PDF Studio Changelog

What's new in PDF Studio 2023.0.1

Aug 9, 2023
  • Regression: Batch Signature is placed outside the document
  • Issues with Fast Sign on PDF Studio 2023
  • Exception in jPDFViewer when application uses rhino
  • Updated version to 2023.0.1
  • jPDFPreflight – Memory Leak

New in PDF Studio 2023.0.0 (Aug 9, 2023)

  • Improvements for Enterprise Deployments (Shared User Settings)
  • Improvements to Microsoft Office Conversions (Word to PDF & PDF to Word)
  • Support for Dropbox Team Spaces
  • Installer Enhancements on Linux and Windows
  • New Embed / Unembed Fonts Functions
  • Additional Multi Document Functions throughout the Application
  • New Optimizer Features
  • New Print Features
  • And Much More…

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.4 (Apr 21, 2023)

  • Resolve issues with Linux file chooser with filename extension and truncating
  • Scan “black and white” format is not working correctly when “deskew” is checked
  • JavaScript not calculating fields – Event.value not being modified and re-setting the same value after calculation
  • Font Specific: Error rendering the attached PDF on Linux due to not using Unicode Mapping
  • “Copy text to note” preference broken for text markup
  • Remove vm warnings in the console on silent install
  • Cleanup replacement fonts
  • Clean up files related to install4j runtime, remove warnings

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.3 (Mar 27, 2023)

  • PS-6677 – Regression: multiple JavaScript prompts
  • PS-6681 – Editing mode exited after entering non-Latin characters with Right ALT key
  • PS-6672 – Document Specific – Fix image rendering issue

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.2 (Mar 17, 2023)

  • PS-6668 : Incorrect logic when setting JavaScript “field.display” value

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.1 (Mar 14, 2023)

  • PS-6655 – Null pointer exception happening in on load JavaScript
  • JPDF-1990 – Added class cast protection and set signature as invalid if the entries in the signature field dictionary are invalid
  • PS-6588 – Document Specific: Digital Signature not validated correctly (Digital Signature Service)
  • PS-6635 – Document Specific: Signature marked as “Revoked” instead of “Not verified”. Revocation has to come from issuing CA in the Certificate Revocation List

New in PDF Studio 2022.2.0 (Feb 26, 2023)

  • Enhancements:
  • Add additional replacement fonts for Microsoft Files Conversion & Preflight Conversion
  • Improve Signature Field Position (with units) in Batch Sign Dialog
  • Render first page faster for documents with lots of links by delaying loading of destination pane
  • Allow text size for text box annotations to go down to 6 from 8 at the moment
  • Increase Tolerance max value from 100 to 200 when deleting blank pages on Batch Delete Pages dialog
  • Add support for “+” character in email addresses for registration dialog
  • Word to PDF Conversion: Add some support for the legacy/deprecated VML format
  • Word to PDF Conversion: Support for diagonal cell “borders”
  • Bugs:
  • Regression: Unable to save document due to link annotation to a remote document (delay loading of links)
  • Scanning profiles started from quick access menu don’t set the “Insert At” property correctly
  • Exception when Selecting IRT Group Annotations
  • Internal: Settings.xml has some java classes for property values
  • Command line registration does not work when PDF Studio is running in the background
  • Cannot access class sun.print.PeekGraphics when printing page with Custom Composite
  • Regression “Dimension of full grid” when creating multiple copies of form field broken
  • Enabling retain PDF/A format preference and signing document gets user stuck in error loop
  • Add safety null checks when checking for valid save file
  • Regression: Document Specific: Paste text to word removes space characters
  • When registration fails due to non-volume license limit, show a message to users instructing them to go to manage
  • Increase Tolerance value from 100 to 200 when deleting blank pages on Batch Delete Pages dialog
  • Handle null resource in type3 font which was generating a ClassCastException
  • Bad focus issue when doing undo while editing a text field
  • Add support for “+” character in email addresses for registration dialog
  • Document Specific: Null pointer exception when viewing signature certificate details
  • Word to PDF fix for a document that could not be laid out
  • Regression: Error when trying to duplicate multiple checkboxes/radio buttons
  • Document restored from session cannot be saved as another filename
  • Document restored from session is not set to the front

New in PDF Studio 2022.1.3 (Dec 2, 2022)

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

New in PDF Studio 2022.1.2 (Nov 6, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Allow larger custom memory amount in user vmoptions file
  • Bugs:
  • macOS Ventura: If dark mode was used, the installer would hang on startup
  • macOS: Full screen mode was broken
  • Linux: Opening PDF files from Google Drive in Gnome Nautilus file manager was not working
  • Align points in overlay comparison was broken
  • PDF/A-1b preflight validation option in sub menu was broken
  • Document Specific: NPE converting to PDF/X-3 due to error when copying name of color space
  • Document specific: Error loading PDF Cannot invoke “Object.getClass()” because “” is null

New in PDF Studio 2022.1.1 (Nov 6, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Convert Word to PDF: Handle Theme Font Languages for Arabic, Asian, etc..
  • Bugs:
  • Pan & Zoom and Loupe Tool Broken
  • Action Wizard: Continue button label is broken
  • On macOS, some printers can throw an exception when getting the default DPI resolution
  • Convert Word to PDF: Handle Theme Font Languages for Arabic, Asian, etc..
  • Convert Word to PDF: Handle negative positioning of an Image within a Table Cell
  • Convert Word to PDF: Handle NullPointerException when converting a Word file to PDF
  • Convert Word to PDF: Anchored images not positioned correctly due to clipping
  • Document specific: Error loading PDF Cannot invoke “Object.getClass()” because “” is null
  • GUI display error on separator in Preflight Dialog

New in PDF Studio 2022.1.0 (Nov 6, 2022)

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

New in PDF Studio 2022.0.2 (Nov 6, 2022)

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

New in PDF Studio 2022.0.1 (Nov 6, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Add default stamp selection to Rubber Stamp action properties
  • Increase file name length in document tabs selection list
  • Improved Ctrl + Scroll Wheel zoom logic to include more steps
  • Improve error message when loading an invalid PDF file
  • Updated the default length for DigiCert TSA
  • Include default TOC profile for Create Table of Contents Tool
  • PDF to Word & PDF to RTF enhancements
  • Bugs:
  • Fixed issue with ribbon toolbar not staying collapsed when switching across documents
  • Fixed auto-save would reload only single document when restoring from online storage (Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive)
  • Fixed attach file as comment would not prompt for file in some rare cases
  • Document Specific: Fixed “Cannot invoke “java.awt.Container.addComponentListener” error when deleting annotations
  • OneDrive: Session token would not properly refresh causing frequent log outs
  • Studio Viewer: Removed redundant files to reduce installer size

New in PDF Studio 2022.0.0 (Jun 2, 2022)

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

New in PDF Studio 2021.1.3 (Feb 21, 2022)

  • Fix Byte range error for PDFs signed with Docusign containing invalid characters following end of file
  • Convert Word to PDF – Unable to layout document due to table width set to 0 + Improve support for multiple polygons in EMF images
  • Convert Word to PDF – Fix VML shapes / text boxes alignment and positioning issues
  • Fix error when merging PDFs with tags
  • Linux: Signing with Token Error on Linux – Use SHA 256 when SHA 1 fails on PDFs with a version

New in PDF Studio 2021.1.2 (Dec 22, 2021)

  • Remove unused log4j files to avoid false positive results in virus scanners (see CVE-2021-44228 – Apache Log4j Vulnerability)

New in PDF Studio 2021.1.1 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added support for protocols to allow launching PDF Studio from a web page
  • Added support for setting file associations on the new Apple M1 ARM installer
  • Performance enhancements to the new comments panel
  • Cleaned up PDF Studio installer to remove old unused files
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed issue with incorrect encoding of special tabs and newline chars when adding keywords into XMP Metadata
  • Fixed issue adding page numbers to large number of document pages
  • Fixed regression issue: Null pointer exception when opening list and combo field drop-down in PDF forms
  • Fixed issue with improper handling of object streams when saving PDF files
  • Fixed issue handling rubber stamps created by NotesWriter Pro + enhance error handling when parsing annotations
  • Fixed issue with multiple permission warnings when creating highlight/etc on advanced search
  • Fixed issue applying polyline styles on first change

New in PDF Studio 2021.1.0 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • PowerPoint to PDF Conversion
  • Enhancements:
  • OCR languages now included in installer (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
  • Added spell check to inline editing in comments panel
  • Document tagging UI improvements
  • Font embedding now includes the user-only font folder on Windows
  • Cloud drive UI improvements
  • Updated Dropbox library to latest v4.0.1 update
  • Added support for stencil patterns in images
  • Added support for reference table streams in PDF linearization to avoid file size increase
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fit to width & fit to page did not work when using bottom toolbar
  • Fix to handle scanners reporting invalid contrast values that would cause an error
  • Fix to handle missing / null values in “TU” encryption entry
  • Regression: Fix performance issue when loading signed document with lots of annotations (50k+)
  • Clicking on ‘x’ to exit password dialog breaks dialog the next time it’s launched
  • Switching tools during inline content editing would not commit changes
  • (Linux): Text highlight cursor displayed white in some Linux distros (Ubuntu xfce, Manjaro)
  • (Linux): Ugly font selected for UI / Look and Feel on some Linux distros (Debian)
  • Deleting named JavaScript did not get removed
  • Fixed background color of combo fields when running in dark mode
  • (macOS) DocuSign not working on new Apple M1 installer on Big Sur
  • Favorite ribbon group in preferences scaled to big in Touch Mode
  • Toolbar gallery issue caused index issue preventing application exit
  • Expired ID is selected when signing with non-expired ID
  • Word to PDF: Incorrect numbering of sections – Add support for level override

New in PDF Studio 2021.0.4 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • Allow Multiple File Selection in “Add Place” feature in file tab
  • Improved PDF/A preflight report generation performance
  • Added “Current Page” option in the new Flatten Dialog
  • Field Simplified Notation Calculations not handling escape characters correctly
  • Fixed overlapping buttons on measurement dialogs
  • Fixed issue with bookmark font when editing label
  • Fixed issue with named JavaScript not being recognized in Acrobat
  • LiveCycle forms no longer displaying the warning with the kb article link
  • Replace Pages prompts for the file before it shows the dialog
  • Linux: Welcome dialog font looked bad on Debian
  • Fixed performance issue when loading documents containing abnormally large number of annotations (50k+)
  • Fixed bug in Batch that would sometimes delete source file when error occurred
  • Document Specific: Improved error handling of invalid CCITTFFaxDecode images in document
  • Document Specific: JavaScript code would cause full screen mode to crash
  • OCR now works on Apple M1 installer

New in PDF Studio 2021.0.3 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • Split View broken : displays a white bottom pane
  • Loupe tool & Pan & Zoom broken
  • Drag to rearrange pages on Pages / Thumbnails pane does not always work correctly
  • Fix an issue with editing component not being stopped for typewriter annotations (null pointer exception when dragging and closing documents)
  • More issues with OCR Library not loaded error on Windows 10
  • MAC: The * after filename on tab title (indicating a modified document) is missing
  • Document Properties Metadata dialog not scaled in 4k

New in PDF Studio 2021.0.2 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • OCR Library is not loaded error due to missing Microsoft Visual C++ package
  • Ctrl + Spacebar to temporarily enable the “Zoom Tool” – Use Alt to toggle zoom out
  • Metadata dialog not scaled in 4k
  • Updated look and feel version

New in PDF Studio 2021.0.1 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • Linux: Fixed broken installer due to missing system fonts on specific Linux Distros (Fedora & OpenSUSE)
  • Minor translation fixes

New in PDF Studio 2021 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • PowerPoint to PDF (v2021.1.0+)
  • Accessibility Color Options (Background & Text Color)
  • Read Out Loud / Text To Speech
  • “Unflatten” annotations
  • Improved Content Editing
  • Document TimeStamps Support
  • Filter Comments
  • Search Recent File List
  • Additional Preflight Functions
  • Real Full Screen Mode
  • Auto Detect Links
  • Upgraded OCR Engine Version
  • And Much More…

New in PDF Studio 2020.5.0 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • Enhancements / Bug Fixes:
  • Resolved 4K: Tiling issues / Artifacts when using a Retina / HiDPI Monitor on Mac
  • Document properties dialog cuts off with long file name
  • Added support for “Lock Document After Signing” on standard digital signatures
  • “Save As” now removes unused objects
  • “Warn before submit form” and “Warn before emailing document” options were not working correctly
  • Word to PDF improvements with arrows, tags, image positioning / alignment and floating layout
  • Document Specific: Incorrect character spacing – Use DW value from FontDescriptor for character width
  • No longer including unsupported open type fonts in annotations and form field font combos
  • Resolved issue with Javascript custom formatting such as ‘yyyymm’ in date field
  • Converting document to SVG cuts off image due to incorrect soft mask placement
  • Support blend modes in PDF to HTML and PDF to SVG conversion
  • Color inheritance in type 3 fonts when converting to SVG
  • CJK characters placed at the wrong location on conversion to SVG – Get advances in the y axis
  • Missing characters in XFA form due to issue accessing fonts in acroform DR resources when regenerating appearance stream
  • Add support for rich text and unnamed children subforms
  • Error Merging Tags when merging PDFs with Tags
  • Fix rounding error in clipping areas which made some patterns slightly leak outside of the box bounds

