PdfCraft v0.7.1

PdfCraft is a free, open-source PDF application designed as an alternative to Adobe Acrobat. Built from scratch in Rust, it combines PDF viewing, document organization, page management, file merging, splitting, and encryption tools in a native desktop application.

Unlike cloud-based PDF services, PdfCraft is designed to process documents locally without requiring an account, telemetry, or cloud processing. It supports Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD, with a WebAssembly version that runs in a browser.

PdfCraft is particularly interesting for users who want a lightweight, privacy-focused PDF workbench without a subscription. However, it is still an early-stage project, and users who depend on advanced PDF editing, digital signatures, or OCR should consider its current limitations before adopting it.

Features

PDF Viewing and Search

PdfCraft provides a document viewer with text selection, page navigation, and search-as-you-type functionality. Its text selection follows the document's reading order, making it easier to select and copy content from complex layouts.

The renderer is designed to handle international text, vertical Japanese writing, color emoji, and transparency. The application also includes a dark theme and two-page reading mode for a more comfortable reading experience.

A command palette provides quick access to tools and commands, reducing the need to navigate through multiple menus.

Organize and Rearrange Pages

PdfCraft includes a visual page organizer that makes managing PDF documents straightforward. Users can rotate, delete, insert, and reorder pages, with undo support for reversing changes.

These tools are useful for rearranging reports, removing unwanted pages, correcting scanned documents, and assembling documents in the desired order.

The application also supports incremental editing and atomic saves, alongside autosave and crash recovery features designed to reduce the risk of losing work.

Merge, Extract, and Split PDFs

PdfCraft allows users to combine multiple PDF files into a single document, extract selected pages, and split documents into smaller files.

Its document-processing engine aims to preserve important PDF structures during these operations, including links, form fields, layers, and bookmarks.

This makes it useful for administrative work, combining reports, preparing documents for submission, and separating large files into manageable sections.

However, complex documents should be checked after processing to ensure that their formatting and interactive elements remain intact.

PDF Security and Encryption

PdfCraft supports opening encrypted PDF files using older RC4 encryption and modern AES-256 encryption.

It also respects document permissions specified by the author. This is useful when working with protected documents that restrict certain operations.

Encryption support does not mean that PdfCraft provides every security feature available in professional PDF software. Users who require certificate-based digital signatures, advanced redaction, or specialized document-security workflows should verify those capabilities separately.

Forms, Layers, and Document Structure

PdfCraft is designed to preserve PDF features beyond ordinary page content. These include form fields, layers, links, and bookmarks when combining or splitting documents.

This is important because PDF files often contain interactive elements and structural information that can be lost when processed by simpler PDF utilities.

The project emphasizes document integrity, although its developers acknowledge that its rendering quality has not yet been comprehensively compared against Adobe Acrobat.

Command-Line Tools and AI Automation

PdfCraft includes a command-line interface for inspecting documents, extracting text, rendering pages, editing PDF files, combining documents, extracting pages, and splitting files.

For example, you can inspect a PDF's structure in JSON format:

pdfcraft-cli info document.pdf

Extract text from a specific page:

pdfcraft-cli text document.pdf --page 3

Rotate pages, delete a page, and update the document title:

pdfcraft-cli edit input.pdf \
  --rotate 1,2:90 \
  --delete 5 \
  --title "Q3" \
  --out output.pdf

These capabilities make PdfCraft useful for batch processing, scripts, and automated document workflows. Its agent-oriented architecture also makes it suitable for integration with compatible AI tools.

