Qoppa Software - PDF Tools & Libraries
PDF Studio
Version History
Version 6.21 - Feburary 18 2010
- Improvement Minor enhancements and bug fixes to Google Docs™ file manager.
- Fix Missing font issue when merging certain PDF documents.
- Fix Issue with our updater.
- Fix Internal bug fixes.
- New Now with full Google Docs™ integration, PDF files stored in your Google Docs account can be directly opened and edited in PDF Studio then saved straight back to Google Docs. Additionally, PDF Studio provides a powerful GUI to manage your Google Docs files allowing you to upload and download single files or whole directories, manage your collections and share files with others directly from PDF Studio.
- New Our new auto-update feature gives you the option to check for newer versions of PDF Studio on your computer and to update automatically. This feature can be turned off or customized to check daily, weekly, monthly or never. Users can also check "manually" that they are running the latest version using Help -> Check for Updates.
- New Ability to copy and paste annotations.
- Improvement Multi-line text field editing in interactive PDF forms now uses native PDF fonts so the editing is very smooth and matches exactly with the rendering of the form field.
- Improvement When inserting a new page, users can now choose the page format as well as the location in the document.
- Improvement Better text searching and extraction especially when working with subscript and superscript.
- Fix Improved file size of resulting documents when merging PDF documents (issue introduced in version 6.10).
- Fix Improved file size of resulting documents when deleting pages (issue introduced in version 6.10).
- Fix Issue with Snow Leopard minimized icon which was displayed at a very low resolution.
- Fix Issue when importing some jpeg images where images would show 3 times in Adobe Reader.
- Fix Internal bug fixes.
- New (Pro) Many improvements around digital signatures: improved user interface to sign a document, ability to delete and resize a signature field, ability to manage digital ids and trusted certificates, ability to add multiple digital signatures to a document.
- New Cloud annotation useful to markup architectural drawings.
- New (Pro) Batch preflight to verify PDF/X compliancy for multiple documents at once.
- New (Pro) Batch crop to crop multiple documents at once and change the margins for crop box, bleed box, trim box or art box.
- New Screenshot tool allowing users to select a page area with a lasso and copy the image to the clipboard or export the image to a file.
- New From the thumbnail view, added ability to work on multiple pages at once to delete them, rotate them, drag them or flatten comments.
- New Support for barcodes. XFA form fields containing a barcode ui will now be rendered in PDF Studio.
- New Ability to search within annotations from the text search dialog.
- Improvement (Pro) Improved batch user interface concerning the selection of files and folders to process. Users can now preview the files included in the batch and reorder them as needed.
- Improvement Improved text highlight rendering. It is now a perfect text highlight obtained by using multiply composite.
- Improvement Added a user setting to remember a default scanner so users are not always prompted to choose their scanner.
- Improvement Added a user setting for default paper size to be used when creating new documents, adding pages and creating a preflight report.
- Improvement Added a "Clear Security" button under the security dialog so users can remove passwords and permissions in a single-click.
- Improvement Improved title bar to show the document name first (before the application name) so users can distinguish documents when multiple documents are minimized on the toolbar.
- Improvement When drawing annotations such as cloud, polygon or perimeter annotations, and using the auto-complete option from the mouse menu, PDF Studio will now include the current location of the mouse as the last vertex.
- Fix Issue with bookmarks. When inserting a new page in the document, all bookmarks to pages that are following the inserted page will now remain the same.
- Fix Issue with scrolling to annotations. When using the single page view and clicking on an annotation in the comments list, PDF Studio was not scrolling to the appropriate location in the document as expected.
- Fix Internal bug fixes.
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New We have changed our installer and thus recommend that you uninstall any previously version of PDF Studio before installing the new one. All your settings, preferences and custom stamps will be preserved with this new version. Our new installer brought a few fixes / improvements to the installation process:
- Linux users will now have an icon launcher installed on their desktop to start PDF Studio and can now drag PDF files directly onto this icon.
- PDF Files having a name containing at least 2 consecutive spaces in a row can now be opened by double-clicking on them (this used to be a problem with our old installer).
- New Ability to create categories and sub-categories for custom text and image stamps so custom stamps can be easily accessed and organized in a flexible tree structure.
- Improvement Update to our scanning library.
- Fix (Linux) Issue when editing existing text stamps.
- Fix (Mac) Issue in the custom image stamp dialog when trying to load an image, users were getting a "File not found" error message due to an extension ".pdf" being wrongly appended to the image file path.
