# PdfCraft roadmap: milestones and what's next

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-22 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-22 · **Change:** minor (M14, #3558: rebase guarded macOS per-file association recovery onto current main; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-20 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-20 · **Change:** minor (M12 #3673: Character encoding accepts Identity-H/V with Adobe CJK collections; estimates unchanged)

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-20 | **Last updated:** 2026-10-20 | **Change:** minor (M10, #3532 partial: vector printing retains existing appearances with absent Subtype; estimates unchanged)

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-20 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-20 · **Change:** minor (M4: initial-view options resolve indirect boolean preferences; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-21 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-21 · **Change:** minor (M3, #3808: the Pages inspector has an independent 50–150% thumbnail size slider and buttons; selection and current-page following are retained, with headless ui.set coverage. Estimates unchanged.)

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-20 | **Last updated:** 2026-10-20 | **Change:** minor (M2, #3574: named form properties retain page origin and own dictionary boundaries; estimates unchanged)

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-20 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-20 · **Change:** minor (M3, #3541/#3620: comment hover follows individual marked lines and original annotation paint order; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-20 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-20 · **Change:** patch (PR #3348 review: retain short tracked punctuation in gap estimates; estimates unchanged)

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-20 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-20 · **Change:** minor (M2, #3601: missing spacing glyphs in non-embedded Japanese CID substitutes draw as blanks while PDF widths and Unicode stay unchanged; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-20 | **Last updated:** 2026-10-20 | **Change:** minor (M11 #3507: image merging preserves content stream boundaries; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-17 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-17 · **Change:** minor (M8, gap 6 #2662: the redaction audit counts a cover over one word of a long line; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-13 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (M10: dotted-leader contents entries export as complete paragraphs; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-22 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-22 · **Change:** minor (M6: calculation scripts read their notation only from a comment, and a regular expression after a condition as one; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** minor (M5, PR #1971: bounded nested FDF export excludes source page/page-tree dictionaries; refreshed against upstream 4db6ac4a; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** patch (M2 #3086: dotted TOC leaders no longer hide word spaces; estimates unchanged)

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** minor (M3, PR #3101: optional gapless page display with translations in all 22 catalogs; organizer and comparison toggles corrected; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M14/#2383 GPU-limit candidate; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-20 - **Last updated:** 2026-10-20 - **Change:** minor (M6, #3502: form detection uses the existing content-stream boundary policy; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M7: the Edit text caret is as tall as the row it is on; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M6: CSV tab-containing headers; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** minor (M4, #1919: repeated page indices accumulate rotations; M4: indirect page rotations refreshed upstream; M13: CLI check visits each directory once through aliases and cycles; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** minor (M3, #3149: discard render demand after page geometry changes and check the GPU texture limit before upload; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** minor (M8, #1350: named replacement descriptions retired during Sanitize and across shared resources; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-17 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-17 · **Change:** minor (M4 #2997: Ctrl-drag (Option on macOS) in the Organize grid copies the pages into the drop gap; `page_duplicate` takes `at`; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M6: AcroForm XML text; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M6: preserve XML/XFDF attribute whitespace; refreshed upstream; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-15 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M1: raw-deflate fallback preserves decoding-limit errors; refreshed upstream; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M2: objects in one large object stream are read in linear time; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-16; **Last updated:** 2026-10-16; **Change:** minor (M5 #2669, item 5: reply groups and page root counts per frame; estimates unchanged)

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-13 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (M14: the Italian catalog has every entry the other catalogs had and the code looks up, 2,528 entries; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-16 | **Last updated:** 2026-10-16 | **Change:** minor (M10 #1201 partial: lossless image Decode; estimates unchanged) | **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (M2/M6: spot-colour images convert once per pixel value; widget placement and the Fields panel scale with the field count; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (M3 candidate: coordinate control clicks on slow frames and coalesced text selection; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M2: sampled functions index a flat table, one image decode serves every zoom level, patch meshes copy less; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (M3 #2080 candidate: explicit search jumps join per-tab history; rail and control-channel Back/Forward; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (M10 #2156 candidate: remember selected print paper by canonical name; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-13 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (M3 candidate: native opens retain chosen tools through password retries and defer startup intake while preparation is pending; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M4 #1310 #1311 #1312: undo, revert and the next save keep the last saved revision; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-14 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (M14: PNG export writes opaque pages as RGB at deflate level 3, the same size 3–5× faster; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-22 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-22 · **Change:** minor (M14: JPEG and TIFF export refuse a raster of the wrong length instead of panicking; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-13 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (M3 #1980: exact quit modifiers preserve Ctrl+Alt+Q email input; M3 candidate: native opens retain chosen tools through password retries and defer startup intake while preparation is pending; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M13: CLI check visits each directory once through aliases and cycles; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M4: Extract and Split preserve shared Type 3 glyph resources; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M2: packed TIFF-predictor RGB rows retain their byte boundaries; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M3 #1364 candidate: consent before absolute local GoToR access; estimates unchanged); earlier: minor (M1 #1339: unchanged incremental saves of a classic cross-reference table write a zero-length subsection; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M5 #1398: stamps read upright on rotated pages; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (gap 6: #1317, #1327, #1302, #1315, #1340; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M7 #1316: replacing a line keeps a neighbouring line whose glyph box overlaps; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M5: comment submission shortcuts; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M1 #1339: unchanged incremental saves of a classic cross-reference table write a zero-length subsection; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M3: Windows' Animation effects setting is followed, and Preferences has Animation effects; earlier: exclusive image-crop resize follow-up; M2: short same-line redraws split before placement; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M7: inline Arabic ActualText ligatures join their word; earlier: preserve Arabic ActualText typing order; M3: Windows' Animation effects setting is followed, and Preferences has Animation effects; exclusive image-crop resize follow-up; M2: short same-line redraws split before placement; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M7: local GoToR links and confined automation candidate; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** exclusive image-crop resize follow-up; minor (M2: short same-line redraws split before placement; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** exclusive image-crop resize follow-up; minor (M2: short same-line redraws split before placement; earlier: M10, printing on the web through the browser's print dialog, gap 4, rank 1 65–120 → 50–90 h) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (M10, #1028: OCR reads pictures on pages that have text, on request; earlier: direct Organize overview and page actions; localized shortcut labels, #496; alpha gate added; convert-and-share re-judged with the cross-app rule → alpha) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (M13/#971: bound per-page search match allocation; text cache byte budget and extraction warnings remain open) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (#594 paragraph drags validated in the Linux test environment; localized shortcut labels, #496; alpha gate added; convert-and-share re-judged with the cross-app rule → alpha) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (architectural paper controls from #599; M6: respect existing form-font encodings; retain source fonts on appearance fallback; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (direct Organize overview and page actions; localized shortcut labels, #496; alpha gate added; convert-and-share re-judged with the cross-app rule → alpha) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (closed issues synced: #774, #756, #817–#821, #809, #819, #816, #844; earlier: localized shortcut labels, #496; alpha gate added; convert-and-share re-judged with the cross-app rule → alpha) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (M6: respect existing form-font encodings; retain source fonts on appearance fallback; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (M6: keep accepted form values when Tab reopens the same field before Save; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (M13: reject malformed CLI --root options before dispatch; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (Traditional Chinese accessibility semantics and Taiwan form/table terminology; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** patch (M1 #1337: exhausted xref hints are repaired; allocation avoids overflow; estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 - **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 - **Change:** minor (M6 #2892: Push-button normal labels are editable per widget through Options and form_set_props, independently of field names; rendering, undo/redo and incremental/full save/reopen are covered. Estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 - **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 - **Change:** minor (M7 #3187: Added-image automation normalizes extreme signed rotation angles before combining them with the current orientation; integer bounds, history, pixels, save/reopen and MCP have regressions. Estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 - **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 - **Change:** minor (M12 #2569: Growable multiline XFA text reflows after edits, with undo/redo, save/reopen and print coverage; oversized fields still become read-only page text. Structured-data synchronization warnings retain accepted whitespace without relayout from stale data. Estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 - **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 - **Change:** minor (M12 #2572: Every repeated page-master button resolves its own field to the shared XFA click script, including print buttons. Estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 - **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 - **Change:** minor (M12 #2570: Dynamic XFA rich-text fields carry exData/maxLength into AcroForm MaxLen for reported and enforced Unicode character limits, retained after save/reopen. Estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 - **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 - **Change:** minor (M4 #3309: bounded iterative named-destination pruning on page deletion; estimates unchanged)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-18 - **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 - **Change:** minor (M1 #2658: macOS atomic saves retain destination extended attributes, including Finder tags, and reject partial resource-fork reads after size changes. Metadata failures retain the original PDF and unsaved edit. Estimates unchanged)

Forward-looking: the milestones, the current focus and what comes next. The parity numbers behind
it are in [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md), the ranked work list in [gaps.md](gaps.md),
and the one-page summary in [ROADMAP.md](../ROADMAP.md). Detailed task lists and acceptance tests
live in `plan/execution-plan.md` (local-only, gitignored).

