Simple Publisher

A simple, beginner-friendly, and offline-first Desktop Publishing (PAO) application built with Electron, React, and Fabric.js.

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🚀 Key Features

🎨 Drawing & Illustration

• Advanced Brush Tool: Custom textures and pattern scaling (Dot, HLine, VLine, Square, Diamond).
• Bezier Pen Tool: Professional path creation with interactive handles.
• Pencil Tool: Natural freehand drawing.
• Shape System: Dynamic shapes including Rectangles, Circles, Triangles, Stars, and QR Codes.
• Path Editing: Double-click to edit vertices, convert points between Line and Bezier curves.

✍️ Typography & Text

• Rich Text Support: Custom fonts, alignment, and formatting.
• Tabulation System: Advanced ruler with tab stops support.
• Text Transformations: Uppercase conversion and styling.

🛠 Object Management

• Grouping & Selection: Combined objects into groups, multi-selection support.
• Layer System: Visibility toggle, locking, and depth reordering.
• Image Cropping: Nondestructive interactive cropping tool.
• Alignment Tools: Align objects to the page (Left, Center, Right, Top, Middle, Bottom).

⌨️ Productivity

• Global Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • Ctrl + N : New / Ctrl + S : Save / Ctrl + O : Open
  • Ctrl + Z / Y : Undo / Redo
  • Ctrl + C / V / X : Copy / Paste / Cut
  • Ctrl + G / Shift + G : Group / Ungroup
  • Ctrl + A : Select All
  • Ctrl + 0 : Fit to Screen
  • V / H / P / B : Selection, Hand, Pen, and Brush tools
• Context Menu: Right-click actions for quick access to object operations.

💾 File & Export

• Project Saving: Save and load custom .pub formatted projects.
• Export Formats: Support for High-Resolution PNG and Vector PDF.

🛠 Tech Stack

• Electron: Desktop shell and system integration.
• React: Modern component-based UI.
• Fabric.js (v6): High-performance canvas engine.
• Vite: Rapid development and bundling.
• TypeScript: Robust type safety.

📦 Installation & Setup

1. Prerequisites: Install Node.js (version 16 or higher).

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Run in development:

   npm run dev:electron

4. Build for production:

   npm run build:electron

� Credits & Attributions

This project uses external resources to provide high-quality assets:

• Open Iconic: An open source icon set with 223 marks in SVG, webfont and raster formats.
  • License: MIT (Code) / SIL OFL 1.1 (Fonts) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Icons).
  • Used for the "Open Iconic" shape category.
• Lucide React: Beautiful & consistent icon toolkit made by the community.
  • License: ISC.
  • Used for the "Icons" tab.

�📜 License

MIT