New Major Features in Version 12
- Search Text across Multiple PDFs
- Scanning Configurations
- Microsoft Excel to PDF Conversion
- Convert Word to PDF (Integration with MS Office 2013 and above) (Pro)
- Annotation Rich Text & Multi-Language Support
- 4K High Resolution Display Support
- Page Labels (Pro)
- Advanced Imposition (Pro)
- Resize Pages (Pro)
- Improved PDF Optimizer with Audit & Results (Pro)
Full Change Log for Version 12
12.0.7 – March 27 2018
Enhancements:
- PDF/A conversion improvements to support the following validation items:
- “cmap table contains 2 encodings but should only contain 1”
- “shading is DeviceCMYK”
Bug Fixes
- Word convert: document specific conversion errors fixed
- Optimizer enhancements: Duplicate image removal logic improved, Unused object removal logic improved, Improve handling of stencil images and indexed images
- Duplicated shortcut key “Ctrl + Shift + I” (removed shortcut for Imposition)
- Batch print would only print limited number of pages of each document
- Issue with extra space when editing multi line fields
- (Document Specific) Fixed ‘ArrayOutOfBoundsException” when applying text redaction
- (Image Specific) Reduced horizontal lines artifacts when printing rotated images
- Better handling of color spaces and bits per pixel for JPEG 2000 images
- Deleted content would reappear after running PDF/A validation
12.0.6 – December 21 2017
Bug Fixes
- Multi selection does not remain when right click on attachments panel
- Right click on attachments pane doesn’t select attachment
- Typewriter not losing focus when menu bar is clicked
- Empty typewriter annotation is showing on Recent Comments
- Export to XFDF and FDF gives an exception when typerwiter is still in edit mode
- XFDF file can not be reimported – XML Parse Exception during parsing of a freetext element at line 0: Attribute “rotation” does not contain a valid value (“0.0”)
- Fix issue with CalGray color space: background is yellowish instead of white
12.0.5 – November 20 2017
Enhancements
- Decreased the sensitivity of Ctrl + Drag to copy annotations
- (Studio Viewer) Allow users to trust certificates from signature details and pane
Bug Fixes
- Fixed “Toggle” option for showing/hide layers in JavaScript action
- Fixed issue when redacting using no fill color over an image it would throw an error
- (Mac) Command + W now closes the frame not just the document
- (Studio Viewer) Importing trusted certificates did not work
- Fixed issue when appending rotated pages that would not initially show rotation
12.0.4 – October 27 2017
Enhancements
- (Windows) Always display “File -> Convert to -> Word” option and show Preferences dialog if path to Microsoft Word needs to be set
- Added MS Word and Excel template formats “.dotx”, “.dotx”, & “.xltx” to available conversion file types
Bug Fixes
- Word to PDF – issue with overlapping text in specific documents
- Excel to PDF – issue with extra borders being drawn in specific documents
- (Mac) High Sierra: Toolbar icons don’t look pressed when selected
- Ctrl+Drag should not be allowed to copy redaction annotations
- Do not display Autocad note bubbles as they have no stroke color, no fill color, no appearance stream
- “Image” option would not save when creating watermark profiles
- OCR option “discard invisible text” was broken
- Error when choosing a file the second time in the Open File or Go To Remote page JavaScript action settings
- Other internal fixes
12.0.3 – September 13 2017
Bug Fixes
- Fixed update installer to use “Download” folder instead of user home folder
- Print preview not scaled properly on 4K displays
- Imposition trim marks applied to “Crop Box” instead of “Trim Box”
- Page labels not being handled in “Pages” field
- Spacing issues with Text Box annotation and font size 7 or 8
- Batch remove watermark hidden behind About dialog
- Image field applied watermark that could not be removed
- “Missing Resource: Frm” error when importing image on image field
- Perimeter annotation properties dialog required multiple clicks to close
12.0.2 – August 15 2017
Enhancements
- New option in preferences to enable/disable Ctrl + Drag to copy annotation
Bug Fixes
- Starting Mission Control with PDF Studio running hides all other applications
- Copying multiple annotations with the exact same dimensions would only paste one annotation
- Option to “generate results log” broken in batch
- “No Export” flag on fields was ignored when submitting form
- “Sides” in Print dialog is not translated to German
- XFA fields part of an ‘area’ on a subform were not displayed
- Horizontal alignment was not respected when XFA is only a “<body>”element
- Form field border array of size “0” displayed yellow border instead of default
12.0.1 – August 8th 2017
Enhancements
- (Linux) When double-clicking, PDFs will now open in the running instance on Linux
- (Linux) “Keep Alive” option to improve launch times is now available on Linux
- (Mac) New Outlook email option in preferences
- Word to PDF conversion enhancements
- Excel to PDF conversion enhancements
- Scanning settings are now saved throughout each session
- Added page rotation options to page properties dialog
- Added new “Acre” unit to measurement annotations
- Added vertical text alignments (Top / Middle / Bottom) for Textbox & Callout Annotations
- Enhance page labels support in all dialogs
Bug Fixes
- PDF/A Preflight conversion through the dialog marked original document as modified
- Spaces in email command line calls would not work
- Error caused by Deskew option during scanning
- Broken Right Click menu on Layers pane
- Disappearing Typewriter when selecting the annotation in Comments Pane
- Multi page TIFF conversion would not create multi page PDF
- White Text Select “I” cursor issue on 4K monitor for specific operating systems
- Replace Text annotation showing up as grouped in comments pane
- Broken translations for Watermark variables
- In-App Messaging preference would not save
- Changing Text Box or Callout style properties on initial creation could cause text to disappear
- Splash screen warning on Solaris 11 due to old srgb profile
- Compression option would not properly update for default scanning profiles
- Unable to set “character limit” value for multiple form fields at once
- Incorrect placement of vertex handles on Callouts with thick borders
- Digital signature time only displayed single digit for minute value less than 10
- Digital certificates with two CN values would only display secondary name
- Ctrl + A in content editing selected all text instead of all content
- (Solaris) system fonts not listed in annotation font list
- Other internal fixes
Original Release 12.0.0 – June 5th 2017
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