Qoppa Software - PDF Tools & Libraries
PDF Studio
Announcing Next Version
Coming Soon! PDF Studio version 6.60 - Scheduled January 15 2010
NEW FEATURES
- New Advanced Custom Stamps (Pro). In addition to image and text stamps, PDF Studio 6.6 allows to create very sophisticated custom stamps. Include text, images, dynamic fields (such as date and time) and different types of annotations all grouped together in a single custom stamp. Custom stamps can be saved and edited later on. And since stamps are saved in a vector format, they can be resized crisply when applied to a document.
- New Tool Chest. PDF Studio 6.6 saves and displays users most recent annotations as well as users favorite annotations under the Tool Chest pane. This saves time when frequently applying the same annotations.
- New Native File Dialogs (Windows, Linux). Windows and Linux users have the option to use the native file dialog of their operating system instead of the Java Swing file dialog. Native dialogs have more functionality (auto-completion for instance) and users are more familiar with them. Note that Mac users already use the native file dialog within PDF Studio so nothing will change on Mac.
- New Unicode Support. Edit unicode text in annotations content. This will be of special interest to customers using non-latin characters such as arabic, asian, greek, cyrillic characters. Unicode text is also supported within document properties (author, subject, description).
- Support for Annotations Groups. Group multiple annotations on a page to process as a single unit. Grouped annotations share their comment and are moved, deleted, reviewed or flattened at once.
- Multiple Selection of Annotations. Select multiple annotations on a page at once to move, delete, review or flatten them all at once. Annotations selected on the document will also be selected in the annotations trees under the Annotations Pane.
- Create PDFs from Other Documents including new support for Text & MS Word Files. Open text and MS Word (97-2003) files directly in PDF Studio (it converts the documents to PDF on the fly). PDF Studio has a new menu entry under File -> Create PDF to create PDF from all supported formats including images.
- Drag and Drop Files in Thumbnails Pane. Simply insert documents as new pages within a document by dragging and dropping files into the Thumbnail pane. The feature works with PDf files, images files, text files and MS Word files.
- Drag and Drop Files in Attachments Pane. Simply attach documents to a PDF by dragging and dropping files into the Attachments pane.
IMPROVEMENTS
- Support for XML metadata in Document Properties: When editing document properties and xml metadata is present in the document, PDF Studio will update the xml metadata so properties are correctly read and displayed in all PDF viewers.
- Batch Merge now Supports Images, Text and Word Files: Batch Merge can now merge different format files into a single PDF document (PDF, Images, Text and MS Word).
- New Function to Reverse Pages: Under Document -> Reverse Pages, it is now possible to reverse all pages within a document in a click. This can be useful after scanning a document in reverse order.
- New installation for Linux 64 bit: New PDF Studio installation for Linux 64 bit that comes packaged with Java 64 bit.
- Auto-create Link from Search Text: Create links automatically from searching a document for given text (for instance, create a link for qoppa.com for each occurrence of "Qoppa Software" within a document).
- Create Link from Highlighted Text: Create a link from right-clicking (CTRL + Click on Mac) on selected text and choosing the option "Create Link" in the context menu.
- Performance Improvements on Graphical Documents with Transparency: Printing and scrolling performance enhanced for certain documents containing transparency. Users in the graphics and pre press industry may enjoy faster times (up to 5 times faster on specific documents) when printing and rendering documents.
- New Image Icon on Toolbar to Add Images: Use the new icon to create an Image Stamp from a file on the fly or use the 2 menu entries Comments -> Add Image or Images -> Import Image as Stamp.
- Default Document Name for Documents Created from Files: When creating a document from external files (images, text or MS Word documents), PDF Studio will default the name of the PDF to the original document.
- Improvements to Text Search Dialog: Ability to cancel search. Search button is being disabled during a search so users can not accidentally click search twice. After search is finished, clicking "Enter" will go to the next occurrence in the results list.
- Form Field Tooltip: To help users filling forms, field information (if available) is now displayed as tooltips under interactive form fields. The data shown corresponds to the "/TU" entry in the field dictionary.
- Default Page for Extract Pages: When extracting pages from Document -> Extract Pages, PDF Studio 6.6 will default to the currently selected page.
- Improvements Around Copying and Pasting Pages: New menus available under the Thumbnails Pane to copy, cut and paste pages within a document or across documents.
FIXES
- Fix issue with Split Dialog not opening when running in demo mode.
- (Mac) When quitting the application through the Quit PDF Studio option in the main menu (or Command+Q) and choosing the "Cancel" option, PDF Studio was quitting anyway and any changes made to the document were lost.
- (Mac) Shortcut CMD + C was broken to select text on mac.
- (Mac) When copying and pasting pages across documents, it would work the first time and fail the second time.
- When renaming a bookmark, the new bookmark name will default to the previous one.
- Fix issue when opening a document created in Open Office. This issue was reproducible on Linux with documents containing annotations. The PDF file generated in Open Office does not follow PDF specs.
- When flattening a text box after a document was saved, the text was not available as text content and thus could not be selected or highlighted.
- Even when canceling the action of digitally signing a document, PDF Studio was still trying to save the file.
- When right-clicking on a bookmark (CTRL + Click on Mac), PDF Studio was sometimes changing the currently selected page to the bookmark's page. This was annoying to users trying to bookmark the currently selected page.
- Fix issue with Document -> Revert. When disposing of the Revert Dialog by clicking the red 'x', the document was actually reverted instead of simply closing the dialog.
- When updating the content of an annotation from the Popup Dialog (the Popup Dialog is the dialog that popups when double-clicking on the annotation and that displays the content, author and date for the annotation), the tooltip text for the annotation was not updated accordingly.
- The properties labels was cut for foreign languages in the Annotation Popup Dialog.
- The results list in the Text Search Dialog allowed for multiple rows selection. However, the functionality of the dialog was dependent only on the first row selected. The results list is now single selection.
- When editing a typewriter, free text or callout annotation, hitting escape will exit the edit mode and select the annotation (it used to not select the annotation).
- An image file can now be copied and pasted onto a PDF page (as a stamp) directly through copy and paste commands without having to open the image in an external image viewer.