New in PDF Studio 2020.4.0 (Mar 17, 2021)

  • Enhancements / Bug Fixes:
  • Regression: Brighten the color of the annotation comment bubble
  • Flatten option was missing from form field context menu
  • PDF to Word integration unable to locate MS Office 2016
  • Many Word to PDF conversion improvements
  • Type 3 font characters cutoff in HTML/SVG output
  • Resize handles and cursor for callout annotation not being placed correctly on rotated pages
  • Parentheses used in CJK vertical writing not rendered correctly
  • Fixed nullPointerException when importing an xfdf annotation with null intent
  • Opening document in multiple windows with modal dialog could lock PDF Studio
  • Path gradient with separation color space is not showing correct color (Added Support for Lab color space)
  • Not rendering thin content lines when gradient applied to them
  • Doc Specific: Missing font in DA String causes error when changing font

New in PDF Studio 2020.3.1 (Jan 8, 2021)

  • Enhancements / Bug Fixes:
  • Fast Sign Improvement: Display a larger signing pane for drawing handwritten signatures
  • (Mac) Right click tab selection broken
  • Text selection box can be too wide due to invalid values in embedded font description
  • Find Tools moves to left side under some circumstances overlaying below the open button
  • Regression: Issue when opening a PDF Form with JavaScript from the SWT file dialog
  • Regression: 2 comment bubbles showing on perimeter and area annotations
  • Word to PDF: For Vertical Text in Table Cell Clipped Incorrectly (Add Support for Cell Max Width)
  • Word to PDF: Vertical header is missing on a table in vertically merged cells + table does not keep together

New in PDF Studio 2020.3.0 (Jan 8, 2021)

  • Enhancements / Bug Fixes:
  • Improvements in Word and Excel to PDF Conversion
  • Incorrect focus behavior on Message Dialog
  • Regression: Focus on password field when opening a protected PDF
  • Issues with setting custom zoom level with decimal point
  • Current bookmark: Change the highlight color from pink to earthy orange
  • Regression: “Signature timestamp is from a timestamp server but the message digest could not be validated” due to mismatch between timestamp and message digest algorithms
  • Fix an issue extracting data from XFA due to subform naming and hierarchy
  • “Save as default” & Locked missing from Pencil Annotation properties dialog
  • Multi tab selection in dark theme doesn’t look good
  • Replace Pages from PDF option is not working when selecting from Pages Pane
  • JavaScript Validation Dialogs Sometimes Hidden Behind In Java 8+
  • Some PDF documents report being tagged for fast web wrongly.
  • Regression: Euro Symbol in Text Annotations Editor is displaying wrong character

New in PDF Studio 2020.2.0 (Jan 8, 2021)

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

New in PDF Studio 2020.1.1 (Oct 7, 2020)

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

New in PDF Studio 2020.1.0 (Oct 4, 2020)

  • Enhancements:
  • Darken background of page view area
  • Option to set color of non-page area in Reading Mode
  • New options added to right click menu on tabs (Overlay, Side by Side, Close All, Close all to right, Close others)
  • Ability to open files by dragging to new tab area
  • “Keep Alive” option is now enabled by default for faster launch times
  • Improved Despeckle and Reduce Noise tool tip descriptions
  • Demo mode enhancements
  • Resolved file association being reset on updates
  • OCR & Print dialogs no longer block the application and can now be used in separate frames
  • Bug Fixes:
  • ESC key not working in reading mode when starting with Ctrl + H
  • Status bar showing when entering full screen thru document initial view
  • Center aligned date fields would throw error
  • Export text & XML options broken in comments pane
  • Inconsistent panel/toolbar state when closing a document while in Reading Mode
  • Classic toolbar: Status bar and page number broken
  • Classic toolbar: tools would not work on second document open in tabbed document view
  • Touch mode did not enlarge resize handles for annotations
  • “PDF to Microsoft Word” preferences in should not be in standard version
  • (macOS) Blue border showing around frame
  • (Linux) saving scanning profiles did not save properties
  • Specific document: Checkboxes disappear after using sequential renaming

New in PDF Studio 2020.0.1 (Sep 13, 2020)

  • Improved language translations
  • Added “Selected Pages” for page labels
  • Enter and Shift-Enter can now be used to cycle thru search results. on comments panel
  • Improvements to current bookmark highlights
  • Program Data directory still referencing 2019
  • MSI installer command line registration fix
  • Dragging files into Studio would create duplicated tooltips
  • Searching broken when working with multiple documents in tabs
  • Sound annotation dialog “Play” button was broken
  • Sticky note, caret , and polyline (line start/end combos) property dialogs where broken
  • “Could not get supported resolutions” error when scanning
  • Changing z order of annotations would not respect permissions
  • Word convert layout enhancements with footer content
  • Document specific: “No existing field” errors display
  • Document Specific: Error when opening for rendering
  • Print button disabled after opening and closing multiple documents

New in PDF Studio 2020.0.0 (Sep 1, 2020)

  • Major Features:
  • Many User Interface, Annotations and Fields Enhancements
  • Allow Opening Docs in Tabs instead of Frames PS-4404
  • License Management Tool for more than 10 Users PS-4916 **
  • New MSI installer PS-4922
  • Enhancements:
  • Annotations:
  • Move Comments List to a vertical pane to the right (instead of horizontal pane at the bottom) PS-4978 **
  • Easy color change for annotations tools PS-4806 **
  • Ability to duplicate an annotation (such as a rubber stamp) across multiple pages PS-4977
  • Export highlighted text PS-4552
  • Export Annotations to CSV PS-4861 **
  • Anonymize Comments to remove author, date & subject PS-4477
  • Scale measurement dialog can now be minimized PS-4906
  • Annotation tools properties improvements (Choice: Show dialog / nothing/ popup note) PS-4835
  • Bounding box of typewriter expands too low PS-4795
  • Typewriter placement was sometimes incorrect at higher zoom PS-4794
  • Improve annotation font size combo formatting (no decimal point values) PS-4840
  • Resize pages should resize annotation appearance streams and font size PS-4980
  • Batch Functions:
  • Add Batch for Conversion from PDF to SVG / HTML PS-4681
  • Add Batch for Annotation Export PS-4931
  • Batch Export Annotations & Form fields: New option to export a single file for all PDFs in batch
  • Reorganization of the Batch Tab PS-4956
  • Document Content Editing / Assembly:
  • Change z-order of content objects PS-4427 **
  • Add Alignment options when moving content objects PS-4428
  • New option under Pages to append multiple documents to current document PS-4984 **
  • Fonts:
  • Display object number under the fonts tab allowing to distinguish duplicate fonts PS-4898
  • Form Fields:
  • Allow use of system fonts when creating interactive form fields PS-4727
  • Enable font properties for form fields under Ribbon Properties Tab PS-4580
  • Support Rich Text Editing (when enabled in field properties) PS-4580
  • More choices to choose Fonts from Document & Local Fonts PS-4727
  • Add Form Field Right-Click Options: Save Style as Default, Save Size as Default PS-4990
  • Enable changing font in combo for check/radio widgets when the font is not ZapfDingbats to resolve issue with checkboxes displaying a “4” instead of a check
  • Ability to send PDF files using JavaScript cSubmitAs PS-4781
  • Print:
  • New Option to Print as Images under Print Dialog PS-4926
  • Split option under Print button allowing to switch between PDF Studio Print dialog & native OS Print dialog PS-5019
  • Scan:
  • Additional Image Filters under Fix Scan Dialog PS-4322
  • Security & Signing:
  • Use SHA-2 algorithm instead of SHA-1 for secure timestamp PS-4932
  • Do not give a signature warning when saving an unmodified signed PDF PS-4814
  • Sub-Formats PDF/A / PDF/UA:
  • Allow clearing up PDF/A Tag from blue PDF/A banner PS-4871 **
  • Add ability to mark content as artifact PS-4698 **
  • Implement Undo when deleting an item from Tags panel PS-4588
  • User Interface:
  • New “Find Tools” to help search & locate tools on ribbon toolbar PS-4961 **
  • Change PDF Studio Default Initial View: Hide Thumbnails & Fit to Width PS-5015
  • Make File Tab toggle (to go back to previous tab) PS-4983
  • Cursor switching issues even as a tool is active PS-5033
  • Do not block all frames, only current frames when running OCR or Printing PS-4356
  • Highlight all search results occurrences, not only the current one PS-5013
  • Add ‘x’ to easily clear / reset search boxes PS-4969
  • Add buttons to enlarge or reduce page thumbnails (in addition to CTRL + Mouse scroll trick) PS-4992
  • Add shortcuts on context menus when applicable PS-4812
  • Space key shortcut for hand tool when using other tools PS-4825
  • Improve page range option when exporting pages as images PS-4807
  • Prettify registration dialog & message back PS-4930
  • Left panel is missing when exiting full screen mode PS-4792
  • Other:
  • Fast Sign: Add image scaling / resize option PS-4841
  • Ability to Delete Layers PS-492 **
  • Handle Producer and Application under Document Properties + on PDF Creation PS-4925
  • Word Convert – Auto create bookmarks based on headings PS-5151
  • Include file attachments when merging whole documents PS-4804
  • Open option to turn off the use temporary file on save in PDF Studio Viewer (under Preferences) due to conflict with Webdav and other document storage platforms PSV-43
  • Add progress bar to Overlay Comparison PS-4946
  • Remember last 10 colors used in Vector Overlay Comparison dialog PS-4844
  • Imposition: Auto-scale off by default PS-4765
  • Support opening PDF portfolios created by Acrobat Outlook plugin PS-4872
  • Fast Search Box – Options to include comments and fields broken PS-4968
  • Update installer for macos notarization support improvements

New in PDF Studio 2019.0.0 (May 23, 2019)

  • User Interface:
  • NEW Features:
  • New option to customize quick access toolbar with favorite tools
  • New split document view
  • Text markup and redaction (Pro) tools in Advanced Search
  • New Reduce Size option in File tab (Pro)
  • New option in File tab to close all documents
  • New form field Date Picker Button (Pro)
  • New field calculation order tool (Pro)
  • New option to set RTF property on form fields (Pro)
  • New options to merge & flatten layers (Pro)
  • New locale settings option in preferences
  • Enhancements:
  • Measurement tools are now a Standard feature
  • Options to collapse / minimize the ribbon toolbar
  • Option to “Include subfolder” when selecting directory for batch processing (Pro)
  • Option to “Replace page content only” when replacing pages
  • Option to create watermark in front or behind PDF content
  • Option to lock/unlock scrolling on side by side compare (Pro)
  • Option to show field tab order numbers in form editing mode (Pro)
  • Clear formatting option for text annotations
  • Additional properties now available in image properties editing dialog (Pro)
  • Ctrl + A now selects text on all pages
  • Continue scanning multiple pages when using Flatbed scanner
  • Mini toolbar now displayed when placing fields (Pro)
  • Copying and pasting Text – now preserves font, color, paragraphs
  • data_cloud Cloud Storage:
  • Google drive storage integration
  • Dropbox storage integration
  • One Drive storage integration
  • Office Logo Microsoft Office:
  • Option to embed fonts when converting Excel documents
  • Support for basic image formats (png, jpeg, bmp) in Excel conversion
  • Support for predefined shape objects (callout, shapes, lines) in Excel conversion
  • Support for simple EMF Images in Word conversion
  • Support for rotated and cropped images in Word conversion
  • Visual Comparison Tool Overlay Comparison (Pro):
  • Vector based overlay output for higher detailed comparisons (Pro)
  • Automated overlay comparison alignment tool using points on the page (Pro)
  • Overlay comparison output workflow improvements (Pro)
  • Prepress Print Mark Prepress / Print Production:
  • New Tags Panel (tag explorer) (Pro)
  • PDF UA create tag from text selection (Pro)
  • PDF/UA verification (Pro)
  • New “Advanced” document properties tab (UA options) (Pro)
  • Imposition Tool enhancements (Pro)
  • contract Digital Signatures:
  • DocuSign© integration including signing and sending for signatures
  • “Reason” is now displayed on digital signatures
  • clipboard_checks Other Enhancements:
  • Ability to export form data as CSV or Text (Pro)
  • Display option to Save As when file is read only
  • Ability to add/edit custom metadata values to the PDF
  • Basic License Key Management in License Key Dialog
  • Added JavaScript support for flatten pages
  • Many internal bugs & fixes

New in PDF Studio 2018 18.2.2 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • Profile lists on Split Buttons (i.e. Imposition) now scroll when to large
  • PDF/A Conversion: Handle invalid XMP metadata and recreate metadata from document properties entries
  • Rubber stamp drop down did not work correctly for multiple stamps in classic toolbar
  • Digital signature validation improvements when byte range is incorrect
  • Fixed bug links being selected when clicked with hand tool
  • Fixed bug merging multiple files from File Tab sometimes freezes application
  • Other internal fixes

New in PDF Studio 2018 18.2.1 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • Updated application installer to prevent MacOS Mojave permission warnings
  • Optimizer: Improved duplicate image removal logic to look in FormXObjects
  • Opened up additional “Look & Feels” on Linux for better 4k support
  • Fixed error when merging document containing flattened “Reply to” annotations
  • Fixed issue where Encrypting + Signing at the same time could corrupt some PDFs
  • Other internal fixes