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PdfCraft v0.7.1 Release Notes: What's Changed Adopt shared panel docking with document-aware visibility by @skylartaylor in #966 Print: Windows lists its printers and spools jobs by @Mawfyy in #847 M10: Windows printing prints at actual size, off the UI thread (follow-up to #847) by @echelon in #1007 ci: refactor workflows to use storytold/craft-common-actions by @dylanmtaylor in #1073 Text extraction: word gaps follow position on the line, not drawing order (#1062) by @pauliusiv123-rgb in #1074 M7: watermark offset from the page centre (edit.watermark-appearance) by @Byxis in #1076 M12: XFA script time limits start when the engine is ready by @arcanii in #1081 Linux: draw on the GPU the Wayland compositor draws with by @atoslins in #1088 doc_create from text refuses characters Helvetica can't draw (#959) by @sibrash4 in #1030 Linux: StartupWMClass is the window's app id by @atoslins in #1087 M4, #569: Combine files takes images and text files by @mlkonrad in #1032 Return renderer initialization errors to the OpenGL startup fallback by @huferyliu in #1042 Forms: encode appearances with the existing simple font by @piero-83 in #1044 Forms: keep the accepted value when Tab wraps to the same field by @piero-83 in #1045 CLI: reject malformed --root options before dispatch by @piero-83 in #1048 Edit images: moving or resizing a clipped image moves its own clip too (#1022) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #1049 M2: stream page content past the 256 MiB cap (item 1 of storytold/pdfcraft#623) by @cyfung1031 in #797 XFA: single-block forms paginate, open in their saved state, and show their signatures by @EULArule in #1098 UI: a tool chosen with no document open asks for a file and runs on it by @michelleDeko in #1100 M14: Enumerate form fields once on open by @cyfung1031 in #1011 Top bar: the Save button names its shortcut instead of "(M4)" (#962) by @DWAA1660 in #1013 M14: correct Taiwan Traditional Chinese accessibility and form terms by @MaxTheHaters in #1023 M10: Enhance camera image finds the document's edges; rotate, crop or organize after Enhance page (part 3 of #1008) by @magdale76 in #1027 M9: stream structure-tree checks without a total-element cutoff by @cyfung1031 in #926 fix(macos): close the empty main window with Command-W by @Ni-zav in #930 fix(xfdf): combine imported annotation flags with bitwise OR by @Ni-zav in #931 feat(macos): declare document icon file for PDFs in Info.plist by @Totopo27 in #933 macOS: the tab strip is the 28 pt band the traffic lights are centred in (#789) by @ch0kemeister in #1055 Issues #444, #186: a mouse wheel scroll speed preference, faster by default on Windows and Linux by @AutoHenry in #514 fix(ui): bookmark, comment and command filters match Turkish İ/ı in any case by @snipeTR in #937 fix(annot): create mailto links for bare email addresses by @Ni-zav in #941 Fix/noissue hyphenated print label ranges s20261010 t220019 z f82d4 by @Ni-zav in #942 macOS: "Reopen the files that were open" starts from the system reopen-windows setting (#871) by @ch0kemeister in #1053 Keep Border and Fill color palettes independent in field Properties by @sanyamsingh001 in #1054 M2, #1060: axial and radial shadings draw as native gradients (InDesign fades 10× faster) by @mlkonrad in #1061 UI: theme picker with light and dark theme cards by @luniiya in #1082 Docs: sync the progress docs with issues closed on 2026-10-10 by @Ridzzz0Alam in #1064 Fix plural forms for recent document page counts by @neronek22 in #1065 Read mode: the rail's Bookmarks and other pane buttons open their panels (#932) by @DWAA1660 in #947 Issue #948: the root-confinement test tries the symbolic-link escape only when the link was made by @pauliusiv123-rgb in #949 fix(measure): include closing edges of every filled PDF subpath by @Ni-zav in #952 demo-pdf: two fixes so xtask demo-pdf and xtask screenshots work on Windows by @pechnikov2026-star in #954 M7: shard Japanese Type 3 fallback fonts across large edits by @cyfung1031 in #958 Typed signatures draw Cyrillic and Greek letters (#846) by @DWAA1660 in #963 M7: shard Arabic generated glyph fonts instead of rejecting large text by @cyfung1031 in #967 M9: sign with CAC/PIV smart cards through the macOS Keychain by @sfv9 in #968 M10: stream Create Multiple sources without a fixed file-count cutoff by @cyfung1031 in #978 M11: strip redundant ASCII stream