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
Anthropic-compatible provider:
- New 'anthropic-compatible' option for any base URL speaking the Anthropic
messages schema (LiteLLM proxies, Bedrock gateways, local servers)
- Sends x-api-key AND Bearer auth when a key is set (gateway-friendly,
harmless for the official API); keyless proxies supported
- Tolerates base URLs with or without a trailing /v1 segment
- Settings modal, manifest, and provider docs updated
Runtime bug fixes found by booting the app (run-to-verify pass):
- PDF editor: File > Open PDF sends operation=null which matched no switch
case and crashed on getElementById(undefined); now defaults to the merge
section
- backlinks-panel: wrong require depth (../../utils -> ../utils) threw at
panel registration time
- writing-studio stack was written against a synchronous settings backend but
the real one is IPC-backed: GoalTracker/SnapshotManager/ProjectManager and
all four panels now await; JSON.parse(Promise) crashes eliminated
- manuscript panel used window.prompt (unavailable in Electron); replaced
with an inline dialog
- collaboration comment-store/save-load made async to match its IPC IO
617/617 tests green; 4 consecutive clean app boots (no uncaught errors)
- 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
A missing/pruned @img/sharp-* binding made the top-level require('sharp')
crash src/main.js at startup, killing the packaged app before any window.
Load sharp through a cached lazy getter instead; when the native module
cannot load, executeOperation resolves the honest failure shape
{ success: false, error: 'Image operations unavailable: <sanitized>' }
(free of absolute paths), mirroring PDFOperations' Task-27 precedent.
Amit Haridas
electron-builder's .snap (Squashfs) artifact in dist/ registered as an
obsolete Jest snapshot file, failing the suite exit code despite all
516 tests passing. modulePathIgnorePatterns keeps the snapshot scanner
out of build output.
Amit Haridas
Final-review nit: the hardcoded-list rationale covers the dialog path
only; the drop stands on the trusted-argv precedent for --convert-to.
Amit Haridas
The interval split mode looped for (i = 0; i < totalPages; i += interval),
which spins forever when interval <= 0. Both the single-file dialog and the
batch dialog can reach it (the batch dialog's validateOperationData only
checks truthiness, so -1 passes). Guard at the source in the main process:
reject non-positive or non-integer intervals before the loop, protecting
both paths and any future caller.
Amit Haridas
The get-pdf-form-fields IPC pair (handler in main.js, renderer invoke and
event.reply('pdf-form-fields')) was missing from ALLOWED_SEND_CHANNELS and
ALLOWED_RECEIVE_CHANNELS. Under the planned preload migration an unlisted
channel is silently blocked, so the form-field fill/flatten feature would
break once the main window stops using the inline shim. Placed adjacent to
the sibling get-pdf-page-count/pdf-page-count pair it was modeled on.
Amit Haridas
Task-20-review finding: File.path removed in Electron 32, app on ^41.1.1,
~15 renderer file-picker sites read it and get undefined at runtime.
Amit Haridas
Replaces the two native OS dialogs used to configure the DOCX "Enhanced"
export template (an open-file picker + a message-box question) with a
single in-app modal that shows the currently active template state, per
Task 18's original audit finding that this state was invisible until a
user thought to reopen the menu. Consolidates the "Select Word
Template..."/"Template Settings..." menu items into one "Word Template
Settings..." entry wired to the new dialog; Browse still uses the native
file picker since there is genuinely no bundled folder of templates to
enumerate (confirmed by investigation — see task-18-report.md).
Also fixes a related dangling-reference bug: WordTemplateExporter's
hardcoded default template path (word_template.docx) was deleted from
the repo in an earlier commit, but the code still tried to read it and
threw ENOENT whenever no custom template was selected. convert() now
degrades gracefully by generating a minimal, valid DOCX shell (styles +
numbering matching what markdownToWordXml() already references) instead
of crashing, and the new dialog surfaces this state honestly ("using
default formatting, no default template is bundled") rather than
implying a working default exists.