New in PDF Studio 2018 18.2.0 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • Japanese language option now available
  • Mini Toolbar display tweaks & enhancements
  • Updating comment on replace text annotation would fail to refresh in comments pane
  • Properties dialog broken when multi-selecting Typewriter and Highlight annotations
  • Unable to view digital signature certificate details
  • Other internal fixes
  • PDF Studio:
  • Increased max tolerance level for analyze blank pages
  • Removed “Set default scanner” from preferences, now set in scan dialog
  • (Classic Toolbar) Rubber stamp drop down not working correctly for multiple stamps
  • Batch merge .PNG files would cause document error
  • Word to PDF – support simple EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) images
  • Word to PDF – support for styled text artwork defined as VML Objects
  • Word to PDF – improvements to floating nested table located within bullet points
  • Improved demo watermark warning message
  • PDF Studio Viewer:
  • Email PDF option is now available
  • User not prompted to save on modified document
  • Image import button would crop image
  • Unable to set application memory settings

New in PDF Studio 2018 18.1.0 (Aug 23, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Text search now finds text that spans across 2 lines, starting at the end of one line and continuing on the next
  • New Optimizer setting to preserve original image if re-compressed image is bigger than original
  • Internal file attachments are now included when converting from Word to PDF
  • Improvement to Preflight results dialog and appended report
  • Support converting to PDF/A-1b and PDF/A-3b when output intent is RGB but a shading is using DeviceCMYK
  • Remove unused resources when extracting pages from a PDF (creating resulting documents of smaller size)
  • Digital signatures applied to a PDF/A compliant document will not break the PDF/A compliance
  • New “Color” or “B&W” labels next to Tiff compression options
  • Read-only support for “Reply To” comments on annotations
  • Gradient rendering improvements
  • Ribbon toolbar tweaks & enhancements
  • Added scan button to top mini toolbar
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Flattening Fields caused barcodes & comb formatting to disappear
  • Excel conversion error creates invalid PDF document
  • Error when exporting annotations while still in editing mode
  • Duplicate images not always removed correctly during optimization
  • Images counted incorrectly in the optimizer audit report
  • Optimizer duplicate fonts logic produces inconsistent results
  • Optimizer audit does not count unused objects
  • Imposition not respecting bleed and trim boxes
  • Exception when search keyword is in the form fields using Directory Search
  • Duplex print with multiple copies print the pages on the same sheet
  • Rubber stamps date variable – only set first date
  • “$Counter” variable did not work in Custom stamp
  • Tool chest annotation doesn’t work after relaunching Studio
  • Print preview displayed the printed order instead of the document order
  • Page location didn’t update on scroll with page labels
  • Modified date not updated when saving a PDF document
  • (Linux) Non-English locale would cause Sane Direct scanning error
  • Document Specific: Infinite loop when converting Word document containing rotated wrapped cells
  • Document Specific: Converted PDF/A document would immediately fail verification

New in PDF Studio 2018 18.0.1 (May 22, 2018)

  • New Major Features:
  • Redesigned user interface with Ribbon toolbar (Classic still available)
  • Inline text content editing with reflow (Pro)
  • Support full Unicode (non-Latin) characters in Form Fields
  • (Linux) New scanning interface, including Scanning Profiles (Pro)
  • New “Fast Sign” feature
  • Create/Edit Page Templates (Pro)
  • Enhancements:
  • Imposition: better handling of bleed and trim boxes
  • Support converting to PDF/A-1b and PDF/A-3b when output intent is RGB but a shading is using DeviceCMYK
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Batch search text in form fields would show “null” results
  • Content Editing: Deselect content when switching tools
  • NullPointer exception when exporting form fields with empty rich text values
  • Barcodes would disappear when flattened
  • Converting Excel file with no content creates invalid PDF file, will now show unable to convert message
  • (Document Specific) PDF/A Validation errors when checking XMP Metada
  • (Document Specific) ArrayIndexOutOfBounds & NullPointer exceptions when editing content
  • (Document Specific) Some text would disappear during editing

New in PDF Studio 12.0.0 (Jun 6, 2017)

  • New Major Features:
  • Search Text across Multiple PDFs
  • Scanning Configurations
  • Microsoft Excel to PDF Conversion
  • Send to Word (Integration with MS Office) (Pro)
  • Page Labels (Pro)
  • Advanced Imposition (Pro)
  • Resize Pages (Pro)
  • 4K High Resolution Display Support
  • Annotations Rich Text & Multi-Language Support
  • Improved PDF Optimizer with Audit & Results (Pro)
  • User Interface:
  • Support for High Resolution displays including 4K
  • Create / Edit / View document page labels (Pro)
  • Optimizer audit & result reports (Pro)
  • Ability to minimize comparison overlay dialog (Pro)
  • Ability to resize pages including batch processing (Pro)
  • New option to Shrink Pages in Header & Footer dialog so that the header or footer does not cover-up existing page content.
  • New options to set output document size when merging PDFs (Pro)
  • New option to remove existing invisible text during OCR (Pro)
  • New option to remove blank pages from document
  • New option to flatten annotations when emailing
  • Support for Full Screen in Initial View properties
  • Annotations:
  • Per character rich text editing in Text Box, Callout, & Typewriter annotations (Bold, Italic, Underline, Crossout)
  • Annotations will support characters from any language
  • Ability to use System fonts in Text Box, Callout, & Typewriter annotations
  • New Transparency Property for Textbox / Free Text Annotations
  • Copy annotations using Ctrl + Drag
  • Annotation icons in comments pane now match color of corresponding annotation
  • Option to change icon size in comments tree
  • New line endings for polylines
  • New sticky note icon options
  • New file attachment icons
  • New border style options for links
  • Microsoft Office:
  • PDF to Word (Microsoft integration with Office 2013 or higher) (Pro)
  • Excel to PDF (Pro)
  • Font Improvements:
  • UTF8 Support in properties labels
  • Subset embedding of fonts
  • Prepress / Print Production:
  • Advanced Imposition Module for prepress production (Pro)
  • Printer marks including Trim, Bleed, Registration, & Page info (Pro)
  • New preflight Verification profiles – PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3b (Pro)
  • New PDF/A conversion profiles: PDF/A-2b & PDF/A-3b (Pro)
  • Now able to embed System fonts for PDF/A conversion, previously only Standard PDF fonts were supported (Pro)
  • Search Tools:
  • Search text in multiple PDF documents at once using directory or recent files list
  • New option to search into attached PDF files
  • Printing:
  • Ability to print overlay view (Pro)
  • Custom Scale Print Option
  • Scanning:
  • Straighten/Deskew scanned images (Pro)
  • Scanning Configurations
  • Manual color conversions for unsupported scanners
  • Other Enhancements:
  • New variables for Bookmarks and Page labels to be used in for Watermarks, Headers/Footers, as well as Rubber stamp annotations
  • Ability to compress object streams in optimizer (Pro)
  • Dynamic Field Renaming Feature (Pro)
  • Many internal bugs & fixes

New in PDF Studio 11.0.7 (Apr 14, 2017)

  • Fixed issue where creating text annotations from Toolchest could sometimes corrupt the document
  • Fixed issue with Javascript custom formatting such as ‘yyyymm’ in date field
  • No longer throwing a validation error on blank formatted date fields
  • No longer trying to fix invalid date formats in form fields. Validation error message will be shown instead

New in PDF Studio 11.0.6 (Feb 23, 2017)

  • Some High DPI (4K) enhancements to make most application functions usable (Full support coming in version 12)
  • Fixed an issue where Digital ID fields not properly escaping special characters (i.e. commas in title)
  • Fixed issue preventing access to view annotation properties when annotation has locked property set
  • (Mac) Alternate printing option when “No Print Service Found” error is displayed (caused by recent MacOS Sierra update)
  • Fixed issue displaying checkbox values with incorrectly formatted font or values
  • Fixed JavaScript issues with CA gov. tax forms
  • Fixed issue with invalid installer certificate

New in PDF Studio 11.0.5 (Jan 22, 2017)

  • New option to allow drawing annotations over existing annotations on the page. See Preferences -> Comments -> “Allow drawing overlapping comments”
  • (Windows 10) Fixed issue where PDF Studio not listed in “Open With” menu
  • (macOS El Capitan or higher) Unable to launch email application from PDF Studio
  • (Mac) Fixed issue where importing settings file with empty directory would fail
  • Fixed rubber stamp issue when zoomed to 10%
  • Fixed issue where right-click menu failed to display after copying specific content
  • Fixed JavaScript issue with numerical constants not being used in Simplified Notation

New in PDF Studio 11.0.4 (Jan 22, 2017)

  • (Mac) USB Smart Card ID’s not listed (see: setup USB Smart Card Hardware PKCS11 signing on Mac)
  • Fixed issue where adding rubber stamps to “My Comments” would fail
  • Fixed issue where multiple link annotations were removed when using the “undo” toolbar button
  • Fixed issue where making changes in text box properties dialog while cursor was active would sometimes lose changes
  • No longer attempt to set file associations on Windows 10 (Windows 10 security now prevents applications from being able to set default applications programmatically)
  • Fixed issue where changing redaction color would still leave a black border (content was still being redacted correctly)

New in PDF Studio 11.0.3 (Sep 18, 2016)

  • NEW option to turn rubber stamp previews on/off under Preferences > Comments > Display stamp previews
  • Fixed issue preventing second signature from being added on rotated pages
  • Better handling of loading fonts missing from form resources
  • Fixed issue pasting annotations containing Bold/Italic text across documents
  • (Mac) Fixed missing options in file attachment context menu
  • Restored logic to read and use ToUnicode stream as a CID CMap
  • Fixed issue with file attachment icon getting larger on save
  • Updated some new error dialogs with better messages
  • Fixed issue preventing all optimizer profiles from being removed
  • Fixed PDF/A conversion failing when PDF/A XMP metadata was already specified
  • (Document Specific) “Auto” font size not resized when first opened
  • Welcome screen not updating after registering Pro license key
  • Fixed issue where “Set Visually” would not work on Page Properties action
  • Fixed issue where the “pagemode=thumbs” command line argument would not work
  • Removed “Print to File” option on Mac since it is not supported by Java
  • Fixed issue causing stamps to resize when being rotated
  • Other internal bugs and fixes

New in PDF Studio 11.0.2 (Sep 11, 2016)

  • Text box issue when a border is set to 0 the fill color did not work
  • Fixed ability to add a second (or more) additional signature to a document
  • Fixed typewriter cursor position when editing Japanese text
  • Fixed typewriter annotation not sized correctly during CJK language entry
  • Image rubber stamp would disappear when flattened on document created from TIFF image
  • (Mac) unable to hide signature toolbar button in toolbar settings
  • Handle missing spell check languages more gracefully when not available
  • Unable to optimize specific documents when running in demo mode
  • Unable to save a blank new document
  • Currently active form field would not save data using File>Save or File>Save As from the menu unless focus was lost
  • Optimizer: black sections when compressing JPEG images with ICC color spaces or CMYK color spaces at a specific DPI
  • Page size units in print dialog now match settings set in preferences
  • Better handling of saved measurement calibration values when changing languages

New in PDF Studio 11.0.1 (May 23, 2016)

  • Unable to edit properties of multiple form fields at once
  • Welcome screen fixes on the Mac
  • Document Specific: CJK fonts not displayed when glyph has no contours
  • Minor fix to French labels

New in PDF Studio 11.0.0 (May 23, 2016)

