pdfcraft

No, we explicitly do not use reverse engineering. We do not decompile binaries, we do everything 100% clean room: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (inspired by Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft (inspired by Word) https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft (one of the more mature apps) https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (another app close to 1:1 parity) (etc.) Using REA for something as high profile as what we're doing is likely to result in lawsuits. We're doing everything we can by the books. We cannot look at Adobe sources. Use of Ghidra is disallowed. REA is probably great for personal apps and for abandonware, but I think if you publish the results and it's found to have decompiled the original proprietary sources in discovery, you might be in for a bad time.

If you're talking about the artcraft stuff, it's strange. The codebase goes back to 2016 as a monorepo but not the full suite and was recently split out as separate apps and other parts of the Adobe suite added. The CLAUDE.md [1] are... interesting and left me puzzling about it. I was mostly interested in the pdfcraft (have been appreciating https://www.nobloatpdf.com/) > Clean-room. > * Never read, disassemble or copy anything inside the Acrobat bundle (names and listings only). Never open Contents/Resources/JavaScripts/. > * Behaviour comes from public docs, specs (ISO 32000-2, the Arlington model) and black-box observation (plan/acrobat/). > * Never copy GPL/AGPL code. MuPDF, Ghostscript, Poppler, veraPDF and DSS run only as external oracle processes. > * See plan/README.md §Clean-room and plan/adr/0001. It really looks like they have

https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator) https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft (Premiere) https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft (Lightroom) https://github.com/storytold/printcraft (Acrobat Pro) https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft (After Effects) https://github.com/storytold/designcraft (InDesign)

moments ago I saw a reddit post that claimed to have cloned several adobe applications and open sourcing them on github, is this the one? edit: it's not, the reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1wxmqpt/ive_created_o... and github repositories https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator) https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft (Premiere) https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft (Lightroom) https://github.com/storytold/printcraft (Acrobat Pro) https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft (After Effects) https://github.com/storytold/designcraft (InDesign)

We're going to take back the internet and own tech forever. I know I have a few anti-AI haters on HN, but hear me out. I'm currently using Opus 5.5 to create 100% pure-Rust, immediate mode rendering, open source implementations of Adobe's entire suite: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator) https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft (Premiere) https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft (Lightroom) https://github.com/storytold/printcraft (Acrobat Pro) https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft (After Effects) https://github.com/storytold/designcraft (InDesign) I got bit by the dark pattern "cancellation fee" one too many times. AI lets us take back tech and set the clock back to the pre-shitty era. But now you can just create 1:1 functional equivalents, clean room, that are highly