How to install PdfCraft on macOS, Windows and Linux
Which PdfCraft 0.6.0 file to download for your OS and CPU, how to verify it, and how to build PdfCraft from source. Based on the official README and the v0.6.0 release.
Updated 2026-10-11 · PdfCraft 0.6.0
PdfCraft is the ArtCraft team's open-source PDF workbench, modeled on the Adobe Acrobat workflow. The latest release is v0.6.0, published on 2026-10-11. Its README calls the project alpha, so keep backups of important work.
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Where to download
The PdfCraft README recommends the PdfCraft page on getartcraft.com as the easiest way to install. Every build is attached to the latest GitHub release, and our download page links to the same files. The tables below list the actual files in v0.6.0.
macOS
| Build | File |
|---|---|
| App, universal (Apple silicon + Intel) | pdfcraft-0.6.0-macos-universal.dmg |
| Command-line tool, universal | pdfcraft-cli-0.6.0-macos-universal.zip |
Windows
| Build | Installer | Portable |
|---|---|---|
| x64 (64-bit Intel/AMD) | pdfcraft-0.6.0-windows-x64.msi | pdfcraft-0.6.0-windows-x64-portable.zip |
| arm64 (ARM PCs) | pdfcraft-0.6.0-windows-arm64.msi | pdfcraft-0.6.0-windows-arm64-portable.zip |
| x86 (32-bit) | pdfcraft-0.6.0-windows-x86.msi | pdfcraft-0.6.0-windows-x86-portable.zip |
Linux
| Format | x86_64 | aarch64 |
|---|---|---|
| AppImage | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-aarch64.AppImage |
| Flatpak | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-x86_64.flatpak | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-aarch64.flatpak |
| Debian/Ubuntu (.deb) | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-x86_64.deb | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-aarch64.deb |
| Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE (.rpm) | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-x86_64.rpm | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-aarch64.rpm |
| Tarball (.tar.gz) | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz |
Other builds
pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-riscv64.tar.gz, pdfcraft-0.6.0-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz, pdfcraft-web-0.6.0.zip (RISC-V Linux, FreeBSD x86_64, and the static web build).
Linux command-line tool: pdfcraft-cli-0.6.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz, pdfcraft-cli-0.6.0-linux-riscv64.tar.gz, pdfcraft-cli-0.6.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
For Flatpak, the README gives flatpak install --user <file>. For example:
flatpak install --user pdfcraft-0.6.0-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Verify the download
The release includes SHA256SUMS.txt with a checksum for every file:
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt --ignore-missing # macOS
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt --ignore-missing # Linux
Get-FileHash .\pdfcraft-0.6.0-windows-x64.msi -Algorithm SHA256 # Windows
Build from source
You need a Rust toolchain from rustup. These commands come from the README:
git clone https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft
cd pdfcraft
cargo run --release -p pdfcraft -- some.pdf # desktop app
Gentoo (community package)
The README notes that the community ::snakebyte overlay packages the Linux release as app-text/pdfcraft-bin, and that it is not maintained by the PdfCraft team.
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Sources
Every factual claim in this article is taken from these upstream files. If something here disagrees with them, the upstream source wins.
PhotoCraft Hub is an unofficial community site. PhotoCraft is made by the ArtCraft team; screenshots are from the PhotoCraft repository (MIT OR Apache-2.0) and show public-domain artwork.
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