  • New Major Features in Version 11:
  • Welcome Screen with Recent Files &Useful Shortcuts
  • Annotations and Form Fields Spell Checker
  • Major Rubber Stamps Redo (Dynamic, Preview, Predefined and PDF Stamps)
  • Enhanced Print Dialog
  • Quick Text Search (in addition to Advanced Search)
  • Major Memory & Performance Enhancements
  • Many New Batch Functions (Pro)
  • Output Preview for Overprint (Pro)
  • Non-Latin OCR Languages (Pro)
  • Image Improvements (Unlimited size, Faster)
  • Text to Speech for Accessibility (postponed to version 11.1)
  • Font Improvements
  • Many Other Enhancements
  • User Interface:
  • New welcome screen that allows you to quickly open recent new files, create PDFs from various sources, or access the user guide and knowledge base.
  • Improved UI for Header & Footer and Watermark dialogs
  • New page rotation icons in thumbnail pane
  • Improved split document menu options with default profiles
  • Improved progress dialogs with standard layout and more detailed information
  • Ability to move objects in larger increments using the “arrow” + “shift” keys
  • Mac: Support for the “Split View” feature
  • Mac: Fixed support for “Pinch to Zoom” and “Swipe to Navigate” gestures on touch pads
  • Updates to split document profiles
  • Spell Checker for Annotations and Form Fields:
  • Spell check added for annotations and form fieldsSpellCheckTextBox
  • Options to enable/disable as well as ignore words in ALL CAPS and numbers in words
  • 9 language options available
  • Support for spell checking multiple languages at once
  • Custom words dictionary to add/edit/remove custom words for the spelling dictionary
  • Text to Speech for Accessibility (Postponed to Version 11.1):
  • Speech synthesis that converts text within the document into spoken voice output for the visually impaired
  • Ability to read either selected text or entire document
  • Enhanced Printer Dialog:
  • Document Preview: preview window displaying what the document will look like once printed, navigation buttons allowing you to navigate the preview pages, and document properties showing selected paper and document sizes.preview
  • Current View: Option to print only the current view of the document displayed in PDF Studio. For example, this can be useful when needing to print a small bit of a huge technical drawing
  • Enhanced Page Ranges: “Pages” option allowing a custom range of pages if needed using values separated by commas. For example, to print only pages 2 to 4 & 6 to 12 & 20 of a 30 page document the user would enter “2-4, 6-12, 20″.
  • Print to File: Option to print to a .prn file instead of directly to the printer. This allows you to reprint the document without running or even having the original application that created the file.
  • Multiple pages per sheet printing options
  • Booklet printing options
  • New option to print the form field values only
  • Rubber Stamps:
  • New dynamic stamps that will add current time and date when placed
  • New standard “Sign Here” stampsnew stamps
  • New text stamp formatting options including: font size, bold, italic, alignment, and border options.
  • Create stamps from PDFs with support for JavaScript for even more stamp possibilities
  • Ability to export and import all stamps when migrating to a new computer
  • Improved stamp manager including ability to cut and paste stamp groups
  • Quick Text Search:
  • New search dialog to quickly find the next instance of text within the document
  • Improved search result speed
  • New Batch Functions (Pro):
  • New batch print dialog displays previews of all documents in batch
  • New batch functions
  • Flatten Fields
  • Reset Fields
  • Delete Comments
  • Flatten Comments
  • Rasterize
  • Delete Pages
  • Rotate Pages
  • Output Preview for Overprint (Pro):
  • Print production tools used to simulate how the document will look once printed using different color profiles
  • Easily switch between print simulation and display
  • Change the background color of the document during simulation
  • Non-Latin OCR Languages (Pro):
  • Ability to recognize non-latin text in a document
  • Many additional New Languages being added
  • Ability to OCR two different languages at once
  • Support for ligature characters
  • Image Improvements:
  • New JPEG 2000 decoder (to eliminate black spots on special image types)
  • JPEG transparency issues when optimizing (carry masks over to new images after compression)
  • Handle infinite size image other than CCITT and JPEG
  • New image compression options when importing images as pages
  • New image compression options when importing images as stamp
  • Better error handling for images with corrupted metadata
  • New JPEG2000 option when rasterizing documents
  • Allow editing image properties in content editing
  • Font Improvements:
  • Embedding of system fonts in Word to PDF with fallback font options
  • Non-Latin character improvements (most languages now supported including CJK fonts)
  • Form fields missing characters in sub-setted fonts (font replacement)
  • Annotations support for CJK fonts in text annotations appearance
  • Improved CJK font substitution logic to search for fonts in additional directories for each OS
  • Bookmarks:
  • Highlight current bookmark
  • Expand current bookmark
  • Support for JavaScript actions in bookmarks
  • Other Enhancements:
  • Memory and performance enhancements to drastically reduce the use of system resources (especially for Retina displays)
  • Settings manager to export or import various PDF Studio preferences or restore application defaults
  • Updated OCR engine for improved results
  • Embed fonts when converting Word to PDF
  • Incorrect font names in document properties
  • Ability to search text in form fields
  • Comments can be added to measurement annotations
  • Set a vertical scale for measurement annotation
  • Better handling of exporting grouped annotations
  • Grouped annotations now display children in comments pane and can be edited individually
  • Support for “Save As” action in buttons
  • No stamp preview in manager if document was not open
  • Stamps could be lost when cutting category in stamps manager
  • Unable to change standard stamp colors
  • Support JavaScript actions to set layer properties
  • Ability to select and save more than one attachment at a time
  • Option to delete pages after extraction

New in PDF Studio 10.4.1 (May 23, 2016)

  • Fix registration issues on Windows and Linux introduced by latest installer update.

New in PDF Studio 10.4.0 (Apr 8, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Major memory improvements, especially on Retina screens.
  • Bugs:
  • Printing landscape not always working from PDF Studio Print Dialog
  • Sticky not working on some stamps

New in PDF Studio 10.3.0 (Feb 25, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Improved annotation export organization and structure for .txt and XML outputs
  • Header & Footer page numbering now starts at “1” instead of “0”
  • Bugs:
  • Grouped Annotations not being exported
  • (Mac) Crisp text highlights on the Mac when PDF Studio is installed using the 64-bit Mac installer
  • (Document Specific) Fail to display text on some text fields containing default value
  • Unable to edit combo box option once the option was selected in the field
  • Password fields displayed as empty instead of displaying dots (i.e. ••••••••)
  • Misspelled date preview in form field formatting properties
  • Internal bug fixes

New in PDF Studio 10.2.0 (Sep 23, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Updated and Improved online user guide. Go to Help->PDF Studio Help or http://www.qoppa.com/files/pdfstudio/guide to access the new guide.
  • Bugs:
  • Clipping issues when moving flattened text annotations
  • Issue with select all and zoom (select all function only selected a portion of the text)
  • Issue handling special font character during PDF/A Conversion
  • Fixed issue with rotating stamps that have transparency
  • (Mac) Document properties dialog broken when using drag and drop to open document
  • (Mac) Printing 1 bit per pixel images failed to print
  • (Mac) Issue when printing some images using CCITT image compression (Pages would print blank)
  • OCR: Improvements to better handle different image types
  • Issue with Save As when running from command line (dialog would not display)
  • (Unix) Issue with save on Solaris when running from command line (“Error renaming temp file at /var/tmp/pdf*.filename..tmp”)
  • Internal fixes

New in PDF Studio 10.1.0 (Jul 21, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Regression: Reverted to previous behavior when dragging thumbnails across documents to copy pages. To move pages instead of deleting them, now use Ctrl + drag. Read more about moving or copying pages using the thumbnail pane.
  • (Linux) Linux users can digitally sign PDFs using USB Smart Card Hardware PKCS11
  • Batch Preflight: Add PDF/A-1b Validation Profile
  • Bugs:
  • Text to PDF spinners do not update while changing units when not in English
  • Form fields randomly resizing
  • [Windows] Non-Modal dialog causes frames to flash when opening multiple files
  • Remove link action immediately when linked page is deleted
  • Don’t flatten redaction annotations
  • Rotation handle should not show when multiple stamps are selected
  • Rasterize Dialog: Start JPEG Quality at 1 instead of 0
  • Compare feature displays an error loading file when opening a Word doc or any other supported format
  • Linux GTK Look & Feel: ClassCastException in spinner
  • Text Selection – Ctrl+A broken in some documents
  • NullPointerException when importing callout annotations
  • Batch Preflight rewriting files when not needed
  • Changing tab order in field pane is broken
  • Preview issue with stamps that are both transparent & rotated
  • (Document Specific) Some text highlight would highlight return characters
  • (Document Specific) Fail to open a document containing JPEG 2000 compression
  • [Ubuntu 15.04] “Buy Now” does not work
  • Scanning Dialog: Color Format Label Issues
  • Missing message internationalization when overwriting a profile for Header / Footer or Watermark
  • Missing label international in FileAttach properties dialog and Redaction Properties Dialog
  • OCR Dialog: DPI Resolution Label Issue (MissingResourceException)
  • Scan Insert Dialog: Missing label internationalization
  • Optimizer Dialog: Label typo in Optimizer default profile “Agressive” should be changed to “Aggressive”

New in PDF Studio 10.0.1 (Jul 21, 2015)

  • Fixes and Minor Improvements:
  • Exporting comments with invalid or illegal character as XFDF is now handled better
  • (Mac) Display issue with Overlay Comparison on Retina Displays
  • Copy and Pasting Radio Button now preserves the border
  • Rubber stamps were not using author name defined under tool preferences
  • Typewriter would not work when not in Sticky mode
  • Cursor issue introduced with new date picker component: not able to clear or type date field sometimes
  • Flattening a redaction annotation would cause an error on the page
  • Optimizer not recognizing some Black & White images (B/W images processes as if they were Gray images)
  • Optimizer not handling images contained in FormXObjects
  • Improved memory usage on Mac OS X in OCR or when rasterizing a large document (java heap space error)
  • Mouse scroll zoom not responding sometimes
  • (Windows) Twain scanning was broken on Windows (WIA scanning was always used)
  • Flashing / flickering issue when double-clicking to open documents sometimes
  • Issue with multi-annotations editing for typewriters, where note content was updated when it should not
  • Issue with setting Text to PDF preferences when running in other languages than English
  • Internal fixes

New in PDF Studio 10.0.0 (Apr 1, 2015)

  • New Major Features:
  • Optimizer to Reduce PDF File Size (pro)
  • UI Redesign & Enhancement
  • Touch Mode for Tablets
  • Convert from PDF to HTML5
  • New Visual Comparison Tool (Overlay) (Pro)
  • New Printing and Scanning Dialogs
  • Improved Recent File List
  • Many Annotations, Links and Form Fields Improvements
  • Enhancements in Layers and Bookmarks Handling
  • And many more new features and enhancements…
  • Reduce and optimize PDF file sizes with options including:
  • Read more about how to optimize PDF documents with PDF Studio
  • Create Optimizer profiles
  • Image Processing: Changing the compression, down sampling, or changing the color space
  • Object Removal: Removing unused resources, attachments, alternate images
  • Other Options: Flatten comments, compressing uncompressed streams, merging duplicate fonts and so much more!
  • Batch optimize multiple files at once
  • UI Redesign and Enhancement:
  • Icon redesign to a more modern, minimalist design that’s easy on the eyes
  • Consolidated menus for faster access to tools and options
  • Added more keyboard shortcuts
  • Added progress information for advanced functions
  • Improved Navigation
  • New view option for rulers & Grid display with customizable options
  • New view option for Reading mode (it is not a full screen but all toolbars and panes are hidden to enhance the reading experience)
  • Undo & Redo toolbar buttons can be enabled in preferences
  • Save As toolbar button can be enabled in preferences
  • Touch Mode for Tablets:
  • Enlarged re-size handles on annotations and form fields for easier control
  • New large and extra large icon sizes for easier viewing on high resolution displays
  • Enlarged fonts and rows in comments and thumbnail panes.
  • Touch mode button for easy switching between modes
  • Mini toolbar during object selection for quick access to delete & show properties
  • Viewing pane navigation buttons for previous and next page
  • Conversion To and From PDF:
  • New PDF to HTML5 Conversion. Look under File>Convert to…>HTML5 / SVG HTML5_Logo_64
  • Improvements to our proprietary Word to PDF converter, including support for WMF images used for mathematical equations and formulas.
  • Visual Comparison Tool Overlay Comparison (Pro):
  • Compare 2 drawings or documents and immediately identify the differences using color coding:
  • Elements present only in first drawing appear in red
  • Elements present only in second drawing appear in green
  • Alignment tools allow moving and resizing second document dynamically for perfect match
  • Easily switch back and forth between overlay comparison and side by side comparison. (Pro)
  • Option to export the overlay comparison as a new PDF, with the 2 drawings included as layers.
  • Layers:
  • Assign comments to a layer through the properties dialog
  • Flatten all comments belonging to a layer through the layer context menu
  • Support for Show/Hide layers action in form fields, link or bookmarks
  • Add new layers through the layer pane toolbar (Pro)
  • Assign an active layer to add comments to through the layer context menu (Pro)
  • Import PDF as a new layer or on an existing layer (Pro)
  • View and edit layer properties (name, default state, show on print, locked) (Pro)
  • Fix issue with layer visibility for nested layers
  • Printing / Scanning scanner:
  • New PDF Studio Print Dialog. New options for printing: printing specific pages, reverse pages, show or hide comments, etc… This will give more possibilities for printers / drivers that don’t support all features, especially on Linux.
  • Support for WIA scanning on Windows
  • Support for ICA scanning on the Mac
  • Improved PDF creation options when scanning. Added a “Reverse Interleave” insert option useful to scan double-sided when scanner does not support duplex.
  • Option to split by blank scanned pages, i.e, pages that look blank versus pages that have no content
  • Linux – Fix scanning issue with certain scanner drivers reverting from the selected scanning resolution to the default resolution, set at 75DPI.
  • Recent File History:
  • Improved Recent File List will now keep 500 files in the history, with easy access to the 10 most recent files.
  • Recent files are ordered by period: This Week, Last Week, 2 Weeks Ago, 3 Weeks ago, etc…
  • Ability to clear recent file list history.
  • New user preference allowing to restore page view and magnification when reopening a document. Look under Preferences -> Display.
  • Annotation Improvements:
  • Edit multiple annotations at once through the properties dialog (in version 9, this was only possible through the quick property toolbar).
  • Movable vertices for poly-line and polygon annotations
  • Support for border style (dash, cloud, etc…) in all shape annotations
  • Easily rotate stamps with a rotation handle
  • Rotation Handle
  • Measurement annotations improvements: new option to display area and perimeter measurements on the page.
  • Changing caps only when editing annotation note or author would not save / take effect
  • Improved curve smoothing on pencil annotations: No longer cutting off edges. See also the new pencil tool property “Smooth Curves” that allows to turn curve smoothing off. Tablet users have asked us for this as the stylus already performs some smoothing…
  • Added ability to create points or dots with the pencil annotation. (Previously dots were not recognized)
  • Change transparency dynamically to existing and custom rubber stamps
  • Change the z-order of annotations with new Send to Back/Bring to Front options
  • Text annotations in Linux not displaying in Courier font.
  • New “Text Property” toolbar for interactive objects, separate from the visual property toolbar, customizable with bold and italic.
  • Pasting text from Outlook, Word would sometimes create a black image stamp.
  • Form Field Improvements:
  • Date picker for date fields
  • Sticky fields to add multiple fields easily
  • Added sticky and default tools properties for form fields
  • New option to always show properties dialog when adding a field
  • Form Field Editor (Pro): Edit field names directly in the field tree
  • New “reset” option in form field context menu (in form edit mode)
  • Improvements to the combo field editing
  • Support image scaling in button field
  • Support all image types (not only JPEG) when importing images into a button field with Javascript (event.target.buttonImportIcon())
  • Handle both field widget and page rotation for text orientation
  • Content Editing & OCR (Pro):
  • Display compression & DPI under image object properties
  • Display color spaces for path and image objects
  • No more refresh issues where objects seemed to be disappearing when moved (due to clipping issues on specific documents)
  • Font size for text content object would sometimes be incorrect under the properties dialog
  • New OCR resolution option to reduce noise and improve results
  • PDF Redaction Redaction (Pro):
  • New option in Redaction to add text to the redaction annotation with properties for font, font size, auto resize, color, alignment, and repeat text. The text is added on top of the redacted rectangle when the redaction annotation is burnt or applied. Look under the properties dialog or under the Redaction tool properties under Preferences -> Comments.
  • Bookmarks:
  • More options when editing bookmark actions: zoom and option to set the destination visually
  • Edit the style of multiple bookmarks at once.
  • Set defaults for bookmarks style
  • Allow selection of multiple bookmarks at different hierarchy levels
  • Left, right, up, & down arrows to move bookmarks in the tree
  • Cut/ paste bookmarks in the tree (in addition to existing cut and paste)
  • Document Split / Merge:
  • Split by blank scanned page – set the tolerance levels for blank pages to easily split scanned pages that may still have small marks on them.
  • When 2 tagged documents are merged, the tag structures are also merged.
  • New functions in the thumbnail pane when multi-selecting pages:
  • Support for modifiers: Shift (or no modifier) +Drag to move pages, CTRL+Drag to copy pages
  • Drag out to create a new file in a folder on your machine with the selected pages
  • See new entry for “Copy to New PDF” and “Move to New PDF” under the mouse context (right-click) menu.
  • Other Enhancements and Fixes:
  • Link tool now highlights all links so they are easily identifiable and editable.
  • Linux – Support for Thunderbird email application or customize to open any other email application.
  • Fixed issue when reading EchoSign digital signatureswhen reading the signer and expiration date info.
  • Linux – Added Chrome to the list of supported browsers for opening links. PDF Studio will open the first browser found on the machine, among the following: “firefox”, “opera”, “konqueror”, “epiphany”, “mozilla”, “netscape”, “google-chrome”. The issue with this approach is that it does not use the default browser but it is the most reliable approach for opening a browser across Linux distribution.
  • New function to “rasterize” a PDF, which consists in re-creating the document using images of the pages instead of vector commands. Look under Images -> Rasterize PDF. It’s a shortcut for exporting a PDF to images and then re-importing the images into a new PDF.
  • Search dialog user interface was a bit improved. Also, upon opening the dialog, the search box will now default to text currently selected in the document, if any. A problem with slower speed on subsequent searches was also resolved.
  • More support for undo: allow to undo adding attachments and importing annotations.
  • Show if a document is tagged for accessibility under Document Properties.
  • Under document properties, xmp metadata will now show in an expandable, collapsible tree.
  • Removed integration with document services (Google Drive, Sharepoint). Read why.
  • Ability to specify custom page size when adding a blank page
  • New user setting to disable in-app messaging
  • Improve performance on text extraction (slow with new text model).
  • Some improvements CJK fonts support.
  • Mac – ability to drag and drop supported image files and Word documents into PDF Studio app for a conversion to PDF on the fly.
  • Improvement to PDF Studio log files to help with customer support.

