[regendorf-ux]

What does it change?

The Finder half of #2541 (#585): "Combine files in PdfCraft" under Finder's right-click ▸ Quick Actions on macOS. Select PDFs or pictures, choose it, and Combine files opens with them listed in order, in the running PdfCraft or a new one. Nothing is combined until Combine is pressed, as on Windows and Linux.

This branch is stacked on #2541 (pr/combine-right-click): the diff shows both until that one merges. Its own change is one new file, apps/pdfcraft/src/finder_combine.rs (409 lines, 4 tests), and three lines in main.rs and apple_events.rs.

Why a Quick Action, and not the other ways

Finder does not start an app with the files as arguments, so the --combine route of Explorer and the Linux desktop action does not exist here. The ways that do:

• A Services provider (NSServices in the app's Info.plist + an Objective-C method). The proper one, but the provider is an Objective-C class with a selector that Finder calls, which means objc2 and unsafe; this workspace forbids unsafe, and fmv_macos_events (what the app already uses for Apple events) delivers only Open and Quit. Ruled out by the workspace's rule, not by taste.
• A Finder Sync extension or an app extension (Action extension). Needs a separate signed extension target and a developer-signed bundle to be loaded; this app ships ad-hoc signed, so it would load for nobody.
• AppleScript / osascript from a Services menu item. Still needs a Services provider, or a Quick Action.
• A Quick Action (Automator workflow in ~/Library/Services). What macOS offers for exactly this: Finder lists .workflow services from that folder, no signing, no extension, no unsafe. Its one "Run Shell Script" step receives the selected paths as arguments, writes them one a line to files.pdfcraft-combine in a fresh pdfcraft-combine.* folder in the user's temporary folder, and runs open -b ai.storyteller.pdfcraft on that file. The open arrives as an ordinary Apple event (so the running app, or a fresh launch, gets it the same way as a double-clicked PDF), and finder_combine::from_open turns an opened list into the same OsEvent::Combine a --combine launch makes.

What makes the Quick Action acceptable rather than a hack:

• Installed by the app and kept current; the person turns it on once. On a windowed start on macOS finder_combine::install writes the workflow's two files when they are missing or differ (a new version rewrites them). macOS lists a new Quick Action only after it is ticked under Quick Actions ▸ Customize, and the app no longer tries to tick it (see the update below), so on macOS the Combine files tab's empty state says where it is. Failures are logged; the app works without it.
• The list is trusted only where the Quick Action writes it. The file must be named exactly files.pdfcraft-combine, sit in a pdfcraft-combine.* folder directly inside the temporary folder (canonical paths compared), be a real file in a real folder (neither may be a link, checked with symlink_metadata), and be at most a megabyte; it is removed once read, folder and all. Any other file, anywhere else, opens as a document exactly as before. An empty, oversized or unreadable list combines nothing and opens nothing.
• Nothing outside the user's own account. ~/Library/Services and $TMPDIR only; no admin, no system folders, nothing in the bundle changes.

How was it verified?

macOS (Apple silicon), on this branch at the merge with main 5fdd820 (#2541's base):

• cargo check -p pdfcraft --all-targets, cargo clippy -p pdfcraft --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo xtask parity: all clean.
• Tests, 13 passed: the four of finder_combine (a list in the temporary folder names the files and is removed, and any other file is left alone; opened lists become one Combine beside ordinary opens; the "shown" setting is one defaults writes, in Automator's form, against a scratch file; the two workflow files pass plutil -lint and the shell step, run with zsh as Automator does, writes a list from_open reads), plus feat(desktop): "Combine files in PdfCraft" from the file manager (#585) #2541's single-instance and Combine tests.
• By hand, in HTE's fork build of this same module (released there as 0.8.0-hte.3): PDFs and pictures selected in Finder, right-click ▸ Quick Actions ▸ Combine files, with the app closed and with it running, list in order. amoisttowe1's review below measured this branch on macOS 26.6 end to end.

Ubuntu and Windows CI build the module too (allow(dead_code) off macOS) and run its two platform-independent tests.

What should a reviewer look at first?

• finder_combine::listed: the only place that trusts a file as a list; the three conditions are the security argument.
• install writes only inside its own ….workflow folder now; nothing else in the user's defaults is touched.
• The Quick Action's document.wflow is Automator's own format, written out by hand (the UUIDs are fixed; Automator accepts them). If you'd rather ship a .workflow as a packaged asset instead of writing it from code, say so; writing it keeps it in step with the bundle id.

