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@SteveTheKiller SteveTheKiller released this 16 Aug 00:16
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v1.7.2
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KillerPDF 1.7.2 completes the split-pane viewer refactor and builds on it with seven new themes, Polish localization, book layout, Levels, expanded print controls, per-pane night mode, and a substantial round of rendering, memory, form, and interface fixes.

Added

  • Added 98SE, Ectoplasm, Decay, Mourning, Sepulchre, Delirium, and Malaise themes.
  • The print dialog has paper size and paper source selectors, and its settings are organized into collapsible PRINTER, LAYOUT, and OUTPUT sections (#186, thanks demo1866 and adeit).
  • Two-Page view has a book layout option: the cover page displays alone, so facing pages pair like a physical book (#193, thanks TeutonJon78).
  • Comb text fields are supported: typing is capped at the cell count and the saved value places one character per printed box, like Acrobat (#158, thanks flywire).
  • Clicking the status line shows the open file's size for a moment, then restores what was there.
  • Text selection follows columns: dragging down one column of a two-column PDF no longer sweeps the neighboring column, and copied text comes out in column order (#185, thanks twtscurry30-ai).
  • The Transform tool has a LEVELS section - black point, white point, and midtones - for rescuing pale, hard-to-read scans, applied like its other corrections (#174, thanks 1mk3r).
  • Night-mode invert is per pane in split view: the moon flips only the focused pane, and its rail icon follows pane focus.
  • Polish (pl-PL) localization, the eleventh interface language, in the language picker as "Polski" (#191, thanks Fresta24).

Changed

  • The page number shows in a corner badge that slides away when the view settles, replacing the tooltip that followed the cursor (#197, thanks Ryokoxx).
  • The Outlines sidebar opens with top-level bookmarks visible and deeper levels folded, and expand/collapse choices now stick across tab switches and edits instead of re-expanding everything.
  • Keyboard access and context-menu hints were audited for 1.7.2: the file-size action has Shift+F4, and applicable menus now show icons and shortcuts.

Fixed

  • The re-sharpen pass renders at device resolution instead of twice it, sharply cutting memory use on large documents, and re-renders on DPI changes (#189, PR #194, thanks Ryokoxx).
  • The page bitmap cache is now budgeted in bytes (~160 MB per tab) instead of a fixed page count, cutting the other large share of memory on big documents (#189, thanks ags1234).
  • Saved highlights now use the Multiply blend mode, darkening the paper behind the text instead of washing the text out with an opaque rectangle (#200, thanks playerbhr).
  • The picker radio's selected dot is centered in its ring (PR #198, thanks Ryokoxx).
  • The theme flyout no longer jumps when switching to or from a theme without accent swatches (#199, thanks Ryokoxx).
  • Reopening a file restores its last manual zoom level (#201, thanks kilasuelika).
  • Resizing split panes in grid view no longer blanks the grid and rebuilds it page by page: the stretched tiles stay visible and get their bitmaps swapped in place.
  • Exported images carry the chosen DPI in their metadata instead of always reporting 96, in both the GUI export and the CLI (#188, thanks GruNostalgia).
  • Dropping PDFs or images onto the Pages sidebar appends their pages to the open document (#172, thanks 1mk3r).
  • Form field text no longer shows a ghost "shadow" copy behind it: the viewer stopped baking field appearances into the page bitmap underneath the live field overlays, thanks Thomas. Print, flatten, export, and thumbnails still include them.
  • Rotating a page that was opened with a non-zero /Rotate no longer swaps its MediaBox on save, which permanently clipped the content. Fixed in the vendored PdfSharpCore, whose landscape media-box flip fired on read pages (#184, thanks terada-d).
  • Documents opened from Explorer get keyboard focus immediately, so arrows and Page Up/Down work without clicking the window first, and horizontal scrolling from a touchpad or tilt wheel now pans the document (#196, thanks Subjuntivos).
  • Double-click text editing now maps PostScript font names (ArialMT, TimesNewRomanPSMT, Helvetica) to the installed Windows family, so edited text keeps its font instead of falling back to the default (#187, thanks fo-bo).
  • Machine-wide installs register the killerpdf:// handler for all users, and it now appears in Default apps under link types (#183, thanks adeit).
  • Themes are entirely owned by the KillerPDF repository again. The project no longer imports a private sibling KillerUI folder or overlays its resources at runtime, so a standalone clone contains every theme resource it builds and displays.
  • Completed the PDF viewer extraction so split panes keep independent documents, tabs, pages, tools, selections, and sidebar positions.
  • Various UI and theme consistency tweaks, including clearer Black-theme surfaces and controls, consistent floating-bar borders, legible accent buttons, and balanced film grain across the themes.
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