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Changelog

Last updated October 30, 2026

New tools, guides, fixes and corrections on PDFToolz, newest first. Each tool and guide page also shows its own review date. Found a mistake? Let us know.

PDF dark mode and Mirror PDF

  • Added PDF Dark Mode, which turns white pages dark in a dark grey, black or sepia theme. Colours keep their hue and the text stays selectable.
  • Added Mirror PDF, which flips pages left to right or top to bottom for transfers and backlit prints, without turning them into images.
  • New icons for PDF Word Counter, PDF to EPUB, PNG to PDF, TXT to PDF, PDF to CSV and Markdown to PDF.

PDF to EPUB, a word counter and new converters

  • Added PDF to EPUB, which turns a text PDF into a reflowable ebook with chapters, a table of contents, images and a cover.
  • Added PDF Word Counter, with word and character counts, reading time and a count for every page.
  • Added PNG to PDF, TXT to PDF and PDF to CSV pages.
  • Text and Markdown to PDF is now Markdown to PDF, at a new address. The old address redirects.

Methodology, changelog and sources

  • Added a methodology page that explains how the tools work and how pages are checked, and this changelog.
  • Tool pages now show when they were last reviewed, with a link to report an error.
  • Split PDF by Size now cites the Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Microsoft help pages behind its email limits, and separates the 25 MB Outlook.com limit from the 20 MB limit in the Outlook desktop app.
  • Corrected the Outlook.com limit to 25 MB in the guide to splitting a PDF for upload limits, and added Microsoft's help pages to its sources.
  • The PDF page sizes guide now cites the PDF specification and NIST.

Resume builder fixes

  • Fixed issues found while reviewing the new resume builder.

Resume builder

  • Added a free resume builder with designer templates, a resume checker and a live PDF preview.

Live previews in every tool

  • Rebuilt every tool around live previews and shared controls.
  • PDF editor: added dashed strokes, fill opacity and text backgrounds.
  • Reviewed the pages for 24 tools, including PDF to JPG, eSign PDF, Watermark PDF, Redact PDF and Scan to PDF.

Preview images

  • Every indexed page now has its own social preview image.
  • Updated the Edit / Annotate PDF page.

27 new tools and 20 new guides

  • Added 27 PDF tools, including Interleave PDF, Split PDF by Size, Word to PDF, PDF to Excel and PDF to Markdown.
  • Published 20 guides, such as how to reduce PDF file size and how to split a PDF for upload limits.
  • Redesigned the home page around the upload area.

PDF editor

  • Added a PDF editor that opens, edits and saves PDFs in your browser.

Tool icons

  • Added illustrated icons for every tool.

Privacy-first redesign

  • Redesigned the site around on-device processing.
  • Improved every tool and added four new ones.
  • Corrected glossary definitions after a fact check.
  • Watermarks now match the preview angle and are centered.
  • HTML to PDF now uses your edited content and the format you chose.

In-depth tool pages

  • Rewrote every tool page with step-by-step instructions, details and FAQ answers.
  • Corrected tool descriptions that overstated what the PDF engines do.
  • Added a guide to filling out PDF forms and linked tools to their related guides.
  • Added a notice for people charged by pdf-toolz.com, a separate company.
  • Listed the open-source PDF engines on the About page.

Launch

  • Launched PDFToolz.