What's new in PDF Shaper Free 14.0
Mar 14, 2024
- New features:
- Added TXT to PDF converter.
- New features in external PDF viewer:
- text searching
- page rotation and scrolling
- save or delete attached files
- asynchronous page loading
- support for 4GB+ PDF files
- Professional edition renamed to Ultimate.
- Enhancements:
- Updated user interface and translations.
- Updated built-in PDF viewer (preview mode).
- Improved program performance and CPU usage.
- Improved PDF and DOC/DOCX conversion.
- Bug fixes:
- Resolved issue with overwriting and renaming duplicate files.
- Fixed bug with converting Unicode DOC and DOCX files.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.9 (Dec 19, 2023)
- Enhancements:
- Minor improvements to PDF viewer.
- Compatibility improvements for latest release of Windows 11.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.8 (Nov 2, 2023)
- Improved user interface and theme rendering.
- Improved image extraction and PDF to image conversion.
- Improved program stability and CPU usage during PDF rendering and conversion.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.7 (Sep 18, 2023)
- Enhancements:
- Improved PDF scanning tool.
- Improved DOC to PDF conversion:
- Improved support for font files.
- Improved support for picture cropping.
- Improved support for list formatting.
- Improved support for text line spacing.
- Improved XMP information extraction.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.6 (Aug 8, 2023)
- Updated direct PDF merging method.
- Improvements to command line processing.
- Improved text line spacing in DOC/DOCX files.
- Compatibility improvements for latest release of Windows 11.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.5 (Jun 29, 2023)
- Updated installer and translations.
- Minor improvements to user interface.
- Improved overall program performance.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.4 (Jun 6, 2023)
- New features:
- Added option to fix corrupted XREF tables.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved non-English text extraction.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.3 (May 17, 2023)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Updated dark theme and dialogs.
- Bug fixes:
- Resolved issue with minor memory leaks.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.2 (Apr 5, 2023)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Minor improvements to PDF viewer.
- Improved compatibility with Windows on Arm.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug with loading bookmarks in PDF viewer.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.1 (Mar 20, 2023)
- New features:
- Added option to remove XMP data.
- Enhancements:
- Updated installer.
- Improved PDF scanning tool.
- Optimized PDF to Image rendering.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug with cropping pages from both sides.
New in PDF Shaper Free 13.0 (Feb 15, 2023)
- New features:
- New icons.
- Added Danish translation.
- Added Unicode support for PFX passwords.
- Added option to use timestamp server for Sign tool.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Updated PDF information dialog.
- Optimized text and page extraction.
- Improved page rendering in PDF to Image tool.
- Minor improvements to program performance.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.9 (Dec 28, 2022)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Minor improvements to program performance.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug with saving PDF to images using command line.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.8 (Dec 1, 2022)
- Updated translations.
- Improved DOC to PDF conversion:
- Improved accessibility support.
- Improved support for list formatting.
- Improved support for text input fields.
- Improved support for right-to-left text.
- Improved DOC/DOCX loading and processing.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.7 (Nov 9, 2022)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Minor improvements to program performance.
- Optimized DOC to PDF and PDF to DOC conversion.
- Bug fixes:
- Resolved problem with possible memory leaks after DOC conversion.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.6 (Sep 28, 2022)
- Updated translations.
- Improved user interface.
- Improved text and image extraction.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.5 (Aug 17, 2022)
- New features:
- Added option to encrypt PDF files directly on hard disk.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Updated Options dialog for every tool.
- Improved program performance.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.4 (Jul 12, 2022)
- New features:
- Added option to use original table of content in DOC to PDF tool.
- Enhancements:
- Updated PDF to Word SDK.
- Improved PDF to DOC conversion.
- Bug fixes:
- Resolved issue with saving window size in PDF Viewer.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.3 (Jun 2, 2022)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved PDF to image conversion.
- Improved PNG and JPEG image extraction.
- Improved XMP reading in PDF information.
- Improved support for text input fields.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.2 (Apr 27, 2022)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improvements to user interface.
- Improved text quality in OCR text extraction.
- Improved program performance and error control.
- Improved image conversion in Image to PDF tool.
