SteveTheKiller/KillerPDF v1.9.3

KillerPDF v1.9.3

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1.9.3 reads EPUB and DjVu books natively with Convert to PDF, selects and extracts pictures, color-manages viewing and printer proofing on standard monitors with HDR still in progress, opens large PDFs faster, turns the page and markup right-click menus into cards, deletes pages in one step, splits a PDF into one file per page or every few pages, turns images into a PDF straight from File Explorer, lets Enter save a text box, and fixes redaction, cropping, form saving, merging, printing, stamps, updates and the file picker.

Security

• Redacting one copy of a form field that appears in several places removes its value from every copy of the field in the saved file, not only from the field itself; the other copies stay as empty fields, and the other buttons of a radio or check box group stay visible and switched off.

Fixed

• Crop keeps the area you drew on pages whose box does not start at the page corner, including a page cropped a second time, crops the page you drew on in Continuous view, sizes its fields from that page, follows All and the page range when you press Enter in a field, and no longer freezes on a very large end page.
• Pictures and image watermarks in a format the page shows but saving could not read, such as JPEG XR, appear in saved, printed and flattened copies instead of disappearing from them.
• PDFs whose layer settings leave out their list of layers show their pages instead of a blank page. (#476)
• In split view, Delete removes the annotation selected in the pane you are working in instead of a form field selected in the other pane.
• Printing at a Custom scale above 100% or at Actual size prints a page larger than the printable area at that size instead of shrinking it to fit, and a page that fills the printable area in one direction prints without a thin white edge.
• The Stamp window keeps typed sizes within the slider range, reads a decimal size typed with either separator, keeps a watermark font that is not installed, resets every setting with Reset all, does nothing on Enter when there is nothing to apply, and names its page buttons for screen readers.
• A picture or text box resize cut short by a redraw can be undone and marks the document as changed.
• A dismissed restricted-PDF notice stays dismissed when its tab moves to another pane or window, and switching away while drawing a level line in Transform ends the line.
• Rasterize Region places its image exactly over the selected area on pages whose crop box does not start at the corner of the page, and the area it replaces no longer stays live underneath.
• Changing a selected ink stroke's or text box's color, size, opacity or font from the options bar can be undone in one step.
• Paragraph edits keep supported colored highlights and still refuse opaque covers. (#413)
• The first text highlight on a page can be undone and redone. (#485)
• A per-user or portable update that fails now reopens KillerPDF instead of leaving it closed, including when antivirus or a locked-down PowerShell stops the update helper from loading or the downloaded update is removed or changed after KillerPDF closes, and a published copy that fails its final check is swapped back for the previous version and never started.
• Searchable PDFs made with OCR, and other saves that add text, open in Adobe Reader again. Added fonts carry their complete encoding details, and saves keep the original file's cross-reference format.
• An update started from an administrator's copy, installed or portable, reopens KillerPDF at normal rights. An update that is applied but cannot record its version in the registry now finishes and reopens instead of reporting failure, and putting the previous copy back after a failed update retries a busy file and survives a leftover from an earlier attempt.
• Updating KillerPDF no longer removes a relaunch another Killer app scheduled for its own update.
• Updates show requested recovery reports, avoid recreating them after success, and remove inactive relaunch tasks.
• Text fields with automatic font sizing save correctly and keep their original border and background styling. Untagged fields can be deleted from tagged PDFs without changing the page's existing tags. (#477)
• Independent fields keep their own values and form settings. Added text saves above existing comments and reopens as one editable multiline box. (#466)
• Merge accepts more PDFs with optional popup links, saved appearances and resource metadata, and preserves nested form fonts and alignment. (#455)
