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DesignCraft roadmap

Stage: pre-alpha · next: alpha, ~0% and ~15–25 h away; beta ~28 points and ~420–750 h beyond that (the core-workflow gate, not the percentage: ready for real work is already ~47%)

Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-12 · Change: minor (cancelable macOS Dock Quit) · Target: Adobe InDesign 2026

DesignCraft aims at full Adobe InDesign parity, and to be better: faster, open (documented JSON format + IDML), scriptable by agents (MCP), and available on the web.

Headline numbers

Value Kind
Feature breadth ~80% (69% of InDesign 21.6's in-scope menu items matched; 99% of our 275-row checklist) measured bounds, estimate between
Ready for real work ~47% (range 42–52%) estimated: weighted sum over the dimensions below
Mainstream practitioner ~42% (weekly core 60.7% × 0.88 interaction × 0.92 stability × 0.85 file exchange) estimated
Essentials user ~54% (core features 72% × 0.90 launch × 0.88 discoverability × 0.95 files received) estimated
Remaining to beta 420–750 Opus 5.5 agent-hours (~120–200 wall-clock hours with 4–5 agents) estimated
Remaining to full parity 1,150–1,950 Opus 5.5 agent-hours estimated
Audience Ready Opus 5.5 agent-hours to ~95% Work that dominates
Full target (ready for real work) ~47% 1,150–1,950 (~70% parallel) depth across all areas, scripting compatibility, localization, typography fidelity, INDD/IDML
Mainstream practitioner ~42% 500–850 (~65% parallel) INDD import and IDML corpus, composition fidelity, weekly-area depth, PDF/X-1a and printing
Essentials user ~54% 135–250 (~50% parallel) start-up robustness, context menus and copy/paste, threading, fonts, Windows printing

Why pre-alpha: it fails one of InDesign's core workflows, the alpha gate in docs/roadmap.md. A user can't thread a story from one frame to another: the in and out ports are drawn, but clicking the out port does nothing and there is no thread or unthread command. Long text flows only through autoflow on Place and Primary Text Frame, which users report adding and keeping pages wrongly (#165, #140, #194, #352). Everything else in the gate works end to end on macOS (document setup, styles, images, object editing, PDF export, save and reopen), and ready for real work (~47%) is above the alpha bar, so manual threading is the whole distance to alpha. Beyond that, beta needs INDD opening, IDML proven on real files, composition compared with InDesign's, and basic editing fixed on Windows and Linux. Details: docs/target-app-parity.md.

By dimension

Dimension Ready Hours Doc
Features (depth) 55% 250–400 target-app-parity.md
Typography and composition fidelity 45% 120–200 typography-parity.md
File formats 40% 150–250 + 20–60 (INDD) file-format-parity.md
UI/UX fidelity 45% 120–180 ui-parity.md
Stability 45% 60–100 gaps.md
Performance 65% 40–80 gaps.md
Localization 45% 120–180 localization-parity.md
Platforms 55% 40–80 hardware-parity.md
Hardware 45% 20–40 hardware-parity.md
Ecosystem (scripting, plug-ins) 15% 150–250 gaps.md
AI features 15% 60–120 gaps.md

All "Ready" figures are estimates; the weights and evidence are in target-app-parity.md.

Features

Breadth from docs/parity-checklist.md (cargo xtask parity, measured); Ready estimated.

Area Breadth Ready Hours
Application shell & workspace 99% 55% 40–60
Documents, pages, spreads 100% 65% 20–35
Layers 100% 75% 5–10
Frames, shapes & paths 100% 60% 25–40
Transform 100% 70% 10–20
Fill, stroke, colour 100% 60% 20–35
Effects & transparency 100% 50% 20–30
Placing & links 93% 55% 20–35
Type & text frames 99% 45% 40–60
Typography 100% 45% see typography-parity.md
Styles 100% 60% 15–25
Tables 100% 55% 25–40
Long documents 100% 45% 30–50
Interactivity & digital 100% 40% 30–50
Output & production 92% 55% 40–70
XML & automation 100% 35% see Ecosystem
View & navigation 100% 65% 10–20
Undo, history, saving 100% 70% 5–10
Accessibility 100% 50% 15–25

Languages

Interface strings translated, of 1,724 measured. Detail: docs/localization-parity.md.

