The launcher installs and updates PdfCraft with `msiexec /passive` and no properties, so
INSTALLDESKTOPSHORTCUT always took its default of 1 and every update put the shortcut back,
even for users who had deleted it. The property no longer has a static default: a SetProperty
after AppSearch turns it on for a first install, and for an update only while PdfCraft.lnk is
still on the all-users desktop. A value on the command line still wins, and the full-UI
checkbox still starts ticked on a first install.
test-msi.ps1 checks the action runs after AppSearch in both sequences and evaluates its
condition for first installs, updates with and without the shortcut, and
INSTALLDESKTOPSHORTCUT=0.
* M14: "Edit with PdfCraft" on the File Explorer menu of PDF files (#682)
The Windows MSI adds a classic shell verb under
HKLM\Software\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.pdf\shell\PdfCraft.Edit that
runs "pdfcraft.exe" "%1" with the app's icon. It appears whichever app is
the default for .pdf and never changes that default. On Windows 11 it is
under "Show more options": a first-level entry needs an IExplorerCommand
handler and package identity, which an MSI doesn't have.
MultiSelectModel is Document: several selected PDFs (up to 15) start one
launch each, and the existing single-instance hand-off opens them as tabs
of one window.
The verb has its own component, conditioned on a new secure public
property INSTALLPDFCONTEXTMENU (default 1, a welcome-dialog checkbox,
INSTALLPDFCONTEXTMENU=0 for unattended installs), following
INSTALLDESKTOPSHORTCUT. Its menu value is the key path, so uninstall
removes every value. The portable zip still registers nothing.
test-msi.ps1 checks the compiled Registry, Component, Property and
CheckBox rows, and that the .pdf default is never written. Docs: README,
docs/releasing.md, parity notes, ROADMAP log.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Leave ROADMAP.md to main (its log moved on); the change is described in the PR
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
* M14: give Windows PDF files a dedicated document icon
Embed the document icon as resource 2 through the existing Windows resource
build and select it in both PDF association registrations. Keep the asset
reproducible and carry its required licence notices in Windows packages.
Formatting, strict Clippy, 1,842 existing workspace tests, all 30 WASM crate
checks, assets, layering and parity pass. The Windows x64 release package
checks pass, and the contributor confirmed the icon in Explorer.
Co-authored-by: Codex <[email protected]>
* Refresh catalog hashes after merging main
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Co-authored-by: Codex <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
Add packaging/windows/security-audit.ps1, a read-only maintainer helper that records a
release file's SHA-256, Authenticode status and, with an external YARA binary and rule,
every matched string identifier and offset. Document the procedure in docs/releasing.md
("Scanner detections").
No application, dependency, installer or network behaviour changes: the diff touches only
the helper and the release documentation.
Co-authored-by: Claude Haiku 5.5 <[email protected]>
Release builds said "Text recognition isn't installed: its models are
missing" because no packaging script or release job fetched the OCR
models: only `cargo xtask models` does, into the source tree.
- packaging/env.sh gains stage_models DEST, which runs
`cargo xtask models DEST` (every ATTRIBUTION.toml kind = "model" file,
SHA-256 verified, with its licence text). No model file is named, so
the models PRs #433/#572 add ship without packaging changes.
- `cargo xtask models` also writes ATTRIBUTION.txt crediting each model
(CC-BY-SA-4.0 requires attribution when redistributed).
- macOS: PdfCraft.app/Contents/Resources/models, before signing.
- Windows: models\ beside pdfcraft.exe in the MSI (WiX v5 <Files>
harvest) and the portable zip; test-msi.ps1 checks the folder.
- Linux deb/rpm/tar.gz/AppImage, Flatpak bundle and FreeBSD tarball:
share/pdfcraft/models beside bin/. Models::search_dirs now also looks
in <exe dir>/../share/pdfcraft/models (Models::dirs_beside_exe); a
test builds every package layout on disk and finds the models in each.
release.yml and freebsd.yml check the packages contain them.
- The missing-models messages no longer tell end users to run cargo,
and the 11 catalogs that keyed an old PRINTCRAFT_MODELS wording (or
the previous one) now key the current English text; ATTRIBUTION
hashes updated. A test checks the translations match.
The web (wasm) build, which the issue reports, still has no models; this
is the desktop half only.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Issue #157: the Windows portable zip keeps settings, logs and recovery beside pdfcraft.exe
The portable zip had no portable.txt, and the app had no portable mode: it always wrote %APPDATA%\PdfCraft and %LOCALAPPDATA%\PdfCraft. Now portable.txt (or PdfCraft.portable) beside the executable puts the settings, log files, crash recovery and new digital IDs in PdfCraftData next to it, as PhotoCraft does, and the zip ships portable.txt. An unwritable PdfCraftData falls back to the per-user folders and says so.
* Issue #157: update ATTRIBUTION.toml SHA-256 for the translation catalogs this PR changes
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Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
* #305: harden Windows MSI deployment and progress UI
Co-authored-by: Codex <[email protected]>
* Keep the MSI manufacturer as Learning Machines LLC
The company name matches the Linux packages; changing it is the owner's call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* #305: keep compiled-MSI checks compatible with PowerShell COM
Validated the compiled x64 MSI and negative scope, publisher and progress mutations.
Co-authored-by: Codex <[email protected]>
* ROADMAP: the publisher name is unchanged
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Codex <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* #143: Windows MSI desktop shortcut checkbox and install-complete dialog
Add native installer dialogs (installer-ui.wxs): a welcome screen with a
"Create a desktop shortcut" checkbox (ticked by default), repair/remove,
progress, and "Setup completed successfully" / failed / cancelled screens
with Finish. Unattended /qn and /qb installs never wait on a dialog and can
skip the desktop shortcut with INSTALLDESKTOPSHORTCUT=0.
