PDF Shaper v13.2 Released April 5, 2022 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Minor improvements to PDF viewer. • Improved compatibility with Windows on Arm. Bug fixes • Fixed bug with loading bookmarks in PDF viewer. PDF Shaper v13.1 Released March 20, 2022 New Features • Added option to remove XMP data. Enhancements • Updated installer. • Improved PDF scanning tool. • Optimized PDF to Image rendering. Bug fixes • Fixed bug with cropping pages from both sides. PDF Shaper v13.0 Released February 7, 2023 New Features • New icons. • Added Danish translation. • Added Unicode support for PFX passwords. • Added option to use timestamp server for Sign tool. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Updated PDF information dialog. • Optimized text and page extraction. • Improved page rendering in PDF to Image tool. • Minor improvements to program performance. PDF Shaper v12.9 Released December 28, 2022 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Minor improvements to program performance. Bug fixes • Fixed bug with saving PDF to images using command line. PDF Shaper v12.8 Released December 1, 2022 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved DOC to PDF conversion: - Improved accessibility support. - Improved support for list formatting. - Improved support for text input fields. - Improved support for right-to-left text. • Improved DOC/DOCX loading and processing. PDF Shaper v12.7 Released November 9, 2022 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Minor improvements to program performance. • Optimized DOC to PDF and PDF to DOC conversion. • Resolved problem with possible memory leaks after DOC conversion. PDF Shaper v12.6 Released September 28, 2022 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface. • Improved text and image extraction. PDF Shaper v12.5 Released August 17, 2022 New Features • Added option to encrypt PDF files directly on hard disk. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Updated Options dialog for every tool. • Improved program performance. PDF Shaper v12.4 Released July 12, 2022 New Features • Added option to use original table of content in DOC to PDF tool. Enhancements • Updated PDF to Word SDK. • Improved PDF to DOC conversion. Bug fixes • Resolved issue with saving window size in PDF Viewer. PDF Shaper v12.3 Released June 1, 2022 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved PDF to image conversion. • Improved PNG and JPEG image extraction. • Improved XMP reading in PDF information. • Improved support for text input fields. PDF Shaper v12.2 Released April 27, 2022 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improvements to user interface. • Improved text quality in OCR text extraction. • Improved program performance and error control. • Improved image conversion in Image to PDF tool. • Compatibility improvements for latest release of Windows 11. Bug fixes • Fixed bug with closing document in PDF Viewer. PDF Shaper v12.1 Released March 22, 2022 New Features • Added button to save current page as image in PDF Viewer. • Added button to extract text from current page in PDF Viewer. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved CPU usage during saving in PDF to Image and Scan PDF tools. • Improved file loading and saving speed in PDF to Image tool. • Improved quality of output image-based PDF documents in Scan PDF tool. • Improved output folder selection dialog in all tools. • Minor improvements to user interface. Bug fixes • Resolved issue with rendering text fields in PDF to Image tool. PDF Shaper v12.0 Released February 22, 2022 New Features • New sidebar icons. • Added tags for document renaming. • Added option to remove usage rights. Enhancements • Updated user interface. • Improved DOC to PDF conversion. • Improved PDF/A and other compliances. • Improved support for color pattern object. • Improved support for font files. • Improved support for picture cropping. • Improved support for text input fields. • Improved support for highlight colors. • Improved support for international date formats. Bug fixes • Resolved problem with converting Word 97-2003 files. PDF Shaper v11.8 Released January 25, 2022 New Features • Option to retrieve XMP information. Enhancements • Updated help and translations. • Updated PDF information dialog. • Minor improvements to DPI scaling. PDF Shaper v11.7 Released January 5, 2022 New Features • Support of file paths with more than 260 characters. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Improved performance in conversion and rendering tools. • DOC to PDF updates: - Improved support for list formatting. - Improved support for text input fields. - Improved support for picture cropping. • Compatibility improvements for Windows 11. Bug fixes • Resolved issue with user interface in translated versions. PDF Shaper v11.6 Released December 7, 2021 New Features • Added merge options. • Added options to overwrite files and set output path. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved DOC to PDF conversion. • Minor improvements to user interface. Bug fixes • Resolved issue with rendering table background in DOC files. • Minor bug fix with DOCX to PDF conversion in 64-bit version. PDF Shaper v11.5 Released November 3, 2021 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface. • Improved image extraction. • Improved PDF to image conversion. • Improved bookmarks reading in PDF Viewer. Bug fixes • Resolved issue with minor memory leak in text extraction tool. PDF Shaper v11.4 Released September 28, 2021 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved PDF to DOC conversion. • Improved PDF to scanned PDF conversion. • Minor improvements to user interface. • Minor improvements to text extraction. PDF Shaper v11.3 Released September 1, 2021 New Features • Added 64-bit version. • New toolbar icons. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Updated user interface. • Improved dark theme. • DOC to PDF tool improvements: - Improved support for color pattern object. - Improved support for font files. - Improved support for picture cropping. PDF Shaper v11.2 Released July 27, 2021 Enhancements • Updated translations. • DOC to PDF tool improvements: - Improved support for list formatting. - Improved support for right-to-left text. - Improved support for international date formats. Bug fixes • Resolved problem with minor memory leak in Merge and Cleanup tools. PDF Shaper v11.1 Released July 1, 2021 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface. • Improved Merge and Split tools. • Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10. PDF Shaper v11.0 Released May 20, 2021 New Features • Added dark theme. • Added Polish and Catalan translations. • Added Cleanup tool to remove document objects. Enhancements • Updated user interface. • Updated help file and translations. • Improved error control and PDF conversion. • Improved overall program performance. • Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10. Bug fixes • Fixed bug with processing long file names. PDF Shaper v10.9 Released March 24, 2021 Enhancements • DOC to PDF tool improvements: - Support for math symbols. - Improved accessibility support. - Support for hatch pattern filling. • Improved error control in conversion tools. • Improved PDF and image processing. • Minor improvements to user interface. PDF Shaper v10.8 Released February 24, 2021 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved overall program performance. • Improved support for text line spacing in DOC files. • Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10. PDF Shaper v10.7 Released January 19, 2021 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved Unicode text extraction. • Improved support of screen readers. • Minor improvements to user interface. PDF Shaper v10.6 Released December 22, 2020 Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved DOC to PDF tool: - Improved support for color pattern object. - Improved support for font files. - Improved support for list formatting. - Improved support for text line spacing. • Improvements to command line processing. • Improvements to user interface and program performance. PDF Shaper v10.5 Released November 11, 2020 New Features • Option to ignore DPI value in Image to PDF tool. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Minor user interface improvements. • Compatibility improvements for latest revision of Windows 10. PDF Shaper v10.4 Released September 30, 2020 New Features • Option to display bookmarks in PDF Viewer. • PDF to DOC converter added to Premium edition. • Option to process files with restrictions and empty passwords. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Improvements to user interface and program performance. • Updated PDF information dialog in PDF Viewer (includes security info). Bug Fixes • Resolved minor issue with hotkeys. PDF Shaper v10.3 Released September 1, 2020 New Features • New icons and navigation bars. • New tool - Delete content (deletes selected elements from PDF file). • Option to extract background images from PDF file. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Updated form filling feature in PDF Viewer. • Improvements to user interface and PDF file processing. • Improved PNG and TIFF image extraction. • Improved Unicode text extraction. • Improved handling of invalid and unknown fonts. Bug Fixes • Resolved issue with PNG image extraction. PDF Shaper v10.2 Released June 23, 2020 New Features • Added Italian translation. • "Delete annotations" and "Delete bookmarks" added to Free edition. Enhancements • Updated help and translations. • Improvements to user interface. • Direct merge option is set by default. Bug Fixes • Resolved issue with losing form field content during merging PDF files. PDF Shaper v10.1 Released May 26, 2020 New Features • Added Spanish and Hungarian translations. Enhancements • Improved CSV and text extraction. • Improved Image to PDF tool. • Improvements to user interface. PDF Shaper v10.0 Released April 22, 2020 New Features • New tools - Rename tool and Extract Text (CSV). • Added additional view style - Menubar. • Added option to place Sidebar on the left side. • Support of VMware Workstation v15 and higher. Enhancements • Updated help and translations. • Command-line improvements. • Improvements to user interface and program performance. Bug Fixes • Resolved issue with loading files with 256-bit encryption. PDF Shaper v9.9 Released March 11, 2020 New Features • Added Japanese translation. Enhancements • Improved loading speed for PDF files with 1.000+ pages. • Improved PDF to DOC tool. • Improved PDF to text conversion. • Improvements to all Watermark tools. PDF Shaper v9.8 Released February 19, 2020 Enhancements • Improved Unicode text extraction. • Improved OCR reading for non-English characters. • Improved memory usage in all conversion tools. • Improvements in DOC to PDF tool: - Improved support for international date formats. - Improved support for multi-paragraph border. - Improved support for right-to-left text. Bug Fixes • Resolved issue with file naming in all extraction tools. PDF Shaper v9.7 Released January 20, 2020 New Features • Added "Classic icons" option to switch between icon styles. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved text extraction. • Improved rendering speed in PDF to Image tool. • Improved memory usage in Merge tool. • Improvements in DOC to PDF tool: - Improved support for font files. - Improved support for picture cropping. - Improved support for text input fields. - Improved support for highlight colors. - Improved support for text line spacing. Bug Fixes • Resolved issue with DPI values in Image to PDF tool. PDF Shaper v9.6 Released December 12, 2019 New Features • Option to add or update metadata in Extract and Split tools. • Auto decryption feature in Extract and Split tools. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved Extract and Split tools. • Improved user interface for high-DPI resolutions. • Last used directory now offered as default for saving files. PDF Shaper v9.5 Released October 22, 2019 New Features • New Options dialog for Merge tool. • New Properties dialog with security information. • New toolbar icons in main program and PDF viewer. • Option to hide or show main toolbar. • Option to change headers direction in side toolbar. • Option to merge 100 MB+ files directly on disk, without loading into memory. • Option to add or update metadata in Merge tool. • Option to split PDF documents by 1 page. • Option to process even and odd pages to all tools. • Added Slovenian translation. • Added Unicode support for PSL files. • Added drag and drop support within main window to change files order. • Added buttons to set all document permissions at once. Enhancements • Updated PDF viewer. • Updated translations, help and user interface. • Improved support of high-DPI resolutions. • Improved speed of file loading and processing. • Improved overall program performance. • Improved compatibility with latest Windows 10 version 1903. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with saving PDF files after decryption. • Fixed bug with displaying incorrect PDF creation and modification date. PDF Shaper v9.4 Released September 16, 2019 New Features • Option to extract or delete even or odd pages. • Option to use directory path in command line arguments. • Feature to process documents with usage restrictions. • Feature to automatically decrypt documents before processing. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface. • Merge and Split tools moved to standalone category. • Improved DOC to PDF tool: - Improved support for color pattern object. - Improved support for font files. - Improved support for picture cropping. - Improved support for text input fields. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with error 410 during merging documents. PDF Shaper v9.3 Released September 3, 2019 New Features • New icons in sidebar. • Option to show/hide button captions in sidebar. Enhancements • Improved compatibility with high DPI resolution. • Improved error control in Merge and Split tools. • Improved PDF and image processing. • Improved PDF to DOC conversion. • Minor improvements to user interface. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with saving images to JPEG format instead of JPG. PDF Shaper v9.2 Released July 29, 2019 New Features • Added Czech translation. • New tool - PDF to DOC, converts PDF files to MS Word DOC. • "Add Images" button to open dialog with image preview. Enhancements • Updated user interface and translations. • Improved drag and drop support. • Improved program performance. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with drawing flipped text. • Fixed bug with default font color in watermark tools. PDF Shaper v9.1 Released June 10, 2019 New Features • New tools - delete annotations and delete bookmarks. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved Unicode support in built-in and external PDF Viewer. • Improved metadata processing during PDF merge operations. • Improved processing of PDF documents with more than 1000 pages. • Improved support of high-DPI display resolutions. • Improved text extraction from non-image PDF documents. • Minor improvements to user interface and OCR reading. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with loading unicode file names in PDF Viewer. • Fixed bug with XREF chunks missing after merging files. PDF Shaper v9.0 Released May 16, 2019 New Features • New user interface - all elements written from scratch. • New tools - PDF to PDF, insert pages, move pages. • New command-line options for all tools. • Added support of P12 certificate files. • New file naming algorithm. • New options: PDF to TXT - add page number, process selected pages PDF to RTF - format with tabs, process selected pages DOC to PDF - image quality, text placement, metadata Delete Pages - metadata Delete Images - metadata Set Password - encryption level Metadata - update metadata Add Signature - additional signature Crop Pages - margins (left, top, right, bottom) Page Numbering - text position, margins, process selected pages Enhancements • Improved all tools. • Updated installer and help file. • Updated engines for DOC to PDF, PDF to RTF and OCR. PDF Shaper v8.9 Released 20-Dec-2018 New Features • Added Hebrew translation. Enhancements • Updated help and translations. • Improved text extraction. