What's new in this version: PDF Studio 2022.2.2 - Incorrect logic when setting JavaScript “field.display” value
PDF Studio 2022.2.1 - Null pointer exception happening in on load JavaScript - Added class cast protection and set signature as invalid if the entries in the signature field dictionary are invalid - Document Specific: Digital Signature not validated correctly (Digital Signature Service) - Document Specific: Signature marked as “Revoked” instead of “Not verified”. Revocation has to come from issuing CA in the Certificate Revocation List
PDF Studio 2022.2.0 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”
Fixed: - 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
PDF Studio 2022.1.3 Enhancements: - Better handling of fonts missing character mapping information when using inline text editing
Fixed: - 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)
PDF Studio 2022.1.2 Enhancements: - Allow larger custom memory amount in user vmoptions file
Fixed: - macOS Ventura: If dark mode was used, the installer would hang on startup - macOS: Full screen mode was broken - 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
PDF Studio 2022.1.1 Enhanced: - Convert Word to PDF: Handle Theme Font Languages for Arabic, Asian, etc..
Fixed: - 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
PDF Studio 2022.1.0 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
Fixed: - 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: Polyshape cursors 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
PDF Studio 2022.0.2 Fixed: - 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
PDF Studio 2022.0.1 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
Fixed: - 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
PDF Studio 2021.1.4 - 4K: Fixed side by side comparison (right document not scaled) - Mac: Fixed issue with highlights not showing color after using OCR - Word to PDF: Improved support for “Wrap Margin” - Word to PDF: Missing dots before page number in table of content and missing underline in sub-section - Word to PDF: Fix issue with a row minimum height taller than the available space (infinite loop) + validate document type - Flattening (on the context menu) did not seem to check for permission to modify the document - Better error handling for Typewriter annotation missing “borderstyle” dictionary entries - Fixed “Print Service Not Available” error for remote redirected printer after connection timeout - Ribbon Toolbar error when selecting annotation with collapsed ribbon - Fixed signature vulnerability with incremental save attack found by PDF researchers, submitted by Raphael Sütterlin of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Fixed “Stencil Mask” with JBIG2 compression was being decompressed twice and rendered incorrectly - Fixed Signature validation shows content added after first signature because we look at most recent DSS entry - Document Specific: Fix for infinite loop JavaScript error when filling out NYC income tax form - Document specific: Error loading PDF array copy: source index
PDF Studio 2021.1.3 - 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 <= 1.5 - Checking for updates on older versions should inform users that a new major version has been released - Create Self-Signed Digital ID not working on Mac M1 – Universal Binary Build - Ribbon toolbar shortcut modifiers were no longer working - Issue with initialization of bundled font locations on Linux - Pro only features on the File panel are not showing in demo
PDF Studio 2021.1.2 - Remove unused log4j files to avoid false positive results in virus scanners
PDF Studio 2021 User Interface
New Features: - New Full Screen Mode - New Document / Adding New Page, give options to specify page size / format & orientation - New options to “Unflatten” annotations - New document color options for accessibility - New customizable favorites group on Home tab - New z-order moving options for annotations - New Create Multiple Copies option in form fields - New options to sort/filter comments pane - New “Add Place” option in file tab - New “Extract Text as Table (CSV/Excel)” option - New content explorer pane - New Text To Speech (TTS) reading tools - 4k user interface enhancments
Enhancements: - Content editing now displays text paragraph and image areas - Drag & rearrange tabs in tabbed document view - Drag document tabs to new window / frame - New option to print pages from selected bookmarks - Color picker enhancements - New toolbar buttons on Signature panel - Add merge, compare options to Tabs context menu when multiple tabs selected - Set last used tool on zoom split button - Ability to set layer for multiple annotations at once - New options to insert pages from currently open documents - Tab document list chooser now always displayed - Auto detect web URLs & Links in document & User Warning - New recent file list search tool - Preflight dialog enhancements - New Recent Document search - New “Length” property to measurement annotations
Cloud Storage: - Google & One Drive now use System Browser to login instead of internal browser
Prepress / Print Production: - New PDF/A 3u Preflight Verification - New PDF/A 2u Preflight Conversion - New PDF/A 3u Preflight Conversion
Digital Signatures: - New signature banner displaying validation info for signed PDF documents - New toolbar buttons on Signature panel - Timestamp server enhancements
New Standard Features: - Measuring Annotations - Fix scans – (Optimizer still Pro) - OCR - Enhanced Merging tools - Side by side Compare – (Overlay still Pro) - Split PDF - Form export / import
Other Enhancements: - OCR now supports angled text baselines - Support or JavaScript in Names tree - New preference to open GoTo page actions in new or current window - New preference to paste pages AFTER selected page - New setting to display validation marks (error, warning and check) drawn on top of signature appearance - New right-click menu option on the tab also include “Copy Path To Clipboard” and “Open Containing Folder” - New option to “Show comments pane when a PDF with comments is opened” - “$filename” variable no longer includes file extension - Additional font substitutes now packaged with PDF Studio - Optimizer font improvements - Many internal bugs & fixes
PDF Studio 2020.1.0 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
PDF Studio 2020.0.0 - Many User Interface, Annotations and Fields Enhancements - Allow Opening Docs in Tabs instead of Frames - New Find Tools search box to help locate tools on ribbon toolbar - Redesigned Vertical Comments Pane on the Right Side - License Management Tool for more than 10 Users - New MSI installer
PDF Studio 2019.2.3 - Fast Search: options to search in comments and fields broken - Switching from single page to continuous page would go to page 1 - Switching from overlay to side by side would not maintain current page location - Issues connecting to Canon P21511 WIA scanners - Mac app store: error “operation not permitted” when saving without file extension - Issue when rendering pages with negative font size leading to displaying some pages with reversed text - IRT annotations not imported correctly from FDF & XFDF - PDF to HTML: convert lines with 0 width in PDF to 0.1 width in SVG so Browsers render them - PDF to HTML: detect and handle BIDI and RTL to avoid Arabic text or parenthesis being flipped - Document Specific: ClassCastException when creating a field due to invalid field format - Optimizing a PDF with JPEG images with Decode Array sometimes results in black pages - Fixed issue where opening new document would restore (un-minimize) all other frames - Word to PDF: table header somehow duplicated at bottom of table - Word to PDF: auto resized columns conversion enhancments - PDF/A validation did not catch fonts embedded as TTC (True Type Collection)
PDF Studio 2019.2.0 - Scanning broken in macOS 10.15 Catalina due to Apple Image Capture API changes - Dropbox update: security changes now require using system browser for authentication - Save button not enabled when applying Fast Sign signature - Fixed issue with some special characters (þÿ) showing in form fields - Added support for dash array in border style for link annotations - Word to PDF: Handling for transform & clipping on EMF images - Word to PDF: Improved PNG image resolution issue due to “Indirect” color models
PDF Studio 2019.1.4 - Type 3 fonts now supported in SVG conversion - Handle saving & opening file attachments with invalid characters in filename - Regression: Caret no longer displays when starting to type in text annotations (first character) - Rendering improvements for PDFs created by MacOSX Quartz PDF Context - (Document Specific) Vector overlay colors not blending - (Document Specific) Text not showing behind the image (Color Key Mask + Indexed) - Word to PDF conversion enhancements
PDF Studio 2019.1.3 - Scanning broken by notarization process for upcoming macOS 10.15 Catalina - Recent file list on menu bar did not work - PDF to HTML5 now converts in-document links, supported by Chrome and Firefox |