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What's new in PDF Studio 2023.0.4

Dec 7, 2023
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • PS-6762: Regression – Multi-doc searches broken
  • PS-6904: Save as not enabled for monochrome
  • PS-6758: Extract pages feature is not able to extract every page on the document
  • PS-6920: unnecessary warning when importing into an existing layer
  • PS-6906: Copy and paste annotations on specific document is throwing “Cannot invoke “Object.getClass()”
  • PS-6870: Document specific: Exception displays when viewing form field properties
  • PS-6940: save all/save selected was always showing filename on tabs

New in PDF Studio 2023.0.3 (Sep 26, 2023)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • JPDF-2007 : Document specific: Content Edit, not able to select thin lines
  • JPDF-2003 : Document specific: Copy/paste text issue

New in PDF Studio 2023.0.2 (Sep 7, 2023)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added layers filter to comments panel
  • Added wait cursor on loading sessions
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • macOS: Fixed crashing issue cause by change on latest macOS 11.7.9 update
  • Fixed open button duplication of sessions menu
  • Fixed size not showing correctly when trying to modify multiple “Insert Text” annotations
  • Fixed annotations belonging to a deleted layer were not being deleted
  • Document Specific: Word documents not converted correctly
  • Document Specific: Word table missing when converting to PDF
  • Document Specific: Splitting table rows across pages were converted incorrectly
  • Document specific: numbers are cut-off when converting word to PDF

New in PDF Studio 2023.0.1 (Aug 15, 2023)

  • Regression: Batch Signature is placed outside the document
  • Issues with Fast Sign on PDF Studio 2023
  • Exception in jPDFViewer when application uses rhino
  • Updated version to 2023.0.1
  • jPDFPreflight – Memory Leak

New in PDF Studio 2023.0.0 (May 11, 2023)

  • Improvements for Enterprise Deployments (Shared User Settings)
  • Improvements to Microsoft Office Conversions (Word to PDF & PDF to Word)
  • Support for Dropbox Team Spaces
  • Installer Enhancements on Linux and Windows
  • New Embed / Unembed Fonts Functions
  • Additional Multi Document Functions throughout the Application
  • New Optimizer Features
  • New Print Features
  • And Much More…

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.4.0 (Apr 17, 2023)

  • Resolve issues with Linux file chooser with filename extension and truncating
  • Scan “black and white” format is not working correctly when “deskew” is checked
  • JavaScript not calculating fields – Event.value not being modified and re-setting the same value after calculation
  • Font Specific: Error rendering the attached PDF on Linux due to not using Unicode Mapping
  • “Copy text to note” preference broken for text markup
  • Remove vm warnings in the console on silent install
  • Cleanup replacement fonts
  • Clean up files related to install4j runtime, remove warnings

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.3.0 (Mar 27, 2023)

  • PS-6677 – Regression: multiple JavaScript prompts
  • PS-6681 – Editing mode exited after entering non-Latin characters with Right ALT key
  • PS-6672 – Document Specific – Fix image rendering issue

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.2.0 (Mar 17, 2023)

  • Incorrect logic when setting JavaScript “field.display” value.

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.1.0 (Mar 14, 2023)

  • Null pointer exception happening in on load JavaScript
  • Added class cast protection and set signature as invalid if the entries in the signature field dictionary are invalid
  • Document Specific: Digital Signature not validated correctly (Digital Signature Service)
  • Document Specific: Signature marked as “Revoked” instead of “Not verified”. Revocation has to come from issuing CA in the Certificate Revocation List

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.0.0 (Feb 25, 2023)

  • Enhancements:
  • Add additional replacement fonts for Microsoft Files Conversion & Preflight Conversion
  • Improve Signature Field Position (with units) in Batch Sign Dialog
  • Render first page faster for documents with lots of links by delaying loading of destination pane
  • Allow text size for text box annotations to go down to 6 from 8 at the moment
  • Increase Tolerance max value from 100 to 200 when deleting blank pages on Batch Delete Pages dialog
  • Add support for “+” character in email addresses for registration dialog
  • Word to PDF Conversion: Add some support for the legacy/deprecated VML format
  • Word to PDF Conversion: Support for diagonal cell “borders”
  • Bugs:
  • Regression: Unable to save document due to link annotation to a remote document (delay loading of links)
  • Scanning profiles started from quick access menu don’t set the “Insert At” property correctly
  • Exception when Selecting IRT Group Annotations
  • Internal: Settings.xml has some java classes for property values
  • Command line registration does not work when PDF Studio is running in the background
  • Cannot access class sun.print.PeekGraphics when printing page with Custom Composite
  • Regression “Dimension of full grid” when creating multiple copies of form field broken
  • Enabling retain PDF/A format preference and signing document gets user stuck in error loop
  • Add safety null checks when checking for valid save file
  • Regression: Document Specific: Paste text to word removes space characters
  • When registration fails due to non-volume license limit, show a message to users instructing them to go to manage
  • Increase Tolerance value from 100 to 200 when deleting blank pages on Batch Delete Pages dialog
  • Handle null resource in type3 font which was generating a ClassCastException
  • Bad focus issue when doing undo while editing a text field
  • Add support for “+” character in email addresses for registration dialog
  • Document Specific: Null pointer exception when viewing signature certificate details
  • Word to PDF fix for a document that could not be laid out
  • Regression: Error when trying to duplicate multiple checkboxes/radio buttons
  • Document restored from session cannot be saved as another filename
  • Document restored from session is not set to the front

New in PDF Studio 2022.1.2.1 (Dec 1, 2022)

  • If dark mode was used in macOS 13 (Ventura), the installer would hang on startup
  • Improve error message when loading an invalid PDF to make it more generic about non supported file format
  • Improve text selection issue with CJK text in tables across 2 columns
  • Fixed issue with Docusign signatures marked as unknown due to missing type in DDS dictionary
  • Word to PDF: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 12 in Paragraph Numbering
  • Word to PDF: Error handling empty numbered paragraph – “<parameter4>” is null
  • Word to PDF: Strict Open XML add warning about format not supported
  • Word to PDF: Some boxes / path objects with light grey border displayed in Adobe

New in PDF Studio 2022.1.2 (Nov 4, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Allow larger custom memory amount in user vmoptions file
  • Bugs:
  • Align points in overlay comparison was broken
  • PDF/A-1b preflight validation option in sub menu was broken
  • Document Specific: NPE converting to PDF/X-3 due to error when copying name of color space
  • Document specific: Error loading PDF Cannot invoke “Object.getClass()” because “<local8>” is null

New in PDF Studio 2022.1.1 (Sep 29, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Convert Word to PDF: Handle Theme Font Languages for Arabic, Asian, etc..
  • Bugs:
  • Pan & Zoom and Loupe Tool Broken
  • Action Wizard: Continue button label is broken
  • On macOS, some printers can throw an exception when getting the default DPI resolution
  • Convert Word to PDF: Handle Theme Font Languages for Arabic, Asian, etc..
  • Convert Word to PDF: Handle negative positioning of an Image within a Table Cell
  • Convert Word to PDF: Handle NullPointerException when converting a Word file to PDF
  • Convert Word to PDF: Anchored images not positioned correctly due to clipping
  • Document specific: Error loading PDF Cannot invoke “Object.getClass()” because “” is null
  • GUI display error on separator in Preflight Dialog

New in PDF Studio 2022.1.0 (Sep 8, 2022)

  • NEW auto rotate pages when running OCR
  • Fixed Duplicate option does not working for Redaction annotations
  • Fixed “Scan more pages” option would only OCR’s the last page
  • Fixed OCR unsatisfied link error occurring with more frequency
  • Fixed comments pane sizing issues after opening and closing comments pane
  • Fixed sometimes comments panel button disappears after closing the comments panel
  • Dropbox: Fixed expired token error after short time
  • Word to PDF: Document specific – Threading / Synchronization Issue when laying out text
  • Updated to the latest cryptography engine

New in PDF Studio 2022.0.2 (Jul 10, 2022)

  • NEW auto rotate pages when running OCR
  • Fixed Duplicate option does not working for Redaction annotations
  • Fixed “Scan more pages” option would only OCR’s the last page
  • Fixed OCR unsatisfied link error occurring with more frequency
  • Fixed comments pane sizing issues after opening and closing comments pane
  • Fixed sometimes comments panel button disappears after closing the comments panel
  • Dropbox: Fixed expired token error after short time
  • Word to PDF: Document specific – Threading / Synchronization Issue when laying out text
  • Updated to the latest cryptography engine

New in PDF Studio 2022.0.1 (Jun 20, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Add default stamp selection to Rubber Stamp action properties
  • Increase file name length in document tabs selection list
  • Improved Ctrl + Scroll Wheel zoom logic to include more steps
  • Improve error message when loading an invalid PDF file
  • Updated the default length for DigiCert TSA
  • Include default TOC profile for Create Table of Contents Tool
  • PDF to Word & PDF to RTF enhancements
  • Bugs:
  • Fixed issue with ribbon toolbar not staying collapsed when switching across documents
  • Fixed auto-save would reload only single document when restoring from online storage (Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive)
  • Fixed attach file as comment would not prompt for file in some rare cases
  • Document Specific: Fixed “Cannot invoke “java.awt.Container.addComponentListener” error when deleting annotations
  • OneDrive: Session token would not properly refresh causing frequent log outs
  • Studio Viewer: Removed redundant files to reduce installer size

New in PDF Studio 2022.0.0 (Jun 1, 2022)

  • Action Wizard to Automate PDF tasks (Pro) — See Video
  • Document Session Manager (Reopen Previously Opened Docs)
  • Create Table of Contents from Bookmarks
  • Add Comment Summary when Printing
  • Auto-Save Document Recovery — See Video
  • Comments Pane Improvements
  • Thumbnail Preview on Windows
  • Gray/Monotone Icons Theme
  • PDF/X Conversion (Pro)
  • Easy Tools to “Add Content” (Pro)
  • Output Preview: Color Separation View (Pro)
  • (Beta) Convert PDF to Word without Office Installed (Pro)
  • PDF Stamps with Data Entry
  • And Much More…

New in PDF Studio 2021.1.4 (May 3, 2022)

  • 4K: Fixed side by side comparison (right document not scaled)
  • Document Specific: Fix for infinite loop JavaScript error when filling out NYC income tax form
  • Word to PDF: Improved support for “Wrap Margin”
  • Word to PDF: Missing dots before page number in table of content and missing underline in sub-section
  • Word to PDF: Fix issue with a row minimum height taller than the available space (infinite loop) + validate document type
  • Mac: Fixed issue with highlights not showing color after using OCR
  • Better error handling for Typewriter annotation missing “borderstyle” dictionary entries
  • Fixed “Print Service Not Available” error for remote redirected printer after connection timeout
  • Ribbon Toolbar error when selecting annotation with collapsed ribbon
  • Fixed signature vulnerability with incremental save attack found by PDF researchers
  • Submitted by: Raphael Sütterlin of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Chair for Network and Data Security
  • Fixed “Stencil Mask” with JBIG2 compression was being decompressed twice and rendered incorrectly
  • Fixed Signature validation shows content added after first signature because we look at most recent DSS entry
  • Document specific: Error loading PDF array copy: source index
  • Flattening (on the context menu) did not seem to check for permission to modify the document.

