PDF-XChange Editor Version History

Released Aug 26th, 2025 . Requires maintenance through Aug 26th, 2025

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • Fixed the issue with incorrect filtering out of certificates for digital signatures.

  • Fixed the issue with the incorrect operation of the AzureRMS plugin when in systems without the latest VS Runtime modules.

  • Added AzureRMS plugin for ARM64 version of the Editor.

  • Additional improvement for DnD pages, which now uses the same options for handling comments, layers, bookmarks, fields, and named destinations as the 'Insert Pages' feature. (46808)

Released Aug 19th, 2025 . Requires maintenance through Aug 19th, 2025

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

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

2019

Released Apr 4th, 2019 . Requires maintenance through Apr 4th, 2019

NEW Added commands to convert Line annotations to Distance, and Polyline annotations to Perimeter.(T# 4552) (31718)

NEW Added the Crop Method "None" to the Crop Pages dialog to allow adjusting the page size to the crop box, without changing existing crop boxes.(T# 4321) (30764)

NEW Added a "Move To Trash" feature that allows moving the open document to the Recycle Bin. (31960)

NEW Added simplified content transformation functionality to the Arrange tab.

NEW Added CSVToPDF plugin that allows converting CSV file data to a PDF table.

NEW Added a "Resource Updater" feature for updating OCR Languages, Spell Check Dictionaries, and other resources.

NEW Added "overtype" mode for edits (activates with Insert key).

NEW Spell Check dictionaries update.

NEW Added a "Paste as Plain text" command for text edits.

NEW Added the ability to add/modify the Document Open Action to be different from the GoTo action. (T# 4629)

NEW Added a "Quick Launch" to the Editor's title bar which can be used to quickly find Editor's commands.

NEW Digital Signature Properties dialog now reports certificate compatibility to EU 2010/2014 regulations and whether a private key is located on QSCD. (T#4658)

NEW Added a new "Enhanced OCR" module that is much faster, provides better quality, recognizes text styles and tables, supports creating PDF files with editable text and images, and more.

NEW Added a new OCR feature "OCR Selected Region". Use it from the context menu for the selected area on a page which was made using the Snapshot or Crop tool(s).

NEW SharePoint: added options for a default version and comment used during automatic Check-In.

NEW SharePoint: added an option to auto-create all necessary folders when saving file(s) to a non-existing path.

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • Fixed an issue with handling relative URLs when a document is opened in IE (T# 4592)

  • Improved handling corrupted JB2 streams.

  • Fixed an issue when setting a border width of 1pt on links.

  • Fixed a rendering issue in some specific cases. (T# 4669, 4641)

  • Fixed several issues with the Progress dialog: in some cases it had been displayed using the wrong Z-order (under the main window or above the modal dialog).

  • Fixed a problem with dragging control points by finger for selected objects.

  • Fixed hang of Open/Save File dialog for Sharepoint/DropBox when fails the navigation to the initial URL.

  • Fixed a SharePoint Plugin issue causing undesired login prompts.

  • SharePoint: fixed the conversion of file and folder creation, and update time, to/from the local time.

  • SharePoint: added an option to select a version for Check-In operations.

  • Improved Deskew filters in Enhance Scanned Pages plugin

  • Improved compression of monochrome images in Enhance Scanned Pages plugin

  • MS Office to PDF: various improvements and bug fixes for the Editor and PDF-Tools

  • Improved form calculation procedure(s). (T# 4627)

  • Improved JavaScript support.

  • Improved XFA forms support. (T# 4644, 4615, 4701, 4689, 4711, 4714, 4723, 4726, ...)

  • Improved rendering of PDF files when object's coordinates are too big. (T# 2975)

  • Improved the handling of Static XFA forms. (T# 3084, 2838, ...)

  • Password Security Policies are now stored in more secure way.

  • When opening FDF or XFDF files the Editor now checks permissions to open the corresponding PDF file. (T# 4680)

  • The appearance of check/radio-boxes has been updated to show the correct size on high-resolution monitors (previously it was too small on 4k monitors).

  • Added an option to customize the color of a group title by setting the 'group.title' color-item in the Theme.xml.

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