Releases: pdfix/pdfix_desktop_builds
Releases · pdfix/pdfix_desktop_builds
PDFix Desktop 2.5.2
[2.5.2] - 2025-10-16
Summary
Minor update improving user experience and reliability in conversion workflows, navigation, and tag management.
Manual Tagging
- Fixed issue with deleting tags after tagging
- Fixed crash occurring when Tag As action was canceled immediately after start
User Interface
- Opening of external links from the Conversion pane to correctly launch in an external web browser
- Added Previous / Next navigation in Conversion View
General Updates
- Updated to PDFix SDK 8.7.6
- Optimized performance, memory usage, and stability across all major operations.
PDFix Desktop 2.5.1
[2.5.1] - 2025-10-14
Summary
Hotfix addressing issues with the cleanup and removal of empty tags after manual retagging.
General
- Fixed an issue where empty tags were not correctly removed after retagging selected content in the Page View.
PDFix Desktop 2.5.0
[2.5.0] - 2025-10-09
Summary
A major release focused on a modernized user interface, enhanced document accessibility tools, and performance improvements powered by PDFix SDK 8.7.5.
User Interface
More intuitive and powerful workspace for document preview and actions.
- Main Application Window
- Introduced document preview directly in the main window.
- Refactored Run Action dialog and Activity tab for better workflow visibility.
- Document View
- Added new Action Ribbon Toolbar in the document window, including support for custom actions.
- Refactored output handling for conversion and validation reports (improved saving and organization).
- Added tool buttons for executing actions on selected content in document panes.
- Fixed issues in Tag Destinations view and Create Link to Destination functionality.
- Localization
- General translation fixes and UI improvements for multiple languages.
Accessibility Actions
New tools to ensure PDF/UA and accessibility compliance.
- Added Document, Tags, or Content Language Detection to identify missing or incorrect language attributes.
- Added Fix Link Tag action — repairs invalid link tags and defines correct destinations and zoom settings.
- Integrated new accessibility actions directly in the document window:
- Arlington PDF Model — validates internal PDF syntax.
- Duplicate MCID Report — detects duplicate marked content IDs.
- VeraPDF Validation — generates full PDF/UA compliance reports.
General Updates
Core improvements and SDK integration for faster, more reliable performance.
- Integrated PDFix SDK 8.7.5
- Optimized performance, memory usage, and stability across all major operations.
PDFix Desktop 2.4.4
[2.4.4] - 2025-09-05
Accessibility
- Added Set Tag Language action — enables support for tagging multi-language documents
Template configuration
- Fixed handling of boolean variables in the layout template pane
External Actions
- Added access to External Actions from the main application window toolbar
- Improved management of external actions and update notifications.
User Interface
- Minor bug fixes and UX improvements
General Updates
- Integrated PDFix SDK 8.7.4
- Improved performance, memory usage, and stability
PDFix Desktop 2.4.3
[2.4.3] - 2025-08-11
Accessibility
- Added Set Content Color action — helps resolve issues with insufficient color contrast
- Added Fix Page Orientation action — unifies the page coordinate system with the page orientation and rotation
- Fixed an issue where text objects were split when tagging selected text
External Actions
- Added *Amazon Textract layout recognition action for layout template creation
User Interface
- Various minor bug fixes
General Updates
- Integrated PDFix SDK 8.7.3
- Performance, memory, and stability improvements
PDFix Desktop 2.4.2
[2.4.2] - 2025-07-18
Accessibility
- Added action to remove annotation data (such as Contents)
Template Configuration
- Add Table as Initial Element uses relative coordinates for cells
External Actions
- Fixed import of actions with deprecated parameters
- Fixed issues with the execution of actions in the main application window
- Search box in the Add Action window
- Grayed files in the activity tab on Windows
User Interface
- Consistent column widths in the new tabs in the main application window
General Updates
- Integrated PDFix SDK 8.7.2
- Performance, memory, and stability improvements
PDFix Desktop 2.4.1
[2.4.1] - 2025-07-10
Accessibility
- Fixed failures when moving structure elements in the Tag tree
- Document View actions hide unnecessary properties
Template Configuration
- Message warning when opening old or incompatible templates
External Actions
- Updated UX for external action management
General Updates
- Integrated PDFix SDK 8.7.1
- Various performance, memory, and stability improvements
PDFix Desktop 2.4.0
[2.4.0] - 2025-06-23
Template Configuration
- Introduced object anchors for flexible object creation
- Added dynamic object bounding box definition
- Support for nested templates
- Added support for mathematical functions in templates
- Introduced Layout Recognition Debugger for advanced diagnostics
External Actions
- Streamlined external action management
- Added support for new external actions:
- Generate Alternate Text (Vision AI)
- HTML to PDF conversion
- Language detection
- OCR using Tesseract
- PDF Accessibility (OpenAI): Figure Alt Text, Table Summary, Formula MathML Associated Files
- PDF Accessibility (Paddle): Auto-tagging, Formula MathML Associated Files
- Arlington PDF syntax validation
Validation
- Integrated veraPDF 1.29 for PDF/UA, WCAG validation
User Interface
- Improved color contrast for better accessibility
- Added template JSON syntax validation, object match highlighting, and debugging tools
- Integrated in-app user notifications
General Updates
- Native OS installers: Windows (MSI), macOS (DMG), Linux (RUN)
- Integrated PDFix SDK 8.7.0
- Various performance and stability improvements
PDFix Desktop 2.3.5
General Updates
- Integrated PDFix SDK 8.5.4
- Added creating mailto: links in the Create Web Links Action
- Fixed Fix Spaces Action sometimes does not process all tags in the PDF
- Fixed path content writer issues causing content loss
PDFix Desktop 2.3.4
General Updates
- Integrated PDFix SDK 8.5.3
- Fixed tagging overlapping annotations over text content
- Fixed embedding TrueType fonts containing non-ansi characters