v0.5.1

What's new

Fixes

• Frozen redaction verify — fresh-process verification re-enters pagedrop.exe via --pagedrop-redact-verify (same pattern as the Office COM worker), instead of pagedrop.exe -m …, which PyInstaller does not support
• Verifier robustness — empty stdout, missing failures JSON, and timeouts count as verification failures (no silent pass)

Under the hood

• Shared REDACT_VERIFY_FLAG / verify_argv() so frozen and python -m paths stay aligned
• Early main() branch before Qt, matching --pagedrop-office-com-worker

Downloads

Asset	Notes
PageDrop-0.5.1-Setup.exe	Windows installer

macOS / Linux binaries and Authenticode signing are still planned.

v0.5.0

What's new

PageDrop 0.5.0 builds on the 0.4.0 Tools hub with UI polish, stronger annotations, safer PDF ops, and a Windows onedir installer path.

Tools & shells

• ToolShell layout polish — title and description live in the options pane
• Inline help text on ToolShell windows
• Compare / Convert / Merge chrome and status-footer refinements

Annotations & markup

• Freetext annotations with font styling and a format bar
• Markup color handling refinements in the viewer
• Redaction confirmation dialog before applying

Organize & print

• Blank-page detection (with FITZ_LOCK-safe PDF reads)
• Multi-page print with credential handling
• Zoom control icons in the viewer chrome

Viewer & UX

• Phosphor SVG icons across toolbar and actions (theme-aware tinting)
• Theme, card, tab, and toast polish for light and dark modes
• Drop-indicator fade animations and clearer empty-state hints
• Filename elision in tabs and the toolbar
• Thumbnail eviction and file-grid path-to-card mapping for large docs

Under the hood

• FITZ_LOCK extended across redact, search, watermark, extract, and related PDF ops
• Cooperative cancel for long export / heatmap work
• Tessdata download SHA-256 verification and URL-scheme allowlist
• Windows packaging moved from onefile to PyInstaller onedir + Inno Setup
• GitHub Actions CI for packaging check and the full test suite

Downloads

Asset	Notes
PageDrop-0.5.0-Setup.exe	Windows installer

macOS / Linux binaries and Authenticode signing are still planned.

v0.4.0

What's new

PageDrop 0.4.0 adds a modeless Tools hub and a full set of PDF utilities on top of the 0.3.0 editor workflows.

Tools hub

• Modeless Tools window for organize, convert, compare, and more
• Shared job runner with cancel, busy overlay, and toast / result actions
• Tool shells open as editor tabs (Preview / Open / Show in folder are explicit choices)

Organize & edit

• Split, extract, reorder, and related organize jobs
• “Move to…” page reordering
• Watermark with live preview and consistent text sizing
• Bulk attachment extraction to ZIP
• Annotations, forms, and markup with undo / redo (capped undo stack)
• Security-grade redaction with verification
• Optimize & Secure (compression profiles + password / permission options)

Convert & compare

• Native import / export (images, text, and related formats)
• Office → PDF via Microsoft Office COM and LibreOffice
• PDF → Word via LibreOffice
• Side-by-side PDF compare with editor integration
• OCR with tessdata support

Viewer & UX

• Stronger viewer search / hit highlighting and theme integration
• Chrome visibility toggle
• Broader password support across open, extract, write, and tool jobs
• Accessibility and keyboard navigation improvements
• Safety / accessibility preferences expansions

Under the hood

• FITZ_LOCK and concurrency policy for safer PyMuPDF use
• Document caching and large-PDF rendering improvements
• Cooperative cancel tokens for long jobs
• Temp-file / process cleanup hardening (including Windows liveness checks)
• Source-overwrite rejection for tool outputs
• Windows onefile PyInstaller + Inno Setup packaging

Downloads

Asset	Notes
PageDrop-0.4.0-Setup.exe	Windows installer

macOS / Linux binaries and Authenticode signing are still planned.

v0.3.0

What's new

PageDrop 0.3.0 builds on the 0.2.0 workflows with editing, navigation, accessibility, and packaging polish.

