# Description of Changes
When I added Prettier formatting in #6052, my aim was to use just the
default settings in Prettier. Turns out, Prettier looks _really hard_
for any config files if it's not explicitly given one, which means that
if a developer has some sort of Prettier config file lying around on
their system, Prettier might find it and use it. Also, Prettier changes
its defaults based on stuff in `.editorconfig` without any good way of
disabling that behaviour explicitly in its config file.
To solve both of these issues, I've introduced a `.prettierrc` file
which sets Prettier's defaults explicitly, and then reformatted all our
code _again_ in Prettier's actual default settings. This should achieve
the aim of #6052 and remove the possibility for it breaking on different
dev computers.
# Description of Changes
Changes the strategy for autoformatting to reject PRs if they are not
formatted correctly instead of allowing them to merge and then spawning
a new PR to fix the formatting. The old strategy just caused more work
for us because we'd have to manually approve the followup PR and get it
merged, which required 2 reviewers so in practice it rarely got done and
just meant everyone's PRs ended up containing reformatting for unrelated
files, which makes code review unnecessarily difficult. If the PR's code
is not formatted correctly after this PR, a comment will be added
automatically to tell the author how to run the formatter script to fix
their code so it can go in.
This also enables autoformatting for the frontend code, using Prettier.
I've enabled it for pretty much everything in the frontend folder, other
than 3rd party files and files it doesn't make sense for. I also
excluded Markdown because it sounds likely to be more annoying to have
to autoformat the Markdown in the frontend folder but nowhere else. Open
to changing this though if people disagree.
> [!note]
>
> Advice to reviewers: The first commit contains all of the actual logic
I've introduced (CI changes, Prettier config, etc.)
> The second commit is just the reformatting of the entire frontend
folder.
> The first commit needs proper review, the second one just give it a
spot-check that it's doing what you'd expect.
## Fix 1 — Viewer bug (8 tools)
8 tools called `useFileSelection()` directly instead of routing through
`useBaseTool`. In the viewer, this meant they operated on **all selected
files**
instead of only the one being viewed. For example: 10 files loaded,
viewing
file 3, running Add Stamp — all 10 files got stamped.
**Root cause:** These tools had no view-scope awareness.
`useFileSelection()`
returns the raw workbench selection with no knowledge of which file is
active in
the viewer.
**Fix:** A new hook `useViewScopedFiles` was introduced:
```ts
// Viewer → only the active file
// Everywhere else → all loaded files
const selectedFiles = useViewScopedFiles();
```
The 8 tools were updated to call this instead of `useFileSelection()`.
**Tools fixed:** Add Stamp, Add Watermark, Add Password, Add Page
Numbers,
Add Attachments, Reorganize Pages, OCR, Convert
---
## Fix 2 — Page selector / active files context (all tools)
`useBaseTool` returned `selectedFiles` (checked files only) in
non-viewer
contexts. In the page selector this is typically empty or stale — not
the full
set of loaded files that tools should operate on.
**Fix:** `useBaseTool` was updated to use `useViewScopedFiles`, which
returns
all loaded files in non-viewer contexts. This affected every tool via
`useBaseTool`.
---
## Workarounds for Compare & Merge
Two tools intentionally need all loaded files regardless of view, so
they use
`ignoreViewerScope: true` in `useBaseTool`.
**Compare** — needs exactly 2 files for its Original/Edited slots.
Scoping to
one file would break the comparison entirely. `ignoreViewerScope: true`
is set
and `disableScopeHints: true` hides the "(this file)" button label hint.
The
slot auto-mapping logic was also improved alongside this fix.
**Merge** — needs 2+ files; merging a single file is meaningless. Rather
than
leaving the button silently disabled, Merge now:
- Auto-redirects to the active files view on first open from the viewer
- If the user navigates back to the viewer, shows a disabled button with
a hint
and a "Go to active files view" shortcut button
---
## How to Test
---
## Fix 1 — 8 tools (viewer scoping)
### Test steps (same for each)
1. Load 3 PDFs into workbench
2. Open viewer, navigate to file 2
3. Open the tool, configure settings, run
4. ✅ Only file 2 is in the results
5. ✅ Button label shows **"[Action] (this file)"**
6. ✅ A note below the button reads **"Only applying to: [filename]"**
| Tool | What to configure |
|---|---|
| **Add Stamp** | Enter any text stamp or upload an image stamp |
| **Add Watermark** | Select text watermark, enter any text |
| **Add Page Numbers** | Leave defaults |
| **Add Password** | Enter any owner + user password |
| **Add Attachments** | Attach any small file |
| **Reorganize Pages** | Enter a page range e.g. `1,2` |
| **OCR** | Leave default language |
| **Convert** | Convert PDF → any format |
---
## Fix 2 — All tools (page selector context)
### Test steps
1. Load 3 PDFs into workbench
2. Open the page selector view
3. Open any tool from the sidebar, run it
4. ✅ All 3 files are processed (not zero or a stale subset)
---
## Compare (intentionally ignores view scope)
**A — Auto-fill with exactly 2 files**
1. Load exactly 2 PDFs
2. Open Compare from either the viewer or active files view
3. ✅ Both slots are filled automatically (Original + Edited)
4. ✅ No scope hint appears on the button
**B — Manual selection with 3+ files**
1. Load 3+ PDFs
2. Open Compare
3. ✅ The first 2 files fill the slots
4. ✅ A 3rd file does not add a 3rd slot (capped at 2)
**C — File removed mid-session**
1. Load 2 PDFs, let Compare auto-fill both slots
2. Remove one file from the workbench
3. ✅ The corresponding slot clears; the other slot is unchanged
**D — Viewer mode**
1. Load 2 PDFs, open viewer
2. Open Compare from the viewer sidebar
3. ✅ Both files are still available for slot selection (not scoped to
current file)
---
## Merge (intentionally ignores view scope, disabled in viewer)
**A — Auto-redirect on first open from viewer**
1. Load 2+ PDFs, open the viewer
