PDF-Tools Build 10.4.4.392 (13 Nov 2024) Requires maintenance through 13 Nov 2024 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that could lead to performance drops when saving documents using the 'Save Documents' action. Fixed an issue with the application of page ranges of inputs in the 'Add Barcode' action. Fixed an issue where the 'Place' parameter was not always saved when using the 'Choose Input Files' and 'Save' action. Fixed an issue where the 'Export to Images' and 'Extract Images' actions prompted for the owner password multiple times when running in Multi-Threaded Processing mode. Fixed an issue where the 'Extract Images from PDF' action would skip images when 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' was enabled. Fixed an issue where relative paths specified in the filename option of save actions were not expanded correctly. 44225 Build 10.4.2.390 (08 Oct 2024) Requires maintenance through 08 Oct 2024 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with text report duplication when using the /Log:shared command 44065 Build 10.4.1.389 (16 Sep 2024) Requires maintenance through 16 Sep 2024 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with folder monitors missing subfolders that were moved to monitored folders. 43752 Fixed an issue with processing the output of the 'Export PDF to Images' and 'Extract Images from PDF' actions when 'Multi-Threaded Processing' mode is enabled. Fixed an issue with the output folder of the 'Save Documents' action when the folder parameter is specified in the command line and a local place is selected in the action's UI. Build 10.4.0.388 (09 Sep 2024) Requires maintenance through 09 Sep 2024 NEW Added an option to exclude folders and files in the 'Choose Input Files' action when using the 'Select folder' and 'Select file list' options.For the 'Select Folder' option, files and folders to exclude can be specified by enabling the 'Exclude subfolders and files' option in the dialog, which can be opened by clicking the '...' button. When using the 'Select File List' option, files and folders to exclude can be specified in the *.pdtfl file using a special syntax. The syntax rules can be viewed by clicking 'Choose Input Files -> Select File List -> Info' button in the 'Choose Input Files' action dialog. NEW Added an option to enable a Debug Log file (via Options -> Preferences -> Debug), which contains messages about the application's operation.This feature can help identify and resolve issues when the application's behavior is difficult to reproduce. By default, the Debug Log is disabled, but when enabled, all logs are stored locally and can be sent to support if needed. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the issue with the 'Replace Pages' action where pages were not replaced when the action was configured during a run of the tool. Fixed the issue where the incorrect 'Enter Password' dialog box appeared when adding a password to Predefined Passwords storage. Fixed the issue with the incorrect processing of filenames in the 'Save Images' action when filenames are defined in a previous action (e.g. in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action). Fixed the issue with adding a redundant bookmark in the 'Split/Merge document' action when the options 'Insert blank page after document' and 'Add root bookmark with filename' are enabled. (T# 7085) Improved performance when processing PDF documents in the 'Export PDF to Images' and 'Extract Images from PDF' actions with 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' enabled. Build 10.3.1.387 (18 Jun 2024) Requires maintenance through 18 Jun 2024 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that led to crashes when applying an XMP metadata template to the 'Change Document Properties' action while the tool ran with the 'Multi-threaded processing mode' option enabled. 42484 Fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in files being destroyed (saved with 0 bytes) when the tool opereation was cancelled. 41680 Fixed an issue with the 'Ignore Input Page Range' option that caused some input documents to be excluded from further processing. 42418 Fixed the issue with applying the %[RegExp] macro when processing multiple input documents. 42720 Fixed an issue with the 'Delete Empty Pages' option of the 'Delete Pages' action that caused single-page documents to be excluded from further processing. Fixed an issue with the case sensitivity of some macro names that led to the processing output of actions such as 'Find by Regular Expression' and 'Run JavaScript' being ignored. Fixed an issue with the /Log:full command line option that caused warning messages to not be saved in the output log file. Fixed an issue with applying macros in the 'Send Mail' action. Fixed an issue with the 'Filename' option of save actions. This issue permitted the creation of folders with trailing spaces and periods in the name, which resulted in an inability to remove them and irregular output structures. 42737 Build 10.3.0.386 (29 Apr 2024) Requires maintenance through 29 Apr 2024 NEW Added an 'Add Barcode' tool/action that adds barcodes with user-specified data to documents. NEW Added a 'Run JavaScript' tool/action that runs user-defined JavaScript code snippets for input documents. NEW Added a 'Normalize Pages' tool/action that adjusts the position and rotation of pages/content in documents. NEW Added an 'Identify Forms' tool/action that identifies form fields in document content. NEW Added the option of navigating through list items using the keyboard in the 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog box. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that could result in the 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process' error when 'multi-threaded processing mode' is enabled. 41679 Fixed an issue that could lead to the 'The specified file cannot be found' error when 'multi-threaded processing mode' is enabled. 42096 Fixed an issue that resulted in applying the 'Successfully processed files' action (Tool Info/Tool Edit View -> Tool settings -> All Options -> Input Files group) to input files that were not processed. 