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.