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

2018

Released Jul 2nd, 2018 . Requires maintenance through Jul 2nd, 2018

NEW Implemented functionality to import and export security policies.(T# 4125)

NEW Implemented the "Set Bookmark Zoom Type" feature in the Bookmarks plugin.(T# 3861) (29014)

NEW Added options to Duplicate Tab and Close Tabs to the Right/Left in the right-click menu options of the Document tab. (30870)

NEW Added a setting to hide/show the Close Tab button.(T# 4355) (30796)

NEW Added custom cursors for the commenting tools and content editing.

NEW Added the "Use Inherited Zoom" feature for creating and setting Named Destinations. (26498)

NEW Added the "Fit Box by Text Content" feature for Free Text annotations (Text Box, Callout, Typewriter).(T# 4387) (31072)

NEW Added a plugin for accessing files on Microsoft OneDrive.

NEW Added a plugin for accessing files on Box.com.

NEW Added the "Spreadsheet Split" feature (located in the Split dropdown menu of the View tab).

NEW Added an option to remove the border and gradient in full-screen mode. (T# 4374)

NEW Added an option to save documents opened from external repositories such as SharePoint, Google Drive and OneDrive to their original locations when these documents are digitally signed.

NEW Implemented Stroke Adjust for path rendering and resolved numerous rendering issues. (T# 319, 557, 607, 824, 920, 1222, 1302, 1469, 2308, 2533, 2668, 3117, 3706, 3739, 3776, 2467, 2489) (T# 276, 471, 547 - requires forcing Stroke Adjust in settings).

NEW Added the "Merge Pages" feature.

NEW DropBox: Implemented a feature to suppress the authentication prompt when opening a file from the Recents list if the file has been previously authenticated in the current session.

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • Fixed issue with the creation of CAdES digital signatures.

  • Fixed several issues with the Search feature when the "None of these words" option is used. (T# 3979) (29401)

  • Fixed the issue with viewing an attached document when Single Document mode is enabled. (30949)

  • Resolved the embedded font display issues. (T# 4362)

  • Resolved the issue where system fonts were sometimes used instead of embedded fonts. (T# 4236)

  • Resolved the encoding issue with embedded OTF fonts. (T# 4188)

  • Fixed the issue with saving modified content when flattening some stamp annotations. (T# 4264)

  • Fixed the issue with converting field values to numbers. (T# 4375)

  • Resolved the issue with opening attached files that may include embedded PDFs. (T# 4379)

  • Resolved the issue with handling form fields with empty names. (T# 4389)

  • Fixed the issue with the display of page ranges in the "Page Numbering" dialog box.

  • Fixed issues with the Loupe tool in documents with different page sizes.

  • Fixed support for late-binding (IDispatch-based) access, which typically affects Java and other scripting languages.

  • DropBox: Fixed a critical issue with files being overwritten on the server - sometimes the size of the destination was truncated to zero.

  • SharePoint: Fixed issues with SharePoint sites running outside of the server’s root.

  • SharePoint: Fixed the issue where an error message was shown when authentication was canceled while opening a file from the Recents list.

  • Implemented functionality to change the Subject and Author for multiple comments. (30799)

  • Enhanced the Ensure Bookmark Visibility functionality, which can now be enabled by checkbox.(T# 4330) (30799)

  • Updated all of the standard cursors for 4k support. (30249)

  • Added functionality to define an insertion area for the "Add Image" feature.

  • Improved the loading of panes. All panes in Editor are now loaded on demand - if they are not shown then they are not loaded. This increase performance and decreases the usage of resources.

  • Enhanced the conversion of multi-column text blocks into an Excel Table.

  • Fixed issue with pitch settings in the "Read Out Loud" feature.

  • Fixed several issues and made many improvements to the "op.document.pageNumbering" operation.

  • Improved XPS to PDF conversion. (T# 4160)

  • SharePoint: Improved logging: added a possibility to set the logging level, optimized and improved performance, and logging is now disabled by default.

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