Features Added in Version 10

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Features Added in Version 10


 

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The following features were added in Version 10 of PDF-Tools:

 

Version 10.6.0.396

 

Added the 'Add Attachments' tool/action, which enables users to attach files to PDF documents by specifying the file location and/or a filename mask, as detailed here.

Added the 'Populate Forms' tool/action, which enables users to create PDF documents from PDF templates, as detailed here.

 

Version 10.5.0.393

 

Added the 'Redact Regions' tool/action, which allows users to redact content in PDF documents within user-defined regions, as detailed here.

Added the 'Create PDF from Web Pages' tool/action that creates PDFs from web pages specified by a URL, or from local files in *.htm, *.html, or *.mhtml formats, as detailed here.

Added the 'Add Links from Barcodes' tool/action that finds barcodes on document pages and adds links to them, as detailed here.

Added a %[RelPath] macro that inserts the relative path of files from their root folders, as detailed here.

 

Version 10.4.0.388

 

Added an option to exclude folders and files in the 'Choose Input Files' action when using the 'Select folder' and 'Select file list' options.

Added the Debug Log File option, which contains messages about the application's operation and can be used in order to assist in resolving issues with the software.

 

Version 10.0.0.370

 

Added an 'Application Variables' option that allows users to define custom values which can be used in all fields that support macros. Application variables can be defined in the application preferences.

Added 'Custom' and 'Apply Metadata Template' options to the 'Change Document Properties' action, as detailed here.

Added a 'Create Compound Filter with All Selected Filters' option to the 'Choose Input Files' dialog box. This option allows users to define a compound filter that contains all selected file types and specify additional custom file types that should be included\excluded, as detailed here.

Added a 'PDF-Specification' option in the application preferences that determines the PDF specification of created documents, as detailed here.

Added an ability to use macros in the 'Keywords' field in the 'Change Documents Properties' action, as detailed here.

Added 'Select only documents/pages/files that do not fulfill the criteria above' and 'Apply OR logical operation between criteria' options to the 'Filter Document', 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Files' actions.

Added a 'Skip processing documents for which a matching value was not found' option to the 'Find by Regular Expression' action.

 

Version 10.0.0.380

 

Added 'External Links' and 'Document Info' search options for the 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions.

Added a 'showprompt' parameter for the /RunTool Command Line option.

Added support for the 'Append to existing document' option for text-based file types (*.csv, *.txt, *.ptdfl).

Added support for the '%[BatesValue]' macro in the 'Change Document Properties' and 'Save Documents' actions.

 

Version 10.2.0.384

 

Added a 'Move Pages' tool/action that enables the reordering of pages in PDF documents, as detailed here.

Added functionality that enables the reordering of tools in the Tool Categories section of the UI.

 

Version 10.3.0.386

 

Added an 'Add Barcode' tool/action that adds barcodes with user-specified data to documents, as detailed here.

Added a 'Run JavaScript' tool/action that runs user-defined JavaScript code snippets for input documents, as detailed here.

Added a 'Normalize Pages' tool/action that adjusts the position and rotation of pages/content in documents, as detailed here.

Added an 'Identify Forms' tool/action that identifies form fields in document content, as detailed here.