The new PDF24 Creator 8 is ready and can be downloaded from the www.pdf24.org pages. The new version brings a lot of new features, optimizations and fixes some bugs. The development of the new version tooks a bit longer than expected because of the huge changes in this release.
A lot of operations on files has been accelerated, so that you can work noticeably faster with this version. Following is a list with all changes in version 8, so that you can decide to update or not. In our opinion, it's worthwhile to update to the new version.
Release notes of the PDF24 Creator 8
- Feature: Option to overwrite existing files added to the auto save feature
- Feature: New function in the PDF24 tray icon
- Feature: Uses Ghostscript 9.19
- Feature: Information shown when an image is copied to the windows clipboard
- Feature: Online PDF tools accessible from the launcher
- Feature: Tooltip of a page element in the Creator shows the source file of the page
- Feature: Progress bar improved
- Feature: File icons added to the file tool
- Feature: File operations of the file tool can be canceled
- Feature: Batch processing of the file tool optimized
- Feature: Fax profile can be selected
- Feature: Delete print jobs with errors
- Feature: Save automatically under a specific user
- Feature: pdf24.exe as a Windows service
- Feature: Cloud Print feature added
- Improvement: A lot of core PDF functions optimized
- Improvement: Creator loads files faster
- Improvement: File preview in the file explorer of the creator accelerated
- Improvement: PDF/A and PDF security can't be used together
- Improvement: Installer shows better status texts
- Improvement: Time estimation of some operations optimized
- Improvement: Faster print function
- Improvement: Faster merging of files
- Improvement: Improved calling Ghostscript and the Doctool process
- Improvement: Optimized printer job file name determination
- Improvement: Flickering in the file tool removed
- Improvement: Language files updated
- Improvement: Operation window optimized
- Improvement: DocTool command line is now case insensitive
- Improvement: Online converter requests are no longer limited to one file
- BugFix: Tool-tip issue of hidden tiles in the launcher fixed
- BugFix: Profile selection did not show anything if the last used profile was deleted
- BugFix: Output profile PSD 150 DPI was broken
- BugFix: PDF passwords can now contain umlauts
- BugFix: Fixes an issue regarding file icons
More detailed information about all these changes can be found in the official changelog of the software under the following link: https://en.pdf24.org/pdf-creator-changelog.html
The installer of version 8 is FREE of spyware, adware, toolbars or other malware, so that you can install the new version without worries.
Wishes for future versions or reports of bugs can be send to our email address forum@pdf24.org. We will check all mails and we will put new features and bugs on our internal lists which are the basis for our development.
If you like the new version, don't hesitate to share it with your friends and fellows.
We wish you a lot of fun with this new version.