release-notes.txt

p2i v1.1.0 Release Notes
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## What's New

### New Image Tools
- **Image Format Conversion** — Convert between PNG, JPG, BMP, WEBP, TIFF, GIF, ICO with quality controls
- **Image Resize** — Scale by percentage, exact dimensions, or max dimension with aspect ratio lock and resampling options (LANCZOS, BICUBIC, BILINEAR, NEAREST)
- **Image Watermark** — Add text or image watermarks with opacity, position, rotation, and tile mode
- **Image Metadata** — View EXIF data, copy to clipboard, strip metadata from single or batch images

### PDF Compression Overhaul
- Compression presets: Low, Medium, High, Custom
- Custom preset unlocks DPI (36-600) and quality (10-100) sliders
- New options: remove metadata, remove bookmarks, linearize (fast web view), subset fonts
- Compression methods: Auto, Ghostscript, Image-based, Direct (PyPDF2)
- Before/after file size comparison with reduction percentage display

### Ghostscript Integration
- Auto-detects Ghostscript installation (PATH + common install locations)
- Status banner on Compress PDF tab (green = found, amber = not found with download link)
- Ghostscript status shown in status bar and Preferences > Dependencies tab
- Help > Ghostscript Setup guide with installation instructions

### UI Improvements
- Tabs reorganized into PDF tools (left) and Image tools (right) with visual separator
- All dialog windows (Preferences, Help, About, operation choosers) now display the p2i icon
- New "Support" menu in the menu bar with direct links to donation platforms
- New "View" menu with PDF Tools / Image Tools submenus for quick tab navigation
- Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+O (Open PDF), Ctrl+I (Open Image), Ctrl+, (Preferences), Ctrl+Q (Exit), F1 (Help)
- Contribute dialog tabs now have scrollbars
- Enhanced About dialog with version, credits, GitHub/Issues/Support links
- Window opens maximized on startup

### Installer
- Inno Setup installer (.iss) with desktop/Start Menu shortcuts
- MIT License shown as acceptance page during installation
- Custom post-install page with clickable support/donation buttons
- Ghostscript recommendation included in installer

### Other Changes
- Version centralized in version.py — all locations (status bar, about, check updates, contribute dialog, setup.py) pull from one source
- Nuitka compatibility: application_path detection for __compiled__ executables
- Drag-and-drop fixed: root window created via TkinterDnD.Tk() for proper tkdnd loading
- Updated requirements.txt (removed unused pdf2image and tqdm dependencies)
- Updated README.md, DISTRIBUTION.md, and docs/index.md with all new features
- .gitignore updated for Nuitka artifacts, Inno Setup output, and Claude Code files

## Requirements
- Python 3.9+
- Pillow >= 9.0.0
- pypdfium2 >= 3.3.0
- PyPDF2 >= 2.0.0
- reportlab >= 3.6.0
- tkinterdnd2 >= 0.3.0
- Optional: Ghostscript for optimal PDF compression

## Install
Download the installer from the Releases page, or run from source:
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  python main.py