PDF-XChange PRO Version History

Released Sep 29th, 2026 . Requires maintenance through Sep 26th, 2026

PDF-XChange Editor

NEW AI Assistant: added an option for users to add custom prompts.

NEW AI Assistant: added an option to specify the language in which the AI ​​should answer questions.

NEW New Open/Save File dialog box: added support for multiple OneDrive-folders and Network Locations, and added a 'Quick Access' folder.

NEW Added a 'Use system title and frame' option (Preferences > General > Tabs & Windows) to turn on/off the use of the system's title and border for the main window. This option can also help solve a possible problem under WINE where the system title may sometimes overlap the application's custom title.

NEW Added a 'Relationship' column to the attachments pane. (T# 7748) (48980)

NEW Implemented handling of the fill_tab property in JS dialogs. (50011)

NEW Added Brotli compression as an option when recompressing images, and for performing some other operations.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

  • Fixed the "Error [AFSLib]: File cache for specified file already exists" error that may sometimes appear when a user opens a file from a cloud-based "Place" using the new Open File dialog box.

  • Fixed an issue with saving a document when the destination file is located on a special cloud-based document management system such as CenterDevice.

  • Fixed rare issue with crashes on some documents during rendering. (T# 7845)

  • Fixed "Convert Text Files to PDF" for specific encodings. (49334)

  • Improved the accuracy of the stroke colour description for link annotations when this property is not specified in the structure. (T# 7896) (49815)

  • Fixed an issue with layers not merging correctly. (T# 7888)

  • Fixed an issue with applying the thickness value to Text Markup comments during import, and added support for exporting and importing rounded-corner radius values for Rectangle comments. (T# 7853) (49661)

  • Fixed an issue where JavaScript related to AcroForms in stamps was not updated after saving. (T# 7844) (49609)

  • Fixed an issue with dimming and overlapping in the Highlight Destination function. (T# 7903) (49991)

  • Fixed an issue with excluding UI-commands from the 'Quick Launch' dropdown and 'Customize Toolbars > Commands' dialog box when they are disabled by Group Policy.

  • Fixed an issue with missing thousands separators for file sizes in the "details" view of the new Open/Save dialog box. (49791)

  • Fixed an infrequent 'not enough permissions' issue when saving documents after previewing them in the new Open/Save File dialog box if opened from cloud-based places.

  • Fixed crashes on File Open under Wine (Linux). (49752)

  • Fixed issues with using the MS Office Click-to-Run products (including Microsoft 365 and Office 2019/2021) inside the Office-to-PDF features. On some systems such features may not work.

  • Fixed an issue with setting labels for measurement comments by applying corresponding comment styles that already contain custom labels.

  • Find/Search: fixed an issue with the 'Clear' item in the dropdown list. Now it is not selectable by keyboard/auto-complete/mouse-wheel, but only by mouse. Also, the auto-complete feature there is now case-sensitive.

  • Fixed some issues with the system's Narrator screen reader app, including it being unable to read text labels on dialog boxes.

  • Fixed an issue with the creation date in PDF/A files.

  • Fixed issues with the incorrect filtering of annotations. (43529)

  • Fixed issues with rendering text in text annotations with white text.

  • Fixed an issue where PDF documents converted from MS Word could have black areas.

  • Fixed an issue with handling the percent character in macro strings. (49748)

  • Fixed issues with text rendering in some specific cases. (T# 4061, 4957, 7871)

  • Improved handling of align_fill in JS dialogs. (T# 7897) (49847)

  • Fixed a rare case of a possible crash during color conversion in some documents. (T# 7885)

  • Fixed the incorrect appearance of "down" push button form fields that have icons. (50006)

  • Fixed potential issues when signing documents with certificates that use the ECDSA-SHA384 algorithm.

  • Fixed an issue where some selected page content was not copied to the clipboard.

  • DocuSign: signatures saved in the user's DocuSign account are now available when signing documents in PDF-XChange Editor. (50063)

  • Changed text encoding detection for text files. (49328)

  • Added Recents and Favorites groups to the Stamps pane. (T# 4335)

  • Added the ability to recolour stamps. (T# 7764) (49059)

  • Added support for letters in the auto-incrementing interactive field of the “Create Custom Stamp” feature. (T# 7904)

  • Upgraded the Markdown plugin to use a new engine, providing full CSS support and support for LaTeX formulas.

  • Added the ability to search for layers by name. (T# 6644) (40856)

  • Added the “Open new files within the active virtual desktop” option (enabled by default) and made other improvements to virtual desktop handling. (T# 7872)

  • Added support for selecting pages related to Watermark/Background/Header & Footer/Bates Numbering settings. (T# 7858) (49729)

  • Added an option to prevent the text in a comment pop-up from scrolling to the end when the pop-up is opened. (T# 7488)

  • Added the ability to focus the selected page number range when opening the Page Numbering dialog box. (T# 7753) (49017)

  • Added a highlight indicator to the currently active profile in the "Set scale" dropdown menu. (T# 7719)

  • Fixed an issue with the 'Text Correction' tool. Closing the insert/replace comment popup by pressing Esc now returns the text cursor to the InsertText-annotation position.

  • Improved the 'Identify Forms' tool.

  • Improved document loading time, especially for documents that contain a dictionary object with many entries.

PDF-Tools

NEW Added an option to control the behavior of the on-screen keyboard on touch devices (Preferences > General > Show the Touch Keyboard).

NEW Added an option to the 'Export Form Data' action that adds a filename column to the output CSV file.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

  • Fixed an issue where the Sign Document action showed a stub document preview instead of the document being processed during a tool run.

  • Fixed an issue that allowed Application Variables with duplicate names to be created. (49857)

  • Fixed the behavior of methods in the 'Apply Metadata Template' functionality of the 'Change Document Properties' action. (49782)

PDF-XChange Printer Standard

NEW Added options to enable Brotli compression for images and content compression.

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