- src/ascii-generator.html line 7: ../fonts.css -> fonts.css (src/-relative;
fixes silent stylesheet miss — same class as the v4.9.0->v4.9.1 script-tag fix)
- src/renderer/ascii-controller.js: wire all 3 mode tabs, 18 template
buttons, and the 3 box form fields. setMode() toggles .active on tabs
and matching .mode-section. Templates route through the orchestrator's
template:<id> font namespace. Box mode renders text with single/double/
rounded/bold/ascii borders via a pure renderBox() helper. All 11 T9
behaviours preserved.
- tests/ascii-controller.test.js: 6 tests covering stylesheet path,
pure box renderer, mode-tab switching, and template button wiring.
- package.json 4.9.1 -> 4.9.2; README + UPDATES updated.
Amit Haridas
Branding:
- All app icons regenerated from the new vector brand kit (M↓ mark):
icon.png/icon@2x (app + packaging), favicon.png, tray-icon.png, and the
full assets/icons/ size set — generate-icons.js now rasterizes
app-icon.svg directly (docico1.png removed)
- index.html gets proper favicon/apple-touch links from the kit
- Welcome tab hero shows the new mark; README gets the horizontal wordmark
- assets/logo.png (ConcreteInfo) intentionally untouched
CI release fixes (win/mac jobs were failing):
- FiraCode download moved from moving raw/master URLs (hash drifted
upstream, tripping the pin) to the immutable 6.2 release asset; repo
fonts updated to the pinned 6.2 bits
- macOS pandoc extractor locates the binary in the archive instead of
assuming a bin/ layout that the macOS zip doesn't have
Stray upload archive (markdown-converter-assets (1).zip) excluded.
- electron-builder config moves to electron-builder.config.js so markitdown
bundling is conditional per platform (PyInstaller only builds for the host
OS; a missing binary now logs a warning and ships without it instead of
failing the build); package.json static build section removed, all npm
scripts pointed at the config; third-party-licenses/ added to packaged files
- FIX (pre-existing): packaged apps looked for bundled pandoc in
resources/bin, but extraFiles land next to the executable (Contents/ on
macOS) — packaged builds silently fell back to system pandoc since 4.5.
New bundledToolDir() resolves the real location for pandoc + markitdown
- download-tools.js pins the win32 pandoc.exe SHA-256 (fetched + verified)
- sharp packaging test accepts sharp 0.35's versioned binding filename
- release.yml: bundle-markitdown step (best-effort) on every OS and a new
macOS job; release aggregates linux+windows+macos artifacts
Local release artifacts built and verified (dist/):
- MarkdownConverter-4.7.0.AppImage (363MB, pandoc+markitdown bundled,
packaged app boots clean, tools resolve at the fixed path)
- markdown-converter_4.7.0_amd64.deb (293MB)
- MarkdownConverter-Setup-4.7.0.exe (223MB), portable exe (223MB), zip
(305MB) — pandoc bundled; markitdown omitted (cannot cross-build),
legal docs verified inside app.asar
637/637 tests green; lint clean.
Bundle (v4.7.0):
- MarkItDown frozen to a single ~75MB per-platform binary (PyInstaller via
npm run bundle:markitdown; ML extras excluded) — built and verified
locally: HTML/XLSX/PDF conversions pass through the bundled binary, and
the app resolves bin/linux/markitdown first at runtime
- Packaging copies bundled markitdown alongside Pandoc for win/mac/linux;
FFmpeg/sharp/KaTeX/fonts were already bundled
Legal artifacts:
- THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md: complete license inventory of everything
distributed (binaries, npm runtime deps, fonts, embedded Python packages)
- SOURCES.md: GPL §3(b) written source offers for Pandoc 3.9.0.2,
ffmpeg-static's GPL build, and the PyInstaller bootloader; LGPL relinking
note for libvips
- third-party-licenses/: canonical GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1, MPL-2.0, Apache-2.0,
OFL-1.1, PSF-Python texts
- Help > Third-Party Notices & Licenses: in-app viewer for both documents
- README: 'Bundled Dependencies, Legal Notices & Credits' section
Hardening:
- download-tools.js now SHA-256 pins every artifact, verifies after
download AND against the cache on every run, and hard-fails on mismatch
(closes security finding D6)
Large tools intentionally not bundled (documented): LibreOffice,
MiKTeX/TeX Live, ImageMagick, PlantUML+JRE, Calibre.
