v1.17.8

iwo Helper Desktop v1.17.8

Added

• Printing, on every PDF screen. A “Print” button on Merge, Split and PDF → Word prints the
  pages you selected, or all of them if you selected none, and the full-size preview has one too
  alongside its right-click entry. Pages are rendered at 200 dpi and fitted into the sheet whole
  and centred — stretching a page to the edges would crop the margins, which is where signatures
  and page numbers live — and a rotation you set in the grid reaches the paper as well.
• Zoom and pan in the full-size preview. The page you open by double-clicking a tile now
  has a magnifier: − / + buttons, Ctrl+wheel, a “fit to window” button and Ctrl+0 for actual
  size. Zooming with the wheel keeps the point under the cursor in place — you magnify what you
  are looking at, not the middle of the page — and once the page is larger than the window you
  drag it with the hand cursor. Esc and the close button close it.
• Assemble a double-sided scan (Merge → menu). For a scanner that takes one side at a time:
  scan the stack face up, flip it, scan again, add both files and use this item. The app asks
  whether the second file came out in reverse and lays the pages out as 1, 2, 3, 4… A single
  Ctrl+Z puts the order back.
• Save pages as images (Split → “More with this document”): PNG or JPEG at 96, 150, 300 or
  600 dpi, either the selected pages or all of them. The resolution is applied to each page's
  real paper size, so a landscape insert is not stretched. JPEG is written at quality 90 rather
  than the default 75, which shows up as rings around letters on scans.
• Extract the text layer to a .txt (Split → “More with this document”). Tables are kept: the
  analysis moves table words out of the paragraph stream, so a naive dump would lose them
  entirely — cells come out separated by tabs and paste into a spreadsheet as a table. Pages are
  separated by a form feed, as pdftotext does, and the file is UTF-8 with a byte-order mark so
  Notepad shows Cyrillic correctly.
• Name the split parts yourself (Split → “How to name the parts”). Right-clicking the field
  inserts the available keywords: [BASENAME], [FILENUMBER], [CURRENTPAGE], [BOOKMARK],
  [TIMESTAMP]. Hashes pad with zeros ([FILENUMBER###] → 001) and a number offsets the
  count ([FILENUMBER10] → 11). The field is optional on purpose: left empty, the parts get
  exactly the names they got before, so a new capability does not rename anyone's files.
• Print on both sides without a document starting on a back (Merge → “Add a blank page”): a
  blank page is added after a document with an odd page count so the next one starts on the
  front of a sheet. The last document is deliberately not padded — nothing is printed after
  it. The blanks are added when the file is written, not kept in the page grid: putting them
  in the model would mean drawing them as tiles, carrying them through the clipboard and undo
  and forbidding them in PDF → Word, which is a lot of risk for a print-time detail.
• Edit document properties — title, author, subject, keywords (Split → “More with this
  document”). Clearing a field removes the property, which is how an author's name is taken
  out of a file before sending it. The result is written to a new file.
• Select odd or even pages from the page grid's context menu — the two sides of a
  double-sided stack, so rotating or deleting one side no longer means ticking fifty tiles.
• Convert to grayscale and repair a damaged PDF (Split → “More with this document”).
  Repair rewrites the file through the PDF engine, which is what fixes a broken cross-reference
  table — the usual “this file is damaged”. It picks the file with its own dialog, because a
  damaged document cannot be opened into the grid in the first place, and that is exactly when
  it is needed. Both write a new file: the app never modifies a source.

Changed

• The extra tools are reachable from a button called “More actions…”, sitting with the other
  inputs in Split, and it opens downwards instead of over the top of the window. Five
  capabilities behind a hamburger submenu were, in practice, invisible; that submenu is gone,
  so there is one list and one way to reach it.
• The in-app instructions match the app again — they now describe printing, the extra
  actions, the part-name template, interleaving and double-sided padding.
• Changing the language no longer throws every window at you. Rebuilding the windows in the
  new language used to bring each of them to the front and restore the minimized ones. Only the
  window you were working in comes forward now; the rest update where they stand.
• Everything that writes a result beside a source now refuses to write over it. The app
  does not modify sources, and writing a file into itself would have damaged it as well — the
  source is open for reading at that moment.
• The compression levels name their resolution — “Good — smaller size (150 dpi)” instead of
  “Good — smaller size”. The number comes from the same place the engine arguments do, so the
  label cannot promise one thing while the engine does another.
• The shared Ghostscript pipeline (run, validate, replace only on success, restore the original
  on any failure) is now one piece of code used by compression and by both new conversions. They
  differ only in arguments and in when a replacement is allowed: compression replaces the file
  only if it got smaller, while grayscale and repair apply whenever the result is sound.
• One file-name sanitiser instead of two that had drifted apart. The surviving one also trims
  trailing dots and caps the length, which protects split-by-bookmark names from the path-length
  limit.
• The description in “About” is justified, the way a paragraph of body text is set, and it is
  still selectable so the text can be copied.

Fixed

• A minimized start screen was lost when the language changed. Windows are rebuilt in the new
  language on the spot they occupied, but a minimized window reports a position far outside every
  screen (-32000, -32000) and that position was copied onto the new start screen. It came back as
  an ordinary window parked past the edge of the desktop: listed in the taskbar, absent from the
  screen, and “Home” appeared to do nothing at all. This happened from any of the four tools, not
  just one. Placement is now read and applied exactly the way the app already stored it between
  runs — restored size and position together with the window state — so a minimized window stays
  minimized and comes back where it was. That rule lives in one place instead of two that had
  drifted apart, and a test drives a real rebuild with the start screen minimized.

Files: iwoHelperDesktop-1.17.8.exe / iwoHelperDesktop-1.17.8-x86.exe - portable (single file, 64-bit / 32-bit); iwoHelperDesktop-setup-1.17.8.exe / iwoHelperDesktop-setup-1.17.8-x86.exe - installers with bundled Ghostscript (per-user install, no administrator rights). Take x64 unless your Windows is 32-bit.