Below is a list of the new features in PDF Studio 2022, released May 31 2022. You may also read PDF Studio 2022 Official Announcement.
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 PDF Bookmarks — See Video
- Add Comment Summary when Printing — See Video
- 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) — See Video
- PDF Stamps with Data Entry — See Video
- Multithreaded Tile Factory for up to 6x performance boost in rendering documents
- And Much More…
New Features
- New Document Permissions Panel – PS-5602
- Drag and Drop pages across documents open in tabs – PS-5349
- Advanced annotation flattening options dialog – PS-4478
- All or selected annotation types & flatten to specific layer
- New Document Properties Metadata dialog – PS-5742
- New Monotone icons and user preference – PS-6005
- “Enhance thin lines” preference option – PS-5879
- New Tools to “Add Content” directly to the page (Pro)- PS-5926
- Replace text option on Advance Search (Pro)- PS-5801
- New Document Session Manager – PS-5887
- Add ability to add and export 3D models to & from PDFs (limited support) – PS-6088
- Add native scanning support for Apple M1 devices – PS-5809
- “Print comments summary” option in print dialog PS-5542
- Option to hide text on measurement annotations – PS-5710
- New option to “replace” image content – PS-6235
Enhancements
- Merge Content Editing buttons to improve usability (Pro)- PS-5969
- Added spell check to inline editing in comments panel – PS-5691
- Sticky note now displays pop up note by default – PS-5933
- New “Copy note” option in annotation context menu – PS-5393
- New option to hide annotation note bubble – PS-5873
- New option to use Page Label as Filename when merging documents – PS-5787
- Added “No to all” option when closing multiple tabs – PS-5910
- New options in Initial View document properties – PS-5644
- Window Options: Resize window to initial page, Center window in screen, File name or document title
- UI Options: Hide Menu Bar, Hide Toolbar, Hide window controls
- Ribbon toolbar icon enhancements – PS-5707, PS-5967, PS-6006, PS-6007, PS-6034, PS-6018
- Updated text selection context menu options – PS-5670
- Added “Search Google for…” text select context menu option – PS-5929
- Added “Set as default” to annotation right click context menu – PS-5930
- Make all page range options consistent – PS-5823
- Add tooltips to bookmarks to display page info and zoom – PS-5882
- Date Button format now defaults to user locale – PS-5906
- PDF Stamps Improvement: Allow data entry in form fields through JavaScript calculation – PS-3626
- Pasting “files” from clipboard are now added as attachments – PS-6090
- Mini toolbar: Add text color for typewriter, text box and callout + allow empty border color – PS-6035
- Show filename on password dialog – PS-5889
- Create PDFs from right click menu on windows – PS-3494
- Preference Option to Reopen last session – PS-5886
- Signature & document permission banner improvements – PS6105
- Improved tool search results to also include panes and submenus – PS-6037
- Clarify the “Other” and “Custom” formatting options in form field properties – PS-5097
- Toolbar spacing and layout issues on 4k monitors & addition design tweaks – PS-6021
- Update tooltip color to match selected theme – PS-5983
- Add label to OCR panel for secondary language – PS-6108
- Add “Count” and “Sum” labels for multiselected annotations PS-6169
- Filter out comment panel search results – PS-5390
- Add colors for all annotation types in comments pane – PS-3968
- Improved support for Apple M1 devices – (see Apple M1 ARM Chip Support)
Performance
- Multithreaded Tile Factory for up to 6x performance boost in rendering documents – JPDF-1825
- Only prompt for JavaScript when it’s encountered rather than when opening the PDF – JPDF-1815
- Updated OneDrive SDK – PS-5970
- Updated DropBox API – PS-5314
- PDF/X Conversion (Pro)- JPDF-1128
- (Maybe) Printing / Preflight: Output Preview Color Ink Separation (Pro) – PS-2825
- New option to customize the way PDF Studio behaves when opening PDF/A documents – PS-6226
- New Batch Sign PDFs tool (Pro)- PS-641
- Display Full Certificate Chain for Timestamp Authorities (TSA) – PS-5099
- Added Ability to Apply Document Timestamps (Pro) – PS-5701
- Make white background transparent when importing image for Image Stamps & Fast Sign (Pro) – PS-5575
- Default timestamps now included – PS-5938
- Support for new digital signature algorithms including “RSASSA-PSS” and “Skribble” for Switzerland – PS-6011
- Fixed signature vulnerability for incremental save attack from PDF Researchers JPDF-1872
- Submitted by: Raphael Sütterlin of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Chair for Network and Data Security
Redaction
- Support for redacting Annotations (pro)- PS-5504
- Support for redacting Form Fields (pro)- PS-5505
Bookmarks
- New tool to create table of contents from Bookmarks- PS-4413
- Default new bookmarks to “Inherit Zoom” – PS-5883
- Show invalid bookmark icon when missing action or page reference – PS-5881
Conversion
- Extract Text as Rich Text to a File (.rtf) – PS-4809
- BETA: Convert PDF to Word (Pro)- JOFFICE-541 & PS-1364
- Optimizer: add ability to merge subset fonts (Pro) JPDF-1756
- (Windows) Thumbnail handler – PS-4694
- (Windows) Edit/convert PDFs from right click menu – PS-3494
- Auto-save document recovery – PS-2923
- OCR languages now included by default (no additional download needed) – PS-4805
- English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Added support for protocols to allow launching PDF Studio from a web page – PS-5470
- (Mac & Linux) Duplex scanning enhancements – PS-4525
- Added support for embedding of non-CID OpenType CFF fonts (Pro) – JPDF-1764
- Added support for “lab” color space in optimizer (Pro) – JPDF-1837
- Many other internal bugs & fixes