637/637 tests green; lint clean; clean boot; bundled binary verified.
- File → Import with MarkItDown (Any Format)…: PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX,
Outlook .msg/.eml, EPUB, images, CSV/JSON/XML, ZIP (audio/OCR via the
[all] extras) — verified live against HTML, XLSX (our own exporter's
output), and PDF fixtures
- Command auto-resolution with caching: markitdown binary → python -m
markitdown → python3 -m markitdown
- SEC-1 argv discipline (execFile only, user paths never through a shell),
50MB cap, 120s timeout, sanitized errors that surface markitdown's own
"pip install 'markitdown[pdf]'" hints for missing format extras
- Output lands next to the source as <name>.md (numeric suffix, never
overwrites) and opens in a new tab; markitdown:available/convert IPC
allowlisted for renderer flows
- Help → Dependencies lists MarkItDown; README/UPDATES updated (v4.6.1)
12 new tests (629 green); lint clean; clean app boot
- AI Assistant plugin: multi-provider chat (OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama/LM Studio),
summarize/improve/translate commands, proofread via ai:analyze; calls
proxied through main so API keys stay out of the renderer
- Collaboration plugin: anchor-based comments in .comments/ sidecars with
drift detection and F8 navigation
- Local knowledge base: [[wiki-links]] with click-to-create + Backlinks panel
- Crash recovery: debounced session snapshots with restore prompt on launch
- Version history: pre-save snapshots, History panel with restore/diff/delete
- Real PDF encryption: swap pdf-lib for @cantoo/pdf-lib (probe-driven UI)
- XLSX export (native workbooks via JSZip), ODT headers/footers + page size
- Offline KaTeX (bundled CSS+fonts), local-first PlantUML rendering
- Editor: vim mode toggle, snippet Tab-expansion, zen word-goal setter,
writing heatmap, writing-studio panels wired with rail icons
- Quick Note global scratchpad (Ctrl+Alt+Q), markdownconverter:// deep links,
REPL first-run confirmation
- Fix: Ctrl+Shift+P collision, pandoc converter availability check, CLI
dangling --css/--reference-doc flags, dead converter button
8 new test suites; 613 tests green; lint clean
build.asarUnpack only claimed node_modules/sharp/**, so electron-builder
pruned the @img/sharp-* optionalDependencies: the asar kept 34 pure-JS
@img entries while the bundled libvips shared libraries never shipped.
At boot sharp's loader fell back to a system-libvips-linked binding and
dlopen failed, crashing the main process. Claim the prebuilt packages
explicitly (@img/** and @napi-rs/**) per the sharp+electron-builder
recipe, and guard the built output with a packaging regression test.
Amit Haridas
Adds four new PDFOperations: pdfExtractText (pdfjs-dist getTextContent),
pdfAddPageNumbers (reuses pdfWatermark's position-mapping logic, extracted
into a shared resolvePosition helper), pdfCrop (page.setCropBox against the
existing MediaBox), and pdfExtractImages (pdfjs-dist operator list +
paintImageXObject + sharp). Wired into executeOperation's switch and the PDF
editor dialog UI (4 new sections/toolbar buttons/menu items) with no new IPC
channel needed.
pdfjs-dist v5 is ESM-only, so it's loaded via dynamic import() of its
Node-friendly legacy build; Jest needs --experimental-vm-modules to support
that, so the test scripts now set NODE_OPTIONS accordingly via cross-env.