• Large PDFs open faster and use far less memory. On a slower test PC a 10,000-page PDF shows its first page in about 7 seconds instead of 11 and peaks at about 540 MB instead of 1.5 GB, and a 20,000-page PDF in about 9 seconds instead of 20, at about 700 MB instead of 1.9 GB. Opening reads and copies the file fewer times, page thumbnails are drawn only for the pages in view, each page is built and its links read when it is drawn, and pages scrolled to below 100% are drawn at the size they appear.
• Grid view keeps only the pages near the screen in memory and draws those first, so a long document in Grid no longer climbs into gigabytes, a page you jump to shows at once, and typing stays responsive.
• Filled Shapes rectangles retain their color and opacity in print previews, printed output and flattened copies. (#474)
• Highlights color the paper and keep the text under them dark at any opacity, on screen and in saved, printed and flattened copies, and the opacity you set now applies to those copies too. Selecting a filled Shapes rectangle opens the Shapes settings.
• Printing a page much larger than the paper no longer fails with a render limit error. Each page renders at the size it prints, and a page too large even at Actual size prints at a lower resolution. (#481)
• With Fit to page, landscape pages in a portrait print job, and portrait pages in a landscape one, turn to fill the sheet instead of printing small. The preview shows the same turn. (#482)
• PDFs without saved annotation appearances show note markers and ink strokes, and highlights keep their page positions when their stored rectangle is incorrect.
• Text extraction recovers missing marked-content properties and stray closing tags in compatibility mode.
• Text selection keeps separate rectangular panels apart. New searchable PDFs fit TrueType text to OCR word heights so short words stay on their lines. (#465)
• JPEG 2000 images use their encoded sample depth when the PDF declares a different value.
• Gradient mesh shadings have smooth clipped edges instead of jagged ones.
• Rasterize Region keeps earlier region images intact on repeated operations and leaves invisible clipping paths out of its content counts. (#369)
• Zoomed page details stay aligned when scrolling, and switching from Continuous to Single-page viewing keeps the correct zoom.
• Returning to a tab at Fit Page fits the page to the view again, so the page is no longer cut off after another tab opens.
• Leaving full screen puts the window back at its earlier width instead of leaving it much wider, and a narrow split window at a large app scale keeps room for both panes instead of squeezing the second one to a sliver.
• KillerPDF reopens where it was last closed, maximized included, when a PDF is opened from another monitor, and a tab moved to a new window opens beside the window it came from instead of on top of it or maximized. (#487) (Thanks @Ryokoxx)
• Transform, Color correction and Stamp on a page with comments or text boxes show an error when the temporary folder cannot be written, instead of a crash report.
• The table export window keeps its format choice, Cancel and Export buttons fully inside the window at a large app scale on a short screen instead of cutting off their bottom edge.
• Save Flattened shows output pixel dimensions and scale, matching image export. (#462)
• View controls follow the active tab or pane, and opening a document during a sidebar transition keeps its thumbnails visible. (#473)
• The file picker no longer stalls on a disconnected network folder when it opens, a relative or malformed path typed in the path box is refused instead of being looked up against the wrong folder, a pattern such as *.log typed in the name box filters the list, and a full path typed in the name box, quoted or not, can be accepted even when the shown folder failed to list.
• PDF creation, modification, comment and attachment dates use the Gregorian calendar on Thai, Arabic and Persian region settings instead of writing years like 2569.
• The update check reads only the release's own fields, so release notes that quote them cannot confuse it.
• The file picker loads icons and picture previews in the background, refreshes overwritten previews, and restores its position on any monitor.
• Recent files appear immediately after an update reopens an empty window.
• Make Searchable opens its save dialog in the original PDF's folder instead of the last-used folder.
• The visible signature date uses the same year-month-day format on every region setting.
• Flatten Layers works on layered PDFs with added text instead of stopping with a "Layer is still referenced" error.
• A grouped text box stays in its group after its text is edited.
• Changing the file type in the save picker while the name box holds characters no file name can carry keeps the name as typed and shows the invalid-path message.