40506 Fixed an issue where only a font subset was embedded when using 'Convert to PDF/A' in conjunction with Microsoft Word documents. Fixed an issue with missing 'Allow Copy Serial Keys' and 'Allow Auto-Upgrade Serial Keys' administrative templates. Fixed an issue that could result in the application freezing when 'multi-threaded processing mode' is disabled. Fixed an issue with document names when using the 'Keep doc as is' method in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action. Fixed an issue that caused an inability to define a page ranges for the 'Delete Pages', 'PDF to Audio', 'Delete All Comments', and 'Delete Markup Annotations' actions. Build 10.2.1.385 (22 Jan 2024) Requires maintenance through 22 Jan 2024 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the 'Save Images' action that was causing the inability to save multipage images. Fixed an issue with converting email/msg files to PDF. Build 10.2.0.384 (08 Jan 2024) Requires maintenance through 08 Jan 2024 NEW Added a 'Move Pages' tool/action that enables the reordering of pages within PDF documents. NEW Added functionality that enables the reordering of tools in Tool Categories. Users can now Drag&Drop any tool to their preferred position, or use predefined sorting by the tool's name, creation date, modified date, or last used date. Predefined sorting can be applied via the context menu in the Tools List. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the inability to keep custom settings in the 'Print Document' action. This led to an inability to use the action in Folder Monitors, or to have multiple tools with different settings. 41010 Fixed an issue where the 'Set Security' action failed on the first input when running without any preliminary setup. Fixed an issue with autonumbering documents in the 'Save Documents' action after using the 'Split/Merge Documents' tool. Fixed an issue that caused presets to not be saved in action setup dialogs in cases where the user modified only the presets and not the action settings. Fixed an issue with resetting the shell menu tools when performing the 'Reset All Settings' operation. Fixed an issue that could corrupt the Predefined Passwords Storage. Fixed an issue that caused the application to become unresponsive when attempting to run, from the command line, a tool or shortcut that has a critical problem. Fixed an issue with some UI colors in 'Dark Mode'. Fixed an issue with undo/redo for the delete action when editing the actions list of tools. Fixed numerous issues with tool naming when creating, editing, or cloning tools. Build 10.1.2.382 (23 Oct 2023) Requires maintenance through 23 Oct 2023 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that made it impossible to recreate corrupted password storage (local) in some cases. Build 10.1.1.381 (19 Sep 2023) Requires maintenance through 19 Sep 2023 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that resulted in incorrect 'Split/Merge Documents' dialog box content when 'Batch Processing Mode' and 'Show Dialog for Manual Split/Merge' options are enabled. 40762 Fixed an issue that led to the inability to use the 'Save Documents' action's 'Use Source Folder as Destination' option in some cases when the source folder was from a user-specified 'Place'. Fixed an issue with the 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions that could lead to incorrectly filtering results. Build 10.1.0.380 (05 Sep 2023) Requires maintenance through 05 Sep 2023 NEW Added 'External Links' and 'Document Info' search options for the 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions. NEW Added a 'showprompt' parameter for the /RunTool Command Line option. 40622Further information on this parameter is available here. NEW Added support for the 'Append to existing document' option for text-based file types (*.csv, *.txt, *.ptdfl). NEW Added support for the '%[BatesValue]' macro in the 'Change Document Properties' and 'Save Documents' actions. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the 'Choose Input Files' action's 'Compound Filter' when using folder monitors. 39731 Fixed an issue that could result in application variables not being saved when editing their preferences. Fixed an issue when overwriting a file with itself on remote storage. Fixed an issue with incorrectly applying options from the 'Tool Options' > 'Input Files' section to input files that weren't successfully processed. Fixed an issue that caused the 'Preserve original timestamp' option to not be applied in some cases. Fixed an issue with returning incorrect search results from bookmark text within the 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions. Improved application performance when running tools in certain cases when batch-processing mode is enabled. Changed the default value of the 'Method of applying custom values' in 'Change Document Properties' to 'Merge'. Build 10.0.1.371 (28 Jun 2023) Requires maintenance through 28 Jun 2023 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue where the 'Files created' field value was not changing in the Text Tool Report. 40399 Added an option ‘Words from the Same Page’ to the proximity option for the ‘Filter Pages’ action. Build 10.0.0.370 (14 Jun 2023) Requires maintenance through 14 Jun 2023 NEW Added an 'Application Variables' option that allows users to define custom values which can be used in all fields that support macros. Application Variables can be defined in the application preferences (Prefs/General). (T# 5430, T# 5431) NEW Added 'Custom' and 'Apply Metadata Template' options to the 'Change Document Properties' action. NEW Added a 'Create Compound Filter with All Selected Filters' option to the 'Choose Input Files' action's file types dialog box. This option allows users to define a compound filter that contains all selected file types and specify additional custom file types that should be included\excluded. NEW Added a 'PDF-Specification' option in the application preferences (Prefs/General) that determines the PDF specification of created documents. 39850 NEW Added an ability to use macros in the 'Keywords' field in the 'Change Documents Properties' action. NEW Added 'Select only documents/pages/files that do not fulfill the criteria above' and 'Apply OR logical operation between criteria' options to the 'Filter Document', 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Files' actions. NEW Added a 'Skip processing documents for which a matching value was not found' option to the 'Find by Regular Expression' action. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that led to a potential application crash when tools were running with 'Multi-threaded processing mode' enabled. Fixed an issue that led to a potential application crash when several instances of PDF-Tools were running at the same. Fixed an issue that could lead to system resource overuse and a slow down of processing when 'Multi-threaded processing mode' is on and 'Batch processing mode' is off. Fixed an issue with escape characters in command line parameters. 40320 Improved the display of the unavailability of some application UI elements during tool operation. 