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No Bloat PDF, published by Brian Galvan, is a free PDF viewer for Windows designed around a single purpose: opening documents instantly while remaining tiny, fast, and private. The current release is version 1.5.0, one of five versions made available for the software. The application is distributed as a 4.6 MB installer and delivers a feature set suited to everyday document work, including tabs for viewing multiple documents, full text search, thumbnails and bookmarks, dark mode, high resolution printing, and support for highlighting and annotations, all rendered by Mozilla's pdf.js engine within a lightweight native shell. Beyond viewing, it covers common PDF editing and management use cases: pages can be deleted, reordered, copied, and exported from the Pages panel and saved back into the PDF; a Combine Files function accepts PDFs and images in PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, and WebP formats, allows users to drag them into the desired order, and writes a single new PDF entirely offline. Signatures can be typed, drawn, or uploaded, with up to five saved for reuse, supporting document signing workflows without external services. A Sanitize Document feature addresses privacy-sensitive use cases by rebuilding a file from scratch so that the author name, metadata, scripts, and prior revisions are genuinely removed rather than merely hidden. The software is positioned squarely within the PDF viewer and document tools category, with an emphasis on privacy as a defining characteristic: it makes zero network calls and contains no ads, no telemetry, no accounts, no cloud integration, and no upsells. Its combination of a minimal footprint, offline operation, and a focused set of viewing, editing, combining, signing, and sanitizing capabilities makes it suitable for users who need a dependable document viewer and lightweight PDF utility without the overhead of larger suites.
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