PDF XChange Co. News

Would you like to have 'Early Access' to new releases of our products?

Tue, 5 May 2026 04:32:33

We have introduced a new release cadence that will include periodic preview builds available to existing, licensed users of PDF-XChange who would like to help shape the software.

You will have access to all the new, fresh features upcoming in the released public versions, bug fixes and feature refinements. This will help us refine and even add functionality, where deemed appropriate, based on your input and feedback. This is your chance to have some real and valuable influence on how the products you use are designed and refined and, most importantly, made more robust—before the general release to our many millions of users.

If you are interested in joining the preview program, then please email support@pdf-xchange.com with the subject line “Early Access Program – Registration,” and we will assist you with setup.

Participation requires a valid, current license for PDF-XChange, and an active account on our website. Under the early release initiative you will be one of a select number of users invited to download and install new builds from our website when a new release is available. In order to facilitate this, you will receive an email containing a link to download a preview version, along with notes highlighting areas where feedback is particularly valuable. Preview versions are designed to be installed alongside your existing production installation, so both can remain available and be used independently without compromising their respective useability.

Sign up now by emailing support@pdf-xchange.com and come on board—this is your chance to have your say and provide us with valuable feedback on new releases and their usability, and any issues you may find, before the public releases are made available.

Thank you!
The PDF-XChange Team

NEW Release - Build 10.8.5.410 - Available Now 21.04.2026

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:08:50

Build 10.8.5.410 is released Apr 21st, 2026 . Requires maintenance through Apr 21st, 2026

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:
Updated third-party libraries to address known security and stability issues. Click here  https://www.pdf-xchange.com/support/security-bulletins.html for further information.
Fixed an issue where exporting to XFDF would corrupt highlight annotations. (49319)
Fixed a possible hang when rendering some documents generated by iOS 26.
Improved the certificate validation process.
Fixed an issue with replies incorrectly being shown in some rare cases.
Fixed the issue with selecting comments when the 'Edit Field' tool is active. (49382)

Axios NPM Supply Chain Compromise: Malicious Packages Deliver Remote Access Trojan - PDF-XChange Unaffected

Tue, 7 Apr 2026 09:38:57

Security Bulletin Apr 3, 2026

On March 31, 2026, attackers compromised the official Axios package on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry. Axios is one of the most widely used open-source libraries for making web requests, with over a hundred million downloads per week. It's embedded in web applications, mobile apps, backend services, and automated build pipelines across virtually every industry.
https://www.sans.org/blog/axios-npm-supply-chain-compromise-malicious-packages-remote-access-trojan

PDF-XChange uses Axios libraries on our website. However, we at PDF-XChange had not yet completed our review and testing of the latest release and therefore were yet to either approve or implement the release that was compromised.

We have thoroughly reviewed our servers, and no malware was detected. Consequently, we are pleased to confirm that our systems were completely unaffected.

Best regards,
PDF-XChange Co. Security Team

Web site Service updates - Monday 9th March 2026

Mon, 9 Mar 2026 01:34:50

Web site Services updates - Monday 9th March 2026.
Over the past months we have experienced a huge increase in attempts by malicious 3rd party actors to disrupt service for our primary domains and web site. In particular at specific times each week we have noticed automated attempts to break down our defences and it has been necessary this weekend to take action to ensure that both ours and our clients services and data are always adequately protected.

This is a regrettable but not surprising consequence of the staggering increase in our sales over the past 2 years - up over 100% for our most popular products - as many of our competitors have ceased to provide their products on anything but the 'subscription model - forcing clients to pay greatly increased (and far more lucrative for them) monthly or quarterly fees, should they wish continue to use their software products and applications. It is our firm intention to continue to offer our products on a perpetual license, with no mandatory monthly, quarterly or annual fees.

During the course of today as these services are updated and propagated you may notice a temporary deterioration in response times to web site requests and delivery - we sincerely apologise and will do our utmost to keep any interruptions to our services to the absolute minimum.

Thank you for your understanding and patience as we act to improve our security and defences against these criminal and nefariously motivated groups.

Software Developers - SDK Website Maintenance

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:36:06

We would like to give our software development clients using our software development kits (SDKs) advance warning that the SDK section of our website (sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com) will experience a brief downtime period for maintenance on Wednesday, December 17th from approximately 9:00–10:00 AM PST. Visitors to the site may encounter interruptions and/or delays within that time period. Note that all other areas of the website, such as orders, account/licensing/information management etc, will not be affected.
Thank you for your patience while we carry out this routine but necessary maintenance.

The PDF-XChange Team

Site Maintenance - Possible speed and performance slow down. Tuesday 9th December

Tue, 9 Dec 2025 12:50:47

We have been advised by our Web Hosting Provider that they will during Tuesday 9th December be carrying out maintenance to our web hosting server and some users may experience a slow down in performance etc during this time.

We apologise for any inconvenience this causes and hope to restore normal performance as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

PDF-XChange Co Ltd.

PDF-XChange Co. Holiday Office Hours 2025

Mon, 1 Dec 2025 02:20:44

PDF-XChange Co. Holiday Hours 2025 *Sales and support emails are checked periodically through out this holiday season
	UK Office	Canadian Office
Wed, Dec 24th Christmas Eve	Office Hours: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm GMT	Office Hours: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm PST
Thu, Dec 25th Christmas Day	CLOSED	CLOSED
Fri, Dec 26th Boxing Day	CLOSED	Office Hours: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm PST
Sat, Dec 27th	CLOSED	CLOSED
Sun, Dec 28th	CLOSED	CLOSED
Mon, Dec 29th	Office Hours: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm GMT	Office Hours: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm PST
Tue, Dec 30th	Office Hours: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm GMT	Office Hours: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm PST
Wed, Dec 31st New Year's Eve	Office Hours: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm GMT	Office Hours: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm PST
Thu, Jan 1st New Year's Day	CLOSED	CLOSED

PDF-XChange Co. UK & Canada
would like to wish all of our Customers & Resellers
a Very Merry Christmas & the Happiest of New Years!

NEW Release - Presenting Build 10.7.5.403 - Available Now

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:19:11

Build 10.7.5.403 is released Oct 28th, 2025 . Requires maintenance through Oct 28th, 2025

Here is a short highlighting some of the new fixes and improvements included in the latest release of the PDF-XChange Editor:

Updated third-party libraries to address known security and stability issues. Click the History page for further information.
Fixed an issue where document tabs could close unexpectedly when the documents were disconnected from their files, for example, on unstable networks, or after resuming machines from sleep/hibernation. (47992, 48074)
Fixed a crash when a specially crafted argument was passed to the JavaScript API functions util.readFileIntoStream or Doc.importDataObject. Reported by Lee Kwang-Hui (rhkdgml4328@gmail.com)
Fixed an issue with supporting PFX certificate files that use legacy cryptographic algorithms.
Fixed an issue with displaying scroll bar handles together with search/find marks on scrollbars when the page view is split. (47411)
Fixed an issue with showing tooltips for document tabs when they are narrowed to icon-only mode. (46620)
Improved text positioning in dynamic XFA forms.
etc.

Mail Delays Due to the Canada Post Strike September 2025

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:23:44

All PDF-XChange clients should note that since September 26, 2025 the national membership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has been on strike. The strike has resulted in the delay of millions of letters and packages being delivered across Canada. If any clients have sent payment via cheque during this period then it will probably not be delivered for some time, and there will be a significant backlog even when the strike is resolved. If you're experiencing any such delays then please contact sales@pdf-xchange.com for assistance. There are alternative options for sending cheques, such as using a courier, and different payment methods - credit card, Paypal, and wire transfer options - are available.

Kind regards,

The PDF-XChange team

NEW Release - Presenting Build 10.7.0.398 - Available Now

Tue, 9 Sep 2025 11:19:07

We at PDF-XChange are pleased to announce the release of v10.7.0.398 of our PDF-XChange V10 product line on August 20th, 2025.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features included in the latest release of the PDF-XChange Editor:

The build history for PDF-XChange Editor is available here.

NEW Release - Build 10.6.1.397 - Available Now 22.07.2025

Tue, 9 Sep 2025 11:19:32

Build 10.6.1.397 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

NEW Release - Presenting Build 10.6 - Available Now

Tue, 9 Sep 2025 11:20:14

We at PDF-XChange are pleased to announce the release of v10.6 of our PDF-XChange V10 product line on May 6th, 2025.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features included in the latest release of the PDF-XChange Editor:

The build history for PDF-XChange Editor is available below
PDF-XChange Co Ltd :: PDF-XChange Editor Version History

NEW Release - Presenting Build 10.5 - Available Now

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:49:14

We at PDF-XChange are pleased to announce the release of v10.5 of our PDF-XChange V10 product line - available now.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features included in the latest release of the PDF-XChange Editor:

A complete breakdown of all new features, bug fixes and other improvements is available in the version history.

Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd officially renamed - PDF-XChange Co. Ltd

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:10:04

Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd officially renamed - PDF-XChange Co. Ltd

After some 27 years of trading as Tracker Software Products we have finally decided it's time we streamlined our identity globally to just PDF-XChange Co. Ltd, as we have been for some time outside of North America.
From December 2024 we have officially changed our name in all territories to be ‘PDF-XChange Co. Ltd’.

Nothing else has changed, same addresses, same staff and the same great products !
Here's to the next - 27 years and beyond.

PDF-XChange Co Team

Mail Delays Due to the Canada Post Strike

Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:12:12

All PDF-XChange clients should note that since November 15, 2024 the national membership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has been on strike. The strike has resulted in the delay of millions of letters and packages being delivered across Canada. If any clients have sent payment via cheque during this period then it will probably not be delivered for some time, and there will be a significant backlog even when the strike is resolved. If you're experiencing any such delays then please contact sales@pdf-xchange.com for assistance. There are alternative options for sending cheques, such as using a courier, and different payment methods - credit card, Paypal, and wire transfer options - are available.

Kind regards,

The PDF-XChange team

Update: it was announced on the 16th December that the strike has been resolved and all Canada Post employees will return to work on Tuesday 17th December. Any delayed payments will now enter a backlog and will be processed in due course. If you would prefer faster processing then you can contact us as detailed above in order to arrange an alternative payment method.

Windows 10 'End of life' announced by Microsoft.

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 01:35:24

Windows 10 Support - ending October 2025

What does this mean for me?

After 14 October 2025, Microsoft will no longer provide free software updates from Windows Update, technical assistance or security fixes for Windows 10. Your PC will still work, but MS recommends moving to Windows 11.
You can read more about your MS options from Microsoft's web site here

As far as your PDF-XChange products are concerned, nothing will change dramatically - they will still function as intended, and are likely to do so for some time to come. However, as more time elapses from the date of Windows 10 being supported, it is likely issues will begin to appear, and our ability to resolve these will become more problematic and potentially impossible - so you should start to plan for migration to Windows 11 before this occurs.

Our willingness to support you, should you choose to continue to use Windows 10, won't falter - but our ability to do so will be compromised the longer you decide to opt out of upgrading, so we would urge you to consider moving to a supported version of Windows sooner rather than later if you are using a version of Windows either out of support with Microsoft already or one for which support will shortly end.

Users of both Windows 8 and Windows 7 should also be aware that Microsoft no longer offers standard service updates or support for either of these products that have reached their end of life and users should migrate to an updated version of Windows as soon as possible.

For our part, we guarantee our products will function with the currently supported versions of Windows only - and we will still offer support for older versions, but when issues appear, as they undoubtedly will, we are limited to resolving issues within our own products, and there will come a point where we are unable to economically or practically resolve issues caused by lack of support from MS or other software/hardware installed and integrated in your installations.

Therefore we recommend all clients use versions of Windows ‘In support’ with Microsoft to ensure hardware/software compatibility and that your products security is maintained at all times.

Build 388 of PDF-XChange V10 product line Coming Soon!

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:29:12

We at PDF-XChange Co./Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce that Build 388 of our PDF-XChange V10 product line will soon be available!

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

We Asked ChatGPT about PDF Software - Guess What it Said?

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:04:04

Given the AI boom that's currently taking place, we at PDF-XChange couldn't resist asking ChatGPT its views on PDF software. If you somehow haven't heard about ChatGPT, it's a chatbot and virtual assistant developed by OpenAI. It uses large language models to enable users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. It's trained on a vast corpus of text data from a variety of sources including books, websites, articles, and other written material. This data spans a wide array of topics and includes both factual information and general knowledge. ChatGPT's responses aggregate and summarize this knowledge, which means it can be used to find prevailing views and opinions in online articles and reviews. So we thought it would be interesting to get the lowdown on PDF software, and here's what ChatGPT had to say:

PDF-XChange Staff: “What's the best value-for-money PDF software?”

ChatGPT: "There are several PDF editors known for their good value for money. Here are a few popular options:

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC: While it is one of the more expensive options, it offers a comprehensive set of features, including editing, converting, and collaboration tools.

Nitro PDF Pro: Nitro provides a robust set of editing tools at a more affordable price than Adobe, with a user-friendly interface.

Foxit PhantomPDF: Foxit is known for its lightweight software and offers a range of features similar to Adobe Acrobat at a lower cost.

PDF-XChange Editor: This is a cost-effective option with many features, including editing, annotating, and OCR capabilities.

When choosing a PDF editor, consider your specific needs, such as the features you require and whether you prefer a desktop or online solution. Always check for any free trials or versions before making a purchase."

PDF-XChange Staff: “Which one is best for a one time purchase?”