39865 Macro %[Regexp:value_name] can now be used in any field that supports macros, and is executed after the 'Find by Regular Expression' action. Support for the 'Modern' Microsoft text-to-speech engine, which makes available all voices installed in OS voices to the new 'PDF to Audio' action. The option 'Maximum number of working threads allowed' was moved to the 'Performance' category of the application settings (Prefs/Performance). Improved performance of the 'Extended Choose Files' dialog box operations when working with a large number of files. Added the ability to specify a custom page range for each input document in the extended 'Choose Input Files' dialog. It is available for any tool that contains actions with a 'Page Range' option. Numerous smaller fixes & improvements. Build 9.5.368.0 (05 Apr 2023) Requires maintenance through 28 Nov 2022 NEW Added GroupPolicy-permissions to the AD Administartive Template to add/delete/renew serial keys. NEW Added a 'Show warning when trying to view multiple files' option to the 'Show Files' action. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that was causing irregular display of tools in the Shell Menu when the tool has diacritic characters in it's name. 40139 Fixed an issue that led to a possible application crash in cases where the 'Show setup dialog while running' option was enabled. Fixed an issue that led to a possible application crash when the 'Save Documents' action is running for large number of documents. Fixed an issue with Folder Monitors that caused the Monitor to process files saved by it's own Tool. 40149 Fixed an issue with Multi-Threaded Processing Mode that meant options that were changed during the Tool run were not saved. Build 9.5.367.0 (06 Mar 2023) Requires maintenance through 28 Nov 2022 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the issue that was causing demo watermarks to be added to documents when users had valid but expired keys. Fixed the issue with numerous macro values in the 'Save Documents' action for documents that are created during a tool run by one of the actions. Fixed an issue in the 'Summarize Comments' action that caused the creation of a PDF document even in cases where the output type was not set to PDF document. Build 9.5.366.0 (12 Dec 2022) Requires maintenance through 28 Nov 2022 NEW Added a 'Use incremental save if possible' option in the 'Save Documents' action. NEW Added a 'Detect underlying Sharepoint resource for local path' option in the application preferences (Prefs/General). NEW Added a 'Plugins' page in PDF-Tools preferences (Prefs/Plugins). Build 9.5.365.0 (28 Nov 2022) Requires maintenance through 28 Nov 2022 NEW Added the option to add specific PDF-Tools 'tools' to the Windows Explorer Shell Menu for selected files to be processed by PDF-Tools launched directly from Windows Explorer. You can manage a list of tools to be presented in the Shell Menu by: - Checking/Uncheking Shell Menu icon near the tool's name in the Tools List and the Tool Info pane; then Choosing one of 'Add to Shell Menu' or 'Remove from Shell Menu' commands for the selected tools in the Tools List's context menu; then choosing either 'Add to Shell Menu' or 'Remove from Shell Menu' commands for the selected category in the Tool Categories List's context menu; - Drag&Dropping tools to the 'Shell Menu' tools category. Also exporting and importing shell menu tools is available using 'Export All Settings' and 'Import All Settings'. To use this feature one chooses to install the PDF Tools Shell Extension during PDF Tools application installation. NEW Added an 'Open File' command to the Tool Report context menu. (T#6275) NEW Added 'Case Sensitive', 'Whole Words', 'Exact Phrase', 'Adjacent Words Only' and 'Use Regular Expression (ECMAScript)' options to the search contols in the Tools List and Actions Library. To access these options, click on the magnifying glass icon on the left side of the search field. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue in the 'Sign Document' action that led to getting a permissions error. 39572 Added default sorting of input files by the full file path in the 'Choose Input Files' action for the 'Select folder' option and in the 'Extended Choose Files' dialog for 'Add Folder' command. (T#6202) Added Demo labels to the 'Save images' action that are applied to processing results when using an unregistered version of PDF-Tools. Added an option for extraction of images from form fields and comments in the 'Extract Images' action. Numerous small fixes & improvements. Build 9.4.364.0 (27 Sep 2022) Requires maintenance through 27 Sep 2022 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the discard PDF/A standard action. Build 9.4.363.0 (15 Aug 2022) Requires maintenance through 08 Aug 2022 Bugfixes and Improvements Changed the appearance and conditions under which the 'Keep order' option is enabled in the 'Tool Options' dialog box. Build 9.4.362.0 (08 Aug 2022) Requires maintenance through 08 Aug 2022 NEW Added an 'Apply Redaction' tool/action that removes content marked for redaction. (T#6030) NEW Added an 'Extract Attachments' tool/action that extracts attachments from documents. NEW Added a 'Keep output order' option that allows one to specify whether to keep the order of output documents in accordance with the order of input documents. NEW Added a 'Run Application' action that starts the specified external application via the command line with specified command line parameters. NEW Added a 'Create Files List' action that creates a file containing the file names from the action's input. The Files list can be saved with the subsequent 'Save Documents' action. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue in the 'Send mail' action that could lead to the incorrect creation of archives. Fixed an issue that led to a possible application crash in cases when the 'Store selected file names for future use' option in the 'Choose Input Files' action and the 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' tool options are enabled. Fixed multithreaded processing of the 'Find and Redact' action. (T#6103) Fixed an issue when running the 'Find and Redact' action with the option to 'Show setup dialog while running' switched off. (T#6102) Fixed an issue that led to an application crash when producing large number of documents via the 'Split/Merge' action. Fixed an issue that led to the inabillity to use pre-defined regular expression patterns in the 'Find by Regular Expression' action. Fixed an issue that caused the 'Import Bookmarks' action to not work for the local file system. Added an 'Overlay Type' option in the 'Find and Redact' action. Added 'Document info' and 'File extension' macros for the 'Subject' and 'Archieve name' options in the 'Send Mail' action. Changed the behaviour of the 'Compose all CSV to one' option for the 'Export Form Data' action. Now the set of columns in the CSV composition file will contain columns for all fields from all input documents, not only the fields that are contained in the first document. Numerous small fixes & improvements. Build 9.3.360.0 (05 Apr 2022) Requires maintenance through 05 Apr 2022 NEW Added options for sorting documents in the 'Extended Choose Input Files' dialog's context menu. 38472 NEW Added the ability to set an image size limit in pixels in the 'Extract Images from PDF' action. 