v5.3.2

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Fixed an issue with the compression task that was adding a black background to compressed images in some corner case

v5.3.1

• Upgraded Electron

v5.3.0

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine

v5.2.0

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine
• Fixed an issue with the locale detection that was setting the application to German on the first run

v5.1.0

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine
• Fixed an issue where some menus weren't properly localized
• Added pages count to Split By Text

v5.0.1

• Upgraded Electron
• Better menu for the placeholders suggestions
• [TEXT] and [IMAGE_NAME] placeholders are less restrictive regarding invalid chars
• Improved grayscale conversion

v5.0.0

• Added a task to Extract images from PDF files. The task can use the [IMAGE_NAME] placeholder to drive the name of the generated files.
• Added a task to convert pages of PDF files to images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF)
• Added a task to flatten form fields and page content
• [IMAGE_NAME] and [TEXT] placeholders can optionally be piped with string transformations. Ex. [TEXT | upper], [TEXT | lower], [TEXT | capitalize], [TEXT | replace('this', 'that')], [TEXT | upper | replace('this', 'that')]
• Compress task now subsets TrueType fonts
• Page normalization in Merge tool is now a combo with an additional entry
• Show skipped files, if any, when the user selects "Skip existing files"
• All the menus are now localized
• Some of the tasks option fields are now persistent (automatically save/restored)
• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine

v4.3.1

• Upgraded Electron
• Fixed a couple of cosmetic issues

v4.3.0

• Upgraded Electron to the next maintained major version
• Added Korean language

v4.2.1

• Upgraded Electron

v4.2.0

• Upgraded Electron to the next maintained major version
• Added an icon to hide/unhide password fields
• Added a dark theme

v4.1.1

• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine
• Upgraded Electron

v4.1.0

• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine
• Upgraded Electron to the next maintained major version
• Proper Tiling patterns streams processing in the Compress task

v4.0.5

• Fixed an issue handling files with multiple lines of garbage on top

v4.0.4

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Offline activation tokens now use anonymized username
• Failing tasks now show the PDF file that was processing and failed
• Improved handling of broken PDF files where the PDF engine has to perform a full scan of the PDF objects
• We now handle correctly those files containing garbage bytes at the beginning

v4.0.3

• Upgraded Electron
• Fixed a proxy authentication issue

v4.0.2

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine
• Fixed an issue with the Normalize page size in the Merge tool where outline and link annotation destinations may end up with wrong destination coordinates
• Fixed an issue with the Resize tool where outline and link annotation destinations may end up with wrong destination coordinates
• Fixed an issue with Tiling patterns streams that weren't processed during the optimization process. This could lead to missing pattern resources in some cases
• Expected output file extension is automatically added when missing

v4.0.1

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine
• Added support for SVG, WebP, Multiple TIF and AVIF to the ImagesToPdf tool
• Added support for SVG, WebP, Multiple TIF and AVIF to the Organize pages tool
• Added support for SVG, WebP, Multiple TIF and AVIF to the Merge PDF tool
• Added tab navigation focusing the images and page thumbnails
• Added alt + p shortcut to open the preview of the focused element
• SPACE key now selects the focused element
• Closing the preview will focus the original page/image
• Organize pages tool: add blank pages made more usable and fixed few edge cases

v4.0.0

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine
• Added a Resize pages tool
• Replaced the pages magnifier with a button to open a page preview with additional zooming power
• New dashboard with "Tools" and "Recent files"
• Restyled menu with Tools always at hand
• Added the number of expected output files in the Split task
• Visual Combine & Reorder task renamed to Organize pages
• Added the number of expected pages in the Organize pages task
• Organize pages now allows images input (jpg, png..)
• Organize pages can now drag and drop files in between pages
• Organize pages fixed an issue with the generated bookmarks tree
• Images to PDF can now drag and drop files in between other files
• Proper handling of Exif rotation when an image is used as input
• Delete PDF pages now allows to select all blank pages in one click
• Extract PDF pages now allows to select all non blank pages in one click
• Proper MacOS menu with standard entries
• Simplified handling of "Overwrite output" in case of a single file output
• Added a setting to select the unit of measure as Inches or Centimeters, used in Crop and few other tools
• Crop now shows the crop area size
• In Delete pages is now possible to set all pages for deletion in one click and then unselect those to keep

