PDF Annotator® - Version History Copyright © 2004-2023 by GRAHL software design + New Feature - Fixed Bug * Changed Behaviour > Version: 9.0.0.916 (2023-09-05) - Fixed: When accessing the application through Remote Desktop (Terminal Server), unnecessary flicker of the application and document view was observed. - Fixed: In certain situations, some keyboard shortcuts were not available any more. - Fixed: Specific jump targets of links from within PDF documents were not resolved correctly, and in consequence could not be jumped to. * Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.915 (2023-08-03) + New: Option to select flipping on long or short edge when enabling the Duplex print option ("Print on both sides of paper"). * Faster rendering and printing of formulas created with the Formula tool. * Improved behaviour when switching between monitors using the Win+Shift+Left/Right Arrow key combinations, especially in full screen mode. - Fixed: On some printer drivers, image annotations created in PDF Annotator would print out too large. - Fixed: Links created with the Text tool got placed in a wrong location on some (rare) page formats. - Fixed: Links created with the Text tool, targeting pages in the same document, could point to the wrong destination page after inserting, deleting or reordering pages. - Fixed: Drawing circles/ellipses from their center point by pressing the Ctrl key did not work as expected. - Fixed: Error when closing documents with opened PDF comments. - Fixed: After panning with a pressed middle mouse button, the mouse cursor would disappear. - Fixed: With custom keyboard shortcuts defined, which did not include any function key, these characters could not be entered into some edit fields any more. * Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.914 (2023-05-09) + "Quick Print": Prints without displaying the Print dialog, using the previously used print settings. Press Ctrl+Shift+P, or keep Ctrl and Shift pressed while clicking the Print icon to "Quick Print". Also available as a custom command for toolbar customizations. - Fixed: In the text editor, after selecting a font with special characters (like Asian characters) in the font name, the font selection got lost after closing the text editor. - Fixed: Problem with moving pages in the Pages sidebar using drag'n'drop. - Fixed: Under Windows 8, some actions could lead to the application shutting down unexpectedly. - Fixed: Application could get started while an installation/update was still running, which would result in an inconsistent installation. * Fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.912 (2023-02-08) * Faster page duplication. - Fixed: Text annotations with white background could diplay transparently in 3rd party PDF applications. - Fixed: After pasting from the clipboard, the pasted annotations would possibly not be selected. * Many fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.908 (2022-12-19) - Fixed: Under certain conditions, while using a pen tool, the cursor would get hidden, but not restored any more. * Fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.907 (2022-12-14) - Fixed: Under certain conditions, dimension annotations would get displayed cut off on rotated PDF documents. * Fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.906 (2022-11-28) - Fixed: After using the right-click context menu, all other clicks on any other page in the same document got ignored. > Version: 9.0.0.905 (2022-11-24) - Fixed: Text stamps could not be inserted any more. * Fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.904 (2022-11-24) - Fixed: In Full Screen Mode, changes to tool properties applied wrong values to some properties (like pen color to always red). - Fixed: Placeholders in text stamps did not get replaced as expected in some cases. - Fixed: In text annotations, the subscript/superscript format got lost if a subscript character followed a superscript character. - Fixed: Error in formula editor when entering specific LaTeX commands for multi-line formulas. - Fixed: Crash in the Settings dialog when using the mouse wheel. - Fixed: Crash in the "Invalid License" dialog when selecting an option. * Fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.903 (2022-11-21) * Fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.902 (2022-11-17) * Fixes and improvements > Version: 9.0.0.901 (2022-11-14) + New: Area Dimensioning Tool Dimension tool using selectable and customizable scale. Area Dimensions are annotations, including a semi transparent colorization of an area and a dimension text (measure and unit), which become part of the PDF document (contrary to the Measure functionality). Place dimensions by clicking an unlimited number of corner points (polygon). "Connect Lines" feature to snap corner points to existing annotations. "Snap to 15° Angles" feature to help dimensioning rectangular areas. Display of dimension unit can be turned on and off. Dimension text (measure) can be overwritten in the "Edit Style" dialog. Comfortably move corner points in selected area dimension annotations. + Improved: "Connect Lines" Feature This feature to snap corner points to existing annotations now works for lines, arrows, polygons, distance and area measures. Also, the corner points of polygons and points on ellipses/circles get identified as snap targets. Create dimensional chains using the distance dimension tool and "Connect Lines". + New: Individual Formatting in Text Annotations You can now format parts of text annotations individually. For example, you can format a single word within a text box as bold or underline. Supported properties: Font color, font face, font size and font style. Font styles: Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike out and, NEW: Superscript or Subscript. You can also align paragraphs within one text annotation individually: left, center and right. + New: Polygon Tool Draw closed polygons or polylines. Properties: Line color, line width, line style, fill color and opacity. Place polygons by clicking an unlimited number of corner points. Close a polygon by clicking the start point or by selecting "Close Polygon and Accept". Finish a polyline by selecting just "Accept". "Connect Lines" feature to snap corner points to existing annotations. "Snap to 15° Angles" feature to help drawing rectangular polygons. Comfortably move corner points in selected polygon annotations. + New: Formula Tool with LaTeX Support Insert scientific formulas using a comfortable Formula Editor. Create and edit formulas with the help of pre- defined expressions and by selecting from a detailed list of symbols. Edit the underlying LaTeX commands in the LaTeX source code (for LaTeX experienced users). Exchange formulas with LaTeX based formula editors from 3rd party vendors (Copy, Paste). Properties: Color, font size, fill color and opacity. + New: Color Mode and Accent Color - "Dark Mode" Choose between the usual bright color mode or the new dark color mode ("Dark Mode"). Choose between the usual "red" accent color and the new "blue" accent color. Color Mode affects the application's user interface. PDF documents are not affected and will always be displayed identically (as printed on white paper). + New: "Autostart Search" setting You can now disable the automatic start of the text search while entering a search phrase. + New: Duplicate Selection to Next Page Like the existing "Duplicate to All Pages" feature, you can now as well duplicate a selection only to the next page. + New: "Black Screen" Feature for Presentations In Full Screen Mode, you can now temporarily turn the display completely black to ensure your audience's full attention. Use the Full Screen Mode action button, or press Alt+B. Press any key, or click/tap with mouse, pen or finger to end the blackout. + New: Advanced Color Selection and Pipette Tool All color pickers (e.g. for selecting the pen color) have been revised and now contain a palette of common colors, as well as an additional palette for saving and reusing your own colors ("My Colors"). By expanding the color picker window, you can find an enhanced color picker with the ability to enter colors as RGB or HTML values (e.g. "#FF0000" for red). Here you can also copy the HTML color value. After expanding, the buttons to manage the "My Colors" palette show up. After expanding, the "Pipette" tool button becomes available. Use the Pipette to extract a color from the currently visible part of the document, or from any point on the current monitor. * Improved: Preserving Toolbar Customizations In previous versions, customized toolbars got reset on each major upgrade, as menus and toolbars contain new or changed entries, which require a reset. When upgrading from version 8, we now try to preserve as many toolbar customizations as possible. > Version: 8.0.0.840 (2023-01-18) * Fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.839 (2022-12-19) - Fixed: Under certain conditions, while using a pen tool, the cursor would get hidden, but not restored any more. * Fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.838 (2022-12-14) - Fixed: Under certain conditions, dimension annotations would get displayed cut off on rotated PDF documents. * Fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.837 (2022-08-11) - Fixed: Error "Failed to initialize