ChatGPT: "If you're looking for a PDF editor that allows for a one-time purchase rather than a subscription model, consider the following…

1. PDF-XChange Editor: This editor offers a free version with limited features, but the paid version can be purchased outright. It provides a good range of editing tools and is often praised for its performance and affordability…"

We were very pleased to see that we were ChatGPT's number one choice when it comes to being the best value for a one-time purchase. We do our utmost to combine functionality with affordability, and our “single-purchase, lifetime license” model has often resulted in our software topping review charts in a world where expensive monthly subscriptions have unfortunately become the norm. But please don't worry - we don't intend to change our business model any time soon, so you can continue to enjoy the excellent value that we offer for many years to come.

Kind regards,

The PDF-XChange team

PDF-XChange - Reviews and comments updated

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:17:27

Our PDF-XChange Editor and PDF-XChange software are receiving some excellent independent reviews and comments - not that we are resting on our laurels - development to improve and refine continues at a brisk pace !

Here are just a few of the reviews and blogs being posted about the new PDF-XChange Editor that 1000's every day are downloading and using in place of Adobe's own Acrobat Reader !!!

For English Readers :

Xenonmagazine - PDF-XChange Pro Offers Great Tools
Softerviews.org - Bhikkhu Pesala PDF-XChange Editor
Techradar.com - PDF-XChange Editor - such a great review
Freeappsforme.com - review - PDF-XChange Editor - New
Kubadownload.com - review - PDF-XChange Editor - New
Maddownload.com - review - PDF-Tools - New
Softonline.net - review - PDF-XChange Editor
Ebool.com - in-depth review - PDF-XChange Editor
Softpedia - PDF-XChange Editor SDK 6.0.318.0 review
MakeUseOf.com
Online Tech Tips
SnapFiles
LifeHacker Poll - The Best PDF Viewer/Editor for Windows
JTB World
MakeuseofCOM
PC World
SoftPedia
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PDF-XChange-Viewer.shtml
Future Lawyer
http://futurelawyer.typepad.com/futurelawyer/2007/06/tracker_softwar.html
Softonic
http://pdf-xchange-viewer.en.softonic.com/

For some of our Non English Reading clients :

Vietnamese - PDF-XChange Editor on Taimienphi.vn
Vietnamese - PDF-Tools on Taimienphi.vn
German - Grundlagen-Computer.de
German - techfacts
Russian - Video Review and Manual
Russian - Review from Blog-pc.ru
Polish - PC Centre Review
German - Chip
and For the PDF-XChange Viewer - FREE version
German Softonic
Dutch review
French Review - Commentcamarche.net
Japanese Review Translator is included on a page

YouTube Video reviews/tutorials :
Review of PDF Xchange Review - Edit PDFs

and there is plenty more if you just 'Google' 'Best PDF Reader', PDF-XChange Viewer or PDFXViewer as the PDF-XChange has also become known - you will be pleased you did !

Is Windows Showing You Advertisements? Learn How to Disable Them Here...

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:04:45

The Windows 11 Start Menu will soon have ADVERTS Thanks to Microsoft - Here's How to Disable Them

The latest Windows 11 update will add adverts for apps launched from the start menu. From Netflix to Amazon Prime, more and more online services are now beginning to fill up with these pesky promotions - and now Windows users won't even be able to open their own internet browsers before seeing adverts, because Microsoft will soon begin pushing adverts into the start menu of Windows 11, with the inclusion of 'recommended' apps. On social media, Windows users have been expressing their outrage at the decision to include ads in an operating system that they have already paid £119.99 ($139) to access. Luckily, these advertisements can be disabled easily with a simple settings change, as detailed below.
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How to Disable Advertisements from Appearing in the Windows 11 Start Menu

Windows users who have installed the update KB5036980 will see 'suggestions for new apps' in their start menu. Follow the steps below to disable them:

1. Go the the Windows search menu and enter ‘Settings’, then click it to go to your Windows Settings.

2. Click ‘Personalization’.

3. Click ‘Start’.

You will see a toggle labeled 'Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more'.

4. Disable this option to permanently remove adverts from your start menu.

NEW Release - Presenting Build 10.3.1.387 released June 17th, 2024!

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:46:46

We at Tracker Software Products & PDF-XChange Co are pleased to announce the release of Build 10.3.1.387 of our PDF-XChange V10 product line on June 17th, 2024.

The PDF-XChange PRO V10 bundle combines three of Tracker Software's cutting-edge applications:

The builds history for each application is available below:

PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus

PDF Tools

PDF-XChange Standard

We have hundreds of knowledgebase support articles to help you use our products and solve many support issues right now! For example ...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 02:26:08

Many users perhaps don't realize just how much help there is available directly from these web site page - for example...

Our 'Knowledge Base' (KB) articles are designed to help you get up and running as quickly as possible and resolve hundreds of simple problems and answer questions you may have right now - rather than have to wait for a reply from one of our support team members (speedy and reliable though they are !)
For example - if you have recently had a problem on your system and had to reinstall Windows, or have simply replaced your hardware, you will need to 'deregister' your license on that old installation/hardware. Doing so will ensure that your license is disabled on the previous installation, and available for use on your new hardware. You may have thought this was not be possible if you no longer have that hardware - but it is!
Further information on how to do this is available here.

Also - please rest assured that our support remains 100% free to all our users - whether they have paid for our products or use one of the free versions that we have always made available from our early days (and continue to do). Clients using our free versions are important to us as they provide valuable feedback on features/shortcomings, and we pay equal attention to all of our users - irrespective of the size of the client or their investment with us.

Monday Nov 13th our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the Remembrance Day Stat holiday

Thu, 9 Nov 2023 08:40:12

All clients are advised that our our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' on Monday Nov 13th, 2023, for the Remembrance Day Stat Holiday

Our UK/European Office will be open as usual and offer support for all clients once open.

Our North American Office will be open as usual once again on Tuesday Nov 14th, 2023.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Latest Newsletter Available Here...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:14:29

Want to see all that's new with PDF-XChange?
Then why not read our latest newsletter, online now ...
Or better yet - subscribe to receive notices whenever a new newsletter is published - by email, so you never miss product updates, info on price changes, new build features, interesting articles that detail how to best use our software, and other information.

We have changed our Web Site and Email URL/Domains today Thursday, October 26th

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:48:54

Important Information regarding our online web domain and email domain name changes...

From Thursday October 26th we will change our online master domain name and email services domain from www.tracker-software.com to www.pdf-xchange.com - so if you currently have us 'bookmarked' in your browser or as a contact in the 'address book' of your email client - you will need to update these from that date.
For some time in Europe we have been known as 'PDF-XChange Co Ltd' and we are beginning the process of changing our identity both online and offline to 'PDF-XChange' worldwide - which is our most successful product line and brand and we will progressively retire our original name and branding of the past 26 years or so from 'Tracker Software Products ...' to 'PDF-XChange Co Ltd' which as many of you will know is the parent company of Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd and has been for some years.

From the 26th of October if you try to reach our web site using any old links or bookmarks etc - you will be redirected to the master domain and web site - https://www.pdf-xchange.com and any emails sent to our current email server will be redirected to the same contact using the correct new email domain - for example ;
support@tracker-software.com will be redirected to support@pdf-xchange.com.
sales@tracker-software.com will be redirected to sales@pdf-xchange.com.
Etc.

Please update your contacts info and bookmarks as soon as convenient - in the case of email addresses - these will function now if used. Should you have any issues - please do let us know and we will do our best to assist in a timely manner as always.

Thank you.
PDF-XChange Co Ltd/Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd

Monday Oct 9th our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the Thanksgiving Day Stat holiday

Fri, 6 Oct 2023 08:53:23

All clients are advised that our our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' on Monday Oct 9th, 2023, for the Thanksgiving Day Stat Holiday

Our UK/European Office will be open as usual and offer support for all clients once open.

Our North American Office will be open as usual once again on Tuesday Oct 10th, 2023.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Monday Sep 4th our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the Labour Day Stat holiday

Fri, 1 Sep 2023 08:41:20

All clients are advised that our our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' on Monday Sep 4th, 2023, for the Labour Day Stat Holiday

Our UK/European Office will be open as usual and offer support for all clients once open.

Our North American Office will be open as usual once again on Tuesday Sep 5th, 2023.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Monday August 29h our European Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the Summer Bank holiday in the UK.

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:29:13

All clients are advised that on August 29th our European Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the Summer Bank holiday in the UK.

Our North American Office will be open as usual and offer support for all clients once open.

Our UK/European Office will be open as usual once again on Tuesday August 30th.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Monday Aug 7th our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the BC Day Stat holiday

Fri, 1 Sep 2023 08:39:32

All clients are advised that our our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' on Monday Aug 7th, 2023, for the BC Day Stat Holiday

Our UK/European Office will be open as usual and offer support for all clients once open.

Our North American Office will be open as usual once again on Tuesday Aug 8th, 2023.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

PDF-XChange Version 10 is HERE!

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:22:43

We are pleased to announce the release of all PDF-XChange V10 End User Products.
Version 10 is a Major Update with many new and many updated 'must have' features - DONT MISS OUT !

The PDF-XChange PRO V10 bundle combines three of Tracker Software's cutting-edge applications:

The builds history for each application is available below:

PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus

PDF Tools

PDF-XChange Standard

NEW Release - Presenting Build 9.4.368.0 released April 6th, 2023!

Wed, 7 Jun 2023 03:44:52

We at Tracker Software Products & PDF-XChange Co are pleased to announce the release of Build 9.4.368.0 of our PDF-XChange V9 product line on April 6th, 2023

The PDF-XChange PRO V9 bundle combines three of Tracker Software's cutting-edge applications:

The builds history for each application is available below:

PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus

PDF Tools

PDF-XChange Standard

PDF-XChange Co Ltd and Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd announce all products removed from sale in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Thu, 30 May 2024 11:10:35

Please be advised that our decision to suspend sales of all our products to China and all its territories remains in place as of 28th July 2022, and this will not change for the foreseeable future. Further information is detailed below, in our original post on the matter.

As of tomorrow - April 24th, 2020 - Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd & PDF-XChange Co Ltd - will cease all sales and support of our range of PDF-XChange editing and manipulation software to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, or sold to Chinese companies or users in these locations.

Our products (both the free and licensed versions) are used by many hundreds of millions of users around the world - either in our own, end-user software applications, or via embedding in third-party publishers' software products and used indirectly.

All new sales to users in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau will cease and no longer be available. We will not change this policy unless the manner in which China and its governing regime interacts with the rest of world in every regard is carried out in a more open and globally responsible manner.

Internet Explorer dies today — what you need to know ...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:59:06

Microsoft officially ends support for Internet Explorer June 15, 2022 at midnight. This marks the end of an era for the Redmond-based company, but it also has very real implications for those still using the 27-year-old web browser.

Read More

Presenting Build 9.3.360.0 - Now Live!

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 04:56:24

We at PDF-XChange are pleased to announce the release of build 360 of our PDF-XChange V9 product line - Released on 5 Apr 2022.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor:

A complete breakdown of all new features, bug fixes and other improvements is available in the version history for each product.

Sales to Russia and Belarus Suspended. - 28th February, 2022

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:28:22

We regret all new sales to Russia, its territories and Belarus have been suspended until further notice.

PDF-XChange Co Ltd and Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd announce all products removed from sale in Russia, its territories and Belarus.

As of today, February 28th, 2022 - Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd & PDF-XChange Co Ltd - will cease all sales and support of our range of PDF-XChange editing and manipulation software to Russia, its territories and Belarus, in keeping with the sanctions imposed by the United Kingdom, United Sates and the European Union as a result of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian armed forces.

We do appreciate that many Russians and Belarussians are equally outraged by the actions of their governments, and do not agree with the actions of their leaders. We sincerely apologise to those clients and ask for their patience and understanding - I am sure they like us would hope that peace returns to Ukraine without delay to save the lives of the innocent peoples of all affected nations from the atrocities and deaths to which this will inevitably lead.

We will review this decision as the situation in Ukraine develops.

PDF-XChange Co Ltd / Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd.

COVID-19 Work from Home License Variations Extended to September 30th 2022

Tue, 24 May 2022 09:22:53

COVID 19 - 'Work from Home' License 'Terms and Conditions' variation extended for users of PDF-XChange and PDF-Tools products.

Early in the spring of 2020, as many parts of the world faced the initial realities of trying to live and work with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, we volunteered a variation of our normal EULA terms in an effort to assist our clients who were working from home. This variation allowed all of our clients to install and use our products on the equipment of staff working from home. Before this variation was available, all commercial users had to own the equipment on which our products were installed. We have decided to extend the date for which this assistance is available to September 30th 2022.

This decision was made because many clients continue to find themselves in a position where it is unwise/unsafe to require staff to work in an office environment on company-owned equipment. Therefore we have decided to extend this relaxation of our EULA licensing for a further period of time, subject to the following conditions:

1. As always, you must own a sufficient number of licenses to cover all staff who will be using our products - regardless of their location.
2. As always, each license you own permits one user to utilize our products, and that user may install the product on one desktop PC and one laptop/notebook/tablet - provided they are the primary user of both devices. We do not now - nor have we ever - supported or offered licenses based on the 'concurrent' user licensing model.
3. During the period of the COVID-19 pandemic we will relax our normal location and equipment ownership rules on installation as follows: staff of commercial users may install our products on their home and personal equipment - irrespective of where they are located - provided as always that conditions 1 and 2 above are met.
4. As of September 30th 2022 - or as soon as staff at any licensee's office return to working full-time on their normal office environment (whichever is the earlier) - all copies of our products must be removed immediately from any home/personal equipment, and our normal EULA terms will resume.
5. The variations detailed above shall expire for all users on September 30th 2022, and our normal EULA terms will then be automatically reinstated, irrespective of the status of the COVID-19 pandemic.
6. If you cannot or will not accept any of the above variations to our terms and conditions, in full and specifically conditions 4 and 5 above - then we do not offer you the right to utilize the voluntary license variations detailed above.
7. After September 30th 2022, we may or may not choose to extend the expiry date of the variations detailed above. Please contact us nearer that time - or visit our website - for further news and updates.

