package.sh now also builds designcraft-<ver>-linux-<arch>.pkg.tar.zst with nfpm's archlinux packager,
from the same nfpm.yaml. It is named by the bundle id (ai.storyteller.designcraft), provides designcraft and
conflicts with designcraft, designcraft-bin and designcraft-git, so an AUR helper doesn't take it over and ArtCraft
Launcher can tell it from an AUR build. The README lists it with the other Linux downloads.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
wgpu validates indirect draw and dispatch arguments with a compute shader it
compiles when the device is created. Metal on an Intel Iris Pro (MacBookPro11,3,
macOS 12.7.6) fails to compile it ("Compiler encountered an internal error" in
MTLCompilerService), the device is lost, and the window never opens.
DesignCraft draws and dispatches nothing indirectly, so leave the check out of the
instance flags. WGPU_VALIDATION_INDIRECT_CALL=1 turns it back on. VectorCraft
does the same (storytold/vectorcraft#651).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- release.yml: new linux-riscv64 job (cross-compiled on ubuntu-24.04 against
ports.ubuntu.com riscv64 libs, tar.gz only, CLI smoke-tested under QEMU),
ported from GridCraft; the draft release job needs it, so SHA256SUMS covers it.
- packaging/linux/package.sh: CROSS_ARCH/CROSS_TARGET/CROSS_COMPILE/EMULATOR
support, as in GridCraft.
- cargo xtask version set 0.6.0; README, hardware parity and ROADMAP log note
the new platform.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Progress docs per craftrules standards/progress-docs.md: target-app parity, gaps, roadmap with alpha gate, readiness by audience (full / mainstream / essentials) with Opus 5.5 hours, and feature, format, hardware, UI and localization parity docs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Desktop: pick the graphics backend before the window exists; DirectX 12 on Windows
On an AMD hybrid-graphics laptop (Radeon RX 6800M beside an integrated
Radeon, with two versions of amdvlk64.dll loaded into one process) the
app died a few seconds after launch with an access violation inside
AMD's Vulkan driver at the first swapchain present. Nothing reached the
log: a fault inside a driver is a native crash the engine's panic guard
never sees. wgpu's default backend set (PRIMARY | GL) enumerates Vulkan
first, so every start on that machine went down the same path, while
WGPU_BACKEND=dx12 and WGPU_BACKEND=gl ran fine and the headless CPU
renderer was never affected.
The desktop app now chooses the backend before creating the window
(apps/designcraft/src/gpu.rs): DirectX 12 first on Windows, then Vulkan,
then OpenGL; Vulkan then OpenGL on Linux; Metal on macOS. OpenGL stays
in the set as the in-process fallback when the chosen backend has no
adapter. WGPU_BACKEND still overrides everything and turns the fallback
off.
Start-up fallback: gpu.json in the settings directory records the
backend being tried until the third frame begins (the first has been
presented by then) or the app exits normally. A record left behind means
that backend never showed a frame, so the next start skips it, tries the
next candidate and says so in the status bar. The list starts over when
every candidate has failed or the app version changes;
DESIGNCRAFT_NO_PREFS records nothing. The adapter, backend and driver
version are logged at start-up for bug reports.
Verified on the affected machine: a default start runs on DirectX 12; a
simulated crashed DX12 start moved to Vulkan, which faulted for real,
and the start after that came up on OpenGL with the status line. Nine
unit tests cover the chooser and the record; cargo xtask ci passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
* Merge origin/main; on Windows OpenGL isn't added to the DX12 or Vulkan instance (#167)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
* Desktop: write log records to standard error and a rotating log file
The desktop app installed no logger, so every log::warn!/log::error! in
the workspace was discarded: the crash guard's panic report, a failed
crash-recovery save, font folders that can't be read. A launch from a
desktop menu has no terminal either, so there was nothing to attach to a
bug report.
apps/designcraft/src/logging.rs (no new dependency):
- standard error plus <settings dir>/logs/designcraft.log (beside
ui.json and prefs.json); each launch rotates the previous log to
designcraft.1.log and .2.log, so the log of a run that crashed
survives the next start; the file is capped at 16 MiB
- records logged before the settings directory is known are buffered
(bounded) and written once the file is attached
- default levels: info for designcraft*, warn for everything else;
RUST_LOG replaces them with env_logger-style directives
- never panics: an unusable directory or a failed write leaves standard
error as the only sink
The logger is installed first in main (before the engine's panic hook)
and the file is opened after argument parsing (--version leaves no
file). The settings directory moves out of prefs_path into config_dir.
A --control or DESIGNCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT value that is not a port is now
logged instead of silently leaving the control channel off. Documented
in README.md (Quick start > Logs).
