What changed, and when.

New in the PDF editor: Sign. Draw your signature once and place it on any PDF with a click. It is remembered on this PC only.

New in the PDF editor: check marks. Tick, cross or dot the boxes of forms that cannot be filled in.

New in the PDF editor: find and replace. Change a name, a price or a date everywhere in the document at once, and undo it in one step.

New in the PDF editor: copy, cut, paste and duplicate (Ctrl+C, X, V, D), onto the same page or another one. Pictures and text copied in other apps paste straight onto the page.

New in the PDF editor: bring to front and send to back, rotate a quarter turn, see-through objects (25 to 100% opacity) and thinner or thicker lines for drawings already in the PDF.

The PDF editor has a right-click menu, zooms with Ctrl + mouse wheel, and draws straight lines, squares and circles while Shift is held.

Fixed in the PDF editor: undoing a change to text you had just added could leave it empty; a change that failed half-way could leave stray objects in the saved file; retyping recognised (scanned) text made it visible on the page; and recolouring a see-through object made it solid again.

Arrow-key nudges now undo in one step instead of one press at a time.

New: Trim video or audio. Drag the two ends along a film strip or a waveform, see exactly where it starts and ends, play the part in your own player, then save it in seconds with no quality loss, or exact to the frame.

New: Protect PDF. Give a PDF a password to open (strong AES-256 encryption), or stop printing, copying or changes.

New: Unlock PDF. Take the password off a PDF you know the password of, or the restrictions off one you can open. A conversion that fails because of a password now offers to unlock the file.

New: Organise pages. See every page of a PDF, then turn, reorder (just drag a page) or remove pages. Bookmarks and links keep working.

New: Add page numbers, such as "Page 1 of 9", in any corner or centred, starting on whichever page you like. A live preview shows exactly how it will look.

New: Add a watermark such as CONFIDENTIAL or DRAFT across every page, diagonal or straight, in the size, strength and colour you choose, with a live preview.

New: PDF to images. Save every page, or just the pages you pick, as PNG, JPG, WebP or TIFF pictures, at screen or print resolution. Right-click a page in the Reader to save that page alone.

New: Convert audio. Turn songs and recordings into MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV, Opus or OGG, keeping their titles and artists. Drop sound files on the app to start.

New: HEIC to JPG on the Tools page, for iPhone photos that need to open everywhere.

Save pictures as JPEG XR (.jxr), Windows' own photo format: smaller than JPG, and HDR pictures keep their full range.

Save pictures as HEIC, the iPhone photo format, about half the size of JPG (needs HEIF Image Extensions and HEVC Video Extensions from the Microsoft Store).

JPEG XL (.jxl) pictures open and convert too, once the free JPEG XL Image Extension is installed from the Microsoft Store.

The Video tools are now "Video & audio", and the Video to audio dialog no longer shows picture quality choices that did not apply to sound.

Podalls Convert is free. If this release saves you time, you can support the next one.

Videos saved with Podalls Downloader can be sent straight to Podalls Convert with its Convert button.

The Video dialog is tidier: formats are chosen from one row, and the Convert button stays in view in a small window.

Convert videos between MP4, MKV, WebM, MOV, AVI and WMV, or turn a short clip into an animated GIF.

Changing a video's format alone now keeps the picture exactly as it was, and takes seconds rather than minutes.

Make a video smaller for email, chat and uploads; the copy is kept only when it really is smaller.

Save the sound of a video on its own as MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV, Opus or OGG, straight out of the film untouched when it is already in that format.

The Tools page now opens on the four kinds of file the app works with - PDF, Documents, Images and Video - and shows every tool for one of them when you click it.

Podalls Convert starts on Tools instead of the Reader; opening a file from Explorer still goes straight to the Reader.

This update is a larger download than usual: the video features bring their own engine, installed with the app so videos convert offline like everything else.

Convert Word documents (.docx) to EPUB e-books, with no office app needed: chapters, headings, lists, tables, pictures, links and footnotes are kept.

Close the open PDF with the new Close button in the Reader or Ctrl+W, and go back to the start page.

Fixed a crash that could happen when opening some PDFs.

Long notes in the Update dialog now wrap instead of running off the edge.

Read e-books: EPUB, FB2, TXT and HTML now open in the Reader, paginated like a printed book.

Choose typeface, size, spacing and colours for e-books, with contents and reading position remembered.

Build contents for books without marked headings from capitalised titles, "Chapter 4" labels and centred opening headings.

Keep three heading levels when converting a PDF to Word or EPUB, including numbered sections such as "1.2 Scope".

View PDFs in a two-page book layout: turn pages with the arrow keys, wheel, or the on-screen arrows.

Recognise text in scanned PDFs with Windows' built-in OCR, creating a searchable copy while leaving the original unchanged.

Choose the recognition language, which pages to read, and Faster, Standard or Careful quality; turned scans are corrected automatically.

Convert scanned PDFs directly to Word, Excel or EPUB, or recognise and retry when a conversion finds no selectable text.

Edit PDFs directly: change or delete text, move and resize objects, and save the result.

Add text, pictures, freehand ink, highlights, whiteout, lines, arrows, rectangles and ellipses.

Use undo/redo, page thumbnails, keyboard nudging, Save, and Save a copy without overwriting the original.

Open the editor from Tools, the Editor sidebar, or the Reader's Edit button; unsaved changes are protected.

Convert images to PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, TIFF, ICO, ICNS, PDF and favicon packages.

Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, RTF, CSV and WPS files to PDF with Microsoft Office, WPS or LibreOffice.

Improve PDF workflows with compression, merging, splitting, Word/Excel/EPUB conversion and safer output handling.

Test release: automatic updates

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