Folielle

Features

Everything it does, in plain terms.

A tour of what Folielle does today. Folielle is still in development, so details may change before release. The screens are the real app.

Edit text and images

Edit the text that's already there.

Folielle groups each page into words, lines and paragraphs, so you click a paragraph and edit it as a whole. The lines wrap again in the document's own font, and anything below moves down when the paragraph grows.

  • The embedded font is used when it has your letters; otherwise the same family from your PC, then a close match
  • Tables grow: a longer cell stretches its row and moves the rows below
  • Find and Replace across the file; Replace all is one undo step
  • Formatting bar: font, bold, italic, size, colour, alignment and line spacing for the paragraph you're editing
  • Add text anywhere as real page text you can edit again later
  • Spelling underlines while you type (English, Canadian and US)
Folielle in Edit text mode with a paragraph open for editing and the formatting bar above the page.

Pictures

Select a picture to move, resize, rotate, delete or extract it. Replace it with another JPEG or PNG and keep its place on the page, or insert a new one.

Comments and markup

Highlight, underline, strike out, sticky notes, text boxes, pen, rectangles, ellipses, lines and arrows, with a comments list to filter and jump.

Undo that survives

Undo and redo every change. Your work is kept in a recovery copy, so a crash doesn't cost you the edits since your last save.

Pages and documents

Put pages where they belong.

Select pages in the thumbnails and drag, rotate, delete, extract or insert. Drop a PDF from Explorer onto the thumbnails to insert it exactly where the line shows.

  • Combine files, with a bookmark for each file and its own bookmarks nested inside
  • Split by page ranges, by file size or at top-level bookmarks
  • Headers, footers, watermarks and Bates numbers, removable later
  • Bookmarks: add, rename, move, nest and point at the current view
  • Page labels (i, ii, 1, 2, A-1…) that follow pages when they move
  • Reduce file size with before and after sizes; it always writes a new file
  • Document properties: title, author, subject and keywords
A 1,298-page document in Folielle shown as a two-page spread, with page thumbnails down the left side.

Forms

Fill them, build them, hand them on.

Every common field type, filled the way you expect, and saved so that other PDF readers show what you typed.

  • Text, check boxes, radio buttons, drop-downs and lists
  • Date, number, percent, phone and postcode formats, without running scripts
  • Create, rename, move, resize and delete fields; set tab order
  • Import and export form data (XFDF, FDF, JSON); reset; flatten

The forms page

A fillable form in Folielle's Forms mode, with its fields highlighted.

Sign and verify

Signatures you can trust, and check.

Sign with a certificate from your Windows certificate store, a smart card or token, or a .pfx file. Folielle adds the signature as an update, so the signed bytes stay exactly as they were.

  • Visible or invisible signatures, with an optional trusted timestamp
  • Verification of every signature: intact, trusted, expired, revoked or changed after signing
  • Checks offline by default; Refresh checks revocation online when you ask
  • A warning before your first edit of a signed file
  • Fill and sign with a drawn or typed signature (clearly marked as not a digital signature)
The Signatures panel in Folielle: a demo signature by Alex Morgan, intact and from a trusted signer, with revocation not yet checked.

Redact and sanitize

Gone means gone.

Mark text, an area or every match of a word, review the marks, then apply. Folielle removes what lies underneath and writes a new file.

  • True redaction: the text, image pixels and drawings under each mark are removed, not covered
  • The new file is rewritten as a single version, so no older copy of the text hides inside it
  • Before the file is saved, Folielle searches it again; if anything marked is still there, nothing is saved
  • Remove hidden information: metadata, hidden layers, hidden text, scripts, attachments, thumbnails and more, with a preview of what was found
  • Password-protected files stay protected after redaction or cleaning

OCR

Scans you can search.

Recognize text on scanned pages and Folielle places an invisible text layer behind the image. The page looks the same, and you can search, select and copy.

  • Straightens tilted scans and cleans up noise before reading
  • English and French included; more languages to download when you need them
  • Pages that already have text are skipped unless you ask
  • Runs in the background with progress, and can be stopped at any time

Compare

See what changed between versions.

Pick two files, or two open tabs with their unsaved edits, and Folielle lines up the pages, even when pages were added or removed.

  • Inserted, deleted, replaced and moved text, outlined on both pages
  • Visual differences found by comparing the rendered pages
  • Side-by-side pages that scroll together, a change list and an overlay view
  • Save a report as HTML

Convert to Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Out of PDF, and back in.

Export when you need to work in another app, and turn images and Office files into PDFs.

  • Word: paragraphs, tables with merged cells, lists, columns, footnotes, headers and footers, pictures and drawings
  • Excel: tables with numbers, dates and currency as real values
  • PowerPoint: one slide per page with text boxes, pictures and shapes
  • Also HTML, Markdown, plain text, and PNG, JPEG or TIFF images
  • Create a PDF from images, Office files (with Word, Excel and PowerPoint or LibreOffice installed) or several files at once
  • Office files downloaded from the internet ask before they're converted

Accessibility and PDF/A

Ready for screen readers and archives.

The Accessibility Check lists what passes and what needs work, with links to the page. Most fixes are one click and can be undone.

  • Checks tags, language, title, alternate text, reading order, form field tooltips and table headers
  • Set the language and title, write alt text, and add tags to simple untagged documents
  • PDF/A check for 1b, 2b and 3b
  • Save as PDF/A-2b: the copy claims PDF/A only when the re-check finds nothing left to fix

Printing

What you see is what prints.

A print dialog with a preview on your printer's real paper size and margins.

  • Page ranges, odd or even pages, reverse order, copies and collate
  • Fit, shrink, actual size or a custom scale, with automatic rotation
  • Two-sided and colour printing where your printer offers them
  • Comments and markup on or off; form values always print
  • The standard Windows print dialog for every driver setting

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