New in PDF Studio 9.2.1 (Feb 11, 2015)

  • When exporting comments to FDF and immediately saving the document, the saved PDF was sometimes corrupted.
  • When scanning into a new PDF, trying to edit content would not work, until the document was saved.

New in PDF Studio 9.2.0 (Nov 22, 2014)

  • Mac: Support for ICA (Image Capture Acquisition) scanning
  • Some improvements to the scanning process including remembering the default scanner for Twain
  • Mac Yosemite: New 64-bit installer, does not prompt to download Java
  • Mac: Crisp text highlights on the Mac when PDF Studio is installed using the 64-bit Mac installer
  • A few improvements in the registration process
  • Pencil / ink annotations were sometimes cut-off due to curve smoothing
  • Regression Bug: Allow to search text when text extraction is not allowed in document security
  • Regression Bug: Printing Preferences “Expand to Margins” not working
  • Regression Bug: Linearizing document with change permissions not allowed throws error and creates null document
  • Regression Bug: Unable to search text when document permission do not allow to extract text
  • Document Specific: Text being rendered upside down
  • Document Specific: Unable to open document signed by DocuSign

New in PDF Studio 9.1.0 (Sep 3, 2014)

  • Improved performance when opening a PDF document containing lots of annotations, the first page will render much faster.
  • New Batch OCR function allowing to add searchable text to a batch of PDFs at once.
  • New Batch PDF/A Conversion allowing to convert a batch of PDF to the PDF/A format at once.
  • New option to replicate / repeat form fields on multiple pages. Look for the new “Duplicate” entry in the field mouse context menu.
  • Ability to configure which CJK fonts to use in PDF Studio by default (when the CJK are not embedded in the document).
  • Some improvements to PDF Studio’s Word to PDF converter.
  • (Mac) Text sizing was sometimes incorrect on the Mac for text added by the OCR function.
  • (Mac) Text highlights were sometimes printing opaque on the Mac (using an alpha composite).
  • Button fields with images can now be copied and edited. It is also possible to associate a PDF, or any supported file types in PDF Studio, for the image of the button field.
  • Better handling of font reading errors when displaying the font list under Document Properties -> Fonts tab.
  • The polyline tool was using the preferences defined for the polygon tool.
  • Cloud and Distance annotations were using the same shortcut key.
  • Fix an issue with the JavaScript calc method not taking into account all fields (terminal fields were ignored).
  • No more diagonal watermark in evaluation mode (the demo header remains).
  • Vertical text would sometimes display too bold due to an issue with misinterpreting the outline width property.
  • It was not possible to hide alignment toolbar under Preferences -> Toolbars.
  • It was not possible to turn of “stickiness” on the Redaction tool.
  • Consolidate export options for Comments under the main menu and the comments pane.
  • When no document is open, Forms -> Create / Edit Form will now create a new empty form. There is no need anymore to create a new document before switching to the form editor mode.
  • Navigation issues with Page Up and Page Down keys when in facing mode or zoomed out when in single mode.
  • When adding AES 256 encryption to a PDF with a permission password but no open password, the encrypted document required a password to open in other PDF viewers.
  • When the redaction tool is active, clicking the CTRL key will force the cross cursor / drag mode for rectangular selection and forget the cursor selection.
  • Add red border for required signature fields.
  • Fix issue with saving non-latin character under Document Properties.
  • Some certificates were not read properly after we upgraded to the latest Bouncy Castle libraries leading to an invalid signature appearance.
  • Document Specific Fixes:
  • Document initial view was not always set properly upon opening a document.
  • Allow validation of certificate that was issued by a CA, but where the CA’s certificate is not included in the chain.
  • Issue with document display after signing and reopening document with facing view mode.
  • Converting a specific file to to linearized was causing a stack overflow.
  • Some fields missing appearance streams and font information were not displayed properly on form LPA114.
  • NullPointerException when printing a PDF due to an exception in the getClipBounds method.
  • Text in form fields stretched vertically.
  • Incorrect tab order due to a page rotated not taken into account.
  • Fix exception “Missing AES Cipher: Given Final Block Not Properly Padded.” on Form I130.
  • Fix issues with text editing and undo.

New in PDF Studio 9.0.2 (May 16, 2014)

  • Fixes and Minor Improvements:
  • Added JavaScript support for event.target.buttonImportIcon() which can be used to add an image icon to a button (make sure “image” is enabled under option so the icon on the button shows).
  • Added more error details in the Batch Result Error Dialog when a file fails.
  • Focus issue when opening PDF documents not in the first frame but in subsequent frames which was affecting keystroke navigation.
  • Navigation issue with Page Up/Down not working correctly in Facing, Single and Cover page modes. To fix this on the Mac, we removed the grow box, which was no longer needed since Mac Lion 10.7 was released, we kept the grow box on Snow Leopard 10.6.
  • Loupe tool in the form editing view not working in the form editor mode.
  • Document Specific: Fix issues with PDFs containing negative font size affecting text search, text highlight, redaction and printing (used to print reverse).
  • Document Specific / Mac Only: Regression issue when printing specific certain scanned PDF documents on the Mac. This issue was introduced with the new rendering algorithm in version 9 which improved memory and performance when rendering big images. It seemed to print a mostly white page as it kept on printing the same horizontal area over.
  • Document Specific: Issue when opening form which contained a field marked as sub-type field but nonetheless contained children (this is not correct according to the PDF specs).
  • Mac 64bit installer (beta installer) Fix issue with OCR for which the error log was: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libtiff.3.dylib.

New in PDF Studio 9.0.1 (May 8, 2014)

  • Fixes:
  • Ability to customize page thumbnail size beyond the 3 standard options (small, medium, large), using the scroll-wheel (CTRL + scroll on Windows and Linux, ALT + scroll on Mac).
  • Fix issue with installer where it would sometimes hang in the update scheduler screen.
  • Show font name for Type3 fonts when available under Document Properties -> Font List.
  • Some minor improvements around annotations alignment, especially when resizing lines and arrows.
  • Fix for JavaScript Issue with Form 1040.
  • Fix issue when scanning in Gray under Linux (java.lang.ClassCastException: java.awt.image.ComponentColorModel cannot be cast to java.awt.image.IndexColorModel).
  • Fix issue when trying to save as some PDFs (Headless reference can not be written).
  • In the Convert to PDF/A dialog, clicking “x” on top right corner will now cancel the conversion process.
  • Fix an issue with upside-down header and footers in specific PDF documents.
  • Fix an issue when opening specific PDFs containing inline images (Illegal character ‘>’)
  • Fix issue where any error during scanning would display as a “System Error” instead of a more detailed, informative message (such as no scanner installed or scanning cancelled).
  • Internal fixes.

New in PDF Studio 8.3.2 (Nov 25, 2013)

  • Document -> Add Blank Page would sometimes add the new page at the end of the document instead of after the selected page.
  • Improvements were made to our registration process such as the ability handling ‘terminal server’-type environment and better logging in case of activation problem.

New in PDF Studio 8.3.0 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • On Linux, default look and feel is now set to Nimbus instead of GTK. Read more about the dark unreadable menu issue in java in Ambiance theme starting in Ubuntu 12.04.
  • Fix issue when opening protected forms for which form filling was disabled. This was an issue with PDF documents signed with Echosign, for example.
  • Fix issue with initial view settings, document would not open to the specified page.
  • Fix issue with interactive combo fields where the down arrow would show even when not in edit mode (this issue only happened in some JavaScript enabled forms).
  • Fix issue with the crop function that would crop all pages even when only a subset of pages were selected.
  • Fix some issues with form submission HTML responses.
  • Fix “Unrecognized postscript command: le” error that occurred on some documents .
  • Fix ClassCastException error when editing text for some specific text objects.
  • Tweaks to registration process: more user-friendly, easier for enterprise distribution, try when possible to un-register on uninstall.
  • In batch processes, suffix that was appended to output file names (ie “_header” for a header batch) was removed . This only happened when the overwrite flag for file names was unchecked.
  • Fix an issue with Adobe Reader enabled documents: such PDFs can not be secured (to avoid encryption problems).
  • Fix issue with Bates Numbering when applied to a batch: Bates number would not carry over from one document to the next.

New in PDF Studio 8.2.2 (Apr 22, 2013)

  • Improved text highlights to be more crisp and clear.
  • More Undo / redo functionality:
  • Improved undo for text editing and copying / pasting content editing.
  • Fixed issue with undo stack being cleared after rotating a page.
  • Restored some missing translations (German, French, Spanish, Italian) that were lost in v8.2.0.
  • When exiting the application and choosing to save your changes, if PDF Studio encountered any issue during save (e.g., if the file was locked), the application would exit anyway. With the new version, PDF Studio will give the opportunity to save changes under a different file name or resolve the lock issue.

