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New Win2PDF 11 Update Now Available!We are pleased to announce the Win2PDF 11.0.8.1 update, which includes several new features and performance enhancements.
Reorder Pages: Added the Reorder Pages feature to Win2PDF Desktop.PDF Viewer Context Menus: The Win2PDF Desktop PDF viewer now includes right-click context menus for quickly deleting pages or inserting files into an existing PDF.Recent Files Menu: Added a "Recent" menu in Win2PDF Desktop to easily access recently used files.Rename Plug-ins Support: Added support for rename plug-ins, allowing custom rename functionality through the "Default Rename Action" registry setting.Auto-Rename Performance: Improved performance of the Auto-Rename feature using parallel execution.Command Line Options
MAKESEARCHABLEONEPAGE: Added the MAKESEARCHABLEONEPAGE command line option to OCR only the first page of a document.SETPDFACONFORMANCE: Added the SETPDFACONFORMANCE command line.
Support for Microsoft's new Outlook email client with a "Use Microsoft Outlook (new)" option.Added "Delete Blank Pages" feature and "DELETEBLANKPAGES" command line option for automatically removing empty pages.Support for Batch Convert and Watch Folder and Convert plug-ins.Ability to watch up to 20 folders from a service using the "CONFIGWATCHSERVICE" command line option.Fixes for converting text files with smart quotes to PDF.Improved paper size selection in the "PRINTPDF" command line.Fixes for RTF to PDF conversion formatting problems.Performance and stability improvements.Added support for converting email formats EML, MSG, and MHT files to PDF, images, and text. (Win2PDF Pro only)Added command lines to convert from email formats to PDF: "EML2PDF", "MSG2PDF", and "MHT2PDF". Also added command line options to print spreadsheet formats to a paper printer: "PRINTEML", "PRINTMSG", and "PRINTMHT". (Win2PF Pro only)Added “pdfscansearchable” output format to the command line “convertto”, “batchconvert”, and “watchconvert” commands to improve text recognition for lower quality scanned document.Added a new batch convert option to "Archive Source Document As Attachment". (Win2PDF Pro only)Added Win2PDF Desktop menu items to add attachments, save attachments, and delete attachments including documents, images, audio files, or video files to a PDF. (Win2PDF Pro only)Added command line options “addfileattachment” “saveallattachments”, and “deleteallattachments” to add, save, or delete file attachments from a PDF. (Win2PDF Pro only)Added “makescansearchable” command line option to improve the text recognition for lower quality scanned documents.Added Windows Explorer “Open With” file associations for the following file types: .EML, .MSG, .MHT (Win2PDF Pro only)Performance and stability improvements.Added support for converting Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in XLSX, XLS, XLSB, ODS, and CSV files to PDF, images, and text. (Win2PDF Pro only)Added command lines to convert from spreadsheet formats to PDF: "XLSX2PDF", "XLS2PDF", "XLSB2PDF", "ODS2PDF", and "CSV2PDF" command lines. Also added command line options to print spreadsheet formats to a paper printer: "PRINTXLSX" and "PRINTODS". (Win2PF Pro)Added the following output formats to the command line “convertto”, “batchconvert”, and “watchconvert” commands:“xlsx” - Microsoft Excel Workbook“xls” - Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Workbook“xlsb” - Microsoft Excel Binary Workbook“ods” - OpenDocument Spreadsheet“csv” - Comma Separated Values“pdfa” - PDF for archivingUpdated the “PDF2DOCX” and “extracttext” commands to automatically make the PDF searchable if it isn’t already searchable.Added “ispdfsearchable” command line option that can be used to check the searchability of an existing PDF file.Added “addprinter” command line option to add a Win2PDF printer.Updated all command line options to create the output folder if it doesn’t exist.Added Windows Explorer “Open With” file associations for the following file types: .PDF, .BMP, .DIB, .TIF, .TIFF, .JPG, .JPE, .JPEG, .JFIF, .PNG, .GIF, .HTML, .HTM, .MHTML, .XPS, .OXPS. For Win2PDF Pro, also added: .DOC, .RTF, .TXT, .DOCX, .ODT, .XLS, .XLSX, .XLSB, .CSV, .ODSUpdated the Win2PDF Desktop with OCR setup program to dynamically download and install selected OCR languages. The