PDF Shaper Free Changelog

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.