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 Dec 13th, 2018 . Requires maintenance through Dec 13th, 2018

NEW Added an option to remove close buttons (x) from documents/panes and also from inactive documents/panes.(T# 4355) (30796)

NEW Added an option to show/hide Page Boxes (Crop, Art, Trim, Bleed) and guidelines in the Loupe View.(T# 4312)

NEW Added an option to control the tab title of documents.

NEW Added word selection by mouse double click (with mouse move).

NEW Added word selection by Ctrl+Shift+arrows.

NEW Added paragraph selection by triple click when editing text.

NEW "MS Word to PDF" - added ability to customize the MS Word option "Update fields" before converting in the "Options" dialog box.

NEW Added the View Rotate feature to the context menu of the Shell Extensions preview.

NEW Added new features to the Administrative Template: an option to force Ribbon/Classic UI, and an option to set the initial size (expanded/collapsed) of the Ribbon pane in the context of the Browser Plugin.

NEW Added useful tooltips to the Color Picker and its dropdown menu - it now shows the names of standard colors and the RGB values of colors.

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • Fixed the digital signature validation vulnerability reported by NDS.

  • Fixed the issue with printing images in some cases. (T# 4327, 4489, 4528, 4537, 4538)

  • Fixed the issue when a stamp is moved outside of a page being rotated from the context menu. (T# 4541)

  • Fixed the issue with page navigation via 'Thumbnails' or 'Pan & Zoom' pane on rotated pages.

  • Fixed the issue with adding attachments to some protected documents. (31677)

  • Fixed the issue with rendering some non-wellformed fonts when text hinting is enabled. (T# 4542)

  • Fixed the handling of commas as decimal separators. (T# 4536)

  • Fixed the issue with copying/pasting field text when copying is disabled by document security but form-filling is enabled. (T# 4551)

  • Fixed the issue with creating/modifying square and circle annotations. (31760)

  • Fixed the issue with the On Screen Keyboard.

  • Fixed invalid font handling in form fields. (T# 4447)

  • Restored the reading of FDF files. (T# 4554)

  • Improved incremental save in unmodified documents. (T# 4506, 4553)

  • Fixed the reading of specific broken files (created by Synopse PDF engine). (T# 4523, 4550, 4557)

  • Fixed the issues with opening non-pdf files from GoogleDrive

  • Fixed the issue with importing text files that contain many terminal zero-bytes and/or some special ASCII-symbols.

  • Fixed the issue with opening annotation pop ups through the Comments pane (this was performed with a single click previously, which was impractical).

  • Fixed the issue with dragging and dropping page thumbnails in the Thumbnails pane (sometimes it was difficult to initiate this process).

  • Fixed the issues with displaying the grayed-out (disabled) text colors in the UI when the theme colors are customized to darker styles. (The greyed-out text was contrasting insufficiently with the background in these cases). (28264, 29297, 31750)

  • Fixed the issue with performing OCR on images in the context of the Images-to-PDF feature (which previously recognized only English text correctly).

  • Fixed the issue with the 'Combine Files to Single PDF' feature when it is used to combine documents opened from remote storage locations such as GoogleDrive, SharePoint, DropBox, etc.

  • Fixed issue with restoring session using the "Just open documents from the session" option. If in previous builds you used this option for opening some sessions and overwrote them by re-saving - please re-create them again to fix incorrectly stored data. (T# 4549)

  • 3D support: Various crash fixes (for 3D PDF files by Altium, Simlab and iRender nXT)

  • 3D support: Fixed material problems for Simlab 3D PDFs

  • 3D support: Fixed 3D PDF files by Altium that show only black models

  • 3D support: Fixed rotation by mouse if the model is flipped from top to bottom

  • 3D support: Fixed bad render area in some cases after activating 3D models

  • Improved the form fields JS support.

  • Pencil annotations are now rendered with a rounded ending that is 'more natural'.

  • Added precise path selection in Edit Content mode.

  • 3D support: Optimized memory usage

  • 3D support: Adjusted panning by mouse

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