2. Open Merge from the viewer sidebar
3. ✅ Immediately redirected to the active files view
**B — Viewer mode disabled state (after navigating back)**
1. From the active files view, open Merge, then navigate back to the
viewer
2. ✅ Execute button is **disabled** with tooltip "Switch to the file
editor to select multiple files"
3. ✅ A note appears: *"Merge needs 2 or more files. Head to the file
editor to select them."*
4. ✅ A **"Go to active files view"** button is shown; clicking it
navigates back
**C — Active files view works normally**
1. Load 3 PDFs, open Merge from the active files view
2. ✅ All 3 files appear in the merge list
3. ✅ Button shows **"Merge (3 files)"**
4. Run the merge
5. ✅ Output is a single PDF containing all 3 files
---
## Button label behaviour (all tools)
| Context | Expected button text |
|---|---|
| Viewer, 1 file loaded | `[Action]` (no suffix) |
| Viewer, 2+ files loaded | `[Action] (this file)` |
| Active files view, 1 file loaded | `[Action]` (no suffix) |
| Active files view, 2+ files loaded | `[Action] (N files)` |
| Merge in viewer | disabled — no suffix |
| Compare | never shows scope suffix (`disableScopeHints: true`) |
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Co-authored-by: Reece Browne <[email protected]>
# Description of Changes
Improves PDF rendering in the viewer by adding digital signature field
support,
cleaning up overlay rendering, and migrating the contrast tool off
pdf-lib to PDFium WASM.
### Signature Field Overlay
- Added `SignatureFieldOverlay` component that renders digital signature
form fields
- Renders appearance streams when present; shows a fallback badge for
unsigned fields
- Uses PDFium WASM for bitmap extraction
### Overlay Rendering
- Integrated `SignatureFieldOverlay` and `ButtonAppearanceOverlay` into
`LocalEmbedPDF`
- Overlays are now clipped to page boundaries
- Clarified in `EmbedPdfViewer` that frontend overlays use PDFium WASM,
backend overlays use PDFBox
### Contrast Tool Migration
- Replaced pdf-lib with PDFium WASM in `useAdjustContrastOperation`
- PDF page creation and image embedding now go through PDFium APIs
directly
- Updated bitmap handling and memory management accordingly
### Cleanup
- Fixed import ordering in viewer components
- Removed stale comments in the contrast operation hook
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---
## Checklist
### General
- [ ] I have read the [Contribution
Guidelines](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [ ] I have read the [Stirling-PDF Developer
Guide](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/devGuide/DeveloperGuide.md)
(if applicable)
- [ ] I have read the [How to add new languages to
Stirling-PDF](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/devGuide/HowToAddNewLanguage.md)
(if applicable)
- [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
### Documentation
- [ ] I have updated relevant docs on [Stirling-PDF's doc
repo](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-Tools.github.io/blob/main/docs/)
(if functionality has heavily changed)
- [ ] I have read the section [Add New Translation
Tags](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/devGuide/HowToAddNewLanguage.md#add-new-translation-tags)
(for new translation tags only)
### Translations (if applicable)
- [ ] I ran
[`scripts/counter_translation.py`](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/docs/counter_translation.md)
### UI Changes (if applicable)
- [ ] Screenshots or videos demonstrating the UI changes are attached
(e.g., as comments or direct attachments in the PR)
### Testing (if applicable)
- [ ] I have tested my changes locally. Refer to the [Testing
Guide](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/devGuide/DeveloperGuide.md#6-testing)
for more details.
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Signed-off-by: Balázs Szücs <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Reece Browne <[email protected]>
please merge #5919, alternatively, just push this and delete that PR
because this is a continuation of that.
This PR bumps the embed PDF version to 2.8.0 and also adds comments
functionaliy
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Co-authored-by: ConnorYoh <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Anthony Stirling <[email protected]>
# Description of Changes
Currently, cmd-r is set to rotate the PDF in the viewer instead of
perform refresh in the browser. This is unintuitive and confusing for
Mac users, and for Windows users (who are less used to doing ctrl-r for
refresh) it only works some of the time, if the Viewer is active, so
removing the override is no great loss.
* Text box/notes movement improvements ✅
* Fix the issue where hiding, then showing annotations looses progress ✅
* Fix the issue where hidig/showing annotations jumps you back up to the
top of your open document ✅
* Support ctrl+c and ctrl+v and backspace to delete ✅
* Better handling when moving to different tool from annotate ✅
* Added a color picker eyedropper button ✅
* Auto-switch to Select after note/text placement, so users can quickly
place and type ✅
Show uneditable annotations on viewer
show editable annotations layer when in annotation tools (sign, add
image, add text)
Remove draw tool from viewer (this is replaced wholesale in an upcoming
PR so it wasn't worth doing the work to ensure it worked with the new
annotation layer set up_)
refactoring work, mostly renaming variables we can use for all
annotation based tools that had sign specific names.
remove "tools" tooltip
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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <[email protected]>
Show signature preview on hover
Place signature smaller (mkatch preview size)
Retain signature in modal on close/open
Clean up ui generally
Small bug fixes
Updated embed PDF
Added Autozoom
Added file page size to metadata for use in calculations for autozoom,
will come in handy elsewhere.
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Co-authored-by: James Brunton <[email protected]>
Matheus SaitoandGitHub
Anthony StirlingandGitHub
