What's new in All About PDF 3.2011
Apr 27, 2023
- Introducing AI Chat where you can ask follow up questions after a PDF document has been summarized
- UI design tweaks
New in All About PDF 3.2010 (Mar 10, 2023)
- ability to summarize PDF files using artificial intelligence (AI)
- improved error message screen UI
- fixed an issue that occurred when editing existing PDFe file that utilized cloud sync
- changed the behavior when processing multiple files so that the suffix “_processed” is no longer added when outputting the results to a different folder
New in All About PDF 3.2009 (Sep 20, 2022)
- Ability to have attach PDFe files inside a PDF document with instructions on how to open and view them
- Ability to email PDFe files directly from All-About-PDF after the file has been protected. Learn more here
- Improved printing protection in PDFe Reader
New in All About PDF 3.2008 (Aug 11, 2022)
- Ability to set PDF permissions when setting PDF expiry (Script method)
- When setting device lock in conjunction with email lock, it is now treated as device(s) per email address
- Fixed an issue with batch watermarking
- Improved folder watcher stability
- Other small improvements and bug fixes
New in All About PDF 3.2005 (May 1, 2022)
- ability to export PDFe files as HTML so that your end-users are informed on how to open them
- fixed an issue when sharing PDFe files that were output to a different folder
- improved activation UI
- other small improvements and bug fixes
New in All About PDF 3.2004 (Feb 7, 2022)
- Ability to protect JPG and PNG images with All-About-PDF DRM
- Ability to edit PDFe files to change their properties such as expiry date
- Ability to specify the email addresses that can view a PDFe file
- Ability to cloud sync PDFe/DRM settings so that they can be modified after the document has been shared
New in All About PDF 3.2003 (Dec 3, 2021)
- PDF Expiry using scripting now works in Google Chrome and other Chromium based browsers (Microsoft Edge etc)
- PDF security now uses 256-bit encryption
- Fixes an issue with Folder Watcher that would cause it to fail to load and run
- Other small quality of life improvements
New in All About PDF 3.2002 (Nov 10, 2021)
- Ability to set the opacity/transparency of PDF watermarks
- Ability to selectively edit PDF attributes
- Fixes an issue modifying attributes of multiple PDF files
- PDFe Reader now prevents Ctrl-C from copying contents of PDF files
- Ability to specify the output folder when applying DRM to PDF files
- Ability to specify the output folder when modifying PDF attributes
New in All About PDF 3.2001 (Oct 13, 2021)
- Ability to protect a document with our DRM and instantly share a cloud URL of the resulting document. Documents are stored in our cloud for 14 days.
- Fixed an issue where All-About-PDF would run as a 32-bit application even on 64-bit computers
- Improved memory handling when using Find/Replace and Redact on very large documents
New in All About PDF 3.2000 (Sep 6, 2021)
- Ability to control how many devices your DRM protected PDF can be viewed on
- Ability to save DRM protection settings so that they can be reused
- Ability to use command line interface to automate the protection of PDF files with DRM
- DRM protected files can now have custom expiry messages
New in All About PDF 3.1072 (Aug 20, 2021)
- When printing is enabled for DRM protected files (PDFe files), the end user can no longer print to PDF/Document printers
- End users ca no longer take screen caps of DRM protected files when using the latest Windows PDFe Reader
- Minor bug fixes and enhancements
New in All About PDF 3.1070 (Jun 28, 2021)
- Ability to use HTML to create rich and interactive PDF expiry messages.
- PDF Expiry messages are automatically saved so that they can be re-used for multiple tasks
- Ability to use file wildcards when applying DRM to PDF documents
New in All About PDF 3.1069 (May 26, 2021)
- Bility to interactively select the words you would like to redact from a PDF
- Not ready to purchase a full All-About-PDF license? you can now pay for just the amount of PDFs you need to process right inside the app
- We have made it easier to share All-About-PDF with your friends and colleagues.
