pdfMachine white Changelog

What's new in pdfMachine white 20.07

Mar 28, 2024
  • New user interface
  • Only edit only mode
  • Insert Sound function removed
  • Embed files function removed
  • Fixed driver crash with particular font

New in pdfMachine white 15.97 (Feb 23, 2024)

  • Fix Base64 Encoding on filename attachment
  • Fix RunLengthDecode filter.
  • Handle object reference to array of filters.
  • Fix crash when editing bookmarks that have an invalid tree structure.
  • Accept ASCII85 filters without a correct EOD marker

New in pdfMachine white 15.96 (Nov 9, 2023)

  • Fixed handling of named destinations from an array.
  • Fixed crash in Edit mode for certain JBIG2 images

New in pdfMachine white 15.95 (Sep 26, 2023)

  • Fixed OCR issue.
  • Stopped the “A PDF viewer was not detected” message from appearing.
  • Stop checking if files on the network exist when loading “recently used files”.
  • Remove the redundant copy files warning during installation.
  • Fixed issues with append file, crashes and blank files.
  • Fixed parameter parsing crash when a % is in the emailSubject.
  • Stopped checking if IE is running during an uninstall.

New in pdfMachine white 15.94 (May 18, 2023)

  • Fixed AES encryption issue causing pdfMachine to crash under certain circumstances.
  • Stopped the “A PDF viewer was not detected” message from appearing.

New in pdfMachine white 15.93 (May 3, 2023)

  • Fixed Document Security issue causing pdfMachine to crash.
  • Fixed copy message in installer.
  • Fixed memory corruption issue that sometimes occurred when using splitPDF parameter. If you use this parameter, please upgrade to avoid unwanted and unpredictable behaviour.

New in pdfMachine white 15.92 (Apr 29, 2023)

  • Fixed Document Security issue causing pdfMachine to crash.
  • Fixed copy message in installer.
  • Fixed crash during parameter parsing .
  • Fixed memory corruption issue that sometimes occurred when using splitPDF parameter. If you use this parameter, please upgrade to avoid unwanted and unpredictable behaviour.

New in pdfMachine white 15.90 (Apr 11, 2023)

  • Fixed memory corruption issue that sometimes occurred when using splitPDF parameter. If you use this parameter, please upgrade to avoid unwanted and unpredictable behaviour.

New in pdfMachine white 15.89 (Apr 8, 2023)

  • Fixed memory corruption issue that sometimes occured when using splitPDF parameter. If you use this parameter, please upgrade to avoid unwanted and unpredictable behaviour.

New in pdfMachine white 15.88 (Mar 28, 2023)

  • Fix to make pdfMachine chrome / edge extension work with latest chrome / edge updates (again!).
  • Fixes to file appending, where it failed on some files.
  • Reduced file size for certain chrome produced PDFs when they used the splitPDF parameter parsing tag.
  • Default JPEG scanning quality is decreased to lessen resulting file size, can be overidden by registry setting “ScanJpegQuality”.

New in pdfMachine white 15.87 (Mar 27, 2023)

  • Fix to make pdfMachine chrome / edge extension work with latest chrome / edge updates (again!).

New in pdfMachine white 15.85 (Mar 3, 2023)

  • Fix to make pdfMachine chrome / edge extension work with latest chrome / edge updates.

New in pdfMachine white 15.84 (Feb 18, 2023)

  • Added option to show confirmation dialog on auto appending.
  • Fixed crash in edit mode with certain black and white documents.
  • Fixed N-up issue.
  • Vairous improvements to attempt loading of corrupted/invalid PDFs.

New in pdfMachine white 15.81 (Nov 4, 2022)

  • Fix split to many PDFs for very large PDF.
  • Fix saving of unmodified PDFs with multiple page tree nodes.
  • Attach Files dialog defaults to all files instead of .pdf

New in pdfMachine white 15.80 (Jun 17, 2022)

  • pdfMachine driver fix /Widths in some fonts. e.g. Opentype postscript based fonts copy and paste from PDF may not have worked properly, with spaces not being picked up or picked up in wrong spot.
  • New version dialog fix

New in pdfMachine white 15.80 (Jun 17, 2022)

  • pdfMachine driver fix /Widths in some fonts. e.g. Opentype postscript based fonts copy and paste from PDF may not have worked properly, with spaces not being picked up or picked up in wrong spot.
  • New version dialog fix

New in pdfMachine white 15.77 (Jun 2, 2022)

  • pdfMachine driver stores TrueType font named with PostScript name from font file.
  • Image improvements in edit mode.