New in PDF Studio 8.2.0 (Feb 16, 2013)

  • Round corners on text highlights
  • Fix issue with registration introduced with our new website.
  • Fix issue with Batch Crop and rotated pages.
  • Watermarks and header & footer applied through Batch Watermark are now removable.
  • Fix issue with editing a rotated text markup where rotation was sometimes not preserved.
  • Fix “jumping” issue when editing font size of a typewriter annotation when zoomed in.
  • Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 8.1.0 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • Major redo in text selection, now cursor based option and column support
  • Huge improvements in performance and memory
  • Support for Javascript in interactive forms for fields formatting, calculation and validation
  • OCR for Windows
  • New display (look and feel) options
  • New pan and zoom tool
  • Undo
  • Remove watermarks and headers / footers
  • Arrange windows in cascade / tiles (on all operating systems)
  • Option to create rotated text and image stamps
  • Option to save PDF document as linearized for optimized web viewing
  • Many enhancements around interactive forms
  • And many more new features and enhancements

New in PDF Studio 7.4.0 (Apr 10, 2012)

  • Tabbing Through Fields: When tabbing to navigate through fields in an interactive form, if the field is a single line text field, the contents of the field is now selected. This will help when editing data within form fields.
  • Submit Forms: Support for Submit and Reset button actions in interactive PDF forms and receiving data back from the server in FDF, XFDF, HTML format.
  • Document Properties XMP Meta Data: When creating new documents or updating existing document properties, PDF Studio creates or updates the XMP metadata so both document's properties dictionary and XMP meta data are kept in synch.
  • Tool Chest: Recent Comments and My Comments under the toolchest now show the text note associated with each comment as a tooltip so users can distinguish them easily.
  • Text Selection and Highlight: Text selection area was off when compared to the mouse cursor making it difficult to select text on a page. Introduced in version 7.
  • Internal Links & Bookmarks:
  • When merging multiple documents through Document -> Append Document, some links were broken.
  • Better handling of bookmarks and go to page actions which should improve bookmarks retention when inserting and deleting pages.
  • Word to PDF Conversion: Many improvements in our proprietary Word to PDF converter including support for additional image types, border widths in tables, lines, rectangle and elliptical shapes, justified list paragraphs, paragraph borders, justified text in table cells and a few bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 7.3.1 (Mar 2, 2012)

  • Fixed issue with Text Edit: Sometimes, our PDF font engine needs to add space characters to represent empty white space between characters within text content strings. When this happened, PDF Studio would identify the added space characters as invalid and would not let users edit these strings.
  • Fixed issue with Color Chooser Component: When editing annotations colors, recent color swaps were not remembered within the color chooser component. Recent colors will now be remembered within a session (until PDF Studio is exited).
  • Fixed issue with Preflight: When derived, type1 fonts were not reported as embedded in the preflight report.
  • Fixed issue with Media Toolbar: In some rare circumstances due to specific buttons visibility settings within the media toolbar, PDF Studio would not start.

New in PDF Studio 7.03 (Jan 27, 2012)

  • Fixed issue with Google Docs: "files must be uploaded using the resumable upload mechanism"this issue doesn't happen for users of Google Apps For Business "Premier" accounts. It only seems to affect individual gmail account holders.

New in PDF Studio 7.02 (Jan 25, 2012)

  • Improvements:
  • Remember Last Tool Used: Grouped buttons on the toolbar remember the last tool used after restarting PDF Studio.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed issues with smtp connection in the newly added email function.
  • Fixed an issue with image removal.
  • Fixed issue when trying to save annotated documents in side by side comparison mode.

New in PDF Studio 7.00 (Dec 21, 2011)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Content Editing (Text, Images and Shapes) [Pro Only] - Manipulate the objects in your PDF documents with the new Edit Content tool. Using this tool, you can select single or multiple objects such as text, image, or path objects and move them around or delete them. 

  • Edit and delete text
  • Change text properties such as color, line width, font size
  • Manual redaction for text and images (remove from content or apply black rectangle)
  • Move, resize, and save images
  • Move, resize shapes and path objects
  • UI Enhancements and Customizations
  • Customizable Toolbars - Customize toolbar visibility and grouping to suit your preferences and the way you work with PDF Studio. This feature can be accessed by right clicking on the toolbar or from the view menu.
  • Customizable Look & Feel - Choose your favorite Look and Feel among our new options.
  • Updated Preferences Dialog - The new design of the Preferences dialog comes in a list layout which makes it easier to find and set options.
  • Identify Secure Documents - (SECURED) is displayed after the PDF document name in the title frame allowing users to immediately identify documents secured with passwords. This should help users understand why they can't make some changes when viewing encrypted files. 

  • Loupe Tool - Easily magnify small details on a PDF document. The loupe lool displays a magnified portion of the PDF that matches the area of the adjustable rectangle in the document window. This tool will be useful in a number of industries such as printing, graphics, electronics, and biology.

  • Compare Side by Side - Compare two versions of a PDF with our new side by side view. With synchronized scrolling, you will be able to review both documents at the same time and find the differences at even the smallest details using the sophisticated "double loupe tool". 

  • Email PDFs As Attachments - Enter your email server information once and easily send PDF documents with a single click directly from PDF Studio. This feature should help users collaborate electronically with friends and colleagues in an efficient way. Customers who are enrolled in online fax services letting them send faxes via email (such as myfax.com or efax.com) will now be able to send faxes directly from within PDF Studio. 

  • Batch Convert to PDFs [Pro Only] - Convert several documents into PDFs from supported formats (image files, text files, Word documents) at once using Convert a Batch in the Batch menu. As with all of PDF Studio's batch functions, it is possible to convert a list of selected documents or whole directories at once.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Document Properties: More properties available under Document Properties (Ctrl + D)
  • Font Listing - See the list of fonts used in the document. This will be helpful for graphics designers or printing industry professionals.
  • MetaData - View XMP metadata (in XML format) associated with the document in text format. 

  • Invert Color Mode - Invert colors when rendering a PDF document. For typical documents, the display will change from "Black on White" to "White on Black". Inverting colors make things much easier to read on small screens, particularly when working in a dark room, on an airplane, or at night. This mode is available as a user preference to invert colors on all documents or on any currently open document from the View menu.

  • Printing Preferences - Set your preferences for the following printing options:
  • Auto Rotate - rotate the printout to match the width and length of the paper
  • Center In Page - center the page on the paper
  • Expand To Margins - expand pages to fill the paper they are being printed on
  • Shrink To Margins - shrink pages so that they fit on the paper
  • Print Annotations - print annotations that have been added to the document

  • Docx to PDF Conversion - In addition to .doc Word documents, PDF Studio 7 supports converting Word documents with a .docx extension (MS Word 2007 and above). Word documents can be opened within PDF Studio and are converted on the fly to PDF.

  • Scan & Split - Scan multiple paper documents to PDF and split them into many documents using the new split options in the scan-to-pdf feature. This is useful when scanning for instance all your water bills at once and each invoice is a 3 page document. 

  • Support for AES 256 Bit Encryption - Added support for the highest level of encryption, 256-bit AES encryption (Acrobat 9 and higher) when decrypting or encrypting documents. This feature requires installing a small java extension.

  • Image Stamps - Added adjustable transparency setting for custom image stamps. Users can now create transparent image stamps which allow any document content to be seen through them.
  • Improved Form Field Editing - Improved interactive form field editing with the new addition of:
  • Right-Click Menu - When editing a form field, it is now possible to right click in the field to show an edit menu in order to cut, copy, or paste text (control-click for one-button mice).
  • Dynamic Font Sizing - In single and multiline text fields, fonts will now auto-size dynamically as you type to properly fit the form area.
  • Improved Search Results Display - Search results will now be centered within the window to make it easier to identify them in their surrounding content.

  • Improved Bookmarks - Edit your bookmark name directly from the bookmark tree upon bookmark creation. Support for all Goto page actions in named destinations: x,y,z location, zoom mode, page view (Fit to Page, Fit to Width). This affects bookmarks, links, and buttons.

  • Crop Pages - Added option to crop only specific pages: Even, Odd, or any given range of pages.

  • Scan-To-PDF (Mac OSX Lion) - We upgraded our scanning library to the newest version which is compatible with Mac OSX Lion. 

  • FIXES:
  • Fixed most "Unrecognized Command" errors. These errors occurred when the PDF parsing engine had issues detecting the end of image stream on inline images.
  • Fixed issue where documents with interactive form fields were not marked as modified after fields were edited. No warning was given to save the document upon closing.
  • Fixed Google Docs compatibility issue: "403.4 SSL required". See this post on Google's blog for more details.
  • Fixed issue with cursor alignement when editing interactive form fields with centered or right aligned text.
  • Fixed text selection and text highlight for vertical text with cjk fonts.
  • (Linux: Ubuntu) Fixed text search dialog user interface issues: search text field too narrow and some international labels cut.
  • Fixed issue with Modified Date not always being updated when saving a document.
  • Fixed a bug that occurred for specific documents - after merging 2 PDF interactive forms, Adobe Reader reported that the output document had errors and crashed.
  • Fixed interactive password field to obscure text when typing password in.

  • Fixed issue when opening some PDF documents "Invalid xref position".

  • Revert ability to move and resize link annotations (accessible through the "Move" function under the annotations's mouse context menu).

New in PDF Studio 6.62 (Jun 20, 2011)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Ability to "Open Link" and "Create Link" from Selected Text . When the text selected on a page corresponds to a valid web or email url, the mouse context menu will show an option to "Open Link". This offers a convenient shortcut for PDF Studio users to browse to web links present in a document. The "Create Link" menu option will also now default the url to the text url making it faster to create link annotations from existing urls in the document content.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • New Preference Setting for Webdav Document Services Users. PDF Studio usually uses a temporary file when saving documents locally in order to avoid losing the document if any error happens during the saving process. Certain document services using webdav servers (such as 03Spaces) require saving directly to the file without the use of a temporary file in order to preserve version history for the document. We've added a new setting for this under the Preferences dialog.
  • More Links Recognized in Auto-Create Links dialog: Improved link parser to recognize more links (such as http://bit.ly/aaaa).
  • (Windows 7) Improved Icon on Taskbar: On Windows 7, the minimize icon on the taskbar had a low resolution.
  • Many Improvements in our Word to PDF conversion: Support for paragraph shading – before only handled shading on tables, more fields handled – DATE, NUMPAGES, FILENAME fields, support for having different header/footers on different pages, many improvements and bug fixes.
  • FIXES:
  • (Linux) - OpenJDK JPEG Image Rendering: For rendering JPEG images, PDF Studio used to depend on internal sun classes. These classes are not supported correctly in OpenJDK and Linux customers running this version of Java could not see JPEG images. PDF Studio is now using standard imageio classes to render JPEG images.
  • Open Document Error: Fixed new issue in version 6.60 when opening a PDF document containing annotations with null dates values.
  • Google Docs: Fixed issue with Google Docs when trying to edit a document shared by another user. This issue was introduced because of changes made to Google's servers.
  • Sharepoint: Fixed issue "error loading pdf null" when downloading files from some specific Sharepoint servers (Comcast for instance).
  • Preflight: Fixed issue in Preflight function (class cast exception error).
  • (Linux) Scanning: Resolved a scanning issue on Linux.
  • Flattening Form Fields: Fixed issue when flattening form fields data in very specific cases (the field data contained the string " Q ").
  • Black Boxes: Fixed issue where some PDF documents were displaying "black boxes" (issue in IndexedColorSpace conversion from float color).
  • Negative Images: Fixed issue with some reversed images (negative).

New in PDF Studio 6.61 (Apr 2, 2011)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Display Additional Document Properties: File Size, Number of Pages and Version of PDF are now displayed under Document Properties.
  • Default Resolution at 150 DPI when Exporting Images: For new users, default resolution when exporting images is now defaulting to 150 DPI.
  • Page Range Option when Exporting Images: It is now possible to specify a range of pages to be exported to images (Images -> Export Pages as Images).
  • Improvements in the Word to PDF conversion: When converting a Word document to PDF, document meta data such as title, keywords, subject and title is preserved. Also, we've improved our support for images in the Word to PDF conversion.
  • FIXES:
  • Fix issue that was introduced in version 6.60. Text extraction was broken for documents containing CJK font.
  • Fix issue that was introduced in version 6.60. Review status for annotations (such as accepted, cancelled, rejected, etc..) was broken.
  • Fix issue that was introduced in version 6.60. The Replace Text caret annotation was not displaying correctly in other PDF viewers such as Adobe Reader. Only the caret part of the annotation would show and not the strike-through.
  • (Linux) Fix issues that were introduced in version 6.60 with the new native file dialog under Linux. Filter extensions were case-sensitive and file names such as name.PDF would not be recognized. Also, PDF Studio was not remembering the last "Save As" folder.
  • (Mac) Fix issue with file association being broken after updating to a newer version of PDF Studio. After upgrading, some mac users were not able to open PDF files in PDF Studio by double-clicking on the files or by dragging files to the PDF Studio icon on the dock.
  • Some German translations for newly added labels in version 6.60 were missing.
  • Fix issue with bookmarks not going to the correct pages when in Fit To Page view mode.
  • Fix issue that was introduced in a previous version of PDF Studio. Selected row within a field list in an interactive PDF form was not saved correctly in the document. When selecting a row in an interactive list field, it would appear correctly in PDF Studio but would not save properly.
  • When PDF documents are open in PDF Studio and a user registers PDF Studio by entering their license key, PDF Studio will now reload the documents and remove the evaluation version watermark (only for documents that have not been modified).

