README Downloads: where to get it first, then builds with Windows before macOS (#279)

Also drop "signed installers" from the thin-or-missing list: release installers are signed.

Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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- **Good today:** viewing and search; organizing, combining and splitting; most kinds of comment; filling and authoring forms (with sandboxed JavaScript); passwords, redaction and sanitizing; basic digital signatures; printing; the Accessibility Checker; agent control through the CLI and MCP.
- **Still borrowed:** pages are drawn by the `hayro` crate while our own renderer is built.
- **Thin or missing:** reliable editing of existing text (especially CJK), OCR beyond Latin script, Office import/export, signature timestamps and long-term validation, PDF/A/X/UA preflight, XFA forms, localization and signed installers.
- **Thin or missing:** reliable editing of existing text (especially CJK), OCR beyond Latin script, Office import/export, signature timestamps and long-term validation, PDF/A/X/UA preflight, XFA forms and localization.
- **Hardening:** fuzzing still turns up crashes and hangs on hostile files; each one is fixed with a regression test. Quality has not yet been compared with Acrobat side by side.
**Next, in order:** our own renderer, hardening and a fidelity harness against Acrobat, editing existing content, then the Pro workflows (signatures, OCR, Office, preflight, XFA) and 1.0 polish.
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## Downloads
Every [release](https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft/releases/latest) ships these builds. `<ver>` is the
version number; `SHA256SUMS.txt` lists a checksum for every file.
**New to PdfCraft?** Download it from the [PdfCraft page on getartcraft.com](https://getartcraft.com/apps/pdfcraft). That's the easiest way to install it.
### macOS
| Build | File | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| App, universal (Apple silicon + Intel) | `pdfcraft-<ver>-macos-universal.dmg` | Signed and notarized |
| Command-line tool, universal | `pdfcraft-cli-<ver>-macos-universal.zip` | Signed and notarized |
**Want a specific build or format?** On GitHub, the [latest release](https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft/releases/latest) has every build listed below, and [all releases](https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft/releases) has earlier versions and their notes. `<ver>` in the file names is the version number, and `SHA256SUMS.txt` lists a checksum for every file.
### Windows
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Installers and executables are code-signed.
### macOS
| Build | File | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| App, universal (Apple silicon + Intel) | `pdfcraft-<ver>-macos-universal.dmg` | Signed and notarized |
| Command-line tool, universal | `pdfcraft-cli-<ver>-macos-universal.zip` | Signed and notarized |
### Linux
| Format | x86_64 | aarch64 (ARM64) | Notes |