Using the buttons to send created PDF files via email had activated read confirmation by default. This has been changed in version 2.8.1. By default read confirmation is deactivated. You have to enable this option manually if you want a a read confirmation.
The assistant contains a preview now which gives you a fast overview of the created pdf file. The preview loads fast and has basic functionality to overview the document. Based on the preview you can see whether all pages were created correctly.
When using the email function an inputbox is shown first to request a filename for the file which will be attached to the email. In older versions there was no filename request with the consequence that files could have cryptic names in an email. There was no possibility to change the name. Sometimes the name was ok because PDF24 Creator hat a method to request the name from windows printer monitor, but a name isn't always given. Now you can enter a good name.
You can change the name of a document in editor via the context menu. The context menu contains an entry to start changing a name. In older versions name changes were done when saving a document. Useful is this feature when sending a document via email. The name of a file attached to an email is the name of a document in editor. The new feature gives you the possiblity to change the name and therefore to enter a good name for files in emails.
When sending a created file via email the standard email program is used. There could be a focus problem when opening this standard mail program. This focus problem has been removed.
A printer can be shared in a network. This can be done with the PDF24 PDF printer too, but there was a bug while printing on this shared printer from a pc which uses this shared printer. The message "Could not open user pipe" popped up in this circumstances. This problem has been removed. Now you can share a PDF printer in a network and use it on other PC's in the network. A typical instance is a client server application. If you have a server in which a program is running which is used by clients, you can share the client PDF printers and install them on the server so that the clients can print on their PDF printers to get some printouts of the application on the server.
The viewer has been enhanced. The viewer is faster and annoying flickering has been removed.
The PDF24 Creator 2.7.0 provides a way to save documents not only as PDF. A lot of output filters have been added so that you can save documents as the following formats: PDF, PS, EPS, PCL, PNG, JPEG, BMP, PCX, TIFF, PSD. The most of the new output filters are image file formats. For the moment these new output filters are only available in PDF24 Assistant. A new button named "Save as" have been added to the assistant to open a formular and to choose an output format. Each of these output output formats have own properties which can be changed to customize the output. Furthermore all properties can be saved to profiles to reduce the time to change properties and therefore to create a file.
Processes are visualized now. If the assistant saves or converts a document a small process windows is shwon so that the user can see that something happens. This is helpfull even when operating with large files.
PDF core components have been extented so that the PDF24 Editor should read more PDF files. Most of the PDF files could already be read before, but now the software can read some more documents.
A new capture option have beed added. PDF24 Creator now supports the Windows Clipboard. As soon as an image is available in the clipboard the appropriate option can be selected to generate a PDF of that content. To copy the current screen to clipboard just use the "Print" button on your keyword.
The property area have been enhanced graphically. Sections are better structured now.
PDF24 Creator can import images from devices like scanner, digicam or webcam to create PDF files based on these imported images. The requirement is that these devices supports twain interface too. If a device supports twain interface you can select the device through device selection box. That way you can create PDF image maps and you can use PDF24 Creator to optimize PDF for some purposes, e.g. you can compress PDF to send it via email.
Version 2.6.2 of PDF24 PDF Creator is now installable and useable within windows terminal server. This version has been tested within a Citrix terminal server environment.
When the PDF printer was installed on systems with 64-bit versions of windows vista and 7 then the user got a error message that the pdf printer couldn't be installed. This problem is fixed. The installer finished with no errors on 32-bit versions of windows. The PDF24 Creator can now be installed on 32-bit and 64-bit systems with windows XP, Vista, 7 as operating system.
If the PDF24 Creator has been installed without removing an old version it could come to conflicts. Now the new installer checks whether an old version is installed and uninstalls the old version before installing the new one.
To uninstall PDF24 Creator all running components have to be closed. If one component is running, the uninstaller blocks uninstallation process. The problem was that PDF24 Creator uses a running hidden component to create PDF files and this component had to be closed by user. To ease that the installer and uninstaller first closes this hidden component automatically and the user only have to close all running visible components belonging to PDF24 Creator.
