PDF Studio

What's new in this version:

PDF Studio 2024.0.1 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version


PDF Studio 2023.0.4 (64-bit)
Fixed:
- Regression – Multi-doc searches broken
- Save as not enabled for monochrome
- Extract pages feature is not able to extract every page on the document
- unnecessary warning when importing into an existing layer
- Copy and paste annotations on specific document is throwing “Cannot invoke “Object.getClass()”
- Document specific: Exception displays when viewing form field properties
- save all/save selected was always showing filename on tabs


PDF Studio 2023.0.3 (64-bit)
Fixed:
- JPDF-2007: Document specific: Content Edit, not able to select thin lines
- JPDF-2003: Document specific: Copy/paste text issue


PDF Studio 2023.0.2 (64-bit)
Enhanced:
- Added layers filter to comments panel
- Added wait cursor on loading sessions

Fixed:
- macOS: Fixed crashing issue cause by change on latest macOS 11.7.9 update
- Fixed open button duplication of sessions menu
- Fixed size not showing correctly when trying to modify multiple “Insert Text” annotations
- Fixed annotations belonging to a deleted layer were not being deleted
- Document Specific: Word documents not converted correctly
- Document Specific: Word table missing when converting to PDF
- Document Specific: Splitting table rows across pages were converted incorrectly
- Document specific: numbers are cut-off when converting word to PDF


PDF Studio 2023.0.1 (64-bit)
- Regression: Batch Signature is placed outside the document
- Issues with Fast Sign on PDF Studio 2023
- Exception in jPDFViewer when application uses rhino
- Updated version to 2023.0.1
- jPDFPreflight – Memory Leak


PDF Studio 2023.0.0 (64-bit)
- Improvements for Enterprise Deployments (Shared User Settings)
- Improvements to Microsoft Office Conversions (Word to PDF & PDF to Word)
- Support for Dropbox Team Spaces
- Installer Enhancements on Linux and Windows
- New Embed / Unembed Fonts Functions
- Additional Multi Document Functions throughout the Application
- New Optimizer Features
- New Print Features
- And Much More…


PDF Studio 2022.2.4 (64-bit)
- Resolve issues with Linux file chooser with filename extension and truncating
- Scan “black and white” format is not working correctly when “deskew” is checked
- JavaScript not calculating fields – Event.value not being modified and re-setting the same value after calculation
- Font Specific: Error rendering the attached PDF on Linux due to not using Unicode Mapping
- “Copy text to note” preference broken for text markup
- Remove vm warnings in the console on silent install
- Cleanup replacement fonts
- Clean up files related to install4j runtime, remove warnings


PDF Studio 2022.2.3 (64-bit)
- Regression: multiple JavaScript prompts
- Editing mode exited after entering non-Latin characters with Right ALT key
- Document Specific – Fix image rendering issue


PDF Studio 2022.2.2 (64-bit)
- Incorrect logic when setting JavaScript “field.display” value


PDF Studio 2022.2.1 (64-bit)
- 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 (64-bit)
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 (64-bit)
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 (64-bit)
Enhancements:
- Allow larger custom memory amount in user vmoptions file

Fixed:
- 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 (64-bit)
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 (64-bit)
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: 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 (64-bit)
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 (64-bit)
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 2022.0.0 (64-bit)
New:
- Action Wizard to Automate PDF tasks (Pro) — See Video
- Document Session Manager (Reopen Previously Opened Docs)
- Create Table of Contents from Bookmarks
- Add Comment Summary when Printing
- Auto-Save Document Recovery — See Video
- Comments Pane Improvements
- Thumbnail Preview on Windows
- Gray/Monotone Icons Theme
- PDF/X Conversion (Pro)
- Easy Tools to “Add Content” (Pro)
- Output Preview: Color Separation View (Pro)
- (Beta) Convert PDF to Word without Office Installed (Pro)
- PDF Stamps with Data Entry


PDF Studio 2021.1.4 (64-bit)
- 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 (64-bit)
- 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 (64-bit)
- Remove unused log4j files to avoid false positive results in virus scanners


PDF Studio 2021.1.1 (64-bit)
Enhancements:
- Added support for protocols to allow launching PDF Studio from a web page
- Added support for setting file associations on the new Apple M1 ARM installer
- Performance enhancements to the new comments panel
- Cleaned up PDF Studio installer to remove old unused files

Fixed:
- Fixed issue with incorrect encoding of special tabs and newline chars when adding keywords into XMP Metadata
- Fixed issue adding page numbers to large number of document pages
- Fixed regression issue: Null pointer exception when opening list and combo field drop-down in PDF forms
- Fixed issue with improper handling of object streams when saving PDF files
- Fixed issue handling rubber stamps created by NotesWriter Pro + enhance error handling when parsing annotations
- Fixed issue with multiple permission warnings when creating highlight/etc on advanced search
- Fixed issue applying polyline styles on first change


PDF Studio 2021.1.0 (64-bit)
New Features:
- PowerPoint to PDF Conversion

Enhancements:
- OCR languages now included in installer (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
- Added spell check to inline editing in comments panel
- Document tagging UI improvements
- Font embedding now includes the user-only font folder on Windows
- Cloud drive UI improvements
- Updated Dropbox library to latest v4.0.1 update
- Added support for stencil patterns in images
- Added support for reference table streams in PDF linearization to avoid file size increase