Never-crash

• No new unwrap/expect/panic! outside tests
• Bounds checked (the list's size), no unsafe

Provenance

• No asset added; the plist shapes follow Automator's own output

Security

• The list is accepted only at the exact place the Quick Action writes it (see above); everything else opens as a document as before.

Parity and reach

• parity/acrobat-features.toml: core.open-files and organize.combine-files notes name the Finder entry; ROADMAP has its line

Update after review (amoisttowe1, macOS 26.6)

• Visibility: the first-install defaults write pbs NSServicesStatus -dict-add … stored the presentation modes as strings, which Finder reads as off, so the Quick Action stayed hidden on a fresh install; the old test passed because defaults read prints a string and a boolean alike. Writing booleans there means rewriting the whole services record, so that code is removed, and on macOS the Combine files tab's empty state now reads: "From Finder: select files, then right-click ▸ Quick Actions ▸ Combine files in PdfCraft. Not listed? Turn it on once under Quick Actions ▸ Customize." (one new label, in all 22 catalogs; ATTRIBUTION.toml hashes refreshed).
• Links: a linked pdfcraft-combine.* folder or a linked list is no longer accepted.
• File types: offered for exactly what Combine files reads (PDF and Create's CONVERTIBLE list, as UTIs), not public.image, so HEIC no longer offers it and text files now do; a test keeps the two in step.
• Tests added (each fails on the previous head where it applies): oversized list and a folder in the list's place combine nothing; linked folder and linked list are refused and their targets untouched; install_in writes once, rewrites on a change, leaves the same version alone; the offered types equal what Combine reads.
• Parity: organize.combine-files notes say how the entry is turned on and cite this module's tests, which run on macOS (cargo test -p pdfcraft).
• Merged feat(desktop): "Combine files in PdfCraft" from the file manager (#585) #2541's wording fix (864037f).
• Checked on macOS (Apple silicon): fmt, clippy -p pdfcraft -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --all-targets -D warnings, 179 tests (Finder, Combine, single-instance, i18n), cargo xtask assets and parity: all clean.
• Not changed: nothing removes the workflow when the app is deleted (macOS gives an app no uninstall hook); with the app gone the step's open -b fails and nothing happens. A list over the size cap combines nothing, as documented.
• Merged with main 924c4da (2026-10-17): only the Spanish and Vietnamese catalogs' new rows sat beside this branch's (and ATTRIBUTION.toml's hashes); both sides kept, hashes recomputed. Re-checked: cargo xtask assets ok, i18n::tests and the Finder tests 122/122.
• Merged with main bc7a12b (2026-10-17): only the translation catalogs' new rows and ATTRIBUTION.toml's hashes met this branch (both sides kept, hashes recomputed). Re-checked on macOS: cargo check --workspace --all-targets, cargo xtask assets, i18n::tests 115/115.
• Merged with main 3f5a784 (2026-10-17): tests and docs both sides added kept (upstream's first), translation rows and ATTRIBUTION.toml's hashes by key. Re-checked on macOS: cargo check --workspace --all-targets, cargo xtask assets, i18n::tests 115/115.
• Merged with main dab3149: only the translation catalogs (and their ATTRIBUTION hashes) met this branch; both sides' rows kept, hashes recomputed, catalogs checked for duplicate keys and placeholders.
• Merged with main ec0a965: only the translation catalogs (and their ATTRIBUTION hashes) met this branch; both sides' rows kept, hashes recomputed, catalogs checked for duplicate keys and placeholders.
• CodeRabbit fixes (2026-10-21): file names containing a newline stay one path, and every unreadable file is named in one notice. Each has a test in its own file that fails without the fix.
• Merged with main 6dec57b (2026-10-21): only the translation-catalog hashes in ATTRIBUTION.toml met this branch.
• Merged with main 6898094 (2026-10-21): only the translation-catalog hashes in ATTRIBUTION.toml met this branch.
• Merged with main dbc7130 (2026-10-21): only the translation-catalog hashes in ATTRIBUTION.toml met this branch.
• Merged with main ffaf312 (2026-10-21): merged cleanly, no conflicts.
• Merged with main adea2c9 (2026-10-23): the same two parity rows as feat(desktop): "Combine files in PdfCraft" from the file manager (#585) #2541, resolved identically; its tests moved into tests/it.
• Merged with main 57e531c (2026-10-23): the same main.rs resolution as feat(desktop): "Combine files in PdfCraft" from the file manager (#585) #2541, plus this PR's Finder Quick Action install.
• Merged with main a2ec27b (2026-10-23): upstream's changes met this PR in pdfcraft, pdfcraft-ui-egui; checked.
• Merged with main fc1372a (2026-10-24): upstream's changes met this PR in pdfcraft, pdfcraft-ui-egui; checked.
• Merged with main 418ac6a (2026-10-25): upstream's changes met this PR in pdfcraft, pdfcraft-ui-egui; checked.
• Merged with main 1dd2737 (2026-10-27): upstream's changes met this PR in pdfcraft, pdfcraft-ui-egui; checked.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added “Combine files in PdfCraft” options to Windows File Explorer and Linux desktop menus for PDFs and supported image formats.
  • Added a macOS Finder Quick Action with in-app setup guidance.
  • Support launching Combine files from desktop shortcuts while preserving selected-file order.
  • Unreadable files are reported and excluded from the Combine list.
  • Selected files are staged for review and are not combined until confirmed.