New in PDF Studio 2021.1.3 (Feb 21, 2022)

  • Fix Byte range error for PDFs signed with Docusign containing invalid characters following end of file
  • Convert Word to PDF – Unable to layout document due to table width set to 0 + Improve support for multiple polygons in EMF images
  • Convert Word to PDF – Fix VML shapes / text boxes alignment and positioning issues
  • Fix error when merging PDFs with tags
  • Linux: Signing with Token Error on Linux – Use SHA 256 when SHA 1 fails on PDFs with a version <= 1.5
  • Checking for updates on older versions should inform users that a new major version has been released
  • Create Self-Signed Digital ID not working on Mac M1 – Universal Binary Build
  • Ribbon toolbar shortcut modifiers were no longer working
  • Issue with initialization of bundled font locations on Linux
  • Pro only features on the File panel are not showing in demo

New in PDF Studio 2021.1.2 (Feb 21, 2022)

  • Remove unused log4j files to avoid false positive results in virus scanners (see CVE-2021-44228 – Apache Log4j Vulnerability)
  • Added white border to typewriter cursor for contrast on dark background
  • Fixed large minimum bounding box / size for typewriter annotation
  • Handle UTF8 encoding in rubber stamp appearance dictionary in XFDF import

New in PDF Studio 2021.1.1 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added support for protocols to allow launching PDF Studio from a web page
  • Added support for setting file associations on the new Apple M1 ARM installer
  • Performance enhancements to the new comments panel
  • Cleaned up PDF Studio installer to remove old unused files
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed issue with incorrect encoding of special tabs and newline chars when adding keywords into XMP Metadata
  • Fixed issue adding page numbers to large number of document pages
  • Fixed regression issue: Null pointer exception when opening list and combo field drop-down in PDF forms
  • Fixed issue with improper handling of object streams when saving PDF files
  • Fixed issue handling rubber stamps created by NotesWriter Pro + enhance error handling when parsing annotations
  • Fixed issue with multiple permission warnings when creating highlight/etc on advanced search
  • Fixed issue applying polyline styles on first change

New in PDF Studio 2021.1.0 (Oct 20, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • PowerPoint to PDF Conversion
  • Enhancements:
  • OCR languages now included in installer (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
  • Updated Dropbox library to latest v4.0.1 update
  • Cloud drive UI improvements
  • Document tagging UI improvements
  • Added support for stencil patterns in images
  • Additional performance improvements for documents containing abnormally large number of annotations (50k+)
  • Font embedding now includes the user-only font folder on Windows
  • Added spell check to inline editing in comments panel
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fit to width & fit to page did not work when using bottom toolbar
  • Fix to handle scanners reporting invalid contrast values that would cause an error
  • Fix to handle missing / null values in “TU” encryption entry
  • Clicking on ‘x’ to exit password dialog breaks dialog the next time it’s launched
  • Pswitching tools during inline content editing would not commit changes
  • (LINUX): text highlight cursor displayed white in some Linux distros
  • Deleting named JavaScript did not get removed
  • Fixed background color of combo fields when running in dark mode
  • DocuSign not working on new Apple M1 installer
  • Favorite ribbon group in preferences scaled to big in Touch Mode
  • Toolbar gallery issue caused index issue preventing application exit
  • Font issue with installer on some Linux distros
  • Expired ID is selected when signing with non-expired ID
  • Add support for XREF streams in PDF linearization to avoid file size increase after linearization
  • Word to PDF: Incorrect numbering of sections – Add support for level override

New in PDF Studio 2021.0.2 (Jul 9, 2021)

  • OCR Library is not loaded error due to missing Microsoft Visual C++ package
  • Ctrl + Spacebar to temporarily use “Zoom Tool”
  • Metadata dialog not scaled in 4k
  • Updated look and feel version

New in PDF Studio 2021.0.0 (Jun 24, 2021)

  • Accessibility Color Options (Background & Text Color)
  • Read Out Loud / Text To Speech
  • “Unflatten” annotations
  • Improved Content Editing
  • Document TimeStamps
  • Search Recent File List
  • Additional Preflight Functions
  • Real Full Screen Mode
  • Auto Detect Links
  • Upgraded OCR Engine Version

New in PDF Studio 2020.4.0 (Mar 17, 2021)

  • Regression: Brighten the color of the annotation comment bubble
  • Flatten option was missing from form field context menu
  • PDF to Word integration unable to locate MS Office 2016
  • Many Word to PDF conversion improvements
  • Type 3 font characters cutoff in HTML/SVG output
  • Resize handles and cursor for callout annotation not being placed correctly on rotated pages
  • Parentheses used in CJK vertical writing not rendered correctly
  • Fixed nullPointerException when importing an xfdf annotation with null intent
  • Opening document in multiple windows with modal dialog could lock PDF Studio
  • Path gradient with separation color space is not showing correct color (Added Support for Lab color space)
  • Not rendering thin content lines when gradient applied to them
  • Doc Specific: Missing font in DA String causes error when changing font

New in PDF Studio 2020.3.1 (Jan 8, 2021)

  • Enhancements / Bug Fixes:
  • Fast Sign Improvement: Display a larger signing pane for drawing handwritten signatures
  • (Mac) Right click tab selection broken
  • Text selection box can be too wide due to invalid values in embedded font description
  • Find Tools moves to left side under some circumstances overlaying below the open button
  • Regression: Issue when opening a PDF Form with JavaScript from the SWT file dialog
  • Regression: 2 comment bubbles showing on perimeter and area annotations
  • Word to PDF: For Vertical Text in Table Cell Clipped Incorrectly (Add Support for Cell Max Width)
  • Word to PDF: Vertical header is missing on a table in vertically merged cells + table does not keep together

New in PDF Studio 2020.3.0 (Dec 22, 2020)

  • Improvements in Word and Excel to PDF Conversion
  • Incorrect focus behavior on Message Dialog
  • Regression: Focus on password field when opening a protected PDF
  • Issues with setting custom zoom level with decimal point
  • Current bookmark: Change the highlight color from pink to earthy orange
  • Regression: “Signature timestamp is from a timestamp server but the message digest could not be validated” due to mismatch between timestamp and message digest algorithms
  • “Save as default” & Locked missing from Pencil Annotation properties dialog
  • Multi tab selection in dark theme doesn’t look good
  • Replace Pages from PDF option is not working when selecting from Pages Pane
  • JavaScript Validation Dialogs Sometimes Hidden Behind In Java 8+
  • Some PDF documents report being tagged for fast web wrongly.
  • Regression: Euro Symbol in Text Annotations Editor is displaying wrong character

New in PDF Studio 2020.1.0 (Oct 3, 2020)

  • Enhancements:
  • Darken background of page view area
  • Option to set color of non-page area in Reading Mode
  • New options added to right click menu on tabs (Overlay, Side by Side, Close All, Close all to right, Close others)
  • Ability to open files by dragging to new tab area
  • “Keep Alive” option is now enabled by default for faster launch times
  • Improved Despeckle and Reduce Noise tool tip descriptions
  • Demo mode enhancements
  • Resolved file association being reset on updates
  • OCR & Print dialogs no longer block the application and can now be used in separate frames
  • Bug Fixes:
  • ESC key not working in reading mode when starting with Ctrl + H
  • Status bar showing when entering full screen thru document initial view
  • Center aligned date fields would throw error
  • Export text & XML options broken in comments pane
  • Inconsistent panel/toolbar state when closing a document while in Reading Mode
  • Classic toolbar: Status bar and page number broken
  • Classic toolbar: tools would not work on second document open in tabbed document view
  • Touch mode did not enlarge resize handles for annotations
  • “PDF to Microsoft Word” preferences in should not be in standard version
  • (macOS) Blue border showing around frame
  • (Linux) saving scanning profiles did not save properties
  • Specific document: Checkboxes disappear after using sequential renaming

New in PDF Studio 2019.2.3 (Aug 6, 2020)

  • Fast Search – Options to search in comments and fields broken
  • Switching from single page to continuous page would go to page 1
  • Switching from overlay to side by side would not maintain current page location
  • Issues connecting to Canon P21511 WIA scanners
  • Mac app store: error “operation not permitted” when saving without file extension
  • Issue when rendering pages with negative font size leading to displaying some pages with reversed text
  • IRT annotations not imported correctly from FDF & XFDF
  • PDF to HTML – Convert lines with 0 width in PDF to 0.1 width in SVG so Browsers render them
  • PDF to HTML – Detect and handle BIDI and RTL to avoid Arabic text or parenthesis being flipped
  • Document Specific: ClassCastException when creating a field due to invalid field format
  • Optimizing a PDF with JPEG images with Decode Array sometimes results in black pages
  • Fixed issue where opening new document would restore (un-minimize) all other frames
  • Word to PDF – Table header somehow duplicated at bottom of table
  • Word to PDF – Auto resized columns conversion enhancments
  • PDF/A validation did not catch fonts embedded as TTC (True Type Collection)

New in PDF Studio 2019.2.2 (Aug 6, 2020)

  • Scanning broken in Mac OS 10.15.4 due to Apple code signing changes
  • Export pages to single page tiff was broken
  • Form field font improvements
  • Measurements not shown on annotation when measurement dialog is hidden
  • Setting annotations to the same size (width/height/both) was broken
  • Excel to PDF: Support for Formula String type in cells
  • Excel to PDF: Basic Header & Footer support
  • Excel to PDF: Support for scale property, page setup properties & page break on rows
  • Word to PDF: Add basic support for footnotes
  • Word to PDF: Add support for repeating table header row on every page
  • Preflight report results now maintain order across runs
  • Calibration tool did not work when trying to measure ft and inches
  • Composite was ignored when printing images
  • Inline images with LZW compression turn black when page is resized or optimized
  • Improved memory handling for deflated byte streams
  • (Document Specific) Stackoverflow error when merging 2 documents (due to recursive resource reference)
  • (Document Specific) PDF/A 2b – incorrectly reported missing blending color space validation error
  • (Document Specific) ClassCastException when reading form field entries
  • (Document Specific) NullPointerException when opening a PDF form due to an invalid widget
  • (Document Specific) Split by page gives a NullPointerException due to copying fields with invalid formatting
  • Document security enhancements
  • Other internal bugs & fixes

New in PDF Studio 2019.2.1 (Jan 23, 2020)

  • Added support for Ligature characters in text search
  • Improved processing of ‘Simplified Notation’ on Calculate fields
  • DocuSign integration update to fix issue with emailing documents
  • Fix to handle bad DA strings in check boxes created by LibreOffice
  • PDF/A Validation: “Length field of stream dictionary” error when PDF contains attachments
  • Excel to PDF: Better handling of bold fonts in EMF tables
  • MAC: PDF/A Conversion success window shown behind progress dialog
  • Other internal fixes

New in PDF Studio 2019.2.0 (Nov 13, 2019)

  • Scanning broken in macOS 10.15 Catalina due to Apple Image Capture API changes
  • Dropbox update: security changes now require using system browser for authentication
  • Save button not enabled when applying Fast Sign signature
  • Fixed issue with some special characters (þÿ) showing in form fields
  • Added support for dash array in border style for link annotations
  • Word to PDF: Handling for transform & clipping on EMF images
  • Word to PDF: Improved PNG image resolution issue due to “Indirect” color models

New in PDF Studio 2019.1.4 (Nov 13, 2019)

  • Type 3 fonts now supported in SVG conversion
  • Handle saving & opening file attachments with invalid characters in filename
  • Regression: Caret no longer displays when starting to type in text annotations (first character)
  • Rendering improvements for PDFs created by MacOSX Quartz PDF Context
  • (Document Specific) Vector overlay colors not blending
  • (Document Specific) Text not showing behind the image (Color Key Mask + Indexed)
  • Word to PDF conversion enhancements

New in PDF Studio 2019.1.3 (Sep 10, 2019)

  • (Mac) Scanning broken by notarization process for upcoming macOS 10.15 Catalina
  • (Mac) Recent file list on menu bar did not work
  • PDF to HTML5 now converts in-document links, supported by Chrome and Firefox

