PDF-XChange Editor Portable Changelog

What's new in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 10.2.1.385

Jan 24, 2024

PDF-XChange Editor:
NEW Added new options to tune the appearance of the Comments pane:
Changes were made that make items more compact and to display comment text in a uniform style, and more. We also added other minor improvements to the pane's content appearance.
NEW Added an option to make comment popups on pages more compact:
Look to Preferences > Commenting > Display compact comment popups.
Bugfixes and Improvements:
Fixed an issue where IE or MS Edge in 'IE Mode' became unresponsive when opening PDF files.
Fixed an issue with restoring the last session when the application starts with a file argument (added an option to the Preferences/Documents). (41249, 41288)
Fixed an issue where it was possible to get an incorrect bookmark root name when using drag&drop of files in the thumbnail panel.
Fixed angle snapping for polyline/polygon tools. Holding the "Shift" key as a modifier limits the positioning of the line to pre-defined angles.
Fixed "nudge object" moves with the Ctrl+Shift combination. Previously the Ctrl+Shift key combination was not responding, this has been corrected. (41259)
Fixed issue with the undo/redo when adding checkmarks for comments.
Fixed an issue with then Comments pane.
Fixed an issue when 'checkmarking' comments when the UI language is set to something other than English. (41250)
Fixed an issue with the comment popups on pages: in some cases they may become light grey, even for colored comments. (41290)
Fixed an issue with resetting/importing settings after performing commands through the Quick Launch feature. (41300)
Fixed an issue that was present only in some very rare cases that resulted invalid shading.
In the Comments pane the ability to add/remove checkmarks and change status for multiple selected comments, rather than just one selected comment was restored.
Improve the PRC model handling.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 10.2.0.384 (Jan 24, 2024)

NEW:
Added the ability to create a "Place" for WebDAV services. (T# 6160)
Added new commands that enable the toggling of document tab title styles in the document tab context menu. (T# 6556) (40593, 41154)
Improved control of image compression in the "Enhance Scanned Pages" operation.
Updated the 'Comments' pane. The design has been improved, and we added functionality that enables the editing of comment text inside the pane, and a feature to easily filter/find comments that contain specified text. We also added simple buttons to add replies, lock/unlock, and change options.
Added the ability to set margins on document pages.
Added the ability to edit the 'destination' of Named Destinations.
Added functionality to convert email files to PDF. Open email message files (.msg and .eml) in PDF-XChange Editor to convert them to PDF.
Added a search feature inside comment replies, using either the Search pane or the Find feature. (T# 6677) (25594)
Bugfixes and Improvements:
Fixed a possible crash when signing PDF/A documents.
Fixed an issue where clicking the "Set To Zero" button was greying out the "OK" button in the Crop Pages feature. (T# 6535) (40531)
Fixed an issue with duplicating form fields in the "Duplicate Pages" feature. (T# 5034, 6549) (33584, 40572)
Fixed an issue with scaling content after setting "Offset" parameters in the "Resize Pages" feature. (T# 6651)
Fixed an issue with the size of XForms when changing their content. (T# 6685)
DocuSign - fixed an issue where changed signatures were not not updating.
Fixed some UI automation issues to improve support for screen readers.
Fixed an issue with the 'Drag and Drop' of files placed on the right side of the 'Compare Documents' dialog box. Previously, dropping files there replaced the documents on the left side of the dialog box.
Improved copy and paste options for Rich Text.
Changed indent handling and alignment for RTL (right-to-left) text.
Added an option to specify page size and crop position for the Crop Pages tool. (T# 6543) (40549)
Added the ability to open the program without restoring the last session if it is opened with a file argument. (T# 6564) (40610)
Added the ability to modify the numbering step in macros for the "Bates Numbering" feature. (T# 3998)
Added the ability to open a session, without closing open documents, using Ctrl+Click or the right-click context menu within a session. (T# 6637) (40835)
Added font size information to the Save as Optimized dialog box. View screenshot
Add navigation buttons to the Redaction Infobar. View screenshot
Implemented "Single Sign-On" for WebView authentications.
Added a 'Delete' command to the 'Edit Text' context menu.
Added a filter for illegal symbols in the 'Rename' feature. (39212)
Added the ability to trim the white space of bookmarks in the "Create Links from Bookmarks" feature. (T# 6723)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 10.0.0.370 (Jun 15, 2023)

Added the ability to create custom stamps. (T# 5907)
Added an 'Add from Bookmark' option to the 'Edit Action List' when setting link targets giving the ability to add a 'Go to Page' action using a 'link target' taken from a bookmark. (T# 5778)
Added the ability to customize snapping from the 'Snap' command drop-down and to customize a snapshot from the 'Snapshot' command drop-down. (T# 6429) (40138)
Added 'Grouping by Status' in the Comments View.
Added the ability to uninstall OCR languages via the 'OCR Languages' (Resource Updater) dialogue.
Added a new 'Web Page to PDF' convertor. Convert web pages without opening a browser.
Added percentage units to the "Add New Guides" dialog.
Added 'Tab Stop' property for text.
Added a new calculator/adding tape tool. (T# 6300)
Added the ability to simply drop files to the 'Compare Documents' dialog. (39823)
Added an 'Identify Forms' feature to detect form fields within a PDF.
Added the ability to get images directly from a webcam or from a connected phone in special webcam-mode (via DroidCam, EpocCam, iVCam, etc.) and to use them in 'Signs&Initials', 'Digital Signature templates', 'New Document from Images' etc.
Added the ability to export Links to a CSV file. (T#6191)
Added the ability to convert a rectangle to measurement. (T#5700)
Added a collection of tools to create, edit, and manipulate paths (shapes) on page content.
Newly added featurePDF-CoreNEW
The 'Compare PDFs' feature now includes changes in annotations.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted JBIG2 files/streams. 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.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
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.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted PRC 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.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed a potential vulnerability when handling crafted/corrupted U3D 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.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
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 an issue that would arise when a regex pattern was recognized properly by the 'Generate Bookmarks from Text' feature. (T# 6415) (40040)
Fixed 'Drag and Drop' from 7-zip into the Editor. (T# 5677)
Fixed an issue with the state of the 'Replace Text' and 'Insert Text' buttons on toolbars. (39772)
Enhanced OCR: fixed an issue getting the deskew/rotation angle when an image's dpi was changed automatically during the analyzing process. This improves quality of recognition.
Fixed an issue with loosing changes in open documents or even in the Editor's settings when a user shuts down the operating system while Editor is open.
Fixed an issue with keeping focus inside the search-results list when the Search page is floating and a user clicks on items inside that list.
Fixed an issue with localization the "sign here" prompt for the signature field. (T#6053)
Fixed an issue with the "Page" macro parameter in the 'Bookmarks Plugin'. (T# 5914) (37934)
Fixed an issue with a layer's list displaying when the 'Layer List for Visible Pages' option is checked in the Layers pane. (T#6468) (40295)
Fixed an issue with the 'Show on Zoom' option for layers in the Properties pane. (T#6467) (40295)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
Fixed rendering lines with zero dash length and square or butt line endings.
Fixed issues where in some circumstancesonly only part of the selected data was copied to the clipboard.
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
Corrected rendering of paths. Some CAD generated fileswould shown unwanted 'spikes' in some files. (T# 4982)
Fixed an issue when importing stamps from XFDF files.
Improved/Fixed the 'Add/Edit Action: "Go to a Page in this Document" feature. (T# 6303) (39544)
Improved/Fixed the 'Add/Edit Action: "Go to a Page in Another Document" feature. (T# 6303) (39544)
Improved/Fixed the 'Add/Edit Action: "Go to a Page in an Embedded Document" feature. (T# 6303) (39544)
Improved the UX and UI for the 'Crop Page(s)' feature. (T# 6439)
Improved the UX for the 'Resize Page(s)' feature. (T# 6439)
Changed to a new HTML-to-PDF converter in the Chrome and Edge browser extensions.
Added the ability to save to WebDav resources. (T# 5812)
Added the ability to use the 'Content-Disposition' response header to derive file names for the 'Open from URL' feature. (T# 4848)
Improved/refactored Read-Out-Loud features, added support for new voices introduced in Windows 11. Added a ReadOutLout-toolbar into the View menu in the Ribbon pane.
Added a new 'More Colors' dialog to the Standard Colors offered when changing an object's color. We now support RGB, HSV, HLS, Gray and Lab color spaces (CMYK will be added soon). The dialog has an editable list of custom colors that is kept between sessions. It ioncludes a color pull to get colors from anywhere on the desktop.
The 'Edit Content' tool has been split into two tools: an 'Edit Text' tool - to edit easily text blocks (like columns/paragraphs) on pages, and an 'Edit Objects' tool - to edit base content items directly.
Improved/fixed the 'Remove background' option used in the 'Signs&Initials' and 'Digital Signature templates' features. Now it removes the background from the scan/photo of your signature or initials more accurately.
Improved the accuracy of connecting lines and updated comment icons in the 'Summarize Comments' feature.
Added a feature to recall the most recently used files (MRU-feature) for CSV-source-files in the 'Populate PDF Forms' feature. (T#6427) (40074)
Fixed/Improved the 'Split Pages" feature. (T# 6211, 5841, 5890, 5867, 5868, 6162)
Improements to the 'Sessions feature'. (T# 6244, 5984) (33660)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.5.368.0 (Apr 7, 2023)