38370 NEW Added the option to set operations with source files after a tool is completed. NEW Added the ability to set audio format quality parameters in the 'Export PDF to Audio' action. NEW Added a warning in the case of incorrect options used for the 'Filter Pages', 'Filter Files', 'Filter Documents' actions in order to prevent running the tool with incorrect parameters. NEW Added shortcut support for large number of UI commands. NEW Added clipboard support for the 'Extended Choose Input Files' dialog which allows one to Copy/Paste a list of files from/to a Files list. 37628 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the %[Page] macro when saving extracted images from a PDF. (T#5834) Fixed an issue that caused the dark theme to be applied only after an application restart. Fixed an issue where the 'Delete Form Fields' action did not delete all the necessary forms. Fixed an issue that caused the 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog to hang when processing many documents. Fixed an issue with processing Form Fields, Comments and Bookmarks correctly in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action in the case of a single input document. Fixed an issue that could lead to the application crashing when the 'PDF to Audio' action is running with 'Multi-threaded Processing Mode' option enabled. Fixed an issue that led to demo labels showing despite a valid license key being present. 37437 Fixed an issue that led to the inability to load Files List in the 'Extended Choose Input Files' dialog. Fixed an issue with the 'Export Form Fields' action producing an empty CSV file with 'Merge all to one CSV' option enabled. (T#6007) Build 9.2.359.0 (23 Nov 2021) Requires maintenance through 23 Nov 2021 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the 'Insert Pages' action that led to an inability to configure action options. Fixed an issue with the tool run progress when PDF-Tools is run from the Command Line. Build 9.2.358.0 (25 Oct 2021) Requires maintenance through 18 Oct 2021 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed issue with incorrectly generated JPEG streams that caused an "Out of memory" error in Acrobat. Fixed an issue with the Initial View's Page layout settings in the 'Change Document Properties' action. Fixed an issue with loading high quality previews in the Preview Pane in the 'Split/Merge PDFs' action's manual split/merge dialog. Build 9.2.357.0 (18 Oct 2021) Requires maintenance through 18 Oct 2021 NEW High DPI Support: added a new 'use per monitor resolution' mode that provides the correct UI appearance for any resolution used in multi-monitor configurations (Prefs/General). NEW Added keyboard shortcuts support for numerous UI actions. NEW Added 'Merge all to one CSV', 'Append existing document' options for the 'Export Form Data' action. NEW Added the options 'Text Encoding', 'New Paragraph Mode', and 'File Place Mode' to the 'Create PDF from Text' action. (T# 5707) NEW Added the possibility to navigate to online help for standard tools and actions by clicking on a help icon/link in the Tools Info pane, header of Tool Action dialog, Tool Action Info pane, header of Tool Edit View. NEW Added the possibility to export, import and reset Folder Monitors during 'Export All Settings', 'Import All Settings' and 'Reset All Settings' commands processing. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with canceling a tool's execution after changing user settings in cases where the input document was invalid. Fixed an issue with configuring the 'Insert Pages' action options. Fixed an issue with processing password protected documents with 'Genereate Bookmarks from Page Text' action. Build 9.1.355.0 (12 Jul 2021) Requires maintenance through 12 Jul 2021 NEW Added Demo labels for the 'Export PDF to Plain Text' and 'PDF to Audio' actions applied to processing results when using an unregistered version of PDF-Tools. NEW Added a 'Keep folder structure' option for the 'Create PDF Portfolio' action. NEW Added a 'Choose portfolio cover' option for the 'Create PDF Portfolio' action. NEW Added 'Play sound when tool processings ends', 'Make application icon flash in taskbar when tool processing ends', and 'Minimize application to tray' application options. (T# 5583) NEW Added a 'Filename for generated files' option for the 'Split/Merge Documents' action that allows users to specify a macro that will be used to generate file names of output files. (T# 5579) NEW Added the possibility to pass folder paths in a "Files list" file. (T# 5415) Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue where the 'Source title' and 'Source page' were not shown in tooltips in the manual 'Split/Merge Documents' dialog. (T# 5580) Fixed an issue which resulted in the option 'Use source folder as destination' not working after using the 'Split/Merge Documents' action. (T# 5546) Fixed an issue with Folder monitors for folders on network drives. Added a hint for when an error occurs. Build 9.0.354.0 (22 Apr 2021) Requires maintenance through 22 Apr 2021 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that led to the inability to use the 'Use source folder as destination' option when using the 'Split/Merge PDFs' action. (T# 5546). 36225 Build 9.0.353.0 (19 Apr 2021) Requires maintenance through 19 Apr 2021 NEW Added the group policy 'Do not show Tool Report by default' that allows the Tool Report to be hidden by default. NEW Added 'Force making report pane visible' option that allows to turn off forcing Tool Report visibility on any type of messages. NEW Added a Task bar progress tool that allows users to control processing progress even when main window is minimized. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that led to the inability to use 'Use source folder as destination' when using the 'Split/Merge PDFs' action. Fixed the 'Filter Files' action issue that led to incorrect filtering by file Creation/Modify date. Fixed the 'Print Document' action when only low resolution printing is allowed. Fixed the 'Save Images' action issue with incorrect behavior of the 'When file already exists' option. Fixed an issue in the 'Print Document' action with sheets' range Fixed an issue of overwriting PDF files with the results of tool processing. 36426 Added a feature to the 'Find and Redact' action to search and redact document objects such as comments, fields, document info, etc. Numerous small fixes & improvements. Build 9.0.352.0 (04 Feb 2021) Requires maintenance through 04 Feb 2021 Bugfixes and Improvements Changed the 'Add Digital signature' action. Now an improved 'Sign Document' action can sign existing signtature fields or skip documents that do not require a signature. Numerous small fixes & improvements. Build 9.0.351.0 (21 Jan 2021) Requires maintenance through 21 Jan 2021 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the 'Preserve original timestamp' option. 35239 Fixed an issue with the 'Delete Pages' action that led to an innabillity to change actions options while it was running. Fixed an issue with the 'Add Digital Signature'. Build 9.0.350.0 (14 Jan 2021) Requires maintenance through 14 Jan 2021 NEW Added an 'Import as Layer Overlay' tool/action that overlays a destination PDF document with a selected source PDF document. NEW Added a 'Find by Regular Expression' action that allows finding values in a document's text using regular expressions and use it in the 'Save Documents' action with macro-like syntax %[Regexp:value_name]. NEW Added a 'Create PDF Portfolio' tool/action that allows creating new PDF portfolios by combining supported files. NEW Added a 'Rasterize Pages' tool/action that rasterizes document's pages. NEW Added a 'Recompress Images' tool/action that recompresses images in documents. NEW Added an 'Activate License' button on the license hint. NEW Added a Group Policy options: 'Hide hint about using Enhanced OCR for users.', 'Hide warning about activation the license for a user'. NEW Added a 'Preserve original timestamp for file' option for the 'Save Documents' action. NEW Added an 'Append existing document' as an overwrite action option in the 'Save Documents' and 'Change Document Properties' actions. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the 'Insert Pages' and 'Replace Pages' actions that led these actions not working. The 'Force making Report pane visible' option was improved. Numerous small fixes & improvements. Build 8.0.343.0 (18 Nov 2020) Requires maintenance through 02 Nov 2020 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the 'Save Documents' action with no error shown when trying to overwrite existing file. (T# 5373). 29724 Numerous small fixes & improvements. Build 8.0.342.0 (02 Nov 2020) Requires maintenance through 02 Nov 2020 NEW Added an 'Insert blank page' option for 'Split/Merge Documents' action that gives ability to insert blank page after document with even/odd pages count when merging multiple documents. NEW Added an ability to choose which type of message will force showing Report pane. NEW Added an ability for 'Extract Images' action to extract images from tiling pattern. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the 'Show Files' action when tool works with enabled 'Multi-Threaded Procesing Mode' option that led to the destination folder not opening on tool run finish. Fixed an issue with the 'Split/Merge Documents' action that led to crash after closing 'Manual Split/Merge dialog' with enabled 'Multi-Threaded Procesing Mode' option. Numerous small fixes & improvements. Build 8.0.340.0 (28 Jul 2020) Requires maintenance through 28 Jul 2020 NEW Added a 'Copy with rename' action for Form Fields in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the 'Split by top bookmarks' method in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action. Fixed an issue with the 'Filter Files', 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions that led to incorrect filtering of files, pages, and in some cases documents. Fixed an issue with the 'Show Files' action when tool works with disabled the 'Batch processing mode' option. Fixed an issue with the 'Save Images' action that led to inabillity to save images to a remote Place. Fixed an issue with the 'Import Comments' and 'Import Form Data' actions that led to the inabillity to perform an import from *.xml files. Fixed an issue with setting parameters for 'Export to Microsoft Word Document', 'Export PDF to Excel Spreadsheet', 'Export PDF to Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation', and 'Export PDF to Plain Text' actions. Numerous small fixes & improvements. Build 8.0.338.0 (27 Apr 2020) Requires maintenance through 13 Apr 2020 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with the 'Delete All Comments' action that led to removing Form Fields. Fixed an issue with the 'Reset Forms' action that led to an inabillity to use the 'Reset Forms' action in Tools with 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' option enabled. Fixed an issue with expanding the %[Filename] macro to a file name with an extension. Fixed an issue with running the 'Show Files' action when 'Batch Processing Mode' is disabled. Fixed an issue with handling relative paths when PDF-Tools is run from the Command Line. Numerous small fixes & improvements. Build 8.0.337.0 (13 Apr 2020) Requires maintenance through 13 Apr 2020 NEW Added 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' Tool option that enables multi-core processing of input documents. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed issues that were causing inability to save Files List in Extended Choose Files dialog. Fixed an issue with 'Store selected file names for future use' option of 'Choose Input Files' action . 'Reset Forms' tool was moved to 'Forms' Tool Category. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 8.0.335.0 (16 Dec 2019) Requires maintenance through 16 Dec 2019 NEW Added a new feature to the Administrative Template: an option to force hiding a hint about license expiration Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that leads to the inability to start the application in some version of Windows due to a missing DLL, MFPlat.dll. (T# 5014) Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 8.0.334.0 (04 Nov 2019) Requires maintenance through 04 Nov 2019 NEW Added a 'Find and Redact' tool/action that finds text with matching criteria and marks results for redaction or redacts them. NEW Added a 'Find and Replace Bookmark Text' tool/action that locates bookmarks and replaces text in bookmarks' titles. Bugfixes and Improvements Added 'Send e-mail without files' option to the Send E-Mail action. It allows the user to send e-mails without attachments. This can be useful for notifications when a tool is finished running. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 8.0.333.0 (10 Sep 2019) Requires maintenance through 26 Aug 2019 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed issue with setting default Converters parameters for 'Convert Files to PDFs' action. Fixed saving password security settings. Build 8.0.332.0 (26 Aug 2019) Requires maintenance through 26 Aug 2019 NEW Added ability to Create/Load Files List in Choose Files Extended Dialog. NEW Added ability to use Files List located in Places. NEW Added a 'PDF to Audio' tool/action that allows user to read text from PDF and save as WAV or MP3 (Windows 8 and higher) audio file. NEW Added a 'Sanitize Document' tool/action that removes hidden data from PDF so any sensitive information will not be published with your document. NEW Added ability to continue actions list after 'Print Document(s)' and 'Send Mail' actions. NEW Added special icon that indicates that tool is used in Folder Monitor. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed issue with setting default Converters and Scanner parameters for 'Convert Files to PDFs' and 'Scan to Images' actions in the application preferences. Improved Load/Save settings operation performance. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 8.0.331.0 (22 Apr 2019) Requires maintenance through 04 Apr 2019 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed a problem that prevented changing the icon for custom tools. Build 8.0.330.0 (04 Apr 2019) Requires maintenance through 04 Apr 2019 NEW Added a new "Enhanced OCR" module that is much faster, provides better quality, recognizes text styles and tables, supports creating PDF files with editable text and images, and more. NEW Added a 'Convert Colors' tool/action. NEW Added a 'Filter Pages' action. NEW Added a 'Filter Document' action. NEW Added a 'Filter Files' action. NEW Added a hint that reminds notifies users about any license key issues. NEW Fixed issues that could lead to the application slowing down. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue when files that were drag&dropped into a watched folder but were not processed. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 7.0.328 (13 Dec 2018) Requires maintenance through 13 Dec 2018 NEW Added the ability to read/write files on the Cloud-systems such as SharePoint, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Box.com and Dropbox. NEW Added the ability to show the embedded dialog box for most actions when tool is running. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the issue with moving original files after they have been processed by a Folder Monitor. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 7.0.327.1 (24 Oct 2018) Requires maintenance through 24 Oct 2018 NEW Added the 'RunFldMon' Command Line option. Further information on this option is available here. NEW Added ability to create shortcuts to a Folder Monitor and ability to copy the monitor's ID to the clipboard. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue with 'Every N pages from different document' option of the 'Split/Merge PDFs' when interleaf merging was enabled regardless of whether the option was activated. Fixed issue with saving file to itself if path is longer the 260 characters. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 7.0.327.0 (01 Oct 2018) Requires maintenance through 01 Oct 2018 NEW Added a 'shared' parameter to the 'Log' Command Line option that allows sharing one log file between different instances of PDF-Tools running at the same time. NEW Added a special 'New' label for standard tools which indicates the tool was added in a recent version of PDF-Tools. Categories that contain new tools are also marked by a special bullet. NEW Added the 'Output' Command Line option that allows users to specify parameters for output actions in tools specified in the 'Run Tool' Command Line option. (T# 4066) NEW Added an 'Import Comments' tool/action. NEW Added an 'Export Comments' tool/action. NEW Added an 'Import Form' tool/action. NEW Added an 'Export Form' tool/action. NEW Added a 'Reset Forms' tool/action. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed a problem that led to an application crash after updating to newer version. The name of the document currently being processed is now displayed the progress message for 'OCR Document' action. 29724 Added an 'Every N pages from different document' option for the 'Split/Merge PDFs' action that allows users to do interleaf merging of input documents. (T# 3939) Added the ability to specify a page size in the 'Add Digital Signature' All Options dialog so users can place digital signatures on the page more accurately. 30539 Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 7.0.326.1 (25 Jul 2018) Requires maintenance through 02 Jul 2018 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed an issue that was causing the application to crash after deselecting tools that contain the 'Print Document' action. 31239 Fixed a problem that led to the inability to change the application language in some cases. 31220 Build 7.0.326.0 (02 Jul 2018) Requires maintenance through 02 Jul 2018 NEW Added the 'Print Document' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Merge Pages' tool/action. NEW Added the 'subfolder' parameter for the 'RunTool' Command Line option, which allows users to specify whether subfolders should be included. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the issue with the file type filter being ignored in the Folder Monitor feature. Added the 'Delete Empty Pages' option for the 'Delete Pages' action. Tool Report improvements: added superscript error/warning icons that indicate the presence of errors/warnings in the tool/action. Users can click these icons to navigate directly to the first error/warning message in the message's tree branch. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 7.0.325.1 (24 Apr 2018) Requires maintenance through 16 Apr 2018 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the issue with the 'Do Not Ask for Passwords' setting, which was occasionally prompting for passwords despite being disabled. Fixed a minor issue in the Tool Report pane. The 'Click here to show more' label is no longer present for first-level elements. Build 7.0.325.0 (16 Apr 2018) Requires maintenance through 16 Apr 2018 NEW Added the 'Build Table of Contents' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Export Bookmarks' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Import Bookmarks' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Export Bookmarks to Text File' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Import Bookmarks from Text File' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Generate Bookmarks from Page Text' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Enhance Scanned Pages' tool/action. NEW Added the ability to specify a *.pdtfl text file as input for tools. Files in *.pdftl format contain a list of newline-separated filenames that tools can process. NEW Added the 'Do not ask for passwords' tool option. This option makes it possible to skip password-protected input files that do not have valid, corresponding passwords in Predefined Passwords Storage. NEW Added an OCR feature for the 'Create PDF from Images' action. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the issue that was preventing error messages from being displayed in the Tool Report pane. Fixed the issue with using illegal symbols in document names when documents are split by bookmarks. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 7.0.324.3 (27 Feb 2018) Requires maintenance through 27 Feb 2018 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the issue that was preventing external programs from accessing files processed in PDF-Tools when the latter was still running. Fixed the issue that was present when adding tools to the Favorites category. 30445 Fixed numerous issues that were present when moving tools between categories. Fixed the issues that were causing the loss of the 'Batch Processing Mode' status during tool import/export. Fixed the issue that was causing the first file/folder to be skipped during root folder enumeration. This issue occurred in some cases when the 'Add Folder' feature was used. Fixed the issue with the enumeration of shared folders such as '\\share\sharedfolder\'. This issue occurred in some cases when the 'Add Folder' feature was used. Fixed the 'Add Bates Numbering' tool issue that was present in cases when multiple input documents were specified. Pages are now numbered on all documents without the need for a restart on each document. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 7.0.324.0 (01 Feb 2018) Requires maintenance through 01 Feb 2018 NEW Added ability to process file paths longer than 260 characters. NEW Added batch processing option, that allows to choose how to process multiple input objects: apply every tool's action to every object individually or all objects at a time. NEW Added option for ‘OCR pages’ action to skip documents that already contain text. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed issue with file type filter being ignored in 'Choose Input Files' action. Tool Report improvements: added ability to copy file path, open folder containing file from report message; added ability to show more messages directly in report if they were hidden because of message count limits; added displaying of how much time was spent on Tool execution. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 7.0.323.1 (13 Dec 2017) Requires maintenance through 13 Dec 2017 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the issue that was causing the application to crash on exit after tools have been imported/exported. Added functionality to search for tools in the ‘Choose Tools’ dialog box, which has been redesigned to improve usability. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 7.0.323.0 (30 Nov 2017) Requires maintenance through 30 Nov 2017 NEW Added the 'Change Document Properties' tool. NEW Added the 'Clear All Digital Signatures' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Create Weblinks' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Delete All Comments' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Delete Weblinks' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Duplicate Pages' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Flatten Comments' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Insert Empty Pages' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Insert Pages' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Remove Bates Numbering' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Remove Headers and Footers' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Remove Pages Background' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Remove Watermarks' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Send Mail' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Set Page Transitions' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Split Pages' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Summarize Comments' tool/action. NEW Added the 'Folder Monitors' feature, which monitors specified folders and automatically executes designated tools on added files. NEW Added the 'Tool Report Pane', which displays messages about the Tool execution process. The content of reports can be configured in Tool Report Options dialog box. NEW Added a feature to write tool reports to a specified file while running tools in Command Line mode. The content of reports can be specified through Command Line options. Further information on this feature is available here. NEW Added a feature to remember groups of files when 'Choose Input Files' actions are used. Grouped files can be selected subsequently in order to save time. NEW Added a feature to copy a category's ID to the Clipboard. (This option is available in the right-click context menu of Tool Categories). NEW Added a feature to the 'Save Images' action that enables the automatic selection of color depth when images are saved. NEW Added a feature to the 'Get Images from Scanner' action that displays a list of scanned images after scanning has been performed. NEW Added a feature to edit images in the Choose Input Files dialog box. NEW Added a 'showui' parameter for several of the Command Line options. Further information on this parameter is available here. NEW Added the 'DumpCategories' Command Line option. Further information on this option is available here. NEW Added a Group Policy administrative template for Tool Categories, which enables system administrators to fine-tune the end-user application. NEW Added the 'All Tools' Tool Category. Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed the issue with the 'Choose Tools' dialog box that displays when tools are imported in Command Line mode. 29581 Fixed the issue with the 'Split/Merge PDFs' Tool that occurred when the Page Range for input documents was set. (T# 3772). 