* Desktop: no eprintln! on the log and panic paths
eprintln! panics when standard error is a broken pipe (a GUI launch on
Windows), and a panic inside the panic hook aborts. The "no log file"
message goes through log::warn! (standard error only by then); the panic
hook's fallback writes to standard error with write_fmt and ignores the
error. Same fix as storytold/vectorcraft#465.
* CLI: run rejects an export option with no export after it (#67)
--page, --scale and --pdf-options apply to the exports that follow them; one
given after the last --export or --all-pages did nothing and said nothing.
The usage text and docs/agents.md say so.
* MCP: document that text offsets and story lengths are UTF-8 bytes (#68)
* MCP: docs name the UI-only commands precisely; app.links works headless (#62)
* README: PDF and EPUB export ship (#60)
New designcraft-pptx crate (L3) and file.exportPptx command (File ›
Export PowerPoint…, CLI --export x.pptx). Each page becomes a slide of
native objects: shapes with fills, gradients, strokes and effects,
pictures cropped like their frames, native tables, and text boxes.
Text keeps DesignCraft's composition by default: composed lines end in
line breaks, justified spacing becomes character spacing, and leading
becomes percentage line spacing (PowerPoint rounds exact spacing to
whole points; its 100% line is 1.2 em for every font). Threaded
stories split at their frames and wrapped lines get their own boxes.
lineBreaks: reflow writes one box per frame in native columns instead.
TrueType fonts are embedded as Embedded OpenType when their licences
allow. Objects PowerPoint can't represent (placed PDF/EPS, type on a
path, some effects) are rasterised through the existing
rasterize_where path.
Checked in PowerPoint for Mac and LibreOffice: on the sample magazine,
word positions match DesignCraft's PDF to within 0.8 pt horizontally
and 1.6 pt vertically.
- freebsd job: builds packaging/freebsd/package.sh in a FreeBSD 14.3 VM (same image and
packages as freebsd.yml) into designcraft-<ver>-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz.
- flatpak jobs (x86_64 on ubuntu-24.04, aarch64 on ubuntu-24.04-arm): repackage the Linux
tarball with packaging/linux/flatpak-bundle.sh and a new bundle manifest; runtime and
finish-args shared with the from-source manifest (checked by packaging-lint).
- AppImages embed gh-releases-zsync update information and ship a .zsync beside them.
- version, linux, web, flatpak and freebsd no longer use the release environment (they read
no secrets), so a workflow_dispatch on a branch dry-runs them; the signing jobs and the
draft release stay environment-gated.
- nfpm package description described an image editor; now describes DesignCraft.
- README: Downloads section listing every build.
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Shippori Mincho (8.7 MB) and its licence leave assets/fonts. Japanese fonts now
come from storytold/craft-fonts when built with CRAFT_FONTS_DIR (never a
Cargo.toml dependency): crates/fonts/build.rs embeds its manifest as
designcraft_fonts::CRAFT_FONTS. Native builds embed all four fonts; wasm32
embeds BIZ UDPGothic Regular only (web size budget).
- UI (egui): the Jpan faces at the end of every family, BIZ UDPGothic first
(Bold first in the semibold family).
- Documents: FontDb loads them after the bundled fonts, Mincho first, so they
are the Japanese fallback ahead of system fonts; SVG text gets them too.
- Vertical alternates test runs on every craft-fonts face and skips when
CRAFT_FONTS is empty; new UI no-tofu test and without-craft-fonts tests.
- FreeBSD CI tests with craft-fonts; release.yml builds every platform with
CRAFT_FONTS_DIR + CRAFT_FONTS_REQUIRED=1 at a pinned commit, packages carry
OFL-<family>.txt; NOTICE, ASSETS.md, AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md, README, ROADMAP.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- LICENSE-MIT: copyright "ArtCraft Team and the DesignCraft contributors"
(it wrongly named the PrintCraft contributors); LICENSE-APACHE: the
standard text (adds the trailing newline).
- docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt: the ArtCraft brand terms.
- NOTICE: standard header and brand carve-out; third-party list kept.
- ASSETS.md: docs/brand/ rows point at LICENSE-brand.txt; brand files
noted as the one non-open-source exception.
- README: standard "License and credits" section, nav anchor, badge alt.
- AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md: asset rule notes the docs/brand/ exception.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Drop the app icon from the top of the README, matching PhotoCraft, and
show each app's icon next to its name in the Crafting Apps table in place
of the coloured name badges. The table is now identical across all seven
apps apart from the "you are here" row.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
apps/designcraft-web runs DesignApp through eframe's web runner (wgpu:
WebGPU with WebGL2 fallback, ?webgl forces GL, ?sample opens the sample).
Services gain open_async, download and an inbox: browser-picked and
dropped files are fed back as file.openBytes (.designcraft) or file.place
(images, base64); Save/Export download via Blob + anchor. The web app is
excluded from default-members.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Brandon Thomas