• killerpdf search-text searches for a query that starts with two dashes, such as --json, instead of reading it as an option, so a search can no longer leave the command waiting for input.
• The footer copyright has a single space between the year and the name, and the version and copyright come from the family footer, so their distance from the corner grip matches the other Killer apps.
• The Open dialog offers EPUB and DjVu books alongside PDFs, together or one format at a time, and the Open button's recent files menu is only as wide as its longest name.
• Check boxes in dialogs draw a visible box on the Light theme and repaint when the theme changes.
• Hiding shortcut hints removes the hints the app adds to tooltips in every language, including translated keys such as (Strg+D).
• Menu rows show the right shortcut: the Attachments Save row no longer shows Ctrl+S, which saves the PDF, and Compare PDFs shows its own. The Bold, Italic and Underline buttons show their shortcuts, and the status line names Ctrl+Enter, not Enter, as the key that saves a text box.
• Chinese and Japanese interface text uses the font Windows uses for that language: Microsoft YaHei UI for Simplified Chinese and Yu Gothic UI for Japanese, instead of the Traditional Chinese font. The installer and portable launcher follow the same rule. (#490)
• When a save has to draw markup into the pages instead of keeping it editable, the saved message says so, and text boxes on a page whose annotation list is written as null now save as editable boxes.
• A sidebar thumbnail that fails to draw once is drawn again without scrolling it away and back.
• A shortcut you change in Customize Shortcuts shows its new key in the shortcut list, the keyboard map, the toolbar menu, status messages and bookmark Delete, in every open window. The list now also names Backspace, Ctrl+Enter, Ctrl+Alt+Enter, and Alt+C and Alt+W in Find.
• Submenus and the toolbar overflow menu keep their texture on the highlighted row.
• Toolbar, rail, theme, accent swatch, close and comparison bar buttons no longer cast a shadow behind their icons or captions, and neither does the unsaved Save button.
• About places link confirmation in the left column, aligns Clear all Data on the same bottom row and keeps its checkboxes aligned when labels wrap, and the footer zoom percentage fits its control.
• Image watermarks are applied at the size the preview shows: the image's own size from its resolution, with Scale as a percent of that. (#478)
• The Measure tool's options bar follows a language or theme change right away instead of keeping the old ones until the tool is chosen again.
• Dialogs meant to be resizable, such as Comments, Color Management and the certificate list, can now be resized from any edge and maximize without covering the taskbar. Most never get smaller than they open; Accessibility Review, Guided Tasks, Edit paragraph and table export, which open larger at a larger app scale, go down to their usual minimum size.
• When Detect finds a long table, the table export window grows to show it without pushing Export and Cancel below the bottom of the screen.
• Selecting a highlight, drawing, filled rectangle or measurement no longer changes the color, opacity or width of the next mark you draw: the bar shows the selected mark's look while it is selected and returns to its own when it is not. A change you make on the bar meanwhile stays.
• A right-click menu taller than the screen scrolls instead of cutting off its last items.
• Alt+Shift+V opens the Compare PDFs menu under its toolbar button, or in the middle of the page when the button is in the More menu, instead of below the window, where a maximized window put it off the screen.
• Clicking away from a text box saves it wherever the click lands, instead of leaving the box open for Escape to throw away, and clicking from one text box to an empty spot no longer closes the new box at once. (#486)
• Architectural sheet sizes, ARCH A through ARCH E, are named in the footer beside their measurements, like Letter and A4. (#338)
• Protect Document's certificate recipients list no longer shows as a bright white box on dark themes, and its buttons read Cancel then Protect like every other dialog.
• The bookmark menu shows an icon for each action; its rows had none.
• In 98SE, caption buttons are sized like Windows 98's: 20 by 18 on the main window, and dialog and card close buttons 18 by 16 on their 20-pixel title bands.
• Pressing Enter twice on a slow network or USB folder typed into the file dialog's name box no longer navigates twice or races the save.
• Opening Color Correction no longer pops up an Exposure tooltip over the Auto exposure box. Sliders whose label is already on screen carry no tooltip; Warmth and Tint keep their hints.