- Compatibility improvements for latest release of Windows 11.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bug with closing document in PDF Viewer.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.1 (Mar 22, 2022)
- New Features:
- Added button to save current page as image in PDF Viewer.
- Added button to extract text from current page in PDF Viewer.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved CPU usage during saving in PDF to Image and Scan PDF tools.
- Improved file loading and saving speed in PDF to Image tool.
- Improved quality of output image-based PDF documents in Scan PDF tool.
- Improved output folder selection dialog in all tools.
- Minor improvements to user interface.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved issue with rendering text fields in PDF to Image tool.
New in PDF Shaper Free 12.0 (Feb 22, 2022)
- New Features:
- New sidebar icons.
- Added tags for document renaming.
- Added option to remove usage rights.
- Enhancements:
- Updated user interface.
- Improved DOC to PDF conversion.
- Improved PDF/A and other compliances.
- Improved support for color pattern object.
- Improved support for font files.
- Improved support for picture cropping.
- Improved support for text input fields.
- Improved support for highlight colors.
- Improved support for international date formats.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved problem with converting Word 97-2003 files.
- Minor user interface fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.8 (Jan 25, 2022)
- New Features:
- Option to retrieve XMP information.
- Enhancements:
- Updated help and translations.
- Updated PDF information dialog.
- Minor improvements to DPI scaling.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.7 (Jan 5, 2022)
- New Features:
- Support of file paths with more than 260 characters.
- Enhancements:
- Updated installer and translations.
- Improved performance in conversion and rendering tools.
- DOC to PDF updates:
- Improved support for list formatting.
- Improved support for text input fields.
- Improved support for picture cropping.
- Compatibility improvements for Windows 11.
- Bugs fixes:
- Resolved issue with user interface in translated versions.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.6 (Dec 7, 2021)
- New Features:
- Added merge options.
- Added options to overwrite files and set output path.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved DOC to PDF conversion.
- Minor improvements to user interface.
- Bugs fixes:
- Resolved issue with rendering table background in DOC files.
- Minor bug fix with DOCX to PDF conversion in 64-bit version.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.5 (Nov 3, 2021)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved user interface.
- Improved image extraction.
- Improved PDF to image conversion.
- Improved bookmarks reading in PDF Viewer.
- Bugs fixes:
- Resolved issue with minor memory leak in text extraction tool.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.5 (Nov 3, 2021)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved user interface.
- Improved image extraction.
- Improved PDF to image conversion.
- Improved bookmarks reading in PDF Viewer.
- Bugs fixes:
- Resolved issue with minor memory leak in text extraction tool.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.4 (Sep 28, 2021)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved PDF to DOC conversion.
- Improved PDF to scanned PDF conversion.
- Minor improvements to user interface.
- Minor improvements to text extraction.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.3 (Sep 1, 2021)
- New features:
- New toolbar icons.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Updated user interface.
- Improved dark theme.
- DOC to PDF tool improvements:
- Improved support for color pattern object.
- Improved support for font files.
- Improved support for picture cropping.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.2 (Jul 27, 2021)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- DOC to PDF tool improvements
- Improved support for list formatting.
- Improved support for right-to-left text.
- Improved support for international date formats.
- Bug fixes:
- Resolved problem with minor memory leak in Merge and Cleanup tools.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.1 (Jul 1, 2021)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved user interface.
- Improved Merge and Split tools.
- Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10.
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.0 (May 20, 2021)
- New features:
- Added dark theme
- Added Polish and Catalan translations
- Added Cleanup tool to remove document objects
- Enhancements:
- Updated user interface
- Updated help file and translations
- Improved error control and PDF conversion
- Improved overall program performance
- Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug with processing long file names
New in PDF Shaper Free 11.0 Beta (Apr 26, 2021)
- New features:
- Added 64-bit version.
- Added dark theme.
- Added Polish and Catalan translations.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved support of high-DPI resolutions.
- Improvements to user interface and program performance.
- Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.9 (Mar 25, 2021)
- Enhancements:
- Improved error control in conversion tools.
- Improved PDF and image processing.
- Minor improvements to user interface.
- DOC to PDF tool improvements:
- Support for math symbols.
- Improved accessibility support.