Added a 'Exit Full Screen' item to all context menus on pages when document is in fullscreen mode.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added an option on the Comments pane of the Editor's preferences to control how 'Fit Box by Text Content' deals with annotation width.
Critical error or bug fixJavaScript Engine
Fixed an issue where a document level script could ignore "Enable JavaScript" settings.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
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.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
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.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
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.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed/improved the UI-Automation backend in order to solve known issues with screen-reader apps, with 'Narrator' for example.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed unnecessary duplication of selected annotations when they were only clicked (not dragged) by a user with the Ctrl key pressed.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed a minor issue with title font in the Ribbon's File-menu on certian asian systems. (40129)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with activating the correct main frame window when a user clicked on the corresponding result-item in the search pane. (40142)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed the 'Fit Box by Text Content' for freetext and callout annotations with rotated content.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with filtering annotations with replies.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 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 Editor Portable 9.5.366.0 (Dec 13, 2022)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 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 Editor Portable 9.4.364.0 (Sep 28, 2022)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.4.363.0 (Aug 16, 2022)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.4.362.0 (Aug 10, 2022)

Added the ability to auto-fill named destinations from selected text. (T# 5807)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
A major overhaul of how we handle portfolio PDFs was implemented.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a tab on the document properties dialog that allows one to add/edit custom properties. (T# 6092)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added the ability to edit document metadata via the "Advanced" tab on the Document metadata dialog.
Newly added featureEditor PluginsNEW
Added the ability to set a Blurred or Pixelated background image as an overlay when performing Redaction.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Convert-To-Office: added the ability to recognize characters using OCR (for specific fonts with corrupted ToUnicode table etc.)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Convert-To-Excel: added a feature to export links from a PDF file to an Excel Workbook
Newly added featureEditorNEW
A 'Crop' feature was added to the image editor.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Comments pane. The 'Expand All' command now also expands text of comments.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to display and change the 'Layer' property of images and XForms (in the Properties pane).
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to display and change the 'Transparency Group' properties for XForms (in the Properties pane).
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to the "Fields" pane to select fields via user-specified type. (T# 5835)
(37575)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to reset selected fields. (T# 6095)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added additional "Barcodes" such as pdf417, dataMatrix, aztec, maxicode, ean13, ean8, code39, code128, codabar, upcA.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to specify last N pages of a document without using absolute numbers.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added an 'In All Docs from this Window' option for searching in documents only in the currently active window. (T# 6164)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added support of vertical toolbars. You can now dock existing toolbars to left/right sides of windows.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a tiny vertical toolbar on the left of the document view (tab) to quickly show/hide all document's panes. This toolbar ('Quick Tools') can be easily customized.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Search marks are now shown on the vertical scroll bar in Single Page mode as well as in Continuous mode.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Added additional checks for some JS methods to increase security. (ZDI-CAN-17527, ZDI-CAN-17726, ZDI-CAN-17727, ZDI-CAN-17728).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PBM/PGM/PNM files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17630, ZDI-CAN-17660).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted ICO files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17631).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted EMF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17634, ZDI-CAN-17635, ZDI-CAN-17637, ZDI-CAN-17637, ZDI-CAN-17673).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted WMF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17638).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted JPG files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17628, ZDI-CAN-17629, ZDI-CAN-17632, ZDI-CAN-17633).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted J2K files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17636, ZDI-CAN-17674, ZDI-CAN-19286, ZDI-CAN-17764, ZDI-CAN-17765, ZDI-CAN-17767, ZDI-CAN-18069).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PNG files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-18068).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted JBIG2 (or JBIG2 stream in PDF) files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17724, ZDI-CAN-17725, ZDI-CAN-17809, ZDI-CAN-17810).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling large object numbers in PDF files. Reported by Dr. Philip Kolvenbach, Secure Software Engineering Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PDF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17772, ZDI-CAN-17778).
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Plugins
Fixed an issue where the operation "Generate Bookmarks From Text" was creating individual bookmarks from the same style text separated by space that should have been only one bookmark. (T# 5902)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Plugins
Fixed an issue where after opening the dialog for "Generate Bookmarks From Text", one couldn`t select any text.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue where a pressure sensetive pencil tool may generate 'circles' which should not appear. (T# 6024)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue where transparent PNG files were not properly handled when added as a stamp. (T# 6044)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Plugins
Improved support for 3D annotations. Fixes in many models. (T# 5308)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed/impoved the export form fields to FDF.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with content selection when pasting it on the default layer. (T# 6168)
(39028)
A reported error or bug was fixedShell Extensions
Fixed some issues with configurations that use multiple monitors with different resolutions.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Added the ability to "toggle" the loupe tool on/off. (T# 6107)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Added the ability to ignore (not rasterize) text base content when using "Rasterize Pages". (T# 5767)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Changed the location of the options for creating Bookmarks and Named Destinations from a selection to the context menu of their respective panes.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Added the option to be able to use a selected page (in the Thumbnails Pane) when creating a page range in the Page Numbering Tool. (T# 5976)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Added showing, in Properties Pane, the compression method used in images. (T# 6099)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Plugins
Added new options for working with existing bookmarks when using "Generate Bookmarks From Text".
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Plugins
Added an new style, a "Chapter [BLANK]" page, for use when creating a "Table of Contents from bookmarks". (T# 5699)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Improved IME handling.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureShell Extensions
Added icons for explorer context menu.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Compare Docs: improved the scroll-syncronization of left and right views; fixed several minor bugs in the UI.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Fixed/Improved a special UI-control to choose files as used on many modal dialogs in Editor.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Improved/Updated support for Portfolios: it now has a modern, convenient and light UI, and a whole new set of portfolio-editing features.
Feature that is currently under construction and will be released in the futureEditor
The 'Copy Full File Name' command is split into two commands now - one copies only file the name as a text, while second copies the file itself into the clipboard.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.3.362.0 (Aug 9, 2022)

