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v0.30.0

V30: A Welcoming First Launch, PDF Redaction, and Drag-and-Drop Merge

Start with what you came for. Redact a PDF for good. Merge by dragging. V30 is here.

- Vysakh Sreenivasan

Thirty releases. Thirty consecutive Fridays. V30 opens with a new welcome screen that asks what you want to do first and points you straight at it, with audio and PDF starting points built in. After an operation finishes, workspace-discovery cards suggest a sensible next step and an inline tutorial player shows you how. A new destructive PDF redactor permanently removes the content underneath, then verifies the redaction held before saving. PDF merge now works by dragging files into order. The read-only Word viewer gains find-in-page search, and DOCX rendering now honors run and paragraph shading, indents, and table cell shading. The video editor canvas gets aspect-ratio setup, fit modes, mask feathering, and crop aspect ratios. Data tables get an Excel-style row-number gutter with Cmd+A select-all. The code editor opens LaTeX research files, and the macOS Discover menu adds Audio Tips and PDF Tips. Under the hood, the text and code previews are unified on a single virtualized renderer with built-in find, so previews open faster and search works the same everywhere. Plus a long list of fixes: blank code and text previews, .opus files now treated as audio, Enter advancing to the next find match, markdown previews no longer showing a stray code-block language header, and more.

What's New in V30

A Welcoming First Launch

Open Diwadi for the first time and a welcome screen asks what you want to do, with audio and PDF starting points ready to go. After an operation finishes, discovery cards suggest a sensible next step and an inline tutorial player shows you how -- so you learn features as you work instead of hunting for them.

Welcome Screen Discovery Cards Tutorial Player

Destructive PDF Redaction

The new PDF redactor permanently removes the text and images underneath a redaction -- not just covering them with a black box. Before saving, Diwadi verifies the redaction actually held, so sensitive content can't leak back out by being copied or searched in the exported file.

PDF Tools Permanent Verified

Drag-and-Drop PDF Merge

Merging PDFs now works by dragging. Drop your files into the order you want, rearrange them with a drag, and combine -- no fiddly add buttons or reorder dialogs. Everything happens on your device.

Merge PDFs Drag to Reorder Offline

Find-in-Page for Word Documents

The read-only Word viewer now has find-in-page search, so you can jump straight to a phrase in a long document. DOCX rendering also got richer -- run and paragraph shading, indents, and table cell shading now display the way they do in Word.

Word Tools Find-in-Page Richer Shading

The Numbers

30 releases. 30 weeks. Welcome onboarding. PDF redaction. Drag-and-drop merge. DOCX find-in-page.

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Thirty Weeks of Shipping

V1 on Oct 31. V30 today. Thirty consecutive releases. Building in public, shipping every Friday.

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Thirty releases. Thirty weeks. A welcoming first launch. PDF redaction. Drag-and-drop merge. DOCX find-in-page. Download V30 now.

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Full Changelog

Major Features

  • A first-launch welcome screen and intent picker with audio and PDF starting points
  • Workspace-discovery suggestion cards with an inline tutorial player after operations
  • A destructive PDF redactor that permanently removes content and verifies the redaction before saving
  • Drag-and-drop PDF merge
  • Find-in-page search in the read-only Word document viewer
  • Richer DOCX rendering of run and paragraph shading, indents, and table cell shading
  • Video editor canvas aspect-ratio setup, fit modes, mask feathering, and crop aspect ratios
  • An Excel-style row-number gutter with Cmd+A select-all for data tables
  • Bank-statement banner round-tripping with hardened CSV and Excel parsing
  • LaTeX research file support in the code editor
  • Audio Tips and PDF Tips added to the macOS Discover menu

Technical Improvements

  • Replaced the old online tip system with local workspace-discovery cards, so suggestions work offline
  • Unified the text and code previews on a single virtualized renderer with built-in find, so previews open faster and search behaves the same everywhere
  • Reworked the pane layout with a stable expand-to-single view and a persistent edit mode
  • Fixed 125% zoom for PDFs in quick preview, excluding media editor projects

Fixed

  • Fixed code and text previews that occasionally opened blank
  • Fixed .opus files not being treated as audio across preview, icons, and the context menu
  • Fixed Enter not advancing to the next match in the editor find bar
  • Fixed a stray close icon appearing on media editor project files
  • Fixed bank-statement banner text contrast to meet accessibility standards
  • Fixed video editor overlay preset and toolbar hint overflow, and kept the trim dialog scrollable
  • Fixed narrow DOCX double borders and a find-in-page scroll retry issue
  • Fixed the pin-toggle failure message to show the actual error
  • Fixed the markdown preview showing a code-block language header
  • Fixed the tutorial player not showing the current video title