What's new in PDF Nomad 2.4 Build 201
Oct 13, 2014
- New: Multiline Form Fields. Now you can create forms with multiline text fields. (Non App Store only)
- New: Resize all pages to their crop box size in one fell swoop.
- Fixed: In recent OS X releases switching to light table mode could result in a crash. Minimum view scale is now 10% (was 5%).
- Fixed: In Crop & Shift mode it is now easier to hit the gear button when viewing at any scale.
New in PDF Nomad 2.3 Build 188 (Nov 26, 2013)
- New: Drag selected text from the preview canvas to the outline list to create a new bookmark that links directly to the selected text.
- New: Link patterns occuring in the document text to an external target.
- New: You can put a placeholder in the target URL, that will be replaced by the matched pattern.
- New: Optionally print only a page's annotations. (Allows overlay printing on paper forms etc.)
- New: PDF Nomad now detects if it is running outside the Applications folder and offers to copy itself into it.
- New: When zoomed out or showing facing pages, you can now paste on the page where you hover the mouse by pressing command-option-control-V.
- New: Added "performing ocr" AppleScript property on the document so that it becomes possible, in a script, to check whether OCR is ongoing.
- New: When editing a recognized OCR element in the popover, you can press the return key to dismiss the popover.
- Changed: When double clicking a static text box annotation the popover will now appear to its left side, to avoid it getting in the way as the text grows while editing.
- Fixed: On OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) text boxes displayed an incorrect font size during editing.
- Fixed: Editing an element during the OCR correction phase could under certain circumstances result in a hang.
New in PDF Nomad 2.1 Build 165 (Jul 16, 2013)
- New: Search for text in annotations.
- New: Added recent searches menu to search field.
- New: Choice annotations for creating forms.
- New: Import/export form data as CSV.
- New: The OCR engine now supports 67 languages.
- New: Added toggle for display and print properties of several annotations.
- New: PDF Nomad Help is now localized for German.
- Changed: Operations on selected pages now operate on the pages selected in the thubmnail view if that view is being shown.
- Fixed: Corrections to all localizations (DE, FR, NL, PT).
- Fixed: Page preview in watermarks editor responds again to selected page number.
- Fixed: Double clicking an annotation while a popover was being shown could result in undefined behaviour.
- Fixed: Showing and then hiding the assistant preview canvas could cause a crash.
New in PDF Nomad 2.0 Build 157 (May 24, 2013)
- New: Scan documents directly into PDF Nomad. (Separate purchase with Scanning, OCR, Bookmarks and Auto Deskew)
- New: OCR scanned documents or any documents whose text textual contents are missing. (Separate purchase with Scanning, OCR, Bookmarks and Auto Deskew)
- New: Bookmarks menu for quick access to documents of your choosing. (Separate purchase with Scanning, OCR, Bookmarks and Auto Deskew)
- New: AppleScript support. Automate your workflow through scripting.
- New: Auto deskew option when rotating page content. (Especially useful for scanned pages. Separate purchase with Scanning, OCR, Bookmarks and Auto Deskew)
- New: Right click a selected word/line to add it as a document keyword.
- New: When dragging page contents, hold the shift and alt keys, to drag only the pages on the same side as the page being dragged.
- New: Added menu items under the View menu for the lists on the left and right.
- Changed: The About Box has been expanded and redesigned.
- Fix: A ghost-window could briefly appear at startup. This no longer happens.
- Fix: Sometimes saving pages whose contents were imported bitmap files could result in the pages having a black background.
- Fix: Rotating pages could cause mispositioning of subsequent page splits and/or page labels.
- Fix: Resolved an issue with entering fractional numbers into the rotation input field when rotating page contents.
- Fix: When the search field was active the Find Next and Find Previous commands were unavailable.
New in PDF Nomad 1.5.1 Build 138 (Dec 10, 2012)
- New: Added preference option to never show the right side lists when opening a PDF document for the first time.
- Fixed: Help file did not appear in version 1.5.
- Fixed: Improvements to the link annotation inspector.
- Fixed: Improvements to setting the color of static text annotations.
New in PDF Nomad 1.5 Build 134 (Nov 7, 2012)
- New: Arbitrarily rotate page contents. (Especially useful for deskewing scanned pages.)
- New: Pages and other objects can now also be rotated by the rotate gesture on the trackpad.
- New: Center selected objects on the page.
- New: Option to merge in annotations from external PDF documents.
- New: When creating link annotations from selected text, the URL is automatically filled in if present in the selected text.
- New: When creating link annotations to external files, the file scheme is now automatically prepended if needed.
- New: Button to clear display box in the Crop Box Insets dialog.
- New: Manual alignment option when resizing the media box in Crop & Shift mode.
- New: Added option under Help menu to show the welcome screen.
- Changed: "Add Link" menu -> The shortcut for the "Add link to local page" menu item has been transferred to a new "Add default link" menu item.
- Changed: Improved UI of document security options in the Save As dialog and tightened up password security.
- Fixed: Corrected some issues in the implementation of setting and entering passwords.
- Fixed: Removed option to create outlines (bookmarks) to external PDF document pages, since this is not supported.
- Fixed: In the text based automation dialogs, dragging to create the selection rectangle in the preview area wasn't working properly.
- Fixed: The Revert to Saved menu did not work.
- Fixed: Minor bug fixes.