Language Code Status Translated
English en full 100%
Simplified Chinese zh partial (no canvas IME) 83%
Spanish es partial 83%
Hindi hi none 0%
Arabic ar partial (RTL UI and composition) 85%
French fr partial 83%
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-br partial 61%
Indonesian id none 0%
Japanese ja partial (no canvas IME) 95%
German de partial 83%
Korean ko none 0%
Vietnamese vi none 0%

Also shipped: Italian (85%), Ukrainian (83%).

Upcoming

Ranked; detail and estimates in docs/roadmap.md, the full list in docs/gaps.md.

  1. Alpha gate: manual text threading (out-port click, thread/unthread commands) and Primary Text Frame fixes (#165) (15–25 h)
  2. Basic editing on every platform: copy/paste, context menus, caret formatting (30–50 h)
  3. CI running cargo xtask ci on pull requests (4–8 h)
  4. Open INDD through a clean-room converter, owner decision on #114 (20–60 h)
  5. IDML real-file corpus and fixes (60–100 h)
  6. Composition oracle against InDesign; optical kerning; overset rule (80–140 h)
  7. Start on any GPU; find every installed font (25–50 h)

Documents

target-app-parity.md (assessment) · gaps.md (work list) · roadmap.md (milestones, plan) · parity-checklist.md (presence checklist) · typography-parity.md · file-format-parity.md · ui-parity.md · hardware-parity.md · localization-parity.md · architecture.md · agents: agents.md, mcp.md, control-protocol.md · CJK: cjk.md, cjk-typography.md · Arabic: arabic-typography.md

Progress log

Newest first.

