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Install pdfcraft with Homebrew Cask
PDF editor. Version 0.18.1 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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Project history and usage
PdfCraft is an open-source, local-first PDF workbench written in Rust. It reads, renders, edits, organizes, combines, splits, annotates, fills, signs, and secures PDF documents through desktop, web, command-line, and agent-facing interfaces.
Project history
PdfCraft was created by the ArtCraft community as an open-source, clean-room PDF workbench inspired by the offline feature set of Adobe Acrobat. Its layered Rust workspace covers parsing, rendering, encryption, editing, forms, annotations, automation, and user interfaces.
The repository initially published release artifacts under the PrintCraft name in early October 2026. PdfCraft-branded version 0.4.0 followed on October 8, and version 0.5.0 was released on October 10 with an expanded set of editing, security, localization, packaging, and automation improvements.
Adoption history
PdfCraft is distributed through official builds for macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and the web, with a separate command-line binary for scripts and agents. The macOS build is also packaged through Homebrew Cask.
The project is recent, so its release activity demonstrates early community participation but does not yet establish long-term adoption.
How it is used
Desktop users open and edit PDFs through the native interface, including page organization, comments, forms, bookmarks, protection, text operations, and incremental saving.
Automation users can invoke JSON-Schema-described operations through pdfcraft-cli, embed the Rust automation API, or connect agents through the opt-in stdio MCP server. The official project states that it requires no account and has no telemetry or cloud dependency.
Why package nerds care
PdfCraft is notable as a from-scratch Rust implementation of a complex document format, packaged as a desktop application, command-line tool, reusable engine, web build, and MCP server.
Its local-first model avoids accounts, telemetry, and cloud dependencies, while atomic and incremental saves, broad platform packaging, and corpus-based compatibility testing address concerns that matter to maintainers of document-processing software.
Timeline
- 2026-10-03: The repository publishes early PrintCraft 0.1-series artifacts.
- 2026-10-08: PdfCraft 0.4.0 is released under the PdfCraft name.
- 2026-10-10: PdfCraft 0.5.0 expands editing, security, localization, and automation support.
Related projects
- Adobe Acrobat: the proprietary PDF application whose offline workflows provide PdfCraft's clean-room behavioral target.
- GridCraft and other ArtCraft applications: sibling open-source creative and productivity tools.
- qpdf, Poppler, and hayro: independent PDF implementations used by the project for output and compatibility verification.
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No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for pdfcraft. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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Version and freshness
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page generated2026-11-04
manager version0.18.1
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraftnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:pdfcraft |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.18.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/pdfcraft |
| Homepage | https://getartcraft.com/apps/pdfcraft |
| Repository | https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft |
| Upstream docs | https://getartcraft.com/apps/pdfcraft |
| Source archive | https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft/releases/download/v0.18.1/pdfcraft-0.18.1-macos-universal.dmg |
| SHA-256 | 55f84be56388d69f24df22522f6d424f8d8e69529db669ce08ea198455e08ceb |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
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| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
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| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | pdfcraft |
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| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
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