Changed

• Updates OCR, cryptography and test dependencies (ONNX Runtime 1.32.0, System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs 11.0.0, System.Numerics.Tensors 11.0.0), and reads installed font metadata without a separate font library. The installed app carries its own copies of Pkcs and System.Formats.Asn1.
• Saved TrueType text retains fractional font advances. (#472)
• Color edges in JPEG photos and scans are smoother, most visibly red or blue text on white.
• CMYK colors without their own profile now look the same in the viewer, thumbnails, printing, exports, the preview pane, the command line and the color conversion macro, all following the working CMYK profile (CGATS TR 001 unless you choose another). Colors move very little: about 0.6 delta E on average across test pages, and about 6 at most on test swatches. (#264)
• Single-line text fields are as tall as the dropdowns beside them, so form rows line up instead of the text boxes standing oversized.
• The Transform, Color correction and Stamp windows are redesigned. Their options sit in two compact columns on the right with every section open, and each window opens exactly as tall as its options, with the page preview filling the rest. They resize from any edge, maximize with a double-click on the title, and remember their size and position. Every setting, including the section headers, sliders and Reset all, can be reached with Tab, and Color correction lists Color first.
• Tool options sit in a row docked above the page in each pane instead of floating over it. The row is one line that never wraps, with even-height controls and dropdowns sized to their contents, and on a narrow pane or split view the least-used settings move into a "..." menu. Every swatch, toggle and check can be reached with Tab and is named for screen readers. The row no longer slides or hides when its tool is clicked again.
• The Print window is redesigned. Its options sit in two compact columns on the left, with Printer, Pages, Copies, Color and two-sided printing at the top, and Paper and Layout open below them. The window opens exactly as tall as its options and remembers its size and position. It resizes from any edge and maximizes with a double-click on its title. A 1 / 2 / Book switch in the title bar previews one sheet or two side by side, starting from the document's view, and the preview fills the window as it is resized. Cancel now comes before Print.
• Shapes and text edges are drawn by a new anti-aliasing engine.
• Saving many text notes or edited lines is faster and makes a much smaller file, because text in one font shares one embedded copy of it. In a 3,000-page test on a slower test PC, a note on every page saves in about 7.5 s instead of 32 s and makes an 11 MB file instead of 103 MB, and an edited line on every page saves in about 7 s instead of 32 s and makes a 10 MB file instead of 99 MB, using well under half the memory.
• Right-clicking a page thumbnail opens a card with the page's size, orientation and markup count, quick buttons to duplicate, extract and delete, a second row to rotate either way or turn the page upside down, an add-page icon that inserts a blank page, and the cleanup, extract-from-page and move tools in three short submenus.
• Right-clicking markup opens a card with quick buttons to edit, copy, raise, lower, group and delete it. A highlight, filled rectangle or drawing changes color and opacity right on the card, a drawing its width, and a highlight turns into an underline or strikethrough in place. On both cards the quick button icons and the option that is switched on use the accent color, options that are unavailable are dimmed, and row labels line up with the menu's icons.
• The page menu is shorter: Back, Forward, Undo, Redo and Print share its top row with the page number, the selected-text and placement tools are icon strips, and the page tools sit under Page.
• Delete Pages takes one step: the range, a strip that marks the pages going (a run of pages is one tile, so a long document stays quick), and a button that says how many. The Yes/No box that followed it is gone.
• Buttons are flat, and a dialog's close button sits in its corner.
• F1 always opens the shortcut list and F12 always opens About: they can no longer be reassigned in Customize Shortcuts, and they work, along with Esc to close what they open, even when keyboard shortcuts are switched off.
• The sidebar position and two-page thumbnail options share one Sidebar row with a flyout at the foot of the sidebar menus.
• Transform and Color correction flip through every page of the document. Apply changes the page on screen and keeps the window open, so the next page can be fixed without reopening it, and a window opened on several selected pages can still change them all at once.
• Production layouts, Form data, Preflight and the other document tool launchers show each command as an icon tile in a grid instead of a column of identical buttons.
• The Digital Signature window is redesigned into two compact columns, with the certificate, details and timestamp on the left and the visible signature and save location on the right.
• Document tools have their own sidebar panel on the rail (Alt+7, or Ctrl+Shift+D and a tool's letter), shown as icon tiles under Reports, Edit document and Automation and data, three across at the default sidebar width so every tool fits without scrolling, instead of a long submenu under Save.
• The Macros window is redesigned: list actions are icons beside the list they act on, New offers the starter macros as a menu, the lists sit on the window's texture, and an empty saved list says how to fill it. Starter macro names follow the app's language.
• Macros and Guided tasks have their own keys, Ctrl+Shift+M and Ctrl+Shift+X, and still answer to their Document tools letters.
• The document tool windows follow the Macros window's style: list actions are icons beside what they act on, lists and reports sit on the window's texture, and Cancel and the main action share one footer row with any options.
• Separation preview, Export table, Divide spreads, Rasterize region and Form recognition review show the page on the left and the options on the right.
• Protect Document, Automatic folders, Color Management, Initial view settings, the certificate catalog and Customize toolbar use two columns, so they fit without scrolling.
• The menus around the page, on a bookmark and in the Comments, Attachments and Signatures panels show their actions as icon strips, like the page card.
• The copyright at the right end of the footer ends 8 px before the corner grip, the same gap in every Killer app.
• Every Document tools tile has its own icon: attachments show a paperclip, Guided tasks a checklist, bookmark creation a starred list, and the edit tools show what they edit with a pen on it. The Fillable Field Preset menu row has an icon, and menu labels sit clear of wide icons.
• The menu around the page shows its page tools in one row like the menu on the page, without a heading.
• With two-page thumbnails, the Pages panel can be dragged about twice as wide, until both thumbnails reach full size, instead of stopping at the one-column limit.