Keep it current: update the milestone row and the [ROADMAP.md](../ROADMAP.md) progress log at the
end of every session; re-estimate when a milestone lands.

Recovery scheduling (#2663): a native window with a pending dirty snapshot requests a
repaint at the existing 60-second autosave deadline, even with no mouse or keyboard input.
Clean and already-snapshotted documents do not schedule recovery wakeups. Snapshot contents,
encryption and storage-write retry behavior are unchanged; this does not resolve #1803.

## Alpha gate

The stage standard's gate: Acrobat Pro's everyday core workflows must each work end to end on the
main platform (macOS), with the work saved and reopened. Any `no`, or a `partial` that blocks the
workflow, keeps PdfCraft pre-alpha; those rows are the alpha checklist. Assessed 2026-10-10 with the
rule applied across the Crafting Apps: a row blocks only when a typical user cannot complete the
workflow at all with the app on its main platform for typical inputs; degraded fidelity, lossy
exchange with Acrobat users or a missing sub-case is `partial, not blocking` (a beta item).

| Core workflow | Works end to end? | Evidence | Hours to pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| View, search and print | yes | Render, find, select, panels, tiles; 500-page scrolling test; Print with CUPS on macOS/Linux, the Windows spooler and, on the web, the browser's print dialog. Rendering borrowed from `hayro` | 0 |
| Organize, combine and split pages | yes | `organize.*` P0s shipped with tests; links, fields, layers and bookmarks carried over; page deletion drops dangling destinations and the opening action (#817, #821) | 0 |
| Comment and review | yes | Every markup type with appearances, replies, status, XFDF/FDF; comments saved in the PDF reopen in other readers; XFDF keeps polygon vertices and callouts (#809, #819) | 0 |
| Fill and sign forms | yes | All AcroForm field types, Acrobat's AF functions, Fill & Sign, PAdES signatures validated with `pdfsig`/OpenSSL | 0 |
| Edit text and images | partial, not blocking | Editing a paragraph of Latin text works (embedded font reused, else Helvetica substituted, rewrapped); added text and images stay editable. Several objects on one page move together (#844), not across pages. Fails for CJK/RTL (#766); a beta item (gap 3) | 0 (beta: 100–180) |
| Convert and share (Office ↔ PDF, password protection) | partial, not blocking | PDFs we save open in Acrobat and other readers (958-file corpus round trip, `qpdf --check`), password-protected ones too since #836 (#774: Acrobat DC opens AES-256 and RC4-128 output); export to Word, RTF, HTML, text and images works, lossily (#773: an invoice's layout lost in Word); Create PDF works from images, text, the clipboard and many files at once. Missing sub-cases: an in-app Create PDF from Office (Office on macOS saves PDF itself), Excel/PowerPoint export. Beta items (gap 8) | 0 (beta: 32–55 for Office→PDF and a layout-keeping Word export) |

**Result: alpha.** Every core workflow can be completed on macOS; two are lossy or missing sub-cases
(editing CJK/RTL text; Office→PDF, Word layout), which are the
first beta items. Ready for real work, ≈ 49%, is inside the alpha band. (A first application of the
gate the same day judged convert and share as blocking and put PdfCraft at pre-alpha; re-judged with
the shared rule, encryption and Office→PDF are sub-cases and Word export is lossy, not absent.)

## Current focus

In order. Each item names its entry in [gaps.md](gaps.md).

1. **Convert and share:** Create PDF from Office and a Word export that keeps layout (gap 8, #773).
   Encrypted output that Acrobat opens shipped with #836 (#774).
2. **Fix the crash and wrong-result reports** filed against shipped features (gap 6). The first
   batch (#799–#821, including the panic in #816) is fixed.
3. **A Chinese UI face in releases** (gap 5, #826).
4. **A fidelity harness against Acrobat, then the renderer decision** (gaps 12 and 2). Owner
   decision needed: our own M2 devices, or #841's proposal as the bridge.
5. **Editing existing content** (gap 3, M7): fonts, subsets, reflow, CJK and RTL.
6. **Pro workflows:** OCR languages (gap 7), Office export/import (gap 8), Preflight and PDF/A/X/UA
   (gap 9), signatures with tokens, timestamp servers and online LTV (gap 10), accessibility
   tagging (gap 11).
7. **1.0 polish (M14):** performance budgets and lazy loading (gap 13), right-to-left layout and the
   missing languages (gap 14), keyboard-only operation, a screen-reader audit.

Decided against for now (owner, 2026-10-05): self-installing updates and an update check at start.
Help ▸ Check for updates is manual only.

## Milestones

"Plan size" is the original single-agent sizing. "Done" is the estimated share of that milestone's
*acceptance criteria* that are met, not lines of code. "Remaining" is re-measured on 2026-10-10 at
the measured rate (see [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md#effort-and-calibration)); the
total matches the parity estimate.