user language" after Update from version 8.0.0.835. * Fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.836 (2022-08-04) - Fixed: Could not copy pages from read-only documents to paste into different documents. > Version: 8.0.0.835 (2022-07-22) * Fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.834 (2022-03-03) + Increased maximum size of page thumbnails in the sidebar. New menu item to reset page thumbnail size to default size. * Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.833 (2021-12-01) - Fixed: After invoking the Settings dialog from within Full Screen Mode, the dialog would be covered by the main window and could not be reached, which would result in an unresponsive application. - Fixed: Under certain circumstances, PDF Annotator would block system restarts until the restart was confirmed/forced by the user. - Fixed: The "Square" and "Circle" properties were ignored when creating a tool favorite. - Fixed: While editing text annotations, the key combinations Ctrl+Arrow would not work within the text editor, but move the whole text box. Now, press Alt in addition to Ctrl to move the text box. Same applies for text box resizing with Shift+Arrow. - Fixed: Canceling a measure with Esc and undoing the last point with Backspace did not work any more. * More minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.832 (2021-10-13) * Changed: Predefined line widths now correspond to the same physical width on any device. In previous versions, the six predefined line widths ("Thin" to "Very thick" under the "Line Width" dropdown menu) resulted in different physical widths, depending on your screen settings (dpi), so that they were different from case to case. This has now been fixed. Also, the predefined line widths in fullscreen mode (in the quick configuration box, clicking the active tool button a second time) have been set to the same values as in regular (windowed) mode. Note: These changes do not affect already defined tools, favorites, stamps or annotations. * Improved: Faster file saving when using large numbers of identical picture stamps. * Improved: Faster snapshot creation for very large snapshots (whole page, large snapshot resolution). * More minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.831 (2021-10-08) + Windows 11 Support - Fixed: Touch scrolling caused jumps to incorrect pages when an external screen had just been removed. - Fixed: Documents on inactive document tabs jumped to first page after rotating the screen. - Fixed: Pen width did not restore correctly after a switch to a screen running under a different DPI setting. - Fixed: Color picker displayed black background in some situations. - Fixed: Clicking certain bookmarks resulted in jumps to incorrect positions. - Fixed: Text extraction did not find certain text. - Fixed: After adding/removing USB devices, application would not respond for up to five seconds. * More minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.830 (2021-09-20) - Fixed: Error using the Eraser tool in "Split Strokes" mode. - Fixed: Error message on specific actions while customizing buttons in Full Screen mode. * More minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.829 (2021-08-12) * Performance improvements and fixed issues > Version: 8.0.0.828 (2021-07-15) * Maintenance release combining various user experience enhancements, performance improvements, general improvements, and fixed issues. > Version: 8.0.0.826 (2021-04-12) + New: "Show Trace" option to deactivate temporary drawing with the Pointer or Laserpointer tools. + New "Factory Reset" feature, available under Extras, Settings, Reset. * Color selection: Display selected color names immediately below the color picker. Enlarged display on active "Touch Mode". * Display PDF comments created in third party apps as not clickable, when configured as "read only" according to the PDF standard. * Stamp toolboxes now display the currently selected stamp when opening the toolboxes. * Using the "Pointer" or "Laser Pointer" tools, double clicks will now be ignored, and will not select the underlying annotations. - Fixed: When working with PDF documents with many pages, under certain conditions the pen and marker tools would not be available any more after switching between view layouts. - Fixed: Problems detecting the use of the end of pen eraser. - More minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.824 (2021-02-18) + Additional "Dot" mouse pointers available under "Settings, Tools, Cursor". * Improved zoom gesture handling. * Performance improvements during zoom. * Improved visualization of documents with differently sized pages in "Two Pages - Continuous" page layout. * After clicking a page with the Snapshot tool, now a confirmation message box gets displayed to choose between taking a snapshot of the whole page, or only the currently visible page area. * Faster loading of documents that do not yet contain any annotations. * Maintain current selection when zooming or switching page layouts. * Allow entering Unicode characters into text annotations by typing their hexadecimal code and pressing ALT+X. - Fixed: When exiting the application immediately from within Fullscreen view, the toolbars configuration could become corrupted and needed to be reset using the "Reset all Toolbars" command. - Fixed: Using Zoom in a non-continuous page layout could cause jumps to the wrong pages. This could also result in just recently added ink annotations being handled incorrectly. - Fixed: Front and rear camera of Microsoft Surface devices could not get differentiated any more after a change by Microsoft. The camera display did not mirror correctly due to that issue. - Fixed: Text extraction did not calculate correctly in specific cases. - Fixed: The list of available printers was not refreshed correctly after adding new printers. - Fixed: After attaching an external graphics tablet, the "Draw with Finger" setting was not set correctly. - Fixed: Performance issue in the side bar page preview on documents with many very large pages. - More minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.821 (2020-12-11) - Fixed: Error opening documents under Windows 7. > Version: 8.0.0.820 (2020-12-11) * Improved: When zooming with two fingers, the document part under the fingers remains at the same position. - Fixed: Application would not respond for some seconds after short touch with multiple fingers or with the palm. > Version: 8.0.0.819 (2020-12-04) - Fixed: Some dialog text was only displayed in English, even if a different language was configured. - Fixed: Error message "Out of system resources". > Version: 8.0.0.818 (2020-12-03) + New: "Full Screen (in Window)" mode to leverage the Full Screen concept on large screens or side by side with video calls in a window that can be freely sized and positioned. + New: Setting to deactivate panning with the finger (Gestures, Pan). * Improved visualization of PDF comments created in other applications. * Performance improvements when loading files with many PDF comments created in other applications. * When adding or removing external graphics tablets, now the "Draw with Finger" option will immediately become available (or hidden). * Improved "Support" page under "Help, About PDF Annotator" with additional version information. - Fixed: Documents that have been saved with a security level set to 256-bit AES, and only a password required to open the document, but no password to change the restrictions, were incorrectly displayed in the iOS Mail app. It is strongly recommended to re-open and re-save those files with this new PDF Annotator version. - Fixed: Slow panning when using the finger to pan a document. - Fixed: Erratic behaviour after using the Pinch to Zoom gesture. - Fixed: Erratic display of PDF comments created in other applications (popup windows) . - Fixed: When upgrading from version 7, PDF templates created in the old version did not get copied into the new version. - More minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.817 (2020-10-30) + New: Select the cursor to use when setting the "Display cursor instead of pen tip" option. + New: Option to deactivate the Zoom, Press and Hold, and Scratchout gestures. + New: Option to hide the Layout buttons on the bottom right of the status bar. - Fixed: The technology to detect the Zoom gesture caused problems when writing with the pen on specific hardware. - Fixed: The Watermark (Image) feature of the "Print to PDF Annotator" printer did not work any more. - Fixed: Error message when using a SmartBoard. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.816 (2020-10-16) - Fixed: Error message after creating a text annotation and immediately executing the undo operation. - Fixed: After pasting from the clipboard using the right click context menu, the pasted elements got moved to the top left instead of using the click position. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.815 (2020-10-15) - Fixed: Could not open password protected PDF documents. - Fixed: The tool switch position did not get saved in some situations. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.814 (2020-10-14) - Fixed: Error message "Cannot disable ink overlay while active inking is detected". * Reduced sensitivity of "Pinch to Zoom" gesture (zooming with two fingers). - Minor fixes > Version: 8.0.0.812 (2020-10-12) + "Pinch to Zoom" (zooming with two fingers) is now supported at all times (requires supported hardware). + Laserpointer: Select between two sizes. * Full screen mode: Buttons positioned at the top or bottom of the screen are now squared to save some vertical space. * On the dialogs "The document contains form fields", "Print to PDF Annotator - Finished" and "Document already opened": Checkbox "Don't show this message again" has been removed, as this caused problems for many users. Selection has to be made explicitly, case by case. - Fixed: Dimension text got mis-positioned on rotated PDF pages. - Fixed: When using the "Display default cursor instead of tip of pen" setting, the cursor was not diplayed correctly for some tools New: This setting is now also effective when using a pen under Windows 10. - Fixed: Print preview in the Print dialog showed pages incorrectly in some situations. - Fixed: When pasting elements using copy/paste, elements were not positioned correctly in certain situations. - Fixed: After deleting page, in certain situations, annotations got moved to the wrong pages. - Fixed: Error message when canceling print jobs. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.811 (2020-08-18) - Fixed: Error message "The stroke object has been deleted." - Fixed: Scrolling with the finger could jump to the wrong page in certain situations. - Minor fixes > Version: 8.0.0.810 (2020-08-07) * Improved: "Auto-Smooth" can now differentiate better between sketches and text, to avoid unintended snapping of lines to written text. Also, exactly horizontal/vertical lines keep their orientation when "snapped". * Improved: The Shift key (e.g. when drawing squares or circles) now always inverts the current setting. For example, drawing a square can be forced by pressing Shift while the "rectangle" setting is active. Drawing a rectangle is forced by pressing Shift while the "square" setting is active. * Improved: When restoring deleted strokes/objects with the Undo command, these will be re-inserted at the original position above or below other elements. * Improved: When resizing selected objects or drawing objects (lines, circles...) with pen or finger, the Windows default behaviour "Press and Hold" got invoked, if the pen or finger was not moved immediately. Now, this behaviour is only available in certain situations (e.g. when doing press and hold on selected objects). * Improved: Moving/resizing selected objects with pen or touch required a minimum movement to start. This has been reduced, so the drag operation can immediately begin. * Improved: Panning/scrolling in the document has been optimized. * Improved: Printing on PostScript printers has been optimized. * Improved: You can now draw very small objects, like lines or circles. Previously, those objects had to have a larger minimum size. * Improved: When option "Display keyboard when editing text annotations" is active, invoke the virtual keyboard provided by Windows (instead of our own implementation). - Fixed: Arrowheads did draw incorrectly in some situations. - Fixed: Error on extracting text that contained certain special characters in non-latin languages. - Fixed: Error when drawing lines on very large screens. - Fixed: Flickering when font dropdown list was opened for the first time. - Fixed: Error after resuming the computer after hibernation/suspend. - Fixed: After upgrade installation, Windows Control Panel possibly displayed an old entry to the previous (32-bit) installation. Uninstalling this entry also uninstalled the new (64-bit) version. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.808 (2020-06-16) + New: Cursor style Pointer as alternative to the laser pointer tool. - Fixed: Error message "Page could not be rendered" when loading specific PDF documents. - Fixed: Eraser did not work when document had been scrolled with finger previously. - Fixed: Eraser could lead to partially invisible lines in certain situations. - Fixed: Could not paste pictures of type Windows MetaFile from clipboard. - Fixed: Could not drag exactly vertical or horizontal lines shorter when "Keep aspect ratio" option was set. - Fixed: Duplicate keyboard shortcuts for tools. - Fixed: Some user interface text got displayed in the wrong language. - Fixed: Error message when creating dimensions in special situations. - Fixed: Error message during area measure on large screens. - Fixed: Text box frames got drawn in wrong line width under special circumstances. - Fixed: Some images got draw with semitransparent edges. - Fixed: Needed to manual exit trial version before uninstalling. - Minor fixes > Version: 8.0.0.807 (2020-05-28) * Improved: Eraser performance and use of eraser with quick, long eraser moves. - Fixed: "Print, Current view" did not always work as expected. - Fixed: With active Quick Start option, and active Windows option to restore running applications, settings did not get saved on reboots. - Fixed: Wrong text rendering on right-to-left fonts. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.806 (2020-05-26) - Fixed: Could not close main window in certain situations. - Fixed: Performance issue when using the eraser tool. - Fixed: On touch/pen devices, the onscreen keyboard did not invoke (when associated setting was active). - Fixed: Angle and length did not get displayed any more while drawing arrows. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 8.0.0.803 (2020-05-20) - Fixed: New license was not detected after a restart, if license had not already been entered in previous version. > Version: 8.0.0.802 (2020-05-20) - Fixed: Error message when saving a template. - Fixed: Error when drawing arrows under very large zoom values. - Fixed: Eraser cursor (head-of-pen) did not display correctly. - Fixed: Could not run setup on 32-bit Windows. > Version: 8.0.0.801 (2020-05-18) - Fixed: Performance issue. > Version: 8.0.0.800 (2020-05-15) + PDF Annotator as 64-bit Application As a true 64-bit application, PDF Annotator can now access significantly more memory on 64-bit systems. Enables loading larger files, and editing more documents at the same time, than with the 32-bit version. Setup will automatically install the correct version depending on operating system edition. + Complete Rewrite of Selection and Editing of Annotations While moving, resizing or rotating annotations, all changes immediately become visible. Enables exact placement of annotations. Rotate annotations with separate rotation grip directly within the document. Rotate snaps to 15° steps while CTRL key is pressed. Appearance of selection rectangle and resize grips is now independent of Microsoft technology and is now large enough to view and handle even on high resolution screens. Keep aspect ratio while resizing when CTRL key is pressed. Set squared aspect ratio while SHIFT key is pressed. + New "Dimension" Tool Dimension tool using selectable and customizable scale. Dimensions are annotations including extension lines, dimension line with arrows and dimension text (measure and unit), which become part of the PDF document (contrary to Measure functionality). Place dimensions by clicking start and endpoint and placing the dimension line. Display of dimension unit can be turned on and off. Dimension text (measure) can be overwritten in the "Edit Style" dialog. Comfortably move start and end points, and reposition dimension line. + Enhanced Measure Feature "Measure" tool to extract measures from PDF documents: distances, perimeters, areas, and (new) angles. Improved appearance of measured distances and areas. Measure results stand out better with large and clear display directly within the document (instead of hint windows). End measure by right click does not open context menu any more. + Links Links are text annotations that, when clicked, jump to a web URL, a specific position (page) in the current document, or an external document. Create links by using the Link property while editing a text annotation. Define link text styles (e.g. blue, underline) directly within the Configure Link window. To edit an existing link (created in PDF Annotator), keep the CTRL key pressed while clicking the text annotation. + Intelligent New Features for "Auto Smooth" Extended functionality for the Auto Smooth feature available for pen and marker tools. Improved line recognition: Automatically converts handwritten, nearly straight lines into perfectly straight lines. Start and end points will automatically snap to, or be moved towards existing lines. Intelligent geometric object recognition (rectangles, squares, circles). Automatically closes circular lines by moving the end points to the start points. Feature can also be enabled only temporarily by keeping the SHIFT key pressed. + Intelligent Connect Lines Features New feature available for line and arrow tools. Start and end points will automatically snap to, or be moved towards existing lines. + Laser Pointer Tool for Presentations The laser pointer is a large red circle that can easily be located even from a distance. Access the laser pointer via "Tool, Laser Pointer" or by pressing the letter "o" key. Press the ESC key to restore the previously used tool. Draw temporarily with the laser pointer: After lifting the pen (or releasing the mouse button), the drawn mark-up will immediately