New in PDF Studio 2019.1.2 (Aug 30, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • (Mac) Notarized installer to support upcoming macOS 10.15 Catalina security changes
  • Minimized ribbon now persists when opening a new frame/restarting Studio
  • Typewriter cursor placement enhancements
  • Text Selection Lasso Tool now ads line breaks for multiple rows
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Corrupted cloud drive credentials file crashed PDF Studio
  • Word to PDF – Document Specific: Some external links are not converting correctly
  • Word to PDF – Some hyperlinks inside table cells weren’t created with correct position
  • Word to PDF – Bookmarks and Internal Links didn’t work in Word97 (.doc) files
  • Word to PDF – TOC/internal links don’t always go to exactly the correct/ideal location
  • Document Specific: Array Out of Bound Exception when converting PDF to HTML

New in PDF Studio 2019.1.1 (Jul 27, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • Wrap text in bookmarks pane
  • Word conversion fallback font logic improvements
  • Form fields now passed through when sending to DocuSign
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Incorrect scaling when editing text boxes on rotated pages
  • Manual offline registration would suddenly revert to demo mode
  • Fast sign signatures lost on restart
  • Studio Viewer – Cloud drive recent documents failed to open
  • Other internal bug fixes & enhancements

New in PDF Studio 2019.1.0 (Jun 25, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Ability to rotate text and shape annotations
  • Option to search text using regular expression – Advanced Search Dialog
  • New HTML/SVG convert options including: page range, individual pages & image quality
  • New option Preference->Comments -“Copy stamp name to note” for counting tool
  • Enhancements:
  • Memory improvements for the Fix Scan tool
  • Options to override binding preference in page display
  • Split by blank page now always analyzes pages
  • Better error handling for invalid page label formatting
  • Document properties now carried over when converting from Word & Excel to PDF
  • New “Copy Link” and “View Online” right click options for cloud drives
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Tag should show the user-given title of the tag
  • Linearized PDFs give a preflight validation error “EOL not found after endobj token”
  • PDF/A Conversion did not work on PDF 2.0 documents
  • Batch preflight did not work without directory set
  • PDF 2.0 DocuSign signatures will now validate properly
  • Missing certificate in hierarchy for Docusign Signature
  • PDF 2.0 Specification validate DSS (Document Security Store) Dictionary
  • Better error handling for invalid page label formatting
  • Duplicate image masks caused error during optimization
  • Bottom Toolbar missing when scanning using “Insert At: End of Document” option
  • Creating custom color value created invalid XML setting
  • Read-only property in annotations not importing in XFDF
  • OCR’d text would copy without space characters
  • Key not found error when selecting add user/add computer option in Linux/MAC
  • (Document Specific) Line heights incorrect when editing text
  • (Document Specific) Word – Incorrect table conversion caused overlapping rows
  • (Mac & Linux) Non-Latin characters not displayed correctly in editing mode
  • (Ubuntu 18) Installer throws a GTK failure message
  • (Ubuntu 18) Shortcut created on the desktop does not show up as the Q icon
  • (Ubuntu 18) When running the application the “PDF Studio” label did not in title

New in PDF Studio 2019.0.0 (May 15, 2019)

  • NEW Features:
  • New option to customize quick access toolbar with favorite tools
  • New split document view
  • New option in File tab to close all documents
  • New locale settings option in preferences
  • Enhancements:
  • Measurement tools are now a Standard feature
  • Options to collapse / minimize the ribbon toolbar
  • Option to “Replace page content only” when replacing pages
  • Option to create watermark in front or behind PDF content
  • Clear formatting option for text annotations
  • Ctrl + A now selects text on all pages
  • Continue scanning multiple pages when using Flatbed scanner
  • Copying and pasting Text – now preserves font, color, paragraphs
  • Cloud Storage:
  • Google drive storage integration
  • Dropbox storage integration
  • One Drive storage integration
  • Microsoft Office:
  • Option to embed fonts when converting Excel documents
  • Support for basic image formats (png, jpeg, bmp) in Excel conversion
  • Support for predefined shape objects (callout, shapes, lines) in Excel conversion
  • Support for simple EMF Images in Word conversion
  • Support for rotated and cropped images in Word conversion
  • Digital Signatures:
  • DocuSign integration including signing and sending for signatures
  • “Reason” is now displayed on digital signatures
  • Other Enhancements:
  • Display option to Save As when file is read only
  • Ability to add/edit custom metadata values to the PDF
  • Basic License Key Management in License Key Dialog
  • Added JavaScript support for flatten pages
  • Many internal bugs & fixes

New in PDF Studio 2018.3.1 (Feb 28, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • Basic License Key Management in License Key Dialog
  • Pictures (JPG, PNG) now supported in Excel Conversion
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Don’t convert hidden worksheets in Excel
  • Slightly increased threshold for 4K scaling issues on Linux
  • Word to PDF: Exception when converting document with content control
  • Digital signatures created by Acrobat marked as having “Invalid byte range”

New in PDF Studio 2018.3.0 (Feb 5, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • HiDPI scaling improvements for Linux and ChromeOS Crostini users
  • Now support transparency group FormXObjects in PDF to SVG conversion
  • New in-app mini announcement banner on welcome dialog
  • Bug Fixes:
  • When importing FDF and rich text value is missing, default to standard value in rich text enabled fields
  • Multi-line text fields: Long existing field value should not be cut when starting to edit
  • The ‘has more text’ icon was showing for RTF fields that don’t have ‘more text’
  • Editing text in a page that was just moved to a new PDF gives an exception
  • Regression: Unable to enter data in auto-size font multi-line fields
  • Duplicate fonts not found in some special cases
  • PDF/A 2b validation fails with error “Font is symbolic but specifies an Encoding entry.”, validates in other tools
  • Validation of signatures is not validating byte range
  • Document Specific: Second text paragraph disappears when editing no scroll multi-line text field
  • Document Specific: Text location in very narrow text field shifts after editing stops
  • Document Specific: Import FDF from PDF Studio 12 does not work for a rich text field value
  • Document specific: Text is overlapping when creating typewriter annotation
  • Document Specific: Content Control Property displaying a string twice

New in PDF Studio 2018.2.2 (Dec 14, 2018)

  • Profile lists on Split Buttons (i.e. Imposition) now scroll when to large
  • PDF/A Conversion: Handle invalid XMP metadata and recreate metadata from document properties entries
  • Rubber stamp drop down did not work correctly for multiple stamps in classic toolbar
  • Digital signature validation improvements when byte range is incorrect
  • Fixed bug links being selected when clicked with hand tool
  • Fixed bug merging multiple files from File Tab sometimes freezes application
  • Other internal fixes

New in PDF Studio 2018.2.1 (Nov 19, 2018)

  • Updated application installer to prevent MacOS Mojave permission warnings
  • Optimizer: Improved duplicate image removal logic to look in FormXObjects
  • Opened up additional “Look & Feels” on Linux for better 4k support
  • Fixed error when merging document containing flattened “Reply to” annotations
  • Fixed issue where Encrypting + Signing at the same time could corrupt some PDFs
  • Other internal fixes

New in PDF Studio 2018.1.0 (Aug 3, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Text search now finds text that spans across 2 lines, starting at the end of one line and continuing on the next
  • New Optimizer setting to preserve original image if re-compressed image is bigger than original
  • Internal file attachments are now included when converting from Word to PDF
  • Improvement to Preflight results dialog and appended report
  • Support converting documents to PDF/A, which previously gave the error “Device specific color space used in shading (DeviceCMYK)”
  • Remove unused resources when extracting pages from a PDF (creating resulting documents of smaller size)
  • Digital signatures applied to a PDF/A compliant document will not break the PDF/A compliance
  • New “Color” or “B&W” labels next to Tiff compression options
  • Read-only support for “Reply To” comments on annotations
  • Gradient rendering improvements
  • Ribbon toolbar tweaks & enhancements
  • Added scan button to top mini toolbar
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Flattening Fields caused barcodes & comb formatting to disappear
  • Excel conversion error creates invalid PDF document
  • Error when exporting annotations while still in editing mode
  • Duplicate images not always removed correctly during optimization
  • Images counted incorrectly in the optimizer audit report
  • Optimizer duplicate fonts logic produces inconsistent results
  • Optimizer audit does not count unused objects
  • Imposition not respecting bleed and trim boxes
  • Exception when search keyword is in the form fields using Directory Search
  • Duplex print with multiple copies print the pages on the same sheet
  • Rubber stamps date variable – only set first date
  • “$Counter” variable did not work in Custom stamp
  • Tool chest annotation doesn’t work after relaunching Studio
  • Print preview displayed the printed order instead of the document order
  • Page location didn’t update on scroll with page labels
  • Modified date not updated when saving a PDF document
  • (Linux) Non-English locale would cause Sane Direct scanning error
  • Document Specific: Infinite loop when converting Word document containing rotated wrapped cells
  • Document Specific: Converted PDF/A document would immediately fail verification

New in PDF Studio 2018.0.1 (May 31, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • NullPointer exception when exporting form fields with empty rich text values
  • (Linux) Sane Direct scanning error with non English locales
  • (Linux) Sane Direct scanning dialog: Options could increase dialog size outside of screen
  • (Mac) Custom stamp dialog buttons increase size on hover
  • (Document Specific) ArrayIndexOutOfBounds & NullPointer exceptions when editing content
  • (Document Specific) Some text would disappear during editing
  • (Document Specific) PDFs that points to a CID CMap in the ToUnicode entry would not display correctly
  • Missing language translations added

New in PDF Studio 2018 (May 31, 2018)

  • Redesigned user interface with Ribbon toolbar (Classic still available)
  • Inline text content editing with reflow (Pro)
  • Support full Unicode (non-Latin) characters in Form Fields
  • (Linux) New scanning interface, including Scanning Profiles (Pro)
  • New “Fast Sign” Signature Stamps
  • Create/Edit Page Templates (Pro)
  • User Interface:
  • New Ribbon user interface, with the option to switch back to Classic Toolbar
  • New bottom toolbar with page size, cursor X, Y coordinates, navigation & page view
  • View, edit & manage Destinations
  • Ability to duplicate redaction on all pages (Pro)
  • New advanced file naming options including variables in batch processes (Pro)
  • View/edit descriptions for attached files
  • New Crop Dialog Preview showing margins / boxes
  • New attachments pane toolbar
  • Added support for Portfolio documents
  • New Form Preview mode
  • Snapshot tool now allows dragging for larger image area
  • Content Editing:
  • Inline text content editing to edit text directly on the page (Pro)
  • View shade object properties (Pro)
  • Annotations:
  • Callout selection now follows shape
  • Incremental dynamic stamp (with counter)
  • Microsoft Office:
  • Excel to PDF enhancements (Pro)
  • Word to PDF enhancements (Pro)
  • Overlay Comparison (Pro):
  • Overlay comparison output improvements (Pro)
  • Prepress / Print Production:
  • New ZUGFeRD preflight verification profile (Pro)
  • Imposition: Cut stack double sided now working correctly (Pro)
  • Imposition: Cut stack – trim marks removed from within the sheet image area (Pro)
  • Printing
  • New option to print selected pages
  • Option to print from thumbnail right click menu
  • Print Preview will now show layers based on their print flag
  • Other Enhancements:
  • Add support for PAdES signatures in PDF Studio
  • Option to set time stamp server length estimate in digital signatures
  • New option to “Prompt for directory” in split profiles
  • Create / Edit Page Templates
  • Enhancements to PDF/A validation and conversion
  • Option to extract all images within document
  • Many internal bugs & fixes

New in PDF Studio 12.0.0 (Jun 8, 2017)

