VL PDF 0.3.49 — the second document gets the controls reading needs

The second document gets the controls reading needs.

The pane that opens beside your document could be scrolled and nothing else:
no zoom, no page controls, and a press on it did nothing at all. It has the
main view's own controls now, rather than a second set beside them.

Swap sides — on the line that says the pane is for reading, because that
is the sentence it answers. The document you are reading comes to the front
and the one that was in front goes beside it.

The Hand works in it. Not a second Hand: choose it in the view bar, or
hold Space, and it drags either document. Zoomed past the pane's width it
drags sideways too.

Zoom out, the percentage, zoom in, Fit width — and Ctrl with the wheel.
The percentage is the page's printed size, the same figure the status bar
shows, so 100% means the same thing in both halves of the window.

Page back and forward, with a count.

Also in this release: Side by side is in the View menu, under "Layout and
view", next to Two pages — not only under More, which is where you look for a
tool rather than for a way of arranging the window.

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Four faults found by running it rather than reading it

The zoom would have drawn the same picture at every setting: a stylesheet rule
took the pane's width whatever the zoom had computed.

"Which page" had two definitions eight lines apart — one measuring the middle
of the view, one the top — so page forward scrolled the pane and left the
number alone. The pane uses the same rule the main view does now.

Any redraw of the tab row — a rename, a save, a tab brought forward — threw
the second document back to page one.

And a check that read "97/97" through grep while its exit code said 1.

Testing. The pane had no tests of its own before this release; it has 43,
each verified by breaking the thing it guards. Seven presses were added to the
real-app smoke run, which is where three of the four faults above were found.

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For invited testers. This build is signed with a test certificate, so Windows
or your browser may warn about it. It is not a general-release installer with
production-trusted signing.

VL PDF 0.3.48

Side by side is in the View menu now.

It was only under More. It is in the View menu too — the control that reads Fit width at the bottom right — under Layout and view, next to Two pages.

It carries a tick while the second document is open, and choosing it again closes the pane. Open the other PDF in a tab first: the picker offers the documents you already have open.

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1,348 automated tests, 0 failures. 97 of 97 interface checks. Verified in the running build.

VL PDF 0.3.47

The VL PDF Brand Kit, edition 3, across the application.

A named icon for every control. 130 toolbar, menu and panel controls now carry the supplied icon family — 84 distinct drawings, bound to controls by the kit's own control map, which reconciles exactly with this build: 163 mapped, 163 present, nothing missing either way. Text-only controls keep their labels and native Windows controls keep their own rendering, as the guide specifies.

The welcome screen carries the real logo, at the specified 228 pixels — the reverse lockup on the dark themes, the primary one on Paper and Vivenso. It replaces a document tile beside the product name set in a font, which the guide lists as a prohibited change.

Icons are drawn at the right weight for their size. The kit uses one 20-unit grid and scales the stroke, so a 1.5px line is rendered at 16, 20 and 24 alike.

Your theme, toolbar order, language, recent documents and saved signatures are untouched.

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Checked before release

• 1,348 automated tests, 0 failures
• 97 of 97 interface checks against the built application
• All 20 icon frames confirmed inside the packaged executable, 36px included
• Both lockups and 133 icons confirmed in the shipped package
• The interface rendered and reviewed at desktop and narrow widths

Known, and not fixed here

• The installer, Start menu entry and Add or Remove Programs still read Filekin Studio. That is the packaging identity an update matches on; renaming it needs its own migration.

VL PDF 0.3.46

The app no longer says Filekin anywhere you can read it. 234 more mentions moved to VL PDF across the interface, the help and all thirteen languages — including the connected plan, which is now VL PDF Plus and VL PDF Cloud.

Your theme, toolbar order, language, recent documents and saved signatures are untouched: those are stored under internal names that deliberately did not move.

The logo on the opening screen is the shaded mark now, not the flat one. At 150% display scaling a 48-pixel logo is really 72 pixels, and 72 is where the full blue-and-green V belongs — so this was the right drawing all along, not just the nicer one. The small marks keep their own drawings, because a gradient at 20 pixels turns to mush.

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Checked before release

• 1,348 automated tests, 0 failures
• 97 of 97 interface checks against the built application
• All 20 icon frames confirmed inside the packaged executable, 36 included
• The opening screen rendered and looked at, at both sizes, beside the drawing it replaced

Known, and not fixed here

• The website and the written records still say Filekin Plus and Filekin Cloud, so the app and the site disagree until that is settled.
• The installer, the Start menu entry and Add or Remove Programs still read Filekin Studio. That rename needs its own migration.