- Support for hatch pattern filling.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.8 (Feb 24, 2021)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved overall program performance.
- Improved support for text line spacing in DOC files.
- Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.7 (Jan 20, 2021)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved Unicode text extraction.
- Improved support of screen readers.
- Minor improvements to user interface.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.6 (Dec 22, 2020)
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved DOC to PDF tool:
- Improved support for color pattern object.
- Improved support for font files.
- Improved support for list formatting.
- Improved support for text line spacing.
- Improvements to command line processing.
- Improvements to user interface and program performance.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.5 (Nov 11, 2020)
- New features:
- Option to ignore DPI value in Image to PDF tool.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Minor user interface improvements.
- Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.4 (Sep 30, 2020)
- New features:
- Option to display bookmarks in PDF Viewer.
- PDF to DOC converter added to Premium edition.
- Option to process files with restrictions and empty passwords.
- Enhancements:
- Updated installer and translations.
- Improvements to user interface and program performance.
- Updated PDF information dialog in PDF Viewer (includes security info).
- Bug fixes:
- Resolved minor issue with hotkeys.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.3 (Sep 1, 2020)
- New features:
- New icons and navigation bars.
- New tool - Delete content (deletes selected elements from PDF file).
- Option to extract background images from PDF file.
- Enhancements:
- Updated installer and translations.
- Updated form filling feature in PDF Viewer.
- Improvements to user interface and PDF file processing.
- Improved PNG and TIFF image extraction.
- Improved Unicode text extraction.
- Improved handling of invalid and unknown fonts.
- Bug fixes:
- Resolved issue with PNG image extraction.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.2 (Jun 23, 2020)
- New Features:
- Added Italian translation.
- "Delete annotations" and "Delete bookmarks" added to Free edition.
- Enhancements:
- Updated help and translations.
- Improvements to user interface.
- Direct merge option is set by default.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved issue with losing form field content during merging PDF files.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.1 (May 26, 2020)
- New Features:
- Added Spanish and Hungarian translations.
- Enhancements:
- Improved CSV and text extraction.
- Improved Image to PDF tool.
- Improvements to user interface.
New in PDF Shaper Free 10.0 (Apr 22, 2020)
- New Features:
- New tools - Rename tool and Extract Text (CSV).
- Added additional view style - Menubar.
- Added option to place Sidebar on the left side.
- Support of VMware Workstation v15 and higher.
- Enhancements:
- Updated help and translations.
- Command-line improvements.
- Improvements to user interface and program performance.
- Bug fixes:
- Resolved issue with loading files with 256-bit encryption.
New in PDF Shaper Free 9.9 (Mar 11, 2020)
- New Features:
- Added Japanese translation.
- Enhancements:
- Improved loading speed for PDF files with 1.000+ pages.
- Improved PDF to DOC tool.
- Improved PDF to text conversion.
- Improvements to all Watermark tools.
New in PDF Shaper Free 9.8 (Feb 19, 2020)
- Enhancements:
- Improved Unicode text extraction.
- Improved OCR reading for non-English characters.
- Improved memory usage in all conversion tools.
- Improvements in DOC to PDF tool:
- Improved support for international date formats.
- Improved support for multi-paragraph border.
- Improved support for right-to-left text.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved issue with file naming in all extraction tools.
New in PDF Shaper Free 9.7 (Jan 20, 2020)
- New Features:
- Added "Classic icons" option to switch between icon styles.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved text extraction.
- Improved rendering speed in PDF to Image tool.
- Improved memory usage in Merge tool.
- Improvements in DOC to PDF tool:
- Improved support for font files.
- Improved support for picture cropping.
- Improved support for text input fields.
- Improved support for highlight colors.
- Improved support for text line spacing.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved issue with DPI values in Image to PDF tool.
New in PDF Shaper Free 9.6 (Dec 12, 2019)
- New Features:
- Option to add or update metadata in Extract and Split tools.
- Auto decryption feature in Extract and Split tools.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved Extract and Split tools.
- Improved user interface for high-DPI resolutions.
- Last used directory now offered as default for saving files.
New in PDF Shaper Free 9.5 (Oct 22, 2019)
- New Features:
- New Options dialog for Merge tool.
