This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.
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Summary
AI summaryKillerPDF adds six themes with live switching, Continuous and Two‑Page view modes, UI localization, and a built‑in print dialog with preview.
Changes in this release
| Type | Severity | Summary | CVE |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds built-in print dialog with working print preview. Adds built-in print dialog with working print preview. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds six themes (Dark, Light, High Contrast, Blood, Greed, Cyanotic) with live switching. Adds six themes (Dark, Light, High Contrast, Blood, Greed, Cyanotic) with live switching. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds Continuous scroll view mode as default and Two-Page view mode. Adds Continuous scroll view mode as default and Two-Page view mode. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds UI localization for English, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. Adds UI localization for English, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds Crop tool improvements: editable CropBox coordinates, page-range apply, TrimBox sync, rotation‑aware conversion, draggable confirm bar. Adds Crop tool improvements: editable CropBox coordinates, page-range apply, TrimBox sync, rotation‑aware conversion, draggable confirm bar. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds Settings persistence for window size, zoom, and fit mode across launches. Adds Settings persistence for window size, zoom, and fit mode across launches. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds global crash handler with structured log files and a recovery dialog. Adds global crash handler with structured log files and a recovery dialog. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds About dialog accessible via version label in status bar. Adds About dialog accessible via version label in status bar. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: high |
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| Feature | Medium |
Adds Authenticode install gate, downgrade protection, and pdfium.dll integrity check. Adds Authenticode install gate, downgrade protection, and pdfium.dll integrity check. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: low |
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| Feature | Low |
Adds Continuous scroll view mode with progressive async rendering and live page‑number/sidebar tracking. Adds Continuous scroll view mode with progressive async rendering and live page‑number/sidebar tracking. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Feature | Low |
Allows re‑editing placed text by double‑clicking; size and color restyle live. Allows re‑editing placed text by double‑clicking; size and color restyle live. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Feature | Low |
Supports per‑monitor DPI v2 when dragging between differently scaled monitors. Supports per‑monitor DPI v2 when dragging between differently scaled monitors. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Feature | Low |
Adds Zoom +/- toolbar buttons and shortcuts (Ctrl+=, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0, Ctrl+Scroll). Adds Zoom +/- toolbar buttons and shortcuts (Ctrl+=, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0, Ctrl+Scroll). Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Feature | Low |
Writes encrypted PDF temp files to %LOCALAPPDATA%\KillerPDF\Temp\ instead of %TEMP%. Writes encrypted PDF temp files to %LOCALAPPDATA%\KillerPDF\Temp\ instead of %TEMP%. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Feature | Low |
Moves Grid view into Settings panel; selection persists across sessions. Moves Grid view into Settings panel; selection persists across sessions. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Feature | Low |
Adjusts View‑mode open behavior: Single/Two‑Page fit‑to‑page, Continuous fit‑to‑width, Grid at column‑fit default. Adjusts View‑mode open behavior: Single/Two‑Page fit‑to‑page, Continuous fit‑to‑width, Grid at column‑fit default. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Feature | Low |
Adds four corner resize handles on placed images and signatures, consistent across view modes. Adds four corner resize handles on placed images and signatures, consistent across view modes. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Bugfix | Medium |
Fixes Save Flattened PDF to run on a background thread (Issue #68). Fixes Save Flattened PDF to run on a background thread (Issue #68). Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-14 Confidence: high |
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| Bugfix | Low |
Reopens last opened file on startup; ESC closes app when no overlay is active. Reopens last opened file on startup; ESC closes app when no overlay is active. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Bugfix | Low |
Moves annotation toolbars (text and draw) to top‑right under toolbar buttons. Moves annotation toolbars (text and draw) to top‑right under toolbar buttons. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Bugfix | Low |
Removes stale debug string in status bar after Fit Width in single‑page mode. Removes stale debug string in status bar after Fit Width in single‑page mode. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Bugfix | Low |
Prevents text edit box from closing when changing font size; focus into size/color bar no longer commits edit. Prevents text edit box from closing when changing font size; focus into size/color bar no longer commits edit. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Bugfix | Low |
Fixes Crop confirm bar shrinking illegibly at low zoom and improves selection rectangle behavior. Fixes Crop confirm bar shrinking illegibly at low zoom and improves selection rectangle behavior. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Bugfix | Low |
Ensures temp files are cleaned up on close, crash, and startup. Ensures temp files are cleaned up on close, crash, and startup. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Bugfix | Low |
Re‑renders active view after undo of crop, rotate, or page operations. Re‑renders active view after undo of crop, rotate, or page operations. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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| Refactor | Low |
Extracts SignatureStore and SearchService into Services/ with unit tests. Extracts SignatureStore and SearchService into Services/ with unit tests. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-06-14-audit Confidence: low |
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Full changelog
KillerPDF v1.5.0
A big feature release: six themes with live switching, new Continuous and Two-Page view modes, full UI localization, and a brand-new built-in print dialog with a working print preview.
