PDF-XChange Editor Updates & Release Notes

New features

AI Assistant: added an option for users to add custom prompts.

AI Assistant: added an option to specify the language in which the AI ​​should answer questions.

New Open/Save File dialog box: added support for multiple OneDrive-folders and Network Locations, and added a 'Quick Access' folder.

Added a 'Use system title and frame' option (Preferences > General > Tabs & Windows) to turn on/off the use of the system's title and border for the main window. This option can also help solve a possible problem under WINE where the system title may sometimes overlap the application's custom title.

Added a 'Relationship' column to the attachments pane. (T# 7748) (48980)

Added Brotli compression as an option when recompressing images, and for performing some other operations.

Implemented handling of the fill_tab property in JS dialogs. (50011)

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

Fixed the "Error [AFSLib]: File cache for specified file already exists" error that may sometimes appear when a user opens a file from a cloud-based "Place" using the new Open File dialog box.

Fixed an issue with saving a document when the destination file is located on a special cloud-based document management system such as CenterDevice.

Fixed rare issue with crashes on some documents during rendering. (T# 7845)

Fixed "Convert Text Files to PDF" for specific encodings. (49334)

Improved the accuracy of the stroke colour description for link annotations when this property is not specified in the structure. (T# 7896) (49815)

Fixed an issue with layers not merging correctly. (T# 7888)

Fixed an issue with applying the thickness value to Text Markup comments during import, and added support for exporting and importing rounded-corner radius values for Rectangle comments. (T# 7853) (49661)

Fixed an issue where JavaScript related to AcroForms in stamps was not updated after saving. (T# 7844) (49609)

Fixed an issue with dimming and overlapping in the Highlight Destination function. (T# 7903) (49991)

Fixed an issue with excluding UI-commands from the 'Quick Launch' dropdown and 'Customize Toolbars > Commands' dialog box when they are disabled by Group Policy.

Fixed an issue with missing thousands separators for file sizes in the "details" view of the new Open/Save dialog box. (49791)

Fixed an infrequent 'not enough permissions' issue when saving documents after previewing them in the new Open/Save File dialog box if opened from cloud-based places.

Fixed crashes on File Open under Wine (Linux). (49752)

Fixed issues with using the MS Office Click-to-Run products (including Microsoft 365 and Office 2019/2021) inside the Office-to-PDF features. On some systems such features may not work.

Fixed an issue with setting labels for measurement comments by applying corresponding comment styles that already contain custom labels.

Find/Search: fixed an issue with the 'Clear' item in the dropdown list. Now it is not selectable by keyboard/auto-complete/mouse-wheel, but only by mouse. Also, the auto-complete feature there is now case-sensitive.

Fixed some issues with the system's Narrator screen reader app, including it being unable to read text labels on dialog boxes.

Fixed an issue with the creation date in PDF/A files.

Fixed issues with the incorrect filtering of annotations. (43529)

Fixed issues with rendering text in text annotations with white text.

Fixed an issue where PDF documents converted from MS Word could have black areas.

Fixed an issue with handling the percent character in macro strings. (49748)

Fixed issues with text rendering in some specific cases. (T# 4061, 4957, 7871)

Fixed a rare case of a possible crash during color conversion in some documents. (T# 7885)

Fixed the incorrect appearance of "down" push button form fields that have icons. (50006)

Fixed potential issues when signing documents with certificates that use the ECDSA-SHA384 algorithm.

Fixed an issue where some selected page content was not copied to the clipboard.