[amoisttowe1]

Tested on an Apple-silicon Mac — macOS 26.6, commit a3562450. CI runs Ubuntu and Windows only
(ci.yml:31; macOS slots reserved for release builds, ci.yml:29-30), so the Mac path below is new
coverage. Two of your four finder_combine tests are ungated (:329, :350; module declared at
main.rs:39) and do run in CI — the install path never has.

What works. rustfmt, cargo check -p pdfcraft --all-targets (0 warnings), clippy
-D warnings, cargo test -p pdfcraft --bin pdfcraft (73 passed / 0 failed, 1 ignored network test)
and cargo xtask parity: all rc=0. macOS accepts your generated workflow — pbs -dump_pboard lists
NSBundlePath …/Combine files in PdfCraft.workflow, Finder context, com.adobe.pdf + public.image;
plutil -lint OK on both files. Delivery works warm and cold: three PDFs, one named
review three with spaces.pdf, reached a Combine files tab in arrival order, footer "3 files · 3 pages ·
1.6 KB" (ui-inspect.json tab #10, rows #104–#106). Each temp list was created and consumed inside
0.1 s (TS3Vz9, pguNUL, ZTUu57), file and folder removed by your code (:71-72) — with open
stubbed out the directory persists, so that cleanup is yours. Nothing running: the step started PdfCraft
(pid 37233) and took the list. Nick's click, after one manual tick: three files in, in order, into a
window already on screen.

What fails. Your installer tries to switch the menu entry on, and on this macOS it does not. defaults
stores { ContextMenu = 1; } as text; Finder read text as off. Four observations, same key: your
command → '1' (string, captured 02:21 right after your own install); macOS's write on a manual tick →
true (boolean, plus one entry in the pbs FinderOrdering dictionary that already held six); replay
yours → strings again, tick off (Nick confirmed); booleans with no ordering entry → stays on. first
comes from whether document.wflow exists (:92) and gates the only write, so this lands on every fresh
install. Observed here exactly as described: absent from Quick Actions after install, present after one
tick in Customize.

Why nothing caught it. finder_combine.rs:379 asserts text.contains("ContextMenu = 1").
defaults read prints that line byte-identically for a string and a boolean — verified both ways;
plutil -p separates them. The test passes in the broken state.

There is no cheap rewrite. Nested -dict … -bool → rc=1, Cannot nest composite types. -json is
not a write option here. A dotted keypath exits 0 and leaves a stray top-level key behind. PlistBuddy
refuses the (null) service key: Unrecognized Type: -. Only read–merge–defaults import produced
booleans — too invasive for one checkbox. Cheapest fix: delete the auto-enable and first with it
(today, delete-after-untick re-adds an inert entry over Finder's record), and tell users where the switch
is.

