NXPowerLite Desktop Changelog

What's new in NXPowerLite Desktop 10.0.2

Sep 6, 2023
  • New Features:
  • 2 new built-in profiles, Strong & Basic
  • Restart with the original files loaded
  • Help with files that don't compress or ones that are still large after compression
  • Improved and extended context menu options on main and results dialogs
  • Check for updates
  • Faster and better compression
  • Made dramatic improvements in processing speed for Office documents
  • Support for new-style embedded objects in PowerPoint
  • Added feature to remove Word 2007 support
  • New setting: Remove Excel data from charts
  • Don't remove the EXIF orientation property when removing EXIF data in JPEGs
  • Many UI improvements
  • Plus multiple bug fixes and minor improvements.

New in NXPowerLite Desktop 9.1.2 (Dec 9, 2021)

  • Features:
  • Hugely improved the speed of processing files.
  • Full support for macOS Monterey
  • Support for files created in Office 2021
  • Reduced the size of the installer by 50%
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed compatibility with files stored in iCloud Drive.
  • Fixed access permissions issues with removable drives
  • Fixed access permissions with NXPowerLite Finder extension
  • Fixed an issue where the Desktop App would crash when it didn’t have permission to the folder.
  • Fixed an issue where some images could become corrupt and render them to be not visible in Office when using the ‘Reduce color depth of PNG images’ feature. It only affected some true color (i.e. usually 24-bit color) PNG images with simple transparency.
  • Multiple minor UI and help documentation fixes.

New in NXPowerLite Desktop 9.1.0 (Aug 15, 2021)

  • Features:
  • Delete cropped areas of images now works in PPTX files (Does not work in DOCX or XLSX files)
  • Flatten Embedded Objects feature now works in PPTX files. (Does not work in DOCX or XLSX files)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug with PDF processing where some PDFs that could be optimized with v8 could not be optimized with v9.
  • Fixed a bug in the preferences dialog where it was not possible to change the text appended to compressed files.
  • Other minor User Interface fixes.

New in NXPowerLite Desktop 9.0.5 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • Features:
  • NXPowerLite now compresses Excel (XML) files
  • Choose settings and profile in Explorer
  • Frequently used folders
  • Export your results
  • Compress Microsoft Office files created by other apps
  • Smaller Microsoft Office files
  • Flatten embedded charts in DOCX and PPTX files
  • Compress header and footer images in DOCX files
  • Allow JPEG conversion
  • Updated PDF library used in Desktop to 15.0.4PlusP2g
  • Other UI improvements
  • Compatibility:
  • NXPowerLite is now compatible with Mac OS 10.14 & 10.15
  • Bug Fixes:
  • If the file size changes by more than 64 KB from last optimized file size, then the file should be re-optimized
  • Reduce shapes with image backgrounds in office XML files.
  • Embedded object in DOCX has no element
  • Optimize pictures that are specified in the VML namespace in Office documents
  • Check that OOXML documents that contain images with arbitrary extensions optimize correctly

New in NXPowerLite Desktop 8.0.8 (Oct 9, 2019)

  • Features:
  • Compatible with macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
  • Dark Mode support

New in NXPowerLite Desktop 8.0.7 (Oct 17, 2018)

  • Bug Fix:
  • PNG and Tiff files with non-Ascii characters in the filename can now be processed.

New in NXPowerLite Desktop 8.0.6 (Oct 17, 2018)

  • Features:
  • NXPowerLite now reduces PNG and TIFF files
  • Create multiple custom profiles
  • New Finder options
  • Replace original files without creating a backup or copy
  • NXPowerLite now available in Japanese. (German, French & Spanish as well)
  • Multiple MS Office reduction improvements meaning more files are reduced by more
  • Compatibility:
  • NXPowerLite is now compatible with Mac OS 10.12, 10.13 & 10.14*
  • * Tested with the last preview build ahead of public release
  • Bug Fixes:
  • If file size changes by more than 64 KB from last optimized file size, then the file should be re-optimized
  • Reduce shapes with image backgrounds in office XML files.
  • Embedded object in DOCX has no element
  • Optimize pictures that are specified in the VML namespace in Office documents
  • Check that OOXML documents that contain images with arbitrary extensions optimize correctly
  • Update PDF library used in Desktop to 15.0.4PlusP2g

New in NXPowerLite Desktop 7.1.1 (Dec 6, 2016)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Removed unnecessary resources included in the downloaded software. Now 40MB instead of 79MB.
  • Minor accessibility fixes