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PDF2ID Changelog

What's new in PDF2ID 4.5

Jun 25, 2015
  • InDesign Creative Cloud 2015 support:
  • PDF2ID v4.5 has been enhanced to support InDesign CC 2015. InDesign CC and CC 2014 are supported as well.
  • Batch Conversion:
  • You can now select multiple files and convert them at once. PDF2ID Standard allows converting 5 files at once. PDF2ID Professional allows converting 20 files at once.
  • Native recognition of Illustrator (.ai) files:
  • PDF2ID has been enhanced to recognize and accept Illustrator (.ai) files saved with the PDF compatibility option.
  • Layout Reconstruction Core Enhancement:
  • The layout reconstruction core has been enhanced in several areas improving stability and resulting in even more accurate conversions.

New in PDF2ID 4.0 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Integration with InDesign Creative Cloud - PDF2ID has been enhanced to operate seamlessly with InDesign CC (v9.0) converting PDF to InDesign CC files.
  • Native 64-bit Technology - PDF2ID v4.0 is now a native 64-bit plug-in, offering performance benefits on both 64-bit Mac and Windows platforms. In particular, conversions are now 15-20% faster than previous versions of PDF2ID.
  • Paragraph Rules - Paragraph rule properties are recognized and applied to the corresponding paragraphs in the resulting InDesign file; enhancing high-level property recovery.
  • Modernized User Interface - PDF2ID now uses the Adobe Express View Engine infrastructure enhancing integration between PDF2ID and InDesign. Whenever the InDesign Appearance Color Theme is switched, PDF2ID – Options interface is synchronized to match it.
  • Multiple PDF2ID installation - PDF2ID v4.0 allows older versions of PDF2ID to be installed and used simultaneously; thus, previous versions of PDF2ID can now be installed and used at the same time as PDF2ID v4.0.
  • Layout Reconstruction Core Enhancement - The layout reconstruction core has been enhanced in several areas improving stability and resulting in even more accurate conversions.

New in PDF2ID 3.0.1 (May 20, 2011)

  • Complete support for InDesign CS 5.5:
  • PDF2ID now supports ID CS5.5
  • Font Mapping enhancements:
  • Issues specifically related to mapping certain TrueType fonts were resolved.
  • Enhanced Conversion and Stability:
  • Certain stability and conversion related issues were addressed.

New in PDF2ID 3.0 (Sep 14, 2010)

  • Integration with InDesign CS5:
  • PDF2ID has been enhanced to operate and function with InDesign CS5. InDesign CS3 and CS4 are supported as well. (For the Macintosh platform PowerPC support has been removed.)
  • Variable Page Size PDF (InDesign CS5 only):
  • PDFs that contain variable page sizes are now converted to InDesign documents with variable page sizes. This feature is only available when PDF2ID v3.0 is used in conjunction with InDesign CS5.
  • Frames Linking Across Pages:
  • Frames linking across pages has been introduced allowing frames that are considered continuous across pages to be linked automatically.
  • Separation of Text, Graphics and Tables into distinct layers:
  • Separate layers for Text, Tables and Graphics are automatically created generating a document that is easier to manage and edit.
  • Graphics Options panel:
  • A new Graphics Options panel has been introduced, which provides complete control over how vector graphics and images should be processed. Device Profiles can be recovered and stored with the image; furthermore, complex vector graphics can be converted to high-resolution images with alpha-channel properties.
  • Interactive PDF properties:
  • PDF Bookmarks, URLs and Transitions are processed and converted to the appropriate InDesign property and type.
  • Text Wrap around objects:
  • Text wrap around objects is identified and the corresponding InDesign property is applied to better preserve layout fidelity.
  • Image Recombination:
  • Images that have been separated into many smaller slices are identified and recombined to form the larger image.
  • Image resolution up-sampling:
  • PDF2ID v3.0 now offers the ability to raise low-resolution images to a higher resolution using bicubic up-sampling.
  • Formatting Options preference panel:
  • A new Formatting Options preference panel has been introduced that enables you to tailor the formatting as you like. Table and Cell properties, Frames Break insertion, and Paragraph/Style properties can be controlled here.
  • Color Profiles and Graphics preference panel:
  • The Color Profile Settings preference panel has been replaced by the Color Profiles and Graphics preference panel. New controls include specifying up-sampling low-resolution images in PDF documents and other image-related notification settings.
  • PDF Conversion Core Enhancement:
  • The PDF conversion core has been thoroughly enhanced to improve the layout reconstruction.
  • Conversion Log:
  • A conversion log is maintained recording all conversions performed. This lets you track the completed conversions and options used when converting a file.
  • Enhanced Character Style, Paragraph Style and Image file naming scheme:
  • Character properties, Paragraph properties and Image properties can be inserted as part of the respective Character style, Paragraph style and image file names.
  • Multi-user Support:
  • PDF2ID v3.0 has been enhanced to support multi-user configurations.