v3.0.13

• Upgraded PDF Engine
• Upgraded PDF render engine

v3.0.12

• Upgraded PDF Engine
• Fixed a corner case in Split and Extract pages tasks

v3.0.11

• Fixed an issue with the Encrypt tool and numeric passwords starting with 0

v3.0.10

• Upgraded PDF Engine
• Fixed an issue with the Compress task and softmasks defined in ExtGState
• Fixed an issue with the Combine and Reorder task that could lead to the task failing

v3.0.9

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Added images rotation capabilities to the ImagesToPdf tool
• Correct handling of file names containing double quotes

v3.0.8

• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF Engine

v3.0.7

• Added check boxes to the Compress task to drive Discard Bookmarks and Discard Multimedia
• Upgraded PDF engine

v3.0.6

• Fixed an issue with the validation of an Offline Activation Token
• Upgraded Electron

v3.0.5

• Fixed D&D in Combine and Reorder
• Restored working buttons to Open file and Open Folder in task result modal

v3.0.4

• Added drag and drop support to Mix, Merge, Images to PDF and Visual combine to allow dropping of files even after the first drop
• Fixed "please wait" modal window that was hanging sometimes on Windows

v3.0.3

• Fixed ToC generation in Merge task to properly handle links pointing to rotated pages
• Fixed manual D&D sorting in Images to PDF task
• Merge, Mix, Images to PDF tasks now have a toolbar to add files and sort the input
• Updated PDF engine

v3.0.2

• Fixed failure to start on Windows when REG QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography /v MachineGuid throws an error because of disabled permissions

v3.0.1

• Fixed --clean argument that wasn't always working
• Proper support for JPEG2000 in compress task
• Upgraded Electron

v3.0.0

• Added a Compress task to reduce files size
• Added a ImagesToPdf task to convert images to a PDF file
• Added buttons to quickly open PDF files generated by a tool with another tool (Ex. Merge and then Compress and then Encrypt)
• Added a setting to select the tool to load when the application starts
• Added a setting to set the default working directory where all the Browse buttons will open by default
• Added full screen support
• Display TIFF files preview in Merge module instead of a placeholder image
• Tasks options panel can now be closed by clicking outside the panel
• Added optional offline validation
• Upgraded Electron
• Upgraded PDF render engine

v2.1.7

• Fixed Open folder button that wasn't always working
• Clicking Open folder or Open file now opens in foreground

v2.1.6

• Fixed an issue in case of user permissions don't allow a REG QUERY on Windows

v2.1.5

• Upgraded PDF Engine

v2.1.4

• Extract pages task can now generate a separate PDF file for each selected page set
• Improved merge of AcroForms to cover cases of more complex form fields hierarchies
• Fixed an issue where antivirus software interfere with writing output files
• Fixed a regression where Merge and Alternate Mix where not handling encrypted PDF files
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Notarization of the MacOS package

v2.1.3

• Fixed the existing output policy setting that was always recognized as RENAME
• Fixed an issue where split tasks where generating big output in case of input PDF files not conforming the PDF spec
• Fixed the extract pages task in case of multiple input and an invalid page selection for one of the inputs
• Customize result names field automatically save/restore its value
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded Electron

v2.1.2

• Handle # and % chars in filename
• Fixed merge task in case of images input only
• Handle bookmarks in non conforming PDF files generated by wkhtmltopdf
• Better handling of problematic chars in filenames when [BOOKMARK_NAME] placeholder is used
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded Electron

v2.1.1

• Merge tool can now merge images (png, tiff, jpeg, bmp, gif) together with PDF files
• Better feedback in case of existing output file and FAIL as output policy
• Added an option to automatically populate the output field with the parent directory of the selected PDF file
• Added a context menu to most of the tools, to allow the user to quickly set the output field same as one of the input files
• Handling of special chars in Split by bookmarks -> Bookmarks containing text field
• Added a --clean command line argument to clear user preferences and license key
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine
• Upgraded Electron

v2.0.4

• Upgraded PDF engine
• Extract text doesn't fail in case of a batch extraction and one file of the batch doesn't have any text
• Added 32-bits bundles for Windows

