What's new in PDF ShapingUp 5.0.0.139
Sep 10, 2018
- New : Fully redesigned interface
- New : Anchored or overlapped dashboard
- New : Visual marking of modified documents in tabs
- New : Popup window for editing objects
- New : Direct creating of objects
- New : Serial creation of objects of the same type
- New : On-location texts editing
- New : Create barcode as image or vectors
- New : Create predefined shapes
- New : Create freehand drawings with smoothing (pencil)
- New : Defining the tabbing direction of annotations and form fields
- New : Images, annotations and form fields extraction
- New : Setting the magnetic grid of editor
- New : Center objects vertically and horizontally in the page
- New : Setting the format of created documents
- New : Skins new engine
- New : Aplixio news feed
- New : Jump to prior/next view in the viewer
- New : Restore the view that was saved when the document was last closed
- New : Full screen display
- New : Vertical and horizontal document display
- New : Insert imported pages
- New : Add complete or partial set of font characters
- New : Added basic ZUGFeRD / PDFA-3 document support
- New : Added support for SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 digital signatures
- New : Printing engine
- Improved : Set initial views and apply the settings when opening documents
- Improved : Add and manage fonts
- Improved : Create digital signature
- Improved : Support for read only digital signature fields
- Improved : Objects extraction
- Improved : Automatic document scrolling improved and scroll direction added
- Improved : Magnifier window
- Improved : Displaying the document in a table (setting columns and rows)
- Improved : Copy, cut and paste pages in the same document or between multiple documents
- Improved : Shift pages by one or multiple pages
- Improved : Layout manager
- Improved : Objects selection filters
- Improved : Text search bar always accessible
- Improved : Available updates notification
- Fixed : Encrypted documents cannot be opened
- Fixed : Fixed Digital signature issue with encrypted documents
- Fixed : Prevented possible crashes if malformed PDF is loaded
New in PDF ShapingUp 4.0.1.128 (Dec 4, 2016)
- New: Extract formfields from multi-pages/multi-documents in multiple file formats including Microsoft Excel and Word
- Fixed: The French language was defined by default on non-French operating systems
New in PDF ShapingUp 4.0.0.127 (Aug 22, 2016)
- New : PDF Viewer algorithm that perform fast loadings and renderings of any documents with lesser impact on disk, memory and processors cores
- Improved : Software stability
- Improved : Quality of the image displayed in the magnifier
- Improved : Removing redundant PDF rendering engines
- Fixed : Closing multiple documents in the documents & pages manager causes a fatal error
- Fixed : Unselecting thumbnails in the documents & pages manager is not performed correctly
- Fixed : Disabling a network adapter would force to re-activate the license
- Fixed : License activation failed to contact the activation servers in some regions of the world even if there was nothing locally blocking the connection
New in PDF ShapingUp 3.2.0.124 (Aug 1, 2016)
- New : Copying objects in the same document or in other documents
- New : Editing the style of "Note" annotations
- New : Editing the name and subject of "Stamp" annotations
- New : Windows10, Win10Modern and Win10ModernDark skins added
- Improved : Windows 10 compatibility (licenses and updates management)
- Improved : Retention of objects marked as not selectable in the editor
- Improved : Automatic selection of objects after their creations
- Improved : Allow Unicode characters in the digital signature Reason, Location and ContactInfo fields
- Improved : Edit objects properties in the objects inspector of the editor
- Improved : All skins are updated in most part
- improved : Shell dialogs
- Fixed : The forms display is truncated when the Windows scale factor is different of 100%
- Fixed : Updating the pages display after resizing the viewer
- Fixed : Moving several contiguous vectors in the same path
- Fixed : Moving and rotating oriented texts and rectangles
- Fixed : Updating blocks size of text selections after changes made in the editor's objects inspector
- Fixed : The measurements unit was modified into points after changes made in the editor's objects inspector
- Fixed : Selecting a property in the editor's objects inspector causes errors "Index out of range" in some cases
- Fixed : The setting of dotted borders in the editor was not converted to PDF format (unit and decimal separator)
- Fixed : The task of an image's replacement in the editor is not properly identified in the change's explorer
- Fixed : Name conflict of selections blocks in the editor under certain conditions
- Fixed : Text extraction bug fixes
- Fixed : Font rendering issues
- Fixed : CropBox printing issue
- Fixed : Form field bug fix with extra space in multi-line text field
- Fixed : Signature field locking on secure PDFs
New in PDF ShapingUp 3.1.1.121 (Mar 30, 2016)
- New: Copy and cut (move) pages in a document