wrappers during optimization by @cyfung1031 in #989 text_find stops reading pages once its limit is reached (#971) by @DWAA1660 in #990 M14: a chosen interface size is absolute, as in PhotoCraft by @mitul72 in #1005 docs(ocr): add model download step to build instructions by @mjohnson7cd in #1006 M2: keep non-interpolated minified images sharp by @cyfung1031 in #635 docs: register the MCP server from an installed release by @sawizzle in #643 M12: add deterministic snap property tests to the measure crate by @cyfung1031 in #714 Windows: Save asks where to keep an Outlook attachment instead of writing its temporary copy by @art804 in #601 Chinese UI: draw with an installed Chinese face when the build has none (#826) by @YingQiu0871 in #925 fix(ui): preserve scroll position when collapsing or resizing sidebars (#1056) by @omarelders in #1069 render: don't let a hostile page-tree /Count abort inspection by @pechnikov2026-star in #956 xfa, xfdf: refuse XML nested past 1024 levels instead of aborting the process by @pkibiego in #987 M2: overlapping text runs stay whole; placement in arrange, bounded checks by @cyfung1031 in #748 pt-BR: lowercase month names in the date picker by @WladmirJunior in #1089 M9: visible digital signatures can show a drawn, typed or image graphic (#193) by @kestrel99 in #934 Issue #568: honour the document's copy permission (Table 22, bit 5) by @jay-tau in #914 Viewer: Continuous scrolling is an independent checkbox over the base layout (#752) by @justinjohn0306 in #896 M4: open Organize Pages as a selectable thumbnail overview by @lukashold in #1004 Add an opt-in low-disk Cargo profile by @cyfung1031 in #951 Select tool: trigger multi-click text selection on pointer press (#1024) by @krinry in #1040 M14: scan PdfCraft page-content markers once per document refresh by @cyfung1031 in #1016 Open dialog: allow selecting several files at once by @LucasT-dev in #1086 Issue #431: reload a document when its file changes on disk by @pauliusiv123-rgb in #459 fix(annot): validate finite link areas before add or edit by @Ni-zav in #940 Add faux-redaction audit (paint-order and colour-aware, fail-closed) by @ejbarraza in #110 fix(ui): prevent translated tool labels from overflowing and align German terminology by @Ni-zav in #939 chore: bump github actions to fix Node 20 deprecation warnings by @dylanmtaylor in #641 On-page text boxes keep a dark caret on their white backgrounds in the dark theme (#655) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #734 Render visible pages before thumbnails and text extraction by @gyurix in #950 Print: start PowerShell on Windows by its full path by @jcl-bit in #1106 Comments: line breaks saved as CR show in comment text by @nicholasyoannou in #1113 Cap unbounded editing and text caches; index form fields once by @chiranjeevi-max in #1115 Fix text selection cursor on all tools toggle(View More - View Less Button) by @oussama-dalhi in #1121 Print: architectural paper presets and PDF scale controls (#599 follow-up) by @durtyrobbin in #1123 M10: Enhance camera image cleans the photo up and chooses its look (part 4 of #1008, closes #1034) by @magdale76 in #1038 Security: fix 10 verified audit findings in redaction, signature validation, and untrusted-input handling by @JeremyYao in #1099 feat: Scale down large signature images instead of rejecting (#1075) by @mjohnson7cd in #1124 Forms: keep tiles and render unbaked field values during page re-render by @Piohrun in #636 Issue #995 & #1077: unlock a restricted document with its permissions password by @Ridzzz0Alam in #1127 Tests: consolidate safe ui-egui integration targets by @cyfung1031 in #992 fix(theme): complete Linux System appearance tracking by @coygeek in #1017 Issue #432: global Units preference (mm, cm, in, pt), defaulting to the system region by @bulgariamitko in #463 Give dialogs roomier text fields and padding by @bartalos86 in #487 i18n: let the layers below hand their sentences over, so they can be translated by @feraremag2680 in #478 Improve PDF Navigation with Cursor-Anchored Zoom and Mouse Panning by @mhadidi06 in #504 M14: complete the Czech (cs) interface catalog by @Losminek in #1066 M14: Italian catalog review: meaning, agreement, consistency (47 entries) by @magdale76 in #1025 M14: Slovenian (Slovenščina) interface language by @spacekomet in #1091 Add Greek (el) interface localization by @Camthalion77 in #994 M14: Kazakh interface language by @pechnikov2026-star in #955 feat(i18n): add complete Turkish interface language support by @yeniufuklar-com in #1057 Content edits on heavy documents: narrow refresh, cached appearances, per-page invalidation by @MaksPV in #1122 M7: Hebrew in Edit text (reading order, writing order, Hebrew glyphs) by @tzagim in #521 Heavy pages: cull off-tile images, cache decodes, preview backdrops, calmer queues by @MaksPV in #1117 M14: text the fonts can't draw is kept and reported, never written as ? silently by @kekeandzeyu in #1112 M7: support shaped Thai text in Add Text and UI fallback fonts by @PuemMTH in #767 M7: preserve overlapping text when dragging paragraphs (#594) by @FredApps in #1052 Bound materialized text search matches (#971) by @rp6186030 in #1164 XFA: import and export data files, and pictures for image fields by @ysrdevs in #1175 docs(contributors): add Ufuk Efe to people.toml by @yeniufuklar-com in #1177 Issue #1185: Protect refuses passwords that encryption would make empty or equal by @jay-tau in #1186 M14: keep structural page order through inspection by @cyfung1031 in #1182 Raise workspace rust-version to 1.95 to match the UI crate (#1169) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #1188 M5: preserve comment identities during partial XFDF and FDF imports by @MMexicann in #1144 Test PDF viewer trackpad pinch zoom by @earlvanze in #1148 M4: replace selected pages from organize toolbar and context menus (#786) by @Hathor875 in #1149 UI: checkboxes and radio buttons are outlined, and checkboxes are square by @Toddpe in #1173 M14: "Edit with PdfCraft" on the File Explorer menu of PDF files (#682) by @jcl-bit in #1180 M2: bound the total size of page-label prefixes by @ymote in #1146 Windows printing: two-sided binds on the chosen edge; note drivers that ignore Two-sided by @bulgariamitko in #1154 Issue #1028: OCR can read pictures on pages that already have text by @rp6186030 in #1184 M14: choose Tools panel side in Preferences by @earlvanze in #1130 Show annotation actions beside selected text by @earlvanze in #1133 i18n(es): add 84 missing rows, consistent tú register by @diegozpy in #1134 Linux: prefer server DPI over panel physical DPI in vendored winit by @gyurix in #1150 M2: keep doubled short text runs from interleaving by @cyfung1031 in #1198 docs: sync Earl Co contributor name from GitHub by @earlvanze in #1199 Accessibility: identify structure objects in checker findings by @earlvanze in #1207 Accessibility: edit structure tag properties through tools by @earlvanze in #1210 Accessibility: export before-and-after review record by @earlvanze in #1204 M10.5: Adopt craft-print spooler with Windows printing fixes by @skylartaylor in #1015 Preserve source fonts in text editing and resize clipped artwork by @komo1iddin in #1116 Polish chrome hover, press, and selection by @bartalos86 in #457 Edit text: support Devanagari system font fallback and Indic pre-base matra reordering by @krinry in #1033 Fix Word invoice layout and pagination (#773) by @lollinoo in #1126 M5.7: Fill & Sign Scan tab for photographed signatures (#1110) by @Bjorneseth in #1111 M4: rename colliding form field names when combining (organize.field-name-conflicts) by @edurbs in #1155 M10: Create separate PDFs from multiple files by @earlvanze in #1183 Comments panel: show Persian and Arabic comments in reading order (#1079) by @itrycodinganditsbad in #1138 M10: Presentation (.pptx) export (#1137) by @Hathor875 in #1162 Add editable page-range selection to Organize Pages (#1092) by @DWAA1660 in #1174 M14: edits let go of the previous working file before writing the next (gap 13) by @rp6186030 in #1279 Accessibility: show figure findings on the page by @earlvanze in #1280 Fix viewport jitter when annotating with search active (#1254) by @omarelders in #1283 Automation tests: isolate workdirs by call site by @cyfung1031 in #1223 M0: validate the committed parity manifest in xtask tests by @srt8hellcat2-ui in #1214 M7: report unsupported document link actions accurately by @cyfung1031 in #1242 M5: Insert text snaps its caret to the text (#345) by @diegozpy in #1249 Accessibility: compare checker results after each recheck by @earlvanze in #1250 M5: quick-bar colour recolours the selected comment (#1191) by @rp6186030 in #1255 Redaction: add case-sensitive and whole-word search options by @earlvanze in #1258 control: close the connection on malformed input before auth by @SteamSmith