Amit Haridas
- Add jszip (^3.10.1) to dependencies; keep version-pinned in overrides
- Move sharp (^0.34.3) from devDependencies to dependencies for Phase B runtime use
- Add node_modules/sharp/** to build.asarUnpack so native bindings are not packed
Amit Haridas
Monospace font embedding feature release. Adds bundled JetBrains Mono +
Fira Code TTFs (asarUnpack), preview/print font picker with ligatures
toggle, and embedded fonts in PDF (xelatex fontspec), DOCX (OOXML
surgery), EPUB (--epub-embed-font + OPF manifest), and HTML (sidecar
CSS with base64 data URI).
- Normalize pandoc command parsing with path.basename() to support bundled binary paths
- Use bundled pandoc binary in convertWithPandoc instead of relying on PATH
- Forward includeSubfolders checkbox state from renderer to main process
- Add pandoc availability check before batch conversion
- Re-enable Start button when batch conversion completes
- Clean up obsolete dist build artifact causing test snapshot warning
- Bump version to 4.4.4
- Add build:linux-ci script (deb + AppImage, no snap — snapcraft not
available on ubuntu-latest runners without extra setup)
- Switch release.yml linux build to npm run build:linux-ci
- release job: if: always() so Windows artifacts still get released
even if linux build fails
- Download artifact steps: continue-on-error so missing platform
doesn't block GitHub Release creation
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Remove rpm from linux build targets (rpmbuild not available locally)
CI can add it back with apt-get if needed, but pandoc/ffmpeg are now
bundled so the rpm depends were incorrect anyway
- Remove rpmbuild apt install step from release.yml (not needed)
- Remove pandoc/ffmpeg from deb depends — they are now bundled binaries
- Keep imagemagick and libreoffice-common in deb depends (not bundled)
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Remove package-lock.json from .gitignore so npm ci works in CI
- Refactor main.js: delegate PDF ops to src/main/PDFOperations.js,
git ops to src/main/GitOperations.js
- getPandocPath(): use bundled binary from resources/bin/ when packaged,
fall back to dev bin/ or system pandoc in development
- getFFmpegPath(): use ffmpeg-static (asarUnpack) when packaged
- Install ffmpeg-static (v5.3.0, bundled 76MB binary)
- Add scripts/download-tools.js to fetch pandoc binary at build time
(idempotent, runs on CI before electron-builder)
- electron-builder: add asarUnpack for ffmpeg-static, extraFiles for
pandoc binary per platform (linux + win32)
- release.yml: switch build-windows to windows-latest runner with native
NSIS support; add cert decode step; add download-tools step for both
linux and windows jobs
- Fix lint error: hoist outlinePanelContainer to module scope so
TabManager methods can reference it without no-undef errors
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Remove signAndEditExecutable:false so code signing works properly
- Add legalTrademarks and copyright metadata to build config
- Add publisherName via build.copyright (embedded in PE resources)
- Create scripts/create-selfsigned-cert.ps1 for local dev signing
- Update release.yml: build on windows-latest runner (not Wine),
auto-sign when CSC_LINK_BASE64/CSC_KEY_PASSWORD secrets present,
fall back to unsigned otherwise
- Add lint step to ci.yml (Phase 4.3 plan gap)
- Add .vscode/launch.json debug configs (Phase 4.3 plan gap)
- Fix .gitignore: exclude *.pfx/*.p12 cert files, track launch.json,
fix concatenated agents.md/coverage/ lines
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Bump version to 4.1.0 in package.json and index.html
- Add build:local script for combined Linux + Windows local builds
- Add CI workflow: runs tests on push/PR to master
- Add Release workflow: tag-triggered (v*), parallel Linux + Windows
builds, publishes all packages to GitHub Releases
Amit Haridas
Update worker path from .js to .mjs to match the new ESM-only build
structure in pdfjs-dist v5. Core API (getDocument, getPage, render)
remains compatible.