- New: Window allowing access to help resources
- Improved: Identification and retention of pages marked for copies and move in the pages manager
- Improved: Edit objects properties in the objects inspector of the editor
- Improved: Simplified startup window in trial and free versions
- Fixed: Pages are not properly deleted from the source document when moved into another document
New in PDF ShapingUp 3.1.0.120 (Feb 22, 2016)
- New : Create and edit 6 new annotations type
- New : Create and edit UPC barcodes
- New : Split documents by similar page widths, heights or widths/heights
- New : Properties Keyset, SubFilter and Image layer in the sign module
- Improved : Digital signatures process
- Improved : Documents loading time reduced by 60%
- Improved : Annotations appearance streams updated
- Fixed : Save digital signature template not available
- Fixed : The author is not set correctly when creating an annotation
- Fixed : EMF import issue
- Fixed : Rendering issue that resulted into blank page
- Fixed : Poor rendering quality in some case
New in PDF ShapingUp 3.0.0.118 (Dec 11, 2015)
- New : Viewer multi-documents
- New : Objects inspector & editor (Advanced)
- New : Extended pages layout module
- New : Documents linearization
- New : Visible digital signature
- New : 256-bit AES algorithm encryption
- New : A lot of interactive functions
- Improved : Interface
- Improved : Documents & pages manager
- Improved : Conversion to/from & extraction formats
- Improved : PDF engine updated
- Improved : Licensing system
New in PDF ShapingUp 2.4.0.80 (Sep 26, 2011)
- New : Complete formfields manager (List, Add, Edit, Change TabOrder, Move, Remove, Flatten, Save/Reuse templates)
- New : Setting the location of the contextual help files (online help provides multi-language support)
- New : Save and reuse templates of securities
- Improved : Improvements in the automatic generation of bookmarks
- Improved : Can open several attached files with your default applications
- Improved : Can open several documents in your external PDF viewer
- Improved : Performance when deleting text in the memo components of the annotate tool
- Improved : Optimization of the code in the saving and loading templates process
- Improved : External viewing and opening pages added to the Quick Access Toolbar
- Improved : Elimination of invalid character codes in text extraction
- Improved : Better handling of malformed TrueType font data
- Improved : Malformed xref tables (shifted object numbers) now handled correctly
- Fixed : Issue with setting focus on mouse down in the images list of the extract tool
- Fixed : Issue with hint on selected item of the dashboard
- Fixed : Issue with AutoScroll in the preview window
- Fixed : Issue with using Web application updates with UAC turned off
- Fixed : Drawing of transparent dropdown buttons on the main toolbar in Office 2010 graphical themes
New in PDF ShapingUp 2.3.0.77 (Jul 29, 2011)
- New : Generate standalone and personalized EXE slideshow from documents or pages
- New : Adding a dropper in the preview window to reuse the picked color in several tools
- New : Setting the path and options for the GDI+ library used by the PDF processor
- New : Selection of the bounding box to be handled during the resizing of pages
- New : Renderings of thumbnails in BMP and TIFF formats
- Improved : Predefined content positions and improvement of the scales management when resizing pages
- Improved : Showing focus of the original page size in the preview window when resizing and rotating pages
- Improved : Improvements and fixes into main settings management
- Improved : Removing and link margins in crop tool
- Improved : Attach files to selected documents by drag & drop from explorer into the treeview of the "Attach" tool
- Improved : Added options with character widths output in extract content tool
- Improved : PDF documents with malformed trailers are now handled gracefully
- Improved : Improvements to accuracy of text extraction
- Improved : Bookmarks are correctly appended during document merging
- Improved : Added support for CMYK JPEG2000 images into documents
- Improved : Support for Windows High contrast mode added into the spin components
- Fixed : JPEG images with DeviceN color space now rendered correctly
- Fixed : Issue with updating horizontal scrollbar position in memo components
- Fixed : Issue with setting focus to invisible thumbnail
- Fixed : Issue with switch between ribbon/standard in the main toolbar
- Fixed : Issue with Fuchsia in Color Selectors
New in PDF ShapingUp 2.2.0.71 (Apr 1, 2011)
- New : The tool "Watermarks" becomes "Annotations" with numerous possibilities for adding graphics items on single/several pages or entire document
- New : Annotate PDF documents with multi-line justified texts, wrapped texts, arc texts, Data Matrix, justified images and Shapes
- New : Select multiple annotations (common settings in one-pass, change order of drawing, drag & drop, remove and duplicate)
- New : Convert files and plain/HTML texts to PDF document
- New : Show/Hide focus on the selected PDF item in the preview window (Searched text, Annotations, ...)