Also. Deleting MAX_LIST (:28, compared as bytes at :70) or the is_file() check leaves all
four tests green; install() has no test at all, against CLAUDE.md:36 ("Prove a test fails before the
fix"). Only dir.parent() is canonicalised (:66) and metadata follows links (:69), so a symlinked
folder or list file is accepted — through a folder link your cleanup deletes the real list and leaves the
link (ENOTDIR), through a file link the 9-byte target survives. At MAX_LIST + 1 bytes (≈8,100 paths
of 128 characters) the list is deleted and nothing happens; :43-44 says that is intended. Nothing
removes the workflow — package.sh never mentions Services — and with no bundle id registered the step
exits rc=1, LSCopyApplicationURLsForBundleIdentifier() failed…. You declare pdf + image while Combine
takes CONVERTIBLE (create/src/lib.rs:489, 12 entries, includes txt): PDF-plus-text selections
shouldn't offer it; HEIC conforms to public.image, appears nowhere in crates/, and fails per file with
"Can't be read: …" (combine_ui.rs:2407, via as_pdf at :2412) or silently in folders (:1616)
unless nothing matched (:2560). The Finder claim now sits at organize.combine-files notes :2972,
under a status = "shipped" that predates this work — already there at your base 5fdd820b, and still there on main as I write this (924c4da4)d
test is gated non-macOS (single_instance.rs:526), and core.open-pdf notes repeat it.

Not covered here. Windows MSI and Linux .desktop entries — no such machine; one Mac, one account.
Finder automation is unavailable to me and screencapture is denied here, so interface facts come from
your own opt-in --control dump plus Nick's eyes; I have not verified any screenshot's pixels.

Verdict: Technically mergeable after fixing the visibility issue detailed above, because as shipped
most Mac users never find the feature.

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AI review on Nick's Mac: local route (Qwen 3.8 Flash Next oQ4e) ran builds, gates, mutation tests and
end-to-end; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash reviewed the code in earlier rounds; Qwen 3.8 Max plus my own model gave
the final line-by-line check on this text; Nick did the Finder click. Read-only account — no write access
here. My open PRs (#2523, #2359, #2073) touch annot, crypt and cos tests only.

[amoisttowe1]

Only dir.parent() is canonicalised (:66) and metadata follows links (:69). Measured on macOS
26.6: a symlinked folder named pdfcraft-combine.* and a symlinked list file are both accepted —
through a folder link your cleanup deletes the real inner list (remove_dir then fails ENOTDIR,
leaving the link); through a file link the 9-byte target survives. Same-user temp folder, so low risk;
symlink_metadata plus a check that dir isn't itself a link makes "a link cannot stand in" true of
these two paths.

[amoisttowe1]

This assertion passes in the broken state. defaults read prints ContextMenu = 1 byte-identically
whether the stored value is a string (what -dict-add "{ … }" yields on macOS 26.6) or a boolean (what
Finder writes, and what it reads as shown). plutil -p distinguishes them; assert the parsed type and
this test fails exactly when the Quick Action stays hidden. See my body for four measurements.

[amoisttowe1]

These notes claim Finder Quick Actions under a status = "shipped" that predates the branch (line 2968 is
context; already shipped at base 5fdd820b, and still there on main as I write this, 924c4da4). The cited test is gated non-macOS
at single_instance.rs:526, so nothing in the Mac path can fail — CLAUDE.md:8 asks for evidence that
can run where the feature ships, and my body has Mac measurements plus one default-state defect.

[regendorf-ux]

Thank you @amoisttowe1 (and Nick) for testing this end to end on a real Mac, and for the measurements: the string-versus-boolean finding is exactly the kind of thing no test here could catch.

Done in 56fccf3 (plus #2541's wording merged in, 9a2ff06):

• The automatic switch-on is gone. As you found, there's no clean way to write Finder's boolean, so on macOS the Combine files tab now tells people where to turn it on once (Quick Actions ▸ Customize).
• A linked folder or linked list is refused (symlink_metadata on both).
• The Quick Action is offered for exactly what Combine reads (PDF + CONVERTIBLE as UTIs): no more HEIC, and text files now included, with a test that keeps them in step.
• New tests for the size cap, a folder in the list's place, the two links and install_in; the parity notes cite this module's macOS-runnable tests.

Left as is, and said in the PR text: nothing removes the workflow when the app is deleted (no uninstall hook on macOS; the step's open -b then just fails), and an over-cap list combines nothing.

