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PDF-XChange Editor 9.4.363.0
Fixed:
- the issue with creating portfolios via the Outlook plugin
- the issue when copying/pasting annotations between pages of different orientations caused the incorrect placement of these annotations
- the issue with editing some fields in document metadata
- a rare crash related to using custom keyboard shortcuts
- an issue with the handling of the 'Summarize Visible Annotations Only' option in the 'Summarize Annotations' feature. It now skips all invisible annotations by default when the 'Include invisible annotations' option is disabled
- the issue with starting the Editor's window in maximized mode
- the issue with the handling of the 'paste comments into mouse position' option
- the issue with the handling of URI/URLs with custom schemas, such as 'onenote:', 'news:', 'tel:', etc
- the issue with adding incorrect page labels when inserting pages from a different document

- Added Czech patterns for redaction/sanitization
- Feature that is currently under construction and will be released in the future
- Improved handling of removing/adding columns (fields in portfolios


PDF-XChange Editor 9.4.362.0
Added:
- Added the ability to auto-fill named destinations from selected text
- A major overhaul of how we handle portfolio PDFs was implemented
- Added a tab on the document properties dialog that allows one to add/edit custom properties.
- Added the ability to edit document metadata via the "Advanced" tab on the Document metadata dialog
- Added the ability to set a Blurred or Pixelated background image as an overlay when performing Redaction
- Convert-To-Office: added the ability to recognize characters using OCR (for specific fonts with corrupted ToUnicode table etc.)
- Convert-To-Excel: added a feature to export links from a PDF file to an Excel Workbook
- A 'Crop' feature was added to the image editor
- Comments pane. The 'Expand All' command now also expands text of comments
- Added a feature to display and change the 'Layer' property of images and XForms (in the Properties pane)
- Added a feature to display and change the 'Transparency Group' properties for XForms (in the Properties pane)
- Added a feature to the "Fields" pane to select fields via user-specified type.
- Added a feature to reset selected fields.
- Added additional "Barcodes" such as pdf417, dataMatrix, aztec, maxicode, ean13, ean8, code39, code128, codabar, upcA
- Added a feature to specify last N pages of a document without using absolute numbers
- Added an 'In All Docs from this Window' option for searching in documents only in the currently active window
- Added support of vertical toolbars. You can now dock existing toolbars to left/right sides of windows.
- Added a tiny vertical toolbar on the left of the document view (tab) to quickly show/hide all document's panes. This toolbar ('Quick Tools') can be easily customized.
- Search marks are now shown on the vertical scroll bar in Single Page mode as well as in Continuous mode
- Added additional checks for some JS methods to increase security

Fixed:
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PBM/PGM/PNM
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted ICO files
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted EMF
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted WMF files
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted JPG files
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted J2K files
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PNG files
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted JBIG2 (or JBIG2 stream in PDF) files
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling large object numbers in PDF files
- Fixed potential vulnerability handling crafted/corrupted PDF files where the operation "Generate Bookmarks From Text" was creating individual bookmarks from the same style text separated by space that should have been only one bookmark
- Fixed an issue where after opening the dialog for "Generate Bookmarks From Text", one couldn`t select any text
- Fixed an issue where a pressure sensetive pencil tool may generate 'circles' which should not appear
- Fixed an issue where transparent PNG files were not properly handled when added as a stamp
- Improved support for 3D annotations. Fixes in many models
- Fixed/impoved the export form fields to FDF
- Fixed an issue with content selection when pasting it on the default layer
- A reported error or bug was fixedShell Extensions
- Fixed some issues with configurations that use multiple monitors with different resolutions
- Added the ability to "toggle" the loupe tool on/off
- Added the ability to ignore (not rasterize) text base content when using "Rasterize Pages"
- Changed the location of the options for creating Bookmarks and Named Destinations from a selection to the context menu of their respective panes
- Added the option to be able to use a selected page (in the Thumbnails Pane) when creating a page range in the Page Numbering Tool.
- Added showing, in Properties Pane, the compression method used in images.  Plugins
- Added new options for working with existing bookmarks when using "Generate Bookmarks From Text". Plugins
- Added an new style, a "Chapter [BLANK]" page, for use when creating a "Table of Contents from bookmarks".
- Improved IME handling
- Changed, reviewed, modified featureShell Extensions
- Added icons for explorer context menu
- Compare Docs: improved the scroll-syncronization of left and right views; fixed several minor bugs in the UI
- Fixed/Improved a special UI-control to choose files as used on many modal dialogs in Editor
- Improved/Updated support for Portfolios: it now has a modern, convenient and light UI, and a whole new set of portfolio-editing features
- Feature that is currently under construction and will be released in the futureEditor
- The 'Copy Full File Name' command is split into two commands now - one copies only file the name as a text, while second copies the file itself into the clipboard.