Editing & pages

• Rotate and duplicate pages
• Undo / redo for page edits
• Confirm before delete (preference)
• Export all pages
• Password-protected PDF open support
• Blank / empty tab handling improvements

Navigation & UI

• Command palette
• First-run tips overlay and keyboard shortcuts dialog
• Recent files menu
• Window geometry persistence
• Toast notifications (non-blocking status)
• Page jump (Ctrl+G / Ctrl+F), zoom reset (Ctrl+0), preview key/scroll controls
• Light theme improvements
• Long tab titles elide cleanly; clearer tooltips and hints

Accessibility

• Reduce-motion preference
• Keyboard navigation for toolbars and file grids

Packaging

• Windows Setup.exe (Inno) and portable zip for GitHub Releases
• License included with the Windows package

Under the hood

• PDF handling unified on PyMuPDF (fitz)
• Thumbnail / page-size caching and loader improvements
• Shared file grid / card components for Convert and Merge
• Centralized ActionRegistry for QActions

Downloads

Asset	Notes
PageDrop-0.3.0-Setup.exe	Windows installer
PageDrop-v0.3.0-windows-x64.zip	Portable (optional)

macOS / Linux binaries and Authenticode signing are still planned.

v0.2.0 — Cross-Tab Page Drag & MRU Tab Switch

PageDrop v0.2.0

What's new

Cross-tab page drag

Drag pages from one tab onto another tab's label in the tab bar.

• Copy (default): pages are appended to the end of the target document; source stays unchanged
• Shift+drop: pages are moved — removed from source, appended to target; both tabs marked dirty
• Blank tab: dropping onto a blank tab creates a new editable document from the dropped page(s)
• Stay on source: after a successful drop, the active tab does not switch — you keep working in the tab you dragged from
• Visual feedback: hovered tab label highlights during drag; status bar reports "Appended N pages to other.pdf" or "Moved N pages to other.pdf"
• Save As: drop-created tabs use untitled.pdf as the default Save As name (last-used directory)

Dropping onto the same tab's label is rejected with "Drop on another tab to append pages".

Drag auto-scroll

Long documents are easier to edit while dragging over the thumbnail grid.

• Edge scroll: hold the cursor near the top or bottom of the grid during a drag and the view scrolls automatically
• Wheel scroll: scroll with the mouse wheel mid-drag to reach off-screen pages
• Drop indicator stays in sync: the insertion line updates as the grid scrolls

Applies to internal page reorder, inbound PDF drops, and cross-window grid drops. Tab-bar drops still append to the end (no insertion indicator).

MRU Ctrl+Tab

Ctrl+Tab now toggles between the current tab and the previously active tab (MRU pair), instead of cycling through all tabs.

Ctrl+Shift+Tab is unchanged — still cycles backward through all tabs.

Unchanged

Cross-window grid drops (Phase 18) still use the insertion indicator at the cursor — only tab-bar drops append to the end.

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Download

Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the build is unsigned. Choose More info → Run anyway if prompted.

macOS and Linux binaries are not published yet — build from source or use PyInstaller.

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Full feature set (v0.2.0)

Thumbnail drag-out, multi-tab editing, cross-tab page drag, drag auto-scroll during grid operations, Save As, merge, multi-window page transfer, image-to-PDF conversion, and MRU Ctrl+Tab switching.

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Keyboard shortcuts (updated)

Action	Shortcut
Toggle between last two tabs	Ctrl+Tab
Previous tab (cycle backward)	Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Cross-tab / cross-window page drag	Drop to copy; Shift+drop to move

PageDrop v0.1.0 — Windows standalone

First public release of PageDrop: a desktop PDF utility for browsing, editing, and extracting pages.

Download

• pagedrop.exe — standalone Windows executable. No Python install required; download and run.
• Windows may show a SmartScreen warning (unsigned build). Choose More info → Run anyway if prompted.

What you can do

• Open PDFs and browse every page as a thumbnail grid
• Drag pages into Explorer — each drop becomes its own PDF file
• Edit in tabs: reorder, delete, insert pages from other PDFs, Save As
• Merge PDFs — combine whole files in a separate window
• Create PDF — turn images (PNG, JPEG, WebP, etc.) into PDFs
• Multi-window workflows and drag pages between windows (Shift+drop to move)

Quick start

1. Download pagedrop.exe
2. Double-click to launch
3. File → Open PDF, select pages, drag thumbnails into a folder

Notes

• Windows 10/11, 64-bit
• First launch may take a few seconds while the app unpacks
• macOS/Linux builds not included in this release

From source

git clone https://github.com/ParallaX07/PageDrop
cd PageDrop
uv sync
uv run pagedrop