  • 2026-10-12 · macOS Dock Quit uses the same unsaved-document prompts as window and menu Quit. Repeated requests keep the current answers; Cancel retains every tab and unsaved recovery checkpoint, and completed Save/Don't Save answers exit through the ordinary event loop. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Orderly native exit writes the latest recovery state after finalizing current quit approvals; incomplete or stale plans keep their documents, and Undo to the saved state clears stale recovery. Unavailable or failed recovery is reported. Cancelable macOS Dock Quit remains open (#544). No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Recovered documents keep a checkpoint until saved, closed or reverted, including a second crash before autosave. Restarted document IDs and explicit recovery folders preserve other snapshots; failed republishing retains the original. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Book numbering and style updates prepare every chapter before saving. Only closed native chapters are changed; imported IDML remains a read-only style/PDF source. If a later disk write fails, the error names the completed chapters; the batch is not a whole-book transaction. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Desktop write callbacks and CLI raster exports use the atomic writer too; open readers retain the original bytes, while private Unix modes and symlink targets survive replacement. Permanent tests cover both actual callers. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Save As, library edits and book collection edits persist prospective values before changing live state; failed writes preserve the document and existing collections. Save a Copy rebases data-source paths for its destination without changing the open document. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · The Pen tool continues an open path from either end point, as in InDesign: the cursor shows it over an end point, a click there carries on drawing that path, a drag first reshapes the end point's direction lines, and the other end closes it. Object › Paths › Reverse Path (path.reverse); path.setAnchor; path.appendAnchor and path.close take a subpath. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Editing type on a path: the Type tool clicks, drags and double-clicks along the curve (the character under the pointer, not one on the straightened line), a click on the letters themselves hits the frame, and the caret and highlight bend with the path. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Type on a path has start and end brackets, as in InDesign: selected path type shows them across the path, and dragging either with the Selection or Direct Selection tool moves where the text starts or ends (text past the end bracket is overset). type.pathOptions {end}; IDML reads and writes EndBracket. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Window close and application/menu Quit ask about unsaved documents; later Cancel keeps every tab open, including earlier Don't Save choices. Approvals are rechecked after edits. Cancelable macOS Dock Quit remains open (#544). No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Each running app keeps recovery data in its own locked folder; current folder and lock ownership are checked before writes and cleanup. Failed isolation disables recovery with a warning instead of sharing document IDs. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Native engine saves and exports replace files atomically; failed writes retain the original, private staging preserves Unix permissions, and valid long filenames work. Desktop Services and CLI raster exports remain separate follow-ups. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Hyphenation Zone applies to the Single-line Composer only, as in InDesign. With the default Paragraph Composer, ragged text hyphenates where InDesign does (aper-natem), giving the same line breaks. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · The Tools panel's Fill/Stroke keys work: D (default fill and stroke), X (fill or stroke in front), Shift+X (swap per object, tints included) and / (Apply None), as color.* commands; swap and default are one undo step (object.swapFillStroke, object.defaultFillStroke); the Color panel follows the proxy's fill/stroke choice. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-11 · Corner Options keep curved sides curved and round every corner point, including where an arc meets a line (a Pathfinder quarter circle with rounded corners stayed a triangle). No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-11 · story.replaceRange, story.setText, notes, footnotes, endnotes, type on a path and table cells read \r and \r\n as paragraph returns, as frame.create and text.insert already did. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-11 · The View menu follows InDesign's: proofing first, then zoom, Rotate Spread, Screen Mode, Display Performance, rulers, Extras, Grids & Guides and Structure; the view items that sat at the end of the Type menu moved there. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Underlines and strikethroughs are drawn as one bar per stretch of text on screen, as in PDF export: a bar per letter left faint seams between the letters. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Properties › Transform shows rotation, shear and X/Y scale, and Rotate 90° and Flip Horizontal/Vertical buttons, as InDesign's does. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Edit › Step and Repeat has its InDesign dialog: Repeat (Count, or Rows and Columns with Create as a grid), Offset (Vertical, Horizontal, in ruler units) and Preview, which shows the copies while the dialog is open; Cancel takes them away and OK makes them as one undo step. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Double-clicking the Fill or Stroke box in the Tools panel opens the Color Picker with the selection's colour, as in InDesign (it opened the Swatches panel). No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · The Effects panel shows the level its settings apply to ("Group: Color Dodge 100%") and, as in InDesign, Isolate Blending and Knockout Group for a selected group. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-11 · Properties gains InDesign's Pathfinder section (Add, Subtract, Intersect, Exclude Overlap, Minus Back) with several objects selected; section titles and icon buttons have accessible names. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · The Eyedropper samples a placed image: clicking the photo with text (or objects) selected fills them with the image's colour under the pointer, as an unnamed colour (color.sample), as in InDesign. Images on locked layers can be sampled. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-12 · Words in capitals hyphenate like capitalized words (FERRUM COM-MODI), as in InDesign; Hyphenate Capitalized Words off keeps them whole. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-11 · transform.move {copy}, Edit › Duplicate and Step and Repeat return the copies' ids, so a script can go on with them. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-11 · object.fill and object.stroke refuse a swatch name the document doesn't have (it painted nothing) and suggest the name meant (Paper → [Paper]). No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-11 (printing): file.printers and file.print use craft-libs/craft-print for CUPS and Windows. DesignCraft retains PDF export, page selection, spreads, marks and bleed; dry runs create no temporary PDF or print job. Windows selects matching or default driver paper and shrinks oversized sheets without enlarging smaller ones; queue duplex defaults are preserved. Headless tests exercise exported bytes, job settings, dry runs and refusals; shared native Windows CI passes, including paused-queue submission and cleanup. PostScript, production print controls and physical output validation remain open. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-10 (UI.4–UI.5): Panel tabs can move into other groups, split the dock, float, resize and return to their saved locations through shared docking transactions. Layouts persist in custom workspaces; UI and control commands share the same validated action path. Shared pane geometry and widget-state theme application retain all five palettes and local fonts. Split panes send keyboard input only to the focused canvas and scope contextual toolbar IDs per pane. No readiness percentage change.