following language are now supported for making a PDF searchable: English, Deutsch (German), Français (French), Italiano (Italian), Nederlands (Dutch), Ελληνικά (Greek), Português (Portuguese), Español (Spanish), العربية (Arabic), Հայերեն (Armenian), Български (Bulgarian), বাংলা (Bengali), Català (Catalan), Corsu (Corsican), Hrvatski (Croatian), Čeština (Czech), 简体中文 (Chinese Simplified), Dansk (Danish), Suomi (Finnish), עברית (Hebrew), हिंदी (Hindi), Magyar (Hungarian), Íslenska (Icelandic), 日本語 (Japanese), 한국어 (Korean), Latviešu (Latvian), Lietuvių (Lithuanian), Norsk (Norwegian), Polski (Polish), Română (Romanian), Русский (Russian), Српски (Serbian), Slovenčina (Slovak), Slovenščina (Slovenian), Svenska (Swedish), ภาษาไทย (Thai), Türkçe (Turkish), Українська (Ukrainian), Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)Performance and stability improvements.Dramatically improved the performance of the batch convert feature by processing files in parallel. (Win2PDF Pro)Fixed a missing file install error on Windows 11 if the Windows "XPS Services" feature is not installed.Added support for Windows 11 on Arm, including Copilot+ PCs and laptops using Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors and Windows 11 on Apple M series processors using Parallels Desktop for Mac.Added support for "formattedtxt2pdf" command line to create a PDF from fixed width text.Added support for the Windows copy count API. Setting the number of copies will create multiple files equal to the number of copies selected.Added support for Unicode characters in Auto-name search and content fields.Added Win2PDF Desktop app and command line support for Windows on ARM devices.Added support for "pdfaimagemono", "pdfaimagegrayscale", and "pdfaimagecolor" to batch convert and merge command lines to support creating PDF/A image only formats.Added "imagepdfa" variation of "imagepdf" command line to create PDF/A image only.Fixed a problem with RTF to PDF conversion.Improved reliability of auto-rename with search fields.Fixed incorrect paper sizes in TIFF to PDF for some TIFF files.Fixed a problem that caused split file sizes to grow for some types of files.Fixed a problem that could cause corruption when appending or applying encryption to certain PDFs.Improved command line error handling.Fixed an exception error that could occur when sending an email from the Win2PDF Desktop app.Added subfolder support to the Batch Convert feature and BATCHCONVERT command line (Win2PDF Pro).Added optional margin parameters to HTML2PDF command line.Added SIGNWITHSTAMP command line to sign a PDF with a certificate and include a signature bitmap (Win2PDF Pro).Added optional width and height parameters to the following command lines ("TIFF2PDF", "JPG2PDF", "PNG2PDF", "BMP2PDF", "GIF2PDF", "IMAGE2PDF").Improved DOCX to PDF conversion in the DOCX2PDF command line and the Batch Convert DOCX to PDF feature (Win2PDF Pro).Performance and stability improvementsAdded support for batch converting images and documents to a single merged PDF and batch merging existing PDFs to a single merged PDF. (Win2PDF Pro)Added support for running the Watch Folder and Convert feature as a Windows service. (Win2PDF Pro TSE)Added new command line support to print document and image files to a Windows printer ("PRINT", "PRINTDOCX", "PRINTRTF", "PRINTODT", "PRINTTXT", "PRINTHTML", "PRINTSVG", "PRINTXPS", "PRINTTIFF", "PRINTJPG", "PRINTPNG", "PRINTBMP", "PRINTGIF").Added a new command line option PRINTPDFACTUALSIZE to print a PDF with no scaling.Added a tray selection option to the command line PRINTPDF command.Added "PDF Image Only - monochrome searchable (OCR PDF)" and "PDF Image Only - color searchable (OCR PDF)" save as types and "Configure Auto-name" file types. Useful when converting documents with custom text encoding that prevents searching, particularly when using Auto-name search fields.Fixed a problem in the Auto-rename feature when search fields contained invalid file name characters.Fixed a problem with Auto-name when using "User Defined" and content search fields as folder names.Fixed a problem converting some XPS files.Fixed a problem printing to TIFF when the document had a large number of pages.Performance and stability improvements.Added support for batch converting Microsoft Word documents to PDF (DOCX to PDF, DOC