- New : Color settings of focus (GUI components and PDF items)
- New : Get/Set embedded files description
- New : Optional embedding of standard fonts when creating a new document
- Improved : Automatic recognition of the dimensions, mode and orientation of the current page in the tools "Resize"/"Rotate"
- Improved : Visibility of the sliders lines improved in the preview window
- Improved : Scrollbar always visible in main popup menu and search results
- Improved : Support for PDF DeviceN color spaces and B/W LZW images
- Improved : Memory optimizations for ICC based images
- Improved : Conversion of measurement units in templates files for reuse templates into systems with differents units
- Improved : Current measurement unit displayed in the status bar of the main window
- Improved : Lookup grid bar added in tool "Document fonts"
- Improved : Tools "Protect" and "Sign" moved in "Outputs" tab
- Improved : GUI interface of the search tool renewed
- Improved : Some GUI icons renewed
- Fixed : Removing of custom informations
- Fixed : EPS output bug fixes
- Fixed : Renderings quality and handling of measurement units with some graphics cards
- Fixed : Issue with MouseDown/MouseUp for the buttons of the dashboard
- Fixed : Issue with transparency when scrollbox has no scrollbar in the preview window
- Fixed : The selection of an annotation with the keyboard don't update the appropriate tabs and properties
- Fixed : The positions of the sliders are not retained after changing the zoom in the preview window
- Fixed : Exception on "new available update" alert window under rare conditions
- Fixed : Preview of the TIFF images in tool "Extract content"
New in PDF ShapingUp 2.1.0.65 (Dec 22, 2010)
- New : Full Unicode support
- New : Drag & drop files from Windows Explorer (can open project, documents and import files in one-pass)
- New : Added items "Open project" and "Open with" in Windows Explorer contextual menu (open document and import file)
- New : "Recent document" to quickly access previously opened PDF files
- New : Support for rendering images compressed with JBIG2 encoding
- New : Added thumbnails rendering in PNG format
- New : Display of the encoding type in the fonts list
- New : Print the properties of a document
- Improved : Quality improvement of thumbnails rendering (JPEG with 24 bits color by default)
- Improved : Enable/Disable the saving of the main form size and position
- Improved : Full images search mode in extract content process
- Improved : Management of First, Prior, Next and Last page with keyboard keys in preview window
- Improved : PDF Renderer handles images and vector graphics using the /Lab color space
- Improved : Support for reading PDFs containing malformed (19-byte) xref table entries
- Improved : Improved loading of documents with data after the %%EOF tag
- Improved : Update speed of progress bar in status bars
- Improved : QAT buttons position and glass caption in Windows 7 maximized main form state
- Improved : Painting of tab groups in Windows 7 mode
- Improved : Enhanced thumbnails workspace
- Fixed : Reading of several custom document properties
- Fixed : Reading of document securities and encryptions
- Fixed : Watermarks drawing after changing order of watermarks by drag & drop
- Fixed : Correct handling of offset CropBox in the thumbnails renderer
- Fixed : Adjustments to EPS output
- Fixed : Validation of a text extracted from a page for a bookmark title
New in PDF ShapingUp 2.0.0.60 (Oct 22, 2010)
- New : Folding dashboard with shortcuts that displays properties, preferences, safeties, bookmarks and attached files of documents and pages
- New : Complete bookmarks manager (Add, Move, Remove, Rename, Search/Replace, Set Link/Style, Set/Display action, Save/Reuse templates, Print and Export)
- New : Automatic PDF bookmarks creation based on the font styles and layout
- New : Floating licenses support
- New : Split into smaller-sized files
- New : Set the word gap ratio for extracted texts
- New : Optional opening of the destination directory when exporting properties and "saving as" documents
- Improved : Compatibility improved with Microsoft Windows Vista and 7
