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PDFix Desktop Changelog

Changelog and Release Notes

for the PDFix Desktop

PDFix Desktop changelog

New Features & Updates

[2.3.0] – 2024-11-22

Accessibility and Tagging

  • New commands for remediation
    • Clone Form XObjects (tagged and untagged)

User Interface

  • New languages for user interface
    • Čeština, Español, Suomi, Français, Magyar, Italiano, 한국어 (Hangul), 中文 (简体)
  • Shortcuts
    • Updated custom shortcuts on macOS

PDF/UA Validation

  • veraPDF update to 1.27

External Actions

General Updates

  • Backend Enhancements

[2.2.2] – 2024-11-05

User Interface

  • New languages for user interface
    • Dutch, Dansk, Norsk, Svenska

General Updates

[2.2.1] – 2024-11-01

General Updates

  • Backend Enhancements
  • Performance and Stability Improvements

[2.2.0] – 2024-10-30

Accessibility and Tagging

  • Action Manager with Pipeline Runner Integration

    • Offers essential actions for editing PDF tags and metadata.
    • Supports external actions using pre-configured Docker images for tasks such as OCR, HTML to PDF, Alt Text Generation, Language Detection, and more.
    • Enables the creation of customizable action pipelines for batch processing on selected documents or entire folders.

  • Template-Based Actions Configuration

    • Streamline workflows by targeting tags and other PDF objects with predefined templates.

  • Tag Tool Enhancements

    • Simplifies the management of table headers and data cell associations.
    • Provides options to select and modify tag properties and attributes.

  • Professional Version Upgrades

    • Unlock advanced workflows with custom actions and pipeline capabilities.

User Interface

  • Tabbed Document Management

    • Enhances organization and navigation across multiple documents for a more efficient workflow.

  • New Toolbars

    • Provides quick access to frequently used features, streamlining the user experience.

General Updates

  • Backend Enhancements

    • Integrated with PDFix SDK 8.3 for improved functionality.
    • Updated to VeraPDF v1.25 for enhanced PDF/UA compliance.

  • Performance and Stability Improvements

    • Continuous enhancements for a more stable and responsive experience.

[2.1.0] – 2024-08-07

Accessibility and Tagging

  • New Quick Fix action for automated fixing of common minor accessibility issues
  • Updated Delete Tags action with option to mode children to parent structure element
  • Fixed generating duplicate MCID and invalid unicode encoding table
  • Fixed lost content when flattening Form XObjects

User Interface

  • Validation results related to specific pages organized by pages
  • Fixed Quick Access Tag As… buttons hidden after the update

General

  • Native support for macOS Silicon chip architecture

[2.0.1] – 2024-05-11

Accessibility and Tagging

  • Updated default tagset for PDF version 1.3 and lower
  • Batch commands management update

User Interface

  • Fixed Quick Access Tag As… buttons hidden after the update

General

  • Fixed MacOS installer does start or check for update

[2.0.0] – 2024-05-02

Accessibility, Tagging, and Validation

  • Command categories
  • New remediation commands for document and batch {see PDFix SDK change log}
  • Save validation report to HTML
  • New customizable Make Accessible and Autofix commands

User Interface

  • Quick access toolbar
  • Unified command dialogs
  • Font pane sorting
  • Shortcut search in Preferences

General

  • New MacOS native support for ARM architecture (M1, M2, M3 chip)
  • Integrated PDFix SDK 8.0.1
  • Performance and stability improvements

[1.5.3] – 2024-03-13

Accessibility, Tagging, and Validation

  • Fixed unwanted table columns created with text filling when tagging as table
  • Duplicated MCID created when tagging

General

[1.5.2] – 2024-02-27

Accessibility, Tagging, and Validation

  • Enhanced character Unicode mapping

HTML Conversion

  • Append custom HTML to the end of the body

General

[1.5.1] – 2024-02-16

Accessibility, Tagging, and Validation

  • Changed Copy/Paste Tag shortcuts
  • Save Validation results

HTML Conversion

  • Conversion to HTML from PDF Tags (derivation) encoding fix

General

[1.5.0] – 2024-01-23

Accessibility, Tagging, and Validation

  • Customizable quick Tag As actions
  • Added validation profiles for ISO-32000, PDF/UA, WCAG, and more
  • Table tool keyboard navigation and moving with CTRL/SHIFT
  • Cut and Paste Tag as sibling or child

Batch Commands

  • Added Set PDF/UA Standard command update
  • Added Import/Clone command
  • Enabled command editing before run
  • Display progress when running batch commands
  • Memory consumption improvements in batch

General

  • Mouse wheel page zoom control
  • Watermark warning message before saving in the Lite version
  • PDFix SDK updated to 7.3.0
  • VeraPDF updated to 1.25.0
  • Performance and stability improvements

[1.4.0] – 2023-09-22

Accessibility & Tagging

  • Add/Edit Table Summary
  • Delete Tags Comand simplified

HTML Conversion

  • Integrated HTML preview

General

  • Batch processing performance update
  • Rotate Pages
  • Document permissions check
  • Integrated PDFix SDK 7.1.0
  • Performance and stability improvements

[1.3.1] – 2023-07-28

Batch Commands

  • Delete Tags, Set Contents
  • Fix placement for Notes

General

  • Performance and stability improvements

[1.3.0] – 2023-06-28

Accessibility and Tagging

  • Enhanced Table Editor

Batch Commands

  • Fix Whitespaces
  • Remove Tag Properties
  • Set Structure Element Attribute

General

  • PDF structure editor with Arlington grammar
  • Performance and stability improvements