Highlights
- Built-in print dialog with print preview. Replaces the Windows print dialog (which showed "This app doesn't support print preview") with a themed dialog that previews each page and exposes printer, orientation, copies, and page-range (for example
1-3,5) settings. - Six themes - Dark, Light, High Contrast, Blood, Greed, and Cyanotic - with live switching from the Settings panel.
- New view modes - Continuous scroll (now the default) and Two-Page, alongside Single Page and Grid.
- Localized UI - English, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese, selectable in Settings.
Added
- Localization support (Issue #53 / contributor leox243): language selector with English, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. Contributor guide at
Strings/TRANSLATING.md. - Continuous scroll view mode with progressive async rendering; page number and sidebar thumbnail track as you scroll.
- Two-page view mode (side-by-side), with editing tools available.
- Re-edit placed text by double-clicking it with the Select tool; size and color restyle live.
- Per-monitor DPI v2 support when dragging between monitors with different scale factors.
- Zoom +/- toolbar buttons and shortcuts (Ctrl+=, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0, Ctrl+Scroll).
- Crop tool improvements (Issue #15): editable CropBox coordinates, page-range apply, TrimBox sync, rotation-aware conversion, draggable confirm bar.
- Settings persistence: window size, zoom, and fit mode restored on launch (Issue #69).
- Global crash handler with structured log files and a recovery dialog.
- About dialog (click the version label in the status bar).
- Authenticode install gate, downgrade protection, and pdfium.dll integrity check.
- Theme system with live switching and a Settings panel (gear icon).
- Grid view zoom that fits a whole number of pages across the window (Ctrl+Scroll steps column counts).
- Built-in print dialog with working print preview (printer, orientation, copies, page range).
Changed
- Continuous scroll is now the default view mode for new installs.
- Text tool size is now interpreted as points (a size of 14 renders as roughly 14pt).
- Placing an image switches to the Select tool with the image selected for immediate drag/resize.
- Extracted SignatureStore and SearchService into
Services/with unit tests (KillerPDF.Tests). - Encrypted PDF temp files written to
%LOCALAPPDATA%\KillerPDF\Temp\instead of%TEMP%. - Reopens last file on startup; ESC closes the app when no overlay is active (Issue #69).
- Grid view moved into the Settings panel; selection persists across sessions.
- View-mode open behavior: Single/Two-Page open fit-to-page, Continuous fit-to-width, Grid at its column-fit default.
- Annotation toolbars (text and draw) moved to the top-right under the toolbar buttons.
- Four corner resize handles on placed images and signatures, consistent across view modes.
Fixed
- Stale debug string in the status bar after Fit Width in single-page mode.
- Text edit box no longer closes when changing font size (focus into the size/color bar no longer commits the edit).
- Crop confirm bar no longer shrinks illegibly at low zoom; selection rectangle improvements.
- Save Flattened PDF now runs on a background thread (Issue #68).
- Cropped pages rasterize at CropBox size instead of the document-wide maximum (Issue #68).
- Temp files cleaned up on close, crash, and startup.
- Undo of a document change (crop, rotate, page operations) re-renders the active view.
Downloads and verification
KillerPDF.exe- single-file portable executable, code-signed (Open Source Developer Stephen Riley). No install required, no telemetry.KillerPDF-1.5.0-src.zip- GPLv3 corresponding source for this release.SHA256SUMS.txt- checksums for the artifacts.
SHA256 (KillerPDF.exe) : 5CA3E7F9C49505AB57C507B9DC307D6A51C1B58775A6DE412DE007159EC9BD2C
SHA256 (pdfium.dll) : BCA96944D731DD72877116D3472083C847FE307FC58CA39BCE16CBE998C478F1
Verify the download (PowerShell):
Get-FileHash .\KillerPDF.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Requires Windows 10/11 x64 with .NET Framework 4.8.
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