  • Search Text across Multiple PDFs
  • Scanning Configurations
  • Microsoft Excel to PDF Conversion
  • Send to Word (Integration with MS Office) (Pro)
  • Page Labels (Pro)
  • Advanced Imposition (Pro)
  • Resize Pages (Pro)
  • 4K High Resolution Display Support
  • Annotations Rich Text & Multi-Language Support
  • Improved PDF Optimizer with Audit & Results (Pro)

New in PDF Studio 11.0.6 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Some High DPI (4K) enhancements to make most application functions usable (Full
  • support coming in version 12)
  • Fixed an issue where Digital ID fields not properly escaping special characters
  • (i.e. commas in title)
  • Fixed issue preventing access to view annotation properties when annotation has
  • locked property set
  • (caused by recent MacOS Sierra update)
  • Fixed issue displaying checkbox values with incorrectly formatted font or values
  • Fixed JavaScript issues with CA gov. tax forms
  • Fixed issue with invalid installer certificate

New in PDF Studio 11.0.3 (Sep 18, 2016)

  • NEW option to turn rubber stamp previews on/off under Preferences > Comments > Display stamp previews
  • Fixed issue preventing second signature from being added on rotated pages
  • Better handling of loading fonts missing from form resources
  • Fixed issue pasting annotations containing Bold/Italic text across documents
  • Restored logic to read and use ToUnicode stream as a CID CMap
  • Fixed issue with file attachment icon getting larger on save
  • Updated some new error dialogs with better messages
  • Fixed issue preventing all optimizer profiles from being removed
  • Fixed PDF/A conversion failing when PDF/A XMP metadata was already specified
  • (Document Specific) “Auto” font size not resized when first opened
  • Welcome screen not updating after registering Pro license key
  • Fixed issue where “Set Visually” would not work on Page Properties action
  • Fixed issue where the “pagemode=thumbs” command line argument would not work
  • Removed “Print to File” option on Mac since it is not supported by Java
  • Fixed issue causing stamps to resize when being rotated
  • Other internal bugs and fixes

New in PDF Studio 11.0.2 (Sep 18, 2016)

  • Text box issue when a border is set to 0 the fill color did not work
  • Fixed ability to add a second (or more) additional signature to a document
  • Fixed typewriter cursor position when editing Japanese text
  • Fixed typewriter annotation not sized correctly during CJK language entry
  • Image rubber stamp would disappear when flattened on document created from TIFF image
  • Handle missing spell check languages more gracefully when not available
  • Unable to optimize specific documents when running in demo mode
  • Unable to save a blank new document
  • Currently active form field would not save data using File>Save or File>Save As from the menu unless focus was lost
  • Optimizer: black sections when compressing JPEG images with ICC color spaces or CMYK color spaces at a specific DPI
  • Page size units in print dialog now match settings set in preferences
  • Better handling of saved measurement calibration values when changing languages

New in PDF Studio 11.0.1 (May 31, 2016)

  • Unable to edit properties of multiple form fields at once
  • Welcome screen fixes on the Mac
  • Document Specific: CJK fonts not displayed when glyph has no contours
  • Minor fix to French labels

New in PDF Studio 10.4.0 (Apr 22, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Major memory improvements, especially on Retina screens.
  • Bugs:
  • Printing landscape not always working from PDF Studio Print Dialog
  • Sticky not working on some stamps

New in PDF Studio 10.3.0 (Apr 22, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Improved annotation export organization and structure for .txt and XML outputs
  • Header & Footer page numbering now starts at “1” instead of “0”
  • Bugs:
  • Grouped Annotations not being exported
  • (Mac) Crisp text highlights on the Mac when PDF Studio is installed using the 64-bit Mac installer
  • (Document Specific) Fail to display text on some text fields containing default value
  • Unable to edit combo box option once the option was selected in the field
  • Password fields displayed as empty instead of displaying dots (i.e. ••••••••)
  • Misspelled date preview in form field formatting properties
  • Internal bug fixes

New in PDF Studio 10.2.0 (Sep 23, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Updated and Improved online user guide. Go to Help->PDF Studio Help to access the new guide.
  • Bugs:
  • Clipping issues when moving flattened text annotations
  • Issue with select all and zoom (select all function only selected a portion of the text)
  • Issue handling special font character during PDF/A Conversion
  • Fixed issue with rotating stamps that have transparency
  • OCR: Improvements to better handle different image types
  • Issue with Save As when running from command line (dialog would not display)
  • Internal fixes

New in PDF Studio 10.1.0 (Sep 23, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Regression: Reverted to previous behavior when dragging thumbnails across documents to copy pages. To move pages instead of deleting them, now use Ctrl + drag. Read more about moving or copying pages using the thumbnail pane.
  • (Linux) Linux users can digitally sign PDFs using USB Smart Card Hardware PKCS11
  • Batch Preflight: Add PDF/A-1b Validation Profile
  • Bugs:
  • Text to PDF spinners do not update while changing units when not in English
  • Form fields randomly resizing
  • [Windows] Non-Modal dialog causes frames to flash when opening multiple files
  • Remove link action immediately when linked page is deleted
  • Don’t flatten redaction annotations
  • Rotation handle should not show when multiple stamps are selected
  • Rasterize Dialog: Start JPEG Quality at 1 instead of 0
  • Compare feature displays an error loading file when opening a Word doc or any other supported format
  • Linux GTK Look & Feel: ClassCastException in spinner
  • Text Selection – Ctrl+A broken in some documents
  • NullPointerException when importing callout annotations
  • Batch Preflight rewriting files when not needed
  • Changing tab order in field pane is broken
  • Preview issue with stamps that are both transparent & rotated
  • (Document Specific) Some text highlight would highlight return characters
  • (Document Specific) Fail to open a document containing JPEG 2000 compression
  • [Ubuntu 15.04] “Buy Now” does not work
  • Scanning Dialog: Color Format Label Issues
  • Missing message internationalization when overwriting a profile for Header / Footer or Watermark
  • Missing label international in FileAttach properties dialog and Redaction Properties Dialog
  • OCR Dialog: DPI Resolution Label Issue (MissingResourceException)
  • Scan Insert Dialog: Missing label internationalization
  • Optimizer Dialog: Label typo in Optimizer default profile “Agressive” should be changed to “Aggressive”

New in PDF Studio 10.0.1 (Sep 23, 2015)

  • Fixes and Minor Improvements:
  • Exporting comments with invalid or illegal character as XFDF is now handled better
  • Copy and Pasting Radio Button now preserves the border
  • Rubber stamps were not using author name defined under tool preferences
  • Typewriter would not work when not in Sticky mode
  • Cursor issue introduced with new date picker component: not able to clear or type date field sometimes
  • Flattening a redaction annotation would cause an error on the page
  • Optimizer not recognizing some Black & White images (B/W images processes as if they were Gray images)
  • Optimizer not handling images contained in FormXObjects
  • Improved memory usage on Mac OS X in OCR or when rasterizing a large document (java heap space error)
  • Mouse scroll zoom not responding sometimes
  • (Windows) Twain scanning was broken on Windows (WIA scanning was always used)
  • Flashing / flickering issue when double-clicking to open documents sometimes
  • Issue with multi-annotations editing for typewriters, where note content was updated when it should not
  • Issue with setting Text to PDF preferences when running in other languages than English
  • Internal fixes

New in PDF Studio 10.0.0 (Apr 6, 2015)

  • UI Redesign and Enhancement:
  • Icon redesign to a more modern, minimalist design that’s easy on the eyes
  • Consolidated menus for faster access to tools and options
  • Added more keyboard shortcuts
  • Added progress information for advanced functions
  • Improved Navigation
  • New view option for rulers & Grid display with customizable options
  • New view option for Reading mode (it is not a full screen but all toolbars and panes are hidden to enhance the reading experience)
  • Undo & Redo toolbar buttons can be enabled in preferences
  • Save As toolbar button can be enabled in preferences
  • Touch Mode for Tablets:
  • Enlarged re-size handles on annotations and form fields for easier control
  • Enlarged resize handles and Mini Toolbar
  • New large and extra large icon sizes for easier viewing on high resolution displays
  • Enlarged fonts and rows in comments and thumbnail panes.
  • Touch mode button for easy switching between modes
  • Mini toolbar during object selection for quick access to delete & show properties
  • Viewing pane navigation buttons for previous and next page
  • Conversion To and From PDF:
  • New PDF to HTML5 Conversion. Look under File>Convert to…>HTML5 / SVG
  • Improvements to our proprietary Word to PDF converter, including support for WMF images used for mathematical equations and formulas
  • Layers:
  • Assign comments to a layer through the properties dialog
  • Flatten all comments belonging to a layer through the layer context menu
  • Support for Show/Hide layers action in form fields, link or bookmarks
  • Fix issue with layer visibility for nested layers
  • Printing / Scanning:
  • New PDF Studio Print Dialog. New options for printing: printing specific pages, reverse pages, show or hide comments, etc… This will give more possibilities for printers / drivers that don’t support all features, especially on Linux.
  • Support for WIA scanning on Windows
  • Support for ICA scanning on the Mac
  • Improved PDF creation options when scanning. Added a “Reverse Interleave” insert option useful to scan double-sided when scanner does not support duplex.
  • Option to split by blank scanned pages, i.e, pages that look blank versus pages that have no content
  • Recent File History:
  • Improved Recent File List will now keep 500 files in the history, with easy access to the 10 most recent files
  • Recent files are ordered by period: This Week, Last Week, 2 Weeks Ago and 3 Weeks ago
  • Ability to clear recent file list history
  • New user preference allowing to restore page view and magnification when reopening a document. Look under Preferences -> Display
  • Annotation Improvements:
  • Edit multiple annotations at once through the properties dialog (in version 9, this was only possible through the quick property toolbar).
  • Movable vertices for poly-line and polygon annotations
  • Support for border style (dash, cloud, etc…) in all shape annotations
  • Easily rotate stamps with a rotation handle
  • Measurement annotations improvements: new option to display area and perimeter measurements on the page.
  • Changing caps only when editing annotation note or author would not save / take effect
  • Improved curve smoothing on pencil annotations: No longer cutting off edges. See also the new pencil tool property “Smooth Curves” that allows to turn curve smoothing off. Tablet users have asked us for this as the stylus already performs some smoothing…
  • Added ability to create points or dots with the pencil annotation. (Previously dots were not recognized)
  • Change transparency dynamically to existing and custom rubber stamps
  • Change the z-order of annotations with new Send to Back/Bring to Front options
  • New “Text Property” toolbar for interactive objects, separate from the visual property toolbar, customizable with bold and italic
  • Pasting text from Outlook, Word would sometimes create a black image stamp.
  • Form Field Improvements:
  • Date picker for date fields
  • Sticky fields to add multiple fields easily
  • Added sticky and default tools properties for form fields
  • New “reset” option in form field context menu (in form edit mode)
  • Improvements to the combo field editing
  • Support image scaling in button field
  • Support all image types (not only JPEG) when importing images into a button field with Javascript (event.target.buttonImportIcon())
  • Handle both field widget and page rotation for text orientation
  • Bookmarks:
  • More options when editing bookmark actions: zoom and option to set the destination visually
  • Edit the style of multiple bookmarks at once.
  • Set defaults for bookmarks style
  • Allow selection of multiple bookmarks at different hierarchy levels
  • Left, right, up, & down arrows to move bookmarks in the tree
  • Cut/ paste bookmarks in the tree (in addition to existing cut and paste)
  • Document Split / Merge:
  • Split by blank scanned page – set the tolerance levels for blank pages to easily split scanned pages that may still have small marks on them.
  • When 2 tagged documents are merged, the tag structures are also merged.
  • New functions in the thumbnail pane when multi-selecting pages: Support for modifiers: Shift (or no modifier) +Drag to move pages, CTRL+Drag to copy pages. Drag out to create a new file in a folder on your machine with the selected pages. See new entry for “Copy to New PDF” and “Move to New PDF” under the mouse context (right-click) menu
  • Other Enhancements and Fixes:
  • Link tool now highlights all links so they are easily identifiable and editable
  • Fixed issue when reading EchoSign digital signatures, when reading the signer and expiration date info.
  • New function to “rasterize” a PDF, which consists in re-creating the document using images of the pages instead of vector commands. Look under Images -> Rasterize PDF. It’s a shortcut for exporting a PDF to images and then re-importing the images into a new PDF
  • Search dialog user interface was a bit improved. Also, upon opening the dialog, the search box will now default to text currently selected in the document, if any. A problem with slower speed on subsequent searches was also resolved
  • More support for undo: allows to undo adding attachments and importing annotations
  • Show if a document is tagged for accessibility under Document Properties
  • Under document properties, Xmp metadata will now show in an expandable, collapsible tree
  • Removed integration with document services (Google Drive, Sharepoint)
  • Ability to specify custom page size when adding a blank page
  • New user setting to disable in-app messaging
  • Improved performance on text extraction (slow with new text model)
  • Some improvements CJK fonts support.
  • Improvement to PDF Studio log files to help with customer support

