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

2019

Released Aug 26th, 2019 . Requires maintenance through Aug 26th, 2019

NEW Added a 'Rename Opened Document' feature. (T# 1522) (32340)

NEW Added a 'Create PDF Portfolio' feature. (T# 4677)

NEW Added a small info-bar at the bottom of the Comments, Attachments, Bookmarks, Thumbnails and Links panes. (T# 4653)

NEW Added a 'Sort Pages by Bookmarks' feature. (T# 4781)

NEW Added a 'Remove selected Actions' from Bookmarks feature.

NEW Added Bookmarks to Links functionality that allows creating links on a pages' text that matches the bookmarks' names. (T# 3896) (26476)

NEW Added experimental PRC support.

NEW Added the ability to create a new or modify existing 3D annotations.

NEW Added support for inline captions for line/dimension annotations.

NEW Digital signatures created by the Editor now are LTV enabled when "Include signature's revocation status" option is enabled. (T# 4791)

NEW Added a History pane. The History pane displays documents that have been opened and gives more advanved display/grouping options than a simple 'recent files list'. (View > Panes > History).

NEW OCR-Languages Updater: added additional column with the English name of languages.

NEW Added the ability to control the position of the QuickLaunch bar in Ribbon UI. (via RClick on QA-bar)

NEW OCR Dialog: added two columns to the Languages combobox to show English and native names of languages.

NEW Enhanced OCR: added the ability to skip check marks on scans.

NEW Enhanced OCR: added the ability to support vertical text.

NEW Added the ability to reorder all document tabs alphabetically. (T# 4865)

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • Security Advisory Notice: Added detection and blocking of unauthorized alteration of protected documents.

  • Fixed handling URL(s) with some special characters. (T# 4751)

  • Fixed an issue that caused a "Not enough memory resources" error during convertion some files to PDF/A.

  • Fixed an issue with printing on some HP printers. (T# 4801)

  • Fixed an issue with printing gradients. (T# 4824)

  • Fixed a rather rare issue with thin images. (32621)

  • Fixed an issue with handling new lines codes in XFDF data. (T# 4804) (32795)

  • Fixed an issue when annotation were moved unintentionally when selected. (T# 4624, 4828)

  • Fixed an issue where some text would disappear at different zoom levels. (T# 4505, 4836)

  • Fixed an issue with saving named destinations. (T# 4841) (32788)

  • Fixed an issue where not all modifications rolled back if document signing was not successfull. (T# 4778)

  • Fixed an issue with resizing some content items when resize pages. (T# 4788)

  • Fixed a minor issue with the minimum size of thumb-button(s) in scrollbars on high-dpi monitors.

  • Fixed a 'disappearing cursor' issue seen when a user clicks outside a menu when the ScaleUI option is set to "System Scale". (T# 4768)

  • Fixed a minor issue with handling mouse-wheel events in the Properties pane, to change values of numerical properties.

  • Enhance Scans: fixed issue with handling Deskew option.

  • Fixed an issue with restoring the visibility of the Full Search pane after a 2nd restart of app. (T# 4766)

  • Fixed an issue with using the "OCR: Create a New Document" option for documents opened from read-only files.

  • Applied a fix to retain current the caret after highlighting a text selection. (T# 4776) (31558)

  • Solved an issue with touch-devices and modal dialogs (the display of modal-dialogs on touch-events direcly makes such dialog untouchable). (T# 4740)

  • Fixed several issues with Full Screen on tablets: added a way to escape from FullScreen, fixed an issue with the floating toolbar when screen is autorotated, added the ability to single finger scroll in Presentation mode. (T# 4671)

  • Fixed the handling of Tab/Enter keys for proper navigation between objects(comments, form fileds) on pages.

  • Fixed issues with keyboard navigation in the 'Classic UI' menus..

  • Fixed an issue with handling Ctrl+F / Ctrl+Shift+F so that it also selects all existing text in the search-field.

  • Fixed an issue with the QuickLaunch toolbar when settings were imported and it (sometimes) became invisible. (T# 4839)

  • Fixed some problems with colors in the UI in case(s) when the UI Theme is customized by using more contrast to make it more readable. (29297)

  • Fixed an issue with DnD separators on toolbars. (T# 4786)

  • Improved the screen positioning of the Password dialog on multi-monitor configurations. (T# 4757) (32499)

  • Fixed an issue with a disappear Stamps Palette after restart of the application. (T# 4663)

  • Fixed an issue with hard resizing of panes on touch devices. (T# 4764)

  • Added 'Align To Page/Key Object/Selection' functionality for selected Comments and Content Items. (T# 4572) (31820)

  • Updated custom Thumbnail selection with Links and Path items. (T# 4781) (32571)

  • In navigation mode when the "End" key is pressed on the last page of a document, the view is scrolled to the end of last page.

  • Improved support for 3D data in PDF files. (T# 4761, 4816)

  • Improved support for XFA forms. (T# 4763, 4844)

  • Added a mechanism for handling multi-line items in combo box and list box form fields. (T# 4737)

  • We now preserve the orientation of text annotation(s) when copied between pages with a different orientation. (T# 2116)

  • Enabled navigation by keys in calendar drop-downs for date form fields. (T# 4830) (32797)

  • Improved JS support. (T# 14917) (30990)

  • Fixed/improved handling of pen/digitizer/touch devices.

  • Removed the inheritance of the current Split View style for newly opened documents. (T# 4840)

  • 'Delete Empty Pages' was improved for pages that have a solid color only.

  • Enhanced OCR: fixed/improved the recognition of tables (thickness of lines, order and alignment of cells, etc).

  • Content pane: improved performance, fixed some minor bugs.

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