Yet Another PDF Editor

A lightweight, open-source PDF viewer and editor for Windows (macOS and Linux later). It's built with Tauri 2, Svelte 5 and PDFium. See docs/ROADMAP.md for the plan.

Features

• View: tabs, thumbnails, bookmarks, search (Ctrl+F), text selection and copy, links, zoom, print, password-protected PDFs, recent files, opens .pdf files from Explorer
• Edit (Ctrl+E): double-click text to edit it in place (keeps the original fonts where possible), move/delete text blocks, add text, replace/move/resize/delete/add images
• Comment: highlight, underline, strikethrough, sticky notes, freehand pen, rectangles, ellipses
• Fill & sign: fill form fields (text, checkboxes, radio buttons, drop-downs); draw, type or upload a signature
• Pages: rotate, delete, reorder by dragging thumbnails, insert blank pages, pages from another PDF (merge) or images, extract pages to a new PDF, split into several files
• Protect & shrink: password protection (AES-256), reduce file size, true redaction
• Export: pages as PNG/JPEG; document properties
• Undo/redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y), save (Ctrl+S) and save as (Ctrl+Shift+S), with automatic backups

Download

Installers for Windows, macOS and Linux are on the Releases page. Installed copies update themselves.

Prerequisites (Windows)

• Rust (stable, MSVC toolchain) and Visual Studio C++ Build Tools
• Node.js 20+ and pnpm
• WebView2 (preinstalled on Windows 10/11)

Setup

pnpm install
./scripts/fetch-pdfium.ps1   # Windows: downloads pdfium.dll into src-tauri/pdfium/
# macOS/Linux: ./scripts/fetch-pdfium.sh mac-arm64 | mac-x64 | linux-x64

Run / build

pnpm tauri dev      # development
pnpm tauri build    # release installers (NSIS + MSI) in src-tauri/target/release/bundle

Releasing

1. Bump the version everywhere at once: pnpm bump (patch, e.g. 0.1.0 → 0.1.1), or pnpm bump minor / pnpm bump major / pnpm bump 1.2.3. Commit the change.
2. Push a tag with the same version: git tag v0.1.1 && git push origin v0.1.1. The build stops early if the tag and the app version don't match.
3. GitHub Actions builds every platform into a draft release; publish it to ship the update.

The update signing key must be in the repository secret TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY (Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions).

Layout

• src/ — Svelte UI (lib/PdfView.svelte is the virtualized page view, lib/api.ts wraps the IPC calls)
• src-tauri/src/engine.rs — PDFium worker thread (open, render, and later edit)
• src-tauri/src/lib.rs — Tauri commands

License

MIT. PDFium is BSD-3-Clause / Apache-2.0.