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PDF-XChange Drivers API Changelog

What's new in PDF-XChange Drivers API 9.5.367.0

Mar 7, 2023
  • Implemented the annot.refType and annot.replyTo properties.
  • Added 'Expand All/Collapse All' buttons in the Advanced tab of the Metadata dialog box.
  • Added 'Delete but Retain Children' feature for Bookmarks pane.
  • The Default OCR engine (Tesseract) has been upgraded to the latest stable version (5.3).
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted TIFF files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted J2K files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted XPS files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted PDF files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
  • Fixed the issue where some digital signatures generated by DocuSign were reported as invalid.
  • Fixed the issue with the annot.gestures property. (39785)
  • Fixed the issue with the doc.addWatermarkFromFile property. (39385)
  • Fixed the issue with the 'Fit Box by Text Content' feature for callout and freetext annotations. (T# 4819)
  • Fixed the rare issue with formatting measure values when fraction types are used. (T# 6362)
  • Fixed the issue with moving hidden form fields via keyboard in the form editor. (T# 6381)
  • Fixed a rare issue that caused a crash when loading PDFs that contain XFA forms.
  • Fixed the issue with the 'Sort Pages by Bookmarks' feature on some documents. (T# 6343)
  • Fixed the issue with the error message that appears when opening documents from a session.(T# 6359) (39711)
  • Fixed the issue with the enabled/disabled state of 'Insert/Replace Text' buttons on toolbars. (39772)
  • Fixed the issue that could cause a crash when a floating pane is active and the shortcut for 'Full Screen' is used. (39769)
  • Fixed a rare issue that resulted in the incorrect positioning of redaction rectangles when OCR is being performed on a document and the 'Editable Text and Images' mode is enabled.
  • Edit Content Tool: fixed the logic used with the selection of objects on pages when users right-click to open the context menu. Right-clicking on selected objects now retains the current selection, as it should.
  • Changed a way of handling document information tags when converting from MS Office document formats.
  • Fixed how information is displayed in the document info bar for PDF/A-4, PDF/A-4e and PDF/A-4f files.
  • Added the ability to replace non-existent files when opening the associated session. (T# 6360) (39702)
  • Fixed/improved the 'OCR Images' feature: reinstated the output options (for Enhanced OCR engine only). (39995)
  • Improved/fixed the detection of skew/rotation angles when OCR is being performed on documents/images.
  • Updated third-party components to address their known vulnerabilities.

New in PDF-XChange Drivers API 9.5.366.0 (Dec 13, 2022)

  • Added a GroupPolicy-permission to add/delete/renew license keys by the user Prefs > Registration page.
  • A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
  • Fixed an issue with the position of newly created sessions.
  • (39602)
  • A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
  • Fixed compatibility issues when redacting annotations.
  • A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
  • Fixed an issue with potentially wrong colors in the user interface icons with some color profiles associated with specific monitors.
  • A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
  • Fixed an issue with Merge Pages on some specific documents.
  • A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
  • Fixed an issue with pages autoscroll when the SelectText tool is used.
  • A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
  • Fixed an issue with the Find-feature: it didn't clear itself when the Find-popup was closed (via Esc key or X-button).
  • (39609)
  • A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
  • Fixed a broken Advanced section in the Search pane.
  • (39607)
  • A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
  • Fixed an issue with Copying multiline text on pages when the 'Add line breaks after each text line' option is turned off (Prefs > PageText).
  • (39624)
  • A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
  • Fixed an issue with showing context menus when using a stylus on toolbars and other windows.
  • A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
  • Fixed an issue with showing special context menu for items on toolbars when customization mode is enabled.
  • (39623)
  • A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
  • A minor fix for better support of custom colors for selections on pages.
  • (39633)
  • Changed, reviewed, modified featurePDF-Core
  • Improved scaling annotation when doing a page resize.