- New Properties dialog with security information.
- New toolbar icons in main program and PDF viewer.
- Option to hide or show main toolbar.
- Option to change headers direction in side toolbar.
- Option to merge 100 MB+ files directly on disk, without loading into memory.
- Option to add or update metadata in Merge tool.
- Option to split PDF documents by 1 page.
- Option to process even and odd pages to all tools.
- Added Slovenian translation.
- Added Unicode support for PSL files.
- Added drag and drop support within main window to change files order.
- Added buttons to set all document permissions at once.
- Enhancements:
- Updated PDF viewer.
- Updated translations, help and user interface.
- Improved support of high-DPI resolutions.
- Improved speed of file loading and processing.
- Improved overall program performance.
- Improved compatibility with latest Windows 10 version 1903.
- Fixes:
- Resolved problem with saving PDF files after decryption.
- Fixed bug with displaying incorrect PDF creation and modification date.
New in PDF Shaper Free 9.4 (Sep 16, 2019)
- New Features:
- Option to extract or delete even or odd pages.
- Option to use directory path in command line arguments.
- Feature to process documents with usage restrictions.
- Feature to automatically decrypt documents before processing.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved user interface.
- Merge and Split tools moved to standalone category.
- Improved DOC to PDF tool:
- Improved support for color pattern object.
- Improved support for font files.
- Improved support for picture cropping.
- Improved support for text input fields.
- Fixes:
- Resolved problem with error 410 during merging documents.
New in PDF Shaper Free 9.3 (Sep 3, 2019)
- New Features:
- New icons in sidebar.
- Option to show/hide button captions in sidebar.
- Enhancements:
- Improved compatibility with high DPI resolution.
- Improved error control in Merge and Split tools.
- Improved PDF and image processing.
- Improved PDF to DOC conversion.
- Minor improvements to user interface.
- Fixes:
- Fixed bug with saving images to JPEG format instead of JPG.
New in PDF Shaper Free 9.2 (Jul 30, 2019)
- New Features:
- Added Czech translation.
- New tool - PDF to DOC, converts PDF files to MS Word DOC.
- "Add Images" button to open dialog with image preview.
- Enhancements:
- Updated user interface and translations.
- Improved drag and drop support.
- Improved program performance.
- Fixes:
- Fixed bug with drawing flipped text.
- Fixed bug with default font color in watermark tools.
New in PDF Shaper Free 9.1 (Jun 10, 2019)
- New Features:
- New tools - delete annotations and delete bookmarks.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved Unicode support in built-in and external PDF Viewer.
- Improved metadata processing during PDF merge operations.
- Improved processing of PDF documents with more than 1000 pages.
- Improved support of high-DPI display resolutions.
- Improved text extraction from non-image PDF documents.
- Minor improvements to user interface and OCR reading.
- Fixes:
- Fixed bug with loading unicode file names in PDF Viewer.
- Fixed bug with XREF chunks missing after merging files.
New in PDF Shaper Free 8.9 (Dec 20, 2018)
- New Features:
- Added Hebrew translation.
- Enhancements:
- Updated help and translations.
- Improved text extraction.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bug with converting PDF using command line.
- Minor user interface fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 8.8 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Added Japanese translation.
- Re-designed "List" view.
New in PDF Shaper Free 8.7 (Oct 24, 2018)
- New Features :
- Option to preserve text layout in text utilities.
- Option to set metadata in "Image to PDF" and "Encrypt" tools.
- Enhancements :
- Updated installer and translations.
- Updated text extraction method.
- Updated enumeration method for file names.
- Improved CPU usage while loading and processing PDF files.
- DOC to PDF updates:
- Improved support for complex table structure.
- Improved support for list formatting.
- Improved support for text line spacing.
- Bug Fixes :
- Resolved minor problem with Unicode characters.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 8.6 (Sep 19, 2018)
- New Features:
- New text extraction method.
- Option to select pages in "PDF to TXT" tool.
- Enhancements:
- Updated installer and translations.
- Updated user interface in PDF Viewer.
- DOC to PDF updates:
- PDF/A support.
- Improved support for shapes and additional shapes.
- Support for Unicode and RTL text.
- Improved support for list formatting and text line spacing.
