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@bhanright bhanright released this 12 Oct 21:36
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Quintess 0.4.2 makes exports look like the original, converts many more kinds of files, and fixes form filling.

Exports that keep the page's look

  • Word: File > Export as > Word document now makes pages that look like the PDF's. What each page draws (colored areas, lines, pictures) becomes its background, and the text sits on top in its own fonts, sizes and colors, where it stood, ready to edit. The old export, the text alone as flowing paragraphs, is still there as Word, text only.
  • PowerPoint, editable: slides now keep their colors, fills and pictures, with the text in editable boxes on top. Before, every slide came out white with black text. A presentation takes the page size most of the pages share.
  • Web page: a new layout-keeping web page export, with real text you can select and search, that shrinks to fit a narrow window. The text-only version stays as Web page, text only.
  • Letters are spaced so each line is as long as in the PDF, and fonts installed under a different name (DejaVu Sans Condensed, say) are found by their real name.

Converting other files to PDF

  • Word documents (.docx, .doc, .rtf, .odt) are now laid out by WordCraft's engine, built in. In our tests its pages matched Word's own far more often, and documents in Aptos, Word's newer default font, come out line for line like Word's when Office is installed. The previous engine stays as a fallback.
  • Excel workbooks (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm, .xls) now print with their formatting, borders, number formats and charts, through GridCraft's engine, built in. Workbooks it can't print (OpenDocument, binary .xlsb, letters outside Western European ones) still become a table of their values, and Quintess says why.
  • The Craft programs are used when installed: WordCraft, GridCraft, DeckCraft (PowerPoint presentations without Office or LibreOffice) and PhotoCraft (HEIC, Photoshop, camera RAW, SVG and more, as pictures on pages).
  • Opening a file that isn't a PDF (a .docx, say) no longer asks for a password. Quintess offers to convert it instead.

Fixes

  • Form fields: the box you type into now looks like the filled-in field: the same size, color and alignment, on the field's background.
  • A converter that stumbles on a document now reports a failed conversion instead of showing the crash screen.
  • The welcome screen is shorter.

Downloads are larger than 0.4.1's, because the two new converters and their fonts are built in.

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