Added the ability to auto-fill named destinations from selected text. (T# 5807)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
A major overhaul of how we handle portfolio PDFs was implemented.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a tab on the document properties dialog that allows one to add/edit custom properties. (T# 6092)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added the ability to edit document metadata via the "Advanced" tab on the Document metadata dialog.
Newly added featureEditor PluginsNEW
Added the ability to set a Blurred or Pixelated background image as an overlay when performing Redaction.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Convert-To-Office: added the ability to recognize characters using OCR (for specific fonts with corrupted ToUnicode table etc.)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Convert-To-Excel: added a feature to export links from a PDF file to an Excel Workbook
Newly added featureEditorNEW
A 'Crop' feature was added to the image editor.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Comments pane. The 'Expand All' command now also expands text of comments.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to display and change the 'Layer' property of images and XForms (in the Properties pane).
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to display and change the 'Transparency Group' properties for XForms (in the Properties pane).
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to the "Fields" pane to select fields via user-specified type. (T# 5835)
(37575)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to reset selected fields. (T# 6095)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added additional "Barcodes" such as pdf417, dataMatrix, aztec, maxicode, ean13, ean8, code39, code128, codabar, upcA.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a feature to specify last N pages of a document without using absolute numbers.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added an 'In All Docs from this Window' option for searching in documents only in the currently active window. (T# 6164)
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added support of vertical toolbars. You can now dock existing toolbars to left/right sides of windows.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Added a tiny vertical toolbar on the left of the document view (tab) to quickly show/hide all document's panes. This toolbar ('Quick Tools') can be easily customized.
Newly added featureEditorNEW
Search marks are now shown on the vertical scroll bar in Single Page mode as well as in Continuous mode.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Added additional checks for some JS methods to increase security. (ZDI-CAN-17527, ZDI-CAN-17726, ZDI-CAN-17727, ZDI-CAN-17728).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PBM/PGM/PNM files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17630, ZDI-CAN-17660).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted ICO files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17631).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted EMF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17634, ZDI-CAN-17635, ZDI-CAN-17637, ZDI-CAN-17637, ZDI-CAN-17673).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted WMF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17638).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted JPG files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17628, ZDI-CAN-17629, ZDI-CAN-17632, ZDI-CAN-17633).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted J2K files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17636, ZDI-CAN-17674, ZDI-CAN-19286, ZDI-CAN-17764, ZDI-CAN-17765, ZDI-CAN-17767, ZDI-CAN-18069).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PNG files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-18068).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted JBIG2 (or JBIG2 stream in PDF) files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17724, ZDI-CAN-17725, ZDI-CAN-17809, ZDI-CAN-17810).
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling large object numbers in PDF files. Reported by Dr. Philip Kolvenbach, Secure Software Engineering Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology.
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PDF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17772, ZDI-CAN-17778).
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Plugins
Fixed an issue where the operation "Generate Bookmarks From Text" was creating individual bookmarks from the same style text separated by space that should have been only one bookmark. (T# 5902)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Plugins
Fixed an issue where after opening the dialog for "Generate Bookmarks From Text", one couldn`t select any text.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue where a pressure sensetive pencil tool may generate 'circles' which should not appear. (T# 6024)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue where transparent PNG files were not properly handled when added as a stamp. (T# 6044)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Plugins
Improved support for 3D annotations. Fixes in many models. (T# 5308)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed/impoved the export form fields to FDF.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with content selection when pasting it on the default layer. (T# 6168)
(39028)
A reported error or bug was fixedShell Extensions
Fixed some issues with configurations that use multiple monitors with different resolutions.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Added the ability to "toggle" the loupe tool on/off. (T# 6107)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Added the ability to ignore (not rasterize) text base content when using "Rasterize Pages". (T# 5767)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Changed the location of the options for creating Bookmarks and Named Destinations from a selection to the context menu of their respective panes.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Added the option to be able to use a selected page (in the Thumbnails Pane) when creating a page range in the Page Numbering Tool. (T# 5976)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Added showing, in Properties Pane, the compression method used in images. (T# 6099)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Plugins
Added new options for working with existing bookmarks when using "Generate Bookmarks From Text".
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Plugins
Added an new style, a "Chapter [BLANK]" page, for use when creating a "Table of Contents from bookmarks". (T# 5699)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Improved IME handling.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureShell Extensions
Added icons for explorer context menu.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Compare Docs: improved the scroll-syncronization of left and right views; fixed several minor bugs in the UI.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Fixed/Improved a special UI-control to choose files as used on many modal dialogs in Editor.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Improved/Updated support for Portfolios: it now has a modern, convenient and light UI, and a whole new set of portfolio-editing features.
Feature that is currently under construction and will be released in the futureEditor
The 'Copy Full File Name' command is split into two commands now - one copies only file the name as a text, while second copies the file itself into the clipboard.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.3.361.0 (Apr 14, 2022)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.3.360.0 (Apr 6, 2022)

Added a feature for Comparing two PDF Documents (RibbonUI > Review > Compare Documents).
Added the ability to remove brokeninvalid Named Destinations. (T#5485)
Added the ability to export snapshot to an image directly from the context menu. (T#5927)
Added a `Set Layers Visibility` action creation and modification dialog.
Newly added featureEditor PluginsNEW
Added a possibility to Merge Duplicate Bookmarks.
Added support for adding video and sound rich media annotations in PDFs.
Support for existing screen annotation.
Added a feature to control the thickness of underline and strikeout annotations.
Added the ability to localize/customize text on Standard stamps.
Added options to disable animated underline-effect for selected tabs (Ribbon tabs: CustomizeToolbars > Options; Other tabs: Prefs > General > TabsAndWindows)
Added correct support for rounded corners for Editor's windows in Win11.
Added Month-groups in the HistoryView pane.
Fixed the incorrect redaction of some images. (T# 5924)
Implemented a Workaround in handling poorly-formatted color spaces.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed page navigation by keybord to match the corresponding commands on the document bar. (T# 4112)
Fixed an issue when locking individual fields with signatures that was not working. (T# 5856)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue showing field properties in form editing tools when using the dark UI theme. (T# 5881)
Fixed an issue with creating pencil annotations with variable profiles under some conditions.
Fixed a rare issue that was apparent when converting .xps, .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx files.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Cropped the very long list of extensions displayed in 'All Supported Files' filter inside the 'Open/Save File' dialog.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with the appearance of the vertical scrollbar which displays many search-marks - previosly it was hard to see the knob-button under such marks. (T# 5944)
Fixed an issue with the 'Highlight from File' feature.
Added the ability to set a position for the resulting images in the Enhance Scanned Pages plugin
Added a parameter to the FileName macro to extract part of a name. (T# 5818)
Added an option to skip larger/smaller than specific pages in the Resize Pages feature. (T# 5017)
Improved performance of PDF optimization
Enabled saving a PDF document to a destination file that is a filesystem alias of the source file. Examples of such aliases include alternate network shares, symbolic link etc.
We are now reusing a stamp's appearance when the same stamp is placed multiple times on the same document.
Improved the performance of the application's start up (~20-30% faster).
Disabled autoswitching focus to the Format tab when the Stamp tool is activated.
Changed the filter rule in the HistoryView pane: now the same document can be presented in different groups simultaneously.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.2.359.0 (Nov 24, 2021)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.2.358.0 (Oct 26, 2021)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.2.357.0 (Oct 20, 2021)

