DM Adieu Design — Page layout for print and PDF

Coming to the Mac App Store.

DM Adieu Design is a native page-layout app for the Mac: magazines, brochures, posters, flyers, newsletters and business cards, set with care and sent to print as PDF. It runs entirely on your Mac. No account, no subscription, no cloud.

Built on open source

DM Adieu Design is based on DesignCraft, the open-source page-layout app by the ArtCraft team, written in Rust. We package it, run it inside the macOS App Sandbox, and support it. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the ArtCraft team. The source it is built from is public, under the MIT and Apache licences.

What you get

• Facing-page spreads, parent pages, margins and columns, guides, bleed and slug, and layers.
• Frames for text, pictures and colour: group, align, distribute, step-and-repeat, and wrap text around them.
• A paragraph composer that weighs every line break in a paragraph at once, with tunable hyphenation and justification.
• Paragraph, character and object styles, rules, multi-column frames, a baseline grid, tabs, tables, footnotes and cross-references.
• CMYK, RGB and spot swatches, tints, gradients, transparency, drop shadows, glows and feathering.
• Pictures in PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, WebP, SVG and PDF, kept inside the document so it travels as one file.
• Press-ready PDF (including PDF/X-4) with crop marks and bleed, print booklets, PNG, EPUB, HTML and IDML export, Preflight, Package and printing.
• QR codes, and data merge from a spreadsheet into a template.

Honest about where it stands

This is an early release of a young app that improves every week. The layout, type and output tools above work today, but there are gaps. Interchange files made in other apps may not open exactly as they were made, and some panels and dialogs are still rough. Updates will be frequent.

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