Fixed:
- Fit to width & fit to page did not work when using bottom toolbar
- Fix to handle scanners reporting invalid contrast values that would cause an error
- Fix to handle missing / null values in “TU” encryption entry
- Regression: Fix performance issue when loading signed document with lots of annotations (50k+)
- Clicking on ‘x’ to exit password dialog breaks dialog the next time it’s launched
- Switching tools during inline content editing would not commit changes
- (Linux): Text highlight cursor displayed white in some Linux distros (Ubuntu xfce, Manjaro)
- (Linux): Ugly font selected for UI / Look and Feel on some Linux distros (Debian)
- Deleting named JavaScript did not get removed
- Fixed background color of combo fields when running in dark mode
- (macOS) DocuSign not working on new Apple M1 installer on Big Sur
- Favorite ribbon group in preferences scaled to big in Touch Mode
- Toolbar gallery issue caused index issue preventing application exit
- Expired ID is selected when signing with non-expired ID
- Word to PDF: Incorrect numbering of sections – Add support for level override


PDF Studio 2021.0.4 (64-bit)
- Allow Multiple File Selection in “Add Place” feature in file tab
- Improved PDF/A preflight report generation performance
- Added “Current Page” option in the new Flatten Dialog
- Field Simplified Notation Calculations not handling escape characters correctly
- Document Specific: Improved error handling of invalid CCITTFFaxDecode images in document
- Document Specific: JavaScript code would cause full screen mode to crash
- LiveCycle forms no longer displaying the warning with the kb article link
- Replace Pages prompts for the file before it shows the dialog

Fixed:
- overlapping buttons on measurement dialogs
- issue with bookmark font when editing label
- issue with named JavaScript not being recognized in Acrobat
- performance issue when loading documents containing abnormally large number of annotations (50k+)
- bug in Batch that would sometimes delete source file when error occurred


PDF Studio 2021.0.3 (64-bit)
- Split View broken : displays a white bottom pane
- Loupe tool & Pan & Zoom broken
- Drag to rearrange pages on Pages / Thumbnails pane does not always work correctly
- Fix an issue with editing component not being stopped for typewriter annotations (null pointer exception when dragging and closing documents)
- More issues with OCR Library not loaded error on Windows 10
- MAC: The * after filename on tab title (indicating a modified document) is missing
- Document Properties Metadata dialog not scaled in 4k


PDF Studio 2021.0.2 (64-bit)
- OCR Library is not loaded error due to missing Microsoft Visual C++ package
- Ctrl + Spacebar to temporarily use “Zoom Tool”
- Metadata dialog not scaled in 4k
- Updated look and feel version


PDF Studio 2021.0.0 (64-bit)
- Accessibility Color Options (Background & Text Color)
- Read Out Loud / Text To Speech
- “Unflatten” annotations
- Improved Content Editing
- Document TimeStamps
- Search Recent File List
- Additional Preflight Functions
- Real Full Screen Mode
- Auto Detect Links
- Upgraded OCR Engine Version


PDF Studio 2020.4.0 (64-bit)
Enhancements: / Fixed:
- Regression: Brighten the color of the annotation comment bubble
- Flatten option was missing from form field context menu
- PDF to Word integration unable to locate MS Office 2016
- Many Word to PDF conversion improvements
- Type 3 font characters cutoff in HTML/SVG output
- Resize handles and cursor for callout annotation not being placed correctly on rotated pages
- Parentheses used in CJK vertical writing not rendered correctly
- Fixed nullPointerException when importing an xfdf annotation with null intent
- Opening document in multiple windows with modal dialog could lock PDF Studio
- Path gradient with separation color space is not showing correct color (Added Support for Lab color space)
- Not rendering thin content lines when gradient applied to them
- Doc Specific: Missing font in DA String causes error when changing font


PDF Studio 2020.3.1 (64-bit)
Enhancements / Bug Fixes:
- Fast Sign Improvement: Display a larger signing pane for drawing handwritten signatures
- (Mac) Right click tab selection broken
- Text selection box can be too wide due to invalid values in embedded font description
- Find Tools moves to left side under some circumstances overlaying below the open button
- Regression: Issue when opening a PDF Form with JavaScript from the SWT file dialog
- Regression: 2 comment bubbles showing on perimeter and area annotations
- Word to PDF: For Vertical Text in Table Cell Clipped Incorrectly (Add Support for Cell Max Width)
- Word to PDF: Vertical header is missing on a table in vertically merged cells + table does not keep together


PDF Studio 2020.3.0 (64-bit)
Enhancements / Bug-Fixes:
- Improvements in Word and Excel to PDF Conversion
- Incorrect focus behavior on Message Dialog
- Regression: Focus on password field when opening a protected PDF
- Issues with setting custom zoom level with decimal point
- Current bookmark: Change the highlight color from pink to earthy orange
- Regression: “Signature timestamp is from a timestamp server but the message digest could not be validated” due to mismatch between timestamp and message digest algorithms
- “Save as default” & Locked missing from Pencil Annotation properties dialog
- Multi tab selection in dark theme doesn’t look good
- Replace Pages from PDF option is not working when selecting from Pages Pane
- JavaScript Validation Dialogs Sometimes Hidden Behind In Java 8+
- Some PDF documents report being tagged for fast web wrongly.
- Regression: Euro Symbol in Text Annotations Editor is displaying wrong character


PDF Studio 2020.1.1 (64-bit)
Fixed:
- PDFium Documents: Fixed error rendering page: Missing Extended Graphic State Dictionary
- Fixed Find Tools field focus issues
- Fixed null Author would show on new Comment tree
- Document Specific – NPE when editing comments
- Word Convert Enhancements
- Re-added Ribbon / classic toolbar option to preferences


PDF Studio 2020.1.0 (64-bit)
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 2020.0.1 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version


PDF Studio 2020.0.0 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version


PDF Studio 2019.2.3 (64-bit)
- 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 (64-bit)
- 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 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 (64-bit)
- 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 (64-bit)
- 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