PDF24 Creator

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Program do tworzenia plików PDF z wszelakiej maści formatów

PDF24 Creator 6.1.0

Improvement: Skip button on Create PDF24 Account setup page:
This button skips the create PDF24 account page to not create a PDF24 account.
Improvement: Default file name for the auto save feature:
The default file name for the auto save feature is %Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S ${fileName}. This is a time stamp and the name of the file, if the name is available.
Improvement: PDF24 Tray menu can be opened with left mouse button:
You could only use the right mouse button to open the PDF24 tray menu, but the left mouse button is also good for opening the tray menu and so we added the additional handler for the left mouse button.
Improvement: Settings module optimized:
Changes in settings now better takes effect in running modules so that no application restart is necessary for a lot of changes. For instance now you can change the auto save feature without to restart the pdf24.exe backend module.
Improvement: Layout orientation (horizontal/vertical) is now saved in profile:
Now the setting is in profile so that a application restarts don't change the layout.
Improvement: File extension handling via printer interface is now more intelligent:
Known file extension are removed from the name which was determined from the printer interface. This is mostly OK and now you don't have the original extension in the name.
Improvement: Updated translation files:
The language files Czech, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, PortugueseBrazilian, Swedish where updated. Here is thank you to the translators who sends us updates.
Feature: Send To entry for the PDF24 Creator:
The setup adds a Send To entry for the PDF24 Creator. Now you can easily send files to the Creator which then will be converted to PDF.

PDF24 Creator 6.2.0

BugFix: Added a TWAIN fix:
Added a Twain fix which could cause an application crash in some circumstances
BugFix: Preview generation could cause application crash:
The PDF24 Creator could crash if the user drags & drop pages from one document to another while the preview generation of the documents is still in progress.
Improvement: Faster preview generation:
The preview generation in the PDF24 creator is now more parallel. This is faster on CPU's with multiple cores.
Improvement: Custom page size section of the PDF printer driver optimized:
Optimized the PDF printer driver in terms of custom page sizes. Sometimes the wrong page size was used.
Improvement: ParseDSCComments is now enabled:
This parses the DSC comments and add that information to the target document.
Update: Updated all language files:
We have updated all language files and added some new elements too, which are currently not fully translated.

PDF24 Creator 6.3.0

Improvement: Overwriting files in auto save mode:
The PDF printer auto save feature now does not overwrite existing files any longer. Now, if a file exists, a suffix is appended to the file name under which the file will be saved.
Update: Update of language files:
The following files has been updated: English, Polish, Finnish, Lithuanian, Czech, Spanish, Italian
Improvement: Moved file name erasement options:
The file name erasement options are now part of the PDF printer page.
Improvement: Supported placeholders added to the form:
Supported placeholders in the settings pages are now visible in the GUI.
Improvement: Scrollbar issues fixed:
Sometimes scrollbars where shown where they wouldn't be necessary. We have optimized some GUI parts so that now scrollbars are only visible if they are really necessary.
Improvement: Focus change between areas optimized:
Now, some windows gains the focus when the mouse moves into this windows. This improves usability in some dialogs where user can scroll so that no click is needed any longer to get the focus which activates scrolling for that window.
Improvement: ADMIN suffix in settings dialog title:
The settings window now has the title suffix ADMIN when the settings dialog is opened with full administrator rights to change special settings.
Feature: Custom command in automatic save mode:
We have added a custom command feature to the PDF printer auto save mode. The feature can be enabled and configured in the PDF Printer pages of the application settings.
Feature: ShellPrint command added to the pdf24-docTool.exe:
Now there is a shell print feature in the pdf24-docTool.exe. The command pdf24-docTool.exe -shellPrint -printerName FILE can be used to print out a file on a printer using the shell print windows feature. The can be used together with the auto save feature of the PDF printer to print out a file on another printer.
Feature: ALT key to break auto save mode:
Now you can use the ALT key to break the auto save mode of the PDF printer. If auto save is enabled and if you print on the PDF printer, the printed file is then normally saved to a file. You can temporarily break this by keeping pressed the ALT key when sending a file to the PDF printer. This opens the PDF24 assistant or the PDF24 Creator where you can handle the file as if you don't had activated the auto save mode.
BugFix: Custom profile in auto save settings page:
We have also improved the custom profile selection in the auto save settings page. The custom profile was not shown as selected after having been selected.
Feature: Custom profile when saving automatically:
When the custom profile option in the auto save setting page is selected then the format option dialog will be opened after printing a document on the PDF printer. There you can make custom settings which will be used when saving the file.