| M | Milestone | Plan size (h) | Done | Remaining (h, 2026-10-10) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M0 | Skeleton: workspace, xtask gates, CI | 15–30 | 98% | 1–2 | GitHub workflow, `deny.toml` (licence audit of every dependency), parity checklist (826 features, `xtask parity`) done. Missing: remaining crate stubs, testkit/oracle crates |
| M1 | COS: filters, crypt, parser, xref, writer | 120–200 | 80% | 20–40 | Done:<br>- filters and crypt: every standard-security revision R2–R6 (RC4, AES-128/256), SASLprep, permissions, creating encryption;<br>- cos: parse and repair (including invalid xref object-number ranges), decoded-stream limits including unfiltered data, decrypt on load, re-encrypt on save, incremental and full writing.<br>Corpus: open/edit/save passes on 958 files, and all 7 password-protected files open.<br>Full saves now pack objects into compressed object streams. An unchanged incremental save of a classic table writes a zero-length cross-reference subsection instead of a section with no subsections (#1339). A full rewrite keeps unknown trailer entries, including objects reachable only from them (#1338). Fuzzing runs nightly (`xtask fuzz`). Raw-deflate fallback preserves decoding-limit errors, including through tolerant COS stream decoding. Done since: #2658: macOS atomic saves retain destination extended attributes, including Finder tags, and reject partial resource-fork reads after size changes. Metadata failures retain the original PDF and unsaved edit. Missing: ≥ 250 tests, own image codecs |
| M2 | Model, render, text | 200–350 | 15% | 130–230 | hayro bootstrap renderer (vendored patches); inspector predictor scratch is bounded by available input, and JPX sample rescaling handles 1–32 bits safely. Text extraction reaches word-F1 0.98 against pdftotext. Short same-line redraws split before placement rather than interleaving. Missing: model crate, fonts, DisplayList, renderer independent of hayro. Inspector page-label traversal and output are resource-bounded, with physical-number fallback warnings. Packed TIFF-predictor RGB rows retain later rows in decoding and rendering. Page marks, added content and print output retain small page-unit transform coefficients when serialized. Forms without Resources use page Properties for ActualText and layer visibility; own dictionaries stop fallback. Oversized missing inline-image samples, including header and terminator overhead, no longer pin the content window (#3107 / PR #3438); normal large streamed images retain deterministic sample boundaries. Radial luminosity fades have synthetic coverage for the existing #2132 mask guard, including per-pixel references, antialiased clips, previews, scales and tiles; no additional production fix was needed. Dotted TOC leaders no longer inflate letter tracking or hide word spaces (#3086); phrase search and selection are covered. Short tracked ellipses retain their gap samples and remain searchable. Missing spacing glyphs in non-embedded Japanese CID substitutes render blank without changing PDF advances or Unicode (#3601). |
| M2 | Model, render, text | 200–350 | 15% | 130–230 | hayro bootstrap renderer (vendored patches); inspector predictor scratch is bounded by available input, and JPX sample rescaling handles 1–32 bits safely. Text extraction reaches word-F1 0.98 against pdftotext. Short same-line redraws split before placement rather than interleaving. Missing: model crate, fonts, DisplayList, renderer independent of hayro. Inspector page-label traversal and output are resource-bounded, with physical-number fallback warnings. Packed TIFF-predictor RGB rows retain later rows in decoding and rendering. The renderer keeps its one-point crop-size floor in physical points after UserUnit scaling, with regression coverage for crop origins, rotations and f32 reciprocal rounding. Existing unit policy and nearly-zero fallback are retained. |
| M2 | Model, render, text | 200–350 | 15% | 130–230 | hayro bootstrap renderer (vendored patches); inspector predictor scratch is bounded by available input, and JPX sample rescaling handles 1–32 bits safely. Text extraction reaches word-F1 0.98 against pdftotext. Short same-line redraws split before placement rather than interleaving. Missing: model crate, fonts, DisplayList, renderer independent of hayro. Inspector page-label traversal and output are resource-bounded, with physical-number fallback warnings |
| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). #3808: the Pages inspector offers a 50–150% thumbnail slider and buttons, also available through `ui.set`. Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). Selected-text Copy in Edit and the canvas context menu is covered by focused regressions and native clipboard checks (#1225); document copy restrictions apply to the floating action too. #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation. Page-label navigation displays logical labels, retains the current page on unchanged submission and refreshes focused same-document replacements; clean file-watcher reload preserves the chosen scrolling mode, preventing a Single Page reader from jumping to page 1 during replacement. Synthetic control regressions cover these behaviors. #3149: page-list changes discard render demand based on old geometry; actual raster dimensions are checked against the GPU limit before upload. Synthetic crash and continued-rendering regressions cover the replacement path. Save-prompt shortcuts yield to dialogs above them; stacked link-consent UI regression covers Escape and Return. Comment hover follows individual marked lines and original annotation paint order (#3541/#3620), independently of spatial inspection sorting; synthetic rotation, differing-upper-edge overlap and unchanged-document regressions. Optional page gaps join page edges without cropping PDF margins; current-document toggle, persisted default and UI control options are covered by viewer tests. Gap changes in Organize Pages preserve document scroll position, and both comparison panes follow menu and control choices. |
| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). Selected-text Copy in Edit and the canvas context menu is covered by focused regressions and native clipboard checks (#1225); document copy restrictions apply to the floating action too. #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation. Page-label navigation displays logical labels, retains the current page on unchanged submission and refreshes focused same-document replacements; clean file-watcher reload preserves the chosen scrolling mode, preventing a Single Page reader from jumping to page 1 during replacement. Synthetic control regressions cover these behaviors. Wrapped revision buttons stay above Binding in Document Properties (#2739); a synthetic UI test checks layout and saved revision content. |
| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation. Later native-open replies stay queued while a modal or picker owns the foreground; regressions cover recipient ownership, completion/cancellation and one-shot wakes. |
| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation. #1980: exact quit modifiers preserve Ctrl+Alt+Q email input; Ctrl+Q/Cmd+Q asks before discarding unsaved documents. |
| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation.<br>Candidate: coordinate control clicks pair press/release across slow frames; coalesced primary presses retain text multi-click selection. Regression cases cover slow-frame button activation, disabled controls and text multi-click selection; estimates unchanged. |
| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). #1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links ask before target access; headless callers explicitly opt in. Native-opening candidate: chosen tools survive preparation and password retries; startup intake waits for pending preparation. #2080 candidate: search-result jumps enter per-tab history; rail and control-channel Back/Forward; no exact-view or restart persistence. |
| M2 | Model, render, text | 200–350 | 15% | 130–230 | hayro bootstrap renderer (vendored patches); inspector predictor scratch is bounded by available input, and JPX sample rescaling handles 1–32 bits safely. Text extraction reaches word-F1 0.98 against pdftotext. Short same-line redraws split before placement rather than interleaving. A custom text match that ends on a reconstructed separator stops before the next glyph (#1315). Missing: model crate, fonts, DisplayList, renderer independent of hayro. Inspector page-label traversal and output are resource-bounded, with physical-number fallback warnings |
| M2 | Model, render, text | 200–350 | 15% | 130–230 | hayro bootstrap renderer (vendored patches); Lab Bradford adaptation uses LMS white-point ratios, covered by independent neutral/chromatic and direct/Indexed render oracles; inspector predictor scratch is bounded by available input, and JPX sample rescaling handles 1–32 bits safely. Text extraction reaches word-F1 0.98 against pdftotext. Short same-line redraws split before placement rather than interleaving. Missing: model crate, fonts, DisplayList, renderer independent of hayro. Inspector page-label traversal and output are resource-bounded, with physical-number fallback warnings. Literal page-label prefix whitespace is preserved; nine public-inspection cases cover prefix spaces, encodings and empty-prefix controls |
| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). |
| M4 | Engine, history, save, organize | 100–180 | 95% | 8–15 | Done:<br>- command registry (menus, shortcuts and palette all use it);<br>- undo/redo; incremental, atomic and encrypted saves;<br>- autosave and crash recovery;<br>- organize, combine, extract, split and insert-from-file, with identical fonts and images stored once;<br>- CLI `edit/combine/extract/split`.<br>Done since: Organize opens directly into the page overview, with checkbox selection, an editable page-range selection (#1092), and per-page rotate/delete controls; Combine files in its own tab (sortable, resizable columns; folders; early warnings; unlocking protected files), bookmark editing, page labels (Number pages), CLI `run`, Set Page Boxes, Crop tool, Duplicate pages, Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all pages in Organize, Replace pages, bookmarks from tagged headings. Extract and Split preserve shared Type 3 glyph resource graphs, retaining conservative pruning limits. Undo back to the opened or last saved file is clean; Revert opens that saved file after an undo; a later save appends to it so the saved revision stays in the file (#1310, #1311, #1312). Ctrl-drag (Option on macOS) on a grid thumbnail copies the pages into the drop gap, with a "+" badge and the copies selected (#2997). Initial-view window and interface options resolve indirect boolean preferences. Done since: #3309: Stack-safe named-destination pruning visits shared/cyclic indirect nodes once, without a name-count limit. Synthetic deep-tree and 60,000-name tests verify deletion, surviving targets, undo/redo, both save modes and reopening. Organize drags cancel after document edits and Undo/Redo (#3916 partial). Missing: page transitions, recovery on the web |