PDF-XChange Editor 9.3.361.0
- Added white backgrounds for the Stamp-, Sign-, CommentStyle- thumbnails in the Dark Mode of the UI
- Added the ability to select OCR-languages by clicking anywhere on the row of languages dropdown-list

Fixed:
- an issue that was introduced in the previous build where some operations (like importing bookmarks, or adding attachments) could freeze the Editor
- an issue when an ink annotation is added with a presure sencitive profile that may produce dot-like artifacts
- an issue where changing the font for a standard stamp sometimes did not have any affect
- an issue with localization of the ShellExtension-menu
- a hang in the "Save As Optimized" operation
- issues with TWAIN scanning
- an issue with the 'All Supported Files' filter in the the 'Open File' dialogs: some supported types were missing from that filter
- selection drawing for the 'Zoom In/Out' tool


PDF-XChange Editor 9.3.360.0
New:
- Added a feature for Comparing two PDF Documents (RibbonUI > Review > Compare Documents)
- added featureEditorNEW
- Added the ability to remove brokeninvalid Named Destinations
- added featureEditorNEW
- Added the ability to export snapshot to an image directly from the context menu
- added featureEditorNEW
- Added a `Set Layers Visibility` action creation and modification dialog
- added featureEditor PluginsNEW
- Added a possibility to Merge Duplicate Bookmarks
- added featurePDF-CoreNEW
- Added support for adding video and sound rich media annotations in PDFs
- added featurePDF-CoreNEW
- Support for existing screen annotation
- added featurePDF-CoreNEW
- Added a feature to control the thickness of underline and strikeout annotations
- added featureEditorNEW
- Added the ability to localize/customize text on Standard stamps.
- added featureEditorNEW
- Added options to disable animated underline-effect for selected tabs (Ribbon tabs: CustomizeToolbars > Options; Other tabs: Prefs > General > TabsAndWindows)
- added featureEditorNEW
- Added correct support for rounded corners for Editor's windows in Win11
- added featureEditorNEW
- Added Month-groups in the HistoryView pane
- A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core

Fixed:
- Fixed the incorrect redaction of some images
- A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
- Implemented a Workaround in handling poorly-formatted color spaces
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- Fixed page navigation by keybord to match the corresponding commands on the document bar
- A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
- Fixed an issue when locking individual fields with signatures that was not working
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- Fixed an issue showing field properties in form editing tools when using the dark UI theme
- A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
- Fixed an issue with creating pencil annotations with variable profiles under some conditions.
- A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
- Fixed a rare issue that was apparent when converting .xps, .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx files.
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- Cropped the very long list of extensions displayed in 'All Supported Files' filter inside the 'Open/Save File' dialog.
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- Fixed an issue with the appearance of the vertical scrollbar which displays many search-marks - previosly it was hard to see the knob-button under such marks
- A reported error or bug was fixedPDF-Core
- Fixed an issue with the 'Highlight from File' feature.
- Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor Plugins
- Added the ability to set a position for the resulting images in the Enhance Scanned Pages plugin
- Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
- Added a parameter to the FileName macro to extract part of a name
- Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
- Added an option to skip larger/smaller than specific pages in the Resize Pages feature
- Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
- Improved performance of PDF optimization
- Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
- Enabled saving a PDF document to a destination file that is a filesystem alias of the source file. Examples of such aliases include alternate network shares, symbolic link etc
- Changed, reviewed, modified featurePDF-Core
- We are now reusing a stamp's appearance when the same stamp is placed multiple times on the same document
- Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
- Improved the performance of the application's start up (~20-30% faster)
- Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
- Disabled autoswitching focus to the Format tab when the Stamp tool is activated
- Changed, reviewed, modified featureEditor
- Changed the filter rule in the HistoryView pane: now the same document can be presented in different groups simultaneously


PDF-XChange Editor 9.2.359.0
Added:
- detection of CSV/TXT files that are stored in UTF8 without BOM
- a workaround for an issue found when in some poorly formed PDFs some text was missing

Fixed:
- an with printing text using the Print All feature
- an when adding image-based watermarks or backround
- rendering issues introduced in build 357
- an issue with copying and extracting pages that caused a "The parameter is incorrect" error in some documents
- an Editor crash on startup issue (certain Windows compatibility flags were breaking loading of an Editor module)
- an issue seen when 'Fix by content' does not work as expected for callout annotations
- an issue with drag&drop of pages from the Thumbnails pane into OneNote or Powerpoint
- an issue with handling a manually edited destination folder in the product installer
- issues with adding UI-commands in dropdown menus via D&D
- an issue where after a long press on some tools the wanted popup would disappear on mouse-up
- issue with the 'op.bookmarks.import' operation: now it can handle IStream/IAFS_File on input, as should

Improved:
- support of PDF files protected by MS Azure RMS
- support for the identity object
- ClearType usage when rendering annotations and form fields


PDF-XChange Editor 9.2.358.0
Fixed:
- an issue with incorrectly generated JPEG streams that caused an "Out of memory" error in Acrobat
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- an issue with multiple browser windows openening when a file:// URL with parameters contains spaces
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- an issue where text field flags could not be modified in certain rare cases
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- an issue where 'Fit Box by Text Content' reduced the size too much
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- an issue where the Bookmark macro may have an incorrect value
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- an issue with handling inherited X, Y, and zoom in the 'GoTo' action
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- a very rare issue with the progress dialog: sometimes the percentage text would appear over the progress bar
- A reported error or bug was fixedEditor
- a minor issue with visibility of a small but helpful context tip that shows when a use moves 'split-lines' inside the preview window for the 'Split Pages' feature


PDF-XChange Editor 9.2.357.0
Added:
- font customizations for the summarize comments operation
- the ability to open and convert to PDF images that are saved in the WebP format
- the ability to select text highlighted on a page (select highlight-comment first and then select the corresponding text)
- macro for File Extensions
- an option to the 'Bookmarks To Links' tool that sets link style
- an option when sorting bookmarks to restrict the 'Sort' to a specific bookmark and it's sub-levels in the 'Bookmarks Plugin'
- the ability to remove layers with their associated content and comments
- the ability to set custom a background logo, specify the date format and font for the digital signature templates

Fixed:
- an issue with some XFA files
- a rendering issue with certain fonts
- an issue with navigation via bookmarks in some specific cases
- anisue when rendering documents which uses a large scale
- an issue with printing some documents with transparency
- an issue with handling content position on page resize when the "proportional content resize" option is checked
- an issue with fonts changing for text on the page
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- a minor issue with displaying search-result: when searching for a particular term, sometimes the words in the term were shown with an ellipsis between them, even though no such ellipsis appears
- an incorrect handling of some large images when using disk cache
- incorrect rendering
- "Same size/height/width" features

Improved:
- ClearType usage. Added CleartType (forced) rendering mode to use ClearType when rendering isolated XForms (may cause rendering artifacts text background is not white)
- the handling of embedded fonts
- the handling of non-embeded fonts (italic simulation)
- broken PDF files correction
- the 'Copy to RTF' operation
- 3D support
- fixed High DPI scaling in the UI

- Sharepoint add-in "Open in PDF-XChange Editor" functionality implemented
- A "Print All" feature was implemented
- A "Print Portfolio" feature was implemented
- Implemented different rendering modes for 3D models
- Different UI-Themes added (see Preferences/CustomizeUI). Also the entire UI has been redesigned to make it look lighter and more modern
- Addressed a potential issue where the application could incorectly report signature validity (Certification Attacks)
- Addressed a potential issue where the application could incorectly report signature validity (Shadown Attacks)
- Addressed a potential issue where the application could incorectly report signature validity (Shadown Attacks)
- Addressed a potential issue where the application could be exposed to DDoS attack on certain javascript in a PDF documents
- Addressed potential issues where the application could be exposed to a 'Signature Validation Bypass' vulnerability and deliver incorrect validation result when validating certain PDF files that are modified maliciously or contain non-standard signatures
- Changed the rendering of the Segoe Script font
- Optimized text box comments (they now use less space internally than previously)
- Changed the sorting of items in Forms and Destinations panes when handling digits as numbers


PDF-XChange Editor 9.1.356.0
- Added content clipping if necessary when "Shrink page content..." option is used in Header & Footers
- Fixed an issue with login to the DocuSign account slipped in in the previous build
- Fixed an issue with setting and remembering option to allow suspicion documents
- Fixed issue with handling internal XPS links
- Fixed an issue with log in to the Google web mail
- Fixed an issue opening FDF/XFDF files if these files refer to an encrypted PDF documents
- Fixed an issue with rendering some linear shadings
- Fixed possible issue with Enhanced OCR on Win7/8.1: added necessary CRT-modules that may not be present in a fresh OS
- Non-working column provider with Directory Opus issue fixed
- Wrong scanner dialog width issue fixed
- Shell extensions productivity improved