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Kitewell 0.19.1 — Public beta
Pre-release
Pre-release
Kitewell 0.19.1 is a beta update for Windows. The Mac app stays on 0.19.0,
which already reads PDFs with PDFKit.
What's in this release
- A Windows PC now reads PDFs without extra software. Teach from a
manual and a hand-over file used to need poppler's pdftotext on
Windows, which most PCs do not have, so Kitewell asked for Word or text
instead, after the file had been uploaded. The Windows app now carries
PDFium, Chrome's PDF engine, and reads a PDF with it when pdftotext is not
installed, including the fonts Japanese PDFs embed; a 97-page Japanese
manual reads in about two seconds. Where pdftotext is installed it is
still used, for the layout of tables.
Upgrading
Nothing to do. Kitewell 0.18.4 updates itself to 0.19.1 at a quiet moment,
and running workflows go on across the restart.