PaperKnife+ Files

PaperKnife+ v1.2

A privacy-first update focused on the viewer, tool screens, and release polish. Still 100% offline — no accounts, no uploads, no tracking.

Added

• Customizable Home tools: choose 0–8 tools and arrange your own grid (#26)
• New task picker for processing the currently open PDF
• Compress size estimate: original vs. compressed size and percentage saved
• Watermark color picker, including template watermarks
• In-app text reader for PDF-to-Text history entries
• Viewer: find-in-document, print, pinch zoom, and page-jump controls (#7)

Improved

• Redesigned navigation, Home, and Tools screens
• Shared tool headers and cleaner, less-scrolling tool layouts
• Sign/Watermark placement now uses exact page bounds and the PDF crop box
• Redesigned password prompt with show/hide and inline errors
• History now opens ZIP and text outputs correctly
• About and Hall of Fame rebuilt
• Support links now open the dedicated support page

Fixed

• Tools page grid/list toggle now works; list is the default (#3)
• Readability and contrast improvements across labels and descriptions (#20)
• Recent Activity now opens the History tab instead of a blank overlay (#24)
• Search highlights now align correctly on the right and bottom edges
• PageLightbox no longer crashes with “Size is unspecified”
• PageLightbox bottom controls clear the Android navigation bar
• Lock tool password field no longer clips text
• Metadata save button stays visible, and fields no longer clip text
• Long file names are ellipsized instead of pushing controls off-screen
• Watermark lightbox controls no longer overflow or wrap awkwardly

Testing

• Play closed testing is now open — join the Google Group and opt in (#19)