Added font customizations for the summarize comments operation
Sharepoint add-in "Open in PDF-XChange Editor" functionality implemented
A "Print All" feature was implemented
A "Print Portfolio" feature was implemented
Implemented different rendering modes for 3D models
Added the ability to open and convert to PDF images that are saved in the WebP format
Different UI-Themes added (see Preferences/CustomizeUI). Also the entire UI has been redesigned to make it look lighter and more modern
Added the ability to select text highlighted on a page (select highlight-comment first and then select the corresponding text)
37063)
Added macro for File Extensions.(T# 5674)
Addressed a potential issue where the application could incorectly report signature validity (Certification Attacks)
Addressed a potential issue where the application could incorectly report signature validity (Shadown Attacks)
Addressed a potential issue where the application could incorectly report signature validity (Shadown Attacks)
Addressed a potential issue where the application could be exposed to DDoS attack on certain javascript in a PDF documents
Addressed potential issues where the application could be exposed to a 'Signature Validation Bypass' vulnerability and deliver incorrect validation result when validating certain PDF files that are modified maliciously or contain non-standard signatures (CVE-2018-18689)
Fixed an issue with some XFA files. (T# 5675)
Fixed a rendering issue with certain fonts. (T# 5678)
Fixed an issue with navigation via bookmarks in some specific cases. (T# 5645)
Fixed anisue when rendering documents which uses a large scale. (T# 5609)
Fixed an issue with printing some documents with transparency. (T# 5702)
Fixed an issue with handling content position on page resize when the "proportional content resize" option is checked. (T# 5688)
Fixed an issue with fonts changing for text on the page
37056)
Fixed a minor issue with displaying search-result: when searching for a particular term, sometimes the words in the term were shown with an ellipsis between them, even though no such ellipsis appears. (T# 5590)
Improved ClearType usage. Added CleartType (forced) rendering mode to use ClearType when rendering isolated XForms (may cause rendering artifacts text background is not white)
Improved the handling of embedded fonts.(T# 3675, 4121, 5038, 5093, 5207, 5605)
Improved the handling of non-embeded fonts (italic simulation).(T# 5730)
Fixed an incorrect handling of some large images when using disk cache.(T# 5690)
Fixed incorrect rendering.(T# 5709)
Improved broken PDF files correction.(T# 5739)
Fixed "Same size/height/width" features.(T# 5126)
Added an option to the 'Bookmarks To Links' tool that sets link style
Added an option when sorting bookmarks to restrict the 'Sort' to a specific bookmark and it's sub-levels in the 'Bookmarks Plugin'. (T# 5625)
Changed the rendering of the Segoe Script font
Optimized text box comments (they now use less space internally than previously)
Improved the 'Copy to RTF' operation
Changed the sorting of items in Forms and Destinations panes when handling digits as numbers
Improved 3D support.(T# 5364,...)
Improved/fixed High DPI scaling in the UI
Added the ability to remove layers with their associated content and comments.(T# 5465)
Added the ability to set custom a background logo, specify the date format and font for the digital signature templates.(T# 4857, 1084, 2394, 5292, 3899)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.1.356.0 (Jul 20, 2021)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.1.355.0 (Jul 13, 2021)

Added an option that enables the renaming of form fields when dragging and dropping thumbnails results in duplicated field names.(T# 5562)
(36450)
Implemented a possibility to shrink page content in Headers and Footers and Bates Numbering.(T# 3462)
Added an option that enables the editing of all occurrences of an image at the same time.(T# 5585)
(36551)
Added an option to convert line, polygon, and polyline annotation to corresponding measurement annotations and vice versa.
Added support of bookmarks and internal links during XPS to PDF conversion. Note that this also affects conversion from Office documents to PDF.(T# 5420, 5589)
Added Cross Sections support in 3D PDFs.
Added initial support for opening documents protected by Microsoft Azure RMS. Further improvements are coming.
Implemented a feature to select Layers by given criteria.
Added an option to convert Line and Distance annotations to Polyline annotations and Polyline, Polygon, Perimeter and Area annotations to Line annotations.(T# 4552)
Added password strength indicator to password edits.
Added links support for form fields.
Added paragraph properties for annotations.
Implemented better RTL support for PDF text.
High DPI Support: added new 'use per monitor resolution' mode that provides the correct UI appearance for any resolution used in a multi-monitor configuration (Prefs/General).
Added possibility to restore normal work with opened intranet-file when a connection is lost and returns, or when PCs are awakened from hibernation. (T# 4214)
Fixed possible problems with editing documents that have layers/optional content.(T# 5539)
Fixed possible problems with XPS conversion.(T# 5619)
Improved the handling of invalid fonts.(T# 5604)
Improved the handling of broken PDF files.(T# 5615, 5561)
Fixed Split Pages by guide lines behavior on rotated pages.(T# 5637)
Updated the Build Table of Contents feature to use the underline style correctly.(T# 3146)
Fixed the 'add leading numbers' behavior of the bookmark auto-generation feature.(T# 5297)
Fixed a problem with document modification when renaming bookmarks via the F2 shortcut.(T# 5598)
Updated the Generate Bookmarks from TOC feature to use page ranges correctly.(T# 5186)
Fixed the 'Fit Box to Text Content' behavior for callout annotations in the case of documents with rotated pages.(T# 4417)
Fixed the problem in the 'Generate Bookmark from Page Text' feature that ignored the second level after the third level is seen.(T# 4875)
Investigated the non-working space character in Generate Bookmark from Page Text feature.(T# 4970)
Investigated why there are no results when generating bookmarks with mixed text ( Japanese and English ).(T# 5549)
Fixed an issue where moving pages with forms fields between documents sometimes resets the default fonts for some fields. (T# 5610)
Fixed an issue with using alpha-channel pictures on digital signature.
Fixed a rare issue with losing line ending hyphens/dashes when using the Enhanced-OCR. (T# 5460)
Fixed an issue with adding extra white spaces when using the Enhanced-OCR. (T# 5464)
Fixed an issue with OCR where the resolution of input images is calculated incorrectly (and may cause significant deterioration of OCR quality). (T# 5492)
Fixed a small glitch in the 'Rotate Pages CW90' and 'Rotate Pages CCW90' commands.
Fixed an issue with the dragging thumb-button in scroll bars (it is necessary to snap to the previous position when the dragging distance is too great, as in to other applications). (T# 3728)
Improved 3D support in PDF. (T# 5359,...)
Improved the Choose File Control dropdown with recent and opened files groups, and added an ability to clear recent files.(T# 5630)
Improved Enhanced-OCR performance.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.0.353.0 (Apr 20, 2021)