New in PDF Studio 9.2.0 (Nov 24, 2014)

  • Windows: Support for WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) scanning
  • Some improvements to the scanning process including remembering the default scanner for Twain
  • A few improvements in the registration process
  • Pencil / ink annotations were sometimes cut-off due to curve smoothing
  • Regression Bug: Allow to search text when text extraction is not allowed in document security
  • Regression Bug: Printing Preferences “Expand to Margins” not working
  • Regression Bug: Linearizing document with change permissions not allowed throws error and creates null document
  • Regression Bug: Unable to search text when document permission do not allow to extract text
  • Document Specific: Text being rendered upside down
  • Document Specific: Unable to open document signed by DocuSign

New in PDF Studio 9.1.0 (Aug 28, 2014)

  • Improved performance when opening a PDF document containing lots of annotations, the first page will render much faster.
  • New Batch OCR function allowing to add searchable text to a batch of PDFs at once.
  • New Batch PDF/A Conversion allowing to convert a batch of PDF to the PDF/A format at once.
  • New option to replicate / repeat form fields on multiple pages. Look for the new “Duplicate” entry in the field mouse context menu.
  • Ability to configure which CJK fonts to use in PDF Studio by default (when the CJK are not embedded in the document).
  • Some improvements to PDF Studio’s Word to PDF converter.
  • (Mac) Text sizing was sometimes incorrect on the Mac for text added by the OCR function.
  • (Mac) Text highlights were sometimes printing opaque on the Mac (using an alpha composite).
  • Button fields with images can now be copied and edited. It is also possible to associate a PDF, or any supported file types in PDF Studio, for the image of the button field.
  • Better handling of font reading errors when displaying the font list under Document Properties -> Fonts tab.
  • The polyline tool was using the preferences defined for the polygon tool.
  • Cloud and Distance annotations were using the same shortcut key.
  • Fix an issue with the JavaScript calc method not taking into account all fields (terminal fields were ignored).
  • No more diagonal watermark in evaluation mode (the demo header remains).
  • Vertical text would sometimes display too bold due to an issue with misinterpreting the outline width property.
  • It was not possible to hide alignment toolbar under Preferences -> Toolbars.
  • It was not possible to turn of “stickiness” on the Redaction tool.
  • Consolidate export options for Comments under the main menu and the comments pane.
  • When no document is open, Forms -> Create / Edit Form will now create a new empty form. There is no need anymore to create a new document before switching to the form editor mode.
  • Navigation issues with Page Up and Page Down keys when in facing mode or zoomed out when in single mode.
  • When adding AES 256 encryption to a PDF with a permission password but no open password, the encrypted document required a password to open in other PDF viewers.
  • When the redaction tool is active, clicking the CTRL key will force the cross cursor / drag mode for rectangular selection and forget the cursor selection.
  • Add red border for required signature fields.
  • Fix issue with saving non-latin character under Document Properties.
  • Some certificates were not read properly after we upgraded to the latest Bouncy Castle libraries leading to an invalid signature appearance.
  • Document Specific Fixes:
  • Document initial view was not always set properly upon opening a document.
  • Allow validation of certificate that was issued by a CA, but where the CA’s certificate is not included in the chain.
  • Issue with document display after signing and reopening document with facing view mode.
  • Converting a specific file to to linearized was causing a stack overflow.
  • Some fields missing appearance streams and font information were not displayed properly on form LPA114.
  • NullPointerException when printing a PDF due to an exception in the getClipBounds method.
  • Text in form fields stretched vertically.
  • Incorrect tab order due to a page rotated not taken into account.
  • Fix exception “Missing AES Cipher: Given Final Block Not Properly Padded.” on Form I130.
  • Fix issues with text editing and undo.

New in PDF Studio 9.0.0 (Mar 24, 2014)

  • Create interactive PDF forms with our new interactive form designer. Automate paper-based workflow and directly receive electronic data from your partners, employees or customers.
  • Redaction:
  • Add redaction annotations and apply them to permanently remove sensitive text, images and shapes from PDF documents
  • Redact PDF Content Pro:
  • The new redaction feature makes it easier for users to permanently remove sensitive information from PDF documents.
  • Add redaction annotations to cover an area on a page. The area can contain any PDF objects such as text, image, or shape objects.
  • Apply the redaction annotations to remove the underlying content that intersects with the area redacted.
  • PDF/A Support Pro:
  • Verify PDF/A compliance (for archiving) with document preflight.
  • Create PDF/A compliant documents.
  • Read more about PDF/A support
  • Security Enhancements:
  • Apply Pro and verify digital signatures with a time-stamp authenticated by a trusted, independent authority. Many security standards now require this added level of security to encrypt administrative and legal documents.
  • (Windows, Mac) Support for operating system root certificates when validating signatures.
  • (Windows, Mac) Support for operating system digital IDs, including hardware keys, when applying signatures Pro.
  • Apply Pro certifying signatures. This is the first signature on the document placed by the document creator and allows to define changes allowed to the certified document.
  • Preserve on Save, enforce and clear document usage rights for Adobe Reader. Read more about PDF Document Permissions.
  • Validation of multiple digital signatures.
  • Support for security-enabled college textbook PDFs
  • Support for latest AES 256 encryption
  • Quick Annotations Properties Toolbar:
  • Quick Annotations Properties Toolbar to easily change common properties such as colors, line width, transparency
  • Faster Annotation Editing:
  • PDF Studio 9 will include a new toolbar for easy access to common annotations properties such as fill and border color, border width, and font size. The properties toolbar will show in the bottom right most section of your toolbar, but can also float anywhere on your screen.
  • We have also implemented a new color chooser that shows a wider palette of standard colors and remembers the last sixteen custom colors across sessions.
  • Other annotation improvements include:
  • Greatly improved ink annotation rendering (for handwriting and signatures) – smooth lines and curves
  • Markup text is automatically copied into the annotation’s note
  • Resize annotation note popup
  • Show total number of comments in the comments pane
  • Improved rotation for My Comments/Recent comments when placed on a rotated page
  • Save text markups in My Comments – add multiple highlight colors so you can easily add different colors to a document
  • Sticky option for text markups and My Comments
  • Resize ink annotations
  • Lock annotation properties
  • Set annotation border to non-integer values (like 1.5px)
  • Show a selection border for borderless text boxes
  • Double-click annotation in the comments pane to open the note dialog; use space bar to toggle the checkbox
  • Align:
  • New Tool: Edit Interactive Objects
  • Select individual or multiple annotations and form fields to move or edit their properties. Click on a single object, or drag to select multiple objects. This tool will make it easier to select and align multiple form fields or annotations, move links and signature fields, and make a quick edit on a form field’s properties without going into Form Editing mode.
  • Crop pages
  • New crop function with preview marks on the PDF page
  • User Interface / Experience improvements:
  • Redesigned Crop function with preview marks on the page
  • Tooltips for Bookmarks and Attachment names in the left pane for easier reading
  • Page down/up with Space/Shift+Space; zoom in and out with Ctrl+Plus and Ctrl+Minus
  • Show all attachments in Attachments pane, whether added as file or note
  • List of open documents in the Window menu
  • Open multiple files at once from the file chooser on Linux and Windows
  • Option to display first page on the right when in Facing view
  • Toolbar buttons for next/previous view (previously only View menu items)
  • Support multi-touch zoom for Mac trackpads
  • Set custom PDF display DPI
  • Additional Improvements and fixes:
  • Export bookmarks
  • Bookmarks pane now allows to export bookmarks to text or xml files
  • New Split document option for After specific text
  • Export and print bookmarks tree and comments list
  • Remember bookmark tree node settings
  • On Windows, option to send emails through Outlook when emailing documents, if Outlook is the default mail application
  • Enhanced JavaScript support: Doc.submitForm, Doc.addField, app.Response, page open and close actions
  • Increased performance on larger documents
  • Improved performance on very large JPGs
  • New command line arguments to open document at specified page and/or zoom level
  • Fixed some instances where bookmarks did not go to the right location
  • Faster text search; warn when a document has no text to search or markup
  • Fix for issue that occasionally caused text stamps to display as “Draft” when edited in other applications
  • Improvements in file chooser dialog: include files with upper-case extensions (Linux), attempt to open PDFs with no extension or an unknown extension.
  • Clear signature fields when resetting form fields
  • Batch file names padded with 0 for easier sorting
  • Remove Acrobat.com integration – the API was discontinued
  • Make sure horizontal scroll bar appears when adding a new, much larger page
  • Fix for some documents printing letters upside down
  • Fix for some documents made by FileMaker Pro and PDF Creator Ultimate not displaying correctly
  • Fix for displaying header/footer after OCR
  • Allow OCR for pages that already have some text content included

New in PDF Studio 8.3 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • On Linux, default look and feel is now set to Nimbus instead of GTK. Read more about the dark unreadable menu issue in java in Ambiance theme starting in Ubuntu 12.04.
  • Fix issue when opening protected forms for which form filling was disabled. This was an issue with PDF documents signed with Echosign, for example.
  • Fix issue with initial view settings, document would not open to the specified page.
  • Fix issue with interactive combo fields where the down arrow would show even when not in edit mode (this issue only happened in some JavaScript enabled forms).
  • Fix issue with the crop function that would crop all pages even when only a subset of pages were selected.
  • Fix some issues with form submission HTML responses.
  • Fix “Unrecognized postscript command: le” error that occurred on some documents .
  • Fix ClassCastException error when editing text for some specific text objects.
  • Tweaks to registration process: more user-friendly, easier for enterprise distribution, try when possible to un-register on uninstall.
  • In batch processes, suffix that was appended to output file names (ie “_header” for a header batch) was removed . This only happened when the overwrite flag for file names was unchecked.
  • Fix an issue with Adobe Reader enabled documents: such PDFs can not be secured (to avoid encryption problems).
  • Fix issue with Bates Numbering when applied to a batch: Bates number would not carry over from one document to the next.

New in PDF Studio 8.2.2 (Apr 23, 2013)

  • Restored some missing translations (German, French, Spanish, Italian) that were lost in v8.2.0.
  • When exiting the application and choosing to save your changes, if PDF Studio encountered any issue during save (e.g., if the file was locked), the application would exit anyway. With the new version, PDF Studio will give the opportunity to save changes under a different file name or resolve the lock issue.
  • More Undo / redo functionality:
  • Improved undo for text editing and copying / pasting content editing.
  • Fixed issue with undo stack being cleared after rotating a page.

