Features
- Mixed Raster Content (MRC) for scanned PDFs: the text of a scan is compressed separately from the paper and pictures around it, which can make scans several times smaller
Scans of clean printed or typed text gain the most. Their text stays sharp while the file shrinks.
Faint, soft or bold text can get hard to read, because letters fill in or break apart. Grey smudges can appear next to words, and the texture of the paper is lost, which matters for old letters and archival scans.
MRC is off by default because of these risks. It can be enabled for every PDF in Settings > PDF, with an optional DPI limit, or applied to one PDF at a time with the MRC toggle on its result, Apply MRC compression in the right-click menu or the
mrcpipeline step.
- Custom encoder paths in Settings > General > Advanced, for Macs where only approved binaries are allowed to run
Fixes
- Fix some .mov files being optimised as MOV instead of converted to MP4 by the conversion rules
- Fix PDF results showing the wrong original size after changing the DPI
- Fix images in spot colours losing their transparency when a PDF is optimised
- Fix Keep debug logs showing up as
shin System Settings > Login Items - Fixed a possible crash when a Limba translation has placeholders that don't match the English text
- Fixed a possible freeze while translating Clop with Limba on a busy disk
- Fixed a possible freeze at the end of a pipeline when the file is on a slow network or cloud drive
Improvements
- PDFs come out about 3% smaller with no change in quality, and about 9% smaller with lossless compression at 300 DPI
- PDFs with JPEG images come out about 2% smaller, with no change in quality
- Option to keep Clop's icon in the Dock
- The Dock icon has the same menu as the menu bar icon when the menu bar icon is hidden
- Future updates are smaller to download when only some of the bundled tools change
- Bundled tools updated: libjxl 0.13 (security fixes), exiftool 13.63 and qpdf 12.4.2