Full Change Log for PDF Studio Version 2022
This is the history of all minor builds published for PDF Studio & PDF Studio Viewer 2022.
2022.2.5 – August 8 2023 – Final Release
- PS-6715 – remove old unused image compression libraries from installer
- JPDF-1998 – Document Specific: Error Copying a Page to another document
- PS-6718 – Linux: PDF is not converted to word/text/svg correctly
- JPDF-1989 – Document Specific: Extracted page still contains images from other pages of the original PDF. Clean up resources saved in PageTreeNode.
- JPDF-2000 – Preflight – Memory Leak due to use of static class when font cmap table contained multiple encodings
- JOFFICE-682 – Document Specific: Word documents not converted correctly
- JOFFICE-683 – Document Specific: Table missing when converting to PDF
- JOFFICE-684 – Document Specific: Table row enhancements
2022.2.4 – April 17 2023
- Resolve issues with Linux file chooser with filename extension and truncating
- Scan “black and white” format is not working correctly when “deskew” is checked
- JavaScript not calculating fields – Event.value not being modified and re-setting the same value after calculation
- Font Specific: Error rendering the attached PDF on Linux due to not using Unicode Mapping
- “Copy text to note” preference broken for text markup
- Remove vm warnings in the console on silent install
- Cleanup replacement fonts
- Clean up files related to install4j runtime, remove warnings
2022.2.3 – March 26 2023
- Regression: multiple JavaScript prompts
- Editing mode exited after entering non-Latin characters with Right ALT key
- Document Specific – Fix image positioning issue
2022.2.2 – March 16 2023
- Incorrect logic when setting JavaScript “field.display” value
2022.2.1 – March 13 2023
- Null pointer exception happening in on load JavaScript
- Added class cast protection and set signature as invalid if the entries in the signature field dictionary are invalid
- Document Specific: Digital Signature not validated correctly (Digital Signature Service)
- Document Specific: Signature marked as “Revoked” instead of “Not verified”. Revocation has to come from issuing CA in the Certificate Revocation List
2022.2.0 – February 24 2023
Enhancements
- Add additional replacement fonts for Microsoft Files Conversion & Preflight Conversion
- Improve Signature Field Position (with units) in Batch Sign Dialog
- Render first page faster for documents with lots of links by delaying loading of destination pane
- Allow text size for text box annotations to go down to 6 from 8 at the moment
- Increase Tolerance max value from 100 to 200 when deleting blank pages on Batch Delete Pages dialog
- Add support for “+” character in email addresses for registration dialog
- Word to PDF Conversion: Add some support for the legacy/deprecated VML format
- Word to PDF Conversion: Support for diagonal cell “borders”
Bugs
- Regression: Unable to save document due to link annotation to a remote document (delay loading of links)
- Scanning profiles started from quick access menu don’t set the “Insert At” property correctly
- Exception when Selecting IRT Group Annotations
- Internal: Settings.xml has some java classes for property values
- Command line registration does not work when PDF Studio is running in the background
- Cannot access class sun.print.PeekGraphics when printing page with Custom Composite
- Regression “Dimension of full grid” when creating multiple copies of form field broken
- Enabling retain PDF/A format preference and signing document gets user stuck in error loop
- Add safety null checks when checking for valid save file
- Regression: Document Specific: Paste text to word removes space characters
- When registration fails due to non-volume license limit, show a message to users instructing them to go to manage
- Increase Tolerance value from 100 to 200 when deleting blank pages on Batch Delete Pages dialog
- Handle null resource in type3 font which was generating a ClassCastException
- Bad focus issue when doing undo while editing a text field
- Add support for “+” character in email addresses for registration dialog
- Document Specific: Null pointer exception when viewing signature certificate details
- Word to PDF fix for a document that could not be laid out
- Regression: Error when trying to duplicate multiple checkboxes/radio buttons
- Document restored from session cannot be saved as another filename
- Document restored from session is not set to the front
2022.1.3 – December 01 2022
Enhancements
- Better handling of fonts missing character mapping information when using inline text editing
Bugs
- PDF/X conversion would fail on documents using Blend Mode set with a name, from within an ExtGS dictionary
- Document Specific: Error after converting to PDF/X-1 due to issue with embedded icc profile
- Document Specific: Specific JavaScript code could result in NPE (breaking some form fields)
2022.1.2 – November 04 2022
Enhancements
- Allow larger custom memory amount in user vmoptions file
Bugs
- macOS Ventura: If dark mode was used, the installer would hang on startup
- macOS: Full screen mode was broken
- Linux: Opening PDF files from Google Drive in Gnome Nautilus file manager was not working
- Align points in overlay comparison was broken
- PDF/A-1b preflight validation option in sub menu was broken
- Document Specific: NPE converting to PDF/X-3 due to error when copying name of color space
- Document specific: Error loading PDF Cannot invoke “Object.getClass()” because “<local8>” is null
2022.1.1 – September 29 2022
Enhancements
- Convert Word to PDF: Handle Theme Font Languages for Arabic, Asian, etc..