- Update marked from ^16.2.1 to ^17.0.3
- Add marked-highlight ^2.2.3 for syntax highlighting support
- Replace deprecated marked.setOptions() with marked.use() in renderer.js
- Extract highlight config into markedHighlight() extension (required in v17)
- Update test mock to reflect new API (use instead of setOptions)
Major Features:
- Integrated PDF viewer with zoom, page navigation, and fit modes
- PDF editor toolbar with direct access to all PDF operations
- New app branding with docico1.png icon
- ConcreteInfo theme (light & dark variants)
- Comprehensive PDF editing: merge, split, compress, rotate, delete, reorder
- Watermark, encrypt, decrypt, and permissions management
- Overwrite original file option for all PDF operations
UI Improvements:
- PDF viewer takes full screen when active (hides tabs and toolbar)
- Compact modals with reduced font sizes
- Dark theme fixes for icons and dialogs
- Save/Save As options for PDF operations
- Improved PDF toolbar theming
Technical:
- Added isPdfViewerActive state tracking
- Proper PDF document lifecycle management
- Fixed hang issues when switching between PDF and markdown
- All dependencies are open-source (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD)
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
New Features:
• Export Profiles - Save and load export configurations
• Mermaid.js diagram support - Render flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and more
• Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) - Quick access to all commands
• GitHub Light/Dark preview themes - Beautiful code preview styling
• Table Generator - Interactive table creation tool
• ASCII Art Generator - Create text banners, boxes, and templates
• Resizable Preview Pane - Drag divider to adjust editor/preview sizes
• Pop-out Preview Window - Open preview in separate window with live sync
UI/UX Improvements:
• Fixed advanced export dialog visibility (added .hidden CSS class)
• GitHub-style table headers with light grey background
• Removed gradients from table headers
• Clean, professional preview rendering
Technical Changes:
• Updated all UI components for new features
• Enhanced TabManager to support resizable panes
• Added MutationObserver for live preview sync in pop-out window
• Improved CSS styling consistency
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Fixed code block and ASCII art background to extend full paragraph width:
🔧 Background Fix:
- Moved shading (w:shd) from run level (<w:rPr>) to paragraph level (<w:pPr>)
- Background now extends full width like in the preview
- Applied to both createCodeBlockXml() and createAsciiArtXml() functions
📝 Technical Changes:
- src/wordTemplateExporter.js: Paragraph-level shading for full-width backgrounds
- Added w:ind with left="284" right="284" for consistent margins
- Removed redundant w:shd from run properties
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Fixed export of ASCII art, charts, tables, and flowcharts to match preview exactly:
🎨 ASCII Art Preservation:
- Code blocks now export exactly as shown in preview
- Each line rendered separately to preserve exact spacing and alignment
- Monospace font (Consolas) used consistently across all export formats
- Line breaks, spacing, and box-drawing characters preserved perfectly
📝 Word Template Exporter Improvements:
- createCodeBlockXml: Renders each line as separate paragraph with exact spacing
- Added <w:keepLines/> and <w:wordWrap w:val="0"/> for no-wrap behavior
- Enhanced isAsciiArt detection with more Unicode box-drawing characters
- Added support for rounded corners (╭╮╯╰), heavy box chars, more arrows
📄 PDF Export Enhancements:
- Added -V monofont="Consolas" for proper code block rendering
- Added --highlight-style=tango for syntax highlighting
- Applied to main export, fallback engines, and CLI conversion
🖨️ HTML/Electron PDF Improvements:
- Enhanced CSS: white-space: pre, word-wrap: normal
- font-family: Consolas, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace
- Print media queries preserve code block formatting
- overflow: visible prevents content truncation
🔧 Technical Changes:
- src/wordTemplateExporter.js: Enhanced code block and ASCII art rendering
- src/main.js: Added monofont settings to all PDF export paths
- Updated version to 1.9.1
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Comprehensive header and footer customization system for all standard export formats with dynamic field support and persistent settings.