Implemented a BatesValue macro to output given pages' Bates Numbering value.(T# 5407)
Added a "Progress" dictionary to the majority of the declared operations
Added the possibility to export only selected comments
Added a "RootBookmarkTitle" dictionary to the input item of the 'Combine Documents' operation.(T# 5504)
Implemented DocuSign integration
Added the possibility to specify underline in the 'Build Table of Contents' feature from the Bookmarks Plugin
Unified the 'Convert to Measure' commands an added Polygon annotation support
Added a 'Clear Measurement' command that allows converting from Distance, Perimeter and Area annotations to Line, Polyline and Polygon annotations
Added the abiliy to export and import guide lines
Added RTL support for the "Copy text style" feature
Added bold simulation for some fonts (like Batang and Dotum)
Added multiple selection of guidlines
Added guidlines properties
The performance of EnhancedOCR engine has been dramatically increased with the addition of multithreading, offering significant improvement for multi-core machines
Added an option to keep the current pages layout and zoom settings when switching to/from Full Screen mode
Added functionality to replace fonts in text content items, comments and form fields.(T# 4313)
Improved 'Find&Redact': added a feature to search and redact document's objects such as comments, fields, document info, XMP metadata etc
Improved the 'Sanitize Document' feature: added options to choose exactly what should be removed from the document
ARM64: EnhancedOCR engine is available
ARM64: Shell Extensions (PDF document info and preview) are supported both in native and x86 (emulated) applications
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Fixed possible issues with applying an offset to page content items after page editing content. (only some documents)
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core
Changed the algorithm used for digital signature verification to detect unauthorized document modifications. This detects documents affected by Shadow attacks
Improved the handling of broken PDF files.(T# 5332, 5500, 5507)
Fixed an issue with empty recent items in the select file control
Fixed issues with the 'Recompress Image' feature
Now when changing the page range in the 'Crop Pages' dialog, the offset values won't be changed automatically.(T# 5454)
Fixed the 'Revert to Original' button behaviour in the 'Crop Pages' dialog so that the rectangles are being reset to the currently viewed page
Fixed resetting the 'Crop Pages' margins when changing the page range subset.(T# 5441)
Fixed a problem with a not responding layers pane.(T# 5441)
Fixed several document modification problems in 'Bookmarks Plugin' operations
Fixed an issue with the position of dragged files in the 'Combine Files' dialog.(T# 5476)
Fixed an issue with rotated numbers when converting Lines to Distance
Fixed several issues with the Bates Numbering dialog
Fixed the guide line behaviour for different page operations
Fixed an issue with support for empty font names in the 'Generate Bookmarks' feature.(T# 5506)
Fixed the JS console splitter position when restoring sessions
Fixed a 'Default Layer' issue when removing layers - now we'll try to retain the Default Layer when it's not being removed itself
Now both the Layers and Bookmarks Pane items will behave the same way when renaming simultaneously in both Panes and Properties View
Lowered the permissions check for Rename Document command state.(T# 5512)
Fixed an issue when resizing a page that had previously been cropped.(T# 3582)
Fixed an issue with undoing a change of a 'Named Destination' when it was previously invalid
Fixed an issue when dragging pages from the 'Thumbnails Pane' to Windows Explorer.(T# 5547)
Fixed an issue with scrolling Ribbon tabs when using the mouse-wheel (it was in opposite direction).(T# 5367)
Fixed an issue with handling custom hotkeys assigned to features added by -plugins
Fixed an issue with item selection performace in the 'Named Destinations' pane
Removed the (incorrect) ablity to manipulate text/content on invisible layers
Fixed an uncommon issue related to incorrectly disabling the 'In Active Document' item in the 'Full Search' pane
Fixed an issue with reading the state of radio-buttons by Windows' 'Narrator' app
Prevented the inheritance of Exclusive mode from the Hand to the auto-activated Pencil tool
Improved support for tagged documents
Fixed a hang in XFA document under certian rare circumstances. (T# 5499)
Fixed an issue with recongnizing some PDF Porfolio files when Flash player is not available. (T# 5489)
Fixed an issue with converting some PNG files into PDF
Fixed issues with showing extra information in the Measurement Info window. (T# 5531)
Fixed an issue with searching text in attachments (only the first attachment was handled)
Fixed an issue with searching phrases that contains duplicates of some words. (T#5563)
Added an option to the 'Bookmarks To Links' for creating links on top of others
Added the possibility to create Bates Numbering without leading zeros.(T# 5410)
Optimized removal of the 'Named Destinations' sometimes referred to hundreds times.(T# 5481)
Now the will try to keep all time stamps when renaming a document through the 'Rename Document' feature.(T# 5191)
Updated MSOffice converter dialogs with a list of information displayed in place of an edit box
Changed hyphenation managment for annots
Some fixes/improvements for Custom toolbar creation process
Added progress bar when exporting/importing form fields and/or comments

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 9.0.352.0 (Feb 27, 2021)

Fixed an issue with the Shell Extensions when used extensively across multiple threads.
A reported error or bug was fixedShell Extensions
Fixed an issue with the digitizer double click behaviour.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with the typewriter preview cursor on documents that have pages of different orientation. (T# 5339)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with some list bullet characters in popup annotations.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Improved the notification dialog when the Editor did not detect MS Office activation, allowing it to skip the checking. (T# 5448)
A reported error or bug was fixedFonts
Fixed an issue when form fields created by the Editor had problems in Adobe Acrobat/Reader.
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
Fixed a launch time crash in the printer engine process (pdfSaver). Under certain conditions it caused printing jobs from heavily multithreaded applications (typically from MS Office) to fail.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with the layout of the OCR-dialog when the Default OCR engine is used.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed reactivation of the last active document-tab when a session is restored and the last active document was new and wasn't saved to disk (session was restored without any tab activated).
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with activating the main-frame by a simple mouse click on an empty area of toolbars-pane (in thae case that the pages-view needs to be activated).
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with opening certian specific URLs inside the IE-plugin.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issues with handling the 'Remove Background' option for the 'Protect/Signs&Initials/Manage/Import From File' feature.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
Fixed an issue with rendering the 'Accessibility Report' that occured in some rare cases.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
Improved word-spacing, char-spacing, and horizontal word-scaling accuracy for words in new text layers created by OCR.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.343.0 (Jan 18, 2021)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.342.0 (Nov 3, 2020)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.341.0 (Aug 13, 2020)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.340.0 (Aug 13, 2020)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.339.0 (May 8, 2020)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.338.0 (Apr 28, 2020)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.337.0 (Apr 14, 2020)

NEW: Added a possibility to Flatten Layers in Editor.
NEW: Added a possibility to Populate PDF Forms from CSV data sheet.
NEW: Added Outlook Webmail email provider.
NEW: Paste Special feature implemented.
NEW: Added new %[FolderTitle] macro for new file names generation.
NEW: Ability to Paste files, text, rtf and images as new attachments in document (via Attachments pane).
NEW: Ability to Paste text, rtf and images as new pages in document (via Thumbnails pane).
NEW: Implemented doc.importTextData method. (T# 5055)
NEW: Implemented undocumented doc.createIcon method. (T# 5108)
NEW: Added creation/modification of 'Caret' annotations.
NEW: Added a possibility to export whole PDF file to a single Excel Sheet.(T# 4050)
NEW: Added new Text Correction Tool (in Comment tab) especially for the fast reviews/corrections of text: to mark the selected text to be deleted (via pressing Del key) or to add a note to Replace it (via direct typing or by Paste new text from the clipboard), or to add a note to Insert new text in specified position of text on the page (via pressing Ins key or using Paste feature, or by direct typing).
NEW: Pencil Tool: added pressure handling from the stylus/digitizer.
NEW: Pencil Tool: added the ability to specify custom Line Width Profile for creating handsome, non-uniform curves, even with the mouse.
NEW: Added ability to change predefined comment styles in Comment Styles palette.
Fixed issue which may cause disappearing of part of the page content after editing in some circumstances.
Fixed embedded CJK encodings. (T# 5039)
Fixed embedded font display issues. (T# 3799, 4104)
Fixed reading font metrics for some specific fonts. (T# 4083)
Fixed a GoTo dialog issue with named destination removal.(T# 4805)
Fixed a Change Zoom feature incorrect behavior for inherited zoom.(T# 4938)
Shell Extensions Preview: fixed problem with mouse cursor disappearing in Autodesk Vault.
Fixed issues with changing plugins settings after resetting/importing settings.
Fixed issue with some missing links when converting from Office documents or XPS files.
Fixed issue with call-out annotation properties under some circumstances. (T# 5054)
Fixed issues with handling options for URLs recognized from page text. (T# 4251)
Fixed issue with validating some specific PKCS#7 digital signatures. (T# 5137)
Fixed potential vulnerabilities.
Fixed some critical issues related to loading main panes layout in SDK mode.
Fixed issue with shrinking large dialogs on small monitors.
Fixed hard-reproducible issue with the Stamps Gallery size (on Ribbon). The switching between Hand and Stamp tools also with collapsing/expanding some collections in Stamps-dropdown - sometimes it may cause the wrong small size of this gallery.
Fixed issue with auto-showing the calendar's dropdown on the page when user switching between documents.
Fixed issue with incorrect auto-showing the calendar's dropdown on the page when user switching between documents.
Fixed issue: the white text does not show in Document tab tool tip when the 'white text on a black' color scheme is selected in UI. (T# 5122)
The 'Add Annots By Search Result' button will now change state correctly in case that some of the searched documents do not have the appropriate permissions. (141081)
Fixed crash during Advanced Search in comments. (34087)
Updated resulting document naming scheme when dragging pages from the Thumbnails View to Windows Explorer.(T# 4917)
Shell Extensions Preview: new icons and mouse cursors.
After inserting new pages from scanner/images the Editor navigates to the first inserted page. (T# 4602)
Improved handling images with associated ICC color profile incompatible with images data. (T# 5056)
Improved handling in-line images.
Now the Editor respects annots visibility filters when printing. (T# 5083)
Improved XFA forms support. (T# 5128, 5149, 2626, 3392, 3431, 3807, 4773, 4689, ...)
Improved documents rendering when 'Change Document Colors' option is enabled. (T# 5104)
Improved support of PRC 3D format.
Pencil Tool: improved algorithm for building more accurate and smooth curves, added ability to change the level of smoothing (in Properties pane).
Signs & Initials: the sign drawer is improved - now it supports the pressure from the pen, builds more accurate and smooth curves. The drawing result is true vector image, not a raster as before.
Comment Styles Palette: all predefined(built-in) styles are fully editable now! And the Reset for Tool-item also has a new option to restore all predefined styles. (31561)
Comment Styles Palette: all predefined(built-in) styles are fully editable now and all changes are saved! Also the Reset for tool-item(on the right) has a new option to restore all predefined styles. (31561)
Enhanced OCR: important fixes/improvements.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.333.0 (Sep 11, 2019)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.332.0 (Aug 27, 2019)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 8.0.331.0 (Apr 23, 2019)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 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.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.328.2 (Jan 29, 2019)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.328.1 (Dec 17, 2018)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.327.0 (Oct 2, 2018)

