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Vibe Files 0.1.5 (pre-release)

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@KisaesDevLab KisaesDevLab released this 05 Nov 02:18
· 167 commits to 802d51a014c21e872d75c3eab322e1fae8d0d806 since this release
v0.1.5
4aeee54

Sixth pre-release of Vibe Files: document management for small CPA and tax firms over a plain client folder tree (Windows, portable).

Pre-release: in use at Kisaes LLC for its two-week live run (PHASES P13). Not yet on winget.

Install

Unzip vibe-files-0.1.5-win64.zip into a folder and run vibe-files.exe. Everything it needs is inside: pdfium (PDF viewing), TWAINDSM (scanning), Tesseract with English data (OCR). Upgrading: replace the exe and DLLs; the data folder and cabinet are kept. Setup and day-to-day operation: Help inside the app, and OPERATIONS.md in the zip.

Verify the download

Get-FileHash vibe-files-0.1.5-win64.zip

must show

File SHA-256
vibe-files-0.1.5-win64.zip 15271cb3ce5bcb1acd7d54d8dfb73e177f63689ed4d79e3b3d0af420c4fa2cff
vibe-files.exe (inside) 6f4c4d76ee7f78ceb750fe87be91636ee0f18c9995983fc3575049f93c607369

(also in SHA256SUMS.txt).

New in 0.1.5

  • Fill in PDF forms (Viewer › Form tab)
    • Type into the fields on the page, or in a list of every field by page. Tab moves to the next field; check boxes, option buttons and drop-downs work on the page too.
    • Save writes a new version that stays fillable here and in Acrobat; the previous version is kept. Save as… works too.
    • Save flattened copy writes … (flattened).pdf beside the original with the values burnt in, for the copy you send or sign.
    • Tested on blank IRS fillable forms (1040, Schedule 1, 1099-NEC, 8879, W-4, W-9). Forms that also carry Adobe's XFA data show the typed values in Acrobat.
    • A PDF locked only against changes (an owner password) is filled and saved without that lock. One that needs a password to open can't be filled here.
    • Save on a digitally signed PDF asks first, since saving changes into it makes the signature invalid.
    • The audit trail records how many fields changed, never what was typed.
  • Pages
    • Pages… shows page thumbnails: click to pick pages (click again to drop one, Shift-click for a run), or type them as before.
    • Right-click a page, or its thumbnail in the strip, for Delete page N, Extract page N… and Pages….
    • Flatten now keeps form values another PDF program filled in without drawing them.
  • Fixes
    • The Viewer's right-hand panel no longer slips partly off-screen.
    • Page edits wait until unsaved changes are saved or discarded, so they never land on the wrong pages.
  • Help: new article Filling in forms; Page tools and Viewing a document updated.
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