[amoisttowe1]

Re-reviewed at 9a2ff066 after @regendorf-ux's changes: the Quick Action installs on launch, Finder lists it under Quick Actions after one manual tick in Customize…, and a three-file selection — including one with spaces in its name — arrives on the Combine files tab in order, waiting for the Combine button. The visibility issue from my previous review is cleared: nothing writes Finder's enable flag any more, and the tab now says where to turn it on. Tested on one Mac — macOS 26.6, Apple silicon; the Windows MSI and Linux .desktop halves are unreviewed here. The branch needs a rebase onto main.

Verdict: PR behaves as expected and clears the prior issues; mergeable once rebased.

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AI-assisted review on Nick's Mac: local route (Qwen 3.8 Flash Next oQ4e) built this head and ran the pbs, plutil and shell-step checks; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Qwen 3.8 Max fact-checked the text against the diff, Finder steps confirmed by Nick. Advisory account — no write access to this repo.

From Nick -- No problem on providing the review, let me know if there's anything else Mac specific I can test for you!

[regendorf-ux]

Thanks again @amoisttowe1, and thank you Nick for the Finder clicks and the offer. Real-Mac testing is exactly what CI can't give this PR. The rebase onto main is in progress (only translation rows and their hashes collide) and will be pushed shortly.

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Walkthrough

Adds Windows, Linux, and macOS file-manager actions that send selected files to PdfCraft’s Combine list. The app preserves order, reports unreadable paths, and waits for explicit combining. The roadmap and translation attribution records also change.

Changes: File-manager Combine workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Combine launch and single-instance handoff apps/pdfcraft/src/main.rs, apps/pdfcraft/src/single_instance.rs	The CLI accepts --combine and sends typed Combine requests. Consecutive requests of the same kind group in order, while Open and Combine requests remain separate.
Stage Combine files in the UI crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/combine_ui.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/*	The UI stages readable files in input order, converts supported images, reports unreadable paths, and does not combine automatically.
Install and handle the Finder Quick Action apps/pdfcraft/src/finder_combine.rs, apps/pdfcraft/src/finder_combine_tests.rs, apps/pdfcraft/src/apple_events.rs, apps/pdfcraft/src/main.rs	The macOS app installs a Finder Quick Action that writes selected paths to a temporary list. Valid lists become Combine events. Validation covers path structure, symlinks, size, cleanup, parsing, and workflow installation.
Add platform launch entries and record behavior packaging/windows/*, packaging/linux/*, apps/pdfcraft/src/main.rs, apps/pdfcraft/tests/linux_service_menu.rs, docs/releasing.md, parity/acrobat-features.toml	Windows Explorer, Linux launcher, and KDE service-menu entries invoke Combine mode. Packaging tests and documentation describe the integrations.

Project record updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update catalog hashes and roadmap ATTRIBUTION.toml, ROADMAP.md	SHA-256 values change for 22 translation catalogs. The roadmap records file-manager Combine work and the Finder Quick Action.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FileManager
  participant PdfCraft
  participant SingleInstance
  participant CombineUI
  FileManager->>PdfCraft: Launch with --combine and selected paths
  PdfCraft->>SingleInstance: Send typed Combine request
  SingleInstance->>PdfCraft: Deliver ordered Combine event
  PdfCraft->>CombineUI: Stage selected files
  CombineUI->>CombineUI: Report unreadable paths and wait for confirmation

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Possibly related issues

• storytold/pdfcraft#585: Requests a file-manager action that sends selected files to the existing Combine view. This PR implements that flow across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• storytold/pdfcraft#3929: Concerns Combine list ordering, but this PR does not change drag-and-drop ordering behavior.

Possibly related PRs

• storytold/pdfcraft#2503: Adds the Windows --combine action and the single-instance, event, and UI flow extended by this PR.
• storytold/pdfcraft#3260: Changes the same CLI, single-instance, OsEvent::Combine, and UI intake paths used by this PR.