disappear. On new installations, in Full Screen Mode, the laser pointer is available as an action button. After upgrading from an older version, you can customize an action button in order to show the tool, or reset your buttons (right click the Settings button). + Improved "Extract Text" Feature When using the Extract Text feature, after selecting some text, the context menu won't open automatically any more. Now, just click "Edit, Copy" or press CTRL+C to copy the selected text to the clipboard. All features previously available on the context menu are now accessible directly from the toolbar above the document. The context menu is still available, and the old behaviour of immediately opening the context menu can be restored under Extras, Settings, Tools, Extract Text. + Move Bookmarks with Drag'n'Drop In the sidebar: Move bookmarks with the mouse using drag'n'drop. The destination position will be outlined exactly. + "Print" Command on Explorer Context Menus If PDF Annotator has been set up as the default application for PDF files, the Windows Explorer context menu will now include a "Print" command. Use the Print command to print one or multiple PDF files without having to open them in PDF Annotator first. + Advance to Next Page by Pressing the Clicker Button at the End of the Pen When using a 3rd generation Microsoft Surface Pen under Windows 10, pressing the button at the end of the pen can be used as a clicker to advance to the next page in full screen mode. Press and hold the button to revert to the previous page. * Improved Arrow Appearance Arrowheads now draw with sharp edges (vs. round edges in previous versions). The reference points of all arrowheads have been corrected to point exactly to the tip/end. Arrowheads now draw in a size well-balanced to the line width. * Faster Application Start The startup time has been reduced. On new installations, the Quick Start option now gets enabled automatically (Extras, Settings, Preferences, Quick Start - here you can also enable the "Start with Windows" option). * Faster text search * Improved text cursor appearance (especially on high resolution displays) * Enable scrolling the toolbox with the finger - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.1.0.726 (2020-04-29) - Fixed: Incorrect width of splitters between document area and sidebar. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.1.0.725 (2020-04-03) - Fixed: Recently, more email programs have been found to install incomplete configurations when registering as the default email client. In these cases, the "File, Send Email" feature did not work reliably. We now try to detect those situations, so that "File, Send Email" should work again. - Fixed: The "Open File" dialog invoked by the "Combine Files" feature falsely identified some PDF documents as image files, and denied selection of those files. - Fixed: When "Draw with finger" is disabled, the scratch-out gesture should not be recognized. - Fixed: Moving the mouse wheel while holding a mouse button down resulted in the Zoom feature to be invoked. - Fixed: Rendering issues after right clicking annotations. - Fixed: Toolbar customization issues. - Fixed: Internet addresses displayed incorrectly when clicking links in documents. - Fixed: When creating new favorite tools based on the Ellipsis tool, the current properties were taken from the rectangle tool. - Fixed: Specific error conditions could lead to no error message being displayed. * Accelerated document rendering after specific changes in the document. * Improvemed font embedding into PDF documents. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.1.0.724 (2019-11-06) - Fixed: Page backgrounds were drawn incorrectly on Surface Pro 7 devices. - Fixed: Under "Windows 10 on ARM", Setup tried to install the virtual printer driver. On ARM devices, the "Print to PDF Annotator" feature is not supported, though. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.1.0.722 (2019-08-08) - Fixed a problem with security settings being treated incorrectly for password protected documents. > Version: 7.1.0.721 (2019-08-06) - Fixed a problem with security settings being displayed incorrectly for password protected documents opened with the password. - Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS issues fixed. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.1.0.719 (2019-06-07) - Fixed: Could not create custom scales for Measure tool. > Version: 7.1.0.718 (2019-06-07) - Fixed: Scrolling through a document with the mouse wheel or a scroll key could exhaust the memory required to display the document, and pages could not be displayed any more. - Fixed: Under Windows 10, PDF Annotator could not use the full amount of free memory to load very large documents, so that attempts to load those documents failed. - Fixed: Loaded fonts did not get unloaded which resulted in less memory being available for loading documents under Windows 10 Build 1903. - Fixed: Synchronisation between document and the page selection in the sidebar could fail. + Support for Windows security features ASLR and DEP. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.1.0.716 (2019-05-27) - Font attributes (bold, italic, underline) could not be deactivated any more. - Fixed a problem when going from page to page in Whole Page view. - Marker width was set incorrectly when tip style "rectangular horizontal" was selected. - Fixed a problem when saving write protected files. - Fixed a problem when opening color selectors under latest Windows 10 version. * Missing parameter /readonly will no longer deactivate a readonly mode that had previously been activated with the same parameter. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.1.0.715 (2019-05-09) - An error message appeared when trying to save documents with pages rotated by 360°. * "Find previous" with SHIFT+F3 shortcut. > Version: 7.1.0.714 (2019-05-06) * Improved search performance. * Changed: When pasting copied pages with "append", pages will be appended behind the currently selected page, not at the end of the document. * File saving: Multiple retries if file is temporarily blocked by cloud syncing software like Google Drive, Dropbox, MS OneDrive. * Text editor: Faster cursor responses. * Printing: Reduced memory consumption. * Improved compatibility with 3rd party tools: Detection of 3rd party tool changes. - Fixed: Pen strokes temporarily disappeared when switching to other tools immediately after writing. - Fixed: Strikeout gesture left strikeout stroke on screen. - Fixed: Memory leak when using the Eraser tool in "Split strokes" mode. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.1.0.712 (2019-04-04) * Major internal changes to improve display and scroll performance. * Reduced flicker when switching into full screen mode and back. * Performance improvements for documents with high numbers of bookmarks. * Changes in file save logic to prevent data loss in case of hard disk failures. - Fixed: In some cases, "File, Send Email" did not work with latest MS Outlook versions. Now trying to work around some problems caused by misconfigured MS Outlook installations. - Fixed some specific PDF rendering problems. - Numerous minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.0.0.704 (2018-10-15) * Improvements to quick start option. - Multiple PDF Annotator would appear after system restarts when "Automatically start with Windows" was enabled, and Windows 10 option to restore programs from last session was also enabled. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.0.0.703 (2018-09-25) * Improvements to quick start option. - Fixed rendering performance issue with rotated images. - Fixed hanging process on exit when using custom SaveAndExit command. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.0.0.702 (2018-08-07) * Improved text box fitting/sizing when switching between different dpi screens. * Improved rotate annotation dialog. - Fixed a problem when document has to be opened read-only. - Fixed an error within the print preview. - Fixed an error when rotating the device in full screen mode. - Fixed a problem when restoring auto-saved documents - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.0.0.701 (2018-06-06) * Synchronize settings and tools between multiple program instances. * Quick Start option now starts even faster than before. - Buttons in Full Screen Mode would not display correctly when button size is less than 80%. - Selecting text would not work in certain situations. - Avoid empty PDF Annotator window being displayed after Windows 10 reboot with Quick Start option enabled. - Fixed some document permissions related issues. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 7.0.0.700 (2018-05-18) + PDF Templates Select a template when creating new documents using File, New Add, remove, rename templates Save current document as template Automatic use of same template when adding additional pages + Images to PDF Select image files instead of PDF files under File, Open Image will either be centered on a blank new PDF document, or automatically converted to a single page PDF + Measure tool Measure distance, perimeter or area Select scale to automatically convert and output in correct units User defined list of scales Create a scale based on a known dimension in the current document + Combine files Select multiple PDF documents to combine (merge) to one single PDF Select from list of open documents Order documents before combining + Append multiple documents Select multiple PDF documents using "Insert Document" or "Append Document" commands Select from list of open documents Order documents before appending + Quick Start Option to reduce wait time while application starts Keeps application open by minimizing it to the Windows system tray when program window gets closed Option to start application auto- matically with Windows to reduce wait time on first start Program icon in Windows system tray with option to shut down application + PDF Security Set password and restrictions Require password to open document Set permissions to edit, print, copy content Set password to edit permissions + Text tool: New text alignment options (left, center, right) for text boxes + Select text marker tip (rectangular horizontal/vertical, square, ball) + Pixelize: New feature to obfuscate areas within integrated image editor + Preview while rotating objects via Rotate dialog + "Selection, Duplicate to all pages" feature to stamp all pages + Larger stamp preview when hovering over a stamp in the toolbox + Edit commands for stamps Commands to resize, rotate, mirror stamps right from within the Configure Tool dialog + Improved and more intuitive context menu commands for the toolbox including commands to edit, group, export and import tools + "Save selection as stamp" now asks for the stamp group to add the newly created stamp to + Setting to hide scrollbars in normal (windowed) mode + Eraser: Additional mode to erase pen/marker strokes partially (instead of erasing whole strokes only) with custom eraser widths + Display current length while drawing with line and arrow tools, dimen- sions and area using rectangle and circle tools * Undo page deletions * Separate commands for Insert Image from Camera (for use with custom toolbar buttons or keyboard shortcuts) * Snap: Automatically adapt lines in 15° steps + More minor improvements > Version: 6.1.0.620 (2018-04-04) * Improved: Appearance on high DPI screens. * Improved: Scrolling behaviour with Surface Dial device. - Fixed: Extract text placeholders were case sensitive. - Fixed: Grouped annotations appeared as pen annotations in the annotation sidebar. - Minor fixes > Version: 6.1.0.618 (2017-12-13) - Fixed: Annotations saved with version 6.1.0.617 could not be loaded in certain situations when file was modified by 3rd party software. > Version: 6.1.0.617 (2017-12-11) * Performance improvements * Disabling document thumbnails on Windows taskbar, which had caused various problems. - Fixed: Attachments did not get merged when appending multiple PDF documents. - Fixed: Appending multiple PDF documents failed when documents contained certain form of bookmarks. - Minor fixes > Version: 6.1.0.616 (2017-10-05) + New option "Align with page orientation" for page numbers - Fixed: File, Send Email caused an error with latest MS Outlook under Windows 10 - Fixed: Bookmarks could jump to the wrong position in certain cases - Fixed: Issues after duplicating, and later deleting those pages - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 6.1.0.615 (2017-08-18) - Minor fixes > Version: 6.1.0.614 (2017-08-03) * Performance improvements - Fixed: File, Send Email caused an error with latest MS Outlook under Windows 10 - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 6.1.0.612 (2017-06-06) - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 6.1.0.611 (2017-03-23) - Fix: Some buttons where always disabled in Full Screen Mode > Version: 6.1.0.610 (2017-03-21) - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 6.1.0.609 (2017-02-13) * Remain stamp size when editing image stamps in the image editor - Fix an error message appearing when closing document tabs - Fix a problem with outdated language files after installing an update > Version: 6.1.0.608 (2017-02-07) + Optimizations for high-res displays * Some toolbar symbols reworked to explain their functionality in a better way - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 6.1.0.606 (2016-12-05) * Make auxiliary lines available in Full Screen Mode (via customization) * Make bookmark actions available in Full Screen Mode (via customization) * Make keyboard shortcut for Exit Full Screen action customizable - Fixed display issues with italic text annotations - Resolved a problem when trying to open PDF portfolios and PDF documents with embedded files - Page numbering needs to be reset after melting all annotations, otherwise resulted in duplicate page numbers - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 6.1.0.605 (2016-10-25) + More tool and action buttons in Full Screen Mode, which can be scrolled vertically on small screens. + New option to customize the size of the toolbar buttons in Full Screen Mode. Default size now depends on screen capabilities (dpi). + New pages and bookmarks sidebar available in Full Screen Mode when pressing the Page Number button. The menu, which was previously displayed here, is now available on a right click. + New options to hide PDF comments created in applications other than PDF Annotator. - Printing on Postscript printers always printed in black/white. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 6.0.0.604 (2016-07-25) + Quick Setup for Full Screen Tools: Click selected tool button once again to pull up a popup with the most important tool properties. + Switch Page Layout in Full Screen via Zoom button - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 6.0.0.603 (2016-06-13) * Improved visualization of 3rd party annotations * Text extraction improvements - Minor fixes > Version: 6.0.0.602 (2016-06-01) - Full Screen Mode: Tool settings did not save correctly under certain conditions. If you ran into this: Please reset your full screen settings (right click the Customize button in Full Screen Mode)! - Full Screen Mode: Resolved performance issues + Full Screen Mode: Action to exit full screen mode can now be customized on an action button. - Middle mouse key did not start Pan mode * Performance improvements - Minor fixes > Version: 6.0.0.601 (2016-05-24) - Application would not start if Windows Media services are not present (Windows N versions) - Minor fixes > Version: 6.0.0.600 (2016-05-23) + Completely new Full Screen Mode with single, configurable toolbar featuring: 12 customizable favorite tool buttons 8 customizable action buttons 5 fixed navigation buttons Main menu (open, save, switch between open documents) Visibility options (always visible, on demand, hidden) Toolbar options (left, right) Automatically adapts to screen orientation Save and Load Configuration (via right click menu on customization button) + Camera integration to capture pictures from internal or external cameras + Image editor featuring: Open, save, copy and paste Capture from camera Crop (rectangular, with lasso) Make selection transparent Make transparent based on color Rotate, flip Undo, redo + Display PDF annotations created in 3rd party PDF programs + Send document as email attachment without having to save first. Email subject now contains the document name. + Restore previous zoom setting for quick zoom in and back to previous view + Resize annotations: quick resize with default values (50%, 200%, etc.), maintain aspect ratio setting + Print to PDF Annotator: Suggests new document name based on print job name Option to append or insert into current, already open document + Additional background options for new documents/pages: Light blue lines/squares 1/16", 1/8", 1/5" squares Point grids + New page size options for new documents/pages: Typical screen sizes (3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 16:10) + Add Page Numbers: Additional page numbering formats Bold and italic Save current settings as default Restore factory defaults + Select pages by entering a page range + Move Page to... command + Paste copied/cut pages behind current page (append) in addition to above (insert) + Remove line breaks option on Extracted Text Preview + Select Text: Option to create a bookmark based on selected text + Graphical tools (line, arrow, circle, ellipsis, rectangle): Keep CTRL key pressed to create object from its center. Display current angle in tooltip + Tool Switch: Configure target tool (default is Pan tool) + Configurable document tab width + New keyboard shortcut to switch between open documents: CTRL-PageUp/Down + Additional placeholders for text extract actions + Display additional information for file attachments + New stamps: Small proofread symbols, black symbols and arrows + Scroll with momentum + Edit Style: Bulk edit font settings for multiple text annotations + More minor improvements > Version: 5.0.0.514 (2016-01-12) * Performance improvements - Input language change will not close text editors any more (as long as reading direction doesn't change) - Discrepancies between displayed and real line width for pen and other tools, after changing the display DPI resolved. > Version: 5.0.0.511 (2015-10-28) + Additional placeholders for custom Extract Text Actions * "Draw with touch" setting will now get saved and restored in next session. * Improved positioning when pasting copied annotations * More fixes and improvements > Version: 5.0.0.510 (2015-07-23) + Windows 