| M4 | Engine, history, save, organize | 100–180 | 95% | 8–15 | Done:<br>- command registry (menus, shortcuts and palette all use it);<br>- undo/redo; incremental, atomic and encrypted saves;<br>- autosave and crash recovery;<br>- organize, combine, extract, split and insert-from-file, with identical fonts and images stored once;<br>- CLI `edit/combine/extract/split`.<br>Done since: Organize opens directly into the page overview, with checkbox selection, an editable page-range selection (#1092), and per-page rotate/delete controls; Combine files in its own tab (sortable, resizable columns; folders; early warnings; unlocking protected files), bookmark editing, page labels (Number pages), CLI `run`, Set Page Boxes, Crop tool, Duplicate pages, Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all pages in Organize, Replace pages, bookmarks from tagged headings. Extract and Split preserve shared Type 3 glyph resource graphs, retaining conservative pruning limits. Undo back to the opened or last saved file is clean; Revert opens that saved file after an undo; a later save appends to it so the saved revision stays in the file (#1310, #1311, #1312). Rotation queries and edits resolve indirect values on pages and ancestors. Refreshed against upstream `99941daa` (2026-10-15). Repeated page indices accumulate rotations from the latest local value (#1919); saved/reopened regressions retain inherited angles and siblings. Missing: page transitions, recovery on the web |
| M4 | Engine, history, save, organize | 100–180 | 95% | 8–15 | Done:<br>- command registry (menus, shortcuts and palette all use it);<br>- undo/redo; incremental, atomic and encrypted saves;<br>- autosave and crash recovery;<br>- organize, combine, extract, split and insert-from-file, with identical fonts and images stored once;<br>- CLI `edit/combine/extract/split`.<br>Done since: Organize opens directly into the page overview, with checkbox selection, an editable page-range selection (#1092), and per-page rotate/delete controls; Combine files in its own tab (sortable, resizable columns; folders; early warnings; unlocking protected files), bookmark editing, page labels (Number pages), CLI `run`, Set Page Boxes, Crop tool, Duplicate pages, Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all pages in Organize, Replace pages, bookmarks from tagged headings. Extract and Split preserve shared Type 3 glyph resource graphs, retaining conservative pruning limits. Undo back to the opened or last saved file is clean; Revert opens that saved file after an undo; a later save appends to it so the saved revision stays in the file (#1310, #1311, #1312). Rotation queries and edits resolve indirect values on pages and ancestors. Missing: page transitions, recovery on the web |
| M4 | Engine, history, save, organize | 100–180 | 95% | 8–15 | Done:<br>- command registry (menus, shortcuts and palette all use it);<br>- undo/redo; incremental, atomic and encrypted saves;<br>- autosave and crash recovery;<br>- organize, combine, extract, split and insert-from-file, with identical fonts and images stored once;<br>- CLI `edit/combine/extract/split`.<br>Done since: Organize opens directly into the page overview, with checkbox selection, an editable page-range selection (#1092), and per-page rotate/delete controls; Combine files in its own tab (sortable, resizable columns; folders; early warnings; unlocking protected files), bookmark editing, page labels (Number pages), CLI `run`, Set Page Boxes, Crop tool, Duplicate pages, Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all pages in Organize, Replace pages, bookmarks from tagged headings. Extract and Split preserve shared Type 3 glyph resource graphs, retaining conservative pruning limits. Missing: page transitions, recovery on the web M4: Insert-from-file preserves source bookmarks; integration tests retained with current main. |
| M3 | Viewer app (native + web) | 80–150 | 90% | 10–20 | Acrobat-style shell, find, select, panels, tiles, web build, UI control channel for agents (opt-in). Missing: 60 fps test on a 500-page document, snapshot tests of every panel<br>Done since: fit visible, document title in the window; Linux middle-button scrolling; shared three-state theme preferences in the toolbar, View menu and control channel; numeric Linux portal events and idle wakeups completing #881, with native appearance inheritance retained (#446); late browser startup downloads preserve the current document and Save target (#171). Renderer-creation errors return to the existing OpenGL startup fallback; a real-GPU regression covers errors and device reuse. The underlying x86 DX12 shader compiler failure remains unresolved; see `windows-renderer-startup.md`. With Windows' Animation effects turned off, the wheel scrolls and zooms without easing and egui's animations take no time (`motion.rs`; macOS, Linux and the browser aren't asked yet); Preferences ▸ Animation effects (Use system setting, On, Off) decides it on every platform. |
| M4 | Engine, history, save, organize | 100–180 | 95% | 8–15 | Done:<br>- command registry (menus, shortcuts and palette all use it);<br>- undo/redo; incremental, atomic and encrypted saves;<br>- autosave and crash recovery;<br>- organize, combine, extract, split and insert-from-file, with identical fonts and images stored once;<br>- CLI `edit/combine/extract/split`.<br>Done since: Combine files in its own tab (sortable, resizable columns; folders; early warnings; unlocking protected files), bookmark editing, page labels (Number pages), CLI `run`, Set Page Boxes, Crop tool, Duplicate pages, Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all pages in Organize, Replace pages, bookmarks from tagged headings. Missing: page transitions, recovery on the web |
| M5 | Comments (all annotation types, XFDF) | 120–200 | 88% | 12–25 | Done: notes, highlight/underline/strikeout/squiggly, text boxes, ink, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, stamps (dynamic, Sign Here, Standard Business), with appearance streams; replies, status, checkmarks, locking, move/resize/restyle/delete; properties dialog; panel filter and sort; hide all; summaries (comments only); XFDF/FDF import and export (partial imports preserve existing reply and review-status links); flatten; Fill & Sign with adjustable text/date size; agent tools.<br>Done since: the Comments panel groups replies by name and counts all page roots once per frame (#2669, item 5); stamps placed on a rotated page read upright (#1398); polygons, connected lines, clouds, callouts, inserted text, colour and checkmark filters; image signature pointer previews, selection handles and live image movement/resizing with proportional corners and independent edge handles; Ctrl+Enter submission for highlight comment text and replies, with Shift+Enter newlines (reconciled with upstream main for PR #1457 on 2026-10-14). Missing: custom stamps, replace-text proposals, summary layouts with the page |
| M4 | Engine, history, save, organize | 100–180 | 95% | 8–15 | Done:<br>- command registry (menus, shortcuts and palette all use it);<br>- undo/redo; incremental, atomic and encrypted saves;<br>- autosave and crash recovery;<br>- organize, combine, extract, split and insert-from-file, with identical fonts and images stored once;<br>- CLI `edit/combine/extract/split`.<br>Done since: Combine files in its own tab (sortable, resizable columns; folders; early warnings; unlocking protected files), bookmark editing, page labels (Number pages), CLI `run`, Set Page Boxes, Crop tool, Duplicate pages, Ctrl+A / Cmd+A to select all pages in Organize, Replace pages, bookmarks from tagged headings. Missing: page transitions, recovery on the web M4: Insert-from-file preserves source bookmarks; integration tests retained with current main. |
| M5 | Comments (all annotation types, XFDF) | 120–200 | 88% | 12–25 | Done: notes, highlight/underline/strikeout/squiggly, text boxes, ink, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, stamps (dynamic, Sign Here, Standard Business), with appearance streams; replies, status, checkmarks, locking, move/resize/restyle/delete; properties dialog; panel filter and sort; hide all; summaries (comments only); XFDF/FDF import and export (partial imports preserve existing reply and review-status links); flatten; Fill & Sign with adjustable text/date size; agent tools.<br>Done since: stamps placed on a rotated page read upright (#1398); polygons, connected lines, clouds, callouts, inserted text, colour and checkmark filters; image signature pointer previews, selection handles and live image movement/resizing with proportional corners and independent edge handles. Missing: custom stamps, replace-text proposals, summary layouts with the page |
| M5 | Comments (all annotation types, XFDF) | 120–200 | 88% | 12–25 | Done: notes, highlight/underline/strikeout/squiggly, text boxes, ink, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, stamps (dynamic, Sign Here, Standard Business), with appearance streams; replies, status, checkmarks, locking, move/resize/restyle/delete; properties dialog; panel filter and sort; hide all; summaries (comments only); XFDF/FDF import and export (partial imports preserve existing reply and review-status links; nested FDF export uses lazy array owners and annotation positions, with retained entries budgeted before cloning under copied-graph limits and source `/Page` and `/Pages` dictionaries replaced by null at every copy depth); flatten; Fill & Sign with adjustable text/date size; agent tools.<br>Done since: polygons, connected lines, clouds, callouts, inserted text, colour and checkmark filters; image signature pointer previews, selection handles and live image movement/resizing with proportional corners and independent edge handles. A refused restyle or resize of a text box another program drew leaves that comment unchanged (#1327). Make Current Properties Default on an arrow updates arrows, not plain lines (#1302). Flattening keeps a visible comment it cannot draw (#1317). Missing: custom stamps, replace-text proposals, summary layouts with the page |
| M6 | Forms + JavaScript | 160–320 | 50% | 40–75 | Done: filling all field types with regenerated appearances; Prepare a form (every field type, multi-select/shared properties, move/resize/delete, Field Properties General/Appearance/Position/Options/Format/Validate/Calculate); Acrobat's AF format/keystroke/validate/calculate functions and simplified field notation run natively in Acrobat's event order; tab order; push-button actions; flatten; agent tools. Form data exchange (FDF, XFDF, XML, CSV, text) done; XFDF values retain text across XML comments and processing instructions. Plain AcroForm XML imports retain all direct text around comments and processing instructions, including CDATA and character references. CSV export and spreadsheet merging quote tabs, and import distinguishes quoted tabs from TSV delimiters without changing field identities. XML/XFDF exports preserve tabs and line breaks in names and comment metadata. Refreshed against upstream `99941daa` (2026-10-15).<br>Done since: JavaScript engine (boa, sandboxed) running custom keystroke/validate/calculate/format and button scripts, document JavaScripts, console. Done since: Push-button normal labels are editable per widget through Options and form_set_props, independently of field names; rendering, undo/redo and incremental/full save/reopen are covered. (#2892). Missing: Actions tab, wider object model (annotations, layers, dialogs), XFA<br>Done since: Multi-select choice fields write ascending `/I` option indices while preserving `/V` selection order; synthetic forms/engine regressions cover reverse selection and save/reopen. CSV export preserves carriage returns in names and values.<br>Done since: Text field table: an area divided into rows and columns of named text fields, added as one undoable edit, with `form_add_field_table`; copying an existing field into a grid remains. Form detection preserves comments across content streams and does not add fields over rectangles hidden by those comments. PR #2279 refreshed on main: field highlighting defaults on, stored choices are retained; secured-form toggle expectations updated. CI validation pending; estimates unchanged. |
