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Released Jan 30th, 2025 . Requires maintenance through Jan 30th, 2025

NEW Added an option to ensure better contrast for bookmark titles. (44537)

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NEW Added a Group Policy option that enables/disables the displaying of the File menu on application start.

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NEW Added an option to disable page panning with the middle mouse button. (45268)

Bugfixes and Improvements

  • Fixed the issue with TWAIN scanning when 'Auto Twain Version' is selected.

  • Fixed the issue with signing documents with some digital certificates.

  • Fixed a possible crash when right-clicking weblinks.

  • Fixed the issue with the 'Rename' feature for documents that are opened from read-only files. (45159)

  • Fixed issues with the JavaScript doc.setPageBoxes() function. (45151)

  • Fixed the issue with an extra Editor icon appearing in the Windows Taskbar when switching documents to Full Screen mode. (34765)

  • Fixed the issue with form field values disappearing when users press the Enter key.

  • Fixed the issue where the most recently used location was not remembered when performing searches in the 'Search Pane'. (45202)

  • Fixed the issue with problematic entries at the bottom of pages when they are replaced one-by-one using the 'Find and Replace' feature.

  • Fixed the issue with navigation using the keys for 'Edit Text' control in context menus. (45231)

  • Fixed issues with download/upload speeds for GoogleDrive, OneDrive, and Box.com.

  • Improved support for PRC based 3D models.

  • Fixed the 'Sort Items' property functionality when users add items to 'combo box' and 'list box' form fields. (T#7275)

Released Jan 14th, 2025 . Requires maintenance through Jan 14th, 2025

2022

Released Aug 8th, 2022 . Requires maintenance through Aug 8th, 2022

NEW Added the ability to auto-fill named destinations from selected text. (T# 5807)

NEW A major overhaul of how we handle portfolio PDFs was implemented.

NEW Added a tab on the document properties dialog that allows one to add/edit custom properties. (T# 6092)

NEW Added the ability to edit document metadata via the "Advanced" tab on the Document metadata dialog.

NEW Added the ability to set a Blurred or Pixelated background image as an overlay when performing Redaction.

NEW Convert-To-Office: added the ability to recognize characters using OCR (for specific fonts with corrupted ToUnicode table etc.)

NEW Convert-To-Excel: added a feature to export links from a PDF file to an Excel Workbook

NEW A 'Crop' feature was added to the image editor.

NEW Comments pane. The 'Expand All' command now also expands text of comments.

NEW Added a feature to display and change the 'Layer' property of images and XForms (in the Properties pane).

NEW Added a feature to display and change the 'Transparency Group' properties for XForms (in the Properties pane).

NEW Added a feature to the "Fields" pane to select fields via user-specified type. (T# 5835) (37575)

NEW Added a feature to reset selected fields. (T# 6095)

NEW Added additional "Barcodes" such as pdf417, dataMatrix, aztec, maxicode, ean13, ean8, code39, code128, codabar, upcA.

NEW Added a feature to specify last N pages of a document without using absolute numbers.

NEW Added an 'In All Docs from this Window' option for searching in documents only in the currently active window. (T# 6164)

NEW Added support of vertical toolbars. You can now dock existing toolbars to left/right sides of windows.

NEW Added a tiny vertical toolbar on the left of the document view (tab) to quickly show/hide all document's panes. This toolbar ('Quick Tools') can be easily customized.

NEW Search marks are now shown on the vertical scroll bar in Single Page mode as well as in Continuous mode.

Bugfixes and Improvements

  • Added additional checks for some JS methods to increase security. (ZDI-CAN-17142, ZDI-CAN-17144, ZDI-CAN-17527, ZDI-CAN-17726, ZDI-CAN-17727, ZDI-CAN-17728).

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PBM/PGM/PNM files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17630, ZDI-CAN-17660).

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted ICO files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17631).

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted EMF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17634, ZDI-CAN-17635, ZDI-CAN-17637, ZDI-CAN-17637, ZDI-CAN-17673).

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted WMF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17638).

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted JPG files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17628, ZDI-CAN-17629, ZDI-CAN-17632, ZDI-CAN-17633).

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted J2K files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17636, ZDI-CAN-17674, ZDI-CAN-19286, ZDI-CAN-17764, ZDI-CAN-17765, ZDI-CAN-17767, ZDI-CAN-18069).

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PNG files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-18068).

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted JBIG2 (or JBIG2 stream in PDF) files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17724, ZDI-CAN-17725, ZDI-CAN-17809, ZDI-CAN-17810).

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling large object numbers in PDF files. Reported by Dr. Philip Kolvenbach, Secure Software Engineering Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology.

  • Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PDF files. Reported by Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI-CAN-17772, ZDI-CAN-17778).

  • Fixed an issue where the operation "Generate Bookmarks From Text" was creating individual bookmarks from the same style text separated by space that should have been only one bookmark. (T# 5902)

  • Fixed an issue where after opening the dialog for "Generate Bookmarks From Text", one couldn`t select any text.

  • Fixed an issue where a pressure sensetive pencil tool may generate 'circles' which should not appear. (T# 6024)

  • Fixed an issue where transparent PNG files were not properly handled when added as a stamp. (T# 6044)

  • Improved support for 3D annotations. Fixes in many models. (T# 5308)

  • Fixed/impoved the export form fields to FDF.

  • Fixed an issue with content selection when pasting it on the default layer. (T# 6168) (39028)

  • Fixed some issues with configurations that use multiple monitors with different resolutions.

  • Added the ability to "toggle" the loupe tool on/off. (T# 6107)

  • Added the ability to ignore (not rasterize) text base content when using "Rasterize Pages". (T# 5767)

  • Changed the location of the options for creating Bookmarks and Named Destinations from a selection to the context menu of their respective panes.

  • Added the option to be able to use a selected page (in the Thumbnails Pane) when creating a page range in the Page Numbering Tool. (T# 5976)

  • Added showing, in Properties Pane, the compression method used in images. (T# 6099)

  • Added new options for working with existing bookmarks when using "Generate Bookmarks From Text".

  • Added an new style, a "Chapter [BLANK]" page, for use when creating a "Table of Contents from bookmarks". (T# 5699)

  • Improved IME handling.

  • Added icons for explorer context menu.

  • Compare Docs: improved the scroll-syncronization of left and right views; fixed several minor bugs in the UI.

  • Fixed/Improved a special UI-control to choose files as used on many modal dialogs in Editor.

  • Improved/Updated support for Portfolios: it now has a modern, convenient and light UI, and a whole new set of portfolio-editing features.

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