New in pdfMachine white 15.76 (May 30, 2022)

  • pdfMachine driver stores TrueType font named with PostScript name from font file.
  • Image improvements in edit mode.

New in pdfMachine white 15.74 (Apr 4, 2022)

  • Fixed error 0x800A11FD when pdfMachine Word mail merge document is read only.
  • Introduced directory monitoring to allow for automatic launch in pdfMachine.

New in pdfMachine white 15.73 (Mar 21, 2022)

  • Fixed some crashes going to edit mode for downsampled DCTDECODED images.
  • All help is now online.
  • Fixed url visited when pdfMachine white logo clicked.
  • Fixed email config dialog in Italian version
  • About window is now WebView2.

New in pdfMachine white 15.71 (Feb 16, 2022)

  • Fixed some JBIG2 images crashing in edit mode or after a scan.
  • Fixed custom toolbar settings not being saved correctly.
  • Fixed "SavePDF" parameter parsing setting document title strangely.
  • Bgsmsnd.exe no longer launches with elevated privilege after installation.
  • Slight gradient change on toolbar.
  • Fixed font size of main menus on high DPI screens

New in pdfMachine white 15.70 (Feb 14, 2022)

  • Fixed some JBIG2 images crashing in edit mode or after a scan.
  • Fixed custom toolbar settings not being saved correctly.
  • Fixed "SavePDF" parameter parsing setting document title strangely.

New in pdfMachine white 15.69 (Jan 12, 2022)

  • Parameter Parsing with email body over several pages fixed.
  • Sending with Outlook online and SMTP From set fixed.
  • Display of images with CalGray colorspace fixed in Editor.
  • Better error messages from gmail and outlook online methods.

New in pdfMachine white 15.67 (Jan 3, 2022)

  • Display improvements on high DPI screens.
  • Toolbar make over.

New in pdfMachine white 15.66 (Dec 7, 2021)

  • 32 bit images no longer downsampled in Editor.
  • Rebuild missing xref tables on corrupt PDF files.

New in pdfMachine white 15.65 (Nov 27, 2021)

  • Parameter parsing improvments.

New in pdfMachine white 15.64 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • CCITFaxDecode images display correctly in editor and OCR correctly.
  • Updated German translations for email configuration window
  • Opens PDFs encrypted with RC4 variable length key.

New in pdfMachine white 15.63 (Oct 30, 2021)

  • Type 3 fonts display and text capture fixes.
  • Improved zooming and scrolling in edit mode, support ctrl +/-
  • Fixed 'fetch' error issue that some users got with chrome and edge extensions.
  • Fixed auto append issue from chrome extension where it sometimes would not work.
  • Fixed problem with webview2 showing "no file found" error with filenames with the '#' character in them.

New in pdfMachine white 15.62 (Oct 28, 2021)

  • Type 3 fonts display and text capture fixes.
  • Improved zooming and scrolling in edit mode, support ctrl +/-
  • Fixed 'fetch' error issue that some users got with chrome and edge extensions.
  • Fixed auto append issue from chrome extension where it sometimes would not work.

New in pdfMachine white 15.61 (Oct 27, 2021)

  • Type 3 fonts display and text capture fixes.
  • Improved zooming and scrolling in edit mode, support ctrl +/-
  • Fixed 'fetch' error issue that some users got with chrome and edge extensions.

New in pdfMachine white 15.60 (Oct 26, 2021)

  • Type 3 fonts display and text capture fixes.
  • Improved zooming and scrolling in edit mode, support ctrl +/-

New in pdfMachine white 15.59 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • Support for sending emails using outlook.com API.
  • Chrome and Edge extension for one click PDF generation from browser.
  • Improved parameter parsing so it can be used on PDFs generated by applications other than pdfMachine.
  • Corrected render for certain Bezier curves.
  • PdfMachine can open iText PDFs with a duplicate PDF structure.
  • PdfMachine Word mail merge reports 'temporary error' when SMTP returns 451, eg server mailing limits have been exceeded.

New in pdfMachine white 15.58 (Oct 21, 2021)

  • Support for sending emails using outlook.com API.
  • Chrome extension for one click PDF generation from chrome.
  • Improved parameter parsing so it can be used on PDF's generated by applications other than pdfMachine.

New in pdfMachine white 15.57 (Oct 4, 2021)

  • Fixed issue with installing printers with the "share printer on network" checkbox set.

