BoardRipper v0.47.0

v0.47.0 — 2026-10-04

Added

• Slide mode. A new ribbon button marks up the board view and saves it
  as a PNG — for a repair ticket, a message to a colleague, a lesson. Draw
  arrows, boxes, freehand with a pen, and text in five colours and three
  weights; everything stays pinned to the parts while you pan, zoom or
  rotate. Every selected part gets a large label with its name, and
  ⌘+click (Ctrl+click on Windows, or the Several parts toggle on a
  tablet) labels several at once; under the label of the part you picked
  last are two boxes to note an Ω and a diode reading, which print on the
  label. The PNG carries the board file name and the date in a header, the
  labels, your annotations and the minimap. Copy puts the same picture on
  the clipboard. A guide card explains the tool in hand; Esc leaves, and
  the annotations come back when you return.
• Minimap. Zoomed in past twice the fit view, a pan of more than an
  eighth of the screen fades in a small map of the whole board at the top
  with a box for what you are looking at — click or drag on it to move.
  It leaves when panning stops, stays up in slide mode, and the ribbon
  button turns it off.
• PDF filters in one menu. The wand on the PDF toolbar opens a menu
  with the watermark text filter and its terms, Strip small watermark
  images (which had no control before) and Skip invisible content.
  The two parse-time options show a Reload & re-parse row when an open
  PDF was opened under other values; page, search and extracted text
  survive the reload.
• Touch: a right click on glass. Hold a finger on a part and tap with
  a second one to open its menu. Any touch outside closes it.

Changed

• PDFs render faster where it hurt most. Some PDFs end every page with
  a page-sized invisible overlay that pdf.js still decoded, rasterised and
  composited on every render — 100–190 ms per render on an iPad. It is
  dropped before it reaches the renderer; the picture is pixel-identical.

Fixed

• No more blurry blink after a zoom. When a zoom settled where sharp
  pixels already existed, the viewer put the blurry preview on top of
  them for a moment, and in Safari a cleared tile could reach the screen
  for a frame. Both causes are gone.
• Scrolling over a board next to a PDF works again. With the PDF the
  active panel, a wheel over the board took the zoom and drew nothing. A
  regression from July.
• An old tab after a server update said nothing and failed to open
  boards; it now says the server was updated and offers a reload.
• Small net names on the iPad stopped showing when zooming in; they
  are back.
• Strip small watermark images applied to the first pages only after
  a zoom change; a failed strip left a permanent "reload needed"; a term
  typed in the filter menu and clicked away from was lost.