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PDF Toolbox

Finally an opensource solution for easy and intuitive PDF manipulation!

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Looking for more ideas on what features would be good to include!

Contributors welcome!
We as developers are always learning. Whether you have just started to dabble in code or you're already an expert, feel free to contribute and ask questions.

Current features

• No install required! (can run off thumb drive)
• Split a document into new documents every n-pages
• Easy document renaming
• Drag and drop to
  • Import existing PDF document(s) as documents or all pages combined into one document
  • Rearrange pages in a document
  • Copy pages of one document into another ([Ctrl] + drop)
    
    

Current goals

Short-term

• Clean up project on GitHub
• Finish adding unit-testing
• Refactor as unit-testing requires (this will take some work)

Mid-term

• Rework/refactor UI/UX to be more modular/easier to work with
• Add themes support with 3 stock themes
  • Default
  • Light
  • Dark
• Add context menu framework (for common tasks on documents/pages)

Long-term (subject to change as the project develops)

• Able to import other image types
  • *.Tiff
  • *.BMP
  • *.PNG
  • etc.
• Able to Import straight from Email (Outlook)
• "Edit page" tab removed in favor of an overlay style
• Many of the current buttons moved into context menu
• Multi-page manipulation (no more altering documents one page at a time!)
• Command-line interface (automate your common tasks!)
  • List of commands to be determined
• Simple settings file to save current:
  • Theme
  • Window stats (position/size & full-screen/minimized)
• In-app security (able to unlock the PDF without the need for external apps)
• Just one file (dlls are included in exe file - themes & save file omitted)
• Plug-ins (extensions)!