Newly added featureEditorNEW Implemented the option to add, remove and reorder layers and text labels in Comments.
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added an option to show/hide all of the modifiable layers in the Layers Pane.(T# 4339)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Impelemented a feature to select Thumbnails based on the specific data (content, bookmarks, search results, etc.).(T# 4459, 4455, 3768)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added a option to choose all of the files in current visual tab order when Combining Files.(T# 4395)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added new vector-based cursors to make cursors more suitable for high DPI displays. (T# 4131)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added more options to the 'Import/Export Settings' feature. (Now in Program Otpions, Common, Presets, Trusted|Untrusted list and places can be handled separately)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Places security improved - when places are imported from another user, credentials should be entered before access to the place is granted.
Newly added featureEditorNEW Streamlined credential management for remote files found in the recent list and stored sessions by using the 'Places' feature.
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added a feature to Rename Places
Newly added featureEditor PluginsNEW Added Create Folder, Delete and Navigation buttons to cloud based Open/Save dialogs
Newly added featureEditorNEW Optimized conversion of MS Office files to PDF using the MS Office Application Pool
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added an option to the Accessibility preferences page to allow adjusting the cursor size. (T# 4225)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added an 'Export to CSV...' button to the 'Commands' tab of the 'Customize Toolbars' dialogue that exports a list of commands to a CSV file.
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added a feature to manage the 'Allow Multiple Instances' option for the Portable Editor (see Preferences/General in the Portable version) (T# 3927).
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added a feature to better distinguish visually multiple tabs for one document. (T# 4280)
Critical error or bug fixPDF-Core The Editor, and our other products that work with XMP, are now not affected by the "Billon laughs attack". (31419)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Corrected Fit Box by Text Content logic for rotated pages.(T# 4417)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue when dragging multiple attachments from the Attachments Pane to the Windows Explorer.(T# 4390)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue where the preview position would change when switching Recompress Image options.(T# 4336)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue with TWAIN scanning on HP Sprout Pro G2
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue with selecting the default scanner when using scan presets.
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Resolved an issue with saving modified pages which in rare cases caused storing the of the wrong page size. (T# 4401)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Fixed an issue with rendering some vector objects as lines. (T# 4411)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Fixed issues with rotating line, arrows, and distance annotations. (T# 4258)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Fixed an issue with validation before submiting XFA forms. (T# 3983)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Browser Plugins Resolved an issue with disabling the option to view PDFs in IE. (T# 4079)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Resolved an issue with removing certain values when filling out static XFA forms. (T# 4271)
A reported error or bug was fixedFonts Fixed an issue with the color of Type3 fonts when printing. (T# 4334)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Resolved an issue with printing PDFs where sometimes the job size was too large and the resulting quality was compromized.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed possible issues with stroke color when "Override Document Colors" option is enabled.
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Fixed an issue when filling text form fields created by the Editor in Adobe Acrobat (Reader). Special characters were not shown properly. (T# 4380, 4365)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Fixed an issue with handling commas in the 'Author' field in Document Info. (T#( 3913)
A reported error or bug was fixedFonts Fixed invalid character spacing after editing text. (T# 4485)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Changed the algorithm used to recover broken PDF files. (T# 2392, 2500, 2791, 3227, 3335, 3463, 3583, 3587, 3676, 3705, 3790, 3795, 3808, 3973, 3982, 4047, 4190, 4223, 4224)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed several issues with displaying large scrollable dialogs on small monitors or monitors with high zoom levels (some controls might have been displayed in incorrect positions). (T# 4494, 4482)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed issues with handling URLs that contained non-ASCII symbols.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue with the GotoR action. (31441)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue in the Comments pane with displaying colors when 'Group By Colors' option is turned on (colors were too light).
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue with with toggling command panes.(T# 4418) (31176)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue with handling mouse dbl-clicks in the Content pane.(T# 4418) (31508)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue with inserting a 'tab' key in text-annotations - now it inserts the 'tab' code to the text instead of switching focus to the next/prev annotation.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor File attachments now will also be combined when Combining Files.(T# 4071)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Implemented functionality so that the %Page macro would start from the first page in the range in Header and Footer/Bates Numbering.(T# 4328)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Added Form Field 'Copy with Rename'' option to all of the dialogs where it is being used.(T# 4452)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Improved IME handling
Changed, reviewed, modified featurePDF-Core Added the ability to export XFA form data to XML.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor When an image is added to a PDF via the "Add Image" feature, or via a static XFA form, the Editor will try to avoid image recompression. This allows for reduce PDF file size, as well as reducing the time required for the operation. (T# 4152)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Depending on the number of pages in a document, some commands for changing document page layout now might be disabled. For example, if there is only one page in document, commands "Continuous", "Two Pages" and "Two Pages Continuous" commands will be disabled. (T# 4088)
Changed, reviewed, modified featurePDF-Core Improved the appearance of line annotations with arrows (including distance annotation) - now arrows are not drawn beyound the leader lines.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Added auto scrolling when creating or editing square or circle annotations and mouse cursor goes out of the pages view. (T# 4409)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.326.1 (Jul 26, 2018)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.326.0 (Jul 5, 2018)