- Improved support for Asian and far-east languages.
- Improved table support and text inside shapes.
- Improved support for text input fields.
- Improved support for highlight colors.
- Improved support for international date formats.
- Bug Fixes
- Resolved problem with extracting text from protected PDF files.
- Resolved problem with high CPU usage during text extraction.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 8.5 (Aug 16, 2018)
- New Features:
- Turkish translation.
- Enhancements:
- Updated installer and translations.
- Improved PDF to Image conversion and text extraction.
- Improved OCR reading.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved problem with "error 5" during installation.
- Fixed bug with fonts and dark Windows themes.
- Minor fix with update notifications.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 8.4 (Jun 21, 2018)
- New Features:
- Option to integrate PDF Shaper into shell.
- Option to load file list from command line.
- Option to crop page using percent units.
- Option to set margins in Crop PDF tool.
- Log file (log.txt) for command line operations.
- Enhancements:
- Updated help file and translations.
- Changed file extension for file lists (*.psfl).
- Improvements to command line processing.
- Improved PDF to TXT conversion.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed minor memory leak in multilingual versions.
- Fixed bug with multipage text extraction (OCR versions).
- Fixed bug with page rotation (if page has rotation mark).
- Fixed bug with running OCR in some cases.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 8.3 (May 7, 2018)
- New Features:
- Added Spanish translation.
- Option to sign PDF using multiple signatures.
- Additional options for signatures (reason, location, contact).
- OCR and text layout options for text extraction.
- Enhancements:
- Updated help file and translations.
- Improvements to command line processing.
- Minor interface improvements.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bug with printing of current page.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 8.1 (Dec 13, 2017)
- New Features:
- Added display options to PDF viewer (form filling, anti-aliasing etc.).
- Enhancements:
- Updated user interface and translations.
- Improvements to OCR rendering.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bug with main window and dark theme in Windows.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 8.0 (Nov 2, 2017)
- New Features:
- Introduced Premium Edition.
- Added "Icons" theme (set as default).
- Added OCR (optical character recognition) support.
- New tool to protect content of PDF document.
- Added option to merge files without loading (direct access).
- Added option to load and merge selected pages.
- Added option to delete last pages in document.
- Added Slovenian translation.
- Enhancements:
- Updated installer and translations.
- Updated "List" theme and user interface.
- Improved merging of big files.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bug with re-loading PDF document in PDF Viewer
- Fixed bug with losing bookmarks (outlines) during merge.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 7.4 (Aug 8, 2017)
- New Features:
- New main icon.
- New image extraction method.
- Added Chinese translation.
- Ability to add duplicate files in Merge project.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved user interface.
- Improved doc to pdf conversion.
- Improvements to program's performance.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved problem with keyboard support in main window.
- Fixed bug with extracting images from PDF.
- Fixed bug with opening password-protected PDF documents.
- Resolved problem with decrypting PDF documents.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 7.3 (Apr 24, 2017)
- New Features:
- Additional view for main window - list.
- Codepage support for ANSI translations.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved user interface for standard DPI resolution.
- Improved pdf to text conversion.
- Optimized memory handling.
- Bug Fixes:
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 7.2 (Mar 14, 2017)
- New Features:
- Added French translation.
- Settings menu in Main Window.
- Option to add PDF information into output document.
- Enhancements:
- Updated translations.
- Improved user interface.
- Improved compatibility with high-DPI monitors.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved problem with extracting blurry images.
- Resolved problem with resizing images in Watermark tool.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 7.1 (Feb 9, 2017)
- New Features:
- Ability to merge protected and unprotected PDF documents.
- Support of form filling and saving.
- Option to save each image as separate PDF file.
- Command-line option to remove images.
- Enhancements:
- Program uses system font and theme as default.
- Improved program stability and performance.
- Improved compatibility with Windows 10.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved problem with copying text to clipboard.
- Fixed bug with saving file with settings.
- Fixed minor bug with update notifications.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 7.0 (Nov 3, 2016)
- New Features:
- New PDF reading and rendering engine.
- Support of text watermarks.
- Support of DOCX documents
- Separated Encrypt and Decrypt tools.
