PDF Studio 2021 was released on June 23 2021.
Here is the list of new exciting features in PDF Studio 2021.
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New Major Features in Version 2021
- Accessibility Color Options (Background & Text Color)
- Text To Speech (TTS) Reading Tools
- “Unflatten” Annotations
- Improved Content Editing
- New Content Explorer Pane
- Filter Annotations by Type, Author, etc…
- DocTimestamp Signatures Support
- Search Recent File List
- Additional Preflight Functions
- Real Full Screen Mode
- Auto Detect Links
- Upgraded OCR Engine Version
- New Font Substitution Rules
- And Much More…
User Interface
New Features
- New Full Screen Mode
- New Document / Adding New Page, give options to specify page size / format & orientation
- New options to “Unflatten” annotations
- New document color options for accessibility
- New customizable favorites group on Home tab
- New z-order moving options for annotations
- New Create Multiple Copies option in form fields
- New options to sort/filter comments pane
- New “Add Place” option in file tab
- New “Extract Text as Table (CSV/Excel)” option
- New content explorer pane
- New Text To Speech (TTS) reading tools
- 4k user interface enhancments
Enhancements
- Content editing now displays text paragraph and image areas
- Drag & rearrange tabs in tabbed document view
- Drag document tabs to new window / frame
- New option to print pages from selected bookmarks
- Color picker enhancements
- New toolbar buttons on Signature panel
- Add merge, compare options to Tabs context menu when multiple tabs selected
- Set last used tool on zoom split button
- Ability to set layer for multiple annotations at once
- New options to insert pages from currently open documents
- Tab document list chooser now always displayed
- Auto detect web URLs & Links in document & User Warning
- New recent file list search tool
- Preflight dialog enhancements
- New Recent Document search
- New “Length” property to measurement annotations
Cloud Storage
- Google & One Drive now use System Browser to login instead of internal browser
Prepress / Print Production
- New PDF/A 3u Preflight Verification
- New PDF/A 2u Preflight Conversion
- New PDF/A 3u Preflight Conversion
Digital Signatures
- New signature banner displaying validation info for signed PDF documents
- New toolbar buttons on Signature panel
- Timestamp server enhancements
New Standard Features
The following features are now Standard
- Measuring Annotations
- Fix scans – (Optimizer still Pro)
- OCR
- Enhanced Merging tools
- Side by side Compare – (Overlay still Pro)
- Split PDF
- Form export / import
Other Enhancements
- OCR now supports angled text baselines
- Support or JavaScript in Names tree
- New preference to open GoTo page actions in new or current window
- New preference to paste pages AFTER selected page
- New setting to display validation marks (error, warning and check) drawn on top of signature appearance
- New right-click menu option on the tab also include “Copy Path To Clipboard” and “Open Containing Folder”
- New option to “Show comments pane when a PDF with comments is opened”
- “$filename” variable no longer includes file extension
- Additional font substitutes now packaged with PDF Studio
- Optimizer font improvements
- Many internal bugs & fixes