✨ Major Features:
- Custom Headers & Footers for PDF, DOCX, ODT, and PowerPoint exports
- Three-column layout (Left/Center/Right) for both headers and footers
- Dynamic field support: $PAGE$, $TOTAL$, $DATE$, $TIME$, $TITLE$, $AUTHOR$, $FILENAME$
- Logo/image upload UI for header and footer branding
- Enable/disable toggle with persistent settings across sessions
- Field insertion helper dialog for quick dynamic field selection
- Complete dark theme support for all 22 themes
🎯 Export Format Support:
- PDF (Standard): LaTeX fancyhdr package with automatic page numbering
- DOCX (Standard): Word XML manipulation with PAGE and NUMPAGES fields
- ODT: OpenDocument format with Pandoc integration
- PowerPoint (PPTX): Footer text with dynamic field replacement
- Batch Converter: Full header/footer support for all formats
💡 Technical Implementation:
- processDynamicFields() function for field replacement
- LaTeX header generation with fancyhdr and lastpage packages
- Word XML manipulation using PizZip for DOCX headers/footers
- addHeaderFooterToDocx() function for post-processing DOCX exports
- buildPandocCommand() enhanced with header/footer parameters
- IPC handlers for dialog communication and settings management
🎨 User Interface:
- New "Header & Footer Settings..." menu option in File menu
- Professional configuration dialog with field previews
- Logo upload with file path display and clear buttons
- Dynamic field picker popup dialog
- Responsive grid layout for three-column design
- Smooth transitions and animations
📦 Integration Points:
- Menu system (File → Header & Footer Settings...)
- Standard export functions (PDF, DOCX, ODT, PPTX)
- Batch converter with full format support
- Settings persistence via electron-store
- Logo file management in userData directory
🔧 Code Changes:
- src/main.js: Added header/footer IPC handlers, state management, processDynamicFields(), addHeaderFooterToDocx(), enhanced buildPandocCommand() and performBatchConversion()
- src/index.html: Added header/footer dialog and field picker dialog
- src/renderer.js: Added dialog management, logo handling, field insertion
- src/styles.css: Added comprehensive dialog styling with dark theme support
- package.json: Updated version to 1.9.0
- CLAUDE.md: Documented v1.9.0 features and implementation details
📝 Note: Enhanced exports (DOCX Enhanced, PDF Enhanced) use Word templates with pre-configured headers/footers. This feature specifically targets standard (non-templated) exports.
🚀 Impact:
Users can now add professional headers and footers to all document exports with custom branding, dynamic page numbers, dates, and titles - significantly improving document presentation for business and academic use cases.
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This release includes significant improvements to PDF Editor UI, enhanced PDF/Word
export functionality, print fixes, and configurable template settings.
🎯 v1.8.1 - Streamlined PDF Editor UI:
- Clean, focused interface showing only the selected PDF operation
- Smooth fade-in animations when switching between functions
- Optimized dialog sizing (max-width 600px, max-height 85vh)
- Enhanced file list styling with better contrast
- Complete dark theme support for all PDF editor components
- Better scrolling behavior for long forms
📄 v1.8.2 - Enhanced PDF Export & Print Fix:
- New "PDF (Enhanced)" export option using Word template + LibreOffice conversion
- Added to both single-file export and batch converter
- Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+P for enhanced PDF export
- Fixed print preview showing blank output issue
- Simplified print handler using CSS @media print rules
- Better print styling with proper element hiding/showing
⚙️ v1.8.3 - Configurable Template Settings:
- Added "Template Settings..." menu option
- Configurable start page for Word template content insertion
- Choose from Pages 1-5 or custom page number (1-100)
- Settings persisted across sessions
- Updated WordTemplateExporter to use configurable start page
- Works with both DOCX (Enhanced) and PDF (Enhanced) export
- Applied to single-file and batch conversion workflows
🔧 Technical Improvements:
- Enhanced WordTemplateExporter constructor to accept startPage parameter
- Updated insertContentAfterPage method for flexible page insertion
- Added Template Settings dialog with quick-select buttons
- IPC communication for custom page number input
- Settings stored in userData/settings.json
- Improved CSS specificity with PDF editor-specific classes
- Fixed @media print rules to ensure preview content is visible
🎨 UI/UX Enhancements:
- PDF Editor sections now animate smoothly when switching
- File lists for merge operations styled with proper contrast
- Remove buttons styled with danger color (#dc3545)
- Template settings dialog shows current template and start page
- All enhancements support all 22 existing themes
The application now provides professional-grade PDF editing, enhanced export
capabilities with full control over template-based generation, and a streamlined
user interface that makes complex operations simple and intuitive.
