Changelog

Version 1.0

Added

• Complex-script (Urdu/Persian/Pashto/Arabic) text — proper Nastaliq shaping with a per-frame language profile and a built-in Urdu keyboard (standard, phonetic Roman→Urdu, or system), with in-place editing and an accurate caret.
• Kashida (kasheeda) justification — justified Urdu/Arabic lines elongate the script’s connecting strokes (tatweel) instead of opening word gaps, on fonts with a real tatweel glyph.
• New-document template gallery — Paper (A-series + US), Social Media, Print and Custom, each with an aspect-accurate preview and a Landscape toggle.
• Multi-page documents & a Pages strip — add / duplicate / delete / reorder / navigate pages, with per-page size, orientation, margins, columns and baseline guides, plus one-click page numbering across all pages.
• Master pages — design repeating headers/footers/page-numbers/borders once and apply any master to the pages you choose, with master chips in the pages strip and an applied-master badge on each thumbnail.
• Layers — text, complex-script text, shapes and images, with a Layers panel (lock, show/hide, drag-to-reorder) and full z-order control.
• Direct manipulation — drag to move, rotation-aware resize handles, an on-canvas rotate handle (Shift snaps to 15°), marquee and multi-select, smart guides & snapping, grid, rulers (px/mm/cm/in), and align & distribute.
• Composable text effects — stackable outline / glow / shadow / inner-shadow / bevel / fill (solid, gradient, chrome) on English and Urdu frames, with a live preset gallery and save-your-own presets.
• Per-layer opacity — an opacity slider on every layer, applied on canvas and in all exports, and remembered with the document.
• Importing — import text into a frame, autoflow long text across as many pages as it needs (threading it through page copies that keep their border/graphics), and import SVG as editable vector shapes.
• Find & Replace across all text frames — Urdu and English, with an in-app Urdu keyboard toggle to find embedded English; matches highlight in their frames.
• Save / Open — a self-contained .pubdesk file (images embedded), with coalesced undo/redo, autosave and crash recovery.
• Export & print — PNG and vector PDF (Urdu preserved as crisp outlines), SVG and print-ready PDF with bleed + crop marks, a Preflight check, and printing of the current page or a range.
• Bring-your-own fonts — a curated set of free Nastaliq/Arabic fonts plus any .ttf/.otf you drop into the user fonts folder (opened from Help), auto-categorised by the scripts they support.
• Properties UX — every numeric field is a unit-aware spinner (steppers, mouse-wheel, arrow nudge, Enter commits), grouped into collapsible, remembered property cards.
• Quality of life — keyboard shortcuts, recent files, per-document zoom, remembered window placement, and an About window showing the version and an auto-incrementing build number.

Free & Pro

• Freemium model — the whole designer is free, with PNG/PDF export carrying a small watermark.
• A one-time Pro upgrade removes the watermark and unlocks PDF for Print (bleed + crop marks), SVG export and Preflight. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

Changed

• A custom icon toolbar with hover states and tooltips, plus matching menu icons, and a contextual format bar that adapts to the selected English or Urdu frame.
• Dark theme softened to a neutral medium-grey (no blue cast); Light remains the default.
• The bundled font set is now redistributable-only (Noto Nastaliq Urdu, Gulzar, Amiri, Scheherazade New, Noto Naskh Arabic, Lateef, Markazi Text, Estedad, Vazirmatn); add your own for anything else.

Fixed

• Autoflow no longer renders blank pages — text now flows correctly onto page 2 and beyond, and any threaded multi-frame layout fills as expected.
• SVG import no longer shows a giant black box — definition/metadata elements are skipped on import.
• Find & Replace no longer crashes on open; the top-bar font/size now apply to a selected English frame; locked layers are fully locked; and page thumbnails number pages 2+ correctly.

Version 0.1.0

Initial Foundation

• A runnable tabbed multi-document editor — each document its own page; open and close documents as tabs.
• Image, text and shape layers from a common base, with direct manipulation on the canvas: drag to move, eight resize handles, click to select, and double-click a text frame to type in place.
• Z-order controls (To Front / Forward / Backward / To Back), a Layers panel, and a Properties panel with per-type editors and a rotation control.