Kind regards and good health - from all of us at PDF-XChange Co Ltd/Tracker Software Products Ltd.

PDF-XChange Co/Tracker Software Products - 2022 Marks Our 25th Year in Business.

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 04:24:40

2024 marks our 27th Anniversary in Business and serving our clients. We would like to say a big 'Thank You' to all our clients and friends throughout the world!

Over the last 27 years we have progressed significantly from a small team with big ambitions to a much larger team with clients around the world, some very large and some - just like we were in 1997 - very small, but with big ambitions!

Our support remains 100% free to all our users - whether they have paid for our products or use one of the free versions that we have made available from our early days. Clients using our free versions are important to us as they provide valuable feedback on features/shortcomings, and we pay equal attention to all of our users - irrespective of the size of the client or their investment with us. Likewise, we have always tried to price our products fairly and realistically from the outset, and have never subscribed to the policy of pricing products highly so that they can be massively discounted later. We believe that if products need to be discounted in order to sell then they are already priced too high, and that it's better to reduce the price for the benefit of all of our users, rather than just those who have the leverage to demand a discount. Naturally larger licenses do incorporate a significant per user volume discount - but whether you are are 'Walmart' or 'Ted's local Convenience Store' - you will pay the same price for that License.

Every user of our products pays the same price - irrespective of who they are, how large their company is, or how many times they ask us for a discount.

We expect to be here in 27 years' time - serving you as we have for the past 27 years, and we thank you all for making this possible - we will continue to strive to improve our products and our service at every step of the way.

So - a huge Thank You to each and every one of you who has supported us from the beginning, and helped us to achieve this significant milestone!

- The PDF-XChange Co / Tracker Software Products Team

Log4j Java Vulnerability - We are unaffected and clear!

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 12:34:22

Log4j Java Vulnerability - We are unaffected and clear!

We are pleased to confirm that we do not use Log4j in any of our products and we have secured our web services against it. We do not use log4j on any of our systems or in any of our products and are happy to confirm to all of our clients with confidence we are not vulnerable and you do not need to be concerned.

PDF-XChange Co Ltd / Tracker Software Products

Presenting Build 9.2.359 released Nov 23rd, 2021!

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:09:19

We at Tracker Software Products & PDF-XChange Co are pleased to announce the release of Build 9.2.359 of our PDF-XChange V9 product line on November 23rd 2021

The PDF-XChange PRO V9 bundle combines three of Tracker Software's cutting-edge applications:

The builds history for each application is available below:

PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus

PDF Tools

PDF-XChange Standard

Presenting Build 9.2.358.0 - released October 25th, 2021!

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:15:34

We at PDF-XChange are pleased to announce the release of build 358 of our PDF-XChange V9 product line - released October 25th, 2021.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor:

A complete breakdown of all new features, bug fixes and other improvements is available in the version history for each product.

The New PDF-XChange Website is Going Live on November 1st, 2021.

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:23:38

We at PDF-XChange are happy to announce that our new website will be going live on November 1st, 2021. It will be the culmination of several months of work and collaboration by many members of our global team. We are proud to present it to our existing users - and new visitors to the site - as we feel that its quality, presentation and ease-of-use matches that of our product line, which continues to go from strength to strength. We have made a range of improvements to both the visual presentation of the site and its internal functionality and smoothness of operation. We hope that you enjoy it and find it easy to use, and we welcome any feedback that you might have. A sneak peek of the new website is available below.

- The PDF-XChange Team

Presenting Build 9.2.357.0 - released October 19th, 2021!

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:08:46

We at PDF-XChange are pleased to announce the release of build 357 of our PDF-XChange V9 product line - released October 19th, 2021.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor:

A complete breakdown of all new features, bug fixes and other improvements is available in the version history for each product.

Versions of PDF-XChange Products Older than V6 to be Removed July 15th, 2021

Fri, 4 Jun 2021 06:05:05

We would like to provide all users of older versions of our products with an advance warning that we will be removing all versions of the PDF-XChange family of products older than Version 6 from our website on July 15th, 2021. We are doing this in order to conserve space in our website archives. If you are using one of these older versions of the products, then we advise you to ensure that you have downloaded the necessary installers for your license, as they will no longer be available from July 15th. If you have downloaded these installers before July 15th then you will be able to install older versions of the software locally at any later time. You can download these installers from your online account with us, which is available here. We would also like to encourage users of the older versions of the products to upgrade to the respective current version, as a huge range of new features have been added to the software since those versions were released. You can view those features in the version history for the product that you use. The version history for PDF-XChange Editor is available here.

We would also like to thank you for your continued support in the creation, maintenance and optimization of our range of PDF products. If you have any questions in relation to the above then please contact us and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Best regards,

The PDF-XChange/Tracker Software Products Team

Tuesday, May 4th Payment Processor Share-It Experiencing Intermittent Payment Failures

Wed, 5 May 2021 08:51:44

Date:Tuesday May 4, 2021

Time: 4:00 PM PST

Our credit/debit card payment processors Share-It/MyCommerce have become aware of intermittent DNS inconsistencies throughout their system, which originated with their cloud provider.

This could be affecting their commerce operations and most commonly has manifested itself as a payment failure.

They are actively working to resolve the issue and will update us as soon as we they more details.

Though they will continue to take orders, there may be temporary delays or unexpected payment completion failures.

We do offer an alternative for VISA and Mastercard payments that are processed via PayPal servers (no account required) during that time or for orders over $/€250.00 we also offer offline payment by credit card as well.

All available options are displayed in the online store shopping cart.

We appreciate your business and thank you for your patience.

PDF-XChange Co/Tracker Software Products Team

Charles Geschke Adobe founder dies aged 81 ...

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:34:14

Our sympathy and condolences to the family and friends of Charles Geschke who passed away on 16th April, 2021. An absolute genius and visionary and without whom - we would not have a business...

OBITUARY - From the London Times today ...

Co-founder of Adobe, the printer software company, who had a turbulent relationship with
Apple and survived a kidnapping ordeal

Steve Jobs thought they were mad. The Apple co-founder was offering to buy an obscure Silicon Valley start-up that made printer software and its founders, Charles Geschke and John Warnock, flatly turned him down. “OK,” Jobs said. “Then sell me the software.”The men refused, telling the mogul that they would stick to their business plan. “Well, I think you guys are nuts,” Geschke recalled Jobs replying. “When you change your mind, call me.”

Realising that inexperience was making them inflexible, Geschke telephoned Jobs and they did a deal. In return for his software, Apple would buy 19.9 per cent of the fledgling enterprise, Adobe, and pay an advance on future royalties of about $1.5 million (the equivalent of about £3 million today).

It proved a shrewd move for both parties. Apple launched the Macintosh a year or so later, in 1984, transforming graphic design and printing technology. Peripherals were soon central to personal computing and by the end of the millennium Adobe was a billion-dollar company, responsible for products including Photoshop image editor, Acrobat file reader and the Portable Document Format (PDF).

Printing documents in the early days of personal computers was tortuous and tedious. Slow, screeching dotmatrix printers delivered low-resolution text in plain fonts. Line spacing and column widths were a voyage into the unknown while any picture more complex than a greyscale pie chart was out of the question.By the mid-Eighties superior laser and inkjet printers, while expensive, were moving into the mainstream. Geschke and colleagues developed a programming language that enabled computers and printers to talk to each other with unparalleled eloquence. The product, PostScript, was used in the Apple LaserWriter printer when it was released in 1985 and became an industry standard.Coupled with the graphical user interface and mouse of the Macintosh and the latest WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) screen-to-page word-processing software, desktop publishing was born and the phototypesetting industry was quickly rendered obsolete.Photoshop, created in 1988 by John and Thomas Knoll and released by Adobe in 1990, helped to usher in a boom in digital graphic design and made retouching — modifying parts of an image, such as removing skin blemishes — more common and affordable.Admittedly, the software could be buggy and was in some respects ahead of its time. Though Geschke had read only one business book when he started the company, he did take a piece of advice to heart: if you can identify a need and be the first to provide a solution, then you will dominate the market.“When we introduced Photoshop there were no digital cameras, a scanner was about the size of a refrigerator and cost $40,000 to $50,000, there were no inkjet printers that could produce high quality prints in your home or in your office,” he said in a 2011 lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. “Yet instinctively we knew that if printing went digital, then photography, and eventually video, would have to. So we went in there early, got 100 per cent market share.”Geschke and Warnock also realised that “digital paper” was soon to be in demand. Acrobat — an application to create, read, edit and print PDF documents — was introduced in 1993, several years before widespread adoption of the internet and email made it easy to share files.

Geschke demonstrates a drawing printed using Adobe’s software, in 1987

ROGER RESSMEYER/CORBIS/VCG/GETTY IMAGESYet Geschke’s wealth led to a traumatic incident. One morning in 1992, as he opened the boot of his Mercedes to take out his briefcase after parking at Adobe’s office in Silicon Valley, Geschke was kidnapped at gunpoint by two men. He was blindfolded, taken to a motel and then a safe house, and warned that if he did not co-operate a bomb would be detonated at his house, his family would die and “they’d cut me up in pieces and feed me to the sharks”.The kidnappers called his wife, Nan, and demanded a ransom of $650,000. They warned that she was being watched and cautioned her not to contact the authorities. However, the family informed the FBI who coached his daughter, Kathy, in negotiations with the men. When the abductors called they played a message of Geschke reading the day’s newspaper headlines to prove that he was alive. They ordered Kathy to deliver the money to a remote beach in northern California at 11.30pm; their fanciful plan was to escape by swimming across Monterey Bay. Fitted with a bulletproof vest and a wire, she drove to the drop-off point with an FBI agent hiding in the back of the car.Moments before agents swarmed, one of the kidnappers grabbed the bag and ran off into the night, evading capture for several hours. He was finally found by a Swat team, though the money was missing. He soon gave up the location where Geschke was being held, handcuffed inside a wardrobe with his legs chained and a gag in his mouth. FBI agents burst in, arrested the other captor and freed Geschke, five days after he was taken. The two kidnappers received life sentences.When Geschke’s monogrammed briefcase was returned to him, he saw that the words “is dead” had been scratched beneath his initials.Charles Matthew Geschke, known as Chuck, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939. His father, Matthew, made copper plates for printing; his mother, Sophia, was a paralegal. He attended a Jesuit high school and Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he took a degree in classics. He then studied for a master’s degree in mathematics and became a teacher at John Carroll University, another Jesuit establishment in Ohio, completing a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1972.Geschke, who had considered becoming a priest, met Nancy McDonough at a religious conference while they were students. They were married in 1964. Nancy, who is a volunteer and philanthropist, survives him with their children, Kathy, an interior designer, Peter, a schoolteacher, and John, chief of staff at Zendesk, a customer service software company.Geschke’s interest in computing emerged after he was forced to dismiss a failing student at John Carroll University. The man returned to his office a year later, but far from being upset came to thank his tutor: he had found a lucrative job selling computers and offered to teach Geschke coding. Geschke’s first full programme printed addresses on envelopes for letters announcing the birth of his second child.He took a job at the Xerox research centre in Palo Alto, California. Though the work was cutting-edge, he found the boardroom culture at the printing and copying giant was frustratingly traditional. “They were copier guys,” he said. Tasked with arranging a presentation on the “office of the future” to dozens of Xerox executives, he observed that the managers sat with their arms tightly folded and concern etched on their faces. Yet he noted that their wives and girlfriends, many of whom had worked in clerical roles, were thrilled by the promise of the technology.He started a graphics and printing research laboratory on the Xerox campus and brought in John Warnock, later recalling: “He had a beard, I had a beard. Still married to the same woman he married originally, so was I. He had three kids, two boys and a girl, I had three kids, two boys and a girl. And we both refereed soccer, which closed the deal. So I hired him.”They began work on a forerunner to PostScript, but were aghast when their bosses said that it would take seven years to reach the market. The pair pitched the concept of an in-house publishing solution for large companies to a venture capitalist in San Francisco who gave them $2.5 million in funding. Geschke and Warnock left Xerox and formed Adobe in 1982; the name refers to a creek close to their houses.The relationship between Apple and Adobe was not always harmonious, notably in 2010 when Jobs declared that Adobe’s Flash multimedia player would not be allowed on Apple’s mobile devices.Geschke was chief operating officer and president of Adobe, retiring in 2000. He was also chairman of the University of San Francisco. He remained on the Adobe board until April 2020. By then the company had grown into a business with more than 23,000 employees, an annual revenue of nearly $13 billion and, at his death, a market value about 50 times higher than that of Xerox.“Like anyone in Silicon Valley, my real nightmare, the thing that keeps me up, is two guys in a garage that I’ve never heard of, because they could do something that could completely disrupt our business,” Geschke said in 2011. “You see that happening on a regular basis. Who knew that those two graduate students at Stanford would come up with the idea of Google? Or that guy at Harvard, who was sort of, according to the movie, a little out of the social mainstream, would come up with Facebook?”
Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe, was born on September 11, 1939. He died after a long illness on April 16, 2021, aged 81

© Times Newspapers Limited 2021.

Presenting Build 353 - Released in April 19th, 2021!