New in PDF Studio 8.2.0 (Feb 18, 2013)

  • Round corners on text highlights
  • Fix issue with registration introduced with our new website.
  • Fix issue with Batch Crop and rotated pages.
  • Watermarks and header & footer applied through Batch Watermark are now removable.
  • Fix issue with editing a rotated text markup where rotation was sometimes not preserved.
  • Fix “jumping” issue when editing font size of a typewriter annotation when zoomed in.
  • Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 8.1.1 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • OCR for Windows [Pro Only]: Turn your scanned documents into searchable PDFs with PDF Studio new OCR function. OCR or "Optical Character Recognition" will recognize the text from scanned images and insert text content into PDF that can then be searched or marked up. Read more about OCR.
  • Improved registration process.
  • Fixed issue with page range in Document -> Extract Page function.
  • Fixed issue with text selection / highlight sticking in alternate rectangular selection mode after saving.
  • Internal fixes.

New in PDF Studio 8.0.2 (Dec 19, 2012)

  • Fix issue with application closing after clicking on Edit->Preferences (only happened after canceling out of a scan).
  • Fix focus issues with measuring and polygon annotations where the undo shortcut keys did not work in some circumstance.
  • Fix issues with registration allowing validation when no network connection was enabled and improving on error messages and logs.

New in PDF Studio 8.0.1 (Dec 15, 2012)

  • Fix issue with text selection: When using text selection or text markups on pages that did not have any text content, PDF Studio rendering would ge in a bad state, appearing frozen and requiring users to exit and restart the application.

New in PDF Studio 8.0.0 (Dec 5, 2012)

  • Major redo in text selection, now cursor based option and supports multi-columns
  • Huge improvements in performance and memory
  • Support for Javascript in interactive forms for fields formatting, calculation and validation
  • New display (look and feel) options
  • New pan and zoom tool
  • Undo!
  • Ability to remove watermarks and headers/footers
  • Windows cascade / tiles functionality
  • Option to create rotated text and image stamps
  • Option to save PDF document as linearized for optimized web viewing
  • Many enhancements around interactive forms
  • And many more new features and enhancements

New in PDF Studio 7.4.0 (Jun 8, 2012)

  • Tabbing Through Fields: When tabbing to navigate through fields in an interactive form, if the field is a single line text field, the contents of the field is now selected. This will help when editing data within form fields.
  • Submit Forms: Support for Submit and Reset button actions in interactive PDF forms and receiving data back from the server in FDF, XFDF, HTML format.
  • Document Properties XMP Meta Data: When creating new documents or updating existing document properties, PDF Studio creates or updates the XMP metadata so both document's properties dictionary and XMP meta data are kept in synch.
  • Tool Chest: Recent Comments and My Comments under the toolchest now show the text note associated with each comment as a tooltip so users can distinguish them easily.
  • Text Selection and Highlight: Text selection area was off when compared to the mouse cursor making it difficult to select text on a page. Introduced in version 7.
  • Internal Links & Bookmarks:
  • When merging multiple documents through Document -> Append Document, some links were broken.
  • Better handling of bookmarks and go to page actions which should improve bookmarks retention when inserting and deleting pages.
  • Word to PDF Conversion: Many improvements in our proprietary Word to PDF converter including support for additional image types, border widths in tables, lines, rectangle and elliptical shapes, justified list paragraphs, paragraph borders, justified text in table cells and a few bug fixes.
  • Page Down: When in continuous view with a zoom of "Fit to Page", Page Down would scroll a few pixels more than the page length creating a lag that accumulated while paging down the document.
  • Removing Images, Attachment: When deleting an image rubber stamp, the image bytes associated with it is now removed from PDF document content. When deleting a file attachment annotation, the corresponding file content is now removed from the PDF document content.
  • Annotations Modified Date: The PDF format only has a modified date, there is no creation date for annotations. The modified date is now updated every time an annotation gets modified.
  • Mac UI: On Mac, components were not positioned correctly on the Create Text Stamp and Create Image Stamp dialogs.
  • Replace Pages: Improved warning message when replacing pages from a protected document (assembly not allowed) and stop the merge process before it even starts.
  • Batch Preflight [Pro]: Batch Preflight dialog would not open sometimes. Introduced in version 7.
  • Batch Print [Pro]: Batch Print dialog would request a destination folder if a destination folder had not been set in any other batch dialogs. Introduced in version 7.
  • Scrambled Image: Fixed issue with image decoding for specific images with CCITFaxDecode compression. Introduced in version 7.0.
  • Rubber Stamp: Sometimes when applying a stamp, the stamp will be larger than expected and placed at the top left corner of the page.
  • Import / Export Form Fields:
  • Radio Buttons can have an array of export values. PDF Studio now converts the stored value to the export value when we export to another format (fdf, xfdf, etc). PDF Studio also converts it back on import.
  • Fixed a null pointer exception when exporting check boxes with a null value to an FDF file.
  • Fixed issue with importing an XDP file into an XFA form PDF when multiple fields shared the same name.
  • Content Editing Round-Off: Now will properly round-off the following properties in content editing: border width attribute for path objects and outline width under the text objects.
  • Document Modified: PDF documents were sometimes marked as modified when they weren't. This happened for instance when extracting pages or emailing a document. Introduced in version 7.
  • Email Settings: When clicking the email button or File -> email, users get a prompt to enter their SMTP info if they haven't already set this up. Once that info is entered and the user clicks OK, the email dialog will pop up immediately after.
  • Better Error Handling in Forms Widgets: Handle gracefully any exception when parsing appearance streams for form widgets and annotations.
  • Form Field Alignment / Positioning:
  • Cursor alignment and text highlight was incorrect when editing centered or right justified interactive form fields.
  • Fixed a bug with text positioning for text field with specific margin and border properties.
  • Opening Multiple Documents : When launching the application with multiple documents at once (via dragging and dropping or selecting multiple documents and opening them), PDF Studio had a few issues:
  • Header/Footer, Watermark and stamps menus were not displayed incorrectly under some frames.
  • "Error loading PDF Null" on a given document would happen on occasion.
  • Infinite Loop: Fixed infinite loop when saving document while the drawing tool for the ink annotation was active.
  • Email Issue: Fixed issue when server was returning an empty Max Message Size for emails instead of returning a null value.
  • Dynamic Font Sizing Minor Fix: When landing on a field and then exiting without making any changes the font of the field was being resized.
  • Many Internal Fixes and Improvements.

New in PDF Studio 7.3.1 (Mar 8, 2012)

  • Fixed issue with Text Edit: Sometimes, our PDF font engine needs to add space characters to represent empty white space between characters within text content strings. When this happened, PDF Studio would identify the added space characters as invalid and would not let users edit these strings.
  • Fixed issue with Color Chooser Component: When editing annotations colors, recent color swaps were not remembered within the color chooser component. Recent colors will now be remembered within a session (until PDF Studio is exited).
  • Fixed issue with Preflight: When derived, type1 fonts were not reported as embedded in the preflight report.
  • Fixed issue with Media Toolbar: In some rare circumstances due to specific buttons visibility settings within the media toolbar, PDF Studio would not start.

New in PDF Studio 7.03 (Feb 17, 2012)

  • Fixed issue with Google Docs: When uploading PDF documents to Google Docs, an error would appear stating that "Files must be uploaded using the resumable upload mechanism". This issue didn't happen for Google Docs "Premier" accounts. It only seemed to affect non-Premier accounts holders.

New in PDF Studio 7.02 (Jan 25, 2012)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Remember Last Tool Used : Grouped buttons on the toolbar remember the last tool used after restarting PDF Studio.
  • FIXES:
  • Fixed issues with smtp connection in the newly added email function.
  • Fixed an issue with image removal.
  • Fixed issue when trying to save annotated documents in side by side comparison mode.

New in PDF Studio 7.00 (Dec 21, 2011)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • UI Enhancements and Customizations:
  • Customizable Toolbars - Customize toolbar visibility and grouping to suit your preferences and the way you work with PDF Studio. This feature can be accessed by right clicking on the toolbar or from the view menu.
  • Customizable Look & Feel - Choose your favorite Look and Feel among our new options.
  • Updated Preferences Dialog - The new design of the Preferences dialog comes in a list layout which makes it easier to find and set options.
  • Identify Secure Documents - (SECURED) is displayed after the PDF document name in the title frame allowing users to immediately identify documents secured with passwords. This should help users understand why they can't make some changes when viewing encrypted files.
  • Loupe Tool:
  • Easily magnify small details on a PDF document. The loupe lool displays a magnified portion of the PDF that matches the area of the adjustable rectangle in the document window. This tool will be useful in a number of industries such as printing, graphics, electronics, and biology.
  • Compare Side by Side:
  • Compare two versions of a PDF with our new side by side view. With synchronized scrolling, you will be able to review both documents at the same time and find the differences at even the smallest details using the sophisticated "double loupe tool".
  • Email PDFs As Attachments:
  • Enter your email server information once and easily send PDF documents with a single click directly from PDF Studio. This feature should help users collaborate electronically with friends and colleagues in an efficient way. Customers who are enrolled in online fax services letting them send faxes via email (such as myfax.com or efax.com) will now be able to send faxes directly from within PDF Studio.

New in PDF Studio 6.62 (Jun 20, 2011)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Ability to "Open Link" and "Create Link" from Selected Text . When the text selected on a page corresponds to a valid web or email url, the mouse context menu will show an option to "Open Link". This offers a convenient shortcut for PDF Studio users to browse to web links present in a document. The "Create Link" menu option will also now default the url to the text url making it faster to create link annotations from existing urls in the document content.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • New Preference Setting for Webdav Document Services Users. PDF Studio usually uses a temporary file when saving documents locally in order to avoid losing the document if any error happens during the saving process. Certain document services using webdav servers (such as 03Spaces) require saving directly to the file without the use of a temporary file in order to preserve version history for the document. We've added a new setting for this under the Preferences dialog.
  • More Links Recognized in Auto-Create Links dialog: Improved link parser to recognize more links.
  • (Windows 7) Improved Icon on Taskbar: On Windows 7, the minimize icon on the taskbar had a low resolution.
  • Many Improvements in our Word to PDF conversion: Support for paragraph shading – before only handled shading on tables, more fields handled – DATE, NUMPAGES, FILENAME fields, support for having different header/footers on different pages, many improvements and bug fixes.
  • FIXES:
  • Open Document Error: Fixed new issue in version 6.60 when opening a PDF document containing annotations with null dates values.
  • Google Docs: Fixed issue with Google Docs when trying to edit a document shared by another user. This issue was introduced because of changes made to Google's servers.
  • Sharepoint: Fixed issue "error loading pdf null" when downloading files from some specific Sharepoint servers (Comcast for instance).
  • Preflight: Fixed issue in Preflight function (class cast exception error).
  • Flattening Form Fields: Fixed issue when flattening form fields data in very specific cases (the field data contained the string " Q ").
  • Black Boxes: Fixed issue where some PDF documents were displaying "black boxes" (issue in IndexedColorSpace conversion from float color).
  • Negative Images: Fixed issue with some reversed images (negative).

