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PDFCraft is a free, privacy-focused PDF toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. With 90+ professional tools, you can edit, convert, merge, split, and secure your PDF files without ever uploading them to a server.

Is PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft merged 12 of 19 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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Indexed issues
91
Avg merge
12h
Merged PRs (30d)
12
Dominant language
TypeScript
License
AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 9, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 10, 2026
No contributing guide
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How to contribute to PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's AGPL-3.0 license.
  3. Pick the open beginner-friendly issue below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Not running after update
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#216 ·

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  • Unable to recognise printer smoothly and not saving the printer list & no print shortcut
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#211 ·

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  • Vector/Scalable Art/Images in PDFs - Edit Images Doesn't Work
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#210 ·

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  • Fonts
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    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 22/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#204 ·

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  • Hebrew text shown as squre chars in some places
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#200 ·

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  • Feature Request: Outlook Add-in or Direct Print to PdfCraft
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#199 ·

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  • [Bug][Web] Add Content → Image marked "Ready" but displays placeholder instead of file picker
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#198 ·

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  • In the Read Tab the markup menu is always visible.
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#197 ·

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  • Feature Request | Copying Form Fields With Settings Retained
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#195 ·

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  • Fallback fonts fail to render U+200B
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    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#194 ·

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  • DXGI print context error: Failed to close print control: Interface not supported (0x80040003)
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 12/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#191 · 2 comments ·

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  • Automatically Straighten Pages
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#188 · 1 comment ·

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  • simple text image page editing (drop + copy/paste)
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#187 ·

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  • ISSUE: Window will not get smaller
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#186 ·

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  • Feature requests: (1) cursor drag the bookmark to a specific position in the bookmark tree, (2) create bookmark at the current position of the bookmark tree
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#183 ·

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  • feature request - search in
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#182 ·

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  • macOS: PIN input limited to 8 characters when signing with SafeNet A3 certificate
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#181 ·

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  • Color inaccuracy bug
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#180 ·

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  • [Feature Request] Drag and Drop jpeg or pdf files to the pages to merge/import
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#179 ·

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  • Edit a PDF text fields broken (GUI issue)
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#178 ·

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  • support form Dynamic XFA
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#177 ·

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  • Print scaling issue
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#175 ·

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  • PdfCraft page rendering/resolution poor
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#172 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • PDF Forms not well recognizable
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#171 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Feature Request: Interactive Form Field / AcroForm Text Recognition
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#170 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature Request] Add support for Acrobat JavaScript animation controls (LaTeX animate package)
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#165 ·

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  • Kinetic Scrolling not working on Linux
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 53/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#161 ·

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  • No shortcut key to keep the original sizing of the image
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#160 ·

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  • Signing not resizable
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#157 ·

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  • Error while signing with digital certificate
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#155 ·

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  • cannot lock a checkbox size
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#153 ·

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  • Feature request: Provide native RPM package for Fedora
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#152 ·

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  • Scrolling Speed
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    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#151 · 1 reaction ·

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  • 添加自定义文件保存位置的功能
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#148 ·

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  • Rendering error
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#147 ·

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  • UI overlap issue
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    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 38/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#146 · 1 comment ·

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  • [feature request] Edit shortcuts
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#145 ·

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  • Create winget package to automate installation
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#143 ·

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  • Move Pages in page thumbnails between two different opened files
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#142 ·

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  • not support the Thai language
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#141 ·

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  • pdfcraft print doesn't show printers
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#140 · 1 comment · 3 reactions ·

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  • says document is encrypted with a password , but theres no passwords/encryption
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#139 · 2 comments ·

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  • Redaction Not Removing Text
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#137 · 1 comment ·

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  • Combining Files only lets you select PDFs
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#136 · 1 comment ·

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  • App is Great but need a Cleaner UI
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#135 ·

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  • OCR PDF
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#132 · 2 comments ·

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  • PDFCraft does not open
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    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#131 · 1 comment ·

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  • Cannot use an image as signature
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#129 · 2 comments ·

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  • on ubuntu, selection of text works fine but does not populate clipboard
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#128 · 1 comment ·

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  • Import of Signature from AA
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft#127 · 1 comment ·

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