- Enhancements:
- DOC to PDF tool improvements:
- Support for math symbols.
- Improved support for bookmarks.
- Support for dot/dash patterned lines.
- Improved accessibility support.
- Support for hatch pattern filling.
- Support for Unicode Surrogate Pair characters.
- Support for text inside shapes.
- PDF Viewer improvements:
- Added search box
- Improved PDF document loading speed
- Support for annotations and anti-aliasing fonts
- User interface has been improved.
- PDF Viewer and preview module have been improved.
- Improvements to command-line support.
- Translations have been updated.
- Bug Fixes:
- Rare bug with opening protected files.
- Bug with decrypting protected files.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 6.1 (Sep 5, 2016)
- New Features:
- German translation.
- Option to remember user preferences.
- Enhancements:
- User interface has been improved.
- PDF Viewer has been updated.
- Translations have been updated.
- Bug Fixes:
- Bug with removing images.
- Bug with PDF to TXT conversion from command line.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 6.0 (Jun 15, 2016)
- New Features:
- New user interface.
- PDF to TXT, PDF to RTF and DOC to PDF tools.
- Support of high DPI monitors and DPI scaling.
- Italian translation.
- Enhancements:
- Program has been optimized for Windows 10.
- Improved program performance and PDF viewer.
- Improved text extraction and image conversion.
- Help file and translations have been updated.
- Bug Fixes:
- Minor bug with text selection in PDF Viewer.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 5.3 (May 12, 2016)
- New Features:
- Added new themes. Windows 10 theme used as default.
- Enhancements:
- Improvements to PDF to RTF conversion.
- Translations have been updated.
- Bug Fixes:
- Minor bug with changing pages in PDF Viewer.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 5.2 (Apr 7, 2016)
- New Features:
- Support of PDF-to-RTF conversion (PDF & Word tool).
- Log displays security info of PDF file and error codes.
- New options to Crop tool - position, size and measurement units.
- Enhancements:
- Improvements to Crop tool and Watermark tool.
- User interface has been updated and improved.
- Help file and installer have been updated.
- Bug Fixes:
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 5.1 (Feb 24, 2016)
- New Features:
- New tool - Word to PDF, converts DOC/DOCX to PDF.
- New translations - Dutch, Russian, Hungarian.
- Rotate buttons and text selection feature in PDF Viewer.
- Enhancements:
- Updated and improved PDF Viewer.
- Removed PDF to Word tool.
- Improvements to loading and processing PDF files.
- Bug Fixes:
- Bug with signing PDF using PFX files.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 5.0 (Jan 29, 2016)
- New Features:
- New editions - PDF Shaper Free and Professional.
- New user interface with theme support.
- External PDF Viewer with printing support.
- New splitting options - by number of files or pages.
- New tools - Watermark, Remove Images, Delete and Extract Pages.
- Enhancements:
- Improved user interface and program dialogs.
- Improved PDF processing, loading and saving.
- Updated EULA, Help file and installer.
- Bug Fixes:
- Bug with processing password-protected PDF documents.
- Bug with inability to use comma in page range in some tools
- Bug with command-line arguments in some tools.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 4.1 (Nov 23, 2015)
- Added page range field for page deletion.
- Added stretch and custom size in Image to PDF tool.
- Improvements to loading and processing of PDF files.
- Fixed bug with page range and page rotation.
New in PDF Shaper Free 4.0 (Oct 16, 2015)
- Added new user interface and menus.
- Added support of new image formats - EMF, WMF, TIFF.
- Added new options for image alignments.
- Improved program performance and compatibility with Windows 10.
New in PDF Shaper Free 3.6 (Aug 25, 2015)
- Added command-line support.
- Updated installer and help file.
- Improved compatibility with Windows 10.
- Improved program performance.
New in PDF Shaper Free 3.5 (May 16, 2015)
- Added Hungarian translation.
- Added feature to delete pages from PDF.
- Updated Split, Crop and Rotate features.
- Improved performance and other improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 3.4 (Apr 28, 2015)
- Added Simplified Chinese translation
- Updated PDF splitting utility
- Resolved problem with PDF names after split
- Minor fixes and improvements
New in PDF Shaper Free 3.3 (Feb 20, 2015)
- Added multilingual user interface
- Added option to auto-check for update
- Minor improvements to user interface
- Resolved problem with button highlight in Main Window
New in PDF Shaper Free 3.2 (Jan 20, 2015)
- Added new main icon, updated toolbar icons.