PDF24 Creator 6.3.1

BugFix: Fixed issues with the save as dialog:
Fixed a major bug introduced in version 6.3. Entered values in the text boxes of the save as dialog could not be correctly read by the app so that they were not used in saving process. Default values were used instead. Passwort protection for instance could not be used although correctly entered all fields.
Improvement: Optimized environment variables:
Improved the environment variables of the apps so that the pdf24 apps itself can be used in auto save mode without to use the whole path of the app.
Improvement: Further optimized focus optimization from version 6.3.0:
We improved the focus optimization from version 6.3.0. The problem was that if you have clicked into a form element and if you have moved the mouse out of the element then the form element lost its focus so that you could not enter text. The mouse had to be in the element to enter text. That was a little bit bad and we have optimized that so that you now can click into an element and you can move the mouse a little bit away and the element keeps its focus.

PDF24 Creator 6.3.2

BugFix: Removed debug message from the DocTool:
There was a debug message in the DocTool which was shown after using the DocTool. This version removes this debug message

PDF24 Creator 6.4.0

Improvement: Ghostscript 9.14 is now shipped with this release
Improvement: Language file updates:
Affected language files: German, Italian, French, Lithuanian, Czech
Improvement: Setup translation updates of several languages
BugFix: Fixed a minor bug in the PDF24 PDF lib:
The bug could cause an application crash when the user loads a special PDF file.

PDF24 Creator 6.4.1

BugFix: TWAIN Import Bug fixed:
We have fixed a TWAIN import bug in version 6.4.1. Some users reported issues with that feature. Sometimes it worked with no problems and on other PC's or other drivers it was broken. We have investigated the issue and we have rewritten some code parts with the hope that this should solve the problem. If you have problems with the TWAIN import part please report your problem in our support forum.
BugFix: Files were not signed in version 6.4.0:
The build process was broken so that the files and the setup itself were not signed with the Geek certificate. We have fixed that.
Improvement: TEMP directory detection improved:
Some users reported that PDF files could not be created. One problem was die TEMP directory bug so that temp files could not be created. We have optimized the part which determines the TEMP directory and that should solve the problem of some users.
BugFix: Drag & Drop Bar fix added:
When dragging and dropping pages of documents a vertical bar is drawn which indicates the insert position. Sometimes this bar were drawn with an invalid height so that some areas were overdrawn. This is now fixed.
BugFix: PDF color model fixes added:
Users can select the color model when saving a PDF file. We have fixed some parts here so that the selected color model should now be correctly applied to the document. If you now save a PDF and if you select the gray color model than the final PDF file will be gray-scaled.

PDF24 Creator 6.5.0

BugFix: Fixed a bug in the PDF lib:
There was a bug in the PDF lib which caused an application crash when reading some special PDF files. We have fixed that one.
BugFix: Image of the progress window did not scale:
The progress windows was optimized for 96 DPI. Higher DPI settings caused a gap at the right side of the window which was a little bit ugly. We have fixed that issue and now the progress windows is DPI aware.
Improvement: Moved a settings area:
We have moved the block PDF Printer Tool from the general element to the PDF Printer element because this block is more related to this section.
Feature: Progress window can be disabled in auto save feature:
The progress window could be annoying when saving a lot of documents automatically. The window can be disabled in the settings in the auto save section.
BugFix: Language files fixed:
There was a wrong key element in all language files so that there was a not replaced placeholder in the save as dialog. We have corrected that.