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Enhanced PDF Editor user experience with cleaner, more intuitive interface:
✨ UI Improvements:
- Streamlined PDF Editor dialog to show only selected function
- Removed cluttered "all functions at once" display
- Added smooth fade-in animation when showing function-specific sections
- Improved dialog sizing: max-width 600px, max-height 85vh
- Better visual separation with compact section spacing
🎨 Styling Enhancements:
- Added PDF editor-specific CSS classes for better organization
- Enhanced file list styling with better contrast
- Improved remove button styling with danger color
- Complete dark theme support for all PDF editor components
- Better scrolling behavior for long forms
🔧 Technical Improvements:
- Maintained existing show/hide logic (already working correctly)
- Enhanced CSS specificity with .pdf-editor-content and .pdf-editor-body classes
- Added @keyframes fadeIn animation for smooth transitions
- Improved overflow handling for better UX on smaller screens
🌙 Theme Support:
- Full dark mode styling for file lists and entries
- Proper color contrast for all interactive elements
- Consistent styling across all 22 themes
The PDF Editor now provides a clean, focused interface showing only the relevant
controls for each operation (merge, split, compress, rotate, delete, reorder,
watermark, encrypt, decrypt, permissions).
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Added enhanced Word export with template support to the batch file converter,
enabling batch conversion of markdown files to professionally-styled DOCX
documents using custom templates.
New Features:
- Added "DOCX (Enhanced)" option to batch converter format selection
- Integrated WordTemplateExporter with batch conversion workflow
- Batch converter now supports template-based Word export with:
* Custom template preservation
* Professional table styling (orange headers, white data rows)
* Perfect ASCII art and flowchart alignment
* Red-colored arrows in flowcharts
* Markdown numbering stripped from headings and lists
Technical Changes:
- Modified performBatchConversion() to handle 'docx-enhanced' format
- Async/await pattern for WordTemplateExporter in batch processing
- Proper error handling and progress tracking for enhanced exports
- Updated version to v1.8.0 in package.json, main.js, and README.md
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Major Features:
- Template-based Word export with custom template selection
- File menu option to select and persist Word templates
- Table styling with orange headers and white data rows
- ASCII art and flowchart rendering with perfect alignment
- Red-colored arrows in flowcharts for enhanced visibility
- Markdown numbering stripped from headings and lists
Technical Improvements:
- Enhanced ASCII art detection for arrows and flowchart patterns
- Line-by-line rendering with no-wrap properties
- Arrow character detection and red coloring (↓→←↑)
- Template path persistence across sessions
- Word XML manipulation using PizZip
Files Modified:
- src/wordTemplateExporter.js: Enhanced ASCII art rendering, table styling
- src/main.js: Template selection function and menu integration
- CLAUDE.md: Comprehensive v1.7.9 documentation
- package.json: Version bump to 1.7.9
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- Created wordTemplateExporter.js module using docx npm package
- Added "DOCX (Enhanced)" option in File → Export menu
- Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+W
- Full markdown support: headings, formatting, code, lists, tables
- No external dependencies (Pandoc/Python not required)
- Proper numbering configuration for lists
- Professional Word document output
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- Fixed command-line argument parsing for packaged apps using app.isPackaged
- Fixed print preview to show markdown content instead of toolbar
- Rewrote print handler to rely on CSS @media print rules
- Enhanced CSS with attribute selectors for dynamic preview panes
- Removed DevTools auto-open for production build
- Updated version to 1.7.8 across all files
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