New UI Sneak peak and review

[froodle]

HI all,
Im frooodle the creator of Stirling-PDF
We are currently redesigning the UI for Stirling-PDF and wanted to get any thoughts and recommendations on the UI change.
We currently have a docker image frooodle/s-pdf:testNewDesign
But also just a test website up here for people to try
http://stirlingpdf.io:8088/ (or http://185.252.234.121:8088/ if Domain doesnt work)

Please let me know what you think, there is a new on hover Tools navbar and cleaner headers and logos on each page with other tweeks to general interface

[necrevistonnezr]

Thanks for posting here!

And the new interface looks better! The new icons and colours help to get a better overview.
I do think, however, some categorization of the tools could help a lot in finding all those helpful features?
Maybe „borrow“ from Acrobat?

[froodle]

@necrevistonnezr I dislike our grouping but I think that one doesnt make full sense either... I am not sure what the perfect order of things is at the moment.
At least we have a favouriting system and searchbar to help

(Although i do think our homepage needs some grouping now that each function is coloured)

[Dennis4720 0]

I like the new UI. (=

[marcusquinn]

@froodle Nice work!

Personally, I'l prefer a toggle for a List View, if not too much to ask.

think the icons would benefit from a rounded box around them, to make them more like app icon buttons.

Lastly, not sure if it works from the UI, but drag & drop for uploading files to process would be super cool

[nebulon]

At least here the links to the new design demo shows quite something else at least at the moment. So it went through a few redesigns?

Personally I prefer the screenshot @necrevistonnezr had posted initially, much less noisy.

[necrevistonnezr]

@nebulon That was a screenshot from Acrobat ....

[nebulon]

oh wow thanks for the clarification!

[lancer]

good to testing

[froodle]

@marcusquinn toggle for list view is a good idea, ill add to todo list, this new UI update just released by the way

[froodle]

Live once cloudron updates*

[froodle]

Be thankful its not the v0.1.0 design from like 2 years ago

[marcusquinn]

@froodle Great stuff! Any plans to get into the whole AI "Chat with your PDFs?

[necrevistonnezr]

@froodle said in New UI Sneak peak and review:

@necrevistonnezr I dislike our grouping but I think that one doesnt make full sense either... I am not sure what the perfect order of things is at the moment.

How about the following categories:

Multi-Tools

• PDF Multi Tool
• Pipeline

Edit Layout

• Organize
• Remove
• Merge
• Multi-Page Layout
• Split
• Split PDF by Sections
• Auto Split Pages
• Auto Split by Size/Count
• Extract page(s)
• Rotate
• Crop PDF
• Adjust page size/scale
• Single Large Page
• Remove Blank pages
• Overlay PDFs

Edit Content

• Add image
• Add Page Numbers
• Add Watermark
• Add Stamp to PDF
• Change Metadata
• Remove Annotations
• Flatten

OCR / Scan

• OCR / Cleanup scans
• Detect/Split Scanned photos
• Adjust Colors/Contrast

Convert

• Convert file to PDF
• Image to PDF
• HTML to PDF
• Markdown to PDF
• URL/Website To PDF
• PDF to Image
• PDF to HTML
• PDF to Word
• PDF to Presentation
• PDF to CSV
• PDF to RTF (Text)
• PDF to PDF/A
• PDF to XML
• Compress
• Extract Images

Protection & Security

• Add Password
• Remove Password
• Change Permissions
• Auto Redact
• Sanitize
• Show Javascript

Sign

• Sign
• Sign with Certificate

Other

• View PDF
• Repair
• Compare
• Auto Rename PDF File
• Get ALL Info on PDF

[osobo]

Dear Cloudron @staff,
Stirling PDF with new GUI worked fine for me up to version 2.11.0
But with today's update to version 2.11.1 all the icons are gone...
Did I missed something ?
Thank you for your support

[necrevistonnezr]

@osobo said in New UI Sneak peak and review:

Dear Cloudron @staff,
Stirling PDF with new GUI was working fine for me up to version 2.11.0
But with today's update to version 2.11.1 all the icons are gone...
Did I missed something ?
Thank you for your support

Works fine for me here in Edge / Brave. Maybe a browser cache issue? A privacy / adblock extension?

[osobo]

@necrevistonnezr Thanks for your feedback. You're right ! I've cleared the cache and ... voila

[necrevistonnezr]

Ah, I see that under "Tools" there's already some categorization? Or is that new?

[froodle]

@necrevistonnezr no it's been that way ever since the demo etc I showed earlier

[froodle]

In original post I mentioned
"Please let me know what you think, there is a new on hover Tools navbar" refering to this