to PDF, RTF to PDF) and batch converting OpenDocument Text documents to PDF (ODT to PDF). (Win2PDF Pro)Added DOCX, DOC, RTF, ODT, and TXT input formats and DOCX, RTF, ODT, and XPS output formats to batch convert feature, the watch folder and convert feature, and the CONVERTTO command line. (Win2PDF Pro)Added new command lines DOCX2PDF, DOC2PDF, RTF2PDF, ODT2PDF, and TXT2PDF (Win2PDF Pro).Added support for viewing DOCX, RTF, ODT, and Text files to the Win2PDF Desktop viewer, and exporting as DOCX, RTF, and ODT (Win2PDF Pro).Automatically install the Win2PDF OCR add-on for Win2PDF Pro.Added optional timeout parameter to HTML2PDF command line.Added a new option to search below a keyword for content based auto-naming and content based auto-renaming.Added support for PRINTPDFDIRECT command line to print to printers that support "Direct PDF" printing.Added support for GETCONTENTSEARCHBELOW command line to search for content directly below a search term.Added an error log named "Win2PDFErrorLog.csv" if an error occurs during a batch convert. (Win2PDF Pro)Fixed a problem when the temp folder contained too many files.Performance and stability improvementsAdded support for importing and exporting Win2PDF settings to the Win2PDF Desktop Application (File -> Settings), the EXPORTSETTINGS command line, and the IMPORTSETTINGS command line.Added support for PDF bookmarks using the ADDBOOKMARK command line, the ADDBOOKMARKAFTERSEARCH command line, and the DELETEBOOKMARKS command line.Added support for removing a trial license to the Win2PDF Desktop Application (Help -> Remove Win2PDF License).Fixed a problem with batch converting when the temp folder contained more than 65535 files.Performance and stability improvementsAdded support for adding a watermark or background to an existing PDF to Win2PDF Desktop (requires Win2PDF Pro).Added support for changing security options of an existing PDF to Win2PDF Desktop (requires Win2PDF Pro).Added support for converting SVG to PDF to the CONVERTTO command line, the batch convert feature, the watch folder feature, and the SVG2PDF command line.Added new feature to split pages before search to Win2PDF Desktop and SPLITPAGESBEFORESEARCH command line.Added page size parameter to HMTL2PDF.Added support for converting from PDF to TIFF or PNG with transparent backgrounds (Export PDF to TIFF, Export PDF to PNG, Batch Convert, Watch Folder, and command lines PDF2TIFF, PDF2PNG, CONVERTTO, BATCHCONVERT, WATCHCONVERT).Added new command line GETCONTENTSEARCHES.Fixed an issue scaling watermarks to the full page.Fixed a Win2PDF Pro licensing issue.Performance and stability improvementsAdded a watch folder feature and WATCHCONVERT command line to continuously monitor and convert files placed in a local or shared folder (requires Win2PDF Pro TSE).Added XPS Viewer support to view XPS and export XPS to PDF from the Win2PDF Desktop App.Added a new batch-convert feature and BATCHCONVERT command line to bulk convert files from one format to another (requires Win2PDF Pro).Added a new auto-rename feature to rename existing PDF files based on the contents of the files (requires Win2PDF Pro).Added support for XPS2PDF command line to convert XML Paper Specification formatted files (XPS) to PDF.Performance and stability improvementsAdded support for directly converting image files and HTML files from a Windows Explorer "Convert with Win2PDF" context menu. To convert a JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, or HTML file to PDF, right click and choose "Convert with Win2PDF.Added support for viewing PDF files from a Windows Explorer "View with Win2PDF" context menu. To view a PDF with Win2PDF Desktop, right click and choose "View with Win2PDF".Added support for using web addresses (URLs) for input files in most command line features.Added PDF/A output support to TIFF2PDFA, JPG2PDFA, PNG2PDFA, BMP2PDFA, GIF2PDFA, and Image2PDFA command lines.Added support for GETCONTENTSEARCH command line to return text after a search term in a PDF file. This can be used to rename PDF files based on the contents of the file in a Microsoft Power Automate Script.Added "Web Page To PDF" and HTML2PDF command line features.Added support for SPLITPAGESAFTERSEARCH command line to split pages based on a PDF search field.Added support for SIGN command line to sign a PDF using a digital certificate.Performance and stability improvementsImproved support for sending PDF files using the following email clients and providers:
Added support for converting image formats directly to PDF with command line options TIFF2PDF, JPG2PDF, PNG2PDF, BMP2PDF, GIF2PDF, and Image2PDF.Added IMAGEPDF command line to convert a PDF file to a PDF Image Only (color or monochrome).Added support for page range in PDF2TIFF command line.Added a Send Mail feature to the Win2PDF Desktop App.Added a Rotate Pages feature to the Win2PDF Desktop App.Added support for the PAGECOUNT command line option to return the number of pages in a PDF.Fixed an issue with the extract and delete page ranges in the Win2PDF Desktop App.Fixed an issue printing a landscape PDF to a paper printer from the Win2PDF Desktop App.Added new "Save As" types - formatted text, unformatted text, and PDF OCR. The PDF OCR feature allows creating searchable PDFs from Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.Removed support for Google Cloud Print. Google has discontinued the feature and will turn off all Google Cloud Print services in December 2020.Added support for the Win2PDF "Send To Slack" plug-in for automatically uploading documents to the Slack business communication platform.Added support for demo licenses. Contact support@win2pdf.com for a 30 day full featured evaluation license.Opening the "Configure Auto-Name" shortcut with "Run As Administrator" will save auto-name settings for all users to support Windows services.Added command line support for removing encryption.Added command line support for adding a named Win2PDF printer.Added support for configuring search fields and content fields for content based file naming from within the Win2PDF Desktop application.Added a "Configure Win2PDF Auto-name" shortcut to the start menu to make configuring the Auto-name features easier.Added "Send File" and "Print File" actions to the Win2PDF Desktop "Configure Auto-Name" menu to automatically email or print a PDF. See "How to Automatically name and send PDF files by email" for an example of automatically naming and sending invoices to email recipients based on the contents of the PDF.Added support for the Win2PDF Report Server for converting PCL print streams to PDF.Added new Export options to the Win2PDF Desktop Application to export a PDF to PDF - Compressed, JPEG - Color, TIFF - Monochrome, TIFF - Color, and PNG - Color.Added new menu option to the Win2PDF Desktop Application to split pages from an existing PDF.Added new command line options to split pages, rotate pages, convert PDF to JPG, convert PDF to PNG, and to convert PDF to TIFF.Added support for allowing hyperlinks in watermark files.. You can now also apply watermarks to the first page only, last page only, or all pages.Added support for content based file naming. You can automatically name PDF files based on the contents of the PDF file.Added support for configuring the format of the file name in the Win2PDF file save window. You can now customize the name to automatically add a date/time stamp and more.Added support for Google Cloud Print and improved the reliability of the "Print File" feature.Added support for Google Cloud Print as a print destination for the "Print File" option (requires Google Chrome). This allows you to create a PDF file and print it to a cloud printer or save it to Google Drive in a single step.Added "Post Action Nowait" and "Default Post Action Nowait" registry settings to launch an executable after PDF creation without waiting for the application to complete. These settings behave similar to the existing "Post Action" and "Default Post Action" registry settings.Added "%PDFIncrement%" variable to the Auto-name feature (requires "User Defined" setting).New and improved Win2PDF Desktop application which now includes a PDF viewer. You can view PDF files without using Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Edge.Added a command line interface to the Win2PDF Desktop application for developers who want to split, merge, encrypt, compress, delete pages, watermark, print, or view PDF files.Added support for 256 bit AES encryption to Win2PDF ProAdded JPEG2000 compression for color imagesImproved text quality for the "PDF Image Only - monochrome" format
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