Suggested reviewers: fredapps, amoisttowe1

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 62f15

Selected files can temporarily block the UI, setup documentation is inaccurate, and a rare handoff failure can duplicate files in the Combine list.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 62f15

The change largely preserves existing user-account boundaries and requires confirmation before combining files. The main concern is failure containment: selections delivered to a running app are read on its interface thread, so a stalled file can prevent interaction with other open documents. Platform permissions and interruption recovery remain incompletely verified.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: The new Combine event path reads every selected file synchronously before returning to the interface loop. Unlike ordinary live Open requests at the merge base, these reads do not use worker scheduling. A stalled network file or blocking filesystem object can therefore stall the shared window, preventing interaction with other documents and processing of save or quit actions. The exposure is bounded to the affected desktop instance; files are staged rather than automatically combined.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated exposure is the interactive PdfCraft instance and files accessible to its process identity. Windows and Linux reuse the pre-existing user-local, session/display-specific socket locations. Effective filesystem permissions and peer isolation were not independently verified, so cross-account exclusion remains an environmental assumption rather than a proven guarantee.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A sender able to reach the local handoff can supply arbitrary nonempty path strings, and an accepted Finder list likewise supplies paths for reading. Neither contract restricts target paths to regular PDF or image files before the new synchronous reads. This makes blocking inputs relevant to the retained availability concern; it does not establish privilege escalation or disclosure to the sender.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Selected filenames are passed as quoted shell values and serialized as data, rather than interpolated as shell commands. Ordinary Apple-event paths remain Open unless they match the list-recognition rules. The application bundle ID supplied to workflow generation is a fixed application constant.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The handoff remains delivery-before-acknowledgement with separate-window fallback on acknowledgement failure, a condition already present at the base and now applicable to Combine staging. Finder list consumption similarly reads before best-effort deletion without an atomic claim, while its writer lacks failure cleanup. These paths do not establish exactly-once delivery or interruption recovery; explicit Combine confirmation limits automatic output consequences.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Use bounded background input processing for live Combine requests, with cancellation and ordered UI-thread commit, while preserving the single undo step and explicit final Combine action.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: a macOS Finder Quick Action that opens selected files as one Combine request. It is longer than necessary but remains specific and relevant.
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• ATTRIBUTION.toml
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• apps/pdfcraft/src/apple_events.rs
• apps/pdfcraft/src/finder_combine.rs
• apps/pdfcraft/src/main.rs
• apps/pdfcraft/src/single_instance.rs
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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🌐 Web query:

Apple macOS filename documentation newline character allowed file names

💡 Result:

**Yes—newline characters can be part of macOS filenames.** Apple’s archived `intro(2)` manual says filename characters may be any ASCII characters except NUL and `/`; newline (`\n`, U+000A) isn’t excluded. That supports the conclusion that newline is allowed, though the manual is archived rather than current macOS-specific guidance. ([developer.apple.com](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man2/intro.2.html))

In practice, filenames containing newlines can be awkward to display or handle in terminals and scripts. Also, Apple’s manual describes a 255-character limit, but actual limits can depend on the filesystem. ([developer.apple.com](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man2/intro.2.html))

Citations:

- 1: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man2/intro.2.html
- 2: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man2/intro.2.html

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Use NUL-delimited records for Finder paths.

macOS permits newline characters in file names. The workflow writes each selected path with a newline, while listed() splits on newlines and trims each record. A selected file such as /tmp/report\n2026.pdf can therefore become two paths, so the valid file is lost and unintended paths may be staged.

Suggested fix

-        "d=$(mktemp -d \"${{TMPDIR:-/tmp}}/{DIR}XXXXXX\") || exit 1\nfor p in \"$@\"; do printf '%s\\n' \"$p\"; done > \"$d/{LIST}\"\nopen -b {bundle_id} \"$d/{LIST}\"\n"
+        "d=$(mktemp -d \"${{TMPDIR:-/tmp}}/{DIR}XXXXXX\") || exit 1\nfor p in \"$@\"; do printf '%s\\0' \"$p\"; done > \"$d/{LIST}\"\nopen -b {bundle_id} \"$d/{LIST}\"\n"

-    Some(text.lines().map(str::trim_end).filter(|l| !l.is_empty()).map(str::to_string).collect())
+    Some(text.split('\0').filter(|l| !l.is_empty()).map(str::to_string).collect())

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Review comment at @apps/pdfcraft/src/finder_combine.rs around lines 124 - 147:
Update the `script` function and `listed()` parser to use NUL-delimited Finder
paths end to end: write each selected path with a NUL separator, then split
records on NUL without trimming path contents. Preserve filtering of empty
records so filenames containing newlines remain intact.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Preserve all unreadable-path feedback in one localized notice.

combine_paths intentionally leaves OS-level read failures out of the Combine list. stage_combine_with handles files whose bytes were read but cannot be converted or assessed; it cannot receive a path that has no readable bytes. Therefore, staging failed paths would change this path's documented behavior, and the quoted stage_combine_with comment does not apply here.

