PDF-XChange Editor Version History

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

• Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted EMF files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.

• Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted PNG files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.

• Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted TIFF files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.

• Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted J2K files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.

• Fixed spaces with zero width.

• Fixed the issue with displaying search marks on the scrollbar in single page mode. (T# 6187)

• Fixed the issue when deleting pages from a document did not always decrease the file size. (T# 6248)

• Fixed the issue where digital signatures generated by DocuSign were reported as invalid.

• Fixed the issue with context loss when pasting as metafile. (T# 6217)

• Fixed compatibility issues with redaction annotations.

• Fixed the issue when document color override affected printing, even when the option was disabled. (T# 6231)

• Fixed the issue with editing the action lists of bookmarks/links when the original action list has been corrupted. (T# 6137)

• Fixed the issue with applying default styles for measurements with fractions.

• Fixed the issue with incorrectly estimated progress duration for the Search feature in bookmarks.

• Fixed the URL verification procedure for cases when the UNC url has more than three slashes after the scheme prefix, and added more known NoAuthority-schemas.

• Fixed the issue with disabling commands inside the ribbon/format tab for selected objects inside the portfolio preview window, and fixed the logic with autoshowing the Portfolio tab in the ribbon.

• Compare Documents: fixed the issue with hiding the format change differences when the 'Formatting' category is turned off. (39161)

• Search Pane: refactored the 'Where' combo to fix issues related to cases described on the following forum topics: (39139, 39140)

• Search Pane: fixed the issues with drawing highlighted text inside the results pane when some highlight ranges overlapped.

• Search/Find+Redact: fixed the issue with case when, according to search criteria, text is partially overlapping.(T# 6253) (39352)

• Search/Find+Redact: fixed the issue with consecutive words when a line break is present between them. (T# 2246, 6135) (20541, 38929)

• Fixed an issue with thumbnail selections that contains images, paths and text items. (T#6195) (39184)

• Fixed an issue with restoring sessions by using the 'Just open documents from the session' option in the 'Manage Sessions' dialog box. (T#6301, 6303) (39326)

• Fixed an issue with using the 'Row Data by Column' macro in the 'Populate PDF Forms' feature.(T# 6063)

• Fixed handling some embedded CFF fonts. (T# 6241)

• Fixed incorrect embedding of some OTF(CFF) fonts. (T# 6294)

• Improved the correction of broken files. (T# 6252, 6273)

• Improved the usability of selecting fonts in the 'Generate Bookmarks From Page Text' and 'Create Links from Bookmarks' features.

• Added options to customize the title of contents in the 'Build Table Of Contents' feature. (T# 6056)

• Added an option to display 'Logical Page Numbers' in the 'Advanced Search Result'. (T# 6178)

• Added an option to add a bookmark for each file in the RTF to PDF operation.

• Added an option to add a bookmark for each file in TXT to PDF operation.

• Improved space handling for CJK languages.

• Improved text line positioning for editing PDF text.

• Added a feature in navigation mode: when the "End" key is pressed on the last page, the view is scrolled to the end of the last page.

• Added ability to paste multi-line text into single-line edit boxes.

• Improved support for Touchscreens: added single finger-scroll everywhere, without any conflict with DnD, Multiselect or ContextMenu options (just tap-and-move to scroll, tap-hold-and-move to DnD/Multsel, tap-hold-untap to ContextMenu); and fixed several other issues. (T# 6204) (31877, 39334)

• Changed behavior for cases when the mouse pointer is over the scrollable control in the Ribbon and user spins the wheel-button. Now it scrolls during such control (whereas previously it was used to scroll through the ribbon tabs).

• Fixed/improved the 'Merge Pages' feature: the position of merged pages; the use of 'Select Sheets' options; retaining actions with objects. (T#6272, 6268)

• Improved the 'Summarize Comments' feature. (T# 5994, 6118)