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Sigil is a tabbed editor for the EPUB format commonly used in eBooks. The program includes basic formatting, customizable fonts and styles, hotkeys and spellcheck. You can generate a table of contents, embed files (audio, video, or other), edit/add metadata, rearrange or split pages, add vector (SVG) images and available "clips" for frequently entered text.
As the format is based on simple HTML, the program includes a WYSIWYG-style book vs. code view, the ability to modify cascading style sheets and additional functionality via plugins. The program can even shrink some eBooks by discarding unused media elements.
Cross-platform with clients for Linux, Mac and supports many languages. Sigil Portable is a wrapper version of the program and an outdated X-Sigil is also available.
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Runs on: | Win10 / Win11 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
License: | GNU GPLv3 |
How to extract: |
Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch SigilPortable.exe. Optionally, the user guide is available as a separate download. |
Similar/alternative apps: | KompoZer |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases |
PDF-XChange Editor is a fast, feature-rich PDF viewer and editor with a tabbed interface. The program includes edition of text-based PDFs, OCR of images to fully text-searchable, full document spellchecking, rotate/crop, comments/annotations, QR codes and more. You can apply custom stamps from any image/PDF file/Windows clipboard, mark-up pages with text and objects and add/edit hyperlinks.
The program supports import and export to text or image (BMP/JPEG/TIFF/PNG etc.).
Note: The free PDF-XChange Editor lacks some features present in the registered version (payware). Some "Pro" features can be used, but will add a watermark upon saving.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PDFXEdit.exe. Optionally:
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Similar/alternative apps: |
Foxit Reader, PDF XChange Viewer Xelitan PDF Reader (8MB) |
What's new? | See: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor/history |
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Cornflower
on 2022-04-17 16:26
To fill out forms, simply use the typewriter tool in the freeware portable version.
tomcat
on 2023-10-24 03:07
Alternatively, MS word versions from 2013 and above, can convert PDF into Word format, which you can edit as needed. You can then save the document as a Word file or as a PDF document again.
Stephen Leibowitz
on 2024-01-13 17:02
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Microsoft Defender gives a false positive for PDF-XChange Editor: |
PDFArranger is an editor program to merge, split, rotate, crop, rearrange, duplicate and interleave pages. The program supports drag-and-drop insert of other PDF files, auto-crop whitespace, rotation of individual or any combination of pages, scale size (e.g. tabloid to letter size), and more.
The program can print "restricted" PDFs, split pages, export components of the PDF to separate files, or import standard images into a PDF document.
Cross-platform with clients available for Linux.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GPLv3 |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch pdfarranger.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | PDF XChange Editor, PDFtkbuilder |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger/releases/, |
Latest comments |
Cornflower
on 2023-07-11 08:26
A few operational changes in v1.10.0 I've noticed:
Cornflower
on 2024-01-11 05:11
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This note on the download page: |
ChromeHistoryView reads the history data file of Chromium-based Web browsers and displays the list of all visited Web pages in the last days. For each visited Web page, the following information is displayed: URL, Title, Visit Date/Time, Number of visits, number of times that the user typed this address (Typed Count), Referrer and Visit ID.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ChromeHistoryView.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | BrowsingHistoryView |
What's new? |
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__philippe
on 2017-03-15 12:28
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ChromeHistoryView v1.30 realeased 14-MAR-2017 |
SumatraPDF is a lightweight, tabbed document reader for a variety of formats. Includes a wide variety of views including table of contents, rotation, facing pages, book view (2 pages side-by-side), full screen and presentation mode. Includes support for bookmarks, command-line arguments, hotkeys, and more. Additionally, SumatraPDF can function as a portable browser plugin. Supported formats include PDF, eBooks (EPUB, MOBI, FB2/FB2Z, PDB, TCR), Comic Books (CBZ/CBR/CBT/CB7Z), DJVU, CHM, XPS, TXT, images (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, J2K, WEBP, TGA) and PostScript documents (PS/EPS, AI, PRN - requires Ghostscript).