v2.0.3

• Fixed an issue with UNC paths on Windows

v2.0.2

• Delete pages task to signal show an error when run with no pages left
• Added a CTRL + d shortcut to remove pages selection
• Better handling of UNC paths on Windows
• Updated translations
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine

v2.0.1

• Moved env variable to system space. Added a USER_LICENSE_KEY to the MSI properties to install the license key as a user env variable
• Added [TOTAL_FILESNUMBER] to the possible prefixes
• Updated German translation

v2.0.0

• Added Delete pages task
• Added Convert to grayscale task
• Added Extract text task
• Added Repair task
• New application look
• Rotate task can now be used on multiple input PDF files
• Upgraded PDF engine
• Upgraded PDF rendering engine
• Localization completely reviewed and updated
• Diminished the overall size of the application
• Added button to open the generated PDF file using the native PDF reader
• Improved user interface for the Extract pages task
• Added a Discard bookmarks option to Extract pages, Split by size, Split by bookmarks, Split by text
• Improved user interface for the Rotate task
• Added merge option to consider the first file as a cover when generating a ToC
• Improved user interface for the Crop pages task
• Added Ends with field to split by text
• Improved user interface for the Split task
• Added manual proxy configuration to the settings panel
• Language combo to properly show the default language
• Encrypted passwords for PDF file when saving tasks parameters to output file
• Added a number of keyboard shortcuts
• Fixed split by text selection when moving among pages with Next and Prev buttons
• Fixed enabling and disabling (first page, last page) of Next and Prev buttons in split by text
• Added a Log Viewer window to show application errors
• Added MSI properties LOCALE, ACCEPT_EULA and BUGS_AUTOREPORT
• MSI now installs env variables in user space and removes them on uninstall
• Added a .zip portable bundle

v1.1.8

• Fixes bug in Encrypt task

v1.1.7

• Updates PDF engine.
• Fixed a permission issue on Linux.

v1.1.6

• Updates PDF engine.
• Updates EULA.

v1.1.5

• Adds support for porxy configuration.
• Updates underlying PDF library.

v1.1.4

• Adds Italian translation.
• Adds Spanish translation.
• Adds German translation.

v1.1.3

• Moves config location on Windows from %USERPROFILE% to %APPDATA%.
• Updates Encrypt task adding more permissions.
• Updates underlying PDF library, includes many minor bug fixes.
• Fixes bug related to handling different files with the same name.
• Adds Portuguese translation.
• Remembers customised result filenames.

v1.1.2

• Fixes bug related to activating the product

v1.1.1

• Natural sorting of filenames (1.pdf, 2.pdf, 10.pdf, 11.pdf) for merge and combine & reorder tasks.
• Larger magnifier zoom (8x).
• Batch (multiple files) support for the Split by pages task
• Smaller bugfixes and improvements.

v1.1.0

• Visual page composer for combining and reordering PDF pages
• Select file or folder output location, for each task
• After trial ends PDFsam Visual is free to use within daily limits. Upgrade for premium features and unlimited use.
• Various bug fixes and improvements

v1.0.9

• Improves French translation

v1.0.8

• Adds French language support

v1.0.7

• Minor fixes and improvements, updates credits section.

v1.0.6

• Fixes a critical bug that can lead to missing data.
• Upgrades the PDF engine with various bug fixes and enhancements

v1.0.5

• Includes bugfix for pre-activated silent installs in enterprise environments

v1.0.4

• 14-day trial
• Includes various bugfixes for existing tasks

v1.0.2

• Includes various bugfixes for existing tasks.
• Adds support for pre-activated silent installs in enterprise environments.
• Added context menu to easily select, unselect, invert selection

v1.0.1

• Improved size of smaller monitors
• Fixed permissions related failures.
• Improved combine and reorder task with multiple page drag and drop, simpler page delete.
• Filename patterns are now remembered.
• Fixed bug related to filenames with accented characters on Windows, other Windows related stability improvements.
• Better handling of large files, increased available memory pool to 1Gb.
• Upgraded sejda-console

v1.0.0

• Added Split by text task
• Upgraded PDFjs with corrected cmaps folder
• Upgraded sejda-console
• Upgraded icons
• Fixed the encrypt task failing with AES256
• Hide purchase menu item for PRO users

v0.9.2

• Added Crop
• Added rotation to the Combine and Reorder task
• Added a scroll to top tag