LaunchBox Reader 1.0.0

LaunchBox Reader 1.0.0

Highlights

• Initial public release of LaunchBox Reader for Windows.
• Built as a self-contained Windows x64 package, so users do not need to install the .NET runtime separately.
• Designed for reading books, manuals, comics, PDFs, and image-based documents from a couch-friendly LaunchBox experience.

Reading Experience

• Added support for PDF, EPUB, comic archives, image archives, image folders, individual image files, plain text, and RTF documents.
• Added single-page, two-page spread, and stacked fixed-layout reading modes.
• Added paginated and continuous EPUB reading modes with configurable typography, margins, line spacing, and one-page or two-page layouts.
• Added fit, fit-width, fit-height, zoom, pan, fullscreen, and minimal-chrome controls.
• Added left-to-right and right-to-left reading direction support.
• Added black, dark, light, and sepia themes, plus Night Light.
• Added bookmark creation, bookmark navigation, and bookmark renaming.
• Added table of contents support, including generated navigation when a document does not provide its own TOC.
• Added a progress scrubber with page, percentage, and chapter context.

Input And Controls

• Added keyboard navigation for page turns, scrolling, progress jumps, bookmarks, panels, zoom, fullscreen, and chrome visibility.
• Added controller-first navigation with Xbox-style prompts for reading, overlays, settings, bookmarks, and progress scrubbing.
• Added global Windows reading hotkeys for page and progress navigation while the reader is not focused.
• Suppressed global hotkeys while typing in bookmark rename fields.
• Improved focus handling across reader chrome, panels, settings, and document surfaces.

Page Turns And Layout

• Added premium 3D page-turn rendering for paginated reading.
• Improved page-turn perspective, spine alignment, spread overlays, and single-page EPUB captures.
• Added instant page-turn mode for users who prefer no animation.
• Improved stacked fixed-layout scrolling, including pointer dragging on stacked scrollbars.

Performance And Reliability

• Improved cold-start behavior for PDFs by prioritizing the startup page.
• Added document metadata, EPUB pagination, EPUB layout, and PDF raster caches.
• Added app-local reader data storage for standalone builds.
• Added crash logging, diagnostic logging, and log retention.
• Improved PDF raster sizing and fixed close-button behavior.
• Restored fixed-layout documents directly to the requested startup page.

Packaging And Release

• Added Windows release automation that builds, tests, hardens, zips, checksums, and uploads public release artifacts.
• Added release hardening for Windows builds.
• Added LaunchBox Software plugin packaging with stable plugin metadata.
• Added the LaunchBox application icon to the reader executable.