The PDF24 Creator has been optimized for multi user environments. There were problems in older versions when using PDF printer on PC's with more than one user. This problems has been fixed. Now you can use the pdf printer on PC's with more than one users.
The update behaviour has been changed too. Not every user can install updates. The PDF creator checks security attribues of users now and determines whether a user has necessary rights to update the program. A user with limited rights can't install updates but administrators. The new concepts of Windows Vista and Windows 7 has been taken into account. Users with limited rights will only see a notification that an update is available.
Now you can capture the screen or only a portion of the screen to create a PDF of that content. There are several options: whole screen, screen working area, active windows, active window content or a user defined area. The screen capture feature is located in PDF24 Creator windows tray icon.
There is a windows tray icon for the PDF24 Creator now. Currently the tray icon is used to display settings, open the PDF editor, show infos, close backend program and use screen capture feature. The icon becomes visualized if a pdf creation process via pdf printer in running. Programm notifications can always be shown.
The PDF24 Creator uses new printer drivers for pdf printer. The new drivers provides more features than older used ones. Now there is no limitation in paper size. Small pages can be created as good as large ones. The driver contains most of the common used paper formats A0 - A7, letter, ledger, executive. A user defined paper size is also possible.
Now there is a central preferences area. This area can be opened from several locations. The user can configure more settings than in older versions. The preferences area can be used on PC's with more than one user too. Not every user can change all settings, e.g. only administrators can change update behaviour. The UAC of windows Vista and 7 has been taken into account. A user will see a message if a property page can't be selected because of limited rights. There is also the possibility to elevate a user if the user is an administrator to do all changes.
The PDF Creator has been restructured to make ready the program for future developments.
There could be a dealock in some circiumstances in PDF viewer. The problem has been fixed. Furthermore you can navigiate through pages with arrow keys now.
The explorer supports shortcuts/links now. The explorer can be hided so that only the document list is shown up. There are appropriate menu entries to hide or show the explorer.
The settings of the program and the settings of a user are strictly separated now. Every user can change his PDF creator so that it suits his requirements. The changed will be saved in user profiles. Only administrators can change settings which concerns the whole program.
The component which is responsible for converting documents to PDF now supports shortcuts/links in file system. In addition a bug in the tool has been fixed.
The updater of the PDF24 Creator has beed redesigned and extended. The user user guidance has been changed to. The updater supports multi user environments now. Users with limited rights can execute the updater to look for updates, but they can't install ones. This is reserved for administrators.
There was a bug in signature process when signing a PDF file under Windows Vista and Windows 7. Partly the signature was incorrect. The bug is fixed. PDF signatures are correct now. Signatures can be checked in Adobe Reader.
The time of a signature process was not saved correctly. The problem was time offset for time zones. The bug is fixed.
The installer of the PDF24 Creator has been enhanced. The installer searches for active components now. If a components is active the installer notifies the user that all components have to be closed. The installer only installs an update/new version if all components are closed. This works also in a multi user environment. As long as any user has a running components the installer blocks installations.
The PDF24 Editor can be started with a file, e.g. drag & drop a file to the PDF24 editor icon. This was disallowed in older versions. The start file will automatically be loaded in editor and becomes converted if the files wasn't a PDF.
The new icon set contains now bigger icons too, so that program symbols looks much better when using a large preview in windows explorer.
The language selection at first program start has been optimized. There is a problem in version 2.5. In this version the german language becomes selected, but this isn't good for non german people. The problem is fixed. The german language becomes selected on systems with german language and the english language for all other. This version is shipped with a german and a english language file.
With the profiles you can control the quality and compression of a PDF. A lower quality results in a smaller PDF file size and a higher quality results in a larger size. A profile can be changed in PDF creation assistant after creating a PDF through the pdf24 printer or in context menu of a document in editing user interface. The program settings contains an option to set standard profile which is selected as default.
PDF files can be send via email. This can be done in PDF creation assistant after a PDF was created with pdf24 printer or in editing user interface. A button was added in the PDF creation assistant and several menu entries and a toolbar button where added in the editor to send a PDF.