The feedback issue remains: each notify_fmt call replaces self.toast, so multiple failures overwrite earlier filenames. Collect the failures and emit one localized aggregate notice, or retain them in a persistent warning.

Suggested fix: aggregate the read failures

     pub fn combine_paths(&mut self, paths: &[String]) {
         let mut incoming = Vec::new();
+        let mut failed = Vec::new();
         for path in paths.iter().map(std::path::Path::new) {
             let name = path.file_name().map_or_else(|| path.to_string_lossy().into_owned(), |n| n.to_string_lossy().into_owned());
             match std::fs::read(path) {
                 Ok(bytes) => {
                     let modified = std::fs::metadata(path).and_then(|m| m.modified()).ok();
                     incoming.push(Incoming { name, bytes: Arc::new(bytes), modified, note: None, open_doc: None });
                 }
-                Err(e) => self.notify_fmt("Couldn't read {name}: {e}", &[("name", &name), ("e", &e.to_string())]),
+                Err(e) => failed.push(format!("{name}: {e}")),
             }
         }
+        if !failed.is_empty() {
+            let list = failed.join("; ");
+            self.notify_fmt("Couldn't read these files: {list}", &[("list", &list)]);
+        }
         self.stage_combine_with(incoming);
     }

Add Couldn't read these files: {list} to the i18n catalog.

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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/combine_ui.rs around lines 2553 - 2561:
Update `combine_paths` to collect unreadable path names and errors instead of
notifying for each failure, then emit one localized aggregate notice after
processing all paths. Keep failed paths out of `incoming` and preserve the
existing `stage_combine_with` behavior; add the aggregate message to the i18n
catalog.

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Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs:
- Line 3064: Update the OsEvent::Combine handling and combine_paths flow so file
reads run in background work rather than blocking the UI frame. Deliver the
completed read results back to the UI in the original input order, and keep the
existing combine processing behavior after the results arrive.

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• ROADMAP.md
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Move Combine file reads off the UI frame.

If a Combine event contains a large file or a stalled filesystem path, combine_paths calls std::fs::read synchronously for each path. The UI cannot respond until those reads finish. Stage the reads in background work, then deliver the results to the UI in input order.

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Update the OsEvent::Combine handling and combine_paths flow so file reads run in
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combine processing behavior after the results arrive.

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[FredApps]

CI fails at this head (windows and ubuntu) on primary_ui_fonts_cover_latin_and_cyrillic_catalogs (crates/ui-egui/tests/fonts.rs:336): cs: Inter lacks ['▸'].

The new strings in the catalogs use ▸, for example "From Finder: select files, then right-click ▸ Quick Actions ▸ Combine files in PdfCraft…", and the bundled UI font has no glyph for it, so it would draw as a missing-glyph box in those languages. Please spell the path with a character the font has (the existing strings for Preferences menus show what the catalogs use), in every catalog the PR touches, and re-run.

[regendorf-ux]

Thanks @FredApps. Fixed in 55d995c: the menu path in the new strings is spelled with > instead of ▸ in every catalogue the fonts test draws with Inter (21 rows). fonts::primary_ui_fonts_cover_latin_and_cyrillic_catalogs passes locally on this head, with the rest of the PR's scoped tests.

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[FredApps]

Re-review at d84c295. My last review was @8e99d496 (the ▸ glyph failure).

The merge of main 418ac6a looks right: git show --remerge-diff d84c295a shows only the catalogue conflict regions resolved with both sides' rows kept. Local run at this head, all green:

• cargo fmt --all --check
• cargo test -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --test it -- fonts:: combine file_managers (94 passed)
• cargo test -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --lib i18n (61 passed)
• cargo test -p pdfcraft --test it linux_service_menu (2 passed)
• cargo test -p pdfcraft --bins -- finder_combine single_instance (20 passed)
• cargo clippy -p pdfcraft --all-targets -- -D warnings

Hosted checks also pass.

