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Qué cambió en cada versión de files.co: herramientas nuevas, idiomas nuevos y correcciones.

Estas notas salen directamente del desarrollo, así que solo se publican en inglés.

  1. Appsv0.25.0

    Files.co PDF Suite 1.5.0 is out on both stores

    • Ten new tools in the desktop app, all free: remove active content, remove annotations, resize pages, pages per sheet, overlay, flatten, split by size, attachments, visual signature and image conversion. It goes from 16 tools to 26.
    • Pro adds signing with the certificate already installed on your system (PAdES-B) — the private key never leaves your machine. Timestamping is not there yet, and the app says so.
    • Presets can now be sequences of up to eight steps, and batch processing covers 11 tools instead of 5.
  2. New toolv0.24.0

    New tool: scan to PDF

    • Photograph a document with your phone and get a proper PDF. It opens your normal camera app, which focuses and meters light far better than a video embedded in a web page.
    • Each photo is treated before assembly: grayscale, then the histogram of that particular image is stretched so the grey of the paper turns white and the ink settles into black. Grayscale, pure black & white and colour are all available.
    • Nothing is uploaded, and no app to install. The document you scan is usually exactly the kind you would rather not hand to a stranger.
  3. New toolv0.23.0

    New tool: redact a PDF

    • Drag over what should not be read and it is removed, not covered. A black rectangle drawn on top erases nothing — the text stays in the file and comes back with a copy and paste.
    • Marked pages are rebuilt as an image so nothing survives underneath, which means they lose selectable text and get heavier. Pages you do not mark are copied untouched. The tool says so before you process, not after.
    • The metadata of the result is cleared too: an author field or a subject line can repeat exactly what you just covered.
  4. New toolv0.22.0

    New tool: PDF metadata viewer

    • Every PDF records who made it, with which software and when — and carries it wherever the file goes. The new tool shows all of it and hands you a copy with the keys deleted, not blanked.
    • It also flags embedded JavaScript and actions that run when a file opens, which is what turns a document into an attack vector.
    • Like everything else here, the analysis runs in your browser. Uploading a document to find out what it reveals about you rather defeats the point.
  5. Improvedv0.21.0

    A public changelog, and an honest tool count

    • This page. It lists what changed in each release, newest first.
    • The site said "20 tools" while there were 21 — the image converter had been left out of the count since July, including in the comparison tables. Fixed everywhere, in all 28 languages.
    • Recently released tools now carry a "New" badge for their first 60 days.
  6. Fixedv0.20.2

    Convert to PDF/A works again

    • The PDF/A converter had been failing since June with an "unexpected error". Our own security headers were blocking the colour profile that the ISO 19005-2 standard requires, and the failure only ever showed up on the live site — never in testing.
    • Every tool is now tested against the live site, with the same security headers, so a break like this surfaces before you find it.
  7. Under the hoodv0.20.1

    Faster pages

    • Rebuilt on a newer version of our site framework. Pages are assembled about 40% faster, which shows up as quicker deploys of new content.
    • Every known security advisory in our dependencies is now cleared.
  8. Under the hoodv0.20.0

    New PDF and OCR engines

    • PDF rendering moves to PDF.js 6 and text recognition to Tesseract 7 — both are what actually read your files in the browser.
    • Ten unused libraries removed from the site. Less code to download, less to go wrong.
  9. Appsv0.19.2

    Files.co PDF Suite for Mac is out

    • The desktop app is live on the Mac App Store, alongside the Windows version. Same tools, running natively, still without uploading anything.
  10. Appsv0.18.2

    Files.co PDF Suite for Windows is out

    • The desktop app is live on the Microsoft Store.
  11. New toolv0.18.0

    New tool: convert images

    • Convert between JPG, PNG and WebP, with SVG accepted as input. Like everything else here, it runs in your browser — the images never leave your device.
  12. Fixedv0.17.5

    Accessibility pass

    • Better contrast for secondary text in dark mode.
    • Links inside paragraphs are underlined again, so they do not rely on colour alone.
    • Back to a perfect accessibility score in automated audits.
  13. Appsv0.17.0

    A page for the desktop app

    • Files.co PDF Suite got its own page, with real screenshots and what each plan includes.
  14. Improvedv0.16.0

    Sharing and link previews

    • Blog posts gained share buttons, including a shortcut to summarise a post with an AI assistant.
    • Links to the site now show a proper preview card when shared.
  15. Languagesv0.14.0

    Blog and glossary in every language

    • The blog and the PDF glossary are now published in all the languages the site supports, with localised URLs.
  16. Fixedv0.13.1

    A correction about encryption

    • The Protect tool encrypts with AES-128, not AES-256 as the page previously said. The tool did not change; the claim was wrong and is now accurate.