NEW:
Implemented functionality to import and export security policies.
Implemented "Set Bookmark Zoom Type" feature in the Bookmarks plugin.
Added options to Duplicate Tab and Close Tabs to the Right/Left in the right-click menu options of the Document tab.
Added a setting to hide/show the Close Tab button.
Added custom cursors for the commenting tools and content editing.
Added the Use Inherited Zoom feature for creating and setting Named Destinations.
Added the Fit Box by Text Content feature for Free Text annotations (Text Box, Callout, Typewriter).
Editor Plugins:
Added a plugin for accessing files on Microsoft OneDrive.
Added a plugin for accessing files on Box.com.
Added the "Spreadsheet Split" feature (see View/Split/Spreadsheet).
Added an option to remove the border and gradient in fullscreen mode.
Added an option to save documents opened from an external repository such as SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, ect. to its original location when digitally signing.
PDF-Core: Implemented stroke adjust for path rendering and resolved numerous rendering issues.
Added the "Merge Pages" feature.
DropBox: Implemented a feature to suppress authentication-prompt when opening a file from the Recents list if previously authenticated in the current session.
Fixes:
PDF-Core: Fixed issue with the creation of CAdES digital signatures.
Editor:
Fixed several issues with the Search feature when the "None of these words" option is used.
Fixed the issue with viewing an attached document when Single Document mode is enabled.
Fonts:
Resolved the embedded font display issues.
Resolved the issue where system fonts were sometimes used instead of embedded fonts.
Resolved the encoding issue with embedded OTF fonts.
PDF-Core: Fixed the issue with saving modified content when flattening some stamp annotations.
JavaScript Engine:
Fixed the issue with converting field values to numbers.
Editor: Resolved the issue with opening attached files that may include embedded PDFs.
PDF-Core: Resolved the issue with handling form fields with empty names.
Editor:
Fixed the issue with the display of page ranges in the "Page Numbering" dialog box.
Fixed issues with the Loupe tool in documents with different page sizes.
ActiveX SDK Fixed support for late-binding (IDispatch-based) access, which typically affects Java and other scripting languages.
Plugins (DropBox):
Fixed a critical issue with files being overwritten on the server - sometimes the size of the destination was truncated to zero.
Plugins (SharePoint):
Fixed issues with SharePoint sites running outside of the server’s root.
Fixed issue where an error message is shown when authentication is cancelled while opening a file from the Recents list.
Editor:
Implemented functionality to change the Subject and Author for multiple comments.
Changed, reviewed, modified features:
Editor:
Enhanced the Ensure Bookmark Visibility functionality, which can now be enabled by checkbox.
Added functionality to define an insertion area for the Add Image feature.
Improved the loading of panes. All panes in Editor are now loaded on demand - if they are not shown then they are not loaded. This increase performance and decreases the usage of resources.
Fixed issue with 'Pitch' settings in the Read Out Loud feature.
ActiveX SDK Fixed several issues and made many improvements to the "op.document.pageNumbering" operation.
Improved XPS to PDF conversion
User Interface: Updated all of the standard cursors for 4k support.
Editor Plugins:
Enhanced the conversion of multi-column text blocks into an Excel Table.
SharePoint: Improved logging - added possibility to set logging level, optimized and improved performance, also logging is turned off by default.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.325.1 (Apr 25, 2018)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.325.0 (Apr 17, 2018)

Newly added featureEditor PluginsNEW Added "Enhance Scanned Document" operation.
Newly added featureEditorNEW Implemented functionality to import and export presets. (T# 4125)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added an option to save search results to a CSV file. (29918)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Updated the "Calculation Order" dialog box, which can now be resized. (T# 4265)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added the option to "Use the same names" in the "Create Multiple Copies of Fields" feature. (T# 3494)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added a 'live cursor' preview for the Typewriter Tool, which allows precise placement of new annotations.
Newly added featureEditorNEW Resolved a rare issue with Editor temporarily not releasing files after it was closed. (30751)
Newly added featurePDF-CoreNEW Added a workaround to handle not well formed paths in PDF content. (30750)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added the possibility to open PDFs from SharePoint/GoogleDrive/DropBox in alternative PDF viewers.
Newly added featureEditorNEW Improved the floating fullscreen toolbar - added the Zoom In/Out and Page Layout features. (T# 2651) (22171, 23769)
Newly added featureEditorNEW Added a feature to move to the previous page by double-tap/double-click in fullscreen Presentation mode. (27967)
Newly added featureEditorNEW SharePoint: added SharePoint options to the Preferences dialog box.
Newly added featureEditorNEW SharePoint: added possibility to enable/disable logging, and to view, open and delete log files from the Preferences dialog box.
Newly added featureEditorNEW SharePoint: added the option of removing dialog boxes during document operations such as Open, Close, Save etc in order to simplify working with SharePoint files.
Newly added featureEditorNEW SharePoint: added a SharePoint Info Bar that features SharePoint-specific actions and basic information about the state of documents.
Newly added featureEditorNEW SharePoint: added support of read-only mode for SharePoint files.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed several issues with the screen keyboard.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Plugins Fixed the hang that was present when adding bookmarks from page text with wildcards. Regular expressions are now checked before this operation is executed.(T# 4232)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the undo of Split Pages data when this operation is cancelled in progress.(T# 4296, 4297)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the error message that displays when search results cannot be saved.
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Fixed issue with handling /URC that may cause crash. (T# 4282)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Fixed issue with flipped distance measurements on rotated pages. (T# 4272)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Fixed issues with handling precision in XFA fields. (30632)
A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core Fixed potential issue with stamps that have been rotated in third party applications. (T# 3821)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Resolved the issue between the 'Insert Scanned Pages' and 'New Document from Scanner' features. 'New Document from Scanner' was resetting the insert location for scanned pages in the 'Insert Scanned Pages' feature.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the issue with 'Export Bookmarks to Text file' feature when the path to the existing folder is specified.(T# 4273) (30581)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the issue in fullscreen mode when Alt+Tab is used to switch windows and the Find bar has keyboard focus. (T# 3722) (27294)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed several issues with the show/hide licensed features option.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed a minor issue with deleting custom Ribbon tabs.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed some issues with opening escaped URLs.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed issue with restoring keyboard focus in Editor when Alt+Tab is used to switch between applications. (T# 4303) (30661)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the issue that was removing spaces during the import of content created using a pen and Windows Ink. (T# 4250)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the issue with restoring maximized windows that the "Close to SysTray" or "Minimize to SysTray" options had minimized. (T# 4153) (30155)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed a couple of issues with opening links from a PDF to a related PDF.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the issue with the undocked Bookmarks pane. Properties of selected bookmarks were disappearing when bookmarks were selected and users clicked on the Properties pane.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed some issues with window maximization on multimonitor systems.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed an issue with restoring the last session. (29485)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor SharePoint: fixed support of '#' characters in names of files and folders.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor SharePoint: other minor bugfixes.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Improved digitizer pen support.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Improved Headers and Footers/Bates Numbering dialog boxes for Page Numbering Style macros. (T# 4315)
Changed, reviewed, modified featurePDF-Core Resolved numerous issues with the handling of layouts in dynamic XFA.
Changed, reviewed, modified featurePDF-Core Improved memory usage for images in dynamic XFA.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Improved keyboard navigation in List Boxes. (T# 4292)
Changed, reviewed, modified featurePDF-Core Fixed a rare issues in printing annotations.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Improved the handling of line art colors when the 'Override Document Colors' setting is enabled. (30713)
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Improved the speed of the 'Images to PDF' operation and optimized its memory usage.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Improved the default paper size. The regional settings of the user now determine the default paper size (instead of it being hard-coded). Note that Group Policies can be used to override this setting.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.324.3 (Feb 28, 2018)

