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PDF Studio Viewer Changelog

What's new in PDF Studio Viewer 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 Viewer 2023.0.3 (Sep 27, 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 2022.2.4 (Apr 8, 2023)

  • 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

New in PDF Studio Viewer 2022.2.3 (Mar 25, 2023)

  • Multiple JavaScript Prompts
  • Editing mode exited after entering non-Latin characters with Right ALT key
  • Replace JBIG2 decoder to fix issues with decoding of jbig2 images

New in PDF Studio Viewer 2022.2.2 (Mar 17, 2023)

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

New in PDF Studio Viewer 2022.2.0 (Feb 21, 2023)

  • Enhancements:
  • Add addition 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 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 Viewer 2022.1.3 (Nov 28, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Better handling of fonts missing character mapping information when using inline text editing
  • Bugs:
  • PDF/X conversion would fail on documents using Blend Mode set with a name, from within an ExtGS dictionary
  • Document Specific: Error after converting to PDF/X-1 due to issue with embedded icc profile
  • Document Specific: Specific JavaScript code could result in NPE (breaking some form fields)

New in PDF Studio Viewer 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 Viewer 2022.1.1 (Sep 24, 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 the mac, printers can throw an exception when getting the default DPI / Transform
  • 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 Viewer 2022.1.0 (Sep 8, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added missing new features to Classic Toolbar for 2022
  • new add content tools
  • create table of contents from bookmarks
  • sign with timestamp
  • Sessions Manager GUI improvements
  • New PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 verification profiles
  • New PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 Conversion profiles
  • Allow editing new content after being added to the page
  • Improved annotation loading performance for extreme cases (i.e. over 20k comments)
  • Only create the annotation components when a page is displayed
  • Comment tree now only loads the annotations when the comment pane is shown
  • Updated digital signature libraries to the latest version
  • PDF To Word: Added Support for Multiple Columns
  • New Window & User Interface options in Initial View document properties
  • Bugs:
  • Zoom icon on toolbar not changed when zooming in / out
  • Replacement text in redactions not displayed when fill set to “no color”
  • Search and redact added multiple redactions for single instance
  • “Restore last page and view when reopening a PDF” overrides Magnification setting
  • OCR Current Page does not work on current page
  • Action Wizard: Save As “keep original file names” option not disabling insert before / after fields
  • “Next page” and “Last page” are hidden when resizing PDF Studio frame really small
  • Fixed typo on top signature banner
  • Rotate Pages dialog does not focus on the dropdown
  • Add content toolbar buttons not reverting back to default tool
  • Fixed window caching issue related to window scale
  • DocuSign signatures marked as unknown due to missing type in DDS dictionary
  • Auto create links would create invalid links over existing links
  • Deleting pages when in single page view results in ArrayIndexOutOfBounds
  • Catch invalid / null color space in preflight
  • Optimizer Auditor sometimes reported more font bytes than doc bytes
  • Missing Optional PAdES information in signature details
  • JavaScript: “Doc.addField” method was broken
  • Imposition does not work correctly after changing cropbox and trimbox
  • Fixed issue causing pattern tiles to not be reset in some cases creating blank page areas
  • Mac: Shortcut key is not working correctly on the current selected document
  • Mac: Print does not work when opening multiple files from Finder
  • MAC: ⌘ + Shift + T does not show My comments toolchest
  • MAC: Alt + / to launch the find tool does not work
  • MAC: Retina (4k) – Output preview does not work
  • 4K Displays: Snapping drawing tools rendering artifacts
  • 4k Displays: Polyshape cursors look bad
  • Word to PDF: Image element in conversion changes color from blue to black
  • Word to PDF: Handle Arabic Unicode Map during Conversion to Allow Text Extraction
  • PPT to PDF: EMF images were getting clipped very slightly
  • Document Specific: Exception reading JPEG image

New in PDF Studio Viewer 2022.0.2 (Jul 11, 2022)

  • Bugs:
  • Windows: Fixed bug where Save As SVG or RTF would append file extension twice
  • Windows: Thumbnail previews causing “Com Surrogate has stopped working” error
  • Zoom gets stuck on fractional digits when the language is set to another language other than English
  • Fix bug where extract “current page” always extract the first page
  • Limit the max number of sessions that can be saved

New in PDF Studio Viewer 2022.0.1 (Jul 11, 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 Viewer 2022.0.0 (Jul 11, 2022)