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PDF24 Creator 6.6.0

Improvement: Control of default printer optimized:
The DocTool sometimes have to change the users default printer to the PDF24 PDF printer in order to convert a file to a PDF. This change is reverted after the conversion is finished. We have optimized this part of the code within the DocTool.
Improvement: Mutex Locks optimized:
The DocTool uses mutex locks to synchronize DocTool executions. We have optimized here so that these locks will be used only when really necessary.
Feature: DocTool now has a shell print command:
The DocTool can now be used to execute a shell print command on a file to print the file on a printer.
Feature: DocTool can create PDF files from clipboard content:
This is a cool feature. You can use the DocTool to e.g. create a PDF file from an image which is in the clipboard. If the clipboard contains a file reference then this file will be converted to PDF.
Feature: DocTool can do file uploads:
The DocTool can now be used to upload files to internet services.
Improvement: Converting files with the PDF printer optimized:
We have optimized how we access the PDF printer to convert files to PDF. In previous version the message "Could maybe not be converted" where shown relatively often because we did not know whether the conversion is possible or not. Here comes the optimization. We have optimized that so that we now better know whether a conversion is possible or not.
Improvement: Special handling for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files no longer required:
There was a special handling for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to convert these files to PDF. This is as of now no longer required because of the optimization above. If a print command is available for a specific file type then this file can be converted to PDF.
Improvement: Drag and Drop file import order optimized:
The file import order now exactly matches the order of the submitted files via the drag & drop action. Older versions could break that order which was bad in some cases where the order is crucial.

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PDF24 Creator 6.7.0

Feature: PDF24 Creator can use the PDF24 Online PDF Converter:
The DocTool can now use the PDF24 Online PDF Converter if necessary. If there is no local application which can print a file on the PDF printer in order to convert the file to PDF, then the user will be asked to convert the file online with the PDF24 Online PDF Converter. If he agrees, then the DocTool sends the file to the service to get it converted to PDF.
BugFix: UrlLib issue fixed:
Fixed an issue with the UrlLib, which could create wrong URLs.
Improvement: Language file fixes and updates
Improvement: Optimized auto save feature:
You can now use placeholders when specifying the folder, where to save to file. Available are date and time placeholders like %Y, %m, %d, %H, %M, %S as well as environment placeholders like %USERNAME%, %USERPROFILE%, ....
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PDF24 Creator 6.8.0

BugFix: Fixed an auto save issue:
Added the auto save command quote fix. Some commands could bot be executed because of a quote character problem.
Improvement: Improved double clicks within the file explorer:
Optimized the double click behavior in the explorer list. Older versions also started a drag & drop operation which was not necessary. We have optimized that a little bit to distinguish better between the beginning of a drag & drop operation and a double click.
Improvement: Optimized Drag & Drop:
Drag & Drop optimized, especially when dragging files from the PDF24 Creator and dropping them into the Windows Explorer or other applications.
Improvement: Optimized Ghostscript calls:
The app now uses absolute paths to call Ghostscript because an installed Ghostscript into the system32 folder would run this Ghostscript instead of the PDF24 delivered version.
BugFix: Fixed an unsynchronized access issue:
Fixed a potential app crash issue caused by an unsynchronized access of the file icons and file thumbnails within the explorer list of the creator.
BugFix: Fixed a PDF lib issue:
Fixed a bug in the PDF lib. Some special PDF files could not be opened in earlier versions.