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:00:44

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 353 of our PDF-XChange V9 product line released April 19th, 2021

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

Tracker Software Ceases Sales of all Software Developer Kits - March 12th, 2021

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 04:48:18

Tracker Software ceases sales of all SDKs from March 12th, 2021.

It is with some sadness that we are announcing the cessation of sales of our software developer kits, which were first introduced in early 2001 with our Tiff-XChange and PDF-XChange Driver SDKs.

These were our very first products released for direct sale to clients, and for a long time were the backbone of our revenue stream. However, over the past fifteen years or so, our end-user application products sales have hugely outperformed our SDK sales and the latter have proved to be somewhat of a distraction to our primary development goals.

We will cease offering extensions to existing maintenance agreements immediately in order to allow for a 'tapered' reduction in support and updates over the coming months. A complete cessation in functional and service updates is expected by the end of our version 9.x releases, which is anticipated to be during the latter part of 2022, although this date is not definite and subject to change.

We would like to thank all those who have supported us in relation to our SDK products over the past two decades and we wish them every success for the future. We will of course continue to offer support and updates to all clients with maintenance agreements that have extended terms, and will continue to do so until the expiry of those agreements.

Our SDK products will continue to allow you to create feature-rich applications with PDF functionality for many years to come, and they will not cease to function as a result of not being available for purchase. There is no built-in "time out" for these products, and all applications that contain our SDK functionality will continue to operate as normal.

If you require any further clarification or assistance in relation to this issue then please contact us and we answer you as soon as possible.

- The Tracker Software Products Team

February 4th, 2021: New build 352 of PDF-XChange Version 9 Released!

Fri, 5 Feb 2021 01:09:21

New build 352.0 of Version 9 of the PDF-XChange product line is released on February 4th, 2021. A range of improvements and bug fixes have been added in this build release of our products.

January 14th, 2021: PDF-XChange Version 9 Released!

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:43:46

We at Tracker Software Products/PDF-XChange Co. are excited to announce the release of Version 9 of the PDF-XChange product line on January 14th, 2021. A range of new features, improvements and bug fixes have been added in this major release of our products. Whether you are a home user or small business looking for an easy-to-use, affordable PDF editor, or a mid-sized to global business looking for an intelligent, robust PDF solution to streamline productivity and automate workflow - there has never been a better time to harness the power of the PDF-XChange family of products:

Presenting Build 334 released Nov 4th, 2019!

Thu, 7 Nov 2019 08:56:29

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 334 of our PDF-XChange V8 product line November 4th,2019.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

Build 333 of PDF-XChange V8 product line released and now available !

Wed, 9 Oct 2019 02:23:54

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 333 of our PDF-XChange V8 product line on September 10th, 2019.
The builds history for each application is available.

Adobe are threatening to SUE licensed users who have paid for their product if they dont stop using it - CRAZY...

Wed, 15 May 2019 11:46:33

Adobe threatening to SUE its own licensed users if they continue to use their legacy products !!!

You couldn't make this up - if you wont sign up to Adobe's subscription based use of its Photoshop product you may find yourself being sued by the firms lawyer's - even if you purchased a license and don' want to move to a subscription based model and are happy with the product you now use.

I wonder why ? Could it be that they make a lot more money from users paying a monthly fee for use of their products ???

Read More here

We believe Subscription based software is a rip off to maximize profits for Software Publishers and we do not offer this form of supply !

Enhanced (optional) OCR Plugin and V8 released and now available !

Wed, 22 May 2019 09:54:44

Tracker Software are happy to confirm that V8 of our products PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus, PDF-Tools and the PDF-XChange Pro bundle are available now along with the new optional Enhanced OCR Plugin from just $14.95 per user or less!

The new Enhanced OCR plugin includes the following highly-anticipated features that extend the functionality of our dynamic PDF-XChange products:

The Enhanced OCR Plugin's character recognition is more accurate and significantly Faster than the existing OCR engine - usually between two and three times as fast.
The Enhanced OCR Plugin recognizes stylistic elements of text such as the Font, Color, Bold, Italic, Strikeout and Underline values.
The Enhanced OCR Plugin recognizes Tables in source documents and inserts them, along with converted text, into output documents.
The Enhanced OCR Plugin can create PDFs with "Editable Images and Text" - which replaces image-based text in source documents with standard, editable text.
The Enhanced OCR Plugin can create PDFs with "Fine Page Content" - which replaces the original page content with new content that contains only text and images recognized during the process of OCR.
The Enhanced OCR Plugin features Multi-Threaded Processing, which enables OCR to be performed on multiple pages in parallel threads. Users that have machines with multiple processors/cores will enjoy a significant reduction in the time taken to OCR large documents - usually at least twice as fast as V7.

Additionally, significant improvements have been made to the existing OCR engine for V8, and these are also available by default in the Enhanced OCR Plugin:

The new, embedded utility 'ResourcesUpdater' makes it possible to install new (or update existing) OCR languages without having to restart the application.
The new feature "Auto-Detect Image Skew" automatically detects image skews (up to +- 45 degrees) and/or incorrect page rotations (90, 180 or 270 degrees) in scanned documents.
The new feature "Correct Auto-Detected Image skew" corrects image skews and incorrect page rotations that the "Auto-Detect Image Skew" feature identifies.

Existing Clients, New Users and the Enhanced OCR Plugin

Existing clients with active product maintenance who upgrade to V8 at the time of release will enjoy the benefit of a FREE LICENSE for the Enhanced OCR Plugin that will remain valid until their current maintenance expires. They will then have the option of renewing their product license maintenance with or without the Enhanced OCR Plugin as desired, and will only pay the license maintenance fee for the plugin if they elect to keep it. Renewals that do elect to keep the Enhanced OCR Plugin will have their regular product license pro-rated so that maintenance for both the product in question and the Enhanced OCR Plugin have a synchronized maintenance cycle. This is the most efficient setup as it means that a single license key is issued regardless of whether or not users elect to keep the Enhanced OCR Plugin.

The license for the Enhanced OCR Plugin is perpetual, in the same manner as the licenses for all of the Tracker Software family of products. Licenses for the Enhanced OCR Plugin will continue to work in any version of our products released while a user has active maintenance - this includes the free license given to users who have existing maintenance at time of the release of V8, as well as the licenses of users who upgrade to V8 or who renew their product maintenance and add the Enhanced OCR Plugin.

Existing clients with expired product maintenance have the opportunity to renew their maintenance or upgrade to V8 with or without the Enhanced OCR Plugin as desired.

New Users who purchase PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus, PDF-Tools or PDF-XChange Pro V8 without including the Enhanced OCR Plugin will have the opportunity to test the plugin in demo mode for 30 days. When this trial period has expired they have the option to upgrade to include the Enhanced OCR Plugin or revert to the free OCR engine as desired.

Tracker Software sincerely hopes that you enjoy and make good use of this dynamic new OCR functionality, and we continue to strive to improve all of our products for the benefit of all users.

Presenting Version 8 released April 4th, 2019

Thu, 23 May 2019 04:01:40

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Version 8 our PDF-XChange product line on April 4th, 2019.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

Version 8 announced to be final version of our Software Development Kits to be released.

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:51:00

After much deliberation and evaluation, we at Tracker Software Products, have come to the very difficult decision that Version 8, to be released Spring of 2019, should be the last iteration of our SDK product line. Regretfully, the levels of developers not adhering to our SDK licensing, misuse and abuse of the Terms and Conditions there within . Such issues and the level of support and development required to maintain and improve, in both time and dollars has forced us to take a hard look at continuing to provide SDKs moving forward. And allow us to focus more attention to the growing use of our End User products.

We are therefore announcing the discontinuation of our SDK line products as of Version 9 (no scheduled date attached at this time) and Version 8 will be the last version of our SDK's made available for general release, we trust that this extended notice period will give developer clients more than enough time to consider alternative solutions and how they wish to proceed in the future.

Upcoming price changes on April 1st for PDF-XChange End-User products specific license volumes.

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:50:50

With the upcoming release of V8 we at Tracker Software Products have taken the opportunity to address some often mentioned anomalies in the pricing of some of our volumes licenses which do not fall in line with the natural congruency of most of our pricing. Specifically the following volume license breaks have been adjusted : 500 User, 1000 User, Corporate Site & Country Pack licenses. As of April 1st 2019 these four volumes in each end user product offering will be adjusted to align with the rest of our volume price breaks.

As well, due to dramatically extended & rich feature set now enjoyed by our revamped PDF-Tools application, license prices will increase to allow us to continue to extend and develop this award winning application as the license bundle includes not only one of the most powerful and customizable PDF batch processing applications on the market, but as always the ever popular PDF-XChange Editor and PDF-XChange Lite printer. We feel the price has always been on the generous side, but as more and more features have been introduced in both the major component products, that PDF-Tools licenses have out grown their current price in both value, usability and benefit to users. We wanted to give all of valued customers, and resellers the heads up that this price change is on the roadmap and scheduled for Spring 2019.

Note that new prices will take affect April 1st, and any formal or emailed quotes received are valid for 30 days from the quoted date, except CDN $ offline order quotes which are always valid for a max of 7 days from quotation date.

Sales Team
Tracker Software Products

PDF-XChange V8 will no longer support Windows XP, Vista & Windows Server 2003 (or prior) operating systems.

Tue, 5 Mar 2019 03:06:33

PDF-XChange V8 will no longer support Windows XP, Vista & Windows Server 2003 or prior operating systems

With the release of V8 of PDF-XChange products coming this spring, there will no longer be support for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 (or prior) operating systems.

This will not affect XP and Vista users continuing using PDF-XChange products V7 or earlier.

Microsoft ended support for Windows XP as of April 8, 2014 and Windows Vista as of April 11, 2017. This meant that end users will not receive any further updates, fixes or patches for the Windows XP or Windows Vista product lines. It also represents a problem to software application developers such as Tracker Software Products. This is because the Microsoft development tools required to compile our applications to operate in Windows XP and Vista have been removed, no longer allowing our products to function in Windows XP/Vista environments. As well support for some related services, for example, remote file systems such as Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and the like, require communication notifications systems using embedded browsers that are not available in Windows XP and Vista or Windows Server 2003 (or prior). As more and more users and organizations depend on remote file systems, it is important to upgrade to later versions of Windows in order for these services to work.

Unfortunately, this process is beyond our control. And with the planned release of Version 8 of our PDF-XChange product line in the spring of 2019 we have been forced to drop support for both Windows XP and Vista as of its release.

It will become necessary for users to migrate to later versions of the Windows operating system in order to ensure access to the latest releases of our product as of the release of Version 8.

Best regards,

Tracker Software Products

Build 328.2 released January 28, 2019

Mon, 28 Jan 2019 03:11:39

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 328.2 of our PDF-XChange V7 product line on January 28th, 2019.

The PDF-XChange PRO V7 bundle combines three of Tracker Software's cutting-edge applications:

The builds history for each application is available below:

PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus

PDF Tools

PDF-XChange Standard

Presenting Build 328.0 Released Dec 13, 2018

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:42:53

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 328 of our PDF-XChange V7 product line on Dec 13th, 2018.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

News Update: Upcoming changes for PDF-XChange products in 2019 and more

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:15:01

NEWS UPDATE: Upcoming changes to PDF-XChange products in 2019 and other developments

To all users and resellers of PDF-XChange products,

As the holiday season approaches and 2018 comes to a close, we at Tracker Software Products would like to keep our users and resellers informed of new developments pertaining to the highly anticipated release of V8 of our product line in the Spring of 2019 and some planned changes and improvements to our website during this time.

PDF-XChange V8 will no longer support Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems

With the release of V8 of PDF-XChange products, there will no longer be support for Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems. This will not affect XP and Vista users continuing using PDF-XChange products V7 or earlier.

Microsoft ended support for Windows XP as of April 8, 2014 and Windows Vista as of April 11, 2017. This meant that end users will not receive any further updates, fixes or patches for the Windows XP or Windows Vista product lines. It also represents a problem to software application developers such as Tracker Software Products. This is because the Microsoft development tools required to compile our applications to operate in Windows XP and Vista have been removed, no longer allowing our products to function in Windows XP/Vista environments. As well support for some related services, for example, remote file systems such as Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and the like, require communication notifications systems using embedded browsers that are not available in Windows XP and Vista. As more and more users and organizations depend on remote file systems, it is important to upgrade to later versions of Windows in order for these services to work.

It will become necessary for users to migrate to later versions of the Windows operating system in order to ensure access to the latest releases of our product as of the release of Version 8.

Digital River/MyCommerce, retires SWREG platform and our planned migration to latest DR/MyCommerce Share-It platform

One of our main payment processors for online credit cards payments over the past 20 years, Digital River/MyCommerce is retiring their SWREG platform as of Dec 31, 2018. As such we are currently in the process of migrating to their latest platform, Share-It, released on a new technology framework incorporating improvements in both security and usability for both us and our customers.

We wanted to assure our customers and resellers that while over the next month you will notice a new interface in the checkout when selecting payment method: Online via Credit card with the switch over to the Share-It platform and begin receiving receipt emails and communications from Share-It rather than the expected SWREG communications you have received thus far, that Share-It is a trusted Digital River/MyCommerce platform as SWREG was and we look forward to the migration to the new platform.

Enhanced (optional) OCR Plugin will be released in Spring 2019

Wed, 22 May 2019 09:56:35

We are excited to announce that on 3rd December, 2018 - we have concluded an Major $$$$$$$ agreement with LeadTools Inc to incorporate their Advanced OCR technology into our PDF-XChange Editor products via an optional Plugin.