New in PDF Studio 6.60 (Feb 24, 2011)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • New Advanced Custom Stamps (Pro). In addition to image and text stamps, PDF Studio 6.6 allows to create very sophisticated custom stamps. Include multi-line text, images, dynamic fields (such as date and time) and different types of annotations all grouped together in a single custom stamp. Custom stamps can be saved and edited later on. And since stamps are saved in a vector format, they can be resized crisply when applied to a document.
  • New Tool Chest. PDF Studio 6.6 saves and displays users most recent annotations as well as users favorite annotations under the Tool Chest pane. This saves time when frequently applying the same annotations.
  • New Native File Dialogs (Windows, Linux). Windows and Linux users have the option to use the native file dialog of their operating system instead of the Java Swing file dialog. Native dialogs have more functionality (auto-completion for instance) and users are more familiar with them. Note that Mac users already use the native file dialog within PDF Studio so nothing will change on Mac.
  • New Unicode Support. Edit unicode text in annotations content. This will be of special interest to customers using non-latin characters such as arabic, asian, greek, cyrillic characters. Unicode text is also supported within document properties (author, subject, description).
  • Support for Annotations Groups. Group multiple annotations on a page to process as a single unit. Grouped annotations share their comment and are moved, deleted, reviewed or flattened at once.
  • Multiple Selection of Annotations. Select multiple annotations on a page at once to move, delete, review or flatten them all at once. Annotations selected on the document will also be selected in the annotations trees under the Annotations Pane.
  • Create PDFs from Other Documents Including New Support for Text & MS Word Files. Open text and MS Word (97-2003) files directly in PDF Studio (it converts the documents to PDF on the fly). PDF Studio has a new menu entry under File -> Create PDF to create PDF files easily:
  • Create PDF from File: Allows to create a PDF from all supported formats including Text, MS Word and all image type files.
  • Create PDF from Multiple Files (Pro): Advanced dialog to create a PDF from multiple files that allows to choose multiple files or a whole directory, reorder the files and specify an open password to try when opening the files.
  • Create PDF from Scanner
  • Create PDF from Blank Page
  • Drag and Drop Files in Thumbnails Pane. Simply insert documents as new pages within a document by dragging and dropping files into the Thumbnail pane. The feature works with PDF files, images files, text files and MS Word files.
  • Drag and Drop Files in Attachments Pane. Simply attach documents to a PDF by dragging and dropping files into the Attachments pane.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Support for XMP metadata in Document Properties: When editing document properties and xmp metadata is present in the document, PDF Studio will update the xmp metadata so properties are correctly read and displayed in all PDF viewers.
  • Batch Merge now Supports Images, Text and Word Files: Batch Merge can now merge different format files into a single PDF document (PDF, Images, Text and MS Word).
  • New Function to Reverse Pages: Under Document -> Reverse Pages, it is now possible to reverse all pages within a document in a click. This can be useful after scanning a document in reverse order.
  • New installation for Linux 64 bit: New PDF Studio installation for Linux 64 bit that comes packaged with Java 64 bit.
  • Auto-create Link from Search Text: Create links automatically from searching a document for given text (for instance, create a link for qoppa.com for each occurrence of "Qoppa Software" within a document).
  • Create Link from Highlighted Text: Create a link from right-clicking (CTRL + Click on Mac) on selected text and choosing the option "Create Link" in the context menu.
  • Performance Improvements on Graphical Documents with Transparency: Printing and scrolling performance enhanced for certain documents containing transparency. Users in the graphics and pre press industry may enjoy faster times (up to 5 times faster on specific documents) when printing and rendering documents.
  • New Image Icon on Toolbar to Add Images: Use the new icon to create an Image Stamp from a file on the fly or use the 2 menu entries Comments -> Add Image or Images -> Import Image as Stamp.
  • Default Document Name for Documents Created from Files: When creating a document from external files (images, text or MS Word documents), PDF Studio will default the name of the PDF to the original document.
  • Improvements to Text Search Dialog: Ability to cancel search. Search button is being disabled during a search so users can not accidentally click search twice. After search is finished, clicking "Enter" will go to the next occurrence in the results list.
  • Form Field Tooltip: To help users filling forms, field information (if available) is now displayed as tooltips under interactive form fields. The data shown corresponds to the "/TU" entry in the field dictionary.
  • Default Page for Extract Pages: When extracting pages from Document -> Extract Pages, PDF Studio 6.6 will default to the currently selected page.
  • Improvements Around Copying and Pasting Pages: New menus available under the Thumbnails Pane to copy, cut and paste pages within a document or across documents. An image file can now be copied and pasted onto a PDF page (as a stamp) directly through copy and paste commands without having to open the image in an external image viewer.
  • FIXES:
  • Fix issue with Split Dialog not opening when running in demo mode.
  • (Mac) When quitting the application through the Quit PDF Studio option in the main menu (or Command+Q) and choosing the "Cancel" option, PDF Studio was quitting anyway and any changes made to the document were lost.
  • (Mac) Shortcut CMD + C was broken to select text on mac.
  • (Mac) When copying and pasting pages across documents, it would work the first time and fail the second time.
  • When renaming a bookmark, the new bookmark name will default to the previous one.
  • Fix issue when opening a document created in Open Office. This issue was reproducible on Linux with documents containing annotations. The PDF file generated in Open Office does not follow PDF specs.
  • When flattening a text box after a document was saved, the text was not available as text content and thus could not be selected or highlighted.
  • Even when canceling the action of digitally signing a document, PDF Studio was still trying to save the file.
  • When right-clicking on a bookmark (CTRL + Click on Mac), PDF Studio was sometimes changing the currently selected page to the bookmark's page. This was annoying to users trying to bookmark the currently selected page.
  • Fix 2 issues related to digital signatures and encrypted documents.
  • Fix issue with Document -> Revert. When disposing of the Revert Dialog by clicking the red 'x', the document was actually reverted instead of simply closing the dialog.
  • When updating the content of an annotation from the Popup Dialog (the Popup Dialog is the dialog that popups when double-clicking on the annotation and that displays the content, author and date for the annotation), the tooltip text for the annotation was not updated accordingly.
  • The Properties label was cut for foreign languages in the Annotation Popup Dialog.
  • The results list in the Text Search Dialog allowed for multiple rows selection. However, the functionality of the dialog was dependent only on the first row selected. The results list is now single selection.
  • When editing a typewriter, free text or callout annotation, hitting escape will exit the edit mode and select the annotation (it used to not select the annotation).
  • Fix some issues with PDF/X preflight parser introduced in a previous version. Structure rules were enforced but not content rules. Also added new support for blend modes rules.

New in PDF Studio 6.50 (Sep 27, 2010)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • New callout annotation. This tool combines a text box with a line and an arrow and is used to draw attention to text or objects in a PDF document .
  • New calibration tool for the measuring tools to set the scale directly from the drawing. Users are prompted to choose two points on the document and enter the length of the measurement.
  • New batch dialog to set initial view for multiple documents at once (navigation tab, page layout, magnification, open to page).
  • Copy and paste images and text. Images and text can now be pasted directly into a PDF document. PDF Studio will automatically generate rubber stamps from them that users can move around or resize before applying them to the document.
  • Support for bookmark style allowing users to define color and text style in documents outline or table of contents.
  • Drag and drop pages across documents (when multiple documents are open in different frames).
  • Manage digital ids for digital signatures to remove a digital id, add a new one or change the display name.
  • Support for Home and End shortcuts to go to the first page and last page in a document.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Text box annotation editing: Text can now be edited directly on the document via cursor (in the same way as the type writer annotation).
  • Display page size under Document Properties.
  • Double-sided document scanning option. When scanning double-sided documents, users can scan one side, then use the "interleave" option when scanning the second side.
  • Text markups transparency: Users can now set the transparency of text markup tools such as underline, cross-out, etc.
  • New default rubber stamp: PDF Studio will now remember the last rubber stamp used. Users can also select a preferred default stamp.
  • (Mac users) Support for cmd-click on window title: PDF Studio will display a pop-up menu showing the path to the current folder/document.
  • Import and export of XFDF files: Now supports reading and writing the following attributes: dash style/size, annotation subject, border style, opacity, rich content, and popups.
  • New "Units" setting in User Preferences dialog: International users can define preferred measurement units (inches, centimeters, points, ..) for the Crop dialog and in Document Properties when displaying the page size.
  • Document modified flag: PDF Studio now allows users to know when a document was modified. On Windows and Linux, a little star is added next to the file name on the title bar. On Mac, a black dot is added in the center of the red close button on the title bar.
  • Improved highlight behavior of form fields such as radio buttons, check boxes and text fields.
  • Improved form fields editing: Improved edit and display of rotated form fields (text fields, barcode fields). Support for scroll long text property in multi line fields to turn off scrolling ability within fields.
  • GUI improvements: Improvement to the Rubber Stamp and Attach Files buttons on the toolbar.
  • GUI improvements: A new link to an annotation's Properties Dialog has been added under the annotation's Comment Popup Dialog.
  • Barcode improvements: Improvements to the way PDF Studio renders code 128 and code 309.
  • Demo version enhanced: Removed the 10 pages limitation in PDF Studio demo version so users can evaluate more freely the software.
  • FIXES:
  • When saving a document using the name of a file that's already open in PDF Studio, the software will now throw an error.
  • Cloud Annotations didn't show the text bubble even when there was text in the comments.
  • In the previous version 6.40, PDF Studio had been updated so PDF documents that only had an open password with no permission password were opened without user being prompted for password. In this version, we reverted to the previous behavior to be consistent with Adobe Acrobat. PDF Studio will now prompt for an open password for all documents that have an open password, even for documents that have an empty permissions password.
  • Fix issue with Google Docs where multiple instances of the Advanced Search dialog were created.
  • Fix issue when opening some PDF documents with AES encryption.
  • Fix issue that was giving the following error upon opening PDF documents: "Missing Pages entry in file catalog".

New in PDF Studio 6.40 (Jun 23, 2010)

  • New Integration with SharePoint® and SharePoint Online. PDF files can be opened directly from Sharepoint, reviewed and annotated in PDF Studio and then saved straight back to SharePoint.
  • New PDF Studio is now multi frame allowing to open several documents in different windows from the same instance of PDF Studio and to work across documents to copy text and annotations.
  • New Users can now customize digital signatures appearances. For instance, users can add an image of their own hand-written signature. The signing process has also been improved so it's easier to sign a document that already has a signature field or to add a new signature on a document that doesn't have any signature field.
  • New Support for caret annotations to replace text and insert text.
  • New New Batch Split function to split multiple documents at once. Documents can be split by page range, bookmarks, text search or into equal size documents.
  • New New Auto-Create Links function to automatically create web links or emails links in PDF documents.
  • New New user settings for default initial view. These settings are used when opening PDF documents that don't have any initial view set. It is also possible to always use these settings and ignore the initial view set in the documents.
  • New Added several new shortcut / accelerator keys that allow to easily add annotations to a document.
  • New PDF Studio will now remember and restore the locations of sub toolbars such as annotations toolbar, selection toolbar or distance measuring toolbar on startup.
  • Improvement PDF Studio now supports CJK fonts and more generally CID fonts when filling interactive form fields.
  • Improvement Improvements in memory usage when reading and converting JPEG images.
  • Improvement Improved PDF Studio "View" menu and user interface when switching the current navigation pane view. The available pane views are Attachments, Bookmarks, Comments, Layers, Pages and Signatures.
  • Improvement PDF Studio title frame will now indicate if the document was opened from a document service or a url.
  • Fix In the scan-to-PDF function, when inserting pages at the beginning of the document, the page order was reversed.
  • Fix After rotating pages in a document from the Thumbnails pane, the selected page was sometimes jumping to a different page.
  • Fix Fixed issue when opening some PDF documents created in Word 2010.
  • Fix (Mac) On Mac, PDF Studio will now use the system language for system menus and dialogs.
  • Fix When exporting annotations or form fields in xfdf format for PDF documents opened from urls, the path to the documents in the xfdf file was not set correctly.

