New in PDFClerk 3.12

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bulletOn Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), or higher, when a PDF containing rotated pages is opened, these are now "normalized", so that they are no longer internally rotated, while their visual appearance remains unaltered.

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bulletSplitting pages while showing a box other than the media box no longer causes incorrect splits.

bulletMirroring rotated pages no longer causes content misalignment.

bulletCreating a new annotation now deselects any selected annotations.

bulletAdding links and other static annotations based on selected text is accurate again.

bulletCreating a new annotation now deselects any selected annotations.

bulletVarious internal bugfixes.


New in PDFClerk 3.11

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bullet Added merging of annotations from multiple PDF documents.

bullet Added imposition template option to print CMYK plate identifiers for offset printing.

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bullet Corrected layout errors that had crept into the document window in the French and German localizations in 3.10.


New in PDFClerk 3.10.1

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bullet Resolved some potential memory related issues during program startup.

bullet Resolved an issue with background colors when splitting or exploding documents.

bullet Added a workaround to an annotation ordering in Mac OS X 10.5.8.


New in PDFClerk 3.10

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bullet Added overlay option to import menu. You can now overlay one PDF document on top of another.

bullet Added font and font size scripting properties to form fields.

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bullet Custom page color is now respected again when exporting and printing.


New in PDFClerk 3.9.5

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bullet Added scripting properties to offer better control of static text box text.

bullet Added sticky sketch creation mode to facilitate hand-writing text using a sketch object. (Press option while selecting the Sketch option to activate. Press escape, enter or return to end sticky sketch mode.)

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bullet Improved the automated license upgrade feature. It now needs even less user interaction.

bullet When an imposition is active the Draw submenu now indicates the display box used to draw the individual pages, rather than the display box used to draw the imposed sheets (which is always the media box).

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bullet Exporting to bitmaps through AppleScript now honours page ranges.

bullet Implemented a few corrections that should reduce the chance of some difficult to trace, rare crashes.

bullet When saving a new document, the file name shown in the window title no longer has "(Unsaved)" appended to it. Subsequent saves will also no longer ask again for a file name.

bullet Rotated polygons now draw correctly upon loading a PDFClerk document.

bullet Removed a workaround for a Mac OS issue with outline destinations, which got fixed in 10.6 and higher. (The workaround could cause duplicated undo actions.)

bullet Template editor: entering top and bottom sheet margins no longer exchanges the values.


New in PDFClerk 3.9.1

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bullet Extended optional auto opening of exported PDF documents, so that you can choose to open in PDFClerk, Preview or Adobe Reader.

bullet In Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) PDFClerk supports iChat Theater sharing of PDF files.

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bullet Implemented workaround for bug introduced in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) that could slow down or even freeze PDFClerk in certain contditions after opening very large documents.

bullet Resolved an issue in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) that caused the page to rotate, instead of the page object when trying to rotate the object.

bullet Annotation ordering now works correctly on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

bullet Resolved issue with width stepper in placement inspector when dealing with objects that constrain their proportions.

bullet Flipping even/odd columns in an imposition template flipped the wrong column.


New in PDFClerk 3.9

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bullet German localization.

bullet French localization.

bullet The contextual menu on a page now offers the option to print only that page.

Fixes

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bullet The sheets per signature value is now set correctly when opening a PDFClerk Pro document.

bullet The sheets per signature entry field in the toolbar is now enabled, if appropriate, when loading a PDFClerk Pro document.

bullet Static annotation handles are now drawn when in "edit all annotations" mode.

bullet The sheets list for impositions now scrolls to the selected page again