Pricing is yet to be set - however on release in Spring 2019 - all clients who ALREADY have a license for any PDF-XChange Editor product with valid maintenance still current on that release date - will receive a free copy. More details to follow before end 2018

Build 327.0 Released Oct 1, 2018

Mon, 1 Oct 2018 03:46:48

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 327.0 of our PDF-XChange V7 product line on Oct 1, 2018.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

New PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus Online Help for Ribbon UI Now Available

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:01:40

We are pleased to let you know that all of our online manuals have been updated as of today and a new PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus manual for the new V7 Ribbon Interface is now available.

Online Help Manuals for PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus:

All Products Online Help Manuals are available here: https://help.pdf-xchange.com

Presenting Build 326.1 released July 25th, 2018

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:24:22

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 326.1 of our PDF-XChange V7 product line on July 25th, 2018.

The PDF-XChange PRO V7 bundle combines three of Tracker Software's cutting-edge applications:

The builds history for each application is available below:

PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus

PDF Tools

PDF-XChange Standard

Use PDF-XChange Editor to Meet GDPR Regulations

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 04:11:34

This news article contains information about GDPR and how PDF-XChange Editor can be used to meet the new regulations.

Presenting Build 326 released July 4th, 2018

Wed, 4 Jul 2018 05:38:39

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 326 of our PDF-XChange V7 product line on July 14th, 2018.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

The PDF-XChange PRO V7 bundle combines three of Tracker Software's cutting-edge applications:

The builds history for each application is available below:

PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus

PDF Tools

PDF-XChange Standard

PDF-XChange Products Update Build 7.0.325.1 Released!

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 04:38:16

Build 7.0.325.1 has been released for the PDF-XChange Product line.

To update to the latest release, you can use the Tracker Updater installed with your product, or download the latest installer from our downloads page:

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/downloads

Presenting Build 325 released April 16, 2018

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 04:36:51

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 325.0 of our PDF-XChange V7 product line on April 16, 2018.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

PDF-XChange Products Update Build 7.0.324.0 Released!

Fri, 2 Feb 2018 10:10:26

Build 7.0.324.0 has been released for the PDF-XChange Product line.

To update to the latest release, you can use the Tracker Updater installed with your product, or download the latest installer from our downloads page:

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/downloads

Possible threat identified, and promptly neutralized

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 04:14:48

On Wednesday, Jan.24, a third-party researcher (Sebastian Feldmann) from usd AG informed us of a possible issue with the PDF-XChange Viewer and Viewer AX SDK: Build 2.5.322.7 whereby a specially constructed PDF file could be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

All Tracker Software clients are urged to update to our latest, free PDF-XChange Viewer: Build 2.5.322.8 as soon as possible.

Presenting Build 324 release coming Feb 2018

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:28:41

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the upcoming release of Build 324 of our PDF-XChange V7 product line in Feb 2018.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

Presenting V7: New Features

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:17:24

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the upcoming release of V7 of our

PDF-XChange product line

Here is a short video highlighting the new headline features to be included in our highly anticipated V7 release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

Presenting V7: New Ribbon Interface

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 03:38:56

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the upcoming release of V7 of our PDF-XChange product line

Here is a short video highlighting the new ribbon interface to be included in our highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

More Feature Videos are on their way!

Monday Sept 4th our North American Office will be Closed for a Statutory Holiday

Fri, 1 Sep 2017 05:25:32

All clients are advised that our North American Office will be closed on Monday Sept 4, 2017, due to the Labour Day long weekend.

Our European office will be open as usual and offer support for all clients once open.

North American Office will maintain a small Skeleton staff that will be available for essential support issues- The North American Office will be open as usual once again on Tuesday Sept 5, 2017.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Monday August 28th our European Office will be Closed for a Statutory Holiday

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:30:45

We would like to advise all our clients that on Monday August 28th our UK European Office will be Closed for a Statutory Holiday.

A small Skeleton staff will be available for essential support issues and we will open again for business as usual on Tuesday August 29th. Our North American office will be open as usual.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

North American Office will be closed on Monday Aug 7, 2017

Fri, 4 Aug 2017 08:28:15

All clients are advised that our North American Office will be closed on Monday Aug 7th, 2017, due to the Canada Day long weekend.

Our European office will be open as usual and offer support for all clients once open.

North American Office will maintain a small Skeleton staff that will be available for essential support issues- The North American Office will be open as usual once again on Tuesday Aug 8th, 2017.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

PDF-XChange Products Update Build 6.0.322.5 Released!

Fri, 30 Jun 2017 09:23:48

Build 6.0.322.5 has been released for the PDF-XChange Product line.

To update to the latest release, you can use the Tracker Updater installed with your product, or download the latest installer from our downloads page:

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/downloads

Presenting Build 322 release coming May 2017

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:28:11

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the upcoming release of Build 322 of our PDF-XChange V7 product line in May 2017.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_M71vCZZ8

Local Goverment users - new license groups offered, price changes from May 1st 2017.

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 06:41:21

New license groups offered, price changes from May 1st 2017.

Local Goverment users now have their own specialist licenses to avoid confusion over volume user groups coverage ....

Monday May 1st - European Office Closed

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:11:13

We would like to advise all our clients that on Monday May 1st - European Office Closed.

Our European office will be closed for the Statutory Holiday. A small Skeleton staff will be available for essential support issues and we will open again for business as usual on Tuesday May 2nd. Our North American office will be open as usual.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Tracker Software Help Forums will be down for maintenance for 1 hr

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:03:01

We are currently performing maintenance on our Support Forums now, and they will be unavailable for approximately 1 hr starting at 10 am.

Your patience is appreciated, if you have any questions our Support staff are available via email, support@pdf-xchange.com.

Best regards,

Tracker Software Products

Notice: Canadian Office Severe Weather Conditions

Wed, 8 Feb 2017 01:20:23

Notice: Canadian Office Severe Weather Conditions

Due to an impending winter stormur Canadian office will be closing early today.

Sales & Support Staff will be available via email sales@pdf-xchange.com and support@pdf-xchange.com and our online support forums, your patience is appreciated.

Tracker Software Products

Ladies and gentlemen - build 320 has been released

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:17:22

Ladies and gentlemen - build 320 is now available for download.

PDF-XChange Version 6 Build 319 Released!

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:06:24

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the release of Build 319 of our PDF-XChange V6 product line on November 28, 2016.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor

PDF-XChange Version 6 Build 318 Coming Soon

Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:41:24

We at Tracker Software Products are pleased to announce the upcoming release of Build 318 of our PDF-XChange V6 product line in September 2016.

Here is a short video highlighting some of the new features to be included in our latest, highly anticipated release of the PDF-XChange Editor.

Clarion support discontinued.

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 02:56:39

Cessation of support for Clarion as a development tool.

It is with great personal regret and indeed a heavy heart - that I have to announce today that we will no longer be able to offer our products with the supply of Clarion specific add-on's such as Templates/Classes/DEMO's and Installer.

In the last year or more our primary Clarion developer Craig Ransom who many of you will know from the Clarion community over the years, has suffered a serious deterioration in his health and personal circumstances and this has led to less than ideal support and development for our Clarion users and indeed not up to the high standards you have come to expect from us over the past 15 years and we have always sought to offer.

Additionally our own sales to Clarion developers (in common with many 3rd party Clarion developers) has declined significantly over the past years and in reality we have long been unable to make an economic case for continuing to offer our 3rd party tools tailored for Clarion use - our own humble beginnings as Clarion developers in 1997 - coupled with Craig's enthusiasm and dedication made it very difficult emotionally to make the tough commercial decision that has frankly been long overdue, to cease Clarion support.

Therefore we have decided that as of today we can no longer confidently provide our tools commercially for the use of the Clarion community with Classes/Templates and libraries etc.

We would be pleased to reach an accommodation with any suitable individual or commercial organization that wish to continue to create a set of 3rd party tools based on our existing offering - provided they are willing to maintain and update and support as may be required.

Should you be interested in doing so please contact me direct and I will be pleased to consider any suggestions that may be forthcoming.

Craig has promised that he will do his utmost to correct some known issues before fully retiring - as I understand it there are some problems with the scanning templates/classes and he hopes to be able to resolve these through some minor updates to be posted as soon as possible.

If any client has purchased/renewed one of our products specifically for Clarion use in the most recent of months with us we will be sympathetic to any requests for refunds subject to assurances that new end user applications have not been providing using updates released since their purchase.

May I sincerely thank all our Clarion clients for their support and loyalty over the years and wish them every success for the future.

John Verbeeten
johnv@tracker-software.com

If you dont want the Microsoft Windows 10 upgrade - be warned, you might get it anyway !!!!

Fri, 27 May 2016 02:41:21

Microsoft has faced criticism for changing the pop-up box encouraging Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10.

Clicking the red cross on the right hand corner of the pop-up box now activates the upgrade instead of closing the box.

And this has caused confusion as typically clicking a red cross closes a pop-up notification

The upgrade could still be cancelled, when the scheduled time for it to begin appeared, Microsoft said

The change occurred because the update is now labelled "recommended" and many people have their PCs configured to accept recommended updates for security reasons.

This means dismissing the box does not dismiss the update.

Brad Chacos, senior editor at the PC World website, described it as a "nasty trick".

"Deploying these dirty tricks only frustrates long-time Windows users who have very valid reasons to stick with operating systems they already know and love," he wrote.

Microsoft said: "With the free Windows 10 upgrade offer ending on 29 July, we want to help people upgrade to the best version of Windows.

"As we shared in October, Windows 10 will be offered as a 'recommended' update for Windows 7 and 8.1 customers whose Windows Update settings are configured to accept 'recommended' updates.

"Customers can choose to accept or decline the Windows 10 upgrade."

New look Web site and new Version 6 product releases !

Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:50:45

Welcome to the new look - Tracker Web Site - we hope you like it !

But that's not all that's new - today we also launch Version 6 of all our products with a totally new PDF-Tools Version 6 product that offers some excellent new features and powerful tools to create your own functionality along with the new PDF-XChange Editor 'Plus' offering our new PDF forms creation and editing !

Additionally we have added our PDF-XChange Lite Printer driver to the PDF-Tools product to allow users to create PDF files from any 3rd party application/format that can print...

Over the coming days and weeks we will be adding new content and features to the Web site - so please do check back again in the very near future.

Users Vent after Adobe deletes cloud based files !

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:20:37

Is your data safe on Adobes Cloud servers ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35577498

MalwareBytes - False Positive virus notice in build 316.1

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:32:42

MalwareBytes Antivirus - Incorrect Virus warning.

We reported this issue to MalwareBytes support team and they have now agreed with us that this is an incorrect - False/Positive warning and have cleared all of our products - this warning will be removed from their Virus definition database hopefully later today and you should receive no further warnings on installing any of our products . Here is a copy of their communication to us and a topic on their forums:
https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/177572-tracker-software-pdf-xchange-editor/
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"Hello and welcome to Malwarebytes consumer support. My name is Tom Mercado and I’ll be assisting you today.

Thanks for contacting us.

Confirmed as false\positives and will be corrected in the next update in the next couple of hours after full testing has completed.

After some time, please restore all related quarantined items(if quarantined), update and rescan.

Let us know if you need any additional help or have any other questions in this regard"

PDF-XChange Editor SDK Trial Released!

Mon, 2 Oct 2023 12:57:09

The most anticipated developer kit release of the all new PDF-XChange Editor SDK is now available for trial download.

Please visit the PDF-XChange Editor SDK product page for more details and download the trial version today!

Product Maintenance Prices are increasing as of Feb 1, 2015

Fri, 6 Feb 2015 08:54:30

As many of you will already be aware during 2014 we have invested heavily in expanding both our software engineering and support teams.

This will allow us to accelerate the addition of new functionality and features in all of our existing products during the first half of 2015 with new functionality in existing products and 100% new applications and developer kits scheduled for release during the first 2 quarters of the new year.

To allow us to continue to invest further during the next 12 months at similar or greater levels in both product development and customer support we will be increasing the rates charged for maintenance across all of our product ranges as from February 1st 2015, please see the table below for specific details on how this will affect our maintenance pricing.

Extended maintenance purchased at the time of the license is increasing by 5% and Maintenance Renewals will be increasing by 7.5%.

Windows XP - Microsoft updates end on April 8th 2014...

Wed, 5 Feb 2014 03:04:10

Microsoft Updates and Bug Fixes for XP will end on April 8th 2014, you can read more here

How will this affect your Tracker Software Applications such as PDF-XChange going forward ?

More info available here;

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgebase/399

PDF-XChange Editor Released !

Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:26:36

Yes - its here - The PDF-XChange Editor is now complete and available for download !

Latest Adobe Security breach compromises user payment info and product Source Code ...

Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:07:24

The BBC and many other news organisations are reporting perhaps one of the most serious breaches of user and program data yet for the Software giant, from the BBC news site ;

"Adobe has confirmed that 2.9 million customers have had private information stolen during a "sophisticated" cyber attack on its website.

The attackers accessed encrypted customer passwords and payment card numbers, the company said.

But it does not believe decrypted debit or credit card data was removed.

Adobe also revealed that it was investigating the "illegal access" of source code for numerous products, including Adobe Acrobat and ColdFusion."

For full story click here;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24392819

PDF-XChange Editor - Gold release !!!

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:48:54

We are very pleased to announce the formal 'Gold' release of the PDF-XChange Editor build 301 today Friday April 26th.

This is the formal upgrade available to the PDF-XChange Viewer and is now our primary product offering for the Viewing, modification and printing of PDF files, a comprehensive specification and feature chart is available from this link;

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/PDFXEditor_Specsheet.pdf

PDF-XChange Editor - release date.

