What's new in View and Rename PDF 5.5.1.0
May 15, 2022
- Changed: filename wildcards use file modification time rather than current time.
New in View and Rename PDF 5.5.0.0 (May 12, 2022)
- Added: filename wildcards; updated AHK to 1.1.34.01
New in View and Rename PDF 5.1.0.0 (Sep 14, 2021)
- Added delay after opening a file; updated AHK to 1.1.33.10.
New in View and Rename PDF 5.0.0.0 (Aug 2, 2021)
- Updated: Complete rewrite; SumatraPDF was updated to version 3.3.3.
New in View and Rename PDF 4.3.6.1 (Mar 23, 2020)
- Updated: SumatraPDF was updated to version 3.2.
New in View and Rename PDF 4.3.4 (May 29, 2018)
- Added: option "Use last file name", which will use the last file name as the default new file name if the filename format is null.
New in View and Rename PDF 4.3.3 (Feb 12, 2018)
- Fixed: trailing spaces in user-specified filename formats were not preserved upon the program's next run.
New in View and Rename PDF 4.3.2 (Feb 5, 2018)
- Fixed: setting a filename format in the options could lead to an error.
New in View and Rename PDF 4.3.1 (Jan 15, 2018)
- Added: if a target file already exists, the user will be asked whether to overwrite it.
New in View and Rename PDF 4.3.0 (Dec 27, 2017)
- Added: the installer includes an option for portable mode, which will bypass creating a Start Menu group and an uninstaller. Both standard and portable modes are designed to be used with a single computer.
- Added: checkbox option, "Copy". This option will copy the file instead of renaming it. After the file is copied, this option will be disabled, so that renaming will resume. With this option, a file may be renamed to two different files, first by copying the file and then by renaming it.
- SumatraPDF version: 3.1.2
New in View and Rename PDF 4.2.1 (Oct 2, 2017)
- Changed: the PDF viewer, SumatraPDF, is used to view PDF files within the program
New in View and Rename PDF 4.1.2 (Aug 7, 2017)
- Added: menu option, "F3 is global". This will make the F3 hotkey work everywhere.
- Added: menu option, "Focus on PDF document". This leaves the window focus on the PDF document after it is opened.
New in View and Rename PDF 4.1.0.4 (Jul 24, 2017)
- Added: option for active window positioning. With this default option, the program window and PDF viewer window will be positioned upon running the program. If windows are not positioned properly, try disabling this option.
New in View and Rename PDF 4.0.0.259 (May 9, 2017)
- Added: CTRL-, will send Page Up (PgUp) to the PDF viewer, and then return the focus to the main program window. CTRL-. will send Page Down (PgDn). These are global hotkeys.
- Changed: viewer window is separated from program window, to allow more flexible positioning and sizing of both windows.
- Changed: options have been consolidated into a single "Options" dialog window.
New in View and Rename PDF 3.7.8 (May 9, 2017)
- Changed: updated MuPDF to version 1.11.
New in View and Rename PDF 3.7.7 (May 9, 2017)
- Fixed: when pressing ESC in the "Zoom on opening file" selector, an error would occur.
New in View and Rename PDF 3.7.6 (May 9, 2017)
- Fixed: When selecting "Zoom on opening file" and not changing the selection, the checkbox in the main menu might have been toggled.
- Fixed: selecting menu option to toggle focus did not always work.
- Changed: hotkey to delete file is now F11.
- Changed: hotkey to toggle focus is now F6.
- Changed: hotkey to zoom Acrobat file is now CTRL-F11 (CF11).
- Changed: options menu is available when no PDF files are being viewed.
New in View and Rename PDF 3.7.5 (May 9, 2017)
- Added: menu option to use CTRL-F12 (CF12) to toggle the focus between the file-naming field and the viewer window.
- Fixed: user could select menu option to open file in native PDF program if using the native PDF method.
New in View and Rename PDF 3.7.4 (May 9, 2017)
- Added: brief informational display upon exit.
- Added: command line may contain an initial list of files to open.
- Added: menu option to open file in native (default) PDF program.
- Added: menu option to advance files manually.
- Added: menu option to preserve the state of CAPS LOCK between files.
New in View and Rename PDF 3.7.3 (May 9, 2017)
- Added: menu option to zoom text on opening file, if method is MuPDF.
- Added: menu option to fileize file name on opening file.
- Fixed: files whose names contained ASCII codes with "%" could not be opened.
- Changed: updated "Navigation" section of the Help file.
New in View and Rename PDF 3.7.2 (May 9, 2017)
- Changed: updated MuPDF to version 1.10a.
New in View and Rename PDF 3.7.1 (May 9, 2017)
- Added: menu option, "Copy file names to clipboard". With this option, the file name for each saved file will be copied to the Windows clipboard.
- Added: history of file names. When renaming a file, pressing CTRL-H will display a list (history) of the most recently used file names. Up to 20 file names are stored. When a file name is selected, it will be copied to the filename field.
New in View and Rename PDF 3.7.0 (May 9, 2017)
- Added: option to set the filename format using case-sensitive variables referring to the file's date of last modification.
- %m = two-digit month
- %d = two-digit day of month
- %y = two-digit year
- %Y = four-digit year
- %H = two-digit hour (24-hour clock)
- %M = two-digit minutes
- %S = two-digit seconds
- %q = file name without extension