winget install --id SteveTheKiller.KillerPDFAbout KillerPDF
KillerPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit for Windows. View, merge, split, and manage PDF files. Runs portable or installs to your user profile - no admin rights required. No account, no subscription, no telemetry. Open source under GPLv3.
What's new in 1.6.0
A big release: major new features, a full visual refresh, and an internal rewrite. New - Tabbed documents - open several PDFs at once, each restoring its page, zoom, and view - OCR built into the exe (Tesseract) - OCR a page or dragged region to the clipboard, make a scan searchable, or extract all text; extra languages download on demand - Digital signatures with a cloud certificate (Certum SimplySign), reusable signatures, and click-to-sign form fields - Transform tool - rotate, scale, flip, and straighten a crooked scan, with live preview - Edit existing text by double-clicking a line (the original is cleanly covered) - Line tool, refreshed draw/highlight bars, resizable word-wrapping text boxes, and a full RGB color picker with eyedropper - Print options (scale, position, margins, two-sided), page-number stamping, folder/.zip import, Document Info (F12), and recent files with file-type icons Changed - New logo, icons, fonts, and colors throughout - Six themes with per-theme accent colors; sidebar docks left or right; toolbar style picker - Internal rewrite: the ~15,000-line main window split into ~40 focused files (no behavior change) Fixed - True 300 DPI printing, encrypted/damaged PDFs open on a background thread with a repair fallback, form fields render in every view mode, and undo is one item per press Install winget install killerpdf, or download KillerPDF.exe below New translations: Bengali, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, German, French.
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.6.0 | Unknown | A big release: major new features, a full visual refresh, and an internal rewrite. New - Tabbed documents - open several PDFs at once, each restoring its page, zoom, and view - OCR built into the exe (Tesseract) - OCR a... |
| 1.5.1 | Unknown | KillerPDF v1.5.1 A fix release on top of 1.5.0, with a performance boost for flattening. Performance - Save Flattened PDF now uses multiple CPU cores. Page rasterization is parallelized (PNG encoding runs across cores; t... |
| 1.5.0 | Unknown | KillerPDF v1.5.0 A big feature release: six themes with live switching, new Continuous and Two-Page view modes, full UI localization, and a brand-new built-in print dialog with a working print preview. Highlights - Built... |
| 1.4.2 | Unknown | What's new PDF form filling. Interactive PDF forms now render their fields (text inputs, checkboxes, radio buttons) as live controls. Fill them in directly and save — field values are written back into the PDF. PDF outli... |
| 1.4.1 | Unknown | Added - Page number jump box in toolbar. Type a page number and press Enter to navigate directly to that page. - Signature auto-selects after placing so you can immediately reposition or resize without switching tools. -... |