- Fix Issue displaying documents created with Acrobat ClearScan.
- Fix Issue with bookmarks where sometimes an invalid bookmark was created, making PDF Studio to run out of memory when opening the document (due to an infinite loop when reading the invalid bookmark).
- Fix Issue with the display of certain images. A red cross was displayed in PDF Studio instead of the actual image.
- New Split between PDF Studio Standard and Pro editions (existing customers automatically upgrade to the Pro edition for free without the need to reenter their license key).
- New Under Document Properties, new tab for Initial View to define the initial layout and magnification settings: navigation tab, page layout, magnification, open to page.
- New Many improvements around bookmarks: auto-create bookmarks for a page range, create bookmarks for current view, move bookmarks through drag and drop, improved toolbar in bookmarks panel.
- New (Pro) Create new digital signature fields on PDF documents and clear existing digital signatures.
- New (Pro)In the Preflight screen, when verifying the compliance of a PDF document against PDF/X format, it is now possible to create a preflight report with the option to append the report to the PDF document.
- New (Pro) Batch Merge feature to combine multiple documents at once.
- New Navigate through history of page views (go to previous view, go to next view).
- New Support for mailto protocol in links and bookmarks and launch mail client accordingly.
- New Search text within comments from Comments pane.
- New Export to gif.
- Improvement Move annotations using arrow keys.
- Improvement Improved toolbar in Comments pane.
- Improvement Option in batch processes to overwrite existing files or create new files.
- Fix (Linux) Now can drag files into PDF Studio (image files or PDF files).
- Fix Internal bug fixes.
- New Ability to split PDF documents based on page count, page range, blank pages, bookmarks, search text.
- New In the Preflight screen, when verifying the compliance of a PDF document against PDF/X format, it is now possible to dynamically generate annotations where compliance problems were detected.
- New Full support for PDF transparency model.
- Improvement Support for PNG images in custom image stamps.
- Improvement Support for soft mask when importing images as pages.
- Fix Some focus issues in interactive PDF forms.
- Fix (Windows) Problem with the scanning feature giving the following error: "Can't Initialize Twain JNI library".
- Fix Internal bug fixes".
- Fix (Mac) Problem with the scanning feature giving the following error: "Can't Initialize Twain JNI library".
- New Area and perimeter measurement tools.
- New (Windows, Linux) Now using the latest Java 1.6 for Windows and Linux for better performance.
- New (Linux) Added support for Scanning under Linux.
- New Support for the following page mode views: Continuous, Single, Facing, Facing Continuous.
- New Dialog to add a text or image watermark with the ability to preview the watermark on the document.
- New Right-click context menu on the page views for quick access to basic functions such as adding a sticky note, zooming in and out, selecting text.
- New Ability to customize page thumbnails size (small, medium, large).
- Improvement Better conversion to black and white tiff (dithering for Group 4 and Group 3 Fax).
- Improvement (Linux) No more bold font for the metal look and feel under Linux.
- Fix Choosing option 'New document" when scanning to PDF was reversing the page order and save would overwrite the previous document.
- Fix Fix Focus problem with annotations in Java 1.4 where focus would sometime jump to the beginning of the document when clicking on the hand tool.
- Fix Slow file open dialog under Windows XP when browsing through big zip files,
- Fix Internal bug fixes
- Fix (Mac) Problem when opening the following dialogs: Append PDF Document, Insert Pages from PDF and Replace Pages from PDF.
- New Review status for annotations to mark them as checked, approved, completed.
- New Preflight PDF/X verification.
- New Distance measuring tool.
- New Dialog to add headers and footers with document preview.
- New Bates Numbering.
- New Signature pane to display the list of digital signatures applied to a document.
- Improvement New look for our annotations list pane, now located at the bottom of the page to allow for a better view. Ability to print the list of annotations.
- Improvement Pencil tool is now multi gestures allowing to type multiple words as part of the in the same annotation.
- Improvement Improved annotations features: save defaults, option to make annotation tool sticky, display review status.
- Improvement Use native Mac Open dialog instead of the standard java Open dialog.
- Fix Support for polygons in import / export of annotations.
- Fix (Mac) Resolution when printing scanned images was too low giving a blurry printout.
- Fix (Linux) Show total number of pages for the current document on the toolbar.
- Fix Internal bug fixes.