Supported Mac architectures: Apple Silicon and Intel, subject to the local Swift/Xcode toolchain used to build.
## Features
- Open local `.pdf` files from disk.
- Read with smooth PDFKit scrolling, Retina rendering, zoom, fit-to-width, fit-to-page, and page navigation.
- Search selectable text PDFs from a compact toolbar control.
- Start in a focused single-pane reading layout, with thumbnail and comments sidebars hidden until requested.
- Remember thumbnail and comments sidebar visibility per PDF and coarse window size.
- Toggle a compact page thumbnail/sidebar inspector.
- Create selection-bound comments from highlighted PDF text.
- Create highlight annotations with anchored optional comments.
- Create underline annotations with optional comments.
- Create free-text annotations directly on the page.
- Click annotations in the PDF to reopen and edit the comment in place.
- Save annotations directly into the original PDF after an overwrite warning.
- Save As a new annotated copy.
- Share the annotated PDF through the native macOS share picker.
- Review annotations in a compact list with page number, type, author, date, and first comment line.
- Use an Acrobat-style comments sidebar with total count, page grouping, collapsible groups, an add-comment affordance, comment search, collapsed type/author/status filters, full text, replies, edit/delete, and click-to-navigate.
Release app builds default to a universal `arm64` + `x86_64` executable. To build only the current architecture during development, run:
```sh
ARCHS="" scripts/build-app.sh
```
Create a downloadable `.dmg`:
```sh
scripts/make-dmg.sh
```
The packaged app is written to `dist/I Hate PDFs.app`; the disk image is written to `dist/IHatePDFs.dmg`.
## Installation
Download `IHatePDFs.dmg`, open it, and move `I Hate PDFs.app` into `/Applications`. For local development builds that are not notarized, macOS may require opening the app from Finder with Control-click, Open the first time.
## Development
The project is a Swift Package with two targets:
-`IHatePDFsCore`: PDF annotation models and factory helpers.
The PDF verification scripts generate and inspect standard highlight, underline, selected-text comment, reply, free-text, and popup annotation dictionaries.
Manual release QA for Preview, Acrobat Reader, and browser PDF viewers is documented in `docs/QA.md`. The macOS design review is documented in `docs/DESIGN_REVIEW.md`.