New in PDF Studio 6.30 (Mar 23, 2010)

  • New (Windows and Mac) Support for cjk fonts (Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts). PDF Studio will now use locally installed fonts to render documents which use cjk character sets.
  • New Integration with Acrobat.com web services. PDF files can be opened directly from Acrobat.com accounts, reviewed and annotated in PDF Studio and then saved straight back to Acrobat.com.
  • New Redesigned annotation popup dialog. The new dialog will show the author name and date in the dialog title and allow users to edit comments directly from the popup dialog.
  • New Improved memory usage when scanning multiple pages from the scanner document feeder.
  • Improvement Lots of improvements with Google Docs integration: improved speed for accounts containing a big number files, new intuitive toolbar in Google Docs File Manager for fast access to standard functions such as upload, save, delete, share...
  • Improvement Improved initial view: when opening a document, the default view is now "fit to width" to maximize reading experience. This is consistent with Adobe Reader® default behavior.
  • Improvement Under Batch Merge dialog, an option was added to create bookmarks when merging multiple documents in one in order so individual documents are indexed in the merged document.
  • Improvement Add ability to create customs stamp from tiff images.
  • Improvement Improved user interface in batch dialogs to allow drag and drop of files, better reordering of files, etc... .
  • Fix Default color for squiggly underline annotations was not saved properly as part of user settings.
  • Fix Fix issue with search results capitalization in text search dialog in some instances.
  • Fix After rotating pages in a document, the selected page was sometimes jumping to a different page.
  • Fix Fix issue with initial page not saving (as defined in initial view settings).
  • Fix Fix the issue "System Error" upon saving some PDF files created in Adobe Photoshop®.
  • Fix (Mac) When saving an attachment locally under mac, ".pdf" was automatically appended to the file name even when the file was not a PDF file.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 6.21 (Feb 18, 2010)

  • Improvement Minor enhancements and bug fixes to Google Docs file manager.
  • Fix Missing font issue when merging certain documents.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 6.20 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • New Now with full Google Docs integration, PDF files stored in your Google Docs account can be directly opened and edited in PDF Studio then saved straight back to Google Docs. Additionally, PDF Studio provides a powerful GUI to manage your Google Docs files allowing you to upload and download single files or whole directories, manage your collections and share files with others directly from PDF Studio.
  • New Our new auto-update feature gives you the option to check for newer versions of PDF Studio on your computer and to update automatically. This feature can be turned off or customized to check daily, weekly, monthly or never. Users can also check "manually" that they are running the latest version using Help -> Check for Updates.
  • New Ability to copy and paste annotations.
  • Improvement Multi-line text field editing in interactive PDF forms now uses native PDF fonts so the editing is very smooth and matches exactly with the rendering of the form field.
  • Improvement When inserting a new page, users can now choose the page format as well as the location in the document.
  • Improvement Better text searching and extraction especially when working with subscript and superscript.
  • Fix Improved file size of resulting documents when merging PDF documents (issue introduced in version 6.10).
  • Fix Improved file size of resulting documents when deleting pages (issue introduced in version 6.10).
  • Fix Issue with Snow Leopard minimized icon which was displayed at a very low resolution.
  • Fix Issue when importing some jpeg images where images would show 3 times in Adobe Reader.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 6.20 RC2 (Jan 21, 2010)

  • New Ability to copy and paste annotations.
  • Improvement Improved multi-line text field editing in interactive PDF forms to use native PDF fonts.

New in PDF Studio 6.20a Beta (Dec 26, 2009)

  • New Now with full Google Docs integration, PDF Studio can be used to access and manage your files directly from your Google Docs account. PDF Studio provides a powerful GUI to manage your Google Docs files allowing you to upload files, directories or manage collections. And of course, PDF files can be opened, edited in PDF Studio and directly saved back to your Google Docs account.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 6.10 (Nov 18, 2009)

  • New (Pro) Many improvements around digital signatures: improved user interface to sign a document, ability to delete and resize a signature field, ability to manage digital ids and trusted certificates, ability to add multiple digital signatures to a document.
  • New Cloud annotation useful to markup architectural drawings.
  • New (Pro) Batch preflight to verify PDF/X compliancy for multiple documents at once.
  • New (Pro) Batch crop to crop multiple documents at once and change the margins for crop box, bleed box, trim box or art box.
  • New Screenshot tool allowing users to select a page area with a lasso and copy the image to the clipboard or export the image to a file.
  • New From the thumbnail view, added ability to work on multiple pages at once to delete them, rotate them, drag them or flatten comments.
  • New Support for barcodes. XFA form fields containing a barcode ui will now be rendered in PDF Studio.
  • New Ability to copy and paste annotations.
  • New Ability to search within annotations from the text search dialog.
  • Improvement (Pro) Improved batch user interface concerning the selection of files and folders to process. Users can now preview the files included in the batch and reorder them as needed.
  • Improvement Improved text highlight rendering. It is now a perfect text highlight obtained by using multiply composite.
  • Improvement Added a user setting to remember a default scanner so users are not always prompted to choose their scanner.
  • Improvement Added a user setting for default paper size to be used when creating new documents, adding pages and creating a preflight report.
  • Improvement Added a "Clear Security" button under the security dialog so users can remove passwords and permissions in a single-click.
  • Improvement Improved title bar to show the document name first (before the application name) so users can distinguish documents when multiple documents are minimized on the toolbar.
  • Improvement When drawing annotations such as cloud, polygon or perimeter annotations, and using the auto-complete option from the mouse menu, PDF Studio will now include the current location of the mouse as the last vertex.
  • Fix Issue with bookmarks. When inserting a new page in the document, all bookmarks to pages that are following the inserted page will now remain the same.
  • Fix Issue with scrolling to annotations. When using the single page view and clicking on an annotation in the comments list, PDF Studio was not scrolling to the appropriate location in the document as expected.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 6.01 Beta (Sep 29, 2009)

  • New We have changed our installer and thus recommend that you uninstall any previously installed version of PDF Studio before installing the new one. All your settings, preferences and custom stamps will be preserved with this new version. Our new installer brought a few fixes / improvements to the installation process::
  • Linux users will now have an icon launcher installed on their desktop to start PDF Studio and can now drag pdf files directly onto this icon.
  • PDF Files having a name containing at least 2 consecutive spaces in a row can now be opened by double-clicking on them (this used to be a problem with our old installer).
  • New Ability to create categories and sub-categories for custom text and image stamps so custom stamps can be easily accessed and organized in a flexible tree structure.
  • Improvement Update to the scanning library.
  • Fix (Linux) Issue when editing existing text stamps.
  • Fix (Mac) Issue in the custom image stamp dialog when trying to load an image, users were getting a "File not found" error message due to an extension ".pdf" being wrongly appended to the image file path.
  • Fix Issue displaying documents created with Acrobat ClearScan.

New in PDF Studio 6.00 (Aug 12, 2009)

  • New Split between PDF Studio Standard and Pro editions (existing customers automatically upgrade to the Pro edition for free without the need to reenter their license key).
  • New Under Document Properties, new tab for Initial View to define the inital layout and magnification settings: navigation tab, page layout, magnification, open to page.
  • New Many improvements around bookmarks: auto-create bookmarks for a page range, create bookmarks for current view, move bookmarks through drag and drop, improved toolbar in bookmarks panel.
  • New (Pro) Create new digital signature fields on PDF documents and clear existing digital signatures.
  • New (Pro) In the Preflight screen, when verifying the compliance of a PDF document against PDF/X format, it is now possible to create a preflight report with the option to append the report to the PDF document.
  • New (Pro) Batch Merge feature to combine multiple documents at once.
  • New Navigate through history of page views (go to previous view, go to next view).
  • New Support for mailto protocol in links and bookmarks and launch mail client accordingly.
  • New Search text within comments from Comments pane.
  • New Export to gif.
  • Improvement Move annotations using arrow keys.
  • Improvement Improved toolbar in Comments pane.
  • Improvement Option in batch processes to overwrite existing files or create new files.
  • Fix (Linux) Now can drag files into PDF Studio (image files or PDF files).
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 5.70 (Jun 5, 2009)

  • New Ability to split PDF documents based on page count, page range, blank pages, bookmarks, search text.
  • New In the Preflight screen, when verifying the compliance of a PDF document against PDF/X format, it is now possible to dynamically generate annotations where compliance problems were detected.
  • New Full support for PDF transparency model.
  • Improvement Support for PNG images in custom image stamps.
  • Improvement Support for soft mask when importing images as pages.
  • Fix Some focus issues in interactive PDF forms.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 5.61 (Apr 15, 2009)

  • Fix (Mac) Problem with the scanning feature giving the following error: "Can' Initialiaze Twain JNI library".

New in PDF Studio 5.60 (Apr 13, 2009)

  • New area and perimeter measurement tools
  • New dialog to add text and image watermarks with document preview
  • New Support for the following page mode views: Continuous, Single, Facing, Facing Continuous.
  • New Support for Linux Scanning
  • New right-click context menu on the page views for quick access to basic functions such as adding a sticky note, zooming in and out, selecting text.
  • New Ability to customize page thumbnails size (small, medium, large)
  • Improvement Better conversion to black and white tiff (dithering for Group 4 and Group 3 Fax)
  • Improvement (Linux) No more bold font for the metal look and feel under Linux
  • Fix Choosing option 'New document" when scanning to PDF was reversing the page orders and save would overwrite the previous document.
  • Fix Focus problem with annotations in Java 1.4 where focus would sometime jump to the beginning of the document when clicking on the hand tool.
  • Fix Slow file open dialog under Windows XP when browsing through big zip files
  • Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 5.51 (Mar 4, 2009)

  • Fix (Mac) Problem when opening the following dialogs: Append PDF Document, Insert Pages from PDF and Replace Pages from PDF.

New in PDF Studio 5.50 (Feb 14, 2009)

  • New Review status for annotations to mark them as checked, approved, completed.
  • New Preflight PDF/X verification.
  • New New distance measuring tool.
  • New New dialog to add headers and footers with document preview.
  • New Bates Numbering.
  • New Signature pane to display the list of digital signatures applied to a document.
  • Improvement New look for our annotations list pane, now located at the bottom of the page to allow for a better view. Ability to print the list of annotations.
  • Improvement Pencil tool is now multi gestures allowing to type multiple words as part of the in the same annotation.
  • Improvement Improved annotations features: save defaults, option to make annotation tool sticky, display review status.
  • Improvement (Mac) Use native Mac Open dialog instead of the standard java Open dialog.
  • Fix Support for polygons in import / export of annotations.
  • Fix (Mac) Resolution when printing scanned images was too low giving a blurry printout.
  • Fix (Linux) Show total number of pages for the current document on the toolbar.
  • Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 5.11 (Nov 16, 2008)

  • Bug Fix: Fixed issue that was introduced in version 5.10 with text extraction (text was extracted backwards).
  • Bug Fix: Fixed issue with text search dialog using too much memory when running PDF Studio with Java 1.5 and Java 1.6.

New in PDF Studio 5.10 (Nov 11, 2008)

  • New Feature: New arrow annotation tool.
  • New Feature: New Export to Images for a Batch of PDF documents.
  • New Feature: Open an image file (JPG, PNG or TIFF format) directly into PDF Studio from the File Open Dialog or by dragging the image file into PDF Studio. This is faster than using the Import Images dialog.
  • New Feature: Ability to import scanned images in JBIG2 format into PDF Studio to minimize the size of the resulting PDF document.
  • Improvement to all our Batch functions to allow users to set a list of passwords to try when opening documents. Users will not be prompted for passwords anymore.
  • Improved performance and memory usage in the scanning function to allow users to scan more pages faster. Also upgraded our scanning library to allow for more scanners support.
  • Improvement: New compression options when exporting pages to TIFF.
  • Improvement: New rotation options when right-clicking on a thumbnail page.
  • Improvement: Improved tabbing in PDF Forms. Ensure fields visibility when tabbing through fields, scroll to next page, etc..
  • Bug Fixes with the typewriter annotation: focus problems and problem when writing on some documents with rotated pages.
  • Bug Fix: Deleting pages from some documents would give an error.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a problem with special characters such as accents in custom stamps names.
  • Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 5.0.1 (Aug 27, 2008)

  • Bug Fix: Fixed issue with some documents not opening in Adobe Reader when a typewriter annotation was added through PDF Studio.
  • Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 5.0 (Aug 19, 2008)

  • New Feature: New typewriter tool to type anywhere in a PDF document and fill forms that do not contain interactive fields.
  • New Feature: Edit document properties such as title, subject, author and keywords.
  • New Feature: Crop / resize pages (crop box, bleed box, trim box, art box).
  • New Feature: Change the user / author name associated with your annotations.
  • New Feature: Define your own custom text stamp and include special keywords such as date, time, page number.
  • New Feature: Support for comb textfields in government forms (comb textfields text fields in which characters are surrounded by a box and spaced out equally in order to make the form more readable).
  • Improvement to rubber stamps.
  • Improved navigation and user interface for all dialogs.
  • Performance Improvement: Thumbnails are only created on demand.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed issue with flattening or exporting to images when document had rotated pages.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed issue with the zoom selection tool when the page number was high.
  • Bug Fix: Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 4.90 (Jul 9, 2008)

  • New Feature: Support for File Attachments (adding / reading / opening / saving file attachments.
  • New Feature: Documents will now display at a bigger scale on most computers. We have adjusted the default page scale to account for screen DPI to match Adobe�s Reader scale.
  • Improvement to form fields editing. When editing a form field, the same font will be used in edit mode and display mode (non-editing mode) allowing for a smooth transition between the 2 modes.
  • Improvement: Annotations added to PDF documents in PDF Studio will now display not only in Adobe Reader but also in other more basic PDF viewers such as XPDF, Mac Preview.
  • Bug Fix: Flatten Comments now preserves the transparency / opacity property.
  • Bug Fix: Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 4.82 (Apr 25, 2008)

  • New friendlier icons.
  • Spanish version is now available
  • New Feature: Rotate pages and save them rotated.
  • New Feature: Zoom to Selection
  • New Feature: Highlight Fields in PDF interactive forms
  • New Feature: In PDF interactive forms, support for Action buttons such as reset form fields, print document, save document, open new document, etc...
  • Bug Fix with hyphen character under Linux / Mac.
  • Bug Fix CTRL click will now work under Mac for page thumbnails and bookmarks.
  • Bug Fix. On some computers, sounds recorded in PDF Studio to create sound annotations were not playing in Adobe Reader.
  • Bug Fix with some PDF created from Latex files.
  • Other internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Studio 4.81 (Feb 26, 2008)

  • New Feature: Flatten comments. This adds the annotations / comments to the content of the pdf document itself and remove them as annotations / comments.
  • New Feature: Support for more color spaces.
  • Bug Fix with special characters within comments under Linux / Mac.
  • Other internal bug fixes.