PDF2Office Professional 5.1 - Changelog

What's new in PDF2Office Professional 5.1:

September 16th, 2010

Convert to Spreadsheet format:
· PDF2Office Professional converts PDF files to the Microsoft Excel document format.

Convert directly to Office 2007/2008-2010/2011 formats:
· PDF2Office now directly converts PDF files to native Microsoft Excel 2007/2008-2010/2011, PowerPoint 2007/2008-2010/2011 and Word 2007/2008-2010/2011 formats (also known as the "Office XML formats").

Typeface Library:
· PDF2Office Professional remembers and stores all font substitutions into a Typeface Library. This eliminates having to repeatedly specify font substitutions. The mappings in the Typeface Library can be replaced and overridden as required.

Spreadsheet Options:
· New Spreadsheet options panels have been introduced into the Control Center to fine-tune conversions to spreadsheet formats.

Enhanced Word plug-in:
· The Microsoft Word plug-in has been enhanced to include the PDF Inspector (formerly known as the Document Inspector) and direct access to the Typeface Library interface has been provided.

PDF Reconstruction v5.0:
· PDF2Office Professional now includes the latest PDF Reconstruction v5.0 engine offering dramatic enhancements when converting PDF documents, including enhanced graphics processing, and complex layout and PDF data recognition. General improvements have also been made in identifying footnotes and headers/footers.

Russian and Greek character support:
· Russian (Cyrillic) and Greek text in PDF files are now recognized and converted.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support:
· PDF2Office has been enhanced to be fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

What's new in PDF2Office Professional 5.0:

January 14th, 2010

· Convert to Spreadsheet format - PDF2Office Professional converts PDF files to the Microsoft Excel document format.
· Convert directly to Office 2007/2008 formats - PDF2Office now directly converts PDF files to native Microsoft Excel 2007/2008, PowerPoint 2007/2008 and Word 2007/2008 formats (also known as the "Office 2007/2008 formats").
· Typeface Library - PDF2Office Professional remembers and stores all font substitutions into a Typeface Library. This eliminates having to repeatedly specify font substitutions. The mappings in the Typeface Library can be replaced and overridden as required.
· Spreadsheet Options - New Spreadsheet options panels have been introduced into the Control Center to fine-tune conversions to spreadsheet formats.
· Enhanced Word plug-in - The Microsoft Word plug-in has been enhanced to include the PDF Inspector (formerly known as the Document Inspector) and direct access to the Typeface Library interface has been provided.
· PDF Reconstruction v5.0 - PDF2Office Professional now includes the latest PDF Reconstruction v5.0 engine offering dramatic enhancements when converting PDF documents, including enhanced graphics processing, and complex layout and PDF data recognition. General improvements have also been made in identifying footnotes and headers/footers.
· Russian and Greek character support - Russian (Cyrillic) and Greek text in PDF files are now recognized and converted.
· Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support - PDF2Office has been enhanced to be fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

What's new in PDF2Office Professional 4.0:

February 7th, 2008

· Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard support: PDF2Office Professional is fully compliant with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
· Integration with Microsoft Word 2008: PDF2Office has been enhanced to provide seamless integration with Microsoft Word 2008. Additionally, you can customize the behavior of the PDF2Office plug-in for Word.
· PDF2Office Desktop Server: PDF2Office is now based on a client-server architecture. PDF2Office Desktop Server performs the conversions, insulating PDF2Office and Microsoft Word from the conversion process.
· Universal Binary: PDF2Office Professional v4.0 is a universal binary. Converting PDF files to any format executes natively on Macintosh computers equipped with either the Intel or PowerPC processor.
· Additional Processing Types: When converting PDF files to Word or RTF formats, you can now convert each page in a PDF file as an image and convert PDF files that are static forms into formatted documents for easy form entry by typing inside a text box that overlays the form image.
· Convert PDF documents to Web Page format: A new Convert to Web Page format Conversion Kind has been added. The PDF-to-HTML conversion engine has also been completely overhauled to provide more precise control over the conversion result.
· Enhanced Font Substitution: The Font Substitution mechanism has been enhanced so that each font that could not be matched can be substituted with a specific font.
· Image Specification and Resolution DPI settings: You can now specify the image conversion type when converting a PDF file to Word, PowerPoint, RTF or HTML format. Additionally, you can specify the resolution of images being converted.
· Enhanced Retain Layout conversion: The Retain Layout conversion has been significantly enhanced to offer even more exact layout retention. Text box/text frame generation has been dramatically reduced, and tables are also formed during Retain Layout conversion.
· PDF Reconstruction v4 engine: PDF2Office Professional 4.0 includes the latest PDF Reconstruction v4.1 engine. The v4.1 engine includes a completely new PDF data processing technology, which improves the reliability of the conversion. This results in enhanced paragraph formation, table recognition, column generation, graphics processing and complex layout arrangement. Limited clipping path support has been introduced for lines and rectangles.
· Enhanced Performance and Conversion Speed: Conversions are now up to 70% faster and utilize less memory then before.