- Improved : Properties, preferences and safeties from an original document can now be reflected in the splitted documents
- Improved : The export of properties to RTF and XLS files no longer requires the presence of Microsoft Word and Excel
- Improved : Added support for JPEG2000 images with separate indexed color space
- Improved : Major optimizations in document loading and saving
- Improved : Enhanced handling of malformed stream objects
- Improved : Improvements to handling of CCITT images
- Improved : Improved handling of predictor codes in images compressed with the Flate filter
- Improved : Added support for nested page labels
- Improved : Structure of user settings reviewed (Folders and split section)
- Fixed : Quality of thumbnails when rendering splitted document and importing TIFF file
- Fixed : Corrected handling of inherited page rotation
- Fixed : Corrected handling of PostScript names in TrueType fonts
- Fixed : Rendering fill color for Type3 fonts
- Fixed : Corrected the rebuilding of the object index during merging
- Fixed : Inherited page properties are correctly handled during document merging
New in PDF ShapingUp 1.5.0.54 (Jul 16, 2010)
- New : Add or clear page labels
- New : Store, edit and remove custom metadata in a document (properties)
- New : Export document properties in formats TXT, CSV, DOC, XLS, HTML and XML
- New : Save and Re-use templates of properties
- New : Save and Re-use templates of external viewer preferences
- New : Visualize the current document in the default external application (with current changes)
- New : The origin of pages contents can be set graphically in the rotate and resize tools in conjunction with the preview window
- New : Fit the previewing page to height
- New : Office 2010 ribbon and application menu support
- Improved : Enhanced settings of the external viewer preferences with direct preview
- Improved : Improvement of quality of rendered thumbnails and previews
- Improved : The content of pages can be automatically centered while resizing the pages
- Improved : Display the labels of the pages in the preview window
- Improved : Office 2007 and Windows 7 scenic ribbon speed and handling
- Improved : Save templates of watermarks under *.psuw files
- Fixed : The saving of existing documents can generate write errors
New in PDF ShapingUp 1.4.0.50 (Jun 10, 2010)
- New : Enhanced split function (number of pages, odd/even pages, blank or selected pages, page sizes or angles, bookmarks)
- New : Complete embedded files manager (list, add, delete, display and extract)
- New : Visualize and extract embedded images
- New : Convert single or multipages TIFF files to PDF ("Import" function introduced)
- New : Exporting documents or pages in TIFF and EMF+
- New : The "search" tool can select the documents or the pages that contain the searched text
- New : Added setup and uninstall process
- New : Office 2010 color styles (3 themes)
- Improved : The created blank pages can now be inserted directly before or after the selected page
- Improved : Optimized adding of certain PNG images to PDF documents (loading PNG methods in watermarks for example)
- Improved : Improvements to handling of buffer overruns in ASCII85 encoded data
- Improved : Improved speed of loading objects from source PDF documents
- Improved : Improvements to font substitution matching system in the renderer
- Improved : GUI renewed and standardized
- Improved : Positioning of thumbs in range slider
- Fixed : Error message when the text extraction process does not find text on the last page of a document
- Fixed : Bug fix for underlines and highlights in center and right aligned text in watermarks
- Fixed : Drawings errors when resizing and scaling contents of some pages
- Fixed : Drawings errors when adding watermarks in background without create new layer
New in PDF ShapingUp 1.3.0.43 (May 7, 2010)
- New : Realtime preview of the settings in "Watermarks", "Rotate", "Resize", "Crop" and "Search" tools
- New : Interface of the Watermarks tool renewed
- New : Adding barcodes in watermarks tool (Code39, Code128, EAN-13, PostNet and Interleaved 2 of 5)
- New : New properties in watermarks tool (Draw in background, Tiled mode, Margins X and Y, ...)