Mon, 4 Mar 2013 04:42:18

PDF-XChange Viewer Version 3 - upgrade to Editing - release date set !

Threat identified, and promptly neutralized

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:21:54

On Friday, Jan.18, a third-party researcher informed Secunia Research of a possible issue with the PDF-XChange Viewer: Build 2.5.207 whereby an embedded JPEG stream within a PDF file could be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Questionable as the threat was to our customers, it was treated with extreme importance. Within 24 hours Tracker Software issued a new release with protection against this potential, if unlikely, risk.

All Tracker Software clients are urged to update to our latest, free PDF-XChange Viewer: Build 2.5.208 as soon as possible.
The specific technical nature of the threat was: Hypothetical/potential exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires tricking a user into opening a malicious PDF document where a memory override can occur on handling the corrupted Define Huffman Table header of a JPEG image file stream.

Acknowledging software defects and security holes is inevitable and Tracker Software treats mission-critical defects and security issues very seriously.

Prompt responses to software defects and security holes have always been — and will continue to be — a top priority of Tracker Software’s product service.

Our known security issue list — a total of four in more than 15 years of product releases and approximately 150 million client installations — is much shorter than that of our competitors’ due to the robust design of our products.

Tracker has published all the historic security issues on its website and keeps tracking potential security issues on daily basis.
We will continue to ensure our clients are protected with quality products and prompt action to resolve any issues found.

All product downloads are available here:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/downloads

PDF-XChange V3 Beta

Mon, 4 Mar 2013 04:41:21

PDF-XChange Viewer/Editor - Version 3
We will be releasing a version 3 beta (or perhaps 'Alpha' is a better description) later today for licensed clients with current/valid maintenance.

PDF-XChange Viewer is "The Best PDF Viewer/Editor for Windows" according to LifeHacker

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:31:21

PDF-XChange Viewer, was selected as the top-choice for PDF software by both Editors and Users of the LifeHacker Online Magazine. In a recent review and earlier user poll of the five best PDF viewers and readers the PDF-XChange Viewer had a massive margin ahead of its competitors.

Firm Dates for new Product releases advised ...

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:36:23

We are pleased to advise all clients that dates have now been set for our next Major Version product release cycles during the first 2 quarters of 2012;

OCR functionality added to the FREE PDF-XChange Viewer !

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:56:44

Christmas just came early to all the millions of users of the PDF-XChange Viewer with the addition of OCR functionality to include the option to analyze image/scan based PDF's and add a text search-able layer - and its totally FREE !

Developer Application Directory launched to showcase developer client applications using SDK technologies.

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:17:02

Tracker Software Products has now launched our new Developer Application Directory, showcasing developers and companies who have integrated our Software Development Kit Technologies into their own applications and to introduce their products to end-users and other developers alike. Feel free to browse the directory and see the many possibilities that integrating our PDF and Imaging technologies can do.

PDF-X OCR SDK extension released ...

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:25:08

New OCR module for PDF-XChange PRO SDK users now released ...

Most Vulnerable software - Adobe take 6 of 10 top spots !

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:36:24

Most Vulnerable software - Adobe Reader take 6 of 10 top spots !

One of our long time users drew our attention to this article recently and we thought other users might well find it of interest !

Some of the most exploited vulnerabilities out in the wild are for Adobe Reader software or its components according to an article published by ZDNET recently.

Duped Users buy 'hacked copies of PDF-XChange ...

Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:50:42

Duped Users buy 'hacked copies of PDF-XChange ...

We have recently been made aware of several clients who have unwittingly purchased what they thought were licensed copies of PDF-XChange - only to find they could not be activated and would only run in trial mode - don't be fooled - if its significantly cheaper than the versions listed on our web site - its probably such a version.

Clarion Developers Webinar - PDF-XChange Viewer SDK

Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:36:29

ClarionLive! PDF-XChange Viewer ActiveX Webinar Well-Received by Clarion Developers
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On January 28, 2011, Craig E. Ransom, Tracker's Clarion Support Specialist, gave a webinar for the ClarionLive! membership covering Clarion programming for the PDF-XChange Viewer ActiveX control. The focus of the webinar was using Clarion Templates to do most of the work in quickly adding the Viewer ActiveX functionality to any Clarion application.

Press Release - PDF-XChange Lite for FREE

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:26:13

Date : October 26th 2010.
Place : Vancouver Island, Canada.

Tracker Software Products are pleased to confirm the release of its popular PDF-XChange Lite creation tool for all Home and Academic users as FREE-WARE.

And users COMMERCIAL users of our award winning PDF-XChange Viewer can also now use their Viewer Serial number in PDF-XChange LIte - as their Viewer License has been extended to inlcude a FREE copy of PDF-XChange Lite if they wish to create new PDF files from any other Windows application that can 'Print' - any document output can now be converted to a fully ISO compliant PDF file !!!

Important new PDF-XChange Viewer release ...

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:20:31

We are very pleased to advise all new and existing users that a new release of the PDF-XChange Viewer has been made available - Version 2.5 adds new features and many small bug fixes - the most notable new functionality being extensive support of XFA form types including dynamic PDF forms support - additionally developers and system administrators will be pleased to know this latest release also no longer requires registration of an ActiveX in the users system, thus 'Administration' rights are not required.

Updated 22 December 2010 - extended XFA Compatibility further.

Free PDF creation software for Non-Commercial users

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:55:25

We are pleased to now offer all home users access to our 'commercial grade' PDF creation application, PDF-XChange Lite FREE of charge, meaning you now not only have the ability to View and Modify PDF files using the award winning PDF-XChange Viewer - but also to create new PDF files from any Windows application that can print !

New Acrobat Vulnerability - PDF-XChange not affected.

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:25:15

Adobe reported a new security vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash player, Acrobat and Acrobat reader on June 4th 2010, :

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html

Tracker Software's new home Domain/Web URL

Fri, 28 May 2010 03:45:07

Welcome to Tracker Software's new Home URL and Domain name, this has now changed from the old 'Docu-track.com' to our 'shiny/new' - https://www.pdf-xchange.com

FREE PDF creation software from any Windows application ....

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:57:40

Not content with giving users the ability to view and modify PDF files FREE - to all users who have licensed our PDF-XChange Viewer PRO version - we have decided to extend the options provided when they purchase the PDF-XChange Viewer PRO for $34.50 - to include FREE our 5 star rated PDF-XChange Lite driver (retail value $24) that allows the ability to create a highly optimized PDF file from any Windows application that can print ! See here for more details.

If you have purchased a multi user license - you will also receive the same multi user license for PDF-XChange Lite !!!

We have added new servers and changed our email domain to...

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:33:10

We have replaced 'Docu-track.com' as our email domain ...
We are pleased to advise all clients and suppliers that we have changed our email domain with a more appropriate 'tracker-software.com' domain - replacing 'tracker-software.com' .

Also we have invested heavlily in new 'Rackspace' hosted 'Cloud' server hosting space to ensure our users experience the fastest possible download speeds available to them locally - even at times of heavy traffic from our own servers !

New web site launch - Advance Notice ...

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:00:00

As many may have noticed, our site can be slow down at certain peak times - due to the major increase we have experienced in the popularity of our products over the past months and consequently those using our web site and download mirrors - therefore to combat this and to accommodate our 100% new web site we have made a major investment in new servers and upgraded bandwidth.

During the course of the week beginning 1st February, most likely Wednesday 3rd Feb 2010, we will launch our new web site and hardware/bandwidth - this could mean possible connection issues and some initial teething problems as a new server is also be installed to manage and improve the speed of our site generally.

This could also mean some delays for some users whilst the Internet registration body updates our DNS entries that convert all literal Internet addresses from text to 'IP' addresses.

We apologize in advance for any problems this may cause and thank all our clients in advance for their patience during this major update.

We should also advise in advance of another change coming in the course of the next few weeks - our primary URL/web domain will also be changing to www.tracker-software.com so please do not be alarmed if you see your web browser being redirected during the course of your browsing our site or requesting a download.

Kind regards
Tracker Software Products Ltd.

PDF-XChange Viewer - Update blocks possible vulnerability

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:00:00

Important Security Update issued 30 December 2009:
PDF-XChange Viewer Product Range – update to release 2.044 recommended.
After consultation with Secunia Research (http://www.secunia.com) Tracker Software Products Ltd has issued an update to all versions of its popular Free/Licensed PDF-XChange Viewer product family including both end user and developer product ranges.
On December 29th 2009, Secunia notified Tracker after testing, of the potential for malicious code to be executed to compromise users systems via PDF files, using a very specific means - though no such exploitation is known to have occurred to date, we felt we should act with some urgency to protect our clients.
Within 24 hours we are pleased to confirm an update was issued to all products blocking any such opportunity and all clients and developers are urged to update any versions of our PDF-XChange Viewer product to ensure that their systems are safe guarded.
All PDF-XChange Viewer and Viewer SDK versions prior to release 2.044
should be updated to a later release.

The PDF-XChange Viewer (FREE or PRO) is also offered as part of the PDF-XChange Lite,
Standard and PRO, and PDF-Tools product bundles - users of these products are urged to
update therefore also.
Developers using the PDF-XChange Viewer ActiveX SDK are urged to also update their clients
systems as soon as practical with a later release of their products incorporating the Viewer
SDK Version/Build 2.044 or later.
A full system uninstall, restart and re-install is recommended using downloads from the page
links below:

End user installer options:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/downloads/users/
Developer SDK installer options:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/downloads/dev/

Please rest assured we take the integrity of our clients systems and enviroment
very seriously and strive to ensure our products are of the highest quality on every level.

Latest review and Poll - PDF-XChange romps home by massive margin to beat them all !

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:41:47

In a recent review and User Poll of the 5 best PDF Viewer/Reader's by the popular 'Life Hacker' online Magazine - their nomination for the 5 best products and subsequent poll left the PDF-XChange Viewer a massive margin ahead of its rivals - see here for the full story :

http://lifehacker.com/5328211/five-best-pdf-readers

PDF-XChange garnered a huge 59% of the 17,778 votes cast by 'LifeHacker' readers leaving Adobe, Sumatra, 'Preview' and Foxit to scramble for the minor placing's.

Proud as we are of this astounding confirmation of the functionality and usablity of the PDF-XChange Viewer Viewer - rest assured we are not resting on our laurels, a new release is out shortly with even more features being added in, including rules, grid, gridlines, Snap to grid, gridlines, objects (end points, mid points, edges, etc.), XFA forms support, extended Digital Signature functionality.

So keep an eye open for the next release - due very shortly !

New Adobe Vulnerability - 24th July 2009

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:00:00

We are pleased to confirm that once again the PDF-XChange Viewer is not subject to the latest issue discovered with Adobe Reader when combined with PDF file content containing 'Flash' player objects.

please see this posting on Adobe's site for further technical info:

http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/

Yet another reason (if you needed one) to migrate to the PDF-XChange Viewer and all its advanced functionality - available free here :

PDF-XChange - Dept of Commerce ECCN certificate

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:49:06

Tracker Software products are pleased to report that the PDF-XChange family of products has now acquired from the US Departtment of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security - an ECCN - Export Control Certificate, required in certain circumstances where a software application has the ability to apply and enforce encryption technology (such as PDF-XChange does offer).

New Payment method added

Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:52:25

New Payment Method

We are pleased to advise all clients who prefer not to pay on-line by Credit Card or by bank Transfer/Cheque etc that we can now take your payments offline - if you wish to pay by MasterCard or Visa.

Appropriate payment details are on page 2 of your invoice and your order will be processed and your license info returned - usually within 2 working hours (office hours being 8-5pm Pacific time).

You can email your order to us or Fax to 1-250-597-1623, or if you prefer a little 'human' interaction - call us with your order on 1-250-597-1621.

Please note Canadian Residents will be charged the prevailing Canadian Government taxes - GST (5%) and BC residents PST (7%) etc .

Security Vulnerabilities in Acrobat Reader - is PDF-XChange affected ?

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:00:00

Recently we have been asked if the PDF-XChange Viewer is vulnerable to the latest attempted hack into users systems by groups attempting to exploit weakness in the Adobe Acrobat Reader, we have researched this thoroughly and we are pleased to confirm we are not !

The Adobe vulnerability is caused by some buffer overflow issue within their JBIG2 decoder. PDF-XChange uses our own JBIG2 decoder and therefore we are not subject to any code directed at exploiting flaws/weaknesses in Adobe's JBIG decoder

More information regarding Adobe vulnerability can be found at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/905281 or http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33751.

Any clients and users wishing to discuss this or any other related issue should feel free to contact us at any time.

Many thanks

PDF-XChange/Tools build 4.0.0.154 Released

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:00:00

We are pleased to advise that the latest release of PDF-XChange and Tools products for both end users and developer's are now available - please see click here for the version history and here for the latest downloads

Please note the PDF-XChange Viewer is not included in this round of updates - but has its own release cycle seperate from the main PDF-XChange and Tools products for PDF creation/manipulation.

Clarion developers can download the inital version 4 release using a new multi product download utility here. If you do not have a version 4 serial number - please follow the general instructions below.

No version 4 serial number ?

If you do not yet have a version 4 serial number (note: a previous version serial number will not function in version 4 downloads!) - please register your version 3 serial number here (if you have not already done so) - or login into you account here if you have already registered.

Once you are logged in or registered - please follow the upgrade links provided to view your discounted upgrade options

If you are using version 1 or 2 of PDF-XChange/Tools or your version 3 serial number does not allow you to register/login - please contact us for direct assistance.

