PDF-XChange Editor Version History

Released Jul 22nd, 2025 . Requires maintenance through Jul 22nd, 2025

NEW Added offline support for MIP-protected documents.

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • Fixed some security and stability issues. Click here for further information.

  • Fixed an issue with DocuSign and long document names.

  • Fixed a very rare issue with opening password protected files. (46285)

  • Fixed an issue with moving content items in some cases, where arrow keys became deselected under certain conditions. (T# 7476) (40279)

  • Fixed an issue with disabling the Zoom In/Out tool after using the Snapshot tool. (46330)

  • Fixed an issue with unintentional button presses when the Autoscroll command was executed under certain conditions. (46289)

  • Fixed an issue with resetting object selections when panning with the middle mouse button. (46358)

  • Fixed an issue with adding highlights directly above comments that are above base content text. (46410)

  • Fixed an issue with dragging from rulers to add guidelines while text comments or base content is being edited. (45858)

  • Fix the call to app.clearTimeOut after the timeout handler was executed and the associated timer was unregistered.

  • Improved static XFA support.

  • Fixed an issue when adding Insert/Replace text markup comments to the first word in text lines.  (47120)

Released May 6th, 2025 . Requires maintenance through May 6th, 2025

Released Feb 12th, 2025 . Requires maintenance through Feb 12th, 2025

Released Jan 30th, 2025 . Requires maintenance through Jan 30th, 2025

Released Jan 14th, 2025 . Requires maintenance through Jan 14th, 2025

2014

Released Oct 15th, 2014 . Requires maintenance through Oct 15th, 2014

NEW Optimize Plugin: added duplicate remover.

NEW Optimize Plugin: added options for Flate encoder for objects without encoder and replaced the LZW encoder with Flate.

NEW Optimize Plugin: added Bi-cubic algorithm for down-sampling images.

NEW Optimize Plugin: added options for down-sampling images with Mask or SoftMask.

NEW Added support for Search Providers.

NEW Added support for synthetic (resource-only) fonts (T# 2707).

NEW Added multi-line link(s) detection (T# 2602).

NEW Added Bookmarks Plugin with base functionality.

NEW Digital signature appearance templates: ability to work with old format files.

NEW Added the ability to export and import Digital Signature Appearance Templates.

NEW Added the ability to drag and drop files into new document dialogs for ImagesToPDF, RTFToPDF, TextToPDF and CombineFiles.

NEW Implemented MRC support of compression options for image insertion operations.

NEW 'Reset Settings' feature implemented.

NEW Find/Search: added features to search in comments, attachments, form-fields, signatures, web-links, document-info.

NEW Find/Search: added a feature to colorize found words.

NEW Find/Search: added a feature to highlight the found words on the right scrollbar of pages view.

NEW Find/Search: added info-message when users reach the end of a list of found words and a warning-message when nothing is found.

NEW Added a 'Save All' feature for modified documents.

NEW Added a 'Revert' feature for documents.

NEW Added feature to change the text style in annotation-popups.

NEW Added a feature to hide/show annotations based on their type, author, state.

NEW Added a feature to hide/show all pop-up annotations.

NEW Added an option to draw all lines as a 1 pixel line (shortcut Ctrl + 5). (T# 2423)

NEW Added a tool to add new text on a page.

NEW Added the options "Minimize to System Tray" and "Close to System Tray". (T# 2270)

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • Resolved issues when merging fonts with the PDF Optimizer (T# 2653). Improved performance.

  • Improved text composing (T# 2409, 2725)

  • Resolved encoding issues for some fonts (T# 1887, 2638, 2706).

  • Fixed saving invalid/broken files with digital signatures (T# 2677)

  • Fixed some issues with annotation-popups: now users can open/close/change_position of popup window even if document's security forbids changing annotations.

  • Resolved possible issues with signing unsigned fields. (T# 1905)

  • Resolved issue with the ResetForm action. (T# 2502)

  • Resolved removing white space on certain documents (T# 2676)

  • Resolved an issue with rendering thin lines differently depending on page rotation. (T# 2688)

  • Resolved an issue with rendering SoftMasks in some circumstances. (T# 2700)

  • Fixed an issue with and improved the snap feature. (T# 2692)

  • Resolved some issues with rendering. (T# 2510, 2713)

  • Improved/fixed Loupe tool, added a 'Track Mouse' feature for Loupe.

  • Improved 'Paste' feature: paste in right-click point or paste in current position of cursor.

  • Improved rendering contents that contain very complex paths. (T# 2694)

  • Improved the Fit Visible feature. (T# 2704)

  • Improved handling of invalid document contents. (T# 2701)

  • Improved UI for setting the Editor as the default application, the View In Browser feature, etc.

  • Improved the calibration tool. (T# 2720)

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