10 support * Improved color scheme: More visual contrast in menus and toolbars * Improvements to Undo functionality - Auxiliary lines won't be flickering any more - Text extraction improvements and fixes * More fixes and improvements > Version: 5.0.0.508 (2015-04-28) * Performance improvements * Minor fixes > Version: 5.0.0.506 (2015-02-16) * Updated manual * Notify user, that changes on attachments will not save back - A margin appeared around large images after inserting those - Text extraction inserted whitespace before punctuation * More fixes and improvements > Version: 5.0.0.505 (2014-12-11) + Option to move the sidebar to the right (for left handed users) + Option to display tool icons in blue (for red-green colorblind users) * Various fixes and improvements * File extension will always be lower case when saving * Improved registration as default application for PDF documents and integration into context menu for Windows Explorer * Display a hint window when feature to "underline/strikethrough" or "text marker" through text selection has accidentally been set * Auxiliary lines will display sharper * Improvements for text extraction (select/copy text) * Improved automatic grouping of annotations * Improvements for auto-save and recovery of pages and annotations * Allow negative angles when rotating annotations * Reduce resolution of inserted images if resolution would be very high * Improved grouping of similar annotations on "Annotations" tab * Improvements for text search and text extraction of hyphenated words - Zoom: Do not allow too small or invalid zoom values - Fixed issues when scrolling with the scroll wheel - Fixed issues opening specific PDF documents - Fixed issues displaying specific PDF documents > Version: 5.0.0.504 (2014-07-28) + On touch devices, the finger will now scroll the document. To draw with the finger, enable the new "Draw with touch" option on the tool properties toolbar. - Minor fixes and improvements > Version: 5.0.0.502 (2014-07-09) - Fixed appearance of landscape pages for Digital Copy - Fixed wrong word positions on text extraction from specific documents - Tool Switch stayed on top of the screen in certain situations - Settings Import did not work in certain situations - Error reports did not send in some situations - Printer Properties opened the wrong printer dialog - Option Duplex print overwrote setting from printer properties dialog - Fixed Performance issues with large documents > Version: 5.0.0.500 (2014-06-23) + New Tool Switch to quickly switch between last used tool and Pan mode, list of most recently used tools on right click (long tap) + Open and manage PDF Portfolios + View, add and manage embedded file attachments + New Print dialog with various new printing features (including automatic page rotation) + Page Numbers, automatic page numbering + Align selection of annotations + Resize selection of annotations + Display PDF document properties in a new dialog, edit some of the properties + New wavy line style for line tool + Set border color for text boxes + Default text box width setting + Previously used documents (tabs) re-open on next start + Display first page separately in two pages view (facing pages) + Copy and paste single or multiple pages in Page Manager (within the same, or into other opened documents) + Highlight search hits with highlighter, underline or strike- through with pen + Text search will find hyphenated words + Text selection (extraction): Display a new menu to copy, preview, search (Google) or translate high- lighted text, or to highlight text with highlighter, underline or strike-through with pen. Ability to define custom actions for extract text menu. + Crop/Add Margins: New page preview with ability to define page area within the preview + Digital Copy for protected documents (if commenting is not allowed, and author password is not present) + Configurable keyboard shortcuts for all commands + Export and import all settings (including stamps) + New, modern look-and-feel + New stamps (icons, arrows) in two sizes + Optimized for high-resolution screens (high DPI) + Automatic switch to large icons on high-resolution screens * Select tool now with rectangular selection (in addition to still existing, separate lasso tool) * More efficient way to save annotations within the PDF * Improvements when handling semitransparent images and objects - Minor bug fixes and improvements > Version: 4.0.0.414 (2014-06-11) - Application hung when previously minimized and after copying an image to the clipboard - Minor bug fixes and improvements > Version: 4.0.0.412 (2014-01-30) - Restored drag'n'drop functionality under Windows 8.1 - Minor bug fixes and improvements > Version: 4.0.0.411 (2013-10-23) - Fixed a problem that occurred on entering license information - Minor bug fixes and improvements > Version: 4.0.0.410 (2013-08-14) - Fixed a crash that occurred in specific Windows 8 configurations only when running on battery. - Send log files did not work in some situations. - Fixed some localization issues. - Minor bug fixes and improvements > Version: 4.0.0.405 (2013-05-29) + Updated online help + Onscreen keyboard for Windows 8 (since Microsoft removed the default onscreen keyboard) * Minor toolbox handling improvements * Improved text extraction * Ability to enter three digit measures for line widths in inches. * Performance improvements - Send Email did not work in some configurations. - PDF rendering improvements - Minor bug fixes and improvements > Version: 4.0.0.403 (2013-01-09) + Completely reworked "Extract Text" tool with either Line or Block selection modes. + Toolbar position in full screen mode can be switched from left to right edge of the screen. + Setting to switch measurement units between mm and inch. * "Text Search" improvements - Unicode issues resolved (affected text input in Asian languages). - Stamp transparency issues resolved. - Minor bug fixes and improvements > Version: 4.0.0.402 (2012-10-25) + "Print to PDF Annotator" printer supports Windows 8 + New option for stamps: Insert as group + Print annotations overview in higher resolution * French translation completed * Text annotations with white background get same outline color like transparent text boxes - Multi monitor issues resolved - Minor bug fixes > Version: 4.0.0.401 (2012-10-02) - Opening a second file from within other applications did not work properly. - Hotkeys displayed in wrong language in menus. - Minor bug fixes > Version: 4.0.0.400 (2012-08-28) + "Annotations" in the sidebar: See all annotations in one place Various filter settings Print annotations overview Export/Import annotations + Group/Ungroup annotations + Lock/Unlock annotations + Edit style of existing annotations + Tool Groups in Toolbox + Ex-/Import Tools in Toolbox + Semitransparency for Rectangle/ Ellipse tools + PDF Templates + Background styles for new documents/ pages (lines, squares) + Temporary auxiliary lines + Extract pages into new document + Move bookmarks + Text tool: Automatically minimize size after closing text editor + DPI setting for snapshots + Open external links with security warning + Automatic backups + Full Unicode support + Switch between languages > Version: 3.0.0.336 (2012-03-27) - Fixed bug from build 335: Transparent images lost their transparency when saved with PDF. > Version: 3.0.0.335 (2012-03-07) * Always uncheck "Print to Image" option on Print dialog to avoid having this less recommended option left on by mistake. - Reduced memory consumption when saving PDF documents. - Bug fixes > Version: 3.0.0.333 (2011-11-30) - Bug fixes and improvements in all modules. * PDF rendering improvements - SMART Board compatibility issue resolved > Version: 3.0.0.332 (2011-08-23) - Bug fixes and improvements in all modules. - Some PDF documents, mainly from HP scanners, could not be opened. - Problem with custom toolbars in full screen mode resolved. > Version: 3.0.0.331 (2011-05-05) - Setup did not restart automatically to reinstall PDF printer after reboot when run from Upgdate Wizard. - Full screen toolbars were losing configuration in some situations. > Version: 3.0.0.330 (2011-04-15) - Bug fixes and improvements in all modules. > Version: 3.0.0.324 (2010-09-23) + Automatically open on screen key- board when editing text annotations using pen or touch. * SMART Board(tm) interactive white- boards support improved. - After Fit Text Box command, there was a chance that part of the text did not display depending on current zoom. - Right-to-left text input relied on system setting rather than on user's current keyboard setting. - Removed options for inking perfor- mance, which did not have any effect any more. - Bug fixes > Version: 3.0.0.322 (2010-08-13) + Middle mouse button invokes Pan mode + Open documents listed in new Window menu * Hidden annotations will also not get printed * After Print to PDF Annotator, program will warn if file was not saved before exiting - Bug fixes > Version: 3.0.0.320 (2010-08-10) + New setting to merge Tools and Tool Properties toolbars into a single row, or to hide both + New setting to hide Status Bar + New setting to hide sidebar in portrait mode (recommended for slate Tablet PCs) + New tool property for Select/Lasso tool to maintain aspect ratio of selection when resizing objects. Same property is available for Stamp