DocuSign: signatures saved in the user's DocuSign account are now available when signing documents in PDF-XChange Editor. (50063)

Improved handling of align_fill in JS dialogs. (T# 7897) (49847)

Changed text encoding detection for text files. (49328)

Added Recents and Favorites groups to the Stamps pane. (T# 4335)

Added the ability to recolour stamps. (T# 7764) (49059)

Added support for letters in the auto-incrementing interactive field of the “Create Custom Stamp” feature. (T# 7904)

Added the ability to search for layers by name. (T# 6644) (40856)

Added the “Open new files within the active virtual desktop” option (enabled by default) and made other improvements to virtual desktop handling. (T# 7872)

Added support for selecting pages related to Watermark/Background/Header & Footer/Bates Numbering settings. (T# 7858) (49729)

Added an option to prevent the text in a comment pop-up from scrolling to the end when the pop-up is opened. (T# 7488)

Added the ability to focus the selected page number range when opening the Page Numbering dialog box. (T# 7753) (49017)

Added a highlight indicator to the currently active profile in the "Set scale" dropdown menu. (T# 7719)

Fixed an issue with the 'Text Correction' tool. Closing the insert/replace comment popup by pressing Esc now returns the text cursor to the InsertText-annotation position.

Improved the 'Identify Forms' tool.

Improved document loading time, especially for documents that contain a dictionary object with many entries.

Upgraded the Markdown plugin to use a new engine, providing full CSS support and support for LaTeX formulas.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

Fixed a crash in the new Open/Save dialog box when creating a new folder in an unavailable network path. (49552)

Fixed a rare/infrequent crash on some dynamic XFA forms after changing their field values.

[installer] Fixed an issue where shortcuts were lost during an upgrade from the previous version.

[installer] Fixed an issue preventing migration of serial keys during updates from version 10.

Fixed the issues with the shell context menu after installation of version 11.

Fixed the issue with filtering comments. (49478)

Fixed the issue that caused "Error [IO subsystem]: Invalid access mode." when converting PDFs to MS Office formats.

Fixed an issue with the context menu position on some multi-monitor systems. (48467)

Fixed an issue with handling complex custom file filters, displayed by JS, in the new Open/Save Files dialog box. (49486)

Fixed several issues with the new 'Select Folder' dialog box. (49505)

Fixed an issue with the new custom 'Open File' dialog box when using double-click to open it. (49498)

Fixed an 'infinite' loop/proliferation in the 'Open Files' and 'Manage Places' dialog boxes. (49526)

Fixed an issue with handling the mouse wheel inside the document "Find" box. (49539)

Fixed an incorrect behaviour in the 'Go back (Alt+Left)' button in the new Open/Save Files dialog box. (49510)

Fixed an issue with the shortcut keys (Alt+Left/Right) after navigating via breadcrumb paths in the new Open/Save Files dialog box. (49554)

[installer] Fixed an issue with redrawing the progress text in the EXE installers.

Fixed the issue where a mouse click outside of the polyline/polygon context menu during annotation creation would cancel the annotation. (49475)

We switched back to using the system Open/Save/SelectFolder dialog box by default, instead of using the new one, because some popular features such as the QuickAccess/Recent items are missing in the new version. These will be added in a future release.

Replaced the 'Extension' column in the new Open/Save File dialog box with a more user-friendly 'Type' column. Also fixed some issues when handling the 'Show file extension' option. (49497)

Added the ability to authenticate local network shares in the new Open/Save Files dialog box. (49557)

Improved the handling of dates after 01.01.2030 in XFA files - now such dates are stored properly when set via the dropdown widget.

Flags NoZoom and NoRotate are now respected for only a limited subset of annotations.

New features

Breaking change! Version 11 products will be installed in different folders from Version 10. Paths in the registry and the user's data will also be changed. Any existing scripts relying on the old folder structure should be updated.

Breaking change! Version 11 products require Windows 10 or later. If you're still using Windows 7 or Windows 8, then please continue to use Version 10 products, and do not update to V11.

Added the FreeSign tool, which enables the adding of signatures and initials directly to pages.

Added the Add Placeholder tool, which enables the creation of placeholders in documents for adding signatures, initials, dates and other associated elements.

Enhanced the Open/Save File dialog boxes to provide seamless, consistent navigation across multiple local and cloud storage locations.

Reworked and replaced the 3D plugin with a version that supports BREP models and improves 3D model navigation.

Introduced the ability to search files directly in connected cloud storage.

The optimizer will now discard duplicates of images in comments.

The optimizer now optimizes images in comments.

The optimizer now has the option to flatten fields and markup comments.