New in PDF2ID (Sep 14, 2010)

  • Integration with InDesign CS5:
  • PDF2ID has been enhanced to operate and function with InDesign CS5. InDesign CS3 and CS4 are supported as well. (For the Macintosh platform PowerPC support has been removed.)
  • Variable Page Size PDF (InDesign CS5 only):
  • PDFs that contain variable page sizes are now converted to InDesign documents with variable page sizes. This feature is only available when PDF2ID v3.0 is used in conjunction with InDesign CS5.
  • Frames Linking Across Pages:
  • Frames linking across pages has been introduced allowing frames that are considered continuous across pages to be linked automatically.
  • Separation of Text, Graphics and Tables into distinct layers:
  • Separate layers for Text, Tables and Graphics are automatically created generating a document that is easier to manage and edit.
  • Graphics Options panel:
  • A new Graphics Options panel has been introduced, which provides complete control over how vector graphics and images should be processed. Device Profiles can be recovered and stored with the image; furthermore, complex vector graphics can be converted to high-resolution images with alpha-channel properties.
  • Interactive PDF properties:
  • PDF Bookmarks, URLs and Transitions are processed and converted to the appropriate InDesign property and type.
  • Text Wrap around objects:
  • Text wrap around objects is identified and the corresponding InDesign property is applied to better preserve layout fidelity.
  • Image Recombination:
  • Images that have been separated into many smaller slices are identified and recombined to form the larger image.
  • Image resolution up-sampling:
  • PDF2ID v3.0 now offers the ability to raise low-resolution images to a higher resolution using bicubic up-sampling.
  • Formatting Options preference panel:
  • A new Formatting Options preference panel has been introduced that enables you to tailor the formatting as you like. Table and Cell properties, Frames Break insertion, and Paragraph/Style properties can be%2

New in PDF2ID 2.1 (Oct 1, 2009)

  • Greek and Russian language support - PDF2ID has been enhanced to recognize and process Greek and Russian text contained in PDF files.
  • Target Color Profile specification - When colors are converted from RGB/Lab to the CMYK space or converted from the CMYK/Lab to the RGB space a target color profile can be specified.
  • Preferred Language/Encoding Font mappings - Starting with PDF2ID v2.1 preferred font mappings for the various languages/encodings supported can be specified via the Preferences.
  • Acrobat 9 security policy support - PDF2ID v2.1 now supports the security specification of Acrobat 9.
  • Enhanced PDF-to-InDesign Conversion - Changes have been introduced to the PDF-to-InDesign conversion technology resulting in better paragraph generation, layout recreation, graphics reconstruction and tables creation. Furthermore, minor stability improvements have also been made.

New in PDF2ID 2.0 (Jan 15, 2009)

  • Standard and Professional editions:
  • Frames Linking - A logical text frames linking mechanism has been introduced. PDF2ID automatically links text frames that are deemed logically connected. This allows text to flow from 1 frame to another and allows easier selection and editing.
  • PDF Inspector - A PDF Inspector has been added, allowing you to view the meta-data, document restrictions information and fonts used in a PDF document.
  • Presets - Custom conversion presets can be specified and saved for use later. This alleviates having to specify conversion settings every time.
  • Typeface Library - PDF2ID v2.0 remembers and stores all font substitutions made into a Typeface library. This eliminates the necessity to repeatedly specify font substitutions. The mappings in the Typeface library can be replaced and over-ridden as required.
  • PDF Annotations Recovery Enhancements - Annotations in PDF documents can be recovered into any open InDesign document. Furthermore, annotations can now be separated according to the author.
  • Custom name settings - You can now specify custom character style names, paragraph style names and images that are linked.
  • JPEG2000 image support (Windows specific change) - JPEG2000 images stored in PDF files are now properly recognized and converted for Windows (the Macintosh version of PDF2ID always supported JPEG2000 images).
  • Conversion Enhancements - Paragraphs are now properly formed for text in table cells. Drop Caps properties and limited Drop Shadow property support has been implemented. General conversion improvements in graphics handling, transparency application, text frame reduction and many other enhancements have been added.
  • Professional edition:
  • Color Space settings - The Professional edition of PDF2ID fully supports conversion of PDF documents to InDesign format by specifying other color spaces. The additional color spaces supported are PDF document color space, CMYK and Lab Colors. When PDF document color space is specified, the color property of each object is now preserved in its native color space when converted to the InDesign format.
  • CMYK-TIFF - The Professional edition of PDF2ID provides an option to convert images to CMYK-TIFF format.
  • Parallel Processing - The Professional edition of PDF2ID provides unprecedented performance through the usage of parallel processing on machines that possess multi-core/mult-processor systems. PDF conversions can execute up to 700% faster on machines with 2 processors and 4 cores per processor (i.e. Dual Processor Intel-XEON machines). Single/Dual/Quad Processor machines with a minimum of 2 or 4 cores per processor will see the maximum performance improvements.