  • New Major Features in Version 2022:
  • Action Wizard to Automate PDF tasks (Pro) — See Video
  • Document Session Manager (Reopen Previously Opened Docs) — See Video
  • Create Table of Contents from Bookmarks — See Video
  • Add Comment Summary when Printing
  • Auto-Save Document Recovery — See Video
  • Comments Pane Improvements — See Video
  • Thumbnail Preview on Windows
  • Gray/Monotone Icons Theme — See Video
  • PDF/X Conversion (Pro)
  • Easy Tools to “Add Content” (Pro) — See Video
  • Output Preview: Color Separation View (Pro)
  • (Beta) Convert PDF to Word without Office Installed (Pro)
  • PDF Stamps with Data Entry — See Video
  • And Much More…

New in PDF Studio Viewer 2021.0.2 (Jul 14, 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 Viewer 2021 (Jul 14, 2021)

  • New Major Features in Version 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
  • And Much More…

New in PDF Studio Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 2020.3.0 (Dec 23, 2020)

  • Enhancements / Bug Fixes:
  • 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 Viewer 2020.2.0 (Dec 23, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • New Flat Modern UI with Light & Dark Options (Light Mode now default for new installations)
  • Enhancements:
  • 4k High DPI scaling improvements (especially on Linux)
  • Improved descriptions / keywords for tool search
  • Add a set scale / options label or button to measurement dialog
  • Improved discovery and support for additional scanners
  • Default bookmark color is now “empty” instead of black
  • Add support for highlight style in Link annotations
  • MAC: Support opening multiple documents through file dialogs
  • Thin light border added to create better separation between page and viewing area
  • Auto selection of SHA512, SHA1, and SHA256 hash algorithms in timestamp servers
  • Option to remove “*” modified marker from the title bar
  • Remember “Print as Image” setting in print dialog across sessions
  • Show warning for native features in Unix installer that aren’t supported
  • Many Word to PDF conversion improvements
  • Many Excel to PDF conversion improvements
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Wrong context menu when right clicking on an annotation while annotation drawing tool is active
  • Sticky note tooltip did not display ‘<‘ and ‘>’ characters (needed to be escaped in html tooltip)
  • Object selection broken when form editing on multiple documents
  • “More Colors” option is not showing for form fields after selecting once
  • Form Editing – Right Click did not work (placed field instead)
  • Removed the “$counter” variable for watermark, header & footer.
  • Sub-menu is not showing under Pages -> Insert -> From Scanner
  • Comments pane would sometimes show on welcome screen without opening document
  • Mac: Tool search would cause errors in some search results
  • Mac: “Uninstall previous versions” option doesn’t uninstall previous versions completely
  • Fixed issue where clicking on shortcut when application is minimized no longer brings frame back to front
  • Linux: When in sticky mode mini toolbar doesn’t work
  • Document Specific: Error on opening PDF form due to XFA parsing error
  • Document Specific: ClassCastException when opening a PDF form due to invalid appearance dictionary in form field widget
  • Document Specific: Settings permissions on document gives null pointer exception
  • Translation improvements

New in PDF Studio Viewer 2020.1.1.0 (Oct 7, 2020)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • PDFium Documents: Fixed error rendering page: Missing Extended Graphic State Dictionary
  • Fixed Find Tools field focus issues
  • Fixed null Author would show on new Comment tree
  • Document Specific – NPE when editing comments
  • Word Convert Enhancements
  • Re-added Ribbon / classic toolbar option to preferences

New in PDF Studio Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 2019.2.2 (Apr 28, 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 2019.1.4 (Oct 8, 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 2019.0.0 (May 15, 2019)

  • DocuSign© Integration
  • PDF/UA Verification (Pro)
  • Split Document View (Pro)
  • Fix Scan Tool with Deskew, Optimize & OCR (Pro)
  • Improved Overlay Comparison (now Vector Based) (Pro)
  • New Sanitize document tool to remove sensitive data (Pro)
  • Cloud Storage Integrations:
  • Dropbox
  • Google Drive
  • One Drive
  • PDF/UA Editing (Pro):
  • Tag Explorer (Pro)
  • Document reading options including binding direction and language

New in PDF Studio Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 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 Viewer 2018.0.1 (Aug 3, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • NullPointer exception when exporting form fields with empty rich text values
  • (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 Viewer 2018.0.0 (May 14, 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” feature
  • Create/Edit Page Templates (Pro)