What’s New
Every AEShot PDF release, newest first.
Version 1.0.2
Released 24 October 2026
- Check for Updates… is in the app menu, under About AEShot PDF.
Version 1.0.1
Released 23 October 2026
- Updates install themselves: click Update, and AEShot PDF downloads the new version, checks it and opens again, with nothing to drag to Applications.
Earlier releases
Version 1.0Released 23 October 2026The first release of AEShot PDF.
- Edit Text changes the text in your PDFs: click a paragraph and type, and it keeps its font, size, color and alignment.
- Sign with a drawn, typed or photographed signature, or with a certificate that PDF readers verify, with a trusted timestamp.
- Reorder, rotate, delete, insert and extract pages, and combine PDFs and pictures into one document.
- Highlight, underline and strike through text, draw, add shapes, arrows, text and notes, and fill in forms.
- Recognize Text makes scanned pages searchable, recognized on your computer.
- Create PDFs from pictures, screenshots and the clipboard, or start with a blank page.
- Write a Review in the app and tell others what you think of AEShot PDF.
- Settings show this installation's ID with Copy, and Write a Review on aeshot.com opens the review page with it filled in.
- In English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Version 1.0.2
Released 24 October 2026
- Menus that open from an icon button, such as Sign, show their commands again.
- An update installs with one click on Update, and the app opens again.
- Check for Updates… is in the Help menu and Check Now in Settings › General; both say what they found.
Version 1.0.1
Released 23 October 2026
- Updates download and install themselves.
- Help › Check for Updates looks for a new version at any time.
- Documents with unsaved changes are no longer closed without asking when the system signs out or an installer closes AEShot PDF.
Earlier releases
Version 1.0Released 23 October 2026The first release of AEShot PDF.
- Edit Text changes the text in your PDFs: click a paragraph and type, and it keeps its font, size, color and alignment.
- Sign with a drawn, typed or photographed signature, or with a certificate that PDF readers verify, with a trusted timestamp.
- Reorder, rotate, delete, insert and extract pages, and combine PDFs and pictures into one document.
- Highlight, underline and strike through text, draw, add shapes, arrows, text and notes, and fill in forms.
- Recognize Text makes scanned pages searchable, recognized on your computer.
- Create PDFs from pictures, screenshots and the clipboard, or start with a blank page.
- Write a Review in the app and tell others what you think of AEShot PDF.
- Settings show this installation's ID with Copy, and Write a Review on aeshot.com opens the review page with it filled in.
- In English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Version 1.0.2
Released 24 October 2026
- The app's icon follows the system's light or dark appearance, on windows and, with KDE's Breeze Dark icons, in the application menu.
- Japanese, Chinese and Korean text appears in a clean sans-serif font.
- Tooltips, window titles and buttons no longer show menu shortcut letters such as “(_L)”.
- Check for Updates… is in the menu and in Settings.
Version 1.0.1
Released 23 October 2026
- Updates install themselves: once a day AEShot PDF checks aeshot.com for a new version, shows what is new and installs it with your system's package manager after checking its signature. You can turn the check off in Settings.
Earlier releases
Version 1.0Released 23 October 2026The first release of AEShot PDF.
- Edit Text changes the text in your PDFs: click a paragraph and type, and it keeps its font, size, color and alignment.
- Sign with a drawn, typed or photographed signature, or with a certificate that PDF readers verify, with a trusted timestamp.
- Reorder, rotate, delete, insert and extract pages, and combine PDFs and pictures into one document.
- Highlight, underline and strike through text, draw, add shapes, arrows, text and notes, and fill in forms.
- Recognize Text makes scanned pages searchable, recognized on your computer.
- Create PDFs from pictures, screenshots and the clipboard, or start with a blank page.
- Write a Review in the app and tell others what you think of AEShot PDF.
- Settings show this installation's ID with Copy, and Write a Review on aeshot.com opens the review page with it filled in.
- In English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.