PDF24 Creator 11.34.0 is out. We present the most important changes, each in its own post:
- Compress: every file lands next to its original
- PDF printer: new placeholders and the last used folder for automatic saving
- PDF24 Reader: rename files, the PDF's own view, undo in forms
- PDF24 Toolbox: split by file size, page numbers with zeros, long images and more
- Better conversion: PDF to Excel with images, scanned books as EPUB, Office with LibreOffice
- E-invoice: the new generator is the default, with series of self-billed invoices and item attributes
- Automate on the command line: page size, pages per sheet and printing certain pages
- For administrators: Toolbox on terminal servers, restoring the printer, crash data
Also new and improved:
- Text recognition (OCR): a selection with the mouse no longer ends in the middle of the last letter of a word, and there are more segmentation modes.
- A correct password with special characters such as € or „ “ is now accepted when unlocking, also if the PDF was protected with another program.
- Saving with an output profile no longer rotates pages by the direction of their text. Landscape plans and pages rotated by hand stay as they are.
- The classic PDF printer outputs text in fonts whose license forbids embedding as outlines instead of a substitute font, and a letter no longer turns into a box after an umlaut.
- The tools name the reason when an error occurs, and many no longer stop with an out-of-memory error on very large or unusual PDF files.
- If a PDF cannot be opened in the Creator, the message offers "Repair PDF".
A note for Windows 10, Windows 11 21H2 and Windows Server 2016 to 2022: there the classic PDF24 printer stopped printing with version 11.33.0, the jobs stayed in the queue with "Error - Printing". The update to 11.34.0 fixes this and connects the printers to the right port again. Details are in the manual.
Plus many more bug fixes. All changes are listed in the changelog.
If you already use PDF24 Creator, the new version comes via the update function. For a new installation, go to the download page.