- Bug fixes
New in All About PDF 3.1068 (Apr 17, 2021)
- Ability to enable and restrict the number of times a PDFe (DRM protected) file can be printed
- Ability to change the font and color of text during Find-Replace processing
- Fixed a bug where the output file name of Find-Replace contained a “processed” suffix even when a separate output folder was specified
New in All About PDF 3.1066 (Mar 16, 2021)
- Ability to specify a folder where the resulting files from Find-Replace are place
- Ability to drive Find-Replace operation using command line (blog post coming soon)
- A new file is no longer created when Find-Replace or Redact does not find any matches
New in All About PDF 3.1065 (Jan 27, 2021)
- Ability to find and replace text in PDF with random characters
- The PDF reader in All-About-PDF can now open PDFe files
- Bug fixes
New in All About PDF 3.1063 (Nov 15, 2020)
- Introducing All-About-PDF Business Plans for Unlimited installations
- Ability to apply digital rights (DRM) to a PDF with the following features:
- Ability to restrict a PDF document to a list of countries
- Ability to restrict a PDF document to a list IP addresses
- Ability to set a PDF document to expire on a specific date
- Ability to set a PDF document to expire so many days after being opened
- Ability to remotely kill/invalidate a PDF document
New in All About PDF 3.1062 (Oct 18, 2020)
- Added ability to specify multiple find-replace pairs when replacing text in a PDF
- Added ability to split PDF document based on contents in the PDF
- Added ability to specify a relative expiry date for DRM protected PDFs e.g. expires 10 days after first opened
- Bug fixes and minor tweaks
New in All About PDF 3.1061 (Sep 17, 2020)
- Security enhancements to the PDFE format to prevent saving and printing of PDF files (requires new version of the PDFE Reader)
- Minor stability and performance enhancements
New in All About PDF 3.1060 (Aug 22, 2020)
- Removed the 2 page limit on the free version
- Added ability to save and load the list of files used in PDF merging
- Added the ability to specify a page range when merging PDF files e.g. only merge the first 2 pages of each document
- Minor bug fixes
New in All About PDF 3.1059 (Jul 12, 2020)
- Added All-About-PDF Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology for PDF Expiration (learn more)
- Ability to set a custom background image to the Home screen
- Minor bug fixes and UI tweak
New in All About PDF 3.1058 (Jun 28, 2020)
- Ability to set a custom background image to the Home screen
- Minor bug fixes and UI tweaks
New in All About PDF 3.1057 (Jun 28, 2020)
- Added ability to specify a page range when converting PDFs to other formats
- Fixed an issue where adding PDF expiration to a password protected PDF would result in an error even the password was provided
- When converting PDF to HTML, the output is placed in a folder named after the original file instead of a random GUID
- Minor bug fixes and stability improvements
New in All About PDF 3.1056 (Jun 3, 2020)
- Improved PDF conversion stability
- Find/Replace text in PDF maintains alignment
- Added a way to deactivate the software so that it can be moved to a different machine
- Improved PDF Unlock functionality
- Fixed a typo on the PDF Expiry screen
New in All About PDF 1.1054 (Apr 1, 2020)
- ability to find and replace text in one or more PDF documents
- ability to find and redact (obscure) one or more words in multiple PDF files
- friendlier error messages
- improved the main screen UI
New in All About PDF 1.1053 (Mar 24, 2020)
- All-About-PDF can now automatically create a Table Of Contents page when merging PDF files together. All-About-PDF creates active links that, when clicked, navigate to the relevant page in the PDF.
- Improved error handling when the user cancels some file operations
New in All About PDF 1.1052 (Feb 27, 2020)
- Improved accuracy of PDF to Word conversion
- Minor bugs fixes and improvements
New in All About PDF 1.1047 (Jul 22, 2019)
- Added ability to license All-About-PDF on a subscription (SaaS) plan
- Improved security by allowing users to install and run All-About-PDF without requiring Local Administrator rights on the computer.
- Other small bugs and improvements
New in All About PDF 1.1046 (May 15, 2019)
- Fixed an issue with setting PDF Expiry dates when using non-US date formats
New in All About PDF 1.1045 (May 15, 2019)
- Introducing Watch Folders: ability to have All-About-PDF monitor folder so that whenever a PDF is added, it is automatically converted to a format of your choosing
- We don’t like bugs or errors so we have added a way for you to report any issue you encounter with All-About-PDF directly from the error screen.
New in All About PDF 1.1044 (Apr 15, 2019)
- Ability to use wildcards in the filenames for batch PDF processing
- Minor bug fixes and enhancements
New in All About PDF 1.1043 (Apr 15, 2019)
- Fixes an issue where PDF files set to expire would expire even though the expiry date was in the future
- Fixes an issue where setting the date created attribute of PDF files did not always work
New in All About PDF 1.1042 (Apr 15, 2019)
- Ability to convert PDF to MS Excel
- Ability to use text from a PDF document for naming the output files when splitting PDF files