Newly added featureEditorNEW Enabled the 'Save As' feature in the Ribbon/File menu of the IE-Plugin.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the hang that occurred when adding bookmarks from page text containing wildcards. Regular expressions are now checked before they are executed.(T# 4232)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the issue that was causing the first file/folder to be skipped during root folder enumeration. This issued occured in some cases when the 'Add Folder' feature was used..
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the issue with the enumeratiom of shared folders such as '\sharesharedfolder'. This issued occured in some cases when the 'Add Folder' feature was used.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the IE-Plugin issue with opening elements from the version history for documents from SharePoint Online.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the issue that was present when the Alt key was used to minimize the Ribbon pane. The Ribbon now displays (after some delay). Note that Alt-based shortcuts can be used during this delay, even though the Ribbon UI is not visible.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the size issue with the Ribbon/File menu that was present when a maximized window was minimized and then maximized again. (This issue was present on only multimonitor-configurations).
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the issue with the auto-closing of the main window when the 'Close to System Tray' option is enabled. (T# 4256)
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor SharePoint: fixed several compatibility issues for Windows XP.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor SharePoint: fixed the issue with the 'Add Place' feature in the context of the IE-Plugin.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor SharePoint: fixed several issues with the 'Check Out' feature on specific servers.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor SharePoint: fixed the issue with support of special characters in names of files and folders for SharePoint Online and OneDrive.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Fixed the simple Image Editor issue.
A reported error or bug was fixedEditor Resolved the issue with the handling of relative file names as URLs in URI actions. (T# 4211, 4252)
A reported error or bug was fixedShell Extensions Fixed an issue that was sometimes present when registering the Properties Handler.
Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Improved the handling of relative paths in Launch actions.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.324.2 (Feb 6, 2018)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.324.0 (Feb 2, 2018)

Added 'Places' and 'Sections' groups to the Bookmarks View. (T# 3727) (27448)
Added functionality to edit the portfolio schema and string and number values of Portfolio files.
Added support of setting the doc.viewState property. (T# 3971)
Added functionality to save documents to different formats through the 'Places' feature.
Added 'KeyTips' feature for toolbars and menus in the Ribbon/Classic UI. Press Alt to activate/use this feature.
Added the option of dropping commands into empty Ribbon Tabs during UI customization.
Added the 'chevron' feature for standard toolbars in the Classic UI. (30096)
Added the option of renaming custom toolbars through their context menu.
Added ability to work with long named files - it is now possible to open and process files with long filenames (length > 260) from the Command Line.
Added functionality that enables the use of the mouse wheel to scroll though Ribbon tabs. (T# 4161)
Added the option of using the Esc key to close comment pop-ups.
Added the option of hiding bar titles in Ribbon panes, which helps in reducing their height. This option is available in the Options tab of the Customize Toolbars dialog box.
SharePoint: added the option of working with List Attachments and internal site folders and documents.
SharePoint: added functionality to change options for import/export convertors in the Open/Save File dialog box.
SharePoint: added auto-complete of file extensions via selected format in Open/Save File dialog box.
DropBox: added functionality to change options for import/export convertors in the Open/Save File dialog box.
DropBox: added auto-complete of file extensions via selected format in Open/Save File dialog box.
Reduced file size when embedding TTF fonts. (T# 4183)
Fixed the issue with the 'Resize Pages' feature in cases where it is set to the size of the current Page Box. (22812)
Fixed the issue with the 'Do not OCR pages with text' option in cases where all pages contain text. (30230)
Fixed the Alt key issue with the Bookmark Plugin menu string and updated the Custom Scan icon. (30283)
Added a 'Duplicate' command to the Arrange submenu for selected comments. (30300)
Fixed the 'OCR Pages' issue in which the incorrect language was being used. (T# 4218) (30402)
Improved XFA forms support. (T# 3084,2883,2640,2531,3630,3904,3956,3907,3460,4189)
Fixed the issue with printing some XForms, annotations and rotated images. (T# 3993)
Fixed security checking in some JS methods.
Fixed the issue with importing some combo box values. (T# 3593)
Fixed the TWAIN scan issue for Epson XP-440 printers.
Improved the Shell Extensions - zoom parameters are now stored when users switch between documents.
Fixed the Shell Extensions Setup issues.
Fixed the issue with self-printing documents in Internet Explorer - in cases where the Security Settings permit it.
Fixed a couple of issues with the use of temporary files. PDF-XChange Editor is now more accurate when using temp. data.
Fixed the issue with long opening times of some network shares, such as \sharedir..doc.pdf.
Fixed the issue that was present when Editor's window was maximized and the Taskbar was set to auto-hide. (T# 4134)
Fixed the issue with adding items with dropdowns to toolbars/menus. (T# 4171)
Fixed the main window maximization issue when the top border of windows is double-clicked. The window now maximizes vertically.
Fixed the issue with handling relative paths inside documents in the context of the IE-plugin.
Fixed difficult to reproduce crash identified in the Ribbon's File menu.
SharePoint: fixed the 'Online Authentication' dialog box in cases where the authenticated user belongs to a different organization and needs to be logged out.
SharePoint: fixed the deadlock on cancellation of the Open/Save File dialog box when folder content is being loaded from the server.
SharePoint: fixed the conversion of PDF documents to other formats when saving to SharePoint.
DropBox: fixed the conversion of PDF documents to other formats when saving to DropBox.
Added percentage as a value option in the Resize Pages dialog box. (T# 3972) (29375)
Changed the process of saving 'Launch' actions. (T# 3811)
Plugins Improved the Google Drive plugin UI and fixed multiple associated minor issues.
SharePoint: improved the algorithm that detects SharePoint and non-SharePoint files when opening documents from URLs.
SharePoint: improved the display of user information when SharePoint documents are checked out to other users: it now shows the user's name and/or e-mail.
SharePoint: several additional minor fixes and improvements.
DropBox: several additional minor fixes and improvements.

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 7.0.323.2 (Dec 21, 2017)

New in PDF-XChange Editor Portable 6.0 Build 317.1 (Apr 20, 2016)

NEW:
Added support of the following Microsoft Office file formats: *.docm;*.dot;*.dotx;*.dotm;*.xlsm;*.xlt;*.xltx;*.xltm;*.pptm;*.pot;*.potx;*.potm;*.vsdm;*.vss;*.vssx;*.vssm;*.vdw;*.vst;*.vstx;*.vstm.
Added feature of enabling/disabling macros in Microsoft Office documents with macros support
Added check for inactivated Microsoft Office installation (2010, 2013, 2016 Office supported).
Added check for disabled with GPO Microsoft Office XPS Add-in.
Added horizontal and vertical white spaces removing in the Crop Pages dialog.
Added XFA RTL support in paragraphs.
Fixed RTL text support in EMF->PDF conversion.
Summarize annots to CSV format.
Added support of DropBox.
Added Form Editor. It allows to edit existing form fields and create new form fields.
Added Copy/Paste for form fields.
Implemented moving form fields between documents when pages are inserted from other document. (T# 2905)
A reported error or bug was fixed:
Improved check for absent XPS Add-in in Microsoft Office 2007.
Fixed text editing using fonts with predefined CJK encodings. (T# 3434)
ixed text editing using math fonts with invalid ToUnicode mappings. (T# 3228)
Fixed issue with optimizing read-only files. (T# 3383)
Fixed issue with importing some JPEG files. (T# 3408)
Fixed issue with creating self signed certificates on February 29. (T# 3448)
Fixed issues with handling some check boxes/radio buttons. (T# 3461)
Fixed issue with flattening appearances of some annotations/widgets. (T# 2582)
Changed, reviewed, modified feature:
Updated box selection in the Crop Pages dialog.
Added invalid font metrics detection and correction. (T# 1665, 2703)
Interface Logic GUI changes in TrackerUpdater.
Plugins Minor fixes for SharePoint plugin.
Plugins Minor fixes for GoogleDrive plugin.
Flattening of widgets proper handle changes in document's form fields. (T#3153)
Added workaround to handle not well formed paths in FileSpec. (T# 3449)
Some cursors were changed to solve the issue on WYSE Terminals and Citrix systems.

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