Blocking: the ▸ fix (55d995c) orphaned the Finder hint's translations. Lookups are by exact English text (i18n/mod.rs header). The source string at crates/ui-egui/src/combine_ui.rs:1258 still reads right-click ▸ Quick Actions ▸ … under Quick Actions ▸ Customize., but 55d995c changed the key column (not the translation) to > in the catalogues. At d84c295, these 14 catalogues contain only the >-keyed row, so it never matches:

bg, cs, de, el, es, fr, hu, it, kk, pt-br, ru, sl, tr, uk

In those languages the hint falls back to the English text, ▸ included, which is the glyph the fonts test found missing in Inter. fonts::primary_ui_fonts_cover_latin_and_cyrillic_catalogs passes because it only scans the translation column (split('\t').nth(2)), so the failure was hidden rather than fixed. Also, ca, fi, id, lt, ro, sq and vi now have both a ▸-keyed and a >-keyed row for this hint; the > one is dead.

The simplest fix is to change the source string at combine_ui.rs:1258 to >. That is the same separator the translations use, and it also keeps ▸ out of the English UI. Then key every catalogue row with that text and drop the duplicates. Separately, pl.tsv's translation still contains ▸; pl isn't in the fonts test's catalogue list, so please check it renders.

I haven't re-checked the rest of the feature beyond the commits since my last review. The issue above is the only thing blocking.

[regendorf-ux]

Thanks @FredApps, good catch: the fonts test only reads the translation column, so 55d995c hid the problem instead of fixing it.

Fixed in 3008019, as you suggested:

• The source string in combine_ui.rs now uses > too: From Finder: select files, then right-click > Quick Actions > Combine files in PdfCraft. Not listed? Turn it on once under Quick Actions > Customize.
• Every catalogue has exactly one row for it, keyed by that text, so bg, cs, de, el, es, fr, hu, it, kk, pt-br, ru, sl, tr and uk match again. The dead duplicate rows in ca, fi, id, lt, ro, sq and vi are gone (ko and hi had one too; they keep their real translation).
• No translation of the hint keeps ▸ now, pl included.

Run at 3008019: cargo test -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --test it -- fonts:: combine file_managers and --lib i18n (136 passed), cargo test -p pdfcraft --bins -- finder_combine single_instance (17 passed), cargo test -p pdfcraft --test it linux_service_menu (2 passed), plus fmt and the PR's scoped check.

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[FredApps]

Re-review at SHA 702504d (my last review, CHANGES_REQUESTED, was at d84c295).

The blocker is fixed. The source string in combine_ui.rs now uses > between the Finder menu steps, and each catalogue has exactly one row keyed by that text, so the lookup matches again; the earlier workaround that kept ▸ in the translation column only is gone, and the dead duplicate rows (ca, fi, id, lt, ro, sq, vi) were removed.

Checked: from the PR's own diff, 29 catalogue files each carry exactly one row for the string (plus the one in combine_ui.rs), every row has a source and a translation column (three fields), and none contains ▸.
Not verified: I did not run the build or the fonts:: / combine / file_managers tests locally (the author reports running them at 3008019); I did not assess the translations themselves.

[FredApps]

Re-review at SHA 67f961b (my last APPROVE was at 702504d). Gate is green. The windows-arm64 package and install-and-run checks are green too.

What changed since my approval: the branch was re-merged with main twice, and main made the Windows installer dual-scope (Scope="perUserOrMachine", 50+ HKMU entries). The PR followed it: its Combine files shell entries in packaging/windows/pdfcraft.wxs (44 rows across 11 extensions) move from Root="HKLM" to Root="HKMU", test-msi.ps1 now asserts the context-sensitive root (-1) for them, as main's tests do for the other entries, instead of the HKLM value 2, and its OK line says "dual-scope guards". Also, from the earlier re-merge: the test the_desktop_entry_offers_combine_files moved out of its enclosing mod (dedented), and unreadable_notice became pub(super) with its import added.

Checked: compared the PR-only deltas at the two heads, ignoring file names and indentation, and read every differing line (122). With HKLM→HKMU normalised on the old side, the only remaining differences are the assertion value and message wording above and the visibility and import lines; each of the 44 registry rows differs only in its root, with the same key, value name, type and data. I checked main's wxs uses HKMU for its own per-user-or-machine entries and that the PR's file keeps the same two HKLM lines main has (the machine-scope RegistrySearch entries). No logic line in the Rust code changed.

Not verified: I did not run the installer or the MSI test; the hosted gate and the windows-arm64 package and install checks are green at this head.