Added the ability to mark bookmarks with invalid actions. (T# 7272) (45161)

Added the ability to enable additional link highlighting. (T# 7518) (46389)

Added the ability to save a list of files for future use. (T# 7463) (46186)

Added an AI Assistant to enhance PDF workflows with AI-powered search, summaries, explanations, and interactive document assistance.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

Fixed the issue where creating a stamp from a selection left some content around the selection in the new stamp. (T# 6482)

Fixed the issue where comments were flattened when saving edited stamps. (T# 7610) (45879)

Fixed an issue with resizing stamps. (T# 7784) (49282)

Fixed an issue where transparent objects became too transparent after grayscale rasterization. (T# 7675) (48356)

Refactored the document save procedure to address intermittent errors primarily observed on synchronized drives and network shares (e.g. mapped OneDrive).

Fixed issues with handling zoom levels specified for a layer in the context of Loupe/PanZoom windows. (49219)

Fixed the issue with resizing rotated text objects. (T# 7780) (49255)

Fixed an issue with restoring previous user settings for horizontal alignment in the 'Merge Pages' dialog box. (49115)

Fixed an issue with importing comments with replies. (T# 7752)

Fixed an issue with the Extract Layers feature not working correctly. (T# 7672)

Fixed an issue with restoring the last view position for duplicate tabs of the same document in different frames when restoring sessions. (T# 7791)

Fixed an issue with saving form field highlight settings that were changed via the UI. (49318)

Fixed the issue with gaps showing during page‑size calculations when at least one side exceeded the maximum allowed dimensions in the 'Merge Pages' feature. (49369)

Fixed an issue in the logic implemented in the Apply Layers Overrides command that caused inconsistencies between PDF X‑Change and Acrobat. The command has been renamed to Set Current States as Default. (43818)

Fixed an issue where the 'Delete' button was incorrectly available when nothing was selected in the Document Metadata list. (T# 7734) (48877)

Fixed issues with link generation for MaxiCode barcodes (T# 7197) (44532)

Fixed an issue where the command status of bookmarks did not update after an undo operation. (T# 7786) (49249)

Added the option "Visible On" for the 'Add Background' feature. (T# 7644) (47958)

Added the ability to use hotkeys to show previews in the 'Crop Pages' dialog box. (T# 7739) (48471)

Added the ability to reorganize stamp collections and stamps via drag-and-drop. (T# 4862)

Improved the functionality of searching for stamps. (T# 7738) (48755)

Added the ability to distribute two selected objects in the 'Distribute to Page' and 'Distribute to Object Spacing' options. (T# 7769) (49144)

Added the ability to prevent files from being added to the Recent Files list if they were opened with the hidden flag. (T# 7785) (49274)

Added an option to save only the session from the current window. (48600)

Added an option to export a form to an existing file with data merging, and an option to inherit the tab order of fields in the Export Form Data feature when saving in CSV/TXT format. (T# 7289, 7302) (37673)

Added an option to create a border around pages in the 'Merge Pages' feature. (T# 7777)

Added an option to the 'Correct Scans' tool for choosing a new page size.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

Updated third-party libraries to address known security and stability issues. Click here for further information.

Fixed an issue where exporting to XFDF would corrupt highlight annotations. (49319)

Fixed a possible hang when rendering some documents generated by iOS 26.

Improved the certificate validation process.

Fixed an issue with replies incorrectly being shown in some rare cases.

Fixed the issue with selecting comments when the 'Edit Field' tool is active. (49382)

New features

Added UI options for controlling Trust List updates, and corresponding Group Policy options.

Added a Group Policy for controlling the execution of application-level JavaScript from the user's location.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

Fixed a crash that occurred when exiting full-screen mode while the 'Highlight Destination' effect was still active after clicking a link. (48787)

Fixed the issue where Purview protection would not be removed when a Purview label with associated protection was changed to a label without protection.

Fixed the issue with form field detection on rotated pages.

Fixed the issue with the creation of an invalid 'Comb' flag in text fields created by the Identify Forms tool. (49036)

Fixed the issue in the 'Find and Redact' feature when search strings contained trailing backslashes.

