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 1.7.1
1.7.1 fixes the latest reported crashes, rendering problems, installer registration, file navigation, and editing issues, while adding perspective correction and app-link support. Added - Transform can now correct trapezoidal perspective distortion in pages photographed at an angle. Turn on perspective correction, drag four corner handles onto the photographed page outline, and Apply converts that quadrilateral into a straight rectangular page at the full transform resolution. The correction composes with rotation, deskew, scaling, and flipping in the same operation (#175, thanks 1mk3r). - KillerPDF now registers a killerpdf:// link handler for the current user, laying the app-side foundation for the planned Chrome extension. A killerpdf://open?url=... link can hand a public HTTPS PDF to KillerPDF whether the app is closed or already running; downloads are size-limited and rejected unless their contents begin as a PDF. The registration refreshes itself when the executable moves. - Open and Save dialogs now return to the last folder successfully used for that kind of operation, unless the caller deliberately supplies another starting folder. The places rail also brings in the user's pinned Windows Explorer Quick Access folders alongside KillerPDF's own editable pins, while avoiding duplicate entries (#178, thanks sheafitzek). Fixed - Fit Width and Fit Page are now remembered as the preferred fit for subsequently opened PDFs, so users on smaller screens no longer have to switch from Fit Page every time, thanks Thomas. - Owner-restricted encrypted PDFs with malformed lineariza...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.7.1 | Unknown | 1.7.1 fixes the latest reported crashes, rendering problems, installer registration, file navigation, and editing issues, while adding perspective correction and app-link support. Added - Transform can now correct trapez... |
| 1.7.0 | Unknown | 1.7.0 is the split-pane release - two documents side by side in one window - plus the family file dialogs replacing every stock Windows one, a themed system menu, night mode that spares pictures, and two deep text fixes:... |
| 1.6.6 | Unknown | 1.6.6 is primarily a bug fix release - the big one being form fields sitting in the wrong place on non-A4 documents - plus a tool-hotkey remap, a new Remove Password command, more menu polish, and other small keyboard an... |
| 1.6.5 | Unknown | Added - Shapes tool: rectangle, ellipse, and free-form polygon markers, each with an optional fill. Box keeps the classic drag-a-filled-rectangle gesture the highlighter used to have; ellipse and polygon are closed outli... |
| 1.6.4 | Unknown | KillerPDF 1.6.4 adds a full command-line interface, in-app bookmark editing, redo and jump history, and a visual keyboard view for shortcuts. It also introduces a standards-conformance guarantee: every release is now val... |
| 1.6.3 | Unknown | A bugfix release for the 1.6 line. Highlights: memory use on large documents is dramatically lower, and two save corruption bugs (crop boxes and bookmarks) are fixed for good, including healing files damaged by earlier 1... |
| 1.6.2 | Unknown | KillerPDF v1.6.2 Added - Page Up / Page Down navigate to the previous / next page, consistently regardless of what has focus. Page reordering stays on the toolbar Move Up / Move Down buttons (#117). - Japanese (ja-JP) in... |
| 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. -... |