What's New in Hbot 1.1

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Big files, small app

• Large PDFs (15–20 MB and beyond) now import smoothly — pages render at an adaptive resolution with a progress bar, and are held JPEG-compressed in memory. No more crashes on big documents.
• The app itself is dramatically smaller: unused Qt modules and dead DLLs are stripped from the build, saving hundreds of MB.

New tools

• Compress PDF / Compress Image — enter a maximum size in MB; Hbot compresses in stages (lossless clean-up → image recompression that keeps text selectable → rasterize only as a last resort).
• Sign documents — draw your signature with the mouse/trackpad or stamp a transparent PNG, then drag a box to place it.
• Word (.docx) → PDF and Import Word — via Microsoft Word or LibreOffice, whichever is installed.
• Undo / Redo per page (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y), with slider edits coalesced into single steps.

Reworked UI

• Annotate in the main window — pen, marker, highlighter and eraser draw directly on the preview; Apply saves, Cancel discards.
• PowerPoint-style page list — right-click pages for Cut / Copy / Paste / Delete (Ctrl+X/C/V work too), drag to reorder, and a + entry at the end imports more files. Long file names wrap to fit the panel.
• Clean homepage — with nothing loaded you get a click-to-import hint and a CONVERT panel with three big shortcut buttons; zoom, filter and adjustment controls appear only when a page is open.
• Zoom & pan — zoom controls float above the page on a themed panel with a drop shadow, and a zoomed page can be dragged around with the mouse in any direction.
• Two-pane How to Use — every menu documented left-to-right, navigation on the left, details on the right.

Updates & distribution

• Automatic update notifications — Hbot checks for a new release a few seconds after launch (and via About → Check for Updates…). If an installer is available it downloads and installs it for you.
• Builds avoid UPX packing and the About dialog contains no email addresses (download-portal friendly).
• Removed: Find in Page (OCR search) — unreliable, may return later.