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

2017

Released May 8th, 2017 . Requires maintenance through May 8th, 2017

NEW Added the option of using third-party applications to edit page images.

NEW Added a feature to convert Selected Pages to Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint Presentations and Microsoft Excel. Workbook.

NEW Added a feature to convert Selected Comments from PDF when converting to Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint. Presentations.

NEW Added the ability to convert PDF documents to Microsoft Excel Workbook.

NEW Added 'Crop Mode' to the Redaction feature.

NEW Added Drag-n-Drop functionality for content items within and between Content Panes.

NEW Added "Display Selected Items" feature in Content Pane.

NEW Added "Expand/Collapse of Content Items" feature, and made several bug fixes and other minor improvements in the Content Pane.

NEW Added JPEG-compression option for TIFF files.

NEW Added a feature to Swap two Pages (Menu/Document/More for Pages).

NEW Added a feature to Duplicate Pages (Menu/Document/More for Pages).

NEW Added an Auto Scroll feature (Menu/View/Page Layout).

NEW Added the ability to hide or show different parts of Document Info Bar (see 'Document Info Bar' in 'Preferences' dialog).

NEW Added the ability to Copy/Paste Annotation Style from/to selected annotations.

NEW Added the ability to Copy/Paste Text Style from/to selected annotations.

NEW Added a dropdown list of registered email providers to the toolbar for convenient use. Improved/redesigned the 'Send Mail' tab in 'Preferences' dialog.

NEW Added an option to control "Text hinting" that enables the improvement of text rendering in small text sizes. (T# 3875)

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • Optimized memory usage in OCR-plugin. (T# 2967)

  • Optimized Deskew option during OCR.

  • Fixed reading TIFF files with old JPEG-compression.

  • Fixed issue with rendering option that enables/disables Image Smoothing. (T# 3854)

  • Fixed incorrect detection of some symbolic TTF fonts. (T# 3867)

  • Improved handling of malformed embedded CFF fonts. (T# 3868)

  • Improved character codes detection for some Type3 fonts. (T# 3787)

  • Fixed invalid character-width when editing with certain embedded fonts. (T# 3641, 3829)

  • Fixed issue when searching is for just one space. (T# 3860) (28811)

  • Fixed issues with search feature when Proximity=Paragraph is specified. (28966, 28496)

  • Fixed issue with maximum page size for WIA scanner drivers.

  • Fixed inaccurate image description in the Images to PDF dialog.

  • Fixed issue with the custom image for the signature appearance in the Digital Signing operation.

  • Fixed issue with switching layout type. (T# 3819)

  • Fixed rare issue with rendering pages on some DPI/Zoom levels. (T# 3844)

  • Updated 'Duplicate Annotations' feature: added the ability to specify page ranges. (T# 3558)

  • Redesigned Manage Pagemarks (Headers and Footers, Watermarks, Background, Bates Numbering) dialogs.

  • Significantly improved color management support. (T# 3659, 3792, 2030)

  • Improved XFA forms support (T# 3781, 3704, 3839)

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