PDF-XChange Editor is a comprehensive PDF editor that allows you to create, view, edit, annotate, and digitally sign PDF documents with ease. With advanced features like OCR, document security, and PDF optimization, PDF-XChange Editor is a powerful tool for both personal and professional use.
Whether you need to edit text, images, or links, or add comments, stamps, or watermarks, PDF-XChange Editor provides all the necessary tools to make your PDFs look perfect. Additionally, it supports a wide range of file formats, including PDF, XPS, and DOCX, making it easy to convert and share your documents.
PDF-XChange Editor key features:
- Edit text and images in PDF documents
- Add and remove pages from PDF files
- Annotate and markup PDFs with comments, highlights, and stamps
- Use OCR to convert scanned documents into searchable text
- Create and fill out PDF forms
- Sign and certify PDF documents digitally
- Add and edit hyperlinks within PDFs
- Extract text and images from PDF files
- Batch process multiple PDF files at once
- Customize the interface to your preferences
- Work with multiple documents in tabs
- Convert PDFs to other formats such as Word, Excel, and HTML
- Use advanced redaction tools to permanently remove sensitive information
- Add customizable headers and footers to PDFs
- Merge multiple PDF documents into a single file
- Split PDF documents into multiple files
- Add watermarks to PDF documents
- Use the measurement tools to calculate distances and areas in PDFs
- ....and much more
PDF-XChange Editor 10.8.1.405 changelog:
- Redaction "Code sets". We now offer a quick selection menu with Code Sets for redaction blocks.We have also implemented a code list editing functions and an "import/export" function.
- 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. Drag-and-drop files from an opened archive (zip) 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.Even though digitalization is advancing, important documents, such as contracts, are still often archived in paper form due to historical processes or regulations. Some PDF features, such as optional content, annotation flags that control visibility, or JavaScript actions, might change the document"s appearance in print.The Editor will display a notification on the Print dialog when such a case is detected.
- 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)Clicking a link or bookmark briefly shows a simple animated highlight at the destination. Options include the highlight alone, dimming the rest of the page, or both effects together.Location: Preferences -> Page Display -> Highlight destination of clicked link/bookmark
- Added a "Customize Unit Precision" feature. (T# 6934) 42617Set how many decimal places are shown for measurement unitsLocation: Preferences -> Measurement -> Precision...
- 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 made many other improvements
- Fixed an issue where the page label warning displayed incorrectly. (T# 7616) 47548
- Fixed an issue when creating stamps from a selection. Previously it didn"t crop outside 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 an issue with sessions when saving/restoring the position of a maximised frame on another 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 an 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 an 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 an issue with deleting items via a key combination in the list of items for ampty combo/list form fields. 48025
- Fixed an issue with extra steps in the navigation history when switching to full-screen mode. 47914
- Fixed an issue where link annotations were not removed after cancelling the ‘Browse for Link Target’ dialog box if unrelated actions were performed while the dialog box was open. (T# 7686) 48415
- Fixed an 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 an 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 a session only 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.
PDF-XChange Editor 10.8.1.406 fixes:
- Fixed an issue with the PDF-XChange Updater utility (it was not starting properly).
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