New in pdfMachine white 15.56 (Sep 25, 2021)

  • Improved user interface for pdfMachine Email Configuration window including new Email Body editor.
  • Improved user interface for pdfMachine Word mail merge Email window including new Email Body editor.
  • Allow Gmail API as email methods for pdfMachine and pdfMachine Word mail merge.
  • Fixed crash after scanning / ocr and edit mode for PDFs with JBIG2 encoded black and white images.
  • Error message when open password required but not entered.
  • Correction for recent files menu.
  • Context menu to convert image to PDF doesn't download OCR language files unless OCR selected.
  • Blank username on Windows Home no longer occurs.
  • No longer (incorrectly) prompts for user password in RC40 V2/R3 encrypted files.
  • Security patch when changing AES256 encrypted PDF with user only password.

New in pdfMachine white 15.52 (Jul 23, 2021)

  • Security Patch:
  • Security without a permission password previously has empty string as permission password.

New in pdfMachine white 15.51 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • Encoding of filename issue when uploading files to "sign here" service.
  • Setup changes to cope with new configuration tool https://configurator.pdfmachine.com

New in pdfMachine white 15.49 (May 17, 2021)

  • PDFs with comments in obj line open.
  • Shared printers can be removed using Windows Remove Device.
  • Package Aware Printing with multiple printers via the bgsconf.
  • Fixed bgsview.exe crash during uninstall for remote client.
  • Fixed bgsview.exe error in Event Viewer during shared printer install.

New in pdfMachine white 15.47 (Apr 19, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bgsview.exz crash during close (experienced on Win 2008) .
  • Fixed for some PDFs that did not open.
  • Fixed some bookmark errors.
  • Fixed Word mail merge wizard for high dpi laptop.

New in pdfMachine white 15.46 (Feb 1, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Support for AES256 encryption, both reading and writing.
  • Fixed bookmark title issue.

New in pdfMachine white 15.45 (Jan 29, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Support for AES256 encryption, both reading and writing.
  • Fixed bookmark title issue.

New in pdfMachine white 15.44 (Jan 20, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • pdfMachine shared install, uploaddriverpackage error.
  • pdfMachine office add-in duplicate menu items with multiple printers.
  • pdfMachine memory error writing extremely large PDF.

New in pdfMachine white 15.43 (Dec 30, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • PdfMachine Word mail merge Return warning when merge field name is ? 40 characters as Word cannot handle it.
  • PdfMachine office add-in reset print area of Excel.
  • PdfMachine office add-in PowerPoint detects create from selected slide when no slide selected.
  • PdfMachine office add-in PowerPoint create from selected slide when pdfMachine not active printer.
  • PdfMachine office add-in update to 12.
  • PdfMachine shared printer - Insufficient pages to place signature on a designated page.
  • PdfMachine editor - displaying images with width / height object reference.

New in pdfMachine white 15.42 (Nov 3, 2020)

  • Features:
  • EmailNoAttachment parameter for parameter parsing
  • Fixes:
  • OCR improved for rotated pages.
  • OCR for some languages corrected eg icl,bel.
  • Creating PDF from the Word add-in while in Mail Merge Preview mode no longer prints field codes.

New in pdfMachine white 15.41 (Oct 31, 2020)

  • Features:
  • Supports pdfMachine SDK 2.7.1
  • Mapisendmail failed 3, check login credentials.

New in pdfMachine white 15.40 (Jul 22, 2020)

  • Features:
  • Supports pdfMachine SDK 2.7.
  • Default timestamping server off in digital signature.

New in pdfMachine white 15.39 (Jun 16, 2020)

  • Features:
  • Launch pdfMachine Viewer menu option when Edit mode is default.
  • Default DPI / JPEG quality increased.
  • Fixes:
  • Split PDF error : invalid Font Dictionary.

New in pdfMachine white 15.38 (Jun 2, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Registration fixed if registered through pdfMachine merge then pdfMachine installed.

New in pdfMachine white 15.37 (Jun 2, 2020)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed crash of some PDFs on entering Edit mode.
  • Fixed corruption when stationary inserted into certain PDFs.

New in pdfMachine white 15.36 (Mar 13, 2020)

  • Features:
  • Convert to PDF directly from image files with optional OCR. This can be done from Windows explorer right click or from the tools menu 'convert images to PDF'. Also command line options are available.
  • Improvements to OCR for pages with columns of text and images.
  • Fixes:
  • Reduced occurence of blank user name in registration process.