PDF Shaper v5.2 Released 5.Apr.2016 Whats New New Features • Support of PDF-to-RTF conversion (PDF & Word tool). • Log displays security info of PDF file and error codes. • New options to Crop tool - position, size and measurement units. Enhancements • Improvements to Crop tool and Watermark tool. • User interface has been updated and improved. • Help file and installer have been updated. Bug Fixes • Minor bug fixes. Download: PDF Shaper Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v5.3 Released 12.May.2016 Whats New New Features • Added new themes. Windows 10 theme used as default. Enhancements • Improvements to PDF to RTF conversion. • Translations have been updated. Bug Fixes • Minor bug with changing pages in PDF Viewer. • Minor bug fixes Download: PDF Shaper 5.3 Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v6.0 Released 15.June.2016 Whats New New Features • New user interface. • PDF to TXT, PDF to RTF and DOC to PDF tools. • Support of high DPI monitors and DPI scaling. • Italian translation. Enhancements • Program has been optimized for Windows 10. • Improved program performance and PDF viewer. • Improved text extraction and image conversion. • Help file and translations have been updated. Bug Fixes • Minor bug with text selection in PDF Viewer. • Minor bug fixes. Download: PDF Shaper 6.0 Changelog: PDF Shaper
New version is packed with some extra software installation a bit tricky not to select (go into personalization and uncheck boxes).
PDF Shaper v6.1 Released Sept.05.2016\ Enhancements • User interface has been improved. • PDF Viewer has been updated. • Translations have been updated. Bug Fixes • Bug with removing images. • Bug with PDF to TXT conversion from command line. • Minor bug fixes. Download: PDF Shaper 6.1 Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v7 Released November.02.2016 Whats New New Features • New PDF reading and rendering engine. • Support of text watermarks. • Support of DOCX documents • Separated Encrypt and Decrypt tools. Enhancements • DOC to PDF tool improvements: • Support for math symbols. • Improved support for bookmarks. • Support for dot/dash patterned lines. • Improved accessibility support. • Support for hatch pattern filling. • Support for Unicode Surrogate Pair characters. • Support for text inside shapes. • PDF Viewer improvements: • Added search box • Improved PDF document loading speed • Support for annotations and anti-aliasing fonts • User interface has been improved. • PDF Viewer and preview module have been improved. • Improvements to command-line support. • Translations have been updated. Bug Fixes • Rare bug with opening protected files. • Bug with decrypting protected files. • Minor bug fixes. Download: PDF Shaper 7.0 Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v7.1 Released 9-Feb-2017 Whats New New Features • Ability to merge protected and unprotected PDF documents. • Support of form filling and saving. • Option to save each image as separate PDF file. • Command-line option to remove images. Enhancements • Program uses system font and theme as default. • Improved program stability and performance. • Improved compatibility with Windows 10. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with copying text to clipboard. • Fixed bug with saving file with settings. • Fixed minor bug with update notifications. • Minor bug fixes. Download: PDF Shaper 7.1 Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v7.2 Released 14-Mar-2017 Whats New New Features • Added French translation. • Settings menu in Main Window. • Option to add PDF information into output document. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface. • Improved compatibility with high-DPI monitors. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with extracting blurry images. • Resolved problem with resizing images in Watermark tool. • Minor bug fixes. Download: PDF Shaper 7.2 Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper is good. It´s necessary to check carefully the installation options to avoid the installation of other software.
PDF Shaper v7.3 Released 04.24.2017 Whats New New Features • Additional view for main window - list. • Codepage support for ANSI translations. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface for standard DPI resolution. • Improved pdf to text conversion. • Optimized memory handling. Bug Fixes • Minor bug fixes. Download: PDF Shaper 7.3 Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v7.4 Released 08.08.2017 Whats New New Features • New main icon. • New image extraction method. • Added Chinese translation. • Ability to add duplicate files in Merge project. Enhancements • Updated translations. • Improved user interface. • Improved doc to pdf conversion. • Improvements to program's performance. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with keyboard support in main window. • Fixed bug with extracting images from PDF. • Fixed bug with opening password-protected PDF documents. • Resolved problem with decrypting PDF documents. • Minor bug fixes and improvements.
