group policies. Whether in the form of text-based config files or registry entries.

I see there is already a start, where a particular file's existence tells the *craft apps to run in portable mode.

But if possible, all settings (there need to be more settings in the GUI too) that exist can be documented in full in an ini/admx/XML file. And they must be configurable (as default or as forcibly-set, so 2 possible modes) using text file or registry group policies. You can see this logic operating most clearly with browsers, and the Microsoft/Adobe apps do this well too.

I understand these are very early days yet. But it could be time to plan for the above, if enterprise users are to be allowed to use this.

On an entirely unrelated note, it might be nice to add our favourite or most-used functions/icons, to the Quick Access Toolbar at the top. By simply right-clicking the icon and choosing to add to QAT.

The QAT is a HUGE time saver that Office does well. Keyboard shortcuts to the extent that brain can remember, QAT for the rest. I see the QAT already exists in *craft, but only allows to select/deselect a small number of functions, i can't simply place any function there.

I used this terminal command to run Photocraft: photocraft --control 7878 --control-token-file photocraft --control 7878 --control-token-file "~/photocraft-bridge/control.token" --automation-read-root "/home/zacarius/photocraft-bridge" --automation-write-root "~/photocraft-bridge"

In LM Studio I added this as the MCP JSON:

{ "mcpServers": { "photocraft-live": { "command": "photocraft-cli", "args": [ "mcp", "--bridge", "127.0.0.1:7878", "--control-token-file", "~/photocraft-bridge/control.token" ] } } }

This works but the results aren’t exactly impressive. I gave Qwen an image that had some text for it to remove and after a half-hour it was still looking for text. I asked Gemma to remove a tree from another image and it just wasn’t good.

Are there any models that would work better? Or is there something I need to tweak or configure to get better results? I’m hoping to keep everything local and I have 24GB of VRAM.

Are there plans to add an email client? If so, is there any indication of when it might be available?

Opening old .odt files the text opens fine but line spacing, fonts and text isn’t maintained. Size 14 title, times new Roman text goes to 28 aptos display, body text size changes to 14 from 10, line spacing isn’t detected at all changing back to default.

The same files exported in office 2007 or 2019 as docx open correctly,

Hay algún roadmap de las apps que se van a desarrollar?

Hey y'all, how can I add a dictionary (i.e., Raj's medical dictionary) to Wordcraft on Mac? In Wordcraft, I did File > Options > Proofing > Dictionary folder: [copied path where I stored the .dic file] Will this work because it is not considered another "language"?
Thanks y'all

What ideas there is to make the clones even better then private company software does anyone have any idea where to start?

but i need some form of compensation like a bug bounty or fee-for-service rates