Smart Printer v1.0.5

This release improves startup reliability on clean Windows machines and fixes cases where the application appeared to do nothing when launched.

Fixes

• Fixed secondary launches silently exiting when Smart Printer was already running in the system tray.

• Fixed tray and shortcut requests that failed to show the hidden main window.

• Added reliable single-instance window-open signaling with acknowledgement and early request handling.

• Added a visible recovery startup path when the existing instance cannot respond.

• Added persistent startup diagnostics at:

  %LOCALAPPDATA%\SmartPrinter\Logs\startup.log

• Improved error reporting for WebView2, backend, auto-start, and other early startup failures.

• Scoped single-instance communication to the current Windows session.

Installer improvements

• Uses a complete self-contained win-x64 deployment without temporary native-library extraction.
• Automatically installs Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime when missing.
• Bundles and silently installs the verified 64-bit SumatraPDF 3.6.1 prerequisite when missing.
• Includes third-party licensing and attribution notices.
• Installer and application binaries are versioned as 1.0.5.

Smart Printer remains a local community build with no account, product key, activation server, or machine registration required.

Smart Printer v1.0.4

This release improves the Windows release experience, documentation, and project validation.

Highlights

• Added a self-contained win-x64 Windows installer, so end users do not need the .NET SDK.
• Added screenshots for the print queue, booklet preview, and two-sided print preview.
• Clarified user requirements, development setup, source builds, and installer builds.
• Improved troubleshooting guidance for printer detection, WebView2, Word conversion, PDF printing, and manual duplex workflows.
• Added GitHub Actions CI to automatically restore, build, and test the backend, desktop host, and frontend.
• Confirmed that the community build requires no account, product key, activation server, or machine registration.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or Windows 11
• Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime
• An installed Windows printer and driver
• Microsoft Word desktop for .doc and .docx conversion

Smart Printer v1.0.3

fix: make Word conversion resilient to COM metadata failures

Highlights

• Smart manual duplex printing for single-sided printers

• No paper reordering required

• Mixed one-sided/two-sided pages

• Portrait and landscape handling

• A5 booklet printing

• Print-jam recovery

• PDF, Word and image support

• Multiple documents in one print workflow