Installs another software, changes the start page in Firefox. I didn´t see any option to disable this. Not good.
Robin are you using the free version? see bottom of page for clean version!! http://www.pdfshaper.com/download.html "All versions are multilingual and work under Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (32 and 64 bit). On this page you can download a full version of PDF Shaper Free or evaluation version of PDF Shaper Professional and try it for 10 days. Download these files, to upgrade your product to the latest version. Also you can download free version without optional offers."
PDF Shaper v.8.0 Released 11.02.2017 Whats New New Features • Introduced Premium Edition. • Added "Icons" theme (set as default). • Added OCR (optical character recognition) support. • New tool to protect content of PDF document. • Added option to merge files without loading (direct access). • Added option to load and merge selected pages. • Added option to delete last pages in document. • Added Slovenian translation. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Updated "List" theme and user interface. • Improved merging of big files. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with re-loading PDF document in PDF Viewer • Fixed bug with losing bookmarks (outlines) during merge. • Minor bug fixes and improvements. Download: PDF Shaper Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v.8.1 Released 12.12.2017 Whats New New Features • Added display options to PDF viewer (form filling, anti-aliasing etc.). Enhancements • Updated user interface and translations. • Improvements to OCR rendering. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with main window and dark theme in Windows. • Minor bug fixes and improvements. Download: PDF Shaper Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v.8.2 Released 8-Mar-2018 Whats New New Features • New icon for PDF files. • Option to numerate pages in PDF document (Watermark tool). • Option to add multi-line text as watermark (including Unicode). • Ability to add image, text and page numbers as watermark on same page. • Support of system TrueType fonts, codepages and styles. • Option to select pages for PDF to Image conversion. Enhancements • Updated user interface and translations. • Improvements to text detection and extraction. • Improved program's performance and stability. Bug Fixes • Fixed bug with main window and dark theme in Windows. • Fixed bug with merging PDF files from command line. • Fixed bug with rotating first page even if it was skipped in pages. • Fixed bug with displaying rotated and cropped PDF files in PDF Viewer. • Fixed bug with loading PNG image for Image to PDF conversion. • Resolved problem with processing protect PDF documents in some tools. • Minor bug fixes and improvements. Download: PDF Shaper Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v.8.4 Released June 21 2018 Whats New New Features • Option to integrate PDF Shaper into shell. • Option to load file list from command line. • Option to crop page using percent units. • Option to set margins in Crop PDF tool. • Log file (log.txt) for command line operations. Enhancements • Updated help file and translations. • Changed file extension for file lists (*.psfl). • Improvements to command line processing. • Improved PDF to TXT conversion. Bug Fixes • Fixed minor memory leak in multilingual versions. • Fixed bug with multipage text extraction (OCR versions). • Fixed bug with page rotation (if page has rotation mark). • Fixed bug with running OCR in some cases. • Minor bug fixes and improvements. Download: PDF Shaper Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v.8.5 Released Aug 16 2018 Whats New New Features • Turkish translation. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Improved PDF to Image conversion and text extraction. • Improved OCR reading. Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with "error 5" during installation. • Fixed bug with fonts and dark Windows themes. • Minor fix with update notifications. • Minor bug fixes and improvements. Download: PDF Shaper Changelog: PDF Shaper
PDF Shaper v.8.6 Released 18.Sep.2018 Whats New New Features • New text extraction method. • Option to select pages in "PDF to TXT" tool. Enhancements • Updated installer and translations. • Updated user interface in PDF Viewer. • DOC to PDF updates: - PDF/A support. - Improved support for shapes and additional shapes. - Support for Unicode and RTL text. - Improved support for list formatting and text line spacing. - Improved support for Asian and far-east languages. - Improved table support and text inside shapes. - Improved support for text input fields. - Improved support for highlight colors. - Improved support for international date formats Bug Fixes • Resolved problem with extracting text from protected PDF files. • Resolved problem with high CPU usage during text extraction. • Minor bug fixes and improvements. Download: PDF Shaper Changelog: PDF Shaper