Added

• Color-managed viewing and printer proofing (in development): on a standard (SDR) monitor with a color profile, pages are converted for that monitor, and a monitor without one shows the plain sRGB drawing 1.9.2 used. Printer proofing is set per document, with printer and paper profiles, rendering intent, black-point compensation, paper and black simulation, overprint simulation, and gamut warnings that paint the colors the printer cannot reproduce flat gray. Proof presets and an ICC profile library are kept between sessions, a working CMYK profile covers CMYK colors without their own, and sidebar previews follow the document's proof and the monitor's profile. A page that cannot be color-managed keeps its size and says its output is plain sRGB. HDR output and physical color accuracy are still in progress, so HDR and Advanced Color monitors draw pages the way standard monitors do. (#264)
• Native EPUB support (in development): books open in document tabs in all five view modes with thumbnails, the outline, local and web or email links, search, copy and screen-reader text. Books open in the background with chapter progress and a Cancel button, a long book shows its first page while the rest is paginated behind it, and pages stay sharp at high zoom. Styled text with the book's fonts, headings, numbered and bulleted lists, tables, preformatted text and PNG, JPEG and SVG pictures lay out, and stylesheets degrade the way browsers do. A chapter the reader cannot lay out shows a page naming it and the reason, anything else left out is listed chapter by chapter in a notice with a Details button, and the rest of the book still opens. Books with Adobe or IDPF font obfuscation open, and real encryption refuses only the chapter or image it protects. Convert to PDF keeps text, links, fonts, pictures and bookmarks with selectable paper and margins, keeps going past a chapter it cannot lay out, and asks before replacing an existing PDF. Installed copies appear in Open with for .epub files. Full shaping, selection and format coverage are still in progress. (#264, #472)
• Native DjVu support (in development): bitonal scans, grayscale and color photo pages, and pages with colored text and drawings over a scanned background open in document tabs with thumbnails, the outline and page navigation, and stay as sharp at high zoom as the scan allows. The original file is never changed. Text the file carries can be searched, selected and copied, with a replacement character where it cannot be read. Convert to PDF keeps the page images, placed text and bookmarks, stores color photo pages as one high-quality JPEG, and names the pages, text and bookmarks it could not keep when it finishes. A file with parts the reader does not recognize opens with a notice whose Details button lists them; the producer metadata most scanned books carry is not one of them. Installed copies appear in Open with for .djvu and .djv files. Full decoding, search, selection and format coverage are still in progress. (#264, #472)
• Image selection and extraction (in development): select, copy, cut, move, resize from the corners and delete supported PDF pictures with Undo/Redo, keeping a picture mirrored or flipped the way the page showed it; the first click on a picture selects it, dragging from there draws a selection box, and dragging a selected picture moves it, preserving source data, other uses of the same picture and editable images through save and reopen. That includes the JPEG photos cameras, scanners and generators such as ReportLab write, and a picture that can't be lifted out of the PDF says so on the status line. Extract Image turns a box or a color area of a scan or flattened page, with adjustable tolerance, add and remove refinement and optional soft edges, into a transparent editable image; Cut also covers the area with a sampled or chosen fill color, shown before the page changes. Extract Image is on the page and thumbnail menus. A copied picture whose source can no longer be read is left out of saves, exports, signing, printing, OCR output, macros, merges and page transforms instead of stopping them, and the result says how many pictures were left out. Full acceptance remains in progress.
• Replacement text on scans supports searchable blur, separate cover/text visibility, movement and resizing, linked movement, and saved editing state. Hidden layers retain their editing state on pages with existing comments and stay out of visible output and reading-order descriptions. Saving keeps pace with long documents: text edited on hundreds of pages, tens of thousands of notes and placed pictures too large for the editing layer all save, the pictures as page content or a plain stamp, and a certified PDF keeps its markup as ordinary annotations so filling its fields keeps the certification. (#467)
• Two-page continuous viewing scrolls facing page rows, supports a centered book cover and preserves each tab's view mode. An optional two-column thumbnail sidebar supports page selection and reordering. (#473)
• Extract Pages offers pages from one number to another as one PDF (still the default), a typed page list such as 1-3,7, every page as its own PDF, or a PDF for every few pages, and names split files the way the command line's split does. A split shows a part counter, Esc cancels it with the folder left as it was, and if a file name is taken while it runs it stops before moving any part. (#484)
• The text bar has an Enter button: turn it on and Enter saves the text while Shift+Enter adds a line. Ctrl+Enter saves either way, and the shortcut list, keyboard map and Search Tools follow the choice. (#486)
• Images (JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF) open with KillerPDF from File Explorer's Open with as a new PDF with one page per image, and right-clicking them offers Save as KillerPDF, which writes one PDF beside them in name order without opening the app, even for a large selection on a slow disk. KillerPDF is not made the default for images. (#480, #479)
• killerpdf convert-book converts an EPUB or DjVu book to PDF from the command line with the same paper sizes, margin and notices as Convert to PDF, and killerpdf help lists the --data records file that a macro with a Data Merge step reads.
• Windows can print PDFs with KillerPDF: right-click Print, Start-Process -Verb Print and mail apps that print an attachment use KillerPDF's own print, printing to a named printer sends the job to that printer, and a print that cannot be done says why. (#489)