Bugs
- Pan & Zoom and Loupe Tool Broken
- Action Wizard: Continue button label is broken
- On macOS, some printers can throw an exception when getting the default DPI resolution
- Convert Word to PDF: Handle Theme Font Languages for Arabic, Asian, etc..
- Convert Word to PDF: Handle negative positioning of an Image within a Table Cell
- Convert Word to PDF: Handle NullPointerException when converting a Word file to PDF
- Convert Word to PDF: Anchored images not positioned correctly due to clipping
- Document specific: Error loading PDF Cannot invoke “Object.getClass()” because “” is null
- GUI display error on separator in Preflight Dialog
2022.1.0 – September 07 2022
Enhancements
- Added missing new features to Classic Toolbar for 2022
- new add content tools
- create table of contents from bookmarks
- sign with timestamp
- Sessions Manager GUI improvements
- New PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 verification profiles
- New PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 Conversion profiles
- Allow editing new content after being added to the page
- Improved annotation loading performance for extreme cases (i.e. over 20k comments)
- Only create the annotation components when a page is displayed
- Comment tree now only loads the annotations when the comment pane is shown
- Updated digital signature libraries to the latest version
- PDF To Word: Added Support for Multiple Columns
- New Window & User Interface options in Initial View document properties
Bugs
- Zoom icon on toolbar not changed when zooming in / out
- Replacement text in redactions not displayed when fill set to “no color”
- Search and redact added multiple redactions for single instance
- “Restore last page and view when reopening a PDF” overrides Magnification setting
- OCR Current Page does not work on current page
- Action Wizard: Save As “keep original file names” option not disabling insert before / after fields
- “Next page” and “Last page” are hidden when resizing PDF Studio frame really small
- Fixed typo on top signature banner
- Rotate Pages dialog does not focus on the dropdown
- Add content toolbar buttons not reverting back to default tool
- Fixed window caching issue related to window scale
- DocuSign signatures marked as unknown due to missing type in DDS dictionary
- Auto create links would create invalid links over existing links
- Deleting pages when in single page view results in ArrayIndexOutOfBounds
- Catch invalid / null color space in preflight
- Optimizer Auditor sometimes reported more font bytes than doc bytes
- Missing Optional PAdES information in signature details
- JavaScript: “Doc.addField” method was broken
- Imposition does not work correctly after changing cropbox and trimbox
- Fixed issue causing pattern tiles to not be reset in some cases creating blank page areas
- Mac: Shortcut key is not working correctly on the current selected document
- Mac: Print does not work when opening multiple files from Finder
- MAC: ⌘ + Shift + T does not show My comments toolchest
- MAC: Alt + / to launch the find tool does not work
- MAC: Retina (4k) – Output preview does not work
- 4K Displays: Snapping drawing tools rendering artifacts
- 4k Displays: Polygon cursor look bad
- Word to PDF: Image element in conversion changes color from blue to black
- Word to PDF: Handle Arabic Unicode Map during Conversion to Allow Text Extraction
- PPT to PDF: EMF images were getting clipped very slightly
- Document Specific: Exception reading JPEG image
2022.0.2 – July 06 2022
Bugs
- Windows: Fixed bug where Save As SVG or RTF would append file extension twice
- Windows: Thumbnail previews causing “Com Surrogate has stopped working” error
- Zoom gets stuck on fractional digits when the language is set to another language other than English
- Fix bug where extract “current page” always extract the first page
- Limit the max number of sessions that can be saved
2022.0.1 – June 20 2022
Enhancements
- Add default stamp selection to Rubber Stamp action properties
- Increase file name length in document tabs selection list
- Improved Ctrl + Scroll Wheel zoom logic to include more steps
- Improve error message when loading an invalid PDF file
- Updated the default length for DigiCert TSA
- Include default TOC profile for Create Table of Contents Tool
- PDF to Word & PDF to RTF enhancements
Bugs
- Fixed issue with ribbon toolbar not staying collapsed when switching across documents
- Fixed auto-save would reload only single document when restoring from online storage (Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive)
- Fixed attach file as comment would not prompt for file in some rare cases
- Document Specific: Fixed “Cannot invoke “java.awt.Container.addComponentListener” error when deleting annotations
- OneDrive: Session token would not properly refresh causing frequent log outs
- Studio Viewer: Removed redundant files to reduce installer size
Original Release 2022.0.0 – May 31 2022
New Major Features in Version 2022
- Action Wizard to Automate PDF tasks (Pro) — See Video
- Document Session Manager (Reopen Previously Opened Docs) — See Video
- Create Table of Contents from Bookmarks — See Video
- Add Comment Summary when Printing
- Auto-Save Document Recovery — See Video
- Comments Pane Improvements — See Video
- Thumbnail Preview on Windows
- Gray/Monotone Icons Theme — See Video
- PDF/X Conversion (Pro)
- Easy Tools to “Add Content” (Pro) — See Video
- Output Preview: Color Separation View (Pro)
- (Beta) Convert PDF to Word without Office Installed (Pro)
- PDF Stamps with Data Entry — See Video
- And Much More…