Out of scope, per explicit instruction: bundling fabricated starter
.docx templates to populate a literal multi-item gallery (rejected as
disproportionate/fake-content scope), and an EPUB template gallery (no
EPUB template mechanism exists anywhere in this codebase to build one
for).
Amit Haridas
Task 17's three new IPC channels (plugin-export-formats-registered,
run-plugin-export-format, plugin-export-format-result) were missing
from preload.js's ALLOWED_SEND_CHANNELS/ALLOWED_RECEIVE_CHANNELS,
breaking the established convention that the allowlist is the
authoritative registry of every valid channel regardless of whether
it's accessed via window.electronAPI or raw ipcRenderer (see
toggle-sidebar-panel, set-current-file, save-recent-files).
Amit Haridas
Add context.formats.registerExportFormat(id, opts) to PluginContext,
backed by a new FormatRegistry (mirrors PluginRegistry's Map-based
shape). Plugins register namespaced (${pluginId}:${id}) export
formats with a label/extension/handler; the writing-studio built-in
plugin registers a trivial "sprint-summary" .txt export as a
worked example.
The plugin system lives entirely in the renderer process while the
Export menu is built in main.js, so wiring formats into the menu
required a small IPC round-trip: renderer sends format metadata to
main after plugin load (main rebuilds the menu via the already-
idempotent createMenu()), and a menu click sends the resolved save
path back to the renderer, which is the only process holding the
plugin's handler function.
Amit Haridas
Adds pdfGetFormFields (lists AcroForm fields with name/type/value) and
pdfFillForm (fills text fields by name, optionally flattens) to
PDFOperations.js, dispatched via 'formFields'/'fillForm' in
executeOperation. pdfFillForm skips unknown/non-text fields per-field
(logs + continues) rather than failing the whole batch, matching the
partial-success precedent set by pdfExtractImages.
Wires a "Fill Form" entry into the PDF editor dialog: selecting a PDF
fetches its fields via a new get-pdf-form-fields/pdf-form-fields IPC
round trip and renders one text input per field, plus a flatten
checkbox, following the same structure as the crop/pageNumbers dialogs.
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
Extends GitOperations.js with diff/branches/checkoutBranch/push/pull,
wires the 5 new IPC handlers in main.js (reusing the existing dir
resolution), whitelists the new channels in preload.js, and fixes the
Git sidebar panel's previously dead _gitDiff callback by wiring up a
diff view, branch list/create/checkout UI, and push/pull buttons.
Resolves Task 5, which deferred this work to this task.
Amit Haridas
Reviewer follow-up on Task 12: the task's own title/brief called for
batch support and no later task in the plan picks it up, so this closes
that gap. Adds a "Single File" / "Batch Folder" mode toggle to the
existing media-operations-dialog.js; batch mode swaps the per-file
input/output fields for an Input Folder + "Include subfolders" +
Output Folder trio while keeping every other parameter (width/height/
quality/angle/startTime/duration/crf/fps/format/fit) applied uniformly
to every matching file. Disabled for audio "Merge", which combines many
inputs into one output and doesn't fit a per-file batch model.
main.js: adds collectFilesByExtension() (src/main/collectFilesByExtension.js,
unit tested), a generalization of the inline collectFiles() closure inside
ipcMain.on('universal-convert-batch', ...) to match a set of extensions
instead of one format. runMediaBatchOperation() loops
ImageOperations/AudioOperations/VideoOperations.executeOperation() over
the matched files, reporting per-file progress via new
'media-batch-progress' events and a final 'media-batch-complete' event,
then shows a "Batch Conversion Complete" dialog.showMessageBox with
completed/failed counts, mirroring performBatchConversion()'s pattern.
Wired via three new ipcMain.on handlers: batch-image-operation,
batch-audio-operation, batch-video-operation.
preload.js: whitelists the three new send channels and the two new
receive channels (media-batch-progress, media-batch-complete).
