What's new in Diff Doc 17.70
Jun 6, 2023
- Moving a licenses between two computers with Windows 11 was failing.
New in Diff Doc 17.51 (Feb 10, 2023)
- PowerPoint file comparison had a glitch related to Notes. The file/comparison had to be reloaded several times before working.
New in Diff Doc 17.51 (Feb 10, 2023)
- PowerPoint file comparison had a glitch related to Notes. The file/comparison had to be reloaded several times before working.
New in Diff Doc 17.40 (Dec 28, 2022)
- Application load time reduced. The number of file paths within the drop down list box (for original and modified file/folders) was reduced from 10 to 6 for faster load times.
New in Diff Doc 17.20 (Dec 28, 2022)
- Application load time has been reduced. Loading only a single instance of each window type (file compare, folder compare etc) at app start. You can override this enhancement by adding a single line to in the [Main] section of the ini file as shown in bold below:
- [Main]
- bLoadMultipleSimilarForms=1
- Set bLoadMultipleSimilarForms=0 to revert to default behavior of only loading one form of each time at most during program startup. Note: You can find the ini file by opening the app, go to the HelpAbout menu item, and then double click on the Softinterface icon/logo at the top. This will open the ini file in Notepad. From within Notepad you can find the location of the ini file by going to the FileSave As menu item.
New in Diff Doc 17.00 (Dec 25, 2022)
- Certified Office 2021 compatibility.
New in Diff Doc 16.20 (Dec 7, 2022)
- Documentation updated for accuracy and completeness.
New in Diff Doc 16.00 (Feb 6, 2022)
- Certified Windows 11 compatibility
New in Diff Doc 15.10 (Oct 21, 2021)
- Folder Comparison: Documentation for folder comparison has been greatly enhanced. A step by step guide on how to import the folder comparison report into Excel has been added. Further, the report contents are broken out and highly detailed removing any confusion.
New in Diff Doc 15.0 (Apr 13, 2021)
- Remove or replace textual content prior to comparison with user defined character sequence (tag). This is useful for removing or replacing content prior to comparison. Screen writers may want to remove comments from a script for example. By tagging each comment they can be removed prior to comparison. NOTE: If 'Replace with' is not empty the 'Remove Formatting' option will be enabled. Set 'Replace with' blank to remove content.
New in Diff Doc 14.60 (Dec 11, 2020)
- Registration issue resolved. Users who are attempting to upgrade options (e.g. Professional or Server upgrade) and already had registered all users were running into problems. The newly purchased options were not being implemented.
New in Diff Doc 14.50 (May 7, 2020)
- Comparing XLSX files: When using the 'Quick Excel Data Extraction method' the files would load blank.
New in Diff Doc 14.00 (Jan 7, 2020)
- New command line switch added /CLEARHISTORY
- For security conscious individuals, this switch will keep the application from loading and saving any historical comparisons made during the previous runs of the program. Note that historical information may still be stored in the DiffDoc.ini file if this switch is not used every time the application is used. You can clear out any and all items from the DiffDoc.ini file located at:
- %appdata%Softinterface, IncDiffDocDiffDoc.ini
New in Diff Doc 13.70 (Dec 12, 2019)
- Language files for non-administrator users is now available.
New in Diff Doc 13.50 (Dec 12, 2019)
- Documentation updated for accuracy.
- All Tutorial Videos updated. Now hosted on Youtube.
New in Diff Doc 13.30 (May 31, 2019)
- User interface: Brazilian-Portuguese language localization file added.
New in Diff Doc 13.20 (Mar 9, 2019)
- User interface: Language selection dialog had a bug. Closing using the top right 'control box' we cause app to revert to English.
New in Diff Doc 13.00 (Oct 31, 2018)
- Office 2019 compatibility. Latest version of Office 365 compatibility.
- Documentation updated to show videos properly
New in Diff Doc 12.50 (Apr 19, 2018)
- DOCX Comparison: Import of DOCX now more robust.
- RTF Comparison: Incorrect paragraph formatting of the last paragraph
- RTF Comparison: Error occurred when file contained 'Code 128' font
New in Diff Doc 12.20 (Dec 15, 2017)
- Compare Files: OpenOffice (*.ODT) file types now supported. Must have MS Word version that can open ODT files.
New in Diff Doc 12.02 (Jul 19, 2017)
- Compare Folders: Abort button was hidden during refresh.