Alternatively, Sumatra Portable adjusts recently used and most used file paths.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv3 |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SumatraPDF.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | STDU Viewer |
What's new? | See: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Version-history |
Latest comments |
jenss
on 2022-06-03 05:15
sumatra cannot read certain edited pdf documents
jenss
on 2022-06-03 05:19
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older sumatra as 3.4.1 also with read problem |
Xelitan PDF Reader is a small and fast PDF viewer. It lets users export embedded images, extract pages to PDF, remove pages from PDF documents and convert to PNG images.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch XelitanPDF.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | SumatraPDF |
What's new? | Full changelog at https://xelitan.com/help/xelitan-pdf-reader#history. |
Latest comments |
Ennovy
on 2023-06-28 14:57
The changelog is also available at the bottom of this site: http://xelitan.com/help/xelitan-pdf-reader
Tomxe
on 2023-09-09 05:42
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Thanks for updating the listing! |
OutWiker is a personal wiki and outliner with notes stored in a tree view, similar to directories on a disk. Plain text, HTML, and wiki format files are supported with pages capable of being linked to each other. Each tree branch can be opened as a separate wiki. Other features include tag support, global search (notes and tags), bookmarks, HTML syntax highlighting, and icons for notes.
OutWiker can be downloaded with or without plugins
Cross-platform with a client available for Linux.
Category: | |
Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GPL |
How to extract: |
1. Download the ZIP or 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. 2. Create the file outwiker.ini in the program folder. 3. Launch outwiker.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | WikidPad, CherryTree |
What's new? | Full program history at https://jenyay.net/Outwiker/VersionHistoryEn. |
Latest comments |
smaragdus
on 2016-07-22 01:07
@billon
zorro
on 2016-09-29 12:11
Even with outwiker.ini not stealth: creates folder "enchant" in AppData/roaming/
10basetom
on 2022-11-27 17:07
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Having the entire UI refresh upon selecting a new note/wiki was a deal breaker for me. |
Zim is desktop Wiki system that lets you maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Various plugins provide additional functionality, like a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for version control.
Zim can be used to:
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Runs on: | Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: |
Download the installer and run. You will be given the option to install a portable version to a folder of your choice. Also, make sure to deselect ".zim file association" and "Create registry keys and uninstaller" as these are enabled by default. After installation, do not select run. Instead, go to the destination folder and edit environ.ini: [Environment] HOME=./ TEMP=./tmp XDG_CONFIG_HOME=./config XDG_CONFIG_DIRS= XDG_DATA_HOME=./data XDG_DATA_DIRS= XDG_CACHE_HOME=./cache Basically, the default values are relative paths "../" that points to the outer directory and we want to point them to the base directory. Finally, launch zim.exe. |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md. |
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Abyss Web Server is a lightweight web server that supports secure connections, compression and a variety of web technologies. Includes dynamic content generation through CGI/FastCGI scripts, ISAPI extensions, native ASP.NET, reverse proxying, eXtended Side Includes (XSSI), custom error pages and log rotation. Includes remote management tools.
Security features include SSL/TLS, anti-leeching, password protection, bandwidth throttling, IP address controls, anti-hacking features etc.
Clients available for Mac OS X and Linux.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Liteware |
How to extract: |
For x86 systems:
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Similar/alternative apps: | Uniform Server, XAMPP |
What's new? | See: https://aprelium.com/news/ |
Latest comments |
Kapilind
on 2010-07-13 07:50
Works great I have been using it for 2 years with no significant errors or bugs. Works well with ASP, PHP, MYSQL.
Cattleya
on 2014-07-11 02:56
Hi, anyone here know why I cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:9999 (Abyss configuration page) when using Privoxy, is there a workaround ?
webfork
on 2014-07-12 21:10
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Cattleya: have you tried changing the admin port (away from 9999)? Privoxy might be redirecting it for some reason. |
iDailyDiary Free is a program tailored for taking daily notes, creating a journal, putting your thoughts into writing etc. The documents you create are encrypted and require a password to access. The built-in editor supports graphics, hypertext links and links to other diary pages. iDailyDiary is fully searchable so you can track down important dates and reminders. You can also export your diary to HTML web pages.
A "pro" version is available with additional features including spell checker, thesaurus, topics (group related entries), themes support (50+ themes included), tables, etc.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Registry: Last window location and last opened diary. |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Liteware |
How to extract: |
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What's new? | See: https://splinterware.com/info/news.html |
Latest comments |
Mixture
on 2011-12-29 00:32
I have version 3.41 and use it occationally.
Mixture
on 2011-12-29 00:35
@infestedtassadar-x17;
dany
on 2011-12-29 00:49
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@Vavo: with the exception that the files reside encrypted on my HD at home and not unencrypted on an unknown and far away server which you have no control over. |