Here is a list of the new features added in PDF Studio 12.
Make sure to read PDF Studio 12 press announcement.
New Major Features in Version 12
- New! PDF Studio Viewer Edition (Free / Viewer Only)
- Search Text across Multiple PDFs
- Scanning Configurations (Windows & Mac)
- Microsoft Excel to PDF Conversion
- Send to Word (Windows Only Integration with MS Office) (Pro)
- Page Labels (Pro)
- Advanced Imposition (Pro)
- Resize Pages (Pro)
- 4K High Resolution Display Support
- Annotations Rich Text & Multi-Language Support
- Improved PDF Optimizer with Audit & Results (Pro)
User Interface
- Support for high resolution displays including 4K
- Create / Edit / View document page labels (Pro)
- Optimizer audit & result reports (Pro)
- Ability to minimize comparison overlay dialog (Pro)
- Ability to resize pages including batch processing (Pro)
- New option to Shrink Pages in Header & Footer dialog so that the header or footer does not cover-up existing page content.
- New options to set output document size when merging PDFs (Pro)
- New option to remove existing invisible text during OCR (Pro)
- New option to remove blank pages from document
- New option to flatten annotations when emailing
- Support for full screen in initial view properties
Annotations
- Per character rich text editing in text box, callout, & typewriter annotations (bold, italic, underline, crossout)
- Annotations will support characters from any language
- Ability to use system fonts in text box, callout, & typewriter annotations
- New Transparency Property for textbox / free text annotations
- Copy annotations using Ctrl + Drag
- Annotation icons in comments pane now match color of corresponding annotation
- Option to change icon size in comments tree
- New line endings for polylines
- New sticky note icon options
- New file attachment icons
- New border style options for links
Microsoft Office
- PDF to Word (Windows Only – Microsoft integration with Office 2013 or higher) (Pro)
- Excel to PDF (Pro)
Font Improvements
- Subset embedding of fonts
Prepress / Print Production
- Advanced Imposition module for pre-press production (Pro)
- Printer marks including trim, bleed, registration, & page info (Pro)
- New preflight verification profiles – PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3b (Pro)
- New PDF/A conversion profiles: PDF/A-2b & PDF/A-3b (Pro)
- Now able to embed system fonts for PDF/A conversion, previously only standard PDF fonts were supported (Pro)
Search Tools
- Search text in multiple PDF documents at once using directory or recent files list
- New option to search into attached PDF files
Printing
- Ability to print overlay view (Pro)
- Custom scale print option
Scanning
- Straighten/Deskew scanned images (Pro)
- Scanning configurations (Windows & Mac)
- Manual color conversions for unsupported scanners
Other Enhancements
- New variables for bookmarks and page labels to be used in for watermarks, headers/footers, as well as rubber stamp annotations
- Ability to compress object streams in optimizer (Pro)
- Dynamic field renaming feature (Pro)
- Many internal bugs & fixes
