PDFGeek 1.1.1

What's Changed

• Installer improvements by @bovirus in #11
• Techygeekshome patch 1 by @techygeekshome in #13

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

PDFGeek v1.1.0

Merge now takes images as well as PDFs.

• Drop JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP, GIF or TIFF files into the merge list alongside your PDFs and they come out as pages in the finished document.
• A page size choice on the merge screen: keep every image at its own size, or fit the lot to A4 or Letter.
• Tidied up the sidebar.

Two downloads, both 64-bit Windows and self-contained:

• PDFGeekSetup.exe - installer. Per-user by default, so no UAC prompt. English and Italian.
• PDFGeek.exe - portable. Nothing to install.

SHA256SUMS.txt is published with them so you can check what you downloaded. The binaries are not code signed, so Windows SmartScreen will warn the first time you run one.

What's Changed

• Merge images in with PDFs by @techygeekshome in #12

Full Changelog: v1.0.3...v1.1.0

PDFGeek 1.0.3

An About box release.

The "More from TechyGeeksHome" list used to include Java 8 MSI Installers. That is a repackaging of Oracle's installers, not our software, and it had no business in a list headed with our name. It is gone.

What is left is the actual range, now shown as buttons rather than a wall of text - AppGeek, CleanGeek, DiskGeek, DriverGeek and Ultimate Settings Panel, two to a row, each one opening that app's page on techygeekshome.info rather than its repository. Five is an odd number, so the "All our code on GitHub" button takes the spare cell and the grid squares off.

The "Built with" credits list has gone as well. It was the longest section on a dialog meant to be read at a glance, and it told you nothing you could act on. The licences are all in the repository.

Merging, splitting, rotating, compressing and converting are unchanged, and still happen entirely on your own machine.

Full Changelog: v1.0.2...v1.0.3

PDFGeek 1.0.2

PDFGeek 1.0.2.

Everything below has been sitting on main since the 1.0.1 release on 23 August. This release ships it.

Fixed

• The copyright notice showed a year range starting from 2027. Thanks to @bovirus for spotting it.

Added

• A family panel in the About window, linking the other free TechyGeeksHome tools.
• A Chocolatey package, so PDFGeek can be installed and updated with choco install pdfgeek once it clears moderation.

Downloads

• PDFGeekSetup.exe - installer, per-user by default so there is no UAC prompt. English and Italian, with an optional "Open with PDFGeek" verb.
• PDFGeek.exe - portable, self-contained, nothing to install.

SHA-256 hashes are published in SHA256SUMS.txt so a download can be verified. The binaries are not code signed, so Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run.

What's Changed

• Add the Chocolatey package source for PDFGeek (DST-14) by @techygeekshome in #4
• Correct the Chocolatey README - PDFGeek is already published, and pending moderation by @techygeekshome in #5
• Create .gitattributes for LF normalization by @techygeekshome in #6
• Add .gitattributes for line ending management by @techygeekshome in #7
• Add the TechyGeeksHome family panel to the shared About window by @techygeekshome in #9
• Bump PDFGeek to 1.0.2 by @techygeekshome in #10

New Contributors

• @techygeekshome made their first contribution in #4

Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2

PDFGeek 1.0.1

The installer now speaks Italian as well as English, and shows the GPL-3.0 licence during setup. Thanks to @bovirus for both.

The application itself is unchanged from 1.0.0 — if you are already running PDFGeek there is nothing here you need.

From this release on, both downloads are built and published automatically by GitHub Actions from the source in this repository, and SHA256SUMS.txt is generated on the runner alongside them.

What's Changed

• Installer script - Enable multilanguage / GNU license in RTF text format by @bovirus in #3

New Contributors

• @bovirus made their first contribution in #3

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

PDFGeek 1.0.0

The first release of PDFGeek — a free, offline PDF toolkit for Windows.

Every PDF tool on the web wants you to upload your documents, then caps what you can do until you pay. iLovePDF stops you at 25 files per merge. Sejda allows three tasks an hour. Acrobat wants a subscription. PDFGeek does the same jobs on your own machine, with no caps to lift — because your files never leave your computer in the first place.

What's in it

• Merge any number of PDFs into one, in the order you set
• Split into one file per page, or into fixed-size chunks
• Extract or remove pages using print-dialog ranges (1-3, 5, 9-)
• Rotate by 90°, 180° or 270°, on selected pages or the whole document
• Reorder a document by listing pages in the order you want them
• Watermark every page with your own text, size, opacity and angle
• Add a password with AES-128 encryption, controlling printing and copying
• Remove a password from a document you can already open
• Drag files onto the window, or right-click a PDF and choose "Open with PDFGeek"

No file limits. No watermarks on output. No account. No telemetry. No paid tier.

Downloads

File	What it is
PDFGeekSetup.exe	Installer. Start menu entry, optional desktop shortcut, clean uninstall. Installs per-user, so no admin rights and no UAC prompt.
PDFGeek.exe	Portable. A single file — run it from anywhere, including a USB stick. Nothing installed, nothing written to the registry.

Both are the same application. Requires Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. Nothing else to install — .NET is bundled.

Checksums (SHA256)

366bf7bcec98b9dc6418404a9d5b95a39746a8eb62ea87326eeba45cf8e9f339  PDFGeekSetup.exe
517e65b725bf75b6fcdcaa89ee30ff3770592fe9a874f30aaa97320ae5b218da  PDFGeek.exe

Windows will warn you the first time

PDFGeek isn't code-signed. A certificate costs money we'd rather not put behind a free tool, so SmartScreen will show "Windows protected your PC" on first run. Click More info → Run anyway.

If you'd rather not take that on trust, the source for this exact build is in this repository, and the checksums above let you verify that what you downloaded is what we published.

One network call, only when you ask

Clicking Check for updates makes a single request to GitHub's public releases API to compare version numbers. It sends no identifiers, no file names and no usage data, and it never downloads or installs anything by itself. Don't press it and PDFGeek makes no network connection at all.

Not in this release

• Compression — doing it properly means re-encoding images, which is a job in itself rather than a checkbox. It's on the list.
• OCR and true redaction — both planned. Redaction especially deserves doing properly: plenty of cheap tools draw a black box over text that is still selectable underneath.

Built with

Avalonia (MIT) and PDFsharp (MIT).

Free forever. If it saved you a subscription, you can buy us a coffee — welcome, never expected.