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

2023

Released Mar 6th, 2023 . Requires maintenance through Nov 28th, 2022

NEW Implemented the annot.refType and annot.replyTo properties.

NEW Added 'Expand All/Collapse All' buttons in the Advanced tab of the Metadata dialog box.

NEW Added 'Delete but Retain Children' feature for Bookmarks pane.

NEW The Default OCR engine (Tesseract) has been upgraded to the latest stable version (5.3).

Bug fixes, and made many other improvements

  • 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 a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted XPS 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 PDF 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 the issue where some digital signatures generated by DocuSign were reported as invalid.

  • Fixed the issue with the annot.gestures property. (39785)

  • Fixed the issue with the doc.addWatermarkFromFile property. (39385)

  • Fixed the issue with the 'Fit Box by Text Content' feature for callout and freetext annotations. (T# 4819)

  • Fixed the rare issue with formatting measure values when fraction types are used. (T# 6362)

  • Fixed the issue with moving hidden form fields via keyboard in the form editor. (T# 6381)

  • Fixed a rare issue that caused a crash when loading PDFs that contain XFA forms.

  • Fixed the issue with the 'Sort Pages by Bookmarks' feature on some documents. (T# 6343)

  • Fixed the issue with the error message that appears when opening documents from a session.(T# 6359) (39711)

  • Fixed the issue with the enabled/disabled state of 'Insert/Replace Text' buttons on toolbars. (39772)

  • Fixed the issue that could cause a crash when a floating pane is active and the shortcut for 'Full Screen' is used. (39769)

  • Fixed a rare issue that resulted in the incorrect positioning of redaction rectangles when OCR is being performed on a document and the 'Editable Text and Images' mode is enabled.

  • Edit Content Tool: fixed the logic used with the selection of objects on pages when users right-click to open the context menu. Right-clicking on selected objects now retains the current selection, as it should.

  • Changed a way of handling document information tags when converting from MS Office document formats.

  • Fixed how information is displayed in the document info bar for PDF/A-4, PDF/A-4e and PDF/A-4f files.

  • Added the ability to replace non-existent files when opening the associated session. (T# 6360) (39702)

  • Fixed/improved the 'OCR Images' feature: reinstated the output options (for Enhanced OCR engine only). (39995)

  • Improved/fixed the detection of skew/rotation angles when OCR is being performed on documents/images.

  • Updated third-party components to address their known vulnerabilities.

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