The registration hook only renders into the retractable tool row, so moving the library's controls there gave it a second bar rather than putting them in the one that was already on screen. A "bar" section renders in the bar's own row instead, inside the container the shared global controls use - so these take the same icon treatment and are measured by the same reflow. That surfaced a worse bug. Deriving the view from the path was keyed on a ref, so a HomePage remount - a Suspense boundary resolving, a login bounce - read the unchanged path as a fresh arrival and re-imposed the library over a view the user had just chosen. Reading mode looked engaged with the file manager still on screen: the bug the last commit set out to fix, through a door its own comment warned about. Keyed on the path value at module scope now, which a remount does not reset and a page load does. The spec that caught it failed only under parallel load; it now waits for the library to be on screen rather than for its path, which is a render ahead.
Stirling PDF - The Open-Source PDF Platform
Stirling PDF is a powerful, open-source PDF editing platform. Run it as a personal desktop app, in the browser, or deploy it on your own servers with a private API. Edit, sign, redact, convert, and automate PDFs without sending documents to external services.
Key Capabilities
- Everywhere you work - Desktop client, browser UI, and self-hosted server with a private API.
- 50+ PDF tools - Edit, merge, split, sign, redact, convert, OCR, compress, and more.
- Automation & workflows - No-code pipelines direct in UI with APIs to process millions of PDFs.
- Enterprise‑grade - SSO, auditing, and flexible on‑prem deployments.
- Developer platform - REST APIs available for nearly all tools to integrate into your existing systems.
- Global UI - Interface available in 40+ languages.
For a full feature list, see the docs: https://docs.stirlingpdf.com
Quick Start
docker run -p 8080:8080 docker.stirlingpdf.com/stirlingtools/stirling-pdf
Then open: http://localhost:8080
For full installation options (including desktop and Kubernetes), see our Documentation Guide.
Resources
Support
- Community: Discord
- Bug Reports: GitHub Issues
Contributing
We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.
This project uses Task as a unified command runner for all build, dev, and test commands. Run task dev to get started running the editor, run task to see the most common commands, or see the Developer Guide for full details.
For adding translations, see the Translation Guide.
License
Stirling PDF is open-core. See LICENSE for details.

