PDF-XChange Editor Version History

Released Apr 29th, 2024 . Requires maintenance through Apr 29th, 2024

NEW Added an option to the 'Extract Pages' feature that enables extracted pages to be opened only in the first output document. (T# 6734, 2584) (41188)

NEW Added a feature that enables the setting of page labels through page properties. (39480)

NEW Added an option to toggle all comments (and popups) on/off with a single button. (40357)

Add "toggle" buttons that can each be used to do one of two actions.
1. Show/Hide all comments
2. Open/Close all pop-ups

NEW Added the ability to move the location at which the active document is stored. (T# 6722)

NEW Added a feature that removes hyphens when copying/exporting text.

NEW Added a default behavior that zooms documents to the 'Fit Page' view with a double click of the middle mouse button.

NEW Added the ability to sort and group annotations by color when creating summaries.

NEW Added a feature that enables the placing of signatures on multiple pages. (T# 6608) (40757)

NEW Added a 'select page region' tool that cuts, deletes and manipulates page content. (T# 6576)

NEW Added document preview and thumbnails for WebDAV services.

NEW Added an option to hide the 'Enter text...' placeholder of comment tiles in the Comments Pane.

NEW Improved the 'Enhance Scanned Pages' feature. A range of new options have been added, and some existing ones were improved.

NEW Added a feature to filter bookmarks in the Bookmarks pane.

NEW Added a document thumbnail to the "ask-for-save-before-closing" dialog box.

NEW Added a preview thumbnail to the document tab tooltip.

NEW Added a 'Find and Replace' feature.

NEW Added the 'Normalize Pages' feature. (T# 5266)

Removes all redundant page/content rotations and media-box offsets, leaving the entire page's appearance identical to the original.

NEW Added the ability to skip company logos, stamps, and other graphical elements when performing OCR.

NEW Added a feature that detects edges in scanned documents, then crops and de-warps them.

NEW Added an option to choose font sizes for redacted annotations in the 'Find and Redact' tool. (T# 6754)

Bugfixes and Improvements

  • Fixed an issue with the download icon for search providers. (40344)

  • Improved the handling of the use of the 'Enter' key in dialog boxes that have preview controls. (42045)

  • Fixed an issue with removing segments in closed paths. (42108)

  • Fixed an issue with restoring/saving the last used session when the application is started from the command line. (For example, right-click in Windows File Explorer > "Open in Editor" or "Combine in Editor"). (T# 6781)

  • Fixed an issue with the page number macro when editing headers/footers that are set to even pages. (T# 6817) (41702)

  • Fixed an issue with the simultaneous selection of numerous XForm objects. (T# 6464) (40284)

  • Fixed an issue where the preview page background color was overridden in the 'Add Header and Footers' feature. (T# 6748)

  • Fixed an issue where a dialog box was hidden when toggling between two or more independent windows with open files. (T# 6649)

  • Fixed an issue with the functioning of the Enter key in the "Crop Page Tool". (T# 6860) (42045)

  • Fixed an issue with the scaling of rotated pages on overlay documents in the 'Overlay Pages' feature. (T# 6870) (42184)

  • Fixed the issue where switching from Editor to a different app and back again resulted in the loss of focus for the active text comment.

  • Fixed issues with "two-finger zooming" of pages.

  • Fixed an issue with italicized text in pop-up notes with fonts that do not support italics. (41731)

  • Fixed the issue with portfolio sub-documents. When they were opened by clicking on search results and then closed, the hidden portfolio parent remained open.

  • Fixed an issue with focus when comment popups are opened. (T# 6834) (41808)

  • Fixed a toggling issue with the 'gap between pages' option in the ribbon page layout. (T# 6843) (41879)

  • Fixed a character spacing issue with OCR. (T# 6740) (41242)

  • Fixed an issue with the integration of the 'NVidia RTX Desktop Manager' utility and the Editor window title sys-menu.

  • Fixed an issue with remembering recent folders used in the 'Full Search' pane. (T# 6863) (42067)

  • Improved the handling of PDF files that contain junk data. (T# 6838)

  • Improved the handling of files that have large amounts of text outside their page boundaries. (T# 6380, 6797)

  • Fixed character scaling for substituted fonts. (T# 6497)

  • Fixed an issue where line breaks were preventing the creation of links from bookmarks. (T# 6762)

  • Fixed an issue where the "Generate Bookmarks from Page Text" feature was skipping words. (T# 6596) (40526)

  • Fixed an issue where the "Generate Bookmarks from Page Text" feature was not recognizing ligatures. (T# 6772) (41382)

  • Fixed an issue where the "Generate Bookmarks from Page Text" feature was not saving stop words. (T# 6780) (41465)

  • Fixed an issue with shared folders on OneDrive.

