Pagewright PDF Editor
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Release notes

Release notes

What changed in each version. We list only features that are implemented and pass testing.

1.0.0 — October 2026

The first version on sale. This installer is not yet code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC" the first time you run it: choose More info → Run anyway. A code-signed installer will follow as a free update.

  • Licence keys and one-PC activation. Enter your key once to activate Pagewright on a PC (online, or with an activation file for a PC without internet); Help → Deactivate moves it to another PC. Your key activates every future version.
  • Edit existing text. Edit whole paragraphs, which rewrap at their original width, spacing and alignment, or single lines in place. The old wording is removed from the file. Right-to-left and vertical text can't be edited yet.
  • Certificate signatures. A Digital signatures panel checks signatures in PDFs you receive. Signing with a certificate from the Windows certificate store, with an optional time stamp (off by default), has been tested with software certificates; smart cards and USB tokens have not been tested yet.
  • Bates numbering across a set of files, with a preview, CSV/JSON manifests and resume after an interruption.
  • Automate recipes with dry runs, export/import and resume.
  • Thai text in added text boxes, comments, stamps, headers and form fields, drawn with a bundled Noto Sans Thai font.
  • More tools in the Advanced tab, including library search across folders, Ask Documents (quotes with page links, off by default), measuring, PDF portfolios and attachments, editable bookmarks and a hidden-data inspector.
  • Regional defaults. Paper size, units and date formats follow your Windows region and can be changed in Preferences.
  • Everything from the development builds: viewing with tabs, thumbnails, bookmarks, search and printing; page reorder, rotate, delete, insert, extract, crop, merge and split; page numbers, headers and footers, watermarks; text boxes, images and visible signatures; 11 annotation types with replies; form filling, export/import and flattening; OCR with English included; images to PDF; compression; batch processing and document comparison; safe saving checked by two PDF readers and crash recovery.

0.2.0 — preview build (October 2026)

Not on sale. A development preview for testing with the local website preview: it activates only against that preview and is not code-signed. The first installer for sale is version 1.0.0 above.

  • Licence keys and one-PC activation. Enter your key once to activate Pagewright on a PC (online, or with an activation file for a PC without internet); Help → Deactivate moves it to another PC.
  • Edit existing text. Edit whole paragraphs, which rewrap at their original width, spacing and alignment, or single lines in place. The old wording is removed from the file. Right-to-left and vertical text can't be edited yet.
  • Certificate signatures. A Digital signatures panel checks signatures in PDFs you receive. Signing with a certificate from the Windows certificate store, with an optional time stamp (off by default), has been tested with software certificates; smart cards and USB tokens have not been tested yet.
  • Bates numbering across a set of files, with a preview, CSV/JSON manifests and resume after an interruption.
  • Automate recipes with dry runs, export/import and resume.
  • Thai text in added text boxes, comments, stamps, headers and form fields, drawn with a bundled Noto Sans Thai font.
  • More tools in the Advanced tab, including library search across folders, Ask Documents (quotes with page links, off by default), measuring, PDF portfolios and attachments, editable bookmarks and a hidden-data inspector.
  • Regional defaults. Paper size, units and date formats follow your Windows region and can be changed in Preferences.

0.1.0 — development build (October 2026)

Not on sale. The first complete development build, used for testing.

  • Viewing: tabs, thumbnails, bookmarks, search, full screen and printing with a preview.
  • Pages: reorder, rotate, delete, duplicate, insert, extract, crop, resize, labels, merge and split.
  • Page numbers, headers and footers, watermarks and Bates numbers.
  • Text boxes, images and visible signatures; 11 annotation types with replies and resolve status.
  • Form filling, reset, data export/import and flattening.
  • OCR with English included; images to PDF; page images and text export; compression.
  • Batch processing and document comparison.
  • Safe saving checked by two PDF readers, crash recovery and offline licence files.