- Added feature to preview PDF file and view PDF metadata.
- Added option to remove all metadata from PDF.
- Added option to rotate individual pages in PDF.
- Updated PDF processing engine, help and user interface.
- Fixed bug with command line and other minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 3.1 (Dec 12, 2014)
- Added page size and landscape options (Image to PDF)
- Improved text recognition method (Extract Text)
- Updated PDF and image processing engine
- Improved user interface plus some minor fixes
New in PDF Shaper Free 3.0 (Nov 5, 2014)
- Added Windows 10 support
- Completely redesigned user interface
- Added many new features and options
- Updated PDF and image processing engine
- Improved all processes and program performance
New in PDF Shaper Free 2.8 (Jul 17, 2014)
- Updated PDF to Word conversion engine.
- Updated method of text extraction.
- Improved text and image conversion process.
- Improvements to Unicode characters recognition.
- Improved text and image detection in poor quality PDFs.
- Minor improvements to user interface.
- Other fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 2.7 (Jun 10, 2014)
- Added Edit menu to all tools.
- User interface prepared for translations.
- Improvements to user interface.
- Improved PDF/Image conversion algorithm.
- Improvements to text recognition algorithm.
- Fixed possible bug with processing some TrueType fonts.
- Some minor fixes applied.
New in PDF Shaper Free 2.6 (May 7, 2014)
- Added new options: set meta data, normalize and crop pages.
- Updated PDF Tools user interface.
- Updated PDF to RTF processor.
- Improved text extraction algorithm.
- Resolved problem with processing ColRGB colorspace.
- Fixed possible bug with processing HEX and Unicode text.
- Fixed possible bug with processing TrueType fonts.
- Some minor fixes applied.
New in PDF Shaper Free 2.5 (Mar 19, 2014)
- Improved performance of objects detection when using conversion tool.
- Improved text positioning when using text extraction tool.
- Improved image cache handling and extraction.
- Improvements to Unicode text extraction.
- Fixed bug with extraction text with small fonts.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 2.4 (Feb 26, 2014)
- Added feature to check for update.
- Updated methods of conversion and extraction.
- Improvements to performance and PDF loading speed.
- Improvements to extraction of Unicode characters.
- Improvements to user interface.
- Fixed bug with incorrect detection of PDF structure in some cases.
- Fixed bug with Unicode passwords.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 2.3 (Feb 12, 2014)
- Updated user interface.
- Updated conversion engine in PDF to Word RTF tool.
- Fixed bug with only 3 page conversion in PDF to Word RTF tool.
- Few minor fixes and improvements.
New in PDF Shaper Free 2.2 (Jan 21, 2014)
- Added “fit to page” option to Image to PDF tool
- Added PDF Utils tool (to sign PDF or rotate PDF pages)
- Improved log and user interface
- Fixed bug with saving PDF to image
- Fixed bug with owner password in Encrypt/Decrypt tool
- Minor fixes and improvements
New in PDF Shaper Free 2.1 (Nov 28, 2013)
- Added owner password and permissions to Encrypt PDF.
- Added page range to Split PDF.
- Added new image output formats – BMP, PNG, GIF.
- Added simple log.
- Added DPI adjustment option.
New in PDF Shaper Free 1.4 (Aug 7, 2013)
- Added command line support.
- Updated User Interface and Help file.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 1.3 (May 28, 2013)
- Improved PDF loading speed.
- Improved detection of horizontal lines and text breaks.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in PDF Shaper Free 1.2 (Apr 23, 2013)
- Improved memory usage while conversion
- Improved symbol detection method
- Minor bug fixes and interface improvements
New in PDF Shaper Free 1.1 (Apr 16, 2013)
- Re-designed the process dialog.
- Added progress bar and log.
- Added option to customize conversion.
- Added templates: Default, Plain text, Images only.
- Optimized CPU usage while conversion.
- Resolved the problem with possible memory leaks.
- Minor other tweaks and fixes were applied.