in #1259 M10.5: load driver options for CUPS printer instances by @srt8hellcat2-ui in #1226 Units: read the Windows measurement system from the registry, not reg.exe by @jcl-bit in #1227 Accessibility: reorder sibling structure tags through an undoable tool by @earlvanze in #1229 Accessibility: export before-and-after review as HTML by @earlvanze in #1234 Refine Greek localization and May abbreviation by @Camthalion77 in #1262 Resize exclusive image crops across nested states and content streams by @komo1iddin in #1269 honour the /Lab colour space /WhitePoint (#1203) by @Hathor875 in #1237 Accessibility: persist human review decisions for an exact PDF revision by @earlvanze in #1239 Accessibility: add visual tag properties panel by @earlvanze in #1216 M10: print from the web build through the browser's print dialog (gap 4) by @rp6186030 in #1243 M7: open local GoToR PDF links natively by @cyfung1031 in #1265 M3: follow Windows' Animation effects setting; add an Animation effects preference by @JeremyYao in #1235 Reading colours: replace document colours for reading comfort (#897) by @edurbs in #1270 Accessibility: keep manual review visible in checker summaries by @earlvanze in #1224 Tests: normalize generated streams in Arabic output golden by @earlvanze in #1275 Comments: "Other colour…" picker and recent custom colours under the swatches (#1193) by @ngrafton2006 in #1261 M3: add PDF tab context menu (fixes #1233) by @srt8hellcat2-ui in #1266 M14: tune Windows low-DPI JetBrains Mono hinting by @cyfung1031 in #1264 Text extraction: honour /ActualText, so Thai from Chrome PDFs is searchable by @git-monchiant in #1217 feat(edit): remove all links command and context menu (#539) by @Hathor875 in #1213 M12: say when a form's scripts were turned off by @arcanii in #1251 XFA: one script thread per event, and the live form kept up to date in place by @ysrdevs in #1355 xtask: stop headless Chrome leaving macOS code-sign clones (#1196) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #1292 Issue #1296: hayro-syntax applies SASLprep to AES-256 passwords (PdfCraft patch 16) by @jay-tau in #1345 M3: match Greek final sigma in case-insensitive search by @nevicia2010-hub in #1349 Clean form tag references by @not-a-feature in #1351 M12: accept literal digits in date formats (dd.mm.26) by @aparcar in #1352 CI: keep craft-fonts enabled across Linux Rust gates by @cyfung1031 in #1284 CI: run dependency layering once per workflow by @cyfung1031 in #1286 CI: keep line tables instead of full workspace debug info by @cyfung1031 in #1298 test(cli): reject unknown MCP options by @mhmdeve in #1342 Refine search match selection and text failure jitter handling by @omarelders in #1291 Fill & Sign: choose text and date font size by @earlvanze in #1285 fix(xfdf): text data from a one-field form keeps its commas (#1321) by @marcoarnulfo in #1371 CLI: audit rejects unknown options before reading the file (fixes #1332) by @umesh429 in #1372 fix(preflight): find colour operators after any PDF whitespace (#1334) by @marcoarnulfo in #1373 fix(sign): a signature field with a null /V can be signed by name (#1328) by @marcoarnulfo in #1374 fix(redact): removing comments keeps non-comment annotations (#1325) by @marcoarnulfo in #1375 fix(print): refuse huge posters at the sheet limit instead of overflowing (#1335) by @marcoarnulfo in #1376 M7: preserve Arabic text order in copy, search and editing by @YouseifUS in #1369 M2: snap shrunk interpolated images to whole pixels so scans stay sharp by @philip-tam in #1377 M14: Preserve recovery snapshots without readable metadata by @LabDennis in #1378 fix(fonts): a composite /W run past the last CID stops there (#1313) by @marcoarnulfo in #1389 fix(ui): the Fields panel lists a field on a missing page as unplaced (#1307) by @marcoarnulfo in #1390 fix(automation): content_update refuses text styling on an image (#1331) by @marcoarnulfo in #1391 fix(forms): a whole look keeps the rest of an indirect /MK (#1322) by @marcoarnulfo in #1392 fix(forms): a literal Off value reads as Off outside buttons (#1320) by @marcoarnulfo in #1393 fix(fonts): a /Differences code past 255 no longer encodes as its last byte (#1314) by @marcoarnulfo in #1394 Issue #1368: keep text a dragged paragraph passed over by @Ridzzz0Alam in #1381 M7: Preserve explicit page ranges across dialog redraws (#1304) by @LabDennis in #1382 M3: select an image on the page and copy it by @FrancescoClemeno in #1363 fix(cli): edit refuses move/insert destinations past the end (#1330) by @umesh429 in #1400 fix(sign): refuse to sign a field whose /V is not a signature (#1328) by @marcoarnulfo in #1402 fix(forms): keep a whitespace-only value in a text field without a format (#1323) by @marcoarnulfo in #1403 fix(content): skip an inline image with an unreadable key to its EI (#1318) by @marcoarnulfo in #1404 fix(automation): doc_save reports a required full rewrite as not incremental (#1329) by @marcoarnulfo in #1405 fix(audit): an identity cm between re and fill no longer hides a cover (#1333) by @umesh429 in #1410 fix(ui): Current page prints the viewed page, not a page labelled with its number (#1308) by @marcoarnulfo in #1411 fix(render): draw Turkish Ğ İ Ş ğ ş in non-embedded fonts by @TheLastRoadRunner in #1409 M10: edit OCR text on scanned pages so the change shows by @TanguAchilis in #1397 Edit text: support per-font visual-order Indic text and nukta reordering by @krinry in #1380 M12: preview text structure proposals for auto-tagging by @earlvanze in #1383 M10: Test current-page print previews and saved output by @LabDennis in #1415 fix(content): count an unreadable inline image with no EI as skipped (#1318) by @marcoarnulfo in #1418 feat(ui): add command palette arrow-key navigation by @Morpheus004 in #1419 M4: Fix Combine duplicate warnings and cache their computation by @LabDennis in #1420 feat(preflight): verify image resolution and bleed without rewriting the file by @Baltsar in #1408 M14: add Lithuanian interface and date localization by @tdslot in #1401 M1: write a valid xref when an incremental save has no objects (#1339) by @bartalos86 in #1424 Release workflow: pass the Azure signing secrets by @echelon in #1194 New Contributors @dylanmtaylor made their first contribution in #1073 @arcanii made their first contribution in #1081 @atoslins made their first contribution in #1088 @sibrash4 made their first contribution in #1030 @huferyliu made their first contribution in #1042 @piero-83 made their first contribution in #1044 @EULArule made their first contribution in #1098 @michelleDeko made their first contribution in #1100 @MaxTheHaters made their first contribution in #1023 @magdale76 made their first contribution in #1027 @Totopo27 made their first contribution in #933 @luniiya made their first contribution in #1082 @Ridzzz0Alam made their first contribution in #1064 @neronek22 made their first contribution in #1065 @pechnikov2026-star made their first contribution in #954 @sfv9 made their first contribution in #968 @mjohnson7cd made their first contribution in #1006 @sawizzle made their first contribution in #643 @art804 made their first contribution in #601 @YingQiu0871 made their first contribution in #925 @omarelders made their first contribution in #1069 @pkibiego made their first contribution in #987 @WladmirJunior made their first contribution in #1089 @kestrel99 made their first contribution in #934 @lukashold made their first contribution in #1004 @krinry made their first contribution in #1040 @LucasT-dev made their first contribution in #1086 @ejbarraza made their first contribution in #110 @nicholasyoannou made their first contribution in #1113 @durtyrobbin made their first contribution in #1123 @JeremyYao made their first contribution in #1099 @Piohrun made their first contribution in #636 @coygeek made their first contribution in #1017 @mhadidi06 made their first contribution in #504 @Losminek made their first contribution in #1066 @spacekomet made their first contribution in #1091 @Camthalion77 made their first contribution in #994 @yeniufuklar-com made their first contribution in #1057 @tzagim made their first contribution in #521 @kekeandzeyu made their first contribution in #1112 @PuemMTH made their first contribution in #767 @FredApps made their first contribution in #1052 @rp6186030 made their first contribution in #1164 @MMexicann made their first contribution in #1144 @earlvanze made their first contribution in #1148 @ymote made their first contribution in #1146 @diegozpy made their first contribution in #1134 @komo1iddin made their first contribution in #1116 @lollinoo made their first contribution in #1126 @Bjorneseth made their first contribution in #1111 @itrycodinganditsbad made their first contribution in #1138 @srt8hellcat2-ui 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Performance and Compatibility