New in PDF-XChange Drivers API 9.5.365.0 (Nov 29, 2022)

  • Added the ability to remove pages that bookmarks point to in the 'Pages' and 'Sections' context menus of the Bookmarks pane. (T# 6261)
  • Added the ability to OCR multiple selected images to their context menu. (T# 5979)
  • 38418)
  • Added the ability to go to next or previous bookmark using the hotkeys Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] as the default setting. (T# 6226)
  • Added the ability to set named destinations as targets for new links by double clicking on the destination. (T# 6013)
  • 38557)
  • Added the ability to update bookmark/named destination targets using selected text. (T# 5888)
  • 37840)
  • Added the ability to manage application prompts that have the 'Do not show again' option. (T# 5916)
  • 37933)
  • Added the ability to move selected page objects diagonally with the arrow keys. (T# 6111)
  • 38880)
  • Added an option to resize pages to match a specified page of the current document. (T# 6250)
  • OneDrive plugin improved to work with OneDrive for Business
  • Added an option to save documents automatically, without displaying the Save As dialog box, when digitally signing documents. (T# 6122, 6176)
  • Newly added featurePDF-CoreNEW
  • Added the ability to export PDF to WebP images
  • Added support of Metadata templates. (T# 5636)
  • Added an option to export/import metadata. (T# 5628)
  • Added an option to specify how links on a page can be activated (by click, Ctrl+click, or double click). (T# 6269)
  • Added a special command with shortcut (Ctrl+Home) that puts the keyboard focus on the page view directly. (T# 878)
  • Search Pane: added 'This Exact Phrase' option
  • 20541)
  • Newly added featureEditor ActiveX SDKNEW
  • Search Operation: added the option of specifying multiple files/folders for the input
  • Improved/optimized 'Rename Document' feature
  • Added new options (CaseSensitive, WholeWordOnly, RegExp, etc) for the Find feature's filtering ability in several panes, such as Recents, QuickLaunch, CompareDocs:Diffs and HistoryView (available via the icon on the right)
  • Added a set of new commands to have the ability to directly activate any document tab from the first ten tabs using shortcuts from [Ctrl+Num1] to [Ctrl+Num0] (note that shortcuts are customizable)
  • Added the ability to add Links to Layers. (T# 6238)
  • Added the ability to copy base content using Ctrl+Drag. (T# 5527)
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted EMF files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted PNG files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted TIFF files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted J2K files. Reported by: Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative; Tran Van Khang (VinCSS), Rocco Calvi (@TerR0C), and Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
  • Fixed spaces with zero width
  • Fixed the issue with displaying search marks on the scrollbar in single page mode. (T# 6187)
  • Fixed the issue when deleting pages from a document did not always decrease the file size. (T# 6248)
  • Fixed the issue where digital signatures generated by DocuSign were reported as invalid
  • Fixed the issue with context loss when pasting as metafile. (T# 6217)
  • Fixed compatibility issues with redaction annotations
  • Fixed the issue when document color override affected printing, even when the option was disabled. (T# 6231)
  • Fixed the issue with editing the action lists of bookmarks/links when the original action list has been corrupted. (T# 6137)
  • Fixed the issue with applying default styles for measurements with fractions
  • Fixed the issue with incorrectly estimated progress duration for the Search feature in bookmarks
  • Fixed the URL verification procedure for cases when the UNC url has more than three slashes after the scheme prefix, and added more known NoAuthority-schemas
  • Fixed the issue with disabling commands inside the ribbon/format tab for selected objects inside the portfolio preview window, and fixed the logic with autoshowing the Portfolio tab in the ribbon
  • Compare Documents: fixed the issue with hiding the format change differences when the 'Formatting' category is turned off
  • 39161)
  • ActiveX SDK
  • Search Pane: refactored the 'Where' combo to fix issues related to cases described on the following forum topics
  • 39139, 39140)
  • Search Pane: fixed the issues with drawing highlighted text inside the results pane when some highlight ranges overlapped
  • Search/Find+Redact: fixed the issue with case when, according to search criteria, text is partially overlapping.(T# 6253)
  • 39352)
  • Search/Find+Redact: fixed the issue with consecutive words when a line break is present between them. (T# 2246, 6135)
  • 20541, 161068)
  • Fixed an issue with thumbnail selections that contains images, paths and text items. (T#6195)
  • 39184)
  • Fixed an issue with restoring sessions by using the 'Just open documents from the session' option in the 'Manage Sessions' dialog box. (T#6301, 6303)
  • 39326)
  • Fixed an issue with using the 'Row Data by Column' macro in the 'Populate PDF Forms' feature.(T# 6063)
  • Fixed handling some embedded CFF fonts. (T# 6241)
  • Fixed incorrect embedding of some OTF(CFF) fonts. (T# 6294)
  • Improved the correction of broken files. (T# 6252, 6273)
  • Plugins
  • Improved the usability of selecting fonts in the 'Generate Bookmarks From Page Text' and 'Create Links from Bookmarks' features
  • Plugins
  • Added options to customize the title of contents in the 'Build Table Of Contents' feature. (T# 6056)
  • Added an option to display 'Logical Page Numbers' in the 'Advanced Search Result'. (T# 6178)
  • Added an option to add a bookmark for each file in the RTF to PDF operation
  • Added an option to add a bookmark for each file in TXT to PDF operation
  • Improved space handling for CJK languages
  • Improved text line positioning for editing PDF text
  • Added a feature in navigation mode: when the "End" key is pressed on the last page, the view is scrolled to the end of the last page
  • Added ability to paste multi-line text into single-line edit boxes
  • Improved support for Touchscreens: added single finger-scroll everywhere, without any conflict with DnD, Multiselect or ContextMenu options (just tap-and-move to scroll, tap-hold-and-move to DnD/Multsel, tap-hold-untap to ContextMenu); and fixed several other issues. (T# 6204)
  • Changed behavior for cases when the mouse pointer is over the scrollable control in the Ribbon and user spins the wheel-button. Now it scrolls during such control (whereas previously it was used to scroll through the ribbon tabs)
  • Fixed/improved the 'Merge Pages' feature: the position of merged pages; the use of 'Select Sheets' options; retaining actions with objects. (T#6272, 6268)
  • Improved the 'Summarize Comments' feature. (T# 5994, 6118)

