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.