  • Fixed an issue with regular expressions in the 'Find and Redact' tool. (42145)

  • JavaScript: fixed an issue with some callout properties. (40528)

  • Fixed the issues with rendering rotated images and patterns. (T# 6692, 6725, 6758)

  • Fixed the incorrect rendering of some JPEG 2000 images. (T# 6761)

  • Fixed an issue with slow rendering of some Type 3 fonts. (T# 6767)

  • Added presets to the 'Merge Pages' feature. (T#6663) (40933)

  • Added the ability to filter even/odd sheets when printing. (T# 6116) (38642)

  • Improved the renaming of named destinations. The associated "GoTo" actions are now also updated. (T# 6691) (41016)

  • Improved the conversion of webpages to PDF for the Chromuim-based browser extension and the Editor's 'New Document from Webpage' feature.

  • Added the ability to include a gap between pages for the Merge Pages feature. (T# 6529) (40498)

  • Added the ability to set the count of columns inside the Stamps dropdown list. (T# 6653)

  • Added an option of disabling the adding of a default action when bookmarks are created. (T# 6726) (40942)

  • Added the option of using the current page when creating a page range in the 'Page Numbering' feature. (T# 6550) (38402)

  • Added annotation options for the 'Set Margins' feature. (T# 6846) (41904)

  • Added the option to open more than one attachment at a time from the attachments pane. (T# 6799)

  • Added a copy of the preferences options for restoring the last used session to the 'Manage Sessions' dialog box. (T# 6786)

  • Updated the 'Find and Redact' feature. It now supports regular expressions with 'look-behind assertions' (fixed length only).

  • Improved space usage in the Thumbnails pane. (T# 6787) (41552)

  • Improved font merging. (T# 6776)

  • Improved the rendering speed in cases where documents use many copies of the same non-embedded font. (T# 6831)

  • Added the option of using macros in the "Find & Replace Bookmark Text" feature. (T# 6477) (38679)

  • Improved the capitalization options in the 'Generate Bookmarks from Page Text' and 'Change Bookmark Case' features. (T#5775) (37555)

Released Jan 22nd, 2024 . Requires maintenance through Jan 22nd, 2024

Released Jan 8th, 2024 . Requires maintenance through Jan 8th, 2024

2022

Released Nov 28th, 2022 . Requires maintenance through Nov 28th, 2022

NEW Added the ability to OCR multiple selected images to their context menu. (T# 5979) (38418)

NEW Added the ability to go to next or previous bookmark using the hotkeys Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] as the default setting. (T# 6226)

NEW Added the ability to set named destinations as targets for new links by double clicking on the destination. (T# 6013) (38557)

NEW Added the ability to update bookmark/named destination targets using selected text. (T# 5888) (37840)

NEW Added the ability to manage application prompts that have the 'Do not show again' option. (T# 5916) (37933)

NEW Added the ability to move selected page objects diagonally with the arrow keys. (T# 6111) (38880)

NEW Added an option to resize pages to match a specified page of the current document. (T# 6250)

NEW Added an option to save documents automatically, without displaying the Save As dialog box, when digitally signing documents. (T# 6122, 6176)

NEW Added support of Metadata templates. (T# 5636)

NEW Added an option to export/import metadata. (T# 5928)

NEW Added an option to specify how links on a page can be activated (by click, Ctrl+click, or double click). (T# 6269)

NEW Added a special command with shortcut (Ctrl+Home) that puts the keyboard focus on the page view directly. (T# 878).

NEW Search Pane: added 'This Exact Phrase' option. (20541)

NEW Improved/optimized 'Rename Document' feature.

NEW Added new options (CaseSensitive, WholeWordOnly, RegExp, etc) for the Find feature's filtering ability in several panes, such as Recents, QuickLaunch, CompareDocs:Diffs and HistoryView (available via the icon on the right).

NEW Added a set of new commands to have the ability to directly activate any document tab from the first ten tabs using shortcuts from [Ctrl+Num1] to [Ctrl+Num0] (note that shortcuts are customizable).

NEW Added the ability to add Links to Layers. (T# 6238)

NEW Added the ability to copy base content using Ctrl+Drag. (T# 5527)

NEW Added the ability to export PDF to WebP images.

NEW Added the ability to remove pages that bookmarks point to in the 'Pages' and 'Sections' context menus of the Bookmarks pane. (T# 6261)

NEW OneDrive plugin improved to work with OneDrive for Business.

NEW Search Operation: added the option of specifying multiple files/folders for the input.

Bugfixes and 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 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: 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 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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)

  • 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)

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