| M6 | Forms + JavaScript | 160–320 | 50% | 40–75 | Done: filling all field types with regenerated appearances; Prepare a form (every field type, multi-select/shared properties, move/resize/delete, Field Properties General/Appearance/Position/Options/Format/Validate/Calculate); Acrobat's AF format/keystroke/validate/calculate functions and simplified field notation run natively in Acrobat's event order; tab order; push-button actions; flatten; agent tools. Form data exchange (FDF, XFDF, XML, CSV, text) done; XFDF values retain text across XML comments and processing instructions. Plain AcroForm XML imports retain all direct text around comments and processing instructions, including CDATA and character references.<br>Done since: JavaScript engine (boa, sandboxed) running custom keystroke/validate/calculate/format and button scripts, document JavaScripts, console. Missing: Actions tab, wider object model (annotations, layers, dialogs), XFA<br>Done since: Multi-select choice fields write ascending `/I` option indices while preserving `/V` selection order; synthetic forms/engine regressions cover reverse selection and save/reopen. CSV export preserves carriage returns in names and values. |
| M6 | Forms + JavaScript | 160–320 | 50% | 40–75 | Done: filling all field types with regenerated appearances; Prepare a form (every field type, multi-select/shared properties, move/resize/delete, Field Properties General/Appearance/Position/Options/Format/Validate/Calculate); Acrobat's AF format/keystroke/validate/calculate functions and simplified field notation run natively in Acrobat's event order; tab order; push-button actions; flatten; agent tools. Form data exchange (FDF, XFDF, XML, CSV, text) done; XFDF values retain text across XML comments and processing instructions. XML/XFDF exports preserve tabs and line breaks in names and comment metadata. Refreshed against upstream `99941daa` (2026-10-15).<br>Done since: JavaScript engine (boa, sandboxed) running custom keystroke/validate/calculate/format and button scripts, document JavaScripts, console. Missing: Actions tab, wider object model (annotations, layers, dialogs), XFA<br>Done since: Multi-select choice fields write ascending `/I` option indices while preserving `/V` selection order; synthetic forms/engine regressions cover reverse selection and save/reopen. CSV export preserves carriage returns in names and values. |
| M6 | Forms + JavaScript | 160–320 | 50% | 40–75 | Done: filling all field types with regenerated appearances; Prepare a form (every field type, multi-select/shared properties, move/resize/delete, Field Properties General/Appearance/Position/Options/Format/Validate/Calculate); Acrobat's AF format/keystroke/validate/calculate functions and simplified field notation run natively in Acrobat's event order; tab order; push-button actions; flatten; agent tools. Form data exchange (FDF, XFDF, XML, CSV, text) done; XFDF values retain text across XML comments and processing instructions. XML/XFDF exports preserve tabs and line breaks in names and comment metadata. Plain AcroForm XML imports retain all direct text around comments and processing instructions, including CDATA and character references. CSV export and spreadsheet merging quote tabs, and import distinguishes quoted tabs from TSV delimiters without changing field identities.<br>Done since: JavaScript engine (boa, sandboxed) running custom keystroke/validate/calculate/format and button scripts, document JavaScripts, console. Missing: Actions tab, wider object model (annotations, layers, dialogs), XFA<br>Done since: Multi-select choice fields write ascending `/I` option indices while preserving `/V` selection order; synthetic forms/engine regressions cover reverse selection and save/reopen. CSV export preserves carriage returns in names and values. |
| M7 | Content editing (text, images, header/footer, watermark) | 250–500 | 20% | 100–180 | Done: header & footer, watermarks, backgrounds, Bates; added text and images that stay editable (move, resize, format, rotate, flip, crop, replace); links (Link tool, Link Properties, create from URLs, remove all). Done since: Edit text preserves Arabic/Hebrew `/ActualText` typing order, with font-independent regressions; single-glyph RTL ligature spans (including lam-alef) join their surrounding word. Done since (#1116): editable text regions grouped across compatible words and subset fonts, one rich-text editor over a background with the source text removed, embedded sfnt faces reused as editor faces, and visible (clipped) bounds for cropped-image selection and resize. Exclusive crops now resize across nested states and content streams, with shared clips fixed.<br>Done since: #594 ordinary paragraph drags preserve overlapping source text; UI/engine regressions, native save/reopen, independent-reader checks and full CI passed in the Linux test environment. #1200 candidate: local GoToR links open in desktop tabs and through root-confined automation; appearance-only edits preserve existing actions. Named destinations remain unapplied and `/NewWindow` is a tab hint. Done since: #3187: Added-image automation normalizes extreme signed rotation angles before combining them with the current orientation; integer bounds, history, pixels, save/reopen and MCP have regressions. Missing: editing existing text and images in place (the longest pole), image/PDF watermarks |
| M7 | Content editing (text, images, header/footer, watermark) | 250–500 | 20% | 100–180 | Done: header & footer, watermarks, backgrounds, Bates; added text and images that stay editable (move, resize, format, rotate, flip, crop, replace); links (Link tool, Link Properties, create from URLs, remove all). Done since: Edit text preserves Arabic/Hebrew `/ActualText` typing order, with font-independent regressions. Done since (#1116): editable text regions grouped across compatible words and subset fonts, one rich-text editor over a background with the source text removed, embedded sfnt faces reused as editor faces, and visible (clipped) bounds for cropped-image selection and resize. Exclusive crops now resize across nested states and content streams, with shared clips fixed.<br>Done since: #594 ordinary paragraph drags preserve overlapping source text; UI/engine regressions, native save/reopen, independent-reader checks and full CI passed in the Linux test environment. #1200 candidate: local GoToR links open in desktop tabs and through root-confined automation; appearance-only edits preserve existing actions. Named destinations remain unapplied and `/NewWindow` is a tab hint. #1316: replacing a line or paragraph keeps a neighbouring line whose glyph box overlaps when the baselines differ; a second copy on the same baseline is still replaced. Missing: editing existing text and images in place (the longest pole), image/PDF watermarks |
| M7 | Content editing (text, images, header/footer, watermark) | 250–500 | 20% | 100–180 | Done: header & footer, watermarks, backgrounds, Bates; added text and images that stay editable (move, resize, format, rotate, flip, crop, replace); links (Link tool, Link Properties, create from URLs, remove all). #3212: Headers, Bates numbers, watermarks and added text stay visible after unfinished marked content, without revealing hidden content. Tracked editable text distinguishes repeated glyph spacing from word gaps, with synthetic paragraph/object regressions. Missing: editing existing text and images in place (the longest pole), watermark print/screen visibility and repeat |
| M6 | Forms + JavaScript | 160–320 | 50% | 40–75 | Done: filling all field types with regenerated appearances; Prepare a form (every field type, multi-select/shared properties, move/resize/delete, Field Properties General/Appearance/Position/Options/Format/Validate/Calculate); Acrobat's AF format/keystroke/validate/calculate functions and simplified field notation run natively in Acrobat's event order; tab order; push-button actions; flatten; agent tools. Form data exchange (FDF, XFDF, XML, CSV, text) done; XFDF values retain text across XML comments and processing instructions.<br>Done since: JavaScript engine (boa, sandboxed) running custom keystroke/validate/calculate/format and button scripts, document JavaScripts, console. Missing: Actions tab, wider object model (annotations, layers, dialogs), XFA<br>Done since: Existing simple field-font encodings and Differences are respected when generating appearances; an unencodable value uses a separate Helvetica appearance font without changing the source font. Synthetic reopen regressions cover punctuation, subset fallback and multiline text. Exact font metrics/layout and broader Unicode fallback remain incomplete. |
| M6 | Forms + JavaScript | 160–320 | 50% | 40–75 | Done: filling all field types with regenerated appearances; Prepare a form (every field type, multi-select/shared properties, move/resize/delete, Field Properties General/Appearance/Position/Options/Format/Validate/Calculate); Acrobat's AF format/keystroke/validate/calculate functions and simplified field notation run natively in Acrobat's event order; tab order; push-button actions; flatten; agent tools. Form data exchange (FDF, XFDF, XML, CSV, text) done; XFDF values retain text across XML comments and processing instructions.<br>Done since: JavaScript engine (boa, sandboxed) running custom keystroke/validate/calculate/format and button scripts, document JavaScripts, console. Missing: Actions tab, wider object model (annotations, layers, dialogs), XFA<br>Done since: Tab and Shift-Tab wrapping to the same field or another widget of that field refresh the newly opened editor from the accepted value before Save. Synthetic UI regressions cover both directions, same-frame Save, validation refusal and undo/redo. Renaming a field renames it in the calculations that read it (field lists, notation, literal `getField` names), in one undo step, and says how many changed. Prepare a form ▸ Calculation order, a page of its own: each calculated field's formula and value, what is wrong (fields that calculate too early, loops, fields missing from `/CO`) and Fix order, Up/Down, Alt+↑/↓ and drag, and on the page each field's step and arrows to and from the field in focus (`form_calculation_order` headlessly). |
| M7 | Content editing (text, images, header/footer, watermark) | 250–500 | 20% | 100–180 | Done: header & footer, watermarks, backgrounds, Bates; added text and images that stay editable (move, resize, format, rotate, flip, crop, replace); links (Link tool, Link Properties, create from URLs, remove all). Missing: editing existing text and images in place (the longest pole), image/PDF watermarks |
| M8 | Security + redaction | 100–180 | 68% | 15–30 | Done: opening protected documents, permissions, Protect Using Password, Remove security; redaction (mark text/areas/pages, Search & Redact with patterns, apply removing glyphs, image pixels, vectors, XObject content, annotations and fields, verification, full rewrite on save); Remove hidden information and Sanitize.<br>Done since: redaction codes (U.S. FOIA and Privacy Act sets as overlay text, in Redaction properties and `redact_mark`). Redaction cleans indirect and form structure references, preserving surviving form tags. Redaction retires inherited resource dictionaries, so a parent `/Pages` can't keep a removed XObject reachable; unredacted pages are left untouched. Image redaction removes alternate images and unsupported masks only on affected images. Changed marked-content spans lose replacement descriptions; untouched spans keep theirs. Hidden-text cleanup retires unused named descriptions across inherited/shared page and form resources (64 focused tests and scoped Rust 1.96 Clippy/wasm checks pass; publication CI pending). The redaction audit counts a filled cover that hides half of any one word of a long line (#2662), applied or not. Missing: certificate security, custom redaction code sets and pattern locales, DCT re-encoding |