tool. + New tool property for Crop Page tool to select crop region with page's aspect ratio + Text annotations support right-to- left text depending on OS settings + New Fit Text Box to Content command for text annotations + Descriptions for Stamps + Two finger scrolling for multi touch devices * Installation and Update improvements - Print to PDF Annotator driver fixes - Minor fixes > Version: 3.0.0.315 (2010-04-08) + Press SHIFT while resizing objects to retain aspect ratio + Press CRTL while resizing to fix squared aspect ratio * No fading effects for toolbars while not connected to AC (to save battery) - Key presses were ignored when document name contained ampersands - White pen was transparent when saved to PDF - Minor fixes > Version: 3.0.0.314 (2010-03-23) + Multi document capabilities with configurable documents tab bar + "Print to PDF Annotator" virtual PDF printer + New graphical objects tools: + Line + Arrow + Rectangle/Square + Ellipse/Circle + Extract text from original PDF and copy extracted text to clipboard + Zoom in/out by selecting a region + Crop pages (whole document or selected pages) + Add page margins (whole document or selected pages) + New toolbar concept with all editing tools available inside document window and only related tool properties shown + Vertical Favorites quick toolbar now optional + Large icons option for toolbars now fully supported (recommended for touch input) + New Windows 7 style look and feel + Support for Windows 7 taskbar features + Rotate annotations in steps of 90° or by free angle + Flip annotations vertically or horizontally + Set Auto-smooth setting for custom tools + Option to disable pressure-sensitivity for pen and marker tools (requires supporting hardware) + Multi-touch support for Zoom and Rotate gestures + Special support for SMART Board(tm) interactive whiteboards + Improved file locking prevents third party applications writing to files opened in PDF Annotator * New internal data format enables more flexibility, better compatibility and opens space for more improvements to come with future versions. Note: PDF documents annotated with PDF Annotator will always be viewable in any PDF viewer, like Adobe Reader. But in order to edit annotations created with PDF Annotator 3 in previous versions of PDF Annotator (1 & 2), save those documents in PDF Annotator 2 compatibility format. * Many minor improvements not listed in detail > Version: 2.0.0.265 (2010-03-19) * Compatibility warning for documents in PDF Annotator 3 format - Minor bug fixes > Version: 2.0.0.264 (2010-01-11) - PDF renderer vulnerability fixed - Minor bug fixes > Version: 2.0.0.260 (2009-08-26) + Basic Windows 7 support + Support to open AES-128 encrypted PDFs * Text editor context menu * Improved Update Wizard - Minor bug fixes > Version: 2.0.0.258 (2009-03-05) + Save snapshot as stamp + Error logging option on Settings dialog * Text annotations improved for equal screen and print layout * Improved image quality for stamps and image annotations * Improved image transparency handling * Improved Print As Image option to prevent problems on PostScript printers * Improved Windows Vista Restart Manager support * Performance improvements - Minor changes and bug fixes > Version: 2.0.0.250 (2008-08-28) + Snapshot tool + Hide Scrollbars and Automatically Hide Toolbars settings for full screen mode + Select all annotations on current page with CTRL-A * Password input dialog masks password - Minor changes and bug fixes > Version: 2.0.0.244 (2008-07-03) * Create bookmark dialog improved * Page layout improvements in full screen mode * Improved crash recovery - Slow down with documents with many annotations on many pages fixed - Highlighting of search results did not work in some situations - Text boxes could not be transparent when border was set - Expanding a parent bookmark does not immediately jump to the destination any more - Bookmark jumped to wrong page in some cases - Current page could change after resizing or minimizing/restoring application window - Renderer problems resolved > Version: 2.0.0.240 (2008-06-11) + Fresh new look and feel * Restructured menus and toolbars + Sizeable and collapsable Sidebar containing new Page Manager, Bookmark Manager and Toolbox * Status bar with page navigation and view modes + Page Manager: + Sizeable page thumbnails with multi-select support + Move page(s) + Clone page(s) + Rotate page(s) + Insert document (in addition to append) + New Select commands (e.g. All Pages with/without Annotations) + Bookmark Manager: + Create bookmarks + Rename bookmarks + Delete bookmarks + Toolbox: + Predefined tools (pen, marker, text box, stamps) + Fully customizable (create, delete, move tools) + Favorite tools (first 12 favorite tools also available through regular toolbar, previous Custom Pens) + Page Navigator + Deviant page numbers support (like i-iii) + Page history (Back/Forward) + Remembers last page when reloading document in a later session + Go to next/previous page with annotations + Pan (hand) tool + Stamp tool (replaces previous Macros) + Continuous view (no "double" scroll bar any more) + View options (Fit to page, fit to width, one page continuous, whole page, two pages continuous, two whole pages) * Improved zoom logics * Completely reworked Full Screen mode + Fly-in toolbars, dockable and floatable + Full screen toolbars fully customizable * Full screen mode does not any more overlay other application after ALT-TAB + Text Search: + Search toolbar + Automatic incremental search + Highlight and jump to next search result + Highlight all search results + New, fast renderer with better anti-aliasing + Auto-smooth setting, separately for pen and marker (flattens free hand lines) + Additional text box attributes: Background color and border style + Set custom pen width in inch/mm + Lock toolbars (avoids moving toolbars incidentially) * Vista UAC friendly Add to Context Menu option * Settings stored separately from version 1 settings * Many minor improvements not listed in detail > Version: 1.5.0.136 (2008-03-05) - Fixed problem with Insert Image and Paste operations on protected documents - Fixed problem with clickable links to files containing a relative path - Cursor keys did not work until next page change after display rotation > Version: 1.5.0.133 (2008-01-04) + Performance improvements - Registration as default application for .pdf in Windows did not work for some 3rd party applications. - Bookmarks in Unicode were not supported when saving the document - After entering an unlock key a second time, the application indicated not to be unlocked, although it was unlocked, and printing the license key did not work. > Version: 1.5.0.131 (2007-10-23) + Performance improvements * Rendering: Optimize for LCD screen is now default for new installations. - Performance problem under Power Savings Mode in Windows Vista on Dual Core hardware resolved - Text macros did not work after last update - Problem with wrong scaling of annotations resolved - Problem with some documents loading very slowly resolved - Pressing keys or buttons while inking could cause error message > Version: 1.5.0.120 (2007-08-02) + Support for extended character sets on keyboard input in text boxes (i.e. Eastern Asian languages) + Ability to enter document owner password for restricted documents > Version: 1.5.0.118 (2007-07-04) + Support for documents with Eastern Asian characters + Support for transparent images (insert image) + Support for additional image formats * Save last used font settings * Text boxes can be moved and resized while editing - Ink scaling problem under Windows Vista on DualCore machines fixed - After installation, pdf documents showed up with Windows default icon in Explorer. - Problem with external links in documents - Hidden form fields became visible after 'Remove Form Fields' - Rendering problems fixed - Some cosmetical issues fixed > Version: 1.5.0.108 (2007-05-02) + Text annotations with font selection (currently for whole text box only). + Paste text from clipboard creates text annotations. + Insert image command. + Paste image from clipboard creates inline image. + Custom Pens toolbar and option page. + Keyboard shortcuts for the first 12 macros (CTRL-F1 - CTRL-F12) * Current pen size scales with document zoom. * Create PDF Annotator layer only if required. - Find Text did not find text just entered on the current page. - Problem with PDF Annotator crashing if DEP was enabled (especially under Windows 2003 SP2 and Vista) resolved. - Save As was always asking for a file name. - Annotating became slow in very large documents. - Images were missing in specific documents. - Application was executed after installing silently using /silent parameter. - Annotations were missing until document reload after "Append Document". > Version: 1.3.0.82 (2007-02-08) - Find text dialog was ignoring some characters. - Find text did not find text in some situations. > Version: 1.3.0.81 (2007-02-07) * Renderer improvements. > Version: 1.3.0.80 (2007-01-31) + Support for Windows Vista "Default Applications". + Support for Windows Vista Restart Manager. + Hotkeys for Pen, Marker, Eraser, Selection Tool. * Installer is now Windows Vista compliant. Setup will now always require Administrator priviledges. * More kinds of clickable links supported. - Fixed a problem with "Set