  • 2026-10-10 · Version 0.6.0; releases add a Linux riscv64 tar.gz (cross-compiled, CLI smoke-tested under QEMU).

  • 2026-10-10 · Readiness per audience: full ~47% (method aligned with the standard, was 42%), mainstream practitioner ~42%, essentials user ~54%, each with hours to ~95%.

  • 2026-10-10 · Stage re-normalized to pre-alpha under craftrules' core-workflow gate: text can't be threaded by hand (no out-port click, no thread command).

  • 2026-10-10 · Full re-measure against InDesign 2026 21.6 (menu dump, bundle formats and localizations, 124 issues): breadth ~80%, ready ~42% (down from the ~83% "including depth" of 2026-10-04, on user evidence and the INDD gap); progress docs restructured to the craftrules standard (docs/parity.md → docs/parity-checklist.md; new target-app-parity, gaps, roadmap, architecture, typography, file-format, UI, hardware and localization docs). Landed today: split columns (#295), PDF export options dialog (#196), column rules (#274), Paragraph Rules dialog (#263), Character Style Options (#144), PDF/X-4 RGB handling (#223), Spanish hyphenation (#222), Japanese (#272), Italian (#218) and Ukrainian (#236) interfaces, relocated packages relink (#244), graphics backend chosen before the window (#297), IDML table styles (#288), warichu (#280), list numbering from IDML (#298), security hardening (#153, #155), many text-composition fixes (#282–#293).

  • 2026-10-09 · Version 0.5.0; many user reports triaged into issues (#160–#265).

  • 2026-10-08 · Version 0.4.0.

  • 2026-10-07 · Community PRs: data merge, Brazilian Portuguese, PDF/X-4 flags, Office fonts on macOS; CJK 1.x (Korean line breaking, fallback fonts in Package); PrintCraft renamed PdfCraft.

  • 2026-10-06 · Snapping to parent items, Windows packaging, ARM64 workflow, control-channel hardening.

  • 2026-10-05 · FreeBSD build; caret-boundary fixes.

  • 2026-10-04 · Never-crash pass across importers and the engine; rotate spread view; kashida in styles; previous estimate: breadth 99%, "~83% including depth", ~170 h remaining.

  • 2026-10-03 · Release 0.1.1; separations, XML tagging, track changes, PDF/X-4 output intent, split window, buttons, menu customization.

  • 2026-10-02 · Hyperlinks/Bookmarks panels, conditional text, tagged PDF, lists across stories, style groups, Glyphs panel, High Contrast theme.

  • 2026-10-01 · First commit; skeleton, IDML, PDF, tables, footnotes, cross-references, index, spelling and parallel composition on the first day.

Revision history

Date Change Summary
2026-10-10 minor Full number 42% → 47% (method aligned with the standard: plain weighted sum, no new evidence); readiness table with hours per audience
2026-10-10 minor Headline adds mainstream practitioner (~42%) and essentials user (~54%); method in docs/target-app-parity.md
2026-10-10 minor Stage alpha → pre-alpha under the new core-workflow gate: manual text threading is missing; alpha gate table added to docs/roadmap.md
2026-10-10 major Restructured to the progress-docs standard; full re-measure; the "Working today" inventory moved to docs/target-app-parity.md, milestones to docs/roadmap.md, the CLI/MCP section left to docs/agents.md (which already covered it)
2026-10-04 major Parity estimate: breadth 99%, depth ~83%, ~170 h
2026-10-01 major First roadmap: status, milestones
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