| M9 | Signatures (PAdES, validation) | 160–280 | 60% | 40–70 | Done: new `sign` crate (DER, X.509, CMS, PKCS #12 on RustCrypto; aws-lc-rs for RSA private keys); PAdES B-B signing (visible, invisible, existing fields, certification with DocMDP); validation with trust store and changes-after-signing classification; self-signed digital IDs; Signatures panel, message bar, sign dialogs; agent tools. Checked with pdfsig and OpenSSL.<br>Done since: macOS Keychain and Windows Current User Personal store signing (software-backed CNG keys), certificate viewer, signed documents protected from rewrites, page validation overlays separate from original signature artwork (baked Not Verified captions remain; #79 open), snapshot tabs that reuse instead of multiplying. Missing: timestamps (B-T), LTV (DSS, OCSP, CRL), FieldMDP, smart cards, PKCS #11 |
| M10 | OCR, create, export, print | 200–350 | 33% | 120–215 | Done: create from blank/text/PNG/JPEG/TIFF (multi-page)/GIF/BMP; export PNG/JPEG/TIFF and text; Print (Acrobat's sizing, n-up, booklet, poster, comments & forms, preview, the CUPS and Windows spoolers, print-ready PDF).<br>Done since: embedded/72/custom DPI choices for image imports; export all images; OCR (searchable image for pages, ranges and multiple files); single-sided cut-and-stack imposition with cut marks, through Print and doc_print; architectural/ANSI/large ISO sheet presets, Match page at 100% and PDF-scale preview (#599 follow-up); Create PDF from multiple files (PDFs, images and text, edited as pages in the grid); OCR can also read pictures on pages that have text, without adding that text twice (#1028). Done since: Word invoice export uses borderless inferred tables, floating positioned text/artwork only where text overlaps an image or is rotated, and per-page sizes, covered by synthetic invoice automation regressions (#773); printing on the web through the browser's print dialog, sheets drawn by PdfCraft (gap 4). Lossless image export applies per-component Decode, including Indexed mapping (#1201 partial). Existing 16-bit precision and color-management limits remain. #3532 partial: vector printing retains existing appearances with absent Subtype through a print-owned Form copy; source artwork stays unchanged. #3120: Office export reads form XObjects 50 levels deep, as the renderer does, and up to 50 000 a page; pages past that are listed in `truncated_pages`. Missing: OCR languages beyond Latin, editable-text OCR output, full Office layout fidelity/import. Done since: dotted-leader contents entries stay in separate complete paragraphs (#1757) #2156 candidate: last selected print paper persists across sessions; other print preferences unchanged. |
| M11 | Optimize, preflight, PDF/A/X/UA, print production | 200–350 | 18% | 80–140 | Done: new `optimize` crate: Reduce File Size and the PDF Optimizer (images measured where drawn, bicubic downsampling, JPEG/ZIP recompression only when smaller, discard objects and user data, Flate clean-up, resource merging, object streams). Content stream boundaries preserve comments, split operands and graphics state when image fragments merge. Done since: reject invalid image and soft-mask dimensions with checked sizing (#2178). Missing: fonts and transparency panels, space audit, preflight, PDF/A/X/UA |
| M12 | Accessibility, compare, measure, search, XFA | 200–380 | 30% | 90–160 | Done: new `a11y` crate with the Accessibility Checker (all 32 rules, report, Fix/Skip/Explain, options dialog and results panel, agent tools). Locatable figure, annotation and form findings highlight their page bounds. Character encoding accepts Identity-H/V with Adobe CJK collections and predefined CJK CMaps independently (#3673); per-glyph validation and embedded-font extraction remain separate.<br>Done since: 2D distance, perimeter and area measurements with persistent viewport calibration, snapping, live information and CSV export; a bounded, text-only auto-tag proposal tool for one page. Marking a figure decorative rewrites only that stream (#1324). An XFA radio item whose value contains a space is written back unchanged (#1319). Done since: #2569: Growable multiline XFA text reflows after edits, with undo/redo, save/reopen and print coverage; oversized fields still become read-only page text. Structured-data synchronization warnings retain accepted whitespace without relayout from stale data. Done since: #2572: Every repeated page-master button resolves its own field to the shared XFA click script, including print buttons. Done since: #2570: Dynamic XFA rich-text fields carry exData/maxLength into AcroForm MaxLen for reported and enforced Unicode character limits, retained after save/reopen. Missing: writing proposed tags and parent tree, field autotag, visual Tags/Order/Content panels, Reading Order tool, compare, geospatial/3D measurement, search index, XFA<br>Reading colours: pending page backgrounds follow the configured colour (#2059). |
| M13 | Automation (MCP, Action Wizard, CLI) + AI providers | 60–120 | 45% | 25–45 | Done: MCP resources (document info, text, page images); headless tool table (123 tools incl. signing, optimizing, initial view, links, stamps, data exchange, comment review, forms authoring and scripts, redaction, sanitize, print, add content), opt-in MCP server over stdio, CLI `run`/`tools` (closed stdout pipes exit cleanly), UI control channel with drag. Missing: Action Wizard, AI providers<br>Done since: CLI run and MCP reject missing, empty, repeated and option-valued --root arguments before any tool/script execution or MCP initialization. A single-hyphen directory name remains valid; synthetic CLI regressions preserve a would-be overwritten file. `text_find` also caps the per-page match ranges it materializes at the remaining result limit plus one continuation match. CLI robustness scans visit each directory once through overlapping roots and symlink aliases. |
| M12 | Accessibility, compare, measure, search, XFA | 200–380 | 30% | 90–160 | Done: new `a11y` crate with the Accessibility Checker (all 32 rules, report, Fix/Skip/Explain, options dialog and results panel, agent tools). Locatable figure, annotation and form findings highlight their page bounds. Character encoding accepts Identity-H/V with Adobe CJK collections and predefined CJK CMaps independently (#3673); per-glyph validation and embedded-font extraction remain separate.<br>Done since: 2D distance, perimeter and area measurements with persistent viewport calibration, snapping, live information and CSV export; a bounded text-only auto-tag proposal tool; text-only Apply writes marked content, paragraph tags and a parent tree, then opens the Tags panel for review. Missing: mixed-content and field autotag, heading/list/table/figure classification, Order/Content panels, Reading Order tool, compare, geospatial/3D measurement, search index, XFA<br>Done since: CLI info, text and render use dynamic XFA layout pages, with synthetic count/text/pixel and copy-permission regressions (#1645).<br>Reading colours: pending page backgrounds follow the configured colour (#2059). |
| M13 | Automation (MCP, Action Wizard, CLI) + AI providers | 60–120 | 45% | 25–45 | Done: MCP resources (document info, text, page images); headless tool table (123 tools incl. signing, optimizing, initial view, links, stamps, data exchange, comment review, forms authoring and scripts, redaction, sanitize, print, add content), opt-in MCP server over stdio, CLI `run`/`tools` (closed stdout pipes exit cleanly), UI control channel with drag. Missing: Action Wizard, AI providers<br>Done since: CLI run and MCP reject missing, empty, repeated and option-valued --root arguments before any tool/script execution or MCP initialization. A single-hyphen directory name remains valid; synthetic CLI regressions preserve a would-be overwritten file. `text_find` also caps the per-page match ranges it materializes at the remaining result limit plus one continuation match. |
| M14 | 1.0 polish: performance, localization, installers | 120–250 | 15% | 80–150 | Done: PhotoCraft's translation system (`i18n/`: TSV catalogs, `tl!`, command-id and plural entries, system-language detection, strict catalog tests); every dialog, panel and notice goes through `tl!`. Catalogs of ≈ 2,000–2,140 entries for Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Russian, Bulgarian, German, Spanish, French, Telugu, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Arabic (logical-order catalog put into display order; layout not yet mirrored); the 2,674-entry Brazilian Portuguese catalog covers the current key union; Czech covers the menus. Italian has 2,528 entries: every key of the other catalogs that the code looks up. Signed and notarized macOS builds, signed Windows installers (x64, x86, ARM64), AppImage, deb, rpm, Flatpak and FreeBSD packages. #307 (bounded large-PDF memory): shared resource indexes and parser metadata, lazy inspection, bounded caches; a 9,156-page file inspects in ≈ 1.8 s at ≈ 500 MiB instead of exceeding 10 GiB. Edits let go of the previous working file before writing the next (a 1 GiB file peaks at two copies while editing, not three; gap 13). Shortcut display uses localized modifier/key names across menus, toolbar, palette, Help and tooltips (#496). Lithuanian adds a 2,578-entry catalog and date names, reviewed by a native-speaking contributor. Norwegian Bokmål adds a catalog and date names (terminology reviewed by a native speaker). Validated candidate (macOS raster probe; Windows runtime unverified): the Windows policy changes only embedded JetBrains Mono; horizontal alpha-edge energy per ink improves 2.78%, 3.87% and 1.59% at 100%, 125% and 150%, and is down 0.79% at 200%. Inter is pixel-identical; layout hashes, glyph coverage and the 8 MiB atlas are unchanged. Timing and RSS ranges overlap, with no improvement claimed. Estimates unchanged. Candidate #2383 clamps GPU requests to supported limits while retaining the adapter texture extent; synthetic V3D/downlevel and Windows GPU-required tests pass, but Raspberry Pi startup is unverified. Missing: a right-to-left layout, a Chinese UI face in releases, Hindi/Indonesian/Korean, file-backed input and global memory budgets, performance budgets, keyboard-only operation Linux/Unix UI fallback fonts also use Fontconfig directories, including Nix store paths, with bounded discovery and the existing candidate allowlist; relative includes and digit-prefixed config filtering have isolated regressions. Missing: a right-to-left layout, a Chinese UI face in releases, Hindi/Indonesian/Korean, file-backed input and global memory budgets, performance budgets, keyboard-only operation XDG desktops use the configuration base for preferences with non-overwriting migration and original-data preservation (#1395). Traditional Chinese accessibility statuses, rule semantics and Taiwan form/table terms have catalog regressions. Long main-menu lists scroll in short windows (#3373). Missing: a right-to-left layout, a Chinese UI face in releases, Hindi/Indonesian/Korean, file-backed input and global memory budgets, performance budgets, keyboard-only operation. Candidate #3558: bounded-worker macOS per-file PDFCraft association recovery after desktop open/save/sign; metadata-only watcher handling and upstream #3042 shared-writer preservation; recovery parser limits do not narrow save limits. Native workflow qualified on macOS 27.0.1; other versions and physical SMB/FUSE volumes remain unqualified. Estimates unchanged. Missing: a right-to-left layout, a Chinese UI face in releases, Hindi/Indonesian/Korean/Vietnamese, file-backed input and global memory budgets, performance budgets, keyboard-only operation. |
| M13 | Automation (MCP, Action Wizard, CLI) + AI providers | 60–120 | 45% | 25–45 | Done: MCP resources (document info, text, page images); headless tool table (123 tools incl. signing, optimizing, initial view, links, stamps, data exchange, comment review, forms authoring and scripts, redaction, sanitize, print, add content), opt-in MCP server over stdio, CLI `run`/`tools` (closed stdout pipes exit cleanly), UI control channel with drag. Missing: Action Wizard, AI providers |
| | **Total** | **2,085–3,840** | **≈ 49% ready** | **≈ 770–1,400** | Area view of the same work: [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md#by-feature-area) |

