QuirewrightFeature checklist
What people expect from a desktop PDF editor, and where this project stands. Checked items are implemented and covered by tests.
Viewing & navigation
- ✓ Open PDFs (including password-protected), drag-and-drop, recent files
- ✓ Zoom (in/out/fit page/fit width/actual size, Ctrl+wheel), pan (Hand tool, middle mouse)
- ✓ Page thumbnails with multi-select and drag-to-reorder
- ✓ Go to page by number, first/previous/next/last
- ✓ Outline (bookmarks) panel with add/rename/delete
- ✓ Find text (Ctrl+F) with hit highlighting and next/previous across pages
- ✓ Light and dark themes, system theme detection
- ✓ Welcome screen when no document is open
- ✓ Continuous (multi-page) scrolling view (single-page mode available)
- ✓ Tabs for several open documents
Content editing (Inkscape-like)
- ✓ Select objects on the rendered page (click, Shift+click, rubber band)
- ✓ Move, resize with handles, rotate, exact geometry in the Inspector
- ✓ Edit path nodes and bezier handles
- ✓ Fill / stroke colour, stroke width, toggle fill or stroke
- ✓ Edit text in place (whole visual line), size, colour; font substitution when glyphs are missing
- ✓ Draw rectangles, ellipses, lines, polylines; add text; insert images
- ✓ Duplicate, bring to front / send to back, flip horizontal / vertical
- ✓ Align (left/centre/right/top/middle/bottom) and distribute multiple objects
- ✓ Copy selected text to the clipboard
- ✓ Nudge with arrow keys, delete, undo/redo for everything
- ✓ Multi-line text boxes with wrapping; paragraph editing with re-wrap
- ✓ Curves in the Pen tool (click-drag for handles)
- ✓ Grouping (as form XObjects) and editing inside any form XObject, nested
- ✓ Snapping to page, objects, guides and grid; rulers; draggable guides
Pages
- ✓ Rotate, delete, duplicate, move, reverse order
- ✓ Insert blank pages (paper sizes) or pages from another PDF (ranges)
- ✓ Extract pages to a file, split document into chunks
- ✓ Crop by margins, crop to a dragged rectangle, reset crop
- ✓ Add page numbers (position, format, start value, range)
- ✓ Add a text watermark (opacity, rotation, size, colour)
- ✓ Export a page as PNG / JPEG / SVG
- ✓ Page labels (roman numerals, letters, prefixes)
- ○ N-up / booklet imposition
Forms
- ✓ Create text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, list boxes, push buttons
- ✓ Move, resize, delete fields; edit name, value, options, fonts, colours, flags
- ✓ Fill forms (set values)
- ✓ Flatten forms and annotations into page content
- ✓ Radio buttons (shared name = group; created via a checkbox workaround for a PyMuPDF limitation)
- ✓ Calculation, format and validation scripts (Acrobat-compatible), evaluated locally for preview
Annotations (comments)
- ✓ Highlight, underline, strike-out text (drag over words)
- ✓ Sticky notes with editable contents and colour
- ✓ Select, move (notes), delete annotations; flatten
- ○ Free-hand ink, shapes, free text, stamps, replies
Document
- ✓ Metadata editing (title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, dates)
- ✓ Security: set user/owner passwords, permissions, AES-256; remove security
- ✓ Resources browser: images, fonts, attachments — extract any of them
- ✓ Attach files to the document, remove attachments
- ✓ Reduce file size (garbage collection, stream compression, image recompression)
- ✓ Redact an area (removes underlying text and images)
- ✓ Digital signatures: sign with PKCS#12 certificates (invisible, visible stamp, or existing field), create self-signed certificates, verify signatures, personal trust store
- ✓ OCR via Tesseract (invisible text layer)
Quality of life
- ✓ Keyboard shortcuts for every tool; shortcut reference dialog; in-app help viewer (F1)
- ✓ Preferences: theme, units (pt / mm / in), stroke scaling
- ✓ Status bar hints per tool, unsaved-changes guard, save-in-place safety (atomic write)
- ✓ Desktop integration files (launcher, icon); AppImage and Flatpak packaging; CI with lint and cross-platform tests
- ○ Autosave / crash recovery
- ✓ Localisation (gettext; complete German, French and Spanish catalogues; Qt dialog translations)