Fotobuch - a photo book layout app with typst backend

Hi everyone,

I just release a typst-backed photo book layout app.
It basically automates the workflow of creating good looking photobooks for you.
The book itself is rendered using the typst rust crate together with a typst template.
It was a breeze to work with typst realizing this dream project of mine.
I especially found it helpful how good the vs code add on worked for typst files and the fact that typst allows reading yaml files which made it my to-go-tool for this project.

Yesterday I finished the work on the GUI (based on egui) which by itself uses typst to render each page as it would be written to pdf when the final photo book is created, so everything you see in the gui is exactly what typst renders when you export the photo book as pdf.

In my opinion its a nice showcase of what typst is capable of.

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Welcome to the forum, Eddyxorb.

Fotobuch looks great! I haven’t tried it yet but it looks quite polished and even the documentation is very nice. You must really care about this to delve into research papers and even extend the methods described in them :sweat_smile:.

Would you consider releasing it as an AppImage or Flatpak?

Thank you for your nice feedback, @gezepi!

Yeah, I am quite involved and it was also fun to think about improvements regarding the algorithm.

I just released an AppImage in the newest version (hopefully not only) for you!

Here: Release v0.2.1 · EddyXorb/fotobuch · GitHub

I considered also flatpak, but it comes with more tradeoffs than the AppImage in my eyes.

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