New in PDF-XChange Drivers API 9.4.364.0 (Sep 28, 2022)

  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted PDF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted U3D files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted EMF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
  • Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted J2K files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
  • Fixed the issue with text color when using the Microsoft IME to enter characters.
  • (39286)
  • Fixed issue with rendering certain specific fonts.
  • Fixed an issue in the Link View when moving links between the pages.
  • Fixed a scanning process freeze issue. (affected some old scanners).
  • Fixed different issues caused by the incompatibility of the AzureRMS plugin with some external components that get loaded into the Editor process (including some printer and scanner drivers, shell extensions etc.)
  • Fixed a possible (rare) crash related to using some ScreenReader-apps. (T# 6209)
  • Fixed issues with locked-for-read files or zero-size files after using the saveAs-PDF/A feature.
  • Fixed an issue with using the 'Find and Redact' tool on documents opened directly from SharePoint. (T# 6219)

New in PDF-XChange Drivers API 9.2.358.0 (Oct 26, 2021)

  • Fixed an issue with incorrectly generated JPEG streams that caused "Out of memory" errors in Acrobat.

New in PDF-XChange Drivers API 8.0.332.0 (Aug 27, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • Added ability to Create/Load Files List in Choose Files Extended Dialog.
  • Newly added featurePDF-ToolsNEW
  • Added ability to use Files List located in Places.
  • Newly added featurePDF-ToolsNEW
  • Added a 'PDF to Audio' tool/action that allows user to read text from PDF and save as WAV or MP3 (Windows 8 and higher) audio file.
  • Newly added featurePDF-ToolsNEW
  • Added a 'Sanitize Document' tool/action that removes hidden data from PDF so any sensitive information will not be published with your document.
  • Newly added featurePDF-ToolsNEW
  • Added ability to continue actions list after 'Print Document(s)' and 'Send Mail' actions.
  • Newly added featurePDF-ToolsNEW
  • Added special icon that indicates that tool is used in Folder Monitor.
  • A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Tools
  • Fixed issue with setting default Converters and Scanner parameters for 'Convert Files to PDFs' and 'Scan to Images' actions in the application preferences.
  • Changed, reviewed, modified featurePDF-Tools
  • Improved Load/Save settings operation performance.
  • Changed, reviewed, modified featurePDF-Tools
  • Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