Start Menu and desktop shortcuts are now plain links to pdfcraft.exe in
their own components (HKLM key paths, removed on uninstall) instead of
advertised MSI shortcuts.
test-msi.ps1 checks the compiled MSI's shortcut, checkbox and dialog tables
during packaging; the ARM64 install smoke test checks both shortcut
targets, their removal on uninstall, and the INSTALLDESKTOPSHORTCUT=0
opt-out.
Co-authored-by: ChatGPT <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JqiBTPWGWbhQDYNFcxFte6
* #143: run test-msi out of process before signing; add files-in-use dialog
test-msi.ps1 held the MSI open through a Windows Installer COM handle in
package.ps1's own process, so signtool could fail on signed release builds.
Run it in a child process and release the COM objects.
The hand-authored UI had no MsiRMFilesInUse dialog, so an upgrade or repair
while PdfCraft is running could not offer to close it. Add one (OK closes the
programs with MSIRMSHUTDOWN=2, Cancel stops setup) and check for it in
test-msi.ps1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JqiBTPWGWbhQDYNFcxFte6
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Co-authored-by: ChatGPT <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <[email protected]>
The app, crates, binaries, bundle id, packaging, icons, screenshots and docs are now
PdfCraft / pdfcraft (repo storytold/pdfcraft). On first launch the desktop app moves the
PrintCraft settings and crash-recovery folders to the new name, and both apps read settings
saved under the old storage key, so upgrades keep recent files, preferences and unsaved work.
The signing test fixtures keep their PrintCraft subject names (they are binary).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The MSI registered no file association. The only PrintCraft entry a
user could pick in "Choose an app on your PC" was the advertised Start
Menu shortcut, which Windows can't run as a file handler ("This app
can't run on your PC").
The MSI now uses Windows' Default Programs registration: a
PrintCraft.Document ProgID (open command, icon), .pdf OpenWithProgids,
Applications\printcraft.exe (friendly name, supported types), and
Capabilities\FileAssociations listed under RegisteredApplications.
PrintCraft appears under "Open with" and in Settings > Default apps.
It never takes over an existing default: .pdf's own default value is
left alone, and the user chooses.
Checked locally with WiX 5.0.2: the MSI builds, passes ICE validation
(only the existing ICE61 note on same-version upgrades), and its
Registry table holds exactly these values.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The Linux package description, AppStream metadata (categories,
keywords, a screenshot that doesn't exist), the MSI's comment and the
web embedding example still described PhotoCraft. They now describe a
PDF workbench, AppStream lists application/pdf, and the screenshot is
one of ours.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Shippori Mincho (and its OFL file) leaves assets/fonts/: the Japanese fonts now
live in storytold/craft-fonts. printcraft-fonts gets craft-fonts' build.rs recipe:
with CRAFT_FONTS_DIR=<checkout> it embeds the manifest's fonts as CRAFT_FONTS
(wasm32: only BIZ UDPGothic Regular); without it CRAFT_FONTS is empty and the
app builds, tests and runs as before, minus the Japanese face.
- SHIPPORI_MINCHO is now Option<&[u8]> from CRAFT_FONTS; japanese_glyph
(was shippori_glyph) uses document_japanese_font() (Shippori Mincho, then
BIZ UDMincho, then any Jpan face) and returns GlyphError::NoFont without one.
- Editing PDF text into Japanese without craft-fonts is a clear EditError that
leaves the page untouched.
- UI: every Jpan craft font (BIZ UDPGothic first) is the last fallback of
every egui family, sharing the same static bytes.
- Tests: Japanese glyph/edit tests skip without craft-fonts; new UI tests for
no-tofu Japanese with craft-fonts and working fonts without it.
- CI: the Linux test job checks out craft-fonts at a pinned SHA and runs the
tests with CRAFT_FONTS_DIR. Releases build every platform with it
(CRAFT_FONTS_REQUIRED=1) and ship each font's OFL as OFL-<family>.txt.
- ATTRIBUTION.toml gains [[build_input]] (checked by xtask assets); NOTICE,
AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, README and docs say fonts live in craft-fonts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The cross-compiled ARM64 binary can't run on the x64 packaging runner; the
windows-arm64 workflow installs and runs it on ARM64 instead. (x86 builds
still run there: x64 Windows runs them.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- package.ps1 takes -Arch arm64 (aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, WiX -arch arm64)
and now checks each binary's PE Machine as well as its Subsystem, so an x64
build can never ship labelled arm64.
- release.yml builds, signs and packages a Windows ARM64 MSI and portable zip
next to x64 and x86, cross-compiled on the x64 runner so signing and WiX
run exactly as they do for x64.
- New windows-arm64.yml (PRs touching Cargo/packaging, main, weekly):
packages the ARM64 MSI the same way (unsigned), installs it on a Windows 11
ARM64 runner, checks both installed binaries are ARM64, opens/reads/edits/
renders/saves a PDF with the installed CLI, uninstalls; and runs the whole
test suite natively on ARM64. The MSI is kept as an artifact for 7 days.
- README: Windows builds for x64, x86 and ARM64.
Requested by @maxffarrell.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- printcraft.exe release builds use the GUI subsystem, so launching it no
longer opens a console window next to it (debug builds keep the console).
- The MSI's Icon id gains its .ico extension: Windows Installer requires it
for advertised shortcuts and ARPPRODUCTICON, so the Start Menu shortcut and
Add/Remove Programs showed a blank icon.
- Guards: package.ps1 checks the PE subsystem of both binaries (app = GUI,
CLI = console) before packaging; packaging-lint fails on an Icon id without
.ico/.exe.
- The shortcut's description said "image editor"; it's a PDF workbench.
Reported, with the exact fixes, by @MikailuReeves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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