- Compare Folders: Having multiple compare folder windows open caused issue after re-starting app.
New in Diff Doc 11.60 (Apr 14, 2017)
- User interface completely updated. Fonts are now 25% bigger. This is great for those using bigger monitors.
New in Diff Doc 10.60 (Mar 22, 2017)
- User interface completely updated. Fonts are now 25% bigger. This is great for those using bigger monitors.
New in Diff Doc 10.50 (Mar 22, 2017)
- File Compare: HTML REPORTS ONLY - Differences were not showing up in the report.
New in Diff Doc 10.40 (Jan 24, 2017)
- Command line /? switch now works. Help file was shutting down, now opens equivelent URL.
New in Diff Doc 10.30 (Dec 20, 2016)
- 'Diff Doc' on-line documentation updated. On-line documentation now responsive to the device and user friendly.
New in Diff Doc 10.20 (Jun 16, 2016)
- User interface enhanced.
- Button used to refresh (F5) enlarged and highlighted for easy access/usage.
New in Diff Doc 10.162 (May 18, 2016)
- French Language file updated
New in Diff Doc 10.16 (May 17, 2016)
- Advanced Compare files options was closing the application suddenly.
- Compare Folders: User interface adjusted for German language file.
New in Diff Doc 10.10 (Apr 26, 2016)
- All reports file/folder names can now have date and time attributes associated with it. The following are now recognized:
- Date in the format YYYYMMDD (year, month, day)
- Date in the format MMDDYYYY (day, month, year)
- Year in the format YYYY
- Month in the format MM
- Day in the format DD
- time in the format hhmmss (hour, minute, second)
- Hour in the format hh
- Minute in the format mm
- Second in the format ss
New in Diff Doc 10.03 (Dec 14, 2015)
- During registration, the "Register Now" button sometimes did nothing.
New in Diff Doc 10.00 (Dec 14, 2015)
- Critical update. Windows 10 Compatibility. Do not use Windows 10 with a version earlier than 10.00.
- Windows 10 (and Windows 8.1) Compatibility modifications completed. Please upgrade if you haven't done so already. This version will be much more reliable on the latest operating systems.
New in Diff Doc 8.71 (Dec 1, 2015)
- Windows 10 (and Windows 8.1) Compatibility modifications completed. This version will be much more reliable on the latest operating systems.
New in Diff Doc 8.70 (Nov 20, 2015)
- Folder Compare: When the list of files exceeded the window size the scroller would be hidden by the legend.
New in Diff Doc 8.60 (Oct 20, 2015)
- Office 2016 compatibility done.
New in Diff Doc 8.30 (Sep 24, 2015)
New in Diff Doc 8.20 (Jun 4, 2015)
- Scroll button on the mouse was not working properly all the time.
New in Diff Doc 8.10 (May 22, 2015)
- Japanese Documentation completely re-written
New in Diff Doc 8.00 (Feb 20, 2015)
- PDF reading engine has been updated to handle the importing of additional types of PDFs.
- Different PDF editors don't all follow the same format. So this enhancement will greatly improve the usability for those who are comparing PDF files.
- This update applies specifically to "Do Robust Text Extraction" conversion method.
New in Diff Doc 7.80 (Dec 19, 2014)
- Command line switch /+{DiffDoc.ini file path} was implemented to override the default ini file used. This could be useful for those command line switches that don't exist, yet the user interface retains those settings through the diffdoc.ini file.
- Change the settings within the user interface.
- Exit DiffDoc
- Run DiffDoc
- Go to the help\about menu item and double click on the Softinterface icon. This opens notepad with the DiffDoc.ini file. Save the ini file with the name/path of your choosing and specify that with the /+ switch
New in Diff Doc 7.753 (Nov 10, 2014)
- Japanese help file now uses CHM help file instead of using web based help. This will make it much quicker.
New in Diff Doc 7.653 (Oct 22, 2014)
- Japanese help file updated.
New in Diff Doc 7.51 (Aug 26, 2014)
- Documentation updated to reflect recent enhancements
- Languages folder has been moved to the %AppData%\Softinterface, Inc\ folder.
New in Diff Doc 7.50 (Aug 13, 2014)
- Application default font set to Tahoma. In some instances of Windows 7 (perhaps 8.x) the default font "MS Sans Serif" was installed but not the smaller type fonts. This resulted in a user interface with text much too large.