25627 Fixed the issue with Document Info macros. 29774 Fixed the issue with processing damaged PDF documents. Fixed the issue with the optimization of PDF portfolio files. Fixed the issue with resizing the main window of PDF-Tools when certain Tools are running. Fixed the issue with saving changes when Tool parameters are edited in the Tool Info pane. Fixed the issue with applying the 'OCR Pages' action to documents that contain text. Fixed some issues related to the processing of protected PDF documents. Fixed some issues related to the creation of Tool shortcuts. Added an option to the 'Convert to PDF/A' action for PDF documents that are already compliant with the PDF/A standard. Made numerous smaller fixes/improvements. Build 6.0.322.7 (11 Aug 2017) Requires maintenance through 11 Aug 2017 Bugfixes and Improvements Added a workaround for a bug in a Windows 7 update - possible rendering issues when KB4034664 is applied to Windows 7 systems that have 'Desktop Composition' turned off. Build 6.0.322.6 (08 Aug 2017) Requires maintenance through 08 Aug 2017 Bugfixes and Improvements Minor fixes and improvements. Build 6.0.322.5 (29 Jun 2017) Requires maintenance through 29 Jun 2017 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed issue with renaming tool-categories. 29262 Fixed issue with reset actions to defaults. Build 6.0.322.4 (20 May 2017) Requires maintenance through 08 May 2017 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed issue with 'Scan to PDF' tool. 29085 Fixed some issues with processing password-protected pdfs by 'Split/Merge' tool. Build 6.0.322.3 (11 May 2017) Requires maintenance through 08 May 2017 NEW Minor fixes in UI. Bugfixes and Improvements Updated some languages for UI-translation. Build 6.0.322.0 (08 May 2017) Requires maintenance through 08 May 2017 NEW New UI design with features for grouping tools by category. Added functionality to create custom categories/use standard categories to store custom tools. All custom tools/categories are marked with a special user-icon. NEW Tools can be added to the Favorites category using the context menu, by dragging the tool into the Favorites category or by clicking the icon in the upper-left corner of Tools in the Tools list NEW Added a feature to launch tools by dragging folders/files onto the tool-item. NEW Added a feature to sort input files in Command line mode. NEW Added a feature to reset tool/action parameters to default values. NEW Added 'Discard Special PDF Standard' tool/action. NEW Added 'Export PDF to Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet' tool/action. NEW Added ability to safely store document passwords for automatic re-use by tools when processing documents. Password storage is private, protected via encryption and by a special master-password (see 'Passwords' page in 'Preferences' dialog). Bugfixes and Improvements Common fixes/improvements. Build 6.0.321.0 (06 Mar 2017) Requires maintenance through 06 Mar 2017 NEW Extract Images from PDF: added an option to keep the transparency of extracted images. 27518 NEW Save Images: added a feature to customize image-format parameters. NEW Added a feature to copy a tool's ID to the Clipboard (look to the tool's context menu). NEW Added a feature to launch a tool by dragging files directly on to the tool icon itself. Build 6.0.320.0 (06 Feb 2017) Requires maintenance through 06 Feb 2017 NEW Added 'Insert Pages' tool/action. NEW Added 'Replace Pages' tool/action. NEW Added 'Delete Pages' tool/action. NEW Added 'Convert PDF to PDF/X' tool/action. Bugfixes and Improvements Common fixes/improvements. Build 6.0.319.0 (28 Nov 2016) Requires maintenance through 28 Nov 2016 NEW Added Undo/Redo features in the 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog. NEW Added the ability to configure file-to-pdf converters globally and for each instance of the 'Convert Files to PDFs' action. NEW Added the ability to specify a custom page range for each input document in the extended 'Choose Input Files' dialog. Tip: It is possible only when the tool contains 'Ask for Source Files' and 'Split/Merge Documents' actions and there are no actions that modify the page range between them. 25627 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed several problems when processing large numbers of files. 27221 #27518 Fixed an issue with 'Crop Pages' when the input document has rotated pages (T# 3719). 27341 Fixed a crash caused by the 'Crop Pages' action on certain documents (T# 3718). Common fixes/improvements. Build 6.0.318.1 (23 Sep 2016) Requires maintenance through 13 Sep 2016 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed crash when user used any non-English UI-localization. Build 6.0.318 (13 Sep 2016) Requires maintenance through 13 Sep 2016 NEW Added ability for making shortcuts to the necessary tool(s). Tip: you may do it using context menu for selected tool-item or by drag&drop such item to the desktop. NEW Added new ability to Overlay PDF. 25919 NEW Added new ability to Export PDF to MS-Word Document. 25586 NEW Added new ability to Export PDF to MS-PowerPoint Presentation. NEW Added new ability to Export PDF to Plain Text file. NEW Added Command Line support. 26257 NEW Added Group Policy administrative template for special tunning the end-user application by system administrators (Click to download the template). NEW Added features for Export/Import selected tools. 26153 NEW Added feature for Export/Import all program settings. 26153 NEW Added ability to filter pages list easily inside "Manual Split/Merge" dialog. Currently you may set custom pages selection using new 'Select Pages...' feature on the toolbar and 'Invert Selection' from context menu. 25627 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed issue: Split/Merge PDFs operation hangs when merging many files. (T#3513) 25532 Fixed issue with producing large files by PDF/A converter. 26249 Fixed issue with handling the 'Use source folder as destination' option for 'Create PDF from Images' and 'Create PDF from Text' tools. 26413 Common fixes/improvements. Build 6.0.317.1 (19 Apr 2016) Requires maintenance through 23 Mar 2016 Bugfixes and Improvements Fixed issue with overwriting existing files. 25503 Fixed issue with D&D pages from pages repository in 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog. Improved/fixed 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog: height of embedded pagelists controls now is calculated by content, fixed auto-scrolling during D&D. 25601 Minor fixes/improvements. Build 6.0.317 (23 Mar 2016) Requires maintenance through 23 Mar 2016 NEW The initial release of PDF-Tools V6.