Adds Tools > Image/Audio/Video Tools... menu items and a single dynamic
renderer dialog (src/renderer/media-operations-dialog.js) that lets the
user pick a media-kind-scoped operation, fill in its operation-specific
fields, and invoke process-image-operation/process-audio-operation/
process-video-operation (Tasks 9-11's backends). File selection reuses
the existing <input type="file"> + file.path convention; the one folder
picker need (video frame extraction) reuses the existing generic
select-folder/folder-selected IPC channels, so no new IPC handler was
required. Also removes the three dead electronAPI.image/audio/video
convenience blocks from preload.js (stale pre-Task-9-11 channel names,
unused everywhere).
Add src/main/VideoOperations.js with pure argument-builder functions
(buildConvertArgs, buildCompressArgs, buildTrimArgs, buildFramesArgs,
buildGifArgs) and a single executeOperation entry point that spawns
ffmpeg via dependency-injected execFileFn, mirroring AudioOperations.js.
Wire ipcMain.handle('process-video-operation', ...) in main.js using
getFFmpegPath() and sanitizeErrorMessage(). Update preload.js's
ALLOWED_SEND_CHANNELS: remove 6 stale video-* channel names, add
process-video-operation.
Amit Haridas
Adds AudioOperations.js with pure argument builders (convert/trim/extract/merge)
plus one executeOperation that spawns ffmpeg via a dependency-injected execFileFn,
so tests never invoke a real binary. Wires process-audio-operation in main.js and
updates preload.js's ALLOWED_SEND_CHANNELS to replace the 5 stale audio-* entries.
Amit Haridas
Three lines in tests/main/ImageOperations.test.js (copied verbatim
from the task brief's sample) exceeded the project's 100-char width,
failing npm run format:check. Ran npm run format to auto-fix; no
behavioral change.
Amit Haridas
Add src/main/ImageOperations.js (convert/resize/compress/rotate via
sharp), modeled on PDFOperations.js's executeOperation dispatcher.
Wire ipcMain.handle('process-image-operation', ...) in main.js using
sanitizeErrorMessage() on error paths, and replace the 5 stale/unused
image-* channel names in preload.js's ALLOWED_SEND_CHANNELS with
process-image-operation + select-image-folder (mirroring
select-pdf-folder for a later batch-UI task).
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
Reviewer caught that the new View > Monospace Font menu channel was
missing from preload.js's ALLOWED_RECEIVE_CHANNELS, the sole gap among
29 raw ipcRenderer.on(...) channels used in renderer.js. Add it under
the existing Font section for consistency with adjust-font-size.
Amit Haridas
Add a View > Monospace Font menu (font family radio + ligatures
checkbox) — the app's existing reachable UI surface for this class of
preference (mirrors Theme/Font Size/Spell Check). The menu sends the
change to the renderer, which persists it via the already-working
ipcMain.handle('set-monospace-settings', ...) and applies it live via
the same applyMonospaceClasses() used on initial load.
Amit Haridas
Extract the sidebar Templates panel's inline load-into-new-tab callback into
a shared loadTemplateIntoNewTab() function, and add the missing
ipcRenderer.on('load-template-menu', ...) listener so the File > New from
Template submenu (which already sends this IPC event, already whitelisted in
preload.js) actually loads the selected template.
Amit Haridas
Extract the recent-files.json deletion logic into a standalone
clearRecentFilesOnDisk() function and call it from both the menu
click handler and the ipcMain.on handler. Previously the menu sent
the message in the wrong direction (main→renderer instead of
renderer→main), causing the feature to silently no-op. Both paths now
use the same function and send the correct 'recent-files-cleared'
notification to keep the renderer in sync.
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).
Exercises the real export pipeline against the bundled JetBrains Mono TTFs:
- PdfFontHeader emits valid xelatex fontspec with correct family + Ligatures=NoCommon
- ExportCss.build emits @font-face with base64 data URI
- DocxFontEmbedder injects TTFs into pandoc-produced DOCX (word/fontTable.xml + word/fonts/)
- EpubFontEmbedder.patchManifest adds TTF entry to OPF <manifest>
- HTML export links the sidecar CSS which embeds the font
Run with: node tests/smoke-e2e-monospace.js
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