New in Diff Doc 7.40 (Jun 6, 2014)
- Manual updated
- Windows 8 Installation - Removed excess icons in the Start menu.
New in Diff Doc 7.31 (Nov 16, 2013)
- Registration upgraded to handle Windows 8.
New in Diff Doc 7.30 (Oct 24, 2013)
- Installation upgraded to handle Windows 8 and Windows 7.
New in Diff Doc 7.20 (Oct 17, 2013)
- File Comparison: When a changed occurred the difference viewer was not as clear as it could be when highlighting the text. And in some rare cases text would be missing in the report.
- File Comparison: When there were changes at the beginning or the end of a paragraph, it would not always highlight the change properly.
- File Comparison: When 2 or more contiguous paragraphs were found to have changes, and the first word within a paragraph was changed, the display was not properly highlighting the change.File Comparison: Side by side view. The fonts in the difference viewers (bottom editors) were not uniformly displayed when comparing text files.
New in Diff Doc 7.01 (Oct 17, 2013)
- File Comparison: Character by Character comparisons were not always being displayed properly. In particular, when characters were found to be changed, the difference display would not always show the original text perfectly adjacent to the modified text.
- File Comparison: Character by Character comparisons were not always being displayed properly. When a character was changed at the very beginning of the file, the difference display was not showing the change completely.
New in Diff Doc 7.00 (Oct 17, 2013)
- Documentation/Help. Content was reviewed and made more concise and simpler to read.
New in Diff Doc 6.65 (Jul 12, 2013)
- Documentation/Help updated. Chrome now works properly for html web based help.
New in Diff Doc 6.64 (Jun 22, 2013)
- File Comparison: Changing FONT from the view menu only made the All In One view change. Now Side By Side works.
New in Diff Doc 6.63 (Jun 6, 2013)
- Launching an HTML report was found to be problematic, especially for users of Firefox.
New in Diff Doc 6.62 (Jun 5, 2013)
- Excel Compare Options dialog box has been updated to hide and show the 'Include Values' option. This option only workswhen the 'Quick Excel Data Extraction option is enabled.
New in Diff Doc 6.61 (Apr 27, 2013)
- Added two very useful hot keys in the Compare Folders window, ALT-O and ALT-M for choosing the Original or Modified folder.
New in Diff Doc 6.60 (Apr 20, 2013)
- Added two very useful hot keys in the File Compoarison window, ALT-O and ALT-M for choosing the Original or Modified file.
New in Diff Doc 6.50 (Nov 19, 2012)
- Compatibility with Office 2013 began.
New in Diff Doc 6.20 (Nov 19, 2012)
- Comparing Excel Files: When using the "Quick Excel Data Extraction" method and cells contained a very large amount of text, the text would sometimes be truncated.
New in Diff Doc 6.00 (Nov 19, 2012)
- Command Line: A time stamp will be put in the log file (if /L is specified).
New in Diff Doc 5.03 (Nov 19, 2012)
- Polish Language supported more fully
New in Diff Doc 5.02 (Nov 19, 2012)
- File Comparison: When saving the bottom editor as DOC the application would sometimes fault. This was seen only on older Windows XP systems.
New in Diff Doc 5.01 (Nov 19, 2012)
- PDF Import Engine now supports PDFs that are scanned images which also contain textual content from an OCR process. OCR is Object Character Recognition. It is important to note, 'Diff Doc' does not perform OCR on scanned images within a PDF.
New in Diff Doc 5.00 (Nov 19, 2012)
- PDF Import Engine complete overhauled. There were some versions of Acrobat 6 and later that were not being imported.
- PDF page ranges can now be specified uniquely for both the Original and Modified file.
- If pressing the abort button while loading a file, pressing the load file button a 2nd time wasn't working.
New in Diff Doc 4.061 (Sep 24, 2010)
- HTML Reports, when opening, and Mozilla FireFox is your default browser, it may not have opened.
New in Diff Doc 4.012 (Sep 24, 2010)
- When switching from 'Do NOT reload file on Refresh' to 'Reload file on Refresh' the user interface did not always reload files until the selected files were changed, or after restarting the program.
New in Diff Doc 4.000 (Sep 24, 2010)
- Windows 7 compatibility enhancements made. Default report folders now updated.
- Windows 7 Explorer Shell now working
- Working well now with Office 2010
New in Diff Doc 3.971 (Sep 24, 2010)
- Japanese Language module updated.