VL PDF 0.3.45

The app is called VL PDF now, in the window, the menus, About, the help and all thirteen languages.

It still installs as Filekin Studio — same folder, same shortcut, same update feed — so this updates your existing copy in place and keeps your recent documents and saved signatures. Renaming that part would have installed a second app beside the one you have.

A new app icon, drawn twenty times instead of resized eight times.

The old icon was one picture squeezed to eight sizes. Windows draws the taskbar at 36 pixels on a 150% display and there was no 36, so it stretched the 32 — on the most visible surface in the product. Below 24 pixels the "PDF" lettering could not survive at any size.

There are now twenty sizes in four tiers, each one its own drawing: no PDF lettering below 24, no folded corner at 16, a flat V at the small and medium sizes, and the full shaded V at 128 and 256. The in-app, website and review-page marks each use the drawing made for their own size too.

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Checked before release

• 1,347 automated tests, 0 failures
• 97 of 97 interface checks against the built application
• All 20 icon frames confirmed inside the packaged executable, byte for byte against the approved artwork, 36 included
• The artwork pack's own verifier, including its negative control
• Signed with the Vivenso Labs test certificate, as before

Known, and not fixed here

• Some help text still says "Filekin" on its own ("Filekin asks the update service"). That is wider than this change and is listed rather than swept in.
• The installer, the Start menu entry and Add or Remove Programs still read Filekin Studio. That rename needs its own migration.

Filekin Studio 0.3.44

The first release of the VL PDF rebrand.

A new app icon. The Vivenso V on a folded document, in a navy tile, with PDF beneath it — on the taskbar, the Start menu, the desktop shortcut, the installer, and on every PDF file this app is the default for.

A sixth theme: Vivenso. The brand's own colours — navy words on quiet blue-tinted surfaces, with teal carrying every action. More → Preferences → Appearance.

The app is still called Filekin Studio everywhere. That is deliberate: the icon and the palette are the reversible half of a rebrand, and the rename is the half that strands shortcuts, file associations and the update certificate. It comes later, on its own.

Filekin Studio 0.3.43

Compress now tells you where the size is.

A 38MB file is rarely 38MB of document — it is usually one scanned page, or a logo saved at print resolution. The Compress dialog opens with the breakdown above the choice:

Pictures and scans              2.7 MB · 82%
Structure and everything else   325 KB · 10%
The pages themselves            293 KB ·  9%
Fonts carried in the file         7 KB · <1%

and one sentence under it — "27 pictures make up 82% of this file. Reducing image quality is what will shrink it" — or nothing at all, when the file is simply its own pages and no preset will help.

The numbers add up to the file exactly, which took three attempts: measured across 139 real PDFs, the obvious implementations reported images at 133.9% of the document.

Filekin Studio 0.3.42

Archive (PDF/A…) offered a broken filename.

The save dialog opened in Documents suggesting a file called A-2b).pdf. The name it builds contains "PDF/A-2b", and on Windows that slash is a path separator — so everything before it was read as a folder that does not exist, and the dialog fell back to Documents with the leftover.

Every archival export has done that since the feature shipped. It now offers <your document> (PDF-A-2b).pdf, in the folder you expect.

Found by pressing the button in the installed app — the test suite answers its own save dialogs, so the name a real one receives had never been looked at.

Filekin Studio 0.3.41

A message you cannot dismiss.

Saving a file another program had open is refused by Windows, and Filekin says so. Until now that message could not be closed: the busy overlay sat on top of its own error box and swallowed every click on OK, leaving the app stuck until it was killed.

It was every failure path of save, Save as archival, sign, compare, redact, export as text, export as images, and build a PDF from images — eight places that raise a message while work is running.

A question is now drawn above the work that raised it.

Filekin Studio 0.3.40

A document now holds eleven of the thirteen languages the interface speaks, not seven.

Acrobat, Chrome and Edge all drew a text box of Arabic, Romanian, Turkish and Polish as question marks — three readers agreeing is what proved the fault was in the file rather than in any of them.

Fixed: Polish, Romanian, Turkish and Russian text typed into a box now reaches the file intact, in a font the document carries. An all-ASCII document is unchanged.

Still not possible: Chinese and Arabic. The warning now names the characters it could not draw instead of saying that something was lost.

Also: the mark-up test fixtures mark real sentences rather than blank space, so a misplaced strikeout is visible to anyone who opens them.