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PDF24 Creator 6.9.0

Improvement: Optimized auto save feature:
We have improved the file save method of the auto save feature. In previous versions a created file could be overwritten with the next auto saved file if the next file was produced to fast. We now have a better file locking mechanism so that we can make a file name unique if there is already a file with the same file name.
Improvement: Better support for converting MS Office files to PDF:
We have optimized the auto conversion of MS Office files so that these files can now be better converted to PDF. These files are now handled in a special way.
Feature: Support for the backspace key within the file explorer list:
We have added support for the backspace key within the file explorer list to change to the parent folder of the currently opened one.
Improvement: Improved label editing within the file list:
We also improved label editing within the file list view of the file explorer when a link is to be edited.
Improvement: Improved the file explorer list in point of speed:
The file list is now virtual and a lot of faster then the list of previous versions. If you open a folder with only a few elements than you will not notice the faster list but if you open a folder with some thousand elements then the speed difference is very large. In previous versions you could wait some seconds until the list was ready and now this will only took some milliseconds. Some companies have really large folders and waiting is really annoying.
Improvement: Improved the file explorer tree:
The file explorer tree no longer shows the current folder of the file list view because this reduced the file explorer speed in some cases. You can still navigate by the directory tree to open folders and the list shows the currently opened folder of the tree but in the other way this is no longer the case. This greatly improves the speed and the behavior is now more like the Windows explorer. Furthermore we have optimized some other points to make the tree faster.
Improvement: Optimized the start condition of a Drag & Drop operation in the explorer tree:
Sometimes the Drag & Drop operation was initiated to fast which was not necessary. We have optimized that part to get a better behavior.
Feature: Added an input field for the currently opened folder:
We have added an input field which shows the currently opened folder. The path of that input field can be edited by the user to change the path by hitting the enter key.
Improvement: Updated some language file.

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PDF24 Creator 6.9.1

BugFix: Fixes application crashes in version 6.9.0:
Some users reported us application crashes in version 6.9.0. We investigated the problem and found a part which caused the crashes. Version 6.9.1 brings a fix for this issue.

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PDF24 Creator 6.9.2

BugFix: Fixes some issues regarding the auto conversion of documents:
Sometimes the default printer was not changed back after having changed temporarily to convert a file to PDF. This version fixes that and resets the printer as default which where the default printer before. Another problem was the conversion of Excel files when the PDF24 PDF printer was not the default printer. In that case the conversion failed. That's also fixed.