New in Diff Doc 3.97 (Sep 24, 2010)
- Usability: When users have not chosen either an Original or Modified file, the program now prompts them to do so.
- Usability: While no text has been entered in the Original and Modified editors, if users click the F5 button or the green Refresh button to begin a comparison, if they have chosen NOT to reload files on refresh they are instructed to enter content to compare by either typing or pasting. Users are also reminded about the 'Compare Options' tab 'Reload on Refresh' option.
- Massively dissimilar text files were causing a crash. Now users are prompted with an error message instead.
New in Diff Doc 3.96 (Jul 12, 2010)
- File comparison: When creating a DOC report, and the report file or folder is inaccessible due to user rights, a temporary file will be used instead.
New in Diff Doc 3.93 (May 18, 2010)
- Command Line: /WS switch added to specify window state. 0 = Normal, 1 = Minimized, 2 = Maximized. Only valid if /X is not used (exit when done).
New in Diff Doc 3.91 (Apr 24, 2010)
- Command Line:/AA# switch added for PDF import options
New in Diff Doc 3.90 (Apr 24, 2010)
- Documentation completely refreshed.
New in Diff Doc 3.89 (Apr 24, 2010)
- When running multiple instances of 'Diff Doc' the error "Normal.DOT is being used by another program" was coming up.
- When installing over older versions, a Dialog box would prompt for an Upgrade Key to PDFConverterX.
New in Diff Doc 3.88 (Apr 24, 2010)
- User Interface: When pressing F5, or clicking on the green Refresh button, the first difference is always shown. In the past the viewer would refresh, then jump to the last shown difference index.
- User Interface: Upon completing a comparison the status bar now displays the current difference being displayed and the total number of differences found.
- User Interface: Upon navigating from one difference to the next the status bar now displays the current difference being displayed and the total number of differences found.
- Folder comparison may not have completed properly in some circumstances.
New in Diff Doc 3.87 (Apr 24, 2010)
- Japanese language file updated.
New in Diff Doc 3.86 (Apr 24, 2010)
- Folder Comparison: On some computers a 'run time error 747' was showing up, regarding a control license (MSFlexGrid).
New in Diff Doc 3.85 (Dec 3, 2009)
- User Interface: Upon completion of a File or Folder comparison if program is minimized, the taskbar flashes to indicate completion.
New in Diff Doc 3.843 (Oct 17, 2009)
- DOCX files. An error stating that the file could not be loaded occurred in some DOCX files. "Method not available" was being reported in this case.
New in Diff Doc 3.84 (Oct 17, 2009)
- Report Creation: Default report folder now sensitive to users folder rights and privileges. If user was not an administrator, report creation would fail, sometimes showing old reports.
New in Diff Doc 3.833 (Oct 17, 2009)
- File Comparison - PowerPoint: Remove Formatting compare option was not working for Office 2007
New in Diff Doc 3.832 (Oct 17, 2009)
- Command Line: Full path not required for /M /S /T and /L. If the full path is not specified it is assumed the current folder will be used. If the current folder path is invalid, then the folder that contains DiffDoc.exe will be used. This makes it easy to specify the command line like so:
- diffdoc.exe /S "apples.txt" /M "Big oranges.txt"
New in Diff Doc 3.83 (Oct 17, 2009)
- Text File Comparison: When viewing in Side By Side mode the differences were not being displayed with colors.
New in Diff Doc 3.82 (Apr 30, 2009)
- File Comparison: Large Text Files now load and compare properly. The reports would, on rare occasion, have results that were incorrectly displayed. When comparing text files 1. In the 'Compare Options' tab check the 'REMOVE FORMATTING' item. General: Loading and unloading the program will be faster.
New in Diff Doc 3.80 (Apr 30, 2009)
- Command Line: Advanced PDF Importing options have now been implemented with the /AA switch
New in Diff Doc 3.777 (Jan 15, 2009)
- File Comparison: Normal.DOT errors were being reported when comparing word files
New in Diff Doc 3.775 (Oct 13, 2008)
- Command Line: If an invalid path was given for a Log file (/L) the program would terminate and potentially leave instances of Word in memory
New in Diff Doc 3.772 (Jun 20, 2008)
- File Comparison (Asian countries): If last line/paragraph was changed the change was not showing up in the difference viewer.