New Features:
- Digital Signature tool: Sign PDFs with X.509 certificates (PFX/PEM)
- Visible and invisible signatures
- All pages, first page, last page, or custom page selection
- Dynamic signature height based on text content
- Custom signature text, image, and styling options
- Validate Signature tool: Verify digital signatures in PDFs
- Extract and parse PKCS#7 signatures
- View signer and issuer certificate details
- Check certificate validity and expiry
- Optional custom X.509 certificate for trust verification
- Full/partial coverage detection
Infrastructure:
- Added Cloudflare Worker CORS proxy for certificate chain fetching
- Updated README with new tools and proxy deployment instructions
Documentation:
- Added Digital Signature and Validate Signature to README tools table
- Added CORS proxy deployment guide for self-hosters
- Add new tool to apply cryptographic signatures to PDFs using X.509 certificates
- Support PKCS#12 (.pfx, .p12) and PEM certificate formats
- Create PKCS#7 detached signatures compatible with all major PDF viewers
- Optional visible signature with customizable position, image, and text overlay
- Add translations for English, German, Vietnamese, and Chinese
- Add post-processing step using pdf-lib to fix ISO 19005-2/3 clause 6.2.10
- Add Group dictionaries with ICC-based color space to all pages
- Fix XObjects (Form XObjects) that have DeviceRGB in their Group dictionaries
- Reference OutputIntent's ICC profile as the blending color space
- Enable page compression for smaller output files
This ensures PDFs with transparency pass VeraPDF validation for PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b.
- Centralize CDN versions/URLs in cdn-version.ts
- Switch LibreOffice to @bentopdf/libreoffice-wasm package
- Fix service worker fallback to support all WASM packages
- Remove dead code and silence production logs
- Add release type detection to distinguish between version tags and edge builds
- Implement separate Docker build steps for release and edge builds with appropriate tags
- Add edge and SHA-based image tags for main branch builds
- Update nginx configuration to support Vietnamese (vi) language routing
- Simplify nginx location block to handle static files and fallback to index.html
- Remove javascript-obfuscator and ts-migrate from dependencies
- Update README with simplified self-hosting instructions using npx http-server
- Consolidate multiple server setup examples into single recommended approach
- Update build preview command to use npm run preview instead of npx serve
- Improve localization files for German, English, Vietnamese, and Chinese
- Update worker files and TypeScript logic files for improved functionality
- Enhance PDF tool pages with better structure and internationalization support
- Simplify Dockerfile by removing redundant BASE_URL handling logic and complex RUN commands
- Change SIMPLE_MODE default from true to false for production builds
- Fix indentation inconsistencies in Dockerfile conditional statements
- Move favicon link tags from body to head section in all HTML files for proper semantic structure
- Replace inline favicon links with img tag in navigation logo across all pages
- Update README.md documentation to clarify BASE_URL trailing slash requirements
- Remove commented-out legacy Dockerfile code for cleaner maintenance
- Consolidate favicon declarations in document head for better performance and SEO
- Add Vietnamese translation files (common.json and tools.json)
- Register 'vi' as a supported language in i18n configuration
- Update language switcher to support Vietnamese footer text
- Update URL routing regex to handle /vi/ paths
All 170 translation keys have been translated to Vietnamese.
Users can now access BentoPDF in Vietnamese by visiting /vi/ URLs.
- Update README with comprehensive subdirectory hosting instructions and BASE_URL configuration guide
- Convert absolute asset paths to relative paths in index.html for proper subdirectory deployment
- Update all worker script imports to use relative paths instead of absolute paths
- Fix favicon and image references to work correctly when hosted in nested directories
- Normalize whitespace and formatting across worker files for consistency
- Update vite.config.ts to properly handle BASE_URL configuration for subdirectory deployments
- Ensure all tool pages and logic files maintain compatibility with subdirectory hosting
- Enable BentoPDF to be deployed at any URL path (e.g., example.com/tools/bentopdf/) without breaking asset loading
- Add @pdf-lib/fontkit dependency for enhanced font rendering capabilities
- Create font-mappings.ts configuration with language-to-font-family mappings for 100+ languages
- Implement font-loader.ts utility for dynamic font loading from CDN sources
- Add TypeScript type definitions for form-creator, OCR, and general application types
- Create types/index.ts as centralized type exports
- Remove hidden-on-touch CSS class and update shortcuts button styling for better accessibility
- Update OCR text layer rendering to support multilingual font families
- Enhance form-creator with improved font handling for international text
- Update txt-to-pdf with font support for diverse character sets
- Migrate fileHandler to support new font loading workflow
- Update main.ts and ui.ts to integrate new type system and font utilities
- Update form-creator.html page with enhanced font configuration UI
- Add TypeScript type definitions for merge and alternate-merge Web Workers
- Implement custom rotation angle input with increment/decrement controls for rotate tool
- Extend delete-pages tool to render page thumbnails for better UX
- Hide number input spin buttons across all number inputs via CSS
- Refactor rotateAll function to accept angle parameter instead of direction multiplier
- Update fileHandler to support delete-pages tool thumbnail rendering
- Improve type safety in alternate-merge logic with proper interface definitions
- Enhance rotate tool UI with custom angle input field and adjustment buttons
- Add favicon.ico to public directory for browser tab display
- Update favicon references across all HTML pages with proper link tags for SVG, PNG, and ICO formats
- Add Apple touch icon support for iOS devices
- Create new repair-pdf.ts logic module for PDF repair functionality
- Create new repair-pdf-page.ts utility module for page-level repair operations
- Add repair-pdf.html page with UI for PDF repair tool
- Register repair PDF tool in tools configuration and PDF tools registry
- Update UI rendering utilities to support new repair tool
- Improve favicon handling with multiple format fallbacks for cross-browser compatibility
- Standardize favicon paths to use absolute URLs for consistency
- Clean up whitespace and formatting in licensing.html for code consistency
- Create merge.worker.js and alternate-merge.worker.js for offloading PDF merge operations to background threads
- Migrate merge and alternate-merge logic to use Web Worker architecture for improved performance
- Move flatten tool from singlePdfLoadTools to multiFileTools configuration
- Update merge and alternate-merge tool subtitles to indicate bookmark preservation
- Refactor alternate-merge.ts to use Web Worker instead of pdf-lib for interleaving operations
- Refactor merge.ts to use Web Worker for standard merge operations
- Update fileHandler.ts to recognize flatten as a multi-file tool requiring process button handling
- Simplify form-creator.ts and flatten.ts implementations with Web Worker integration
- Update UI state management to support Web Worker-based PDF processing
- Improve performance by moving computationally intensive PDF operations off the main thread
- Add GitHub star counter badge to navigation (desktop and mobile)
- Implement grid pattern background in hero section
- Redesign hero title with inline PDF Toolkit badge and briefcase icon
- Update feature badges styling with improved visual hierarchy
- Refactor CTA button layout with icon integration
- Add simple-mode-footer utility component for footer management
- Update all tool pages with consistent styling improvements
- Enhance responsive design for mobile navigation with GitHub link
- Improve visual consistency across all pages with updated color scheme
- Refactor date field UI rendering to use inline HTML with calendar icon and format text
- Consolidate date format and keystroke action creation by removing unnecessary widget loop
- Attach Additional Actions (AA) directly to field dictionary instead of individual widgets
- Improve code clarity and reduce redundant DOM manipulation in date field initialization
- Ensure date formatting and keystroke validation work correctly at the field level in generated PDFs