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PDF24 Creator 7.0.0

Extension: Extensions and improvements in the assistant:
Version 7 brings a revised wizard that has been improved in many ways. On the left there is now a file list which contains the printed files. The center pane of the application contains the file action buttons which are now better than the old ones. The buttons are larger and have icons and text and better mouse effects. Above the list, there are some buttons to manage the list. Joining all documents in the list is also possible. You can select a document in the list and you can perform an action on that document by clicking on one of the action buttons.
We plan to make the action buttons customizable so that you can add or remove buttons. We will introduce that feature with a future versions. The benefit of that customization is that you as a user or as a company can add some more buttons to add functionality you need.
Feature: Integration into Windows Explorer context menu:
There is now an integration into the Windows Explorer context menu. By clicking the right mouse button on a file or in the background of the explorer, the normal context menu opens. This menu now contains the PDF24 sub-item.
The following functions are available for file via the PDF24 context menu
Open selected files with the Creator for further processing
Print selected files on the PDF printer
Split selected documents page by page
Optimize selected documents for the web
Join all selected documents to one PDF
Send selected documents by e-mail
Send selected documents by fax
Apply an output profile to selected files
Extract page from the selected files
Convert selected files to ...
Convert selected files to PDF
Convert selected file to PDF online
The following functions are accessible via the PDF24 explorer background context menu
Import From Scanner or Camera
Import from the clipboard
Improvement: Improved command lines of some tools:
When it comes to the command line of the PDF24 Creator tools, some improvements have been made. Some arguments have been revised, removed, added and unified in order to facilitate the work with the command line. The command line interface will be documented later.
BugFix: Prevent from opening twice:
Under certain circumstances, some tools could open twice, which is not wanted for some tools. The Creator, for example, should be opened only one instance, because this instance can handle multiple files. Under certain conditions, it was still possible that the tool could open twice. The problems should be fixed.
BugFix: Fixed a bug in the PS and EPS output filter:
The output filters for the file types PS and EPS was broken. We have fixed and optimized the relevant parts and now you should be able to save as PS and EPS.
BugFix: EPS filter creates one file per page:
An EPS file contains one page per file. The output filter in the PDF24 Creator was not correct, so you could always only save the first page of a file. This problem is now fixed. The output filter for EPS now creates a folder containing the files of each page.
BugFix + Improvement: Drag and Drop fixes and improvements:
The drag and drop implementation has been improved so that more things are possible here which can be used by the tools. Version 7 also fixes some other minor bugs within the implementation.
Improvement: Output filters for image files improved:
When you save a document as an image, then one image file is created for each page of that document. The output filter has now been extended so that the filter always creates a folder with the page image files of the document. The user has to choose a destination file. The filter creates a folder under that name and saves the page image files into that folder.
Improvement: Moved the Page-Extract-Dialog from the Creator to the DocTool:
The Page-Extract-Dialog is now part of the DocTool. The advantage of that change is that the DocTool can now be used to open this dialog for a file.
Improvement: Page-Extract-Dialog enlarged and improved:
The Page-Extract-Dialog is now slightly larger and the usability is now better.
Improvement: Process-Status-Dialogs can now be reused:
Some operations executes minor sub task which would normally open and then close the process dialog. This is annoying for some operations. One dialog instance can now be shared between some tasks and the tasks itself only change the status of the shared status window instance.
Improvement: Clipboard handler of the DocTool optimized:
If there are files in the clipboard, then the DocTool can extract these files and now also communicates the names of these files correctly. Older versions did not used the document name so that the name could not be used in the tools.
Feature: Extended the DocTool:
We have added a lot of new features to the DocTool. Almost all the functions that are present in the PDF24 Windows Explorer context menu extension uses the DocTool to execute the corresponding operation. The functions can be executed from the command line. We will document these functions later.
One example of what you can now do with the DocTool is to join multiple files to one.
Extension: Extended the GUI layout engine:
The GUI engine has been extended and improved in some points and some components (e.g. the assistant) uses that new features.
Improvement: Improved the language file module and all language files:
Language files can now have some properties in the file header and the language module can read these properties. The PDF24 Creator uses these properties to determine the language at first application start and to display better language names in the setting page.
We have added Norwegian as new language file. A lot of files are fully translated, but there are still some files with missing parts. The English language file is used for all missing elements. Translations are usually contributed by users.
Improvement: File names when printing in a browser:
When browsers print they often send file names which represents URLs or parts of URLs. We now take that into account and to our best to determine a file name of that submitted name.
Feature: Append and/or prepend a file to the actual one:
The PDF output filter has a new feature to attach a file automatically to the actual one. You will recognize the new element of that filter when you open the Save As dialog. The files can be stored into a profile so that you can apply a predefined profile to printed files. This is a good feature e.g. if you want to append some terms or other information automatically.
Improvement: Save As dialog optimized:
We have seen some effects in older version of the Save As dialog which could be optimized. Loading a profile is now faster. Older version have a bug and load profile twice because of some events. File select elements could sometimes not be stored/loaded into/from a profile.
Improvement: Prompt for "The document XXX is not yet saved ..." optimized:
The prompt of "The document XXX has not been saved. Do you want to save it?" also appeared if you have only loaded a document. It would be better to show that message only if the document has been modified. We have implemented that in this way.
Improvement: Updater optimized:
The GUI, update request, downloading and error handling have been improved. The behavior especially in cases of errors where not satisfying in older versions.
Improvement: Layout fix in the Creator at DPI levels not equal to 96:
The Creator is optimized for DPI levels of 96 DPI but can also be used at other DPI values. Version 7.0 fixes the to large spacer bar between the toolbar and the file path element of the explorer inside the creator.
Improvement: Citrix Multi User session fix:
If a user is logged in multiple times and if the user prints on the PDF printer then the assistant opened in one of the user sessions but not necessarily in the session from which was printed. That was bad. We have optimized some parts in order to fix that behavior.