The PDF24 Creator can now sign PDF documents. The software contains everything to create and embed a signature into a PDF document. Signing can be done with self signed certificates, which can be created with PDF24 Creator or with a signature card. When using a signature card a special windows middleware is required to make certificates on the card available and useable. Signing is only integreated in editor. The editor contains a new toolbar button and a new context menu entry to open a signing dialog. In signing dialog you have to choose a certificte and to enter some informations required for signing.
This version determines filenames for created PDF files with help of the windows printer interface. If you print a document with name XYZ on pdf24 printer, a PDF file will be created and the name XYZ will be determined as name for the PDF. This helps when working with PDF24 Creator especially when creating a lot of PDF files. This can be used by opther software to give PDF documents a name when created via pdf24 printer.
Image can now be converted to PDF a little better. The created PDF don't contain an ugly margin any more but only the image. This can be used to create nice PDF image maps when converting images to PDF and merging them to one PDF file. The resulting file can contain image with different sizes.
The usability where enhanced in several ways so that the user has to click a little less when working with the editor. This includes the functions merge and delete with toolbar buttons. Based on the document selection can be decided what should be merged or deleted. This saves a click when choosing between all or only selected documents.
If you open security settings dialog, make changes there, close and than reopen it, made changes doesn't be displayed despite being saved correctly. This problem is solved.
Selecting a single page doesn't select all loaded pdf documents any more. This is a bug in previous versions. If the user selects a single page in a document then the document which contains the page becomes selected. All other documents becomes unselected.
The PDF24 editor starts very fast. A splash screen makes no sense here. Therefore we have removed it. The splash screen has shown the personalisation image. As replacement for the splash screen we have inserted a link in booter area of the editor. I click on this link opens a windows with the content which was shown previously in splash screen. The personalisation image in that window is clickable. A click on the image opens a browser with the url which was specified at personalisation.
Menu entries which stands for options which are selected were displayed in gray and could not be selected again. The intention of this grayed menu entries are normally a state which is unuseable. We have changed this with a state which displays a marked checkbox in front of a menu entry to show the user that this state is currently selected. This is better and easier to understand.
The settings area is displayed now in a new user interface and we have added some more options to customize the PDF24 Creator. Now you can change the update behavior, language and standard quality profile.
The installer installs an suitable printer driver when installing in windows 7. The PDF24 Creator can be used now with Windows 7.
All components of PDF24 Creator are signed with a certificate so that you will have the certainty that PDF24 Creator are secure and have not been changed by a third party. Windows Vista and Windows 7 will show you a corresponding message when you start the PDF24 Creator whether the program is secure or not.
The update behaivior have been changed slightly. You can customize the behaivior in settings. You can choose between three options (automatic, only check and notify, disabled). The updater and other program parts have been adapted to the new options.
The layout of the assistant have beed improved. A selection box to select a quality profile and a button to send the created PDF via email have been added. The update and info button have been removed and inserted as link into the bottom bar. All buttons now represents pure function buttons which do something with the created PDF.
There are two new tools in the PDF24 editor. The first new tools can create a self signed certificate and the second tool opens a certificate manager where you can manage your certificates. These tools are importent for the signing feature.
There could be a deadlock in integrated viewer when a document contains pages of other documents and when this document is shown in viewer. Browsing between pages could cause the deadlock. This bug have been removed.
This version contains a PDF editor which has the following functionality:
The updater have been extracted and inserted into an own executeable and the functionality have been extended.
The background program PDFBackend have been improved. This program waits in background for a new print job which was printed on pdf24 printer.
The PDF printer driver installation have been improved. The new installer can now install different printer drivers which can be used with pdf24.
A program have been build which converts documents such as word or powerpoint to PDF. In this version the conversion is done with help of PDF24 PDF printer. The program has to be started with a document as argument and then it prints it out on pdf24 printer.
The assistant now has a button to edit a created PDF. A click on this button starts the editor and loads the created PDF file there.