New in PDF-XChange Drivers API 8.0.330.0 (Apr 5, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • Added commands to convert Line annotations to Distance, and Polyline annotations to Perimeter.(T# 4552)
  • (31718)
  • Added the Crop Method "None" to the Crop Pages dialog to allow adjusting the page size to the crop box, without changing existing crop boxes.(T# 4321)
  • (30764)
  • Added a "Move To Trash" feature that allows moving the open document to the Recycle Bin.
  • (31960)
  • Added simplified content transformation functionality to the Arrange tab.
  • Newly added featureEditor PluginsNEW
  • Added CSVToPDF plugin that allows converting CSV file data to a PDF table.
  • Added a "Resource Updater" feature for updating OCR Languages, Spell Check Dictionaries, and other resources.
  • Added "overtype" mode for edits (activates with Insert key).
  • Spell Check dictionaries update.
  • Added a "Paste as Plain text" command for text edits.
  • Added the ability to add/modify the Document Open Action to be different from the GoTo action. (T# 4629)
  • Added a "Quick Launch" to the Editor's title bar which can be used to quickly find Editor's commands.
  • Digital Signature Properties dialog now reports certificate compatibility to EU 2010/2014 regulations and whether a private key is located on QSCD. (T#4658)
  • Added a new "Enhanced OCR" module that is much faster, provides better quality, recognizes text styles and tables, supports creating PDF files with editable text and images, and more.
  • Added a new OCR feature "OCR Selected Region". Use it from the context menu for the selected area on a page which was made using the Snapshot or Crop tool(s).
  • SharePoint: added options for a default version and comment used during automatic Check-In.
  • SharePoint: added an option to auto-create all neccessary folders when saving file(s) to a non-existing path.
  • Fixed an issue with handling relative URLs when a document is opened in IE (T# 4592)
  • Improved handling corrupted JB2 streams.
  • Fixed an issue when setting a border width of 1pt on links.
  • Fixed a rendering issue in some specific cases. (T# 4669, 4641)
  • Fixed several issues with the Progress dialog: in some cases it had been displayed using the wrong Z-order (under the main window or above the modal dialog).
  • Fixed a problem with dragging control points by finger for selected objects.
  • Fixed hang of Open/Save File dialog for Sharepoint/DropBox when fails the navigation to the initial URL.
  • Fixed a SharePoint Plugin issue causing undesired login prompts.
  • SharePoint: fixed the conversion of file and folder creation, and update time, to/from the local time.
  • SharePoint: added an option to select a version for Check-In operations.
  • Improved Deskew filters in Enhance Scanned Pages plugin
  • Improved compression of monochrome images in Enhance Scanned Pages plugin
  • MS Office to PDF: various improvements and bug fixes for the Editor and PDF-Tools
  • Improved form calculation procedure(s). (T# 4627)
  • Improved JavaScript support.
  • Improved XFA forms support. (T# 4644, 4615, 4701, 4689, 4711, 4714, 4723, 4726, ...)
  • Improved rendering of PDF files when object's coordinates are too big. (T# 2975)
  • Improved thew handling of Static XFA forms. (T# 3084, 2838, ...)
  • Password Security Policies are now stored in more secure way.
  • When opening FDF or XFDF files the Editor now checks permissions to open the corresponding PDF file. (T# 4680)
  • The appearance of check/radio-boxes has been updated to show the correct size on high-resolutiotins monitors (previously it was too small on 4k monitors).
  • Added an option to customize the color of a group title by setting the 'group.title' color-item in the Theme.xml.