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PDF24 Creator 7.0.1

BugFix: Assistant App Crash when PDF24 fax is not installed:
If PDF24 fax is not installed then the assistant could not start but rather crashed at startup. That problem is fixed in version 7.0.1.

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PDF24 Creator 7.0.2

BugFix: Normal page view of the Creator broken:
There are different views of a document inside the creator. There are different previews and there is the normal page number view. The normal page number view was broken because there were missing images in the bin file. We have fixed that.

PDF24 Creator 7.0.3

BugFix: Preview of the assistant broken if a PDF password is inside a profile:
When you select a profile which contains a PDF password and when you click on the preview button then the preview opens without showing anything. We have fixed that problem.
BugFix: Profile with PDF password without using the Save As dialog wrongly applied:
When you use a profile which contains a PDF password to save the actual file without the Save As dialog then the password inside the profile was wrongly applied and you could not open the PDF file with the password you have entered. The PDF24 Creator encrypts the password and stores it inside the registry. Without the Save As dialog we forgot to decrypt the password before applying it to the PDF file so that you could not open the file with your password. That problem is fixed.

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PDF24 Creator 7.0.4

BugFix: Assistant opens in background:
Users have reported that the windows of the assistant opens in background after you have printed on the PDF printer. That's a bit annoying. We have solved that problem in version 7.0.4.

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PDF24 Creator 7.0.5

Append a file via profile was broken:
Version 7.0.0 introduced a new feature to append a file at the beginning and at the end to the actual one via a profile. There was a bug in appending a file at the end. Appending a file at the beginning worked, appending a file at the beginning and at the end worked to but appending a file at the end only was broken. Version 7.0.5 fixes this bug.

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PDF24 Creator 7.0.6

BugFix: Page-Extract-Dialog could not be opened via tools menu:
The page extract dialog could not be opened via the tools menu of the creator. We have fixed that issue.
Extension: DocTool command line documentation:
We have added a documentation of the command line of the DocTool. Calling the DocTool without command line arguments prints the documentation on the screen.
BugFix: Multi-Page-Tiff output broken:
Multi-Page-Tiff files could not be generated with the corresponding output filter of the Save As dialog. We have fixed that too.

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PDF24 Creator 7.0.7

BugFix: Issue with pinned directories under Windows 10 solved:
Opening a pinned folder under windows 10 mysteriously started the PDF24 DocTool application. Version 7.0.7 brings a workaround which fixes this behavior. We currently do not know why Windows 10 is doing that. We hope that we will get some more information about that new behavior in order to implement a better solution.
Extension: -profile flag for the join operation of the DocTool:
We have added a profile flag (-profile PROFILE_ID) for the join operation of the DocTool to apply that profile after having joined the input files.

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PDF24 Creator 7.1.0

Improvement: Better PDF printer configuration:
The installer of version 7.1.0 uses a better PDF printer configuration. TrueType fonts are now downloaded as softfonts by default. This fixes a lot of bugs related to font problems such as font substitution or character issues. User who had problems with fonts should try this version.
Extension: New user configuration options:
The user configuration now has the option keys NoOnlineConverter, NoShellContextMenuExtension, NoShellFileContextMenuExtension, NoShellDirectoryContextMenuExtension, NoShellBackgroundContextMenuExtension, NoEmbeddedBrowser. All of these options are of type DWORD. A value of 1 disables the corresponding feature whereas a value of 0 leaves that feature enabled. Al of these options can be manipulated via the settings of the software.
Extension: Some extension in the settings interface:
There are two new sections in the interface. The first one is the Explorer context menu section. Here you can enable/disable all or some of the Explorer context menu extension features. The second section can be used to control the features of the application where you currently can enable/disable the PDF24 Online Converter as fall-back tool. The interface itself can now new resized, minimized and maximized. We have also optimized the left pane of the windows.
Extension: The setup now installs the latest Ghostscript 9.16
Extension: Updates of language files. Please send us translation of the new texts.

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