PdfCraft is written in Rust, with its PDF parsing, rendering, and editing logic organized into reusable libraries. The graphical interface is built on top of this underlying engine.

The project emphasizes faithful document rendering, reliable file operations, and local processing. Its developers report zero crashes across a test corpus of 983 PDF files, although this result should not be interpreted as a guarantee of compatibility with every PDF document.

Supported platforms include Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and modern web browsers through WebAssembly. Available packages include Windows installers and portable archives, a universal macOS disk image, Linux AppImage packages, Debian packages, RPM packages, and other distribution formats.

PdfCraft is still in early development. Its roadmap identifies renderer improvements, stronger compatibility testing, editing existing PDF content, digital signatures, OCR, Office-related workflows, preflight tools, and XFA support as areas for further development.

Consequently, it is best viewed as a promising PDF workbench rather than a complete replacement for every Adobe Acrobat workflow.

System Requirements

• Operating systems: Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.

• Browser support: WebAssembly build for modern browsers.

• Windows architectures: x86, x64, and ARM64.

• Linux architectures: x86-64 and ARM64.

• macOS: Universal build for Intel and Apple silicon.

• Build requirements: Rust 1.90 or newer, along with the project's documented development dependencies.

The project does not establish a comprehensive minimum RAM or processor specification in the information reviewed. Basic PDF viewing should be suitable for a broad range of modern computers, but performance will depend on document complexity and system resources.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Free and open-source under permissive licenses.

• Native applications for major desktop operating systems.

• Local document processing without mandatory accounts or cloud uploads.

• PDF viewing with text search and selection.

• Page rotation, deletion, insertion, and reordering.

• PDF merging, extraction, and splitting.

• Support for encrypted PDFs and document permissions.

• Designed to preserve links, form fields, layers, and bookmarks.

• Autosave, crash recovery, and undo support.

• Command-line tools for scripting and batch processing.

• WebAssembly version for browser-based use.

Cons

• Still in early development, with some features planned rather than implemented.

• PDF rendering quality has not yet been comprehensively benchmarked against Adobe Acrobat.

• Advanced editing of existing PDF content remains a development priority.

• Digital signatures, OCR, and specialized document workflows are not yet comprehensive.

• Compatibility with complex forms and unusual PDF documents requires further testing.

• Professional publishing and document-preflight capabilities are limited.

How to Install

The easiest way to install PdfCraft is to visit its official website and download the package for your operating system.

Windows users can choose an installer or portable archive. macOS users can download the universal disk image, while Linux users can select AppImage, DEB, RPM, or another available package.

To build PdfCraft from source, install Rust 1.90 or newer and run:

git clone https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft.git
cd pdfcraft
cargo run --release -p pdfcraft

For command-line PDF processing, build or install the CLI package provided by the project. Consult the official documentation for supported commands, build dependencies, and platform-specific installation instructions.

Final Verdict

PdfCraft is a promising open-source PDF editor for users who want to read, organize, combine, split, and secure documents without relying on a cloud service or paid subscription.

Its strongest advantages are local processing, cross-platform availability, careful handling of PDF structure, and a command-line interface that supports automation. These features make it appealing to developers, privacy-conscious users, and anyone who regularly manages PDF documents.

The main limitation is maturity. PdfCraft does not yet cover every advanced capability offered by established PDF applications, particularly for editing existing content, digital signatures, OCR, and specialized document workflows.

For everyday PDF viewing and organization, PdfCraft is worth trying. Users who need a complete professional PDF solution should evaluate its current feature set against their specific requirements before replacing their existing software.

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Software Informations:
Developer:
ArtCraft
Operating System:
Windows / macOS / Linux / BSD
Date Added:
2026-10-12T17:36:58.274Z
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