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with converting PDF using command line. • Resolved problem with encoding in Turkish translation. • Minor bug fixes and improvements. PDF Shaper v8.8 Released 28-Nov-2018 New Features • Added Japanese translation. • Re-designed "List" view. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved text extraction. • Improved error detection in Merge tool. • Updated enumeration method for big PDF files (>100 pages). • DOC to PDF updates: - Improved support for color pattern object. - Improved support for font files. - Improved support for picture cropping. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with resizing main window. PDF Shaper v8.7 Released 23-Oct-2018 New Features • Option to preserve text layout in text utilities. • Option to set metadata in "Image to PDF" and "Encrypt" tools. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Updated text extraction method. • Updated enumeration method for file names. • Improved CPU usage while loading and processing PDF files. • DOC to PDF updates: - Improved support for complex table structure. - Improved support for list formatting. - Improved support for text line spacing. Bug Fixes • Resolved minor problem with Unicode characters. PDF Shaper v8.6 Released 18-Sep-2018 New Features • New text extraction method. • Option to select pages in "PDF to TXT" tool. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Updated user interface in PDF Viewer. • DOC to PDF updates: - PDF/A support. - Improved support for shapes and additional shapes. - Support for Unicode and RTL text. - Improved support for list formatting and text line spacing. - Improved support for Asian and far-east languages. - Improved table support and text inside shapes. - Improved support for text input fields. - Improved support for highlight colors. - Improved support for international date formats. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with extracting text from protected PDF files. • Resolved problem with high CPU usage during text extraction. • Minor bug fixes and improvements. PDF Shaper v8.5 Released 16-Aug-2018 New Features • Turkish translation. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Improved PDF to Image conversion and text extraction. • Improved OCR reading. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with "error 5" during installation. • Fixed bug with fonts and dark Windows themes. • Minor fix with update notifications. PDF Shaper v8.4 Released 21-Jun-2018 New Features • Option to integrate PDF Shaper into shell. • Option to load file list from command line. • Option to crop page using percent units. • Option to set margins in Crop PDF tool. • Log file (log.txt) for command line operations. Enhancements • Updated help file and translations. • Changed file extension for file lists (*.psfl). • Improvements to command line processing. • Improved PDF to TXT conversion. Bug Fixes • Fixed minor memory leak in multilingual versions. • Fixed bug with multipage text extraction (OCR versions). • Fixed bug with page rotation (if page has rotation mark). • Fixed bug with running OCR in some cases. PDF Shaper v8.3 Released 7-May-2018 New Features • Added Spanish translation. • Option to sign PDF using multiple signatures. • Additional options for signatures (reason, location, contact). • OCR and text layout options for text extraction. Enhancements • Updated help file and translations. • Improvements to command line processing. • Minor interface improvements. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with printing of current page. PDF Shaper v8.2 Released 8-Mar-2018 New Features • New icon for PDF files. • Option to numerate pages in PDF document (Watermark tool). • Option to add multi-line text as watermark (including Unicode). • Ability to add image, text and page numbers as watermark on same page. • Support of system TrueType fonts, codepages and styles. • Option to select pages for PDF to Image conversion. Enhancements • Updated user interface and translations. • Improvements to text detection and extraction. • Improved program's performance and stability. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with merging PDF files from command line. • Fixed bug with rotating first page even if it was skipped in pages. • Fixed bug with displaying rotated and cropped PDF files in PDF Viewer. • Fixed bug with loading PNG image for Image to PDF conversion. • Resolved problem with processing protect PDF documents in some tools. PDF Shaper v8.1 Released 12-Dec-2017 New Features • Added display options to PDF viewer (form filling, anti-aliasing etc.). Enhancements • Updated user interface and translations. • Improvements to OCR rendering. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with main window and dark theme in Windows. PDF Shaper v8.0 Released 1-Nov-2017 New Features • Introduced Premium Edition. • Added "Icons" theme (set as default). • Added OCR (optical character recognition) support. • New tool to protect content of PDF document. • Added option to merge files without loading (direct access). • Added option to load and merge selected pages. • Added option to delete last pages in document. • Added Slovenian translation. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Updated "List" theme and user interface. • Improved merging of big files. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with re-loading PDF document in PDF Viewer. • Fixed bug with losing bookmarks (outlines) during merge. PDF Shaper v7.4 Released 8-Aug-2017 New Features • New main icon. • New image extraction method. • Added Chinese translation. • Ability to add duplicate files in Merge project. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface. • Improved DOC to PDF conversion. • Improvements to program's performance. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with keyboard support in main window. • Fixed bug with extracting images from PDF. • Fixed bug with opening password-protected PDF documents. • Resolved problem with decrypting PDF documents. PDF Shaper v7.3 Released 24-Apr-2017 New Features • Additional view for main window - list. • Codepage support for ANSI translations. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface for standard DPI resolution. • Improved pdf to text conversion. • Optimized memory handling. Bug Fixes • Minor bug fixes and improvements. PDF Shaper v7.2 Released 14-Mar-2017 New Features • Added French translation. • Settings menu in Main Window. • Option to add PDF information into output document. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface. • Improved compatibility with high-DPI monitors. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with extracting blurry images. • Resolved problem with resizing images in Watermark tool. PDF Shaper v7.1 Released 9-Feb-2017 New Features • Ability to merge protected and unprotected PDF documents. • Support of form filling and saving. • Option to save each image as separate PDF file. • Command-line option to remove images. Enhancements • Program uses system font and theme as default. • Improved program stability and performance. • Improved compatibility with Windows 10. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with copying text to clipboard. • Fixed bug with saving file with settings. • Fixed minor bug with update notifications. PDF Shaper v7.0 Released 2-Nov-2016 New Features • New PDF reading and rendering engine. • Support of text watermarks. • Support of DOCX documents. • Separated Encrypt and Decrypt tools. Enhancements • DOC to PDF tool improvements: - Support for math symbols. - Improved support for bookmarks. - Support for dot/dash patterned lines. - Improved accessibility support. - Support for hatch pattern filling. - Support for Unicode Surrogate Pair characters. - Support for text inside shapes. • PDF Viewer improvements: - Added search box - Improved PDF document loading speed - Support for annotations and anti-aliasing fonts • User interface has been improved. • PDF Viewer and preview module have been improved. • Improvements to command-line support. • Translations have been updated. Bug Fixes • Rare bug with opening protected files. • Bug with decrypting protected files.. PDF Shaper v6.1 Released 5-Sep-2016 New Features • German translation. • Option to remember user preferences. Enhancements • User interface has been improved. • PDF Viewer has been updated. • Translations have been updated. Bug Fixes • Bug with PDF to TXT conversion from command line. • Bug with removing images. PDF Shaper v6.0 Released 14-Jun-2016 New Features • New user interface. • PDF to TXT, PDF to RTF and DOC to PDF tools. • Support of high DPI monitors and DPI scaling. • Italian translation. Enhancements • Program has been optimized for Windows 10. • Improved program performance and PDF viewer. • Improved text extraction and image conversion. • Translations have been updated. Bug Fixes • Minor bug with text selection in PDF Viewer. PDF Shaper v5.3 Released 12-May-2016 New Features • Added new themes. Windows 10 theme used as default. Enhancements • Improvements to PDF to RTF conversion. • Translations have been updated. Bug Fixes • Minor bug with changing pages in PDF Viewer. PDF Shaper v5.2 Released 5-Apr-2016 New Features • Support of PDF-to-RTF conversion (PDF & Word tool). • Log displays security info of PDF file and error codes. • New options to Crop tool - position, size and measurement units. Enhancements • Improvements to Crop tool and Watermark tool. • User interface has been updated and improved. • Help file and installer have been updated. Bug Fixes • Minor bug fixes. PDF Shaper v5.1 Released 24-Feb-2016 New Features • New tool - Word to PDF, converts DOC/DOCX to PDF. • New translations - Dutch, Russian, Hungarian. • No advertisement (opencandy) during installation of Free version. • Rotate buttons and text selection feature in PDF Viewer. Enhancements • Updated and improved PDF Viewer. • Improvements to loading and processing PDF files. Bug Fixes • Bug with signing PDF using PFX files. PDF Shaper v5.0 Released 27-Jan-2016 New Features • New editions - PDF Shaper Free and Professional. • New user interface with theme support. • External PDF Viewer with printing support. • New splitting options - by number of files or pages. • New tools - Watermark, Remove Images, Delete and Extract Pages. Enhancements • Improved user interface and program dialogs. • Improved PDF processing, loading and saving. • Updated EULA, Help file and installer. Bug Fixes • Bug with processing password-protected PDF documents. • Bug with inability to use comma in page range in some tools • Bug with command-line arguments in some tools.