## Upcoming milestones, ranked

| Rank | Next milestone | Closes | Estimate (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Convert and share: Create PDF from Office, Word export keeps layout | part of gap 8 | 32–55 |
| 1 | Backlog and platform: crash and wrong-result reports fixed, Chinese UI face (web printing done) | gaps 5, 6 | 50–90 |
| 2 | Fidelity harness and renderer decision (M2) | gaps 2, 12 | 110–190 |
| 3 | Editing existing content (M7) | gap 3 | 100–180 |
| 4 | Pro conversion: OCR languages and clean-up, Office export/import (M10) | gaps 7, 8 | 95–175 |
| 5 | Standards: Preflight, PDF/A all parts, PDF/UA, PDF/X (M11) | gap 9 | 65–115 |
| 6 | Signatures for institutions: PKCS #11, timestamp servers, online LTV (M9) | gap 10 | 40–70 |
| 7 | Accessibility tagging (M12) | gap 11 | 40–70 |
| 8 | 1.0 polish: performance, RTL, languages, keyboard-only (M14) | gaps 13, 14 | 55–95 |

Beta needs ranks 1–7 in substance (≈ 400–700 h; see [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md#stage)).

## Critical path

M0 → M1 → M2 → M3 → M4 had to happen in order, and did, except that M2's own renderer was deferred
behind the `hayro` bootstrap. After M4, M5–M13 run in parallel across crates. The long poles are
M2 (renderer), M7 (content editing), M10 (OCR and Office), M11 (Preflight and standards) and M12
(tagging and XFA).

## Risks most likely to push estimates up

- Fidelity of text editing: fonts, subsets, reflow, CJK and RTL.
- XFA dynamic layout on real government and bank forms.
- Real-world signature chains, revocation and tokens.
- The rendering long tail: Type 3 fonts, broken fonts, shadings, blend modes.
- Correctness of PDF/A, PDF/X and PDF/UA conversion.
- Interoperability: files other readers (above all Acrobat) reject, as in #774 (fixed by #836; no
  automated interop suite yet).
- OCR and AI quality limited by what openly licensed models exist.
- CPU rendering performance on the web.
- Hostile input: every fuzz run so far has found new crashes or hangs.
- Unmeasured fidelity: without an Acrobat comparison harness, quality gaps surface as user reports.

## Revision history

**2026-10-20 · minor:** M2/#3601: substitute-font spacing aliases preserve blank ink, original `/W` and `/DW` advances, and Unicode extraction. Synthetic renderer regressions cover the reported Japanese CID fixture. Estimates unchanged.

**2026-10-15 · minor:** M14/#2383 candidate: GPU device requests clamp unsupported limits while retaining the adapter texture extent. Synthetic V3D/downlevel regressions and Windows GPU-required tests pass; Raspberry Pi hardware remains unverified. Estimates unchanged.

| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | minor | M4, #3916 partial: edits and Undo/Redo cancel Organize page drags. Pointer-release and save/reopen regressions check page order. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-22 | minor | M14 #3558: rebased macOS association recovery; reuse #3042 shared metadata preservation instead of a duplicate save wrapper. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-20 | minor | M4: initial-view window and interface options resolve indirect boolean ViewerPreferences values; synthetic true/false and save/reopen regressions retain defaults for malformed entries. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-21 | minor | M3, #3808: the Pages inspector has an independent 50–150% thumbnail size slider and buttons; selection and current-page following are retained, with headless ui.set coverage. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-20 | minor | M11 #3507: image merging preserves comments and state across content streams. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | M8, gap 6 #2662: a filled cover that hides half of any one word of a long line counts as a redaction-audit finding, applied or not; a sliver under half of every word stays unflagged. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | M10: dotted-leader contents entries retain titles and page numbers in separate paragraphs (#1757); estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-22 | minor | M6: calculation scripts: simplified field notation is read only from a comment, and a regular expression after `if (…)`, `while (…)`, `for (…)` or `with (…)` as one, so a rename leaves strings and regular expressions alone; a `//` comment ends at any line terminator, not only `\n`. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-20 | minor | M6: Prepare a form ▸ Calculation order: formulas and values, what is wrong and Fix order, Up/Down, Alt+↑/↓ and drag, links on the page. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-20 | minor | M6: `form_calculation_order` reads, checks, fixes and sets the calculation order; an edited formula keeps its place in `/CO`. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-20 | minor | M12 #3673: Character encoding accepts Identity-H/V with Adobe CJK collections, or a predefined non-Identity CMap; unknown names and foreign registries do not establish a mapping route. Synthetic checker and read-only automation regressions passed after failing before the fix. Per-glyph validation and embedded-font extraction remain separate; estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | M6: renaming a field renames it in the calculations that read it; `form_set_props` returns `formulas_updated` and Field Properties says how many changed. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-20 | minor | M6, #3502: form detection preserves comments across content streams; estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-20 | minor | M3/#3620: overlapping comment hover follows original annotation indices independently of spatial inspection sorting; a synthetic differing-upper-edge regression covers paint order. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-20 | minor | M10, #3532 partial: vector printing retains existing appearances with absent Subtype; estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | M4 #3309: named-destination pruning keeps large documents usable; 60,000-name and deep-tree regressions verify targets through undo/redo and both save modes. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | M6: Text field table (rows and columns of text fields as one edit, `form_add_field_table`); estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-18 | minor | M5, PR #1971: nested source `/Page` and `/Pages` dictionaries export as null without traversing page content or the page tree. Synthetic saved/reopened three-page regression retains unrelated metadata and aliases. FDF import semantics, copied-graph limits and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | M5: budget retained FDF entries before cloning; discovery keeps lazy array owners and annotation positions, with alias/cache-eviction stress fixtures. Limits cover the copied graph; source parsing/page discovery retain existing COS/parser limits, with no total source-memory bound. FDF import semantics and estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | M7: Edit text caret height follows its row, with a kittest regression; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | M3 #3360: retain each document’s scroll position when switching Read and the docking workspace at fixed zoom. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-18 | minor | M4, PR #1919 review: repeated page indices apply each rotation to the latest page-local value, preserving indirect/inherited angles. Synthetic adjacent/interleaved duplicates retain siblings and page contents through incremental and full saves. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-18 | minor | M3, #3149: page replacement cancels render demand collected for the previous geometry; all viewer raster upload paths reject empty or oversized textures before cache eviction. Synthetic regressions reproduce the reported 1880×2350 upload at a 2048 limit, retain cached images and unsaved edits, and resume bounded backdrops and tiles. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | M4 #2997: Ctrl-drag (Option on macOS) in the Organize grid copies the dragged pages into the drop gap (a "+" badge says so; the copies land selected, one undo step); `page_duplicate` takes `at`, and the UI control channel's `ui.drag` modifiers reach the input state. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | M6: Plain AcroForm XML imports retain all direct text around comments and processing instructions, including CDATA and character references. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | M6: XML/XFDF attribute whitespace survives form and comment export/import; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | M1: raw-deflate fallback preserves decoding-limit errors in strict and tolerant decoding; synthetic filter and COS stream regressions. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | M5 #2669, item 5: the Comments panel groups replies and counts all page roots once per frame. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | M9 #1895: generic appearance rewriting deferred; separate validation overlays preserve original artwork, exports and printing. Baked captions remain unchanged (#79 open). Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-16 | minor | M10 #1201 partial: lossless image export applies component Decode pairs and Indexed mapping. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | M6: CSV export and spreadsheet merging quote tabs, and import distinguishes quoted tabs from TSV delimiters without changing field identities. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | M4: rotation queries and edits resolve indirect page-tree values; inherited, negative and large rotations verified through both saves. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | M12: pending page backgrounds respect reading colours (#2059); estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: valid AcroForm XML element names with original PDF field names preserved; saved-PDF collision and Unicode regressions. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: preserve carriage returns in exported CSV field names and values; saved-PDF round-trip coverage. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M7 local candidate: text drafts grow and save their width; single visual rows grow across style boundaries; both text tools retype added items and Add Text edits source text. Added-item textless previews are read-only and covered by UI/tool regressions. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M14/#1395: XDG configuration preferences, safe migration and fallback; logs/recovery retain data locations, portable/non-XDG unchanged. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M6: XFDF field import and data extraction preserve all text around XML comments and processing instructions; synthetic save/reopen regressions. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M2: preserve whitespace-bounded EI bytes in known unfiltered inline images; row padding, masks and aliases tested, with independent saved-PDF pixel checks. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | M2: an object stream's index is parsed once per stream (hayro-syntax patch 22), not once per object fetched from it; a page whose 65,542 objects share one stream draws in 0.5 s instead of 37 s. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M1 #1338: a full rewrite keeps unknown trailer entries and objects reachable only from them. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M7 #1443: adding a word to a multi-line paragraph keeps its line breaks. Composite subset fonts whose `/W` leaves out default-width glyphs (Chrome, Skia) no longer measure those letters as missing, and paragraphs drawn turned on the page group into rows along their own baselines. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | M14: PNG export (Export ▸ Image, `pdfcraft-cli render`, `page_render`) writes opaque pages as RGB at deflate level 3: the same file size, 3–5× faster to write. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-22 | minor | M14: JPEG and TIFF export (Export ▸ Image) refuse a raster that is not exactly width × height pixels, as PNG export does, instead of panicking in the encoder or dropping a partial pixel. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | M14: Italian catalog completed (2,528 entries) and dropped from the ≈ 2,000–2,140-entry group; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M4 #1310 #1311 #1312: undo back to the opened file is clean, Revert returns to the last saved file, and the next save keeps that revision. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | M5: reconciled PR #1457 with upstream main, preserving comment submission shortcuts and upstream roadmap progress. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | M2: three vendored hayro-interpret patches (31–33): sampled functions index a flat table (`bug1721218` 1.34 → 0.49 s), one JPEG or Flate decode serves every size an image is drawn at (35–40% less render work zooming a scan), patch meshes copy their vertices less (10–16% on mesh-gradient pages); pixel for pixel the same over the pdf.js corpus. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | M2/M6: images with at most 16 bits of samples a pixel (8-bit Separation/DeviceN, 1-4-bit gray or indexed) convert once per pixel value (hayro-interpret patch 28), so spot-colour form backgrounds draw in milliseconds instead of seconds; widgets without `/P` are placed in one pass; the Fields panel no longer searches the form per row and draws only the rows in view. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | M3: native-open admission preserves modal/picker ownership; regressions cover queued replies and one-shot picker wakes. Estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | M14: Catalan interface and date language (2,592-entry catalog, coverage tests). Estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M13: CLI check directory identity, with overlap and symlink regressions; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M4: shared Type 3 glyph resources survive extraction, with save/reopen and independent raster regressions; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M2: packed TIFF-predictor RGB row boundaries, with decoding and page-render regressions; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M3/#1364 candidate: absolute local GoToR links require desktop consent or headless allow_absolute; existing relative navigation and validation retained. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M7: single-glyph RTL ActualText ligatures join their word in Edit text. Regressions cover marks, two-byte codes, replacement and save/reopen; multi-glyph logical spans retain their order. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M5 #1398: rubber stamps, explicit image rectangles and PDF-page stamps read upright on rotated pages. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M12: text-only auto-tag Apply writes real structure and parent-tree links, with undo and Tags-panel review; mixed content remains unsupported. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M7 #1316: replacing a line or paragraph keeps a neighbouring line whose glyph box overlaps; same-baseline copies are still replaced. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M1 #1339: unchanged incremental saves of a classic cross-reference table write a zero-length subsection. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M12: bounded text-only auto-tag preview through the engine and automation; actual PDF structure writing and visual review remain open. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Gap 6: XFA radio values with spaces stay in the datasets (#1319); Replace Pages keeps a gap in a split selection (#1305); decorative figures rewrite only their own content stream (#1324). Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M7: keep added Arabic copy/search in typing order with per-line ActualText; preserve that order in the editor and keep visual runs separate. Font-independent regressions and tool save/reopen coverage; font fallback and bidi typing remain partial. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M3: case-insensitive Find matches normal, final and capital Greek sigma; exact search, word boundaries, glyph ranges and match limits have regression coverage. The tab-menu test uses Finder on macOS. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M14: Windows low-DPI JetBrains Mono hinting candidate; raster and layout evidence recorded without a Windows runtime claim. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M7/#1200 candidate: bounded local GoToR opening, root-confined automation, and action-preserving appearance edits; named destinations and window behavior remain partial; estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | patch | M1 #1337: exhausted xref entries are repaired; allocation safely handles exhausted /Size and high edits; classic-table/stream regressions and opening/allocation controls. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Exclusive image crops resize with their pixels across nested states, intervening operators and content streams; shared clips remain fixed. Synthetic engine/tool regressions and private image save/reopen checks; estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M4: editable Organize page-range selection (#1092), synchronized with thumbnails and available through UI control. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M6 #1208: expose dropdown and list-box alignment; preserve existing values and cover cancel, undo/redo, save/reopen. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M10: Word invoice export regressions (#773); estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M2: short same-line redraws split before placement; estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M5: Ctrl+Enter posts highlight comment text and replies; Shift+Enter adds newlines. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M3: Windows' Animation effects setting is followed: wheel scrolling and zooming without easing, no other animations. Preferences ▸ Animation effects (Use system setting, On, Off) overrides it. macOS, Linux and the browser aren't asked yet. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M10: printing on the web through the browser's print dialog (gap 4 closed); rank 1 drops web printing, 65–120 → 50–90 h |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M13/#971: cap materialized text-search matches to the requested limit plus one continuation match. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M7: #594 ordinary paragraph drags validated in the Linux test environment with source-loss baseline failures, UI/engine regressions, native save/reopen and all eight CI gates. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M4: direct Organize overview, checkbox selection and individual page actions. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Contributor fork: document-font selection and subset completion, CFF, style ranges, contextual/bidi save/reopen and all-page Chinese keyboard acceptance; curve/hole hit testing (shared clips stay fixed, as on main). Scope remains bounded; percentages unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Contributor fork: compatible word/subset-space grouping, source-font space reuse and a read-only textless editor background. Mixed-style regions now covered by engine/tool/UI regressions and private real-file checks; embedded sfnt faces, stable baselines and live draft extents now covered; installed-font selection and unsupported source programs remain open; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Synced with closed issues: encrypted output opens in Acrobat (#774, #836), so gap 1 left rank 0 and convert and share (32–55 h, the gap's 8–15 h removed); organize, XFDF and multi-object move fixes (#817, #821, #809, #819, #844); the #816 panic and the #799–#821 batch fixed; rank 1 names web printing (Windows shipped, #756). Stage and readiness numbers not re-measured |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M6: respect existing form-font encodings; retain source fonts on appearance fallback. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M5: partial XFDF/FDF imports preserve existing replies and review statuses through save and export. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M6: keep accepted form values when Tab reopens the same field before Save. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M13: reject malformed CLI --root options before dispatch. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | M14: Traditional Chinese accessibility statuses, script-rule meaning and Taiwan form/table terminology; added a missing table-row explanation and catalog regressions. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | M14: localized shortcut key names (#496), including runtime switching and native layout checks. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | M3 records the System appearance completion after #881; estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Re-judged convert and share with the cross-app gate rule (only a workflow that can't be completed at all blocks): partial, not blocking → stage alpha |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Added the alpha gate (six core workflows; convert and share fails → pre-alpha, 40–70 h to alpha) and rank 0 in the upcoming milestones |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M8: cleanup removes replacement descriptions only from changed marked-content spans, preserving surviving accessibility text. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | M8: image redaction removes alternate images and unsupported masks only on affected images. Estimates unchanged. |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created from ROADMAP.md §Milestones, §Critical path, §Risks and §Where we're lacking. Merged the duplicated M1, M2, M3 and M14 rows, re-measured Done and Remaining, added Current focus and the ranked upcoming milestones |