PDF-XChange Viewer -Build 2.040 Released

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:00:00

The latest release of our Award winning PDF Viewing/Markup and Manipulation software is released adding many new and valuable functions - for more info see here

The FREE version offers many added features not available with Adobe's FREE PDF Reader and the PRO version (and modestly priced) add's even greater versatility for just a few dollars more !

Users of the FREE version have access to all the PRO features in evaluation mode - purchasing and pasting the provided serial number into the FREE version registration option enables these features without a fresh download being required !

PDF-XChange /Tools V4 Developer SDK's released !

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:00:00

We are pleased to announce the release of our award winning version 4 Software Developer SDK's for PDF-XChange and PDF-Tools.

Important : Please read this entire notice if you are interested in a PDF-XChange/Tools Version 4 upgrade from an earlier release - or you use the PDF-XChange Viewer SDK.

The most notable changes occur at this time to the PDF-XChange Drivers - though a very important change affects all products - we have now dropped support for Windows 9x/ME and NT and this should allow us to devote more development resources to the most popular remaining Windows operating systems - Windows 2K/XP/Vista - both 32 and 64 bit - though your Version 4 serial number will also allow you to use the Version 3 SDK should the need arise to support older Windows operting systems - but please note - no further Version 3 development will continue.

More significant feature updates will occur later this year to the PDF-XChange/PDF-Tools Library functions in version 4.5x and of course all developer's owning any of our Version 4 PDF SDK's also gain access to the PDF-XChange Viewer SDK at no extra cost !

You will also need to upgrade to Version 4 if you are using the PDF-XChange Viewer SDK freely, by virtue of the fact that you own version 3 of one of our other PDF SDK's - from Version 2.037 of the Viewer SDK - new serial numbers are required and will only be provided to those developers who actually purchased a standalone V1/2.x version of the PDF-XChange Viewer SDK itself - or licensed PDF-XChange/Tools VERSION 4 SDK owners

Version 1 or 2.x SDK existing users !

Please note that this will be the very last opportunity for Version 1 or 2.x SDK owners to acccess discounted upgrade options - from March 31st 2009 Version 1 or 2.x owners will be required to purchase a full, new PDF-XChange or Tools V4 SDK License with no discount being available.

If you own Version 1 or 2.x - please email us with your full company info, as used at the time of purchase and also your License info and we will advise how to access your upgrade options.

Version 3.x SDK existing Users !

If you have not already registered - you will need to go here and register to acccess your upgrade options - these will be available from a link on the registered users web page.

If you have already registered - please login here to access your upgrade options.

If you cannot recall your login info - it may be requested here

Should you have any problems registering or using your login - please email us with your full company and original purchase info - including (but not only) your serial number.

Vista Certification approved for PDF-XChange !

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:00

We are very proud to announce that our PDF-XChange range of products have now gained the 'Works with Vista' logo certification from Microsoft - further assurance for our valued clients that they are not only using the very best PDF creation, Viewing and Manipulation tools - but they install and function in Microsoft's leading products too !

How to access your PDF-XChange V4 Upgrade options

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:00:00

Please read this page - carefully to avoid confusion !

All PDF-XChange V1-3.x for end users - upgrade options to the latest Version 4 releases are now available to registered users of PDF-XChange - Developer options are not yet available.

Depending on what/when you purchased - you will receive a Free or Discounted upgrade against the same product and a discounted offer for other products/License types - for full info please register here.

Just because you have received an email from us as an owner of PDF-XChange/Tools - does not mean you are altready registered for upgrades - you must specifically register using your serial number, also registering on our Support Forums does not mean you are registered for upgrades - so please be sure your license is registered !

So ....

If you have version PDF-XChange V3.x ...

Please register as detailed below (you will require your serial number):

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/login/register

or if you are 100% sure you have already registered - using your login/password go here :
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/login/customer

Once logged in - you will be informed what your upgrade options are.

Should your serial number not be recognised for any reason : - please contact us with your serial number and receipt/info on your purchase and we will endeavour to assist.

If you have PDF-XChange Versions 1 or 2.

Owners of Version 1-2.x are offered a 50% discount from the latest retail price - but you will need to contact us to gain access to via a special promotional offer/code - available for a limited time only - please email us with your original purchase and contact info.

This will be the VERY LAST opportunity for Version 1 or 2 owners to upgrade without making a new purchase at the full reccomended retail price - please do not miss this chance.

Thankyou.

Tracker Software Products>
Download latest evaluation versions here :
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/downloads/users/

PDF-XChange & Tools Version 4 - Released !

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:41:00

Please Note the upgrade options detailed in this 2008 news item have now expired - please login into your account to view your current upgrade options - if you have not registered your Version 3/4 serial number previously to create your account - you can do so here :

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/login

this news article is therefore available for archive reference purposes only!
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We are very pleased to announce the release of Version 4 of our best selling PDF-XChange and Tools end user products.

Version 4 brings new features and an enhanced interface - but retains its fast PDF creation and our world beating file optimisation and compression features.

The feature highlights include :

PDF/A file format support - this new standard was devised to ensure that file content is such that the file will always be viewable by any conforming reader in years to come - and its content appear exactly as created - certain multimedia content is not allowed and also all fonts must be embedded in the file.

If you would like more info on PDF/A - please contact us.

PDF-XChange V4 (Standard and PRO)

Header-Footer Support - define and generate Headers and Footers automatically for all your files.
AES Encryption - We have extended the security options by adding the AES file encryption method.
n-UP page formatting - Let PDF-XChange organise and output your pages using the n-UP publishing format
Booklet Mode - Always wanted to print multiple pages in the correct order, resized to a single large page format then fold and guillotine as book publishers do ?
Preview and rescale pages - Visually view and adjust the page size before output to PDF via the preview window !

PDF-Tools V4

The changes to PDF-Tools are minor at this time - as we prepare to migrate the functionality to our new PDF-XChange Viewer PRO - this will combine the features currently available in PDF-Tools where possible and the visual interface provided now in our PDF-XChange Viewer, making any task you wish to perform creating or Modifying your PDF's easier and more intuitive to achieve.

Currently PDF-Tools V4 gets some updates to allow pages/files to be previewed as some tasks are performed and AES encryption - we have chosen not to waste further time upgrading PDF-Tools when it will shortly be replaced by the PDF-XChange Viewer 'PRO'

Upgrade policy/Info

Update - some techincal issues have delayed the upgrade notification/facility for existing users - this, we hope is now resolved and we should be able to send out upgrade information to all registered users on February 13th and 14th.

If you have V3 of PDF-XChange or PDF-Tools and purchased on or after January 1st 2007 - you will receive a free upgrade and provided we have your current email address - you will be sent details on how to claim this before January 31st.

If you have V3 of PDF-XChange or PDF-Tools and purchased before January 1st 2007 you will be offered Version 4 for a 70% discount from the current retail price, provided we have your current email address - you will be sent details on how to claim this before January 31st.

If you have V1 or 2 of PDF-XChange or PDF-Tools you will be offered Version 4 for a 40% discount from the current retail price, provided we have your current email address - you will be sent details on how to claim this before January 31st.

This will be the final opportunity for Version 1 and 2 users to upgrade at a discounted price - all future upgrades will require a new purchase at the full retail price currently published.

PDF-XChange Viewer PRO

As indicated, above we have begun work on our much anticipated PRO version of the currently available PDF-XChange viewer. This is already arguably the fastest, smallest download and most feature rich, comprehensive PDF Viewer available today.

We are merging the functionality of PDF-Tools 4 with the Viewer and adding in many new exciting features - only possible using a visual interface.

We will release the initial versions of 'PDF-XV-PRO' in the coming month or so and, whilst it will not immediately be a full replacement for PDF-Tools,we will build on the initial functionality over the coming months and are confident it will soon be a genuine alternative to the full Adobe Acrobat product - costing $100's.

If you own PDF-XChange PRO or PDF-Tools Version 4, you will receive this automatically as a free upgrade as soon as available, otherwise we will also offer the PRO Viewer as a standalone product, initially at a discounted price at around $19.95 - rising to approx $39.95 as the full feature set is available.

PDF-XChange and PDF/A ...

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:00:00

We are pleased to confirm that development of Version 4 of the PDF-XChange range of products is progressing well and to further confirm to our many users that PDF/A support will be a major feature addition in the next full release - for all users of our PDF-XChange virtual print driver products and associated PDF creation end user utilities.

If PDF/A means nothing to you or your would like more info - please visit the PDF/A competence center web site.

Waiting for PDF/A support before purchasing?
We are delighted to confirm that this is not necessary, you can gain the full benefit of the advanced PDF creation and optimisation features of PDF-XChange now without delay - all licensed version 3 users of PDF-XChange purchased since January 1st 2007 will receive a free upgrade to Version 4 !

Latest : We expect to release PDF-XChange Version 4 on approx January 15th 2008.

PDF-XChange Viewer - new release !

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:00:00

Tracker Software are pleased to advise that build 1.031 of the PDF-XChange Viewer is now available (Both developers and End user versions) for download or if you are already an existing user - simply select the 'Help -> Check for Updates' option in the Toolbar menu's.

This new release now features Firefox integration and some important fixes and a FULLY Portable version is also available from our main downloads page which is just 4MB to download - but includes no help files etc - see here for details.

The PDF-XChange Viewer remains free for end user use (private or commercial) and a free addon for our existing PDF SDK developer clients subject to the distribution license limitations.

More info :

End users Click here

Developer's Click here

PDF-XChange Viewer - new release !

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:00:00

Pleased to advise further improvements are now available in Build 1.021

To update from a previous build - use the Help -> Check for Updates feature

For a new installation :

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/downloads/users/

Previously ....

Build 1.018 of the PDF-XChange Viewer is now available - adding many new features and improving others - here are some of the highlights:

Type on any page in any desired font
Center or justify text
Supports CJK fonts too
Improved opening speeds
Progressive JPEG support improved
Improved speed/memory management
Multi Copy Printing
Apply from a variety of prescribed 'Stamps'
New Toolbars
Comments List and Properties
and much more

If you have installed - select the 'Help' menu and the drop down 'Update' menu
option.

or download and install now

PDF-XChange Viewer ActiveX for Developer's released

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:00:00

New Build released June 28th, 2007

We are pleased to advise that we have today released the ActiveX version of our PDF-XChange Viewer, allowing developer's to embed rich viewing and markup options for PDF files within their software application windows !

No more need to install and 'Shell' out to other Readers - embed the PDF-XChange Viewer directly in your software applications and allow your users to view, print, Form fill - add annotations, markup and type on any PDF page + much more - all from within your applications,no external add-ons or software required !

You will amaze your clients and enrich their PDF experience - all from your software application windows !

More info here

See what 'they' say about the PDF-XChange Viewer

Sun, 3 Jun 2007 12:00:00

Here are just a few of the reviews and blogs being posted about the new PDF-XChange Viewer (build 31) that 1000's every day are downloading and using in place of Adobe's own Acrobat Reader !!!

and ....

PDF-XChange Viewer - Build 1.017 now available

Mon, 21 May 2007 12:00:00

Version 1.017 of the Free PDF-XChange Viewer is now available.

Those wishing to view PDF files on their Windows PC's now have a REAL choice when it comes to reading PDF files - the PDF-XChange Viewer is smaller, faster and more feature rich than the Adobe Reader which has until now been the Reader of choice for PDF files - we think that's about to change !

See the latest information here

PDF-XChange and Tools for Vista/64 bit Windows

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:00:00

Tracker Software are pleased to announce that all of our V3.x PDF-XChange and PDF-Tools products install files now combine both 32 bit and Vista/64 bit installation into a single file available for download immediately.

There is now no longer the need to download a separate installer dependant on whether you used 32 bit or 64 bit Windows PC's - our installers will sense the correct version of our products to install for any version of Windows resident on your PC (from Windows 95 or later).

PDF-XChange & Tools support's Windows 95 through Windows XP/Vista 64.

Output any Windows document to an Image - with Raster-XChange

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:00:00

At the click of a button Windows users can output their MS Office, Acrobat PDF, AutoCAD - in fact any document or image to any of the supported image formats using Raster-XChange for Windows 2000, Xp, XP 64 or the lastest Windows Vista Operating system.

Simply open your document and print to the Raster-XChange printer - to the desired image format (single or multi page/ Mono/Grayscale or Color depending on the chose format) and within seconds Raster-XChange will create you output as required.

Supports output to the following standard image format types:

BMP,PNG, GIF, PBM, PGM, PPM, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG2000, JNG, PCX, DCX, TGA, TIFF, WBMP.

Software developers Royalty Free SDK also available !

for more information or a free fully functional evaluaton - click here

PDF-XChange Viewer released to Beta Testers.

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:00:00

The pre-public beta release (Build 002) of the PDF-XChange PDF viewer has finally been released to Beta Testers for final testing and review prior to release for a general public Beta shortly - after almost 2 years of development.

With many additional features not available in the Adobe PDF Viewer - The Tracker Software Viewer will still be FREE to end users for download and unlimited use.

For Software developer's the ability to embed PDF viewing, Printing and control within their application windows will be fully supported via our Developer SDK kits, with limited Royalty Free distribution (no Royalties).

For more information on any of the above - please contact sales@pdf-xchange.com

NEW Adobe Acroform Fields creation in PDF-XChange SDK

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:00:00

We are pleased to announce that the PDF-XChange PRO SDK for software developer's now includes new functionality for the creation of PDF files incorporating Adobe Acroform fields to allow users to dynamically enter data into enable PDF readers/viewers and then submit this data as required.