as default for .pdf files" setting. - An error message was raised when trying to navigate or zoom while still inking. - Problem with some Office 2007 generated documents resolved. - Application was locking up when attempting to open specific invalid PDF documents. - Fixed display issue with documents with negative page rotation. - Fixed some rendering issues. - Error handler was appearing when trying to print and no default printer was configured. - Fixed AV on determining OS locale in order wizard. > Version: 1.3.0.71 (2006-10-02) + Option to set PDF Annotator as default program for .PDF files. + Option to include '-> PDF Annotator' item into Explorer context menu for .PDF files (previously only available on installation) + Render buffer size limit now based on memory consumption, instead of page number. - Problem with shifted annotations for some specific PDF documents solved. - Some specific printing and rendering problems fixed. - Error message when clicking help button in toolbar customization dialog. - NTFS file properties (title, keywords...) got lost when saving with PDF Annotator. - Printing was slow for some documents. - Some clickable links did not work properly. - Annotations did not get saved in encrypted PDF documents under certain circumstances. > Version: 1.3.0.65 (2006-08-23) - Some images in PDFs got rendered upside down. - Update wizard asked for license update even if not required. > Version: 1.3.0.64 (2006-08-22) + Bookmark tree to jump to pages, available from the new View, Go to submenu, and from a toolbar button. + Follow clickable links to navigate through the document. + Support for scratchout gesture (on Tablet PCs only). + Modeless Select: Select annotations while the barrel button (right mouse button) is pressed, without having to change to select mode before. + Text search (Find) does now also search the handwritten annotations. + View, Rotate clockwise and counterclockwise commands to rotate all pages. + Enhanced printing: Direct printing which is much quicker and consumes much less memory than printing as image (which is now optionally available on the print settings dialog). + Completely rewritten undo manager for faster and less resource consuming undo. + New option to enable or disable warning to confirm attempt to overwrite original document. + New option to create .ORG backup file when overwriting orginal documents the first time. + New option to create .BAK backup files each time a document is saved. + New option to optimize rendering for LCD screens. + Adjusting bookmarks when inserting, appending or deleting files. + Appending bookmarks when appending a document. + Added Save button to full screen toolbar. + New keyboard shortcuts for zoom commands that also work in full screen mode. + Scrolling while pressing CTRL now zooms in/out. * Improved internal memory management to reduce memory consumption. * Zoom In and Zoom Out now increases/decreases zoom in non-linear steps, including Whole Page and Fit to Width view. * Optimized preset zoom steps in dropdown list. * Create inserted or appended pages with same size like currently selected page. * Online help revised. * Online help moved to HTML Help (CHM) format. * No additional download required when installing on desktop (non-tablet) OS. - Problem with shifted annotations for some specific PDF documents solved. - Many rendering problems fixed. - Pages containing annotations could not be displayed any more after saving and reopening in PDF Annotator specific PDF documents. - Annotations were shifted page by page in the saved PDF after inserting/appending new pages in PDF Annotator. - Window position and size did not restore properly. - Text search (Find) did not find text in some documents. - Open With did not open with manually defined application, but always with default application. - Undo did not work properly in some conditions. - Top-of-pen eraser did not work properly. - Print progress did show wrong page numbers. - Show Toolbar was visible in context menu at any time, not just in full screen mode. - No error message was displayed for files with unsupported encryption. - Needed to click into the document first, before mouse wheel or key scrolling was working if file was opened through command line. - Context menu integration on installation did not work. - Pasting copied ink did paste into invisible region of the page if page was zoomed in and scrolled down. Now pastes at the current cursor position. - Temporary files were not deleted on shutdown. - Files of deleted macros were not erased, so deleted macros reappeared after restart. - Rendering problems with some documents resolved. - After entering the password on password protected documents, a bogus error message was shown. - Saved document was loosing security settings of original document. - Did not properly block features when permissions for printing, assembling, commenting are not granted. - Context menu was not available when clicking somewhere around a page. - Context menu was not available when annotations where hidden. - An exception occurred when setting Zoom to a value to large for memory. Now putting a proper error message on the page instead. > Version: 1.2.0.52 (2005-10-04) + Completely new Internal Renderer: + Ability to render about any PDF + About 10 times faster + Less memory usage * Old renderer still available as Legacy Renderer + Full Screen Mode + Improved scroll wheel usage + Command "Edit, Melt All Annotations" + Commands "Edit, Find" and "Edit, Find Next" + Command "Edit, Append Document" + Additional predefined thick markers + CD-ROM order option + Enter key scrolls one page down * Improved support for installation from CD-ROM * Increased annotation positioning precision * Improved picture quality of annotations in the PDF * Display of current file name in taskbar changed * Display current file name in taskbar button * Don't try to install Ink Components on Windows Tablet PC Edition (which resulted in problems with systems running old SP2 beta versions) - Files with annotations became very large (beta issue) - Key navigation did not work in full screen mode - White (and other bright colored) annotations became transparent in the PDF - Full Screen problems resolved - Duplicated annotations after reopening a file (beta issue) - Fixed memory leak with print command - Fixed problem with remaining JPG files > Version: 1.1.0.41 (2005-08-11) * Windows 2000/XP installation support improved * Help file updated > Version: 1.1.0.40 (2005-08-02) + Windows 2000/XP Support (Tablet Edition not required any more) + Extras, Open With... opens the current file with the default PDF associated application + View, Hide Annotations hides annotations while viewing the current document + File, Properties displays Windows' file properties dialog + Printing option: Fit to Printable Region + Macro functionality completed (Settings, Documentation) + Stores annotations in a layer (optional content group) (enables showing/hiding annotations in Adobe Reader 6 and higher) + Now modifying the PDF Producer information field by adding PDF Annotator application name and version * Print dialog with Current Page option * Macro files are now saved under the Application Data path * Drag'n'drop: Bring window to foreground after dropping file(s) * Context aware input fields - Resolved positioning problems with rotated PDFs with different crop box - Printing problems resolved - Help window size problems fixed - File size does not increase anymore on each saving - Problem with some PDFs always displaying the first page only resolved - Problem with some PDFs displaying all pages overlayed at once resolved - Removed form fields were not displayed any more on reloading file - Minor problems fixed > Version: 1.1.0.35 (2005-06-17) + Zoom in/out buttons + Ability to remove form fields to enable writing onto PDF forms * More rendering quality and performance improvements - Did not reset toolbars on update > Version: 1.1.0.31 (2005-06-15) * Documentation updates - Window focus error message on first run > Version: 1.1.0.30 (2005-06-13) + Settings dialog (Extras, Settings) + Optional PDF rendering with GhostScript + More pen widths + Remember last used pen and zoom settings + Display x*y pages at once with free input into zoom input box * Improved scrolling with keyboard/mouse wheel * Improved scrolling on page up/down * Eraser does not erase whole strokes anymore, but part of the strokes (optional) * Erasing with top of the pen like set in control panel - Zoom: 100% has not really been the original size - No more flickering after pen strokes - Did not reset to pen mode properly after erasing with the top of the pen - Various document rendering problems fixed - Rendering problem with LaTeX-generated PDFs fixed - Ink scaling problems fixed > Version: 1.0.0.23 (2005-01-26) + Zoom + Context menu on right-click + Erase with pen top + Display rotated documents + Optional association with PDF files on Explorer context menu * Improved scrollbar behaviour * Changed transparency behaviour of text marker * Less CPU usage during inking, re-rendering ink after each stroke * UI improvements - Unspecific error message if not installed on a Tablet PC - Problem with invisible strokes fixed - Ink scaling problems fixed - Minor bug fixes > Version: 1.0.0.20 (2005-01-14) + Initial Release