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PDF Shaper Premium Changelog

What's new in PDF Shaper Premium 14.1

Apr 17, 2024
  • New features:
  • Added page options to TXT converter.
  • Enhancements:
  • Updated translations.
  • Improved text and image conversion.
  • Improved error control and process logging.

New in PDF Shaper Premium 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 Premium 13.9 (Dec 19, 2023)

  • Minor improvements to PDF viewer.
  • Compatibility improvements for latest release of Windows 11.

New in PDF Shaper Premium 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 Premium 13.7 (Sep 18, 2023)

  • 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 Premium 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 Premium 13.5 (Jun 29, 2023)

  • Updated installer and translations.
  • Minor improvements to user interface.
  • Improved overall program performance.

New in PDF Shaper Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 12.8 (Dec 1, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • 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 Premium 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 Premium 12.6 (Sep 29, 2022)

  • Updated translations.
  • Improved user interface.
  • Improved text and image extraction.

New in PDF Shaper Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 11.3 (Sep 2, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Added 64-bit version.
  • 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 Premium 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 Premium 11.1 (Jul 1, 2021)

  • Updated translations.
  • Improved user interface.
  • Improved Merge and Split tools.
  • Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10.

New in PDF Shaper Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 10.8 (Feb 25, 2021)

  • 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 Premium 10.7 (Jan 20, 2021)

  • Updated translations.
  • Improved Unicode text extraction.
  • Improved support of screen readers.
  • Minor improvements to user interface.

New in PDF Shaper Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 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 Premium 9.6 (Dec 12, 2019)

  • Option to add or update metadata in Extract and Split tools. Auto decryption feature in Extract and Split tools. 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 Premium 9.4 (Sep 16, 2019)

  • 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. Merge and Split tools moved to standalone category.

New in PDF Shaper Premium 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 Premium 9.2 (Jul 29, 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 Premium 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 Premium 9.0 (May 30, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • Improved all tools.
  • Updated installer and help file.
  • Optimized for 2880x1800 display resolution.
  • Updated engines for DOC to PDF, PDF to RTF and OCR.
  • New Features:
  • New user interface - all elements written from scratch.
  • New tools - PDF to PDF, insert pages, move pages.
  • New command-line options for all tools.
  • Added support of P12 certificate files.
  • New file naming algorithm.
  • New options:
  • PDF to TXT - add page number, process selected pages
  • PDF to RTF - format with tabs, process selected pagesm
  • DOC to PDF - image quality, text placement, metadata
  • Delete Pages - metadata
  • Delete Images - metadata
  • Set Password - encryption level
  • Metadata - update metadata
  • Add Signature - additional signature
  • Crop Pages - margins (left, top, right, bottom)
  • Page Numbering - text position, margins, process selected pages