New in PDF Studio 6.61 (Apr 4, 2011)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Display Additional Document Properties: File Size, Number of Pages and Version of PDF are now displayed under Document Properties.
  • Default Resolution at 150 DPI when Exporting Images: For new users, default resolution when exporting images is now defaulting to 150 DPI.
  • Page Range Option when Exporting Images: It is now possible to specify a range of pages to be exported to images (Images -> Export Pages as Images).
  • Improvements in the Word to PDF conversion: When converting a Word document to PDF, document meta data such as title, keywords, subject and title is preserved. Also, we've improved our support for images in the Word to PDF conversion.
  • FIXES:
  • Fix issue that was introduced in version 6.60. Text extraction was broken for documents containing CJK font.
  • Fix issue that was introduced in version 6.60. Review status for annotations (such as accepted, cancelled, rejected, etc..) was broken.
  • Fix issue that was introduced in version 6.60. The Replace Text caret annotation was not displaying correctly in other PDF viewers such as Adobe Reader. Only the caret part of the annotation would show and not the strike-through.
  • Some German translations for newly added labels in version 6.60 were missing.
  • Fix issue with bookmarks not going to the correct pages when in Fit To Page view mode.
  • Fix issue that was introduced in a previous version of PDF Studio. Selected row within a field list in an interactive PDF form was not saved correctly in the document. When selecting a row in an interactive list field, it would appear correctly in PDF Studio but would not save properly.
  • When PDF documents are open in PDF Studio and a user registers PDF Studio by entering their license key, PDF Studio will now reload the documents and remove the evaluation version watermark (only for documents that have not been modified).

New in PDF Studio 6.60 (Feb 26, 2011)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • New Advanced Custom Stamps (Pro). In addition to image and text stamps, PDF Studio 6.6 allows to create very sophisticated custom stamps. Include multi-line text, images, dynamic fields (such as date and time) and different types of annotations all grouped together in a single custom stamp. Custom stamps can be saved and edited later on. And since stamps are saved in a vector format, they can be resized crisply when applied to a document.
  • New Tool Chest. PDF Studio 6.6 saves and displays users most recent annotations as well as users favorite annotations under the Tool Chest pane. This saves time when frequently applying the same annotations.
  • New Native File Dialogs (Windows, Linux). Windows and Linux users have the option to use the native file dialog of their operating system instead of the Java Swing file dialog. Native dialogs have more functionality (auto-completion for instance) and users are more familiar with them.
  • New Unicode Support. Edit unicode text (UTF-16 characters) in annotations content. This will be of special interest to customers using non-latin characters such as arabic, asian, greek, cyrillic characters. Unicode text is also supported within document properties (author, subject, description).
  • Support for Annotations Groups. Group multiple annotations on a page to process as a single unit. Grouped annotations share their comment and are moved, deleted, reviewed or flattened at once.
  • Multiple Selection of Annotations. Select multiple annotations on a page at once to move, delete, review or flatten them all at once. Annotations selected on the document will also be selected in the annotations trees under the Annotations Pane.
  • Create PDFs from Other Documents Including New Support for Text & MS Word Files. Open text and MS Word (97-2003) files directly in PDF Studio (it converts the documents to PDF on the fly). PDF Studio has a new menu entry under File -> Create PDF to create PDF files easily:
  • Create PDF from File: Allows to create a PDF from all supported formats including Text, MS Word and all image type files.
  • Create PDF from Multiple Files (Pro): Advanced dialog to create a PDF from multiple files that allows to choose multiple files or a whole directory, reorder the files and specify an open password to try when opening the files.
  • Create PDF from Scanner
  • Create PDF from Blank Page
  • Drag and Drop Files in Thumbnails Pane. Simply insert documents as new pages within a document by dragging and dropping files into the Thumbnail pane. The feature works with PDF files, images files, text files and MS Word files.
  • Drag and Drop Files in Attachments Pane. Simply attach documents to a PDF by dragging and dropping files into the Attachments pane.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Support for XMP metadata in Document Properties: When editing document properties and xmp metadata is present in the document, PDF Studio will update the xmp metadata so properties are correctly read and displayed in all PDF viewers.
  • Batch Merge now Supports Images, Text and Word Files: Batch Merge can now merge different format files into a single PDF document (PDF, Images, Text and MS Word).
  • New Function to Reverse Pages: Under Document -> Reverse Pages, it is now possible to reverse all pages within a document in a click. This can be useful after scanning a document in reverse order.
  • Auto-create Link from Search Text: Create links automatically from searching a document for given text (for instance, create a link for qoppa.com for each occurrence of "Qoppa Software" within a document).
  • Create Link from Highlighted Text: Create a link from right-clicking (CTRL + Click on Mac) on selected text and choosing the option "Create Link" in the context menu.
  • Performance Improvements on Graphical Documents with Transparency: Printing and scrolling performance enhanced for certain documents containing transparency. Users in the graphics and pre press industry may enjoy faster times (up to 5 times faster on specific documents) when printing and rendering documents.
  • New Image Icon on Toolbar to Add Images: Use the new icon to create an Image Stamp from a file on the fly or use the 2 menu entries Comments -> Add Image or Images -> Import Image as Stamp.
  • Default Document Name for Documents Created from Files: When creating a document from external files (images, text or MS Word documents), PDF Studio will default the name of the PDF to the original document.
  • Improvements to Text Search Dialog: Ability to cancel search. Search button is being disabled during a search so users can not accidentally click search twice. After search is finished, clicking "Enter" will go to the next occurrence in the results list.
  • Form Field Tooltip: To help users filling forms, field information (if available) is now displayed as tooltips under interactive form fields. The data shown corresponds to the "/TU" entry in the field dictionary.
  • Default Page for Extract Pages: When extracting pages from Document -> Extract Pages, PDF Studio 6.6 will default to the currently selected page.
  • Improvements Around Copying and Pasting Pages: New menus available under the Thumbnails Pane to copy, cut and paste pages within a document or across documents. An image file can now be copied and pasted onto a PDF page (as a stamp) directly through copy and paste commands without having to open the image in an external image viewer.
  • FIXES:
  • Fix issue with the Split Dialog not opening when running in demo mode.
  • Fix issue with "Missing Font" in PDF documents. There are magic fonts (Helv, CoBO, Cobo, Cour) not specified in the PDF specifications that do not need to be embedded in the document and that use "shortcut names" compared to standard font names.
  • When renaming a bookmark, the new bookmark name will default to the previous one.
  • Fix issue when opening a document created in Open Office. This issue was reproducible on Linux with documents containing annotations. The PDF file generated in Open Office does not follow PDF specs.
  • When flattening a text box after a document was saved, the text was not available as text content and thus could not be selected or highlighted.
  • Even when canceling the action of digitally signing a document, PDF Studio was still trying to save the file.
  • When right-clicking on a bookmark (CTRL + Click on Mac), PDF Studio was sometimes changing the currently selected page to the bookmark's page. This was annoying to users trying to bookmark the currently selected page.
  • Fix 2 issues related to digital signatures and encrypted documents.
  • Fix issue with Document -> Revert. When disposing of the Revert Dialog by clicking the red 'x', the document was actually reverted instead of simply closing the dialog.
  • When updating the content of an annotation from the Popup Dialog (the Popup Dialog is the dialog that popups when double-clicking on the annotation and that displays the content, author and date for the annotation), the tooltip text for the annotation was not updated accordingly.
  • The Properties label was cut for foreign languages in the Annotation Popup Dialog.
  • The results list in the Text Search Dialog allowed for multiple rows selection. However, the functionality of the dialog was dependent only on the first row selected. The results list is now single selection.
  • When editing a typewriter, free text or callout annotation, hitting escape will exit the edit mode and select the annotation (it used to not select the annotation).
  • Fix some issues with PDF/X preflight parser introduced in a previous version. Structure rules were enforced but not content rules. Also added new support for blend modes rules.

New in PDF Studio 6.50 (Sep 28, 2010)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • New callout annotation. This tool combines a text box with a line and an arrow and is used to draw attention to text or objects in a PDF document .
  • New calibration tool for the measuring tools to set the scale directly from the drawing. Users are prompted to choose two points on the document and enter the length of the measurement.
  • New batch dialog to set initial view for multiple documents at once (navigation tab, page layout, magnification, open to page).
  • Copy and paste images and text. Images and text can now be pasted directly into a PDF document. PDF Studio will automatically generate rubber stamps from them that users can move around or resize before applying them to the document.
  • Support for bookmark style allowing users to define color and text style in documents outline or table of contents.
  • Drag and drop pages across documents (when multiple documents are open in different frames).
  • Manage digital ids for digital signatures to remove a digital id, add a new one or change the display name.
  • Support for Home and End shortcuts to go to the first page and last page in a document.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Text box annotation editing: Text can now be edited directly on the document via cursor (in the same way as the type writer annotation).
  • Display page size under Document Properties.
  • Double-sided document scanning option. When scanning double-sided documents, users can scan one side, then use the "interleave" option when scanning the second side.
  • Text markups transparency: Users can now set the transparency of text markup tools such as underline, cross-out, etc.
  • New default rubber stamp: PDF Studio will now remember the last rubber stamp used. Users can also select a preferred default stamp.
  • Import and export of XFDF files: Now supports reading and writing the following attributes: dash style/size, annotation subject, border style, opacity, rich content, and popups.
  • New "Units" setting in User Preferences dialog: International users can define preferred measurement units (inches, centimeters, points, ..) for the Crop dialog and in Document Properties when displaying the page size.
  • Document modified flag: PDF Studio now allows users to know when a document was modified. On Windows and Linux, a little star is added next to the file name on the title bar. On Mac, a black dot is added in the center of the red close button on the title bar.
  • Improved highlight behavior of form fields such as radio buttons, check boxes and text fields.
  • Improved form fields editing: Improved edit and display of rotated form fields (text fields, barcode fields). Support for scroll long text property in multi line fields to turn off scrolling ability within fields.
  • GUI improvements: Improvement to the Rubber Stamp and Attach Files buttons on the toolbar.
  • GUI improvements: A new link to an annotation's Properties Dialog has been added under the annotation's Comment Popup Dialog.
  • Barcode improvements: Improvements to the way PDF Studio renders code 128 and code 309.
  • Demo version enhanced: Removed the 10 pages limitation in PDF Studio demo version so users can evaluate more freely the software.
  • FIXES:
  • When saving a document using the name of a file that's already open in PDF Studio, the software will now throw an error.
  • Cloud Annotations didn't show the text bubble even when there was text in the comments.
  • In the previous version 6.40, PDF Studio had been updated so PDF documents that only had an open password with no permission password were opened without user being prompted for password. In this version, we reverted to the previous behavior to be consistent with Adobe Acrobat. PDF Studio will now prompt for an open password for all documents that have an open password, even for documents that have an empty permissions password.
  • Fix issue with Google Docs where multiple instances of the Advanced Search dialog were created.
  • Fix issue when opening some PDF documents with AES encryption.
  • Fix issue that was giving the following error upon opening PDF documents: "Missing Pages entry in file catalog".

New in PDF Studio 6.40 (Jun 23, 2010)

  • New Integration with SharePoint and SharePoint Online. PDF files can be opened directly from Sharepoint, reviewed and annotated in PDF Studio and then saved straight back to SharePoint.
  • New PDF Studio is now multi frame allowing to open several documents in different windows from the same instance of PDF Studio and to work across documents to copy text and annotations.
  • New Users can now customize digital signatures appearances. For instance, users can add an image of their own hand-written signature. The signing process has also been improved so it's easier to sign a document that already has a signature field or to add a new signature on a document that doesn't have any signature field.
  • New Support for caret annotations to replace text and insert text.
  • New New Batch Split function to split multiple documents at once. Documents can be split by page range, bookmarks, text search or into equal size documents.
  • New New Auto-Create Links function to automatically create web links or emails links in PDF documents.
  • New New user settings for default initial view. These settings are used when opening PDF documents that don't have any initial view set. It is also possible to always use these settings and ignore the initial view set in the documents.
  • New Added several new shortcut / accelerator keys that allow to easily add annotations to a document.
  • New PDF Studio will now remember and restore the locations of sub toolbars such as annotations toolbar, selection toolbar or distance measuring toolbar on startup.
  • Improvement PDF Studio now supports CJK fonts and more generally CID fonts when filling interactive form fields.
  • Improvement Improvements in memory usage when reading and converting JPEG images.
  • Improvement Improved PDF Studio "View" menu and user interface when switching the current navigation pane view. The available pane views are Attachments, Bookmarks, Comments, Layers, Pages and Signatures.
  • Improvement PDF Studio title frame will now indicate if the document was opened from a document service or a url.
  • Fix In the scan-to-PDF function, when inserting pages at the beginning of the document, the page order was reversed.
  • Fix After rotating pages in a document from the Thumbnails pane, the selected page was sometimes jumping to a different page.
  • Fix Fixed issue when opening some PDF documents created in Word 2010.
  • Fix (Mac) On Mac, PDF Studio will now use the system language for system menus and dialogs.
  • Fix When exporting annotations or form fields in xfdf format for PDF documents opened from urls, the path to the documents in the xfdf file was not set correctly.
  • Internal enhancements.