- New : Saving and re-use templates of watermarks
- New : Creation of optional layers, global or page/page, when you stamp a watermark (can be shown or hidden in Acrobat Reader)
- New : The positions of watermarks can be set graphically using the preview window
- New : Duplication of watermarks in watermarks tool
- New : Treatments can now be suspended or stopped
- New : Selection of odd or even pages in one click
- New : Added support for image ICC profiles to the renderer
- Improved : Speed optimizations in the renderer with improved stack system
- Improved : Improved merging of documents with form fields
- Improved : Improved handling of malformed PDF data
- Improved : Improved handling of Type3 fonts
- Improved : Optimizations to font handling in renderer and text extraction
- Improved : All the watermarks type in the same component
- Improved : The order of watermarks can be changed (order of stamping)
- Improved : New variables in texts watermarks (Author, Title, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer, Creation & Modification date)
- Improved : Automatic detection of the transparent color of the images in watermarks tool
- Improved : The content of a watermark is now displayed in watermarks tool (Images and Texts)
- Improved : Mousewheel handling in trackbar components (sliders in preview form, ...)
- Improved : Some improvements and bug fixes in the preview window
- Fixed : IMPORTANT bug fix in the measurements of the tools "Rotate", "Resize", "Crop" and "Watermarks"
- Fixed : Bug fix in decompressing flate PDF data with a Predictor value of 1
- Fixed : Bug fix for rendering of large CCITT encoded images
- Fixed : Transparent images color in watermarks tool
- Fixed : Incorrect rotation of the images in watermarks tool
- Fixed : Only the primary colors are drawn correctly in watermarks tool (Text, Underline and Highlight)
- Fixed : The "Deskew" function in the "Rotate" tool loses the current crop box
- Fixed : Issue with calculation of aperture minimum and maximum into jogwheel components
- Fixed : Issue with painting of Window close/min/max buttons
New in PDF ShapingUp 1.2.0.36 (Mar 15, 2010)
- New : Common window previews with enhanced functions
- New : Change the order of the documents and the pages by drag & drop
- New : Rotate the content of the selection (for example to deskew scanned documents)
- New : Resizing pages with custom sizes
- New : Changing the scale of the content when resizing pages
- New : Translation of page content
- New : Croping of entire documents or selected pages
- New : Settings Media, Bleed, Trim and Art area of entire documents or selected pages
- New : The documents can now be previewed (previewing and opening process separated)
- New : Sort documents according to their captions (ascending and descending)
- New : Added support for rendering JPEG2000 images
- New : Added support for LZW predictors
- Improved : Added information and help at the end of insertion of files in documents
- Improved : Improvements to "Copy page ranges" function
- Improved : Improvements to alpha transparency masks
- Improved : Reducing of the physical memory used by the rotating and the resizing functions
- Improved : Some improvements in the user interface
- Fixed : The tool "Stamp" does not take account of dimensions of CropBox
- Fixed : Registration of the unit of measure PDF
- Fixed : Display problem when moving multiple items with corresponding buttons
- Fixed : The order for opening the selected documents on disk is not correct
- Fixed : Bug fix for text extraction CSV output with properly quoted strings
- Fixed : Bug fix in Type 1 font rasterizer
New in PDF ShapingUp 1.1.0.29 (Feb 14, 2010)
- New : Applying digital signatures PKCS#12 to documents on disk
- New : Search text in multiple documents or pages
- New : Scrolling lines of thumbnails with the wheel mouse
- New : The main toolbar can be collapsed and temporarily expanded to benefit a larger work area
- New : Recording the state of the main toolbar
- New : Focus helper (can be enabled/disabled)
- Improved : The backup of the documents can now be used in batches (The files are named as the caption of the thumbnails)
- Improved : The sending of the documents by email can now be used in batches (The attached files are named as the caption of the thumbnails)
- Improved : Project management is moved to a Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) > Release of space on the main toolbar for future tools
- Improved : Application management is moved to the preview menu (Orb) > Release of space on the main toolbar for future tools
- Improved : Automatic sizes of thumbnails improved (The last selected thumbnail determines the size of all thumbnails)
- Improved : Some improvements in the user interface
- Fixed : User interface issue when sending documents by email
- Fixed : Welcome form in the trial mode appears everytime the main form is focused