For more detailed information and a full list of available functions please download the latest PDF-XChange PRO SDK download the latest PDF-XChange PRO SDK and see the help file : PDFLib30Help.chm

This is a free upgrade for all existing Version 3.x licensed developers.

PDF-Tools Wizard Version 3.5 Released (Gold)

Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:00:00

We are pleased to announce that the Gold version of this Major upgrade (free to licensed V3.x owners) is now available for use.

To download the evaluation/Live version please click here

To use in live mode (PDF-XChange PRO and PDF-Tools Licensed users only) - copy/paste your Version 3.x serial number into the 'Advanced' option 'About' Window or the installer when requested.

This version is now feature complete and includes may new options - including Digital Signature Support, Extract PDF Pages/Files to Word Processing formats (including .RTF) for editing and much more !

PDF-XChange - 64 bit Windows Free upgrade

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:00:00

PDF-XChange Version 3.5093 now includes 64 bit Windows Drivers released as a 'Gold' product for both End Users and Software Developers.

This aÂ free upgrade/addition for all our licensed users.

Please note that whilst we have included the 64 bit drivers in the default download for Software Developers 'Client Installer' - there are separate downloads for our 32 (Windows 95 thru to Windows XP) and 64 Bit Windows End User installations (Windows XP64/Vista) in recognition that this adds size to the download file and will not be required as frequently (for now) as it will be by most Software Developers using our products.

FREE UPGRADE - Version 3.5

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:00:00

We are pleased to advise users that this Major Free upgrade is now available for download for all PDF-XChange and PDF-Tools users.

Version 3.5 includes many new features and improvements and PDF-Tools Wizard is a 100% new product - totally re-written and we are still intending to add new features over the coming months as part of this upgrade.

PDF-XChange also gets new features - some of which are detailed below, and we release PDF-XChange for Windows XP64 and Vista - Microsofts new 64 bit versions of Windows.

Be amongst the first in the World to have a 64 bit PDF creation tool - if you have a 64 bit version of Windows - and its available at no added cost to existing or new users - download today

New in PDF-XChange:

Digital Signatures support
PDF files/pages as Overlay's - foreground or back ground (similar to a watermark)
Import default settings in a profile including Watermarks (useful for multiple user installations)
Printer Renaming/append to name now supported (1st 12 characters reserved)
and more - see the revision notes :

and all this without any upgrade fees to existing licensed V3 users !

PDF-Tools SDK Version 3.5 released !

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:00:00

Now available - free upgrade to the new Developers Version 3.5 SDK. This powerful new library gives developers almost limitless capabilities to create and manipulate Adobe PDF files.

Existing PDF-Tools SDK owners now have many new functions via our new High Level API - with more coming in the next few weeks.

PDF-XChange Pro SDK users also have the additional power & functionality offered by the Low level API - literally allowing developers access to every object on every page of a PDF to manipulate and edit as they wish.

Please download the evaluation version (live when used with your license info) and see the help, for more information.

PLEASE NOTE: PDF-TOOLS SDK licensed users receive the new High Level API - but may only use the new Low Level API in evaluation mode. An upgrade to the PDF-XChange 'PRO' SDK for production use of live PDF's.

Clarion 6.2 !

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:00:00

Clarion 6.2 Tested OK & Image-XChange Version 3 for Clarion realeased!

Pleased to confrim that we have tested successfully the new Clarion 6.2 release and all appears well with both PDF-XChange PRO SDK (including Drivers), PDF-Tools SDK and Image-XChange V3 - the latter is the latest free upgrade to our popular Imaging library for Developers.

Should any developers experience problems - please advise via our Support forums link below.

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=23

New License Packs and revised pricing - released !!

Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:00:00

We are please to announce that as of 9th April 2005 we will introduce 6 new User License Volume packs for PDF-XChange 'Lite' and 3 new License pack types for the 'Pro' Editions.

There will be new 250, 500 and 1000 User license packs for both products and Site, Country and Global Packs for the 'LIte' version aimed at corporate users who have multiple users across numerous locations.

The PDF-XChange 'Lite' multiple user packs will particuarly appeal to larger corporate users who seek a simple yet robust PDF creation tool to roll out across a broad range of users in multiple locations.

New Pricing and license packs made available today 9th April, 2005 !

Tracker PDF Viewer Announced - have your say !

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:00:00

We are pleased to announce the development of a rival to Adobe's Reader to view Acrobat PDF files.

Aware of a growing dissatisfaction from both general PC users and Software Developers alike with the latter versions of Adobe's own Acrobat PDF Reader, Tracker Software have announced 2 new Reader applications will be released in the late Spring with a 3rd due out later this year.

The first release will be a freely available Reader for general purpose viewing of PDF files with all the major functionality available in Adobe's reader, with some unique features and functions too to set it apart.

Combating the frustrating file opening times of Adobe's Reader and ensuring the viewer is not resource hungry will be key features - as will ease of use and the avoidance of bloated irrelevant features - however - this will still be a fully featured Reader, capable of all the essential functionality.

The 2nd of the initial products released will be aimed at Software Developers and provide a comprehensive means to incorporate within a developers software applications, the viewing and printing of PDF files - at an affordable price.

Both general users and software developers are invited to offer their opinions as to what features and functions are important to them, in a new topic area on our User's support forums - you must fill in the simple registration form to view and post

Tracker Support forums :

New Products

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:00:00

New Product's - Schedule release (Spring 2005) :

xMF-XChange and xMF-XChange SDK, printer Drivers for the creation of enhanced metafiles (AMF, EMF and WMF options) from any Windows Applications - Release date March 2005.

PDF-Tools Wizard V3.5 - Long awaited update to Version 3, this is a 100% re-write adding new user interface, improved functionality and new features - Release date April 2005 (free to all Version registered users)

PDF-Tools SDK V3.5 - 100% updated release of PDF-Tools SDK library of functions for Software Developers allowing the editing of all objects within a PDF page or file - offering low and high level API for developers of varying experience.

Release date April/May 2005 (free to all Version registered users)

PDF-XChange Viewer - Professional comprehensive to Adobe's own Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files. Support for PDF formats 1.2 thru 1.6 (Adobe V7)

Release date Spring 2005 (free General user's release & paid for Developers SDK)

More Info

Image-XChange SDK Version 3 available

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:00:00

Image-XChange SDK Version 3 release:

Is now available - Version 3 will be a FREE Upgrade for all existing licensee's and we expect to distribute the free upgrade details early in the new year - if not before.

For those wishing to take an early look prior to license distribution - please download the demo release available for general use - we will shortly provide licensed users with serial numbers etc - if you do not receive yours by January 4th 2005 - please send an email to upgrades@tracker-software.com with your proof of purchase info and we will send you the information by return.

Version 2 was an internal build only - for use in our own products and to allow us to test all the new features and functions.

Clarion Developers will receive their serials etc a little into January (around the 3rd week we hope) as we are now progressing Clarion Classes and Templates, Doc's and Demo's prior to release. Any Clarion developer purchasing now will recieve Version 1.x with a free upgrade to V3 as soon as available.

Version 3 Evaluation - please click here the download is approx 2mb

For more info on Image-XChange please click here

NEW Support Contact info

Sat, 26 May 2018 01:59:31

All users should view this page if you require support now or may do in the future.

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/support

Due to a massive increase in spam to our previously published email addresses we have been forced to introduce a web based support user support Forum - we have been forced to disable the old email addresses published until further notice.

This also allows you to view previous users questions and our answers - as well as FAQ and revisions pages on the forum for each product available.

Thank you for your co-operation.

New feature: Add-in for MS Office Users

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:00:00

PDF-XChange Version 3.4065 and later, (both Standard and Pro versions) has benefited from a useful new feature Add-in for MS Office Users.

Now if you select the optional MS Office Add-in when installing and have Office 97 or later Toolbar buttons will be added for PDF Creation, Bookmarks/Hyperlinks Selection based on Office styles and Settings - as well as a general settings button to allow you to control most of the PDF-XChange printer drivers options and variations.

Create clickable table of contents links embed URL hyperlinks in your documents - i.e. text such as 'Click Here' can have an embedded Internet or Email link.

This includes unrivalled compression and optimisation when converting your documents to PDF, in recent independent tests PDF-XChange converted users CAD files to PDF and the resulting file was up to 90% smaller than our nearest rivals - including Adobes own conversion tools!

As always this upgrade is provided free to existing Version license owners. To evaluate PDF-XChange Version 3 please click here.

Note: The above feature is not available in PDF-XChange 'Lite'

Now available - PDF-XChange LITE

Sun, 2 May 2004 12:00:00

Many users don't require the fuller feature set available in our current release of PDF-XChange (Standard and Pro) and are looking for a simple way to make the smallest PDF's possible without any other tools and tricks - just straight forward, highly optimised PDF's.

PDF-XChange V3 LITE is sure to be the answer !

A simple, print to PDF with no fancy features - NOW available for trial - purchase available Friday May 7th 2004 !

The cost will be less than half the cost of our current standard feature rich product priced @ $49.50 ($69.50 for the 'PRO' release) PDF-XChange 'Lite' will suit many users needs at $19.50 for a single user license. Multi License packs available.

Proof of PDF-XChange's File compression!

Sun, 2 May 2004 12:00:00

See how one developer's product has benefitted from the inclusion of PDF-XChange within his application and the smart way he has used our tools to beat the industry giants - including Adobe!

One Developers Story

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Mail Delays Due to the Canada Post Strike

Windows 10 'End of life' announced by Microsoft.

Build 388 of PDF-XChange V10 product line Coming Soon!

We Asked ChatGPT about PDF Software - Guess What it Said?

PDF-XChange - Reviews and comments updated

Is Windows Showing You Advertisements? Learn How to Disable Them Here...

The Windows 11 Start Menu will soon have ADVERTS Thanks to Microsoft - Here's How to Disable Them

NEW Release - Presenting Build 10.3.1.387 released June 17th, 2024!

We have hundreds of knowledgebase support articles to help you use our products and solve many support issues right now! For example ...

Monday Nov 13th our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the Remembrance Day Stat holiday

Latest Newsletter Available Here...

We have changed our Web Site and Email URL/Domains today Thursday, October 26th

Monday Oct 9th our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the Thanksgiving Day Stat holiday

Monday Sep 4th our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the Labour Day Stat holiday

Monday August 29h our European Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the Summer Bank holiday in the UK.

Monday Aug 7th our North American Office will operate with a 'Skeleton Staff' for the BC Day Stat holiday

PDF-XChange Version 10 is HERE!

NEW Release - Presenting Build 9.4.368.0 released April 6th, 2023!

PDF-XChange Co Ltd and Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd announce all products removed from sale in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Internet Explorer dies today — what you need to know ...

Presenting Build 9.3.360.0 - Now Live!

Sales to Russia and Belarus Suspended. - 28th February, 2022

COVID-19 Work from Home License Variations Extended to September 30th 2022

PDF-XChange Co/Tracker Software Products - 2022 Marks Our 25th Year in Business.

Log4j Java Vulnerability - We are unaffected and clear!

Presenting Build 9.2.359 released Nov 23rd, 2021!

Presenting Build 9.2.358.0 - released October 25th, 2021!

The New PDF-XChange Website is Going Live on November 1st, 2021.

Presenting Build 9.2.357.0 - released October 19th, 2021!

Versions of PDF-XChange Products Older than V6 to be Removed July 15th, 2021

Tuesday, May 4th Payment Processor Share-It Experiencing Intermittent Payment Failures

Charles Geschke Adobe founder dies aged 81 ...

Co-founder of Adobe, the printer software company, who had a turbulent relationship with Apple and survived a kidnapping ordeal

Presenting Build 353 - Released in April 19th, 2021!

Tracker Software Ceases Sales of all Software Developer Kits - March 12th, 2021

February 4th, 2021: New build 352 of PDF-XChange Version 9 Released!

January 14th, 2021: PDF-XChange Version 9 Released!

Presenting Build 334 released Nov 4th, 2019!

Build 333 of PDF-XChange V8 product line released and now available !

Adobe are threatening to SUE licensed users who have paid for their product if they dont stop using it - CRAZY...

Enhanced (optional) OCR Plugin and V8 released and now available !

Presenting Version 8 released April 4th, 2019

Version 8 announced to be final version of our Software Development Kits to be released.

Upcoming price changes on April 1st for PDF-XChange End-User products specific license volumes.

PDF-XChange V8 will no longer support Windows XP, Vista & Windows Server 2003 (or prior) operating systems.

Build 328.2 released January 28, 2019

Presenting Build 328.0 Released Dec 13, 2018

News Update: Upcoming changes for PDF-XChange products in 2019 and more

Enhanced (optional) OCR Plugin will be released in Spring 2019

Build 327.0 Released Oct 1, 2018

New PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus Online Help for Ribbon UI Now Available

Presenting Build 326.1 released July 25th, 2018

Use PDF-XChange Editor to Meet GDPR Regulations

Presenting Build 326 released July 4th, 2018

PDF-XChange Products Update Build 7.0.325.1 Released!

Presenting Build 325 released April 16, 2018

PDF-XChange Products Update Build 7.0.324.0 Released!

Possible threat identified, and promptly neutralized

Presenting Build 324 release coming Feb 2018

Presenting V7: New Features

Presenting V7: New Ribbon Interface

Monday Sept 4th our North American Office will be Closed for a Statutory Holiday

PDF-XChange Co.
Holiday Hours 2025

PDF-XChange Co. UK & Canada
would like to wish all of our Customers & Resellers
a Very Merry Christmas & the Happiest of New Years!

Co-founder of Adobe, the printer software company, who had a turbulent relationship with
Apple and survived a kidnapping ordeal