New in PDF Studio 6.30 (May 27, 2010)

  • New (Windows and Mac) Support for CJK fonts (Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts). PDF Studio can now render PDF documents which use CJK character sets as well as extract text from such documents.
  • New Integration with Acrobat.com web services. PDF files can be opened directly from Acrobat.com accounts, reviewed and annotated in PDF Studio and then saved straight back to Acrobat.com.
  • New Redesigned annotation popup dialog. The new dialog will show the author name and date on the title bar and allow users to edit comments directly from the popup dialog.
  • New Improved memory usage when scanning multiple pages from the scanner document feeder.
  • Improvement Lots of improvements with Google Docs integration: improved speed for accounts containing a big number files, new intuitive toolbar in Google Docs File Manager for fast access to standard functions such as upload, save, delete, share...
  • Improvement Improved initial view: when opening a document, the default view is now "fit to width" to maximize reading experience. This is consistent with Adobe Reader® default behavior.
  • Improvement Under Batch Merge dialog, an option was added to create bookmarks when merging multiple documents in one so individual documents can be easily indexed in the merged document.
  • Improvement Add ability to create customs stamp from tiff images.
  • Improvement Improved user interface in batch dialogs to allow drag and drop of files, better reordering of files, etc... .
  • Fix Default color for squiggly underline annotations was not saved properly as part of user settings.
  • Fix Fix issue with search results capitalization in text search dialog in some instances.
  • Fix After rotating pages in a document, the selected page was sometimes jumping to a different page.
  • Fix Fix issue with initial page not saving (as defined in initial view settings).
  • Fix Fix the issue "System Error" upon saving some PDF files created in Adobe Photoshop®.
  • Fix (Mac) When saving an attachment locally under mac, ".pdf" was automatically appended to the file name even when the file was not a PDF file.
  • Internal enhancements.

New in PDF Studio 6.21 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Improvement Minor enhancements and bug fixes to Google Docs™ file manager.
  • Fix Missing font issue when merging certain documents.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 6.20 (Feb 12, 2010)

  • New Now with full Google Docs™ integration, PDF files stored in your Google Docs account can be directly opened and edited in PDF Studio then saved straight back to Google Docs. Additionally, PDF Studio provides a powerful GUI to manage your Google Docs files allowing you to upload and download single files or whole directories, manage your collections and share files with others directly from PDF Studio.
  • New Our new auto-update feature gives you the option to check for newer versions of PDF Studio on your computer and to update automatically. This feature can be turned off or customized to check daily, weekly, monthly or never. Users can also check "manually" that they are running the latest version using Help -> Check for Updates.
  • New Ability to copy and paste annotations.
  • Improvement Multi-line text field editing in interactive PDF forms now uses native PDF fonts so the editing is very smooth and matches exactly with the rendering of the form field.
  • Improvement When inserting a new page, users can now choose the page format as well as the location in the document.
  • Improvement Better text searching and extraction especially when working with subscript and superscript.
  • Fix Improved file size of resulting documents when merging PDF documents (issue introduced in version 6.10).
  • Fix Improved file size of resulting documents when deleting pages (issue introduced in version 6.10).
  • Fix Issue with Snow Leopard minimized icon which was displayed at a very low resolution.
  • Fix Issue when importing some jpeg images where images would show 3 times in Adobe Reader.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 6.10 (Nov 19, 2009)

  • New Screenshot tool allowing users to select a page area with a lasso and copy the image to the clipboard or export the image to a file.
  • New From the thumbnail view, added ability to work on multiple pages at once to delete them, rotate them, drag them or flatten comments.
  • New Support for barcodes. XFA form fields containing a barcode ui will now be rendered in PDF Studio.
  • New Ability to copy and paste annotations.
  • New Ability to search within annotations from the text search dialog.
  • Improvement (Pro) Improved batch user interface concerning the selection of files and folders to process. Users can now preview the files included in the batch and reorder them as needed.
  • Improvement Improved text highlight rendering. It is now a perfect text highlight obtained by using multiply composite.
  • Improvement Added a user setting to remember a default scanner so users are not always prompted to choose their scanner.
  • Improvement Added a user setting for default paper size to be used when creating new documents, adding pages and creating a preflight report.
  • Improvement Added a "Clear Security" button under the security dialog so users can remove passwords and permissions in a single-click.
  • Improvement Improved title bar to show the document name first (before the application name) so users can distinguish documents when multiple documents are minimized on the toolbar.
  • Improvement When drawing annotations such as cloud, polygon or perimeter annotations, and using the auto-complete option from the mouse menu, PDF Studio will now include the current location of the mouse as the last vertex.
  • Fix Issue with bookmarks. When inserting a new page in the document, all bookmarks to pages that are following the inserted page will now remain the same.
  • Fix Issue with scrolling to annotations. When using the single page view and clicking on an annotation in the comments list, PDF Studio was not scrolling to the appropriate location in the document as expected.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 6.01 (Oct 1, 2009)

  • New - We have changed our installer and thus recommend that you uninstall any previously version of PDF Studio before installing the new one. All your settings, preferences and custom stamps will be preserved with this new version.
  • The new installer brought a few fixes / improvements to the installation process:
  • PDF Studio and can now drag pdf files directly onto this icon.
  • PDF Files having a name containing at least 2 consecutive spaces in a row can now be opened by double-clicking on them (this used to be a problem with our old installer).
  • New - Ability to create categories and sub-categories for custom text and image stamps so custom stamps can be easily accessed and organized in a flexible tree structure.
  • Improvement Update to our scanning library.
  • Fix - Issue displaying documents created with Acrobat ClearScan.
  • Fix - Issue with bookmarks where sometimes an invalid bookmark was created, making PDF Studio to run out of memory when opening the document (due to an infinite loop when reading the invalid bookmark).
  • Fix - Issue with the display of certain images. A red cross was displayed in PDF Studio instead of the actual image.

New in PDF Studio 6.0 (Aug 18, 2009)

  • New Split between PDF Studio Standard and Pro editions (existing customers automatically upgrade to the Pro edition for free without the need to reenter their license key).
  • New Under Document Properties, new tab for Initial View to define the inital layout and magnification settings: navigation tab, page layout, magnification, open to page.
  • New Many improvements around bookmarks: auto-create bookmarks for a page range, create bookmarks for current view, move bookmarks through drag and drop, improved toolbar in bookmarks panel.
  • New (Pro) Create new digital signature fields on PDF documents and clear existing digital signatures.
  • New (Pro) In the Preflight screen, when verifying the compliance of a PDF document against PDF/X format, it is now possible to create a preflight report with the option to append the report to the PDF document.
  • New (Pro) Batch Merge feature to combine multiple documents at once.
  • New Navigate through history of page views (go to previous view, go to next view).
  • New Support for mailto protocol in links and bookmarks and launch mail client accordingly.
  • New Search text within comments from Comments pane.
  • New Export to gif.
  • Improvement Move annotations using arrow keys.
  • Improvement Improved toolbar in Comments pane.
  • Improvement Option in batch processes to overwrite existing files or create new files.
  • Fix (Linux) Now can drag files into PDF Studio (image files or PDF files).
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 5.70 (Jun 6, 2009)

  • New Ability to split PDF documents based on page count, page range, blank pages, bookmarks, search text.
  • New In the Preflight screen, when verifying the compliance of a PDF document against PDF/X format, it is now possible to dynamically generate annotations where compliance problems were detected.
  • New Full support for PDF transparency model.
  • Improvement Support for PNG images in custom image stamps.
  • Improvement Support for soft mask when importing images as pages.
  • Fix Some focus issues in interactive PDF forms.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 5.60 (May 5, 2009)

  • New New area and perimeter measurement tools
  • New (Windows Linux) Now using the latest Java 1.6 for Windows and Linux for better performance.
  • New (Linux) Added support for Scanning under Linux
  • New Support for the following page mode views: Continuous, Single, Facing, Facing Continuous.
  • New New dialog to add a text or image watermark with the ability to preview the watermark on the document
  • New New right-click context menu on the page views for quick access to basic functions such as adding a sticky note, zooming in and out, selecting text
  • New Ability to customize page thumbnails size (small, medium, large)
  • Improvement Better conversion to black and white tiff (dithering for Group 4 and Group 3 Fax)
  • Improvement (Linux) No more bold font for the metal look and feel under Linux
  • Fix Choosing option 'New document" when scanning to PDF was reversing the page order
  • and save would overwrite the previous document
  • Fix Focus problem with annotations in Java 1.4 where focus would sometime jump to the beginning of the document when clicking on the hand tool
  • Fix Slow file open dialog under Windows XP when browsing through big zip files
  • Internal bug fixes

New in PDF Studio 5.50 (Feb 16, 2009)

  • New Review status for annotations to mark them as checked, approved, completed
  • New Preflight PDF/X verification
  • New New distance measuring tool
  • New New dialog to add headers and footers with document preview
  • New Bates Numbering
  • New Signature pane to display the list of digital signatures applied to a document
  • Improvement New look for our annotations list pane, now located at the bottom of the page to allow for a better view. Ability to print the list of annotations.
  • Improvement Pencil tool is now multi gestures allowing to type multiple words as part of the in the same annotation
  • Improvement Improved annotations features: save defaults, option to make annotation tool sticky, display review status
  • Improvement (Mac) Use native Mac Open dialog instead of the standard java Open dialog.
  • Fix Support for polygons in import / export of annotations
  • Fix (Mac) Resolution when printing scanned images was too low giving a blurry printout
  • Fix (Linux) Show total number of pages for the current document on the toolbar
  • Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 5.10 (Nov 14, 2008)

  • New Feature: New arrow annotation tool.
  • New Feature: New Export to Images for a Batch of PDF documents.
  • New Feature: Open an image file (JPG, PNG or TIFF format) directly into PDF Studio from the File Open Dialog or by dragging the image file into PDF Studio. This is faster than using the Import Images dialog.
  • New Feature: Ability to import scanned images in JBIG2 format into PDF Studio to minimize the size of the resulting PDF document.
  • Improvement to all our Batch functions to allow users to set a list of passwords to try when opening documents. Users will not be prompted for passwords anymore.
  • Improved performance and memory usage in the scanning function to allow users to scan more pages faster. Also upgraded our scanning library to allow for more scanners support.
  • Improvement: New compression options when exporting pages to TIFF.
  • Improvement: New rotation options when right-clicking on a thumbnail page.
  • Improvement: Improved tabbing in PDF Forms. Ensure fields visibility when tabbing through fields, scroll to next page, etc..
  • Bug Fixes with the typewriter annotation: focus problems and problem when writing on some documents with rotated pages.
  • Bug Fix: Deleting pages from some documents would give an error.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a problem with special characters such as accents in custom stamps names.
  • Internal bug fixes.