Fixed a minor issue with the Find feature inside the 'Differences' pane - it now also checks the 'Format' part of the difference record.

Fixed a rare crash in the Shell Extension Preview component caused by extensive usage in a multi-threaded environment.

Fixed the issue with the slow opening of files stored on network drives.

Fixed the issue with handling named destinations in PDF files that have both old and new-style destinations. (T# 6460)

Fixed the issue with updating the measurement information window. (T# 7742) (48963)

Fixed snapping of content items on moving or resizing. (49054)

Fixed rare issues with rendering some types of shades.

Added an additional confirmation request for user document submission via the 'Report a Bug' feature. A corresponding Group Policy option has been added to manage this permission.

Improved the safety of the 'Open from URL' feature. It now asks for permission before loading and converting any webpage in cases where the specified URL points to a webpage instead of a PDF file. A Group Policy permission has also been added for this purpose.

Improved signature validation.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

Fixed a sporadic issue with the Editor 'freezing' on attempts to show the Open/Save File dialog boxes. Also fixed a similar problem when digital signatures are added. (48770, 48738)

Fixed issues with dragging and dropping pages to/from the thumbnails pane. (48771, 48686, 48640)

Fixed a bug with opening temporary files that only existed for a short time. (48764)

Fixed an issue where new pages were inserted in the wrong location when dragging files (or pages from another open document) into the bookmarks pane. (48636)

Fixed an issue where opening a large number of documents at once could cause some documents to be skipped and not opened.

New features

Added a redaction "code sets" menu. (47101)

Added a feature for partial cropping. (T# 7264) (45118)

Added a feature to reverse the order of pages.

Added support for dragging attachments from Outlook directly to the Editor app. Dragging and dropping files from opened (zip) archives to the Editor is now also possible. (T# 7620)

Added a 'Batch Link' feature. (T# 7467)

Added a notification for cases where the appearance of printed documents might differ from their appearance when viewed in the Editor UI.

Added the ability to move multiple tabs to a new window, or to a new vertical/horizontal tab group in the current window. (T# 7583) (47077)

Added a 'Highlight Destination' feature. (T# 4578)

Added a 'Customize Unit Precision' feature. (T# 6934) (42617)

Added an audio playback list button.

Added the 'Correct Scans' feature, which detects and crops the edges of scanned pages and corrects perspective distortions.

Added the ability to generate bookmarks from highlighted page text. (T# 6792)

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements

Fixed the issue where the page label warning displayed incorrectly. (T# 7616) (47548)

Fixed the issue with creating stamps from selections where it didn't crop outside the content. (T# 6482)

Fixed an issue where the page navigator for previews disappeared after resizing the ‘Set Layer Visibility’ dialog box. (T# 7614) (47526)

Fixed the issue with sessions when saving/restoring the position of a maximised frame on a different monitor after changing its position using the ‘Win + Shift + Left/Right’ key combination. (47128)

Adjusted the size of the buttons when choosing color and background color in the ‘Overlay Pages’ dialog box. (T# 7629) (47691)

Fixed the issue with the positioning of the 'Units' control being offset at startup in the 'Import As Layer' dialog box. (47774)

Fixed an issue with incorrect layer visibility when printing multiple documents with layers in the “Print All” feature. (47945)

Fixed the issue with incorrect layer visibility when printing (exporting) documents with layers for which the print (export) setting is set to ‘When Visible’. (T#7598) (47350)

Fixed the issue with deleting items via a key combination in the list of items for empty combo/list form fields. (48025)

Fixed the issue with extra steps being required in the navigation history when switching back to the source page. (47914)

Fixed the issue where link annotations were not removed after cancelling the ‘Browse for Link Target’ dialog box when unrelated actions were performed while the dialog box was open. (T# 7686) (48415)

Fixed the issue with the description of the ‘Execute a Command’ action, where underlined text was not displayed in the ‘Edit Action List’ feature. (47705)

Improved the interpretation of page labels in 'Generate Bookmarks from Table of Contents' feature. (T# 7473)

Fixed the issue with the 'Find and Replace' feature where center/right-aligned text sometimes vanished after being replaced. (48533)

Fixed the issue where redundant whitespaces were added when CJK text was copied to the clipboard. Also fixed a related problem with the 'Read Out Loud' feature for CJK text. (45419)

Added an option to retain the orientation of the 'Custom' tab on the 'Resize Pages' feature. (T# 7551) (46737)

Added an option to avoid duplication of source annotations when using the 'Duplicate Annotations' feature. (T# 7630) (47646)

Added signature previews when signing documents. (T# 7646) (47965)

Added an option to save only the session from the current virtual desktop. (T# 5975) (38397)

Added the ability to restore positions for each of the split views of documents when opening sessions. (T# 7500, 5382)

Improved session data handling. (39721)

Added the ability to use a window (or create a new one) on the current virtual desktop, instead of the active one on a different desktop, when opening a file or performing other actions. (T# 5162, 7051) (34203)

Added the ability to save and restore window placement on virtual desktops for sessions.

Added the ability to export multiple sessions into a single file. (T# 7345) (43968)

Added the ability to change the color of split-lines in the ‘Split Pages’ feature. (48393)

Improved the description of the border type for comments, and reversed the order of black and white, rephrasing black as "on" and white as "off". (T# 7638) (47848)

Added a toggle to 'Show Icon' in the 'Advanced Search' menu. (T# 7613) (47416)

Added grouping and sorting by layer to the 'Summarize Comments' feature.

Added presets for the 'Add New Guides' dialog box.

Added "Desktop Mode Conversion" for HTML to PDF options.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

Fixed an issue where the software would "hang" during PDF-to-TIFF export. (48189)

Fixed an issue that caused the Editor to 'freeze' after applying a digital signatures. (48163)

Fixed an infrequent crash that could occur after closing a document where the Pencil tool had been used.

Fixed an issue with saving PDF files from the Editor embedded in the Edge browser (with IE-mode enabled). This issue could also affect third-party document management systems that embed Edge/IE to view PDF files in their user interfaces.

Fixed issues with opening 'file://..." URLs that contain encoded non-ASCII symbols. (48220)

Fixed how user preferences for text shortening in document tabs are saved.

Fixed a rare issue with detecting underline/strikeouts when editing text.

Fixed an issue with slow opening/rendering of some PDF files.

Fixed issues with generating self-signed certificates stored in PFX files.

Fixed some UI inconsistencies in the 'Pages Numbering' dialog box. (48318)

Fixed the issue with the /runjs command line operation. (48368)

Fixed an issue with inserting scanned pages after the current page or a specified custom page. (48215)

Fixed issues with special symbols in file names in the SharePoint plugin.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

Updated third-party libraries to address known security and stability issues. Click here for further information.

Fixed an issue where document tabs could close unexpectedly when the documents were disconnected from their files, for example on unstable networks, or after resuming machines from sleep/hibernation. (47992, 48074)

Fixed a crash when a specially-crafted argument was passed to the JavaScript API functions util.readFileIntoStream or Doc.importDataObject. Reported by Lee Kwang-Hui ([email protected])

Fixed an issue with supporting PFX certificate files that use legacy cryptographic algorithms.

Fixed an issue with displaying scroll bar handles together with search/find marks on scrollbars when the page view is split. (47411)

Fixed an issue with showing tooltips for document tabs when they are narrowed to icon-only mode. (46620)

Improved text positioning in dynamic XFA forms.

New features

• Added support for MS Purview labels that use ADHOC+DKE encryption.
• Added blendMode and OC (optional content) properties to the doc object. (47714)

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

• Fixed an issue with date/time in portfolios. (47450)
• Fixed an issue with rendering content with a very high dash offset.
• Fixed issues with the 'list view' and 'multi-column list view' controls on JavaScript dialog boxes. (47784)
• Fixed an issue with locked annotation content after using the 'Clear Measurement' command. (43038)
• Improved the gathering of certificate revocation status information during document signing.