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

2022

Released Apr 5th, 2022 . Requires maintenance through Apr 5th, 2022

NEW Added a feature for Comparing two PDF Documents (RibbonUI > Review > Compare Documents).

NEW Added the ability to remove broken\invalid Named Destinations. (T#5485)

NEW Added the ability to export snapshot to an image directly from the context menu. (T#5927)

NEW Added a `Set Layers Visibility` action creation and modification dialog.

NEW Added a possibility to Merge Duplicate Bookmarks.

NEW Added support for adding video and sound rich media annotations in PDFs.

NEW Support for existing screen annotation.

NEW Added a feature to control the thickness of underline and strikeout annotations.

NEW Added the ability to localize/customize text on Standard stamps.

NEW Added options to disable animated underline-effect for selected tabs (Ribbon tabs: CustomizeToolbars > Options; Other tabs: Prefs > General > TabsAndWindows)

NEW Added correct support for rounded corners for Editor's windows in Win11.

NEW Added Month-groups in the HistoryView pane.

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • Fixed the incorrect redaction of some images. (T# 5924)

  • Implemented a Workaround in handling poorly-formatted color spaces.

  • Fixed page navigation by keybord to match the corresponding commands on the document bar. (T# 4112)

  • Fixed an issue when locking individual fields with signatures that was not working. (T# 5856)

  • Fixed an issue showing field properties in form editing tools when using the dark UI theme. (T# 5881)

  • Fixed an issue with creating pencil annotations with variable profiles under some conditions.

  • Fixed a rare issue that was apparent when converting .xps, .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx files.

  • Cropped the very long list of extensions displayed in 'All Supported Files' filter inside the 'Open/Save File' dialog.

  • Fixed an issue with the appearance of the vertical scrollbar which displays many search-marks - previosly it was hard to see the knob-button under such marks. (T# 5944)

  • Fixed an issue with the 'Highlight from File' feature.

  • Added the ability to set a position for the resulting images in the Enhance Scanned Pages plugin

  • Added a parameter to the FileName macro to extract part of a name. (T# 5818)

  • Added an option to skip larger/smaller than specific pages in the Resize Pages feature. (T# 5017)

  • Improved performance of PDF optimization

  • Enabled saving a PDF document to a destination file that is a filesystem alias of the source file. Examples of such aliases include alternate network shares, symbolic link etc.

  • We are now reusing a stamp's appearance when the same stamp is placed multiple times on the same document.

  • Improved the performance of the application's start up (~20-30% faster).

  • Disabled autoswitching focus to the Format tab when the Stamp tool is activated.

  • Changed the filter rule in the HistoryView pane: now the same document can be presented in different groups simultaneously.

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