News & Press & Events

Press Release - PDF-XChange Lite for FREE

Date : October 26th 2010.
Place : Vancouver Island, Canada.

Tracker Software Products are pleased to confirm the release of its popular PDF-XChange Lite creation tool for all Home and Academic users as FREE-WARE.
 
And users COMMERCIAL users of our award winning PDF-XChange Viewer can also now use their Viewer Serial number in PDF-XChange LIte -  as their Viewer License has been extended to inlcude a FREE copy of PDF-XChange Lite if they wish to create new PDF files from any other Windows application that can 'Print' - any document output can now be converted to a fully ISO compliant PDF file !!!

Important new PDF-XChange Viewer release ...

We are very pleased to advise all new and existing users that a new release of the PDF-XChange Viewer has been made available - Version 2.5 adds new features and many small bug fixes - the most notable new functionality being extensive support of XFA form types including dynamic PDF forms support - additionally developers and system administrators will be pleased to know this latest release also no longer requires registration of an ActiveX in the users system, thus 'Administration' rights are not required.

Updated 22 December 2010 - extended XFA Compatibility further.

Free PDF creation software for Non-Commercial users

We are pleased to now offer all home users access to our 'commercial grade' PDF creation application, PDF-XChange Lite FREE of charge, meaning you now not only have the ability to View and Modify PDF files using the award winning PDF-XChange Viewer - but also to create new PDF files from any Windows application that can print !

New Acrobat Vulnerability - PDF-XChange not affected.

Adobe reported a new security vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash player, Acrobat and Acrobat reader on June 4th 2010, :

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html

Tracker Software's new home Domain/Web URL

Welcome to Tracker Software's new Home URL and Domain name, this has now changed from the old 'Docu-track.com' to our 'shiny/new' - https://www.pdf-xchange.com

FREE PDF creation software from any Windows application ....

Not content with giving users the ability to view and modify PDF files FREE - to all users who have licensed our PDF-XChange Viewer PRO version - we have decided to extend the options provided when they purchase the PDF-XChange Viewer PRO for $34.50 - to include FREE our 5 star rated PDF-XChange Lite driver (retail value $24)  that allows the ability to create a highly optimized PDF file from any Windows application that can print ! See here for more details.

If you have purchased a multi user license - you will also receive the same multi user license for PDF-XChange Lite !!!

We have added new servers and changed our email domain to...

We have replaced 'Docu-track.com' as our email domain ...
We are pleased to advise all clients and suppliers that we have changed our email domain with a more appropriate 'tracker-software.com' domain - replacing 'tracker-software.com' .

Also we have invested heavlily in new 'Rackspace' hosted 'Cloud' server hosting space to ensure our users experience the fastest possible download speeds available to them locally - even at times of heavy traffic from our own servers !

 

New web site launch - Advance Notice ...

As many may have noticed, our site can be slow down at certain peak times - due to the major increase we have experienced in the popularity of our products over the past months and consequently those using our web site and download mirrors - therefore to combat this and to accommodate our 100% new web site we have made a major investment in new servers and upgraded bandwidth.

During the course of the week beginning 1st February, most likely Wednesday 3rd Feb 2010, we will launch our new web site and hardware/bandwidth - this could mean possible connection issues and some initial teething problems as a new server is also be installed to manage and improve the speed of our site generally.

This could also mean some delays for some users whilst the Internet registration body updates our DNS entries that convert all literal Internet addresses from text to 'IP' addresses.

We apologize in advance for any problems this may cause and thank all our clients in advance for their patience during this major update.

We should also advise in advance of another change coming in the course of the next few weeks - our primary URL/web domain will also be changing to www.tracker-software.com so please do not be alarmed if you see your web browser being redirected during the course of your browsing our site or requesting a download.

Kind regards
Tracker Software Products Ltd.

PDF-XChange Viewer - Update blocks possible vulnerability

Important Security Update issued 30 December 2009: 

PDF-XChange Viewer Product Range – update to release 2.044 recommended.

After consultation with Secunia Research (http://www.secunia.com) Tracker
Software Products Ltd has issued an update to all versions of its popular
Free/Licensed PDF-XChange Viewer product family including both end user and
developer product ranges. 

On December 29th 2009, Secunia notified Tracker after testing, of the potential
for malicious code to be executed to compromise users systems via PDF files,
using a very specific means - though no such exploitation is known to have occurred
to date, we felt we should act with some urgency to protect our clients. 

Within 24 hours we are pleased to confirm an update was issued to all products
blocking any such opportunity and all clients and developers are urged to update
any versions of our PDF-XChange Viewer product to ensure that their systems are
safe guarded.

All PDF-XChange Viewer and Viewer SDK versions prior to release 2.044 
should be updated to a later release. 

The PDF-XChange Viewer (FREE or PRO) is also offered as part of the PDF-XChange Lite, 
Standard and PRO, and PDF-Tools product bundles - users of these products are urged to 
update therefore also.

Developers using the PDF-XChange Viewer ActiveX SDK are urged to also update their clients 
systems as soon as practical with a later release of their products incorporating the Viewer 
SDK Version/Build 2.044 or later.

A full system uninstall, restart and re-install is recommended using downloads from the page 
links below:


End user installer options:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/downloads/users/

Developer SDK installer options:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/downloads/dev/

Please rest assured we take the integrity of our clients systems and enviroment 
very seriously and strive to ensure our products are of the highest quality on every level.

Latest review and Poll - PDF-XChange romps home by massive margin to beat them all !

In a recent review and User Poll of the 5 best PDF Viewer/Reader's by the popular 'Life Hacker' online Magazine - their nomination for the 5 best products and subsequent poll left the PDF-XChange Viewer a massive margin ahead of its rivals - see here for the full story :

http://lifehacker.com/5328211/five-best-pdf-readers

PDF-XChange garnered a huge 59% of the 17,778 votes cast by 'LifeHacker' readers leaving Adobe, Sumatra, 'Preview' and Foxit to scramble for the minor placing's.

Proud as we are of this astounding confirmation of the functionality and usablity of the PDF-XChange Viewer Viewer - rest assured we are not resting on our laurels, a new release is out shortly with even more features being added in, including rules, grid, gridlines, Snap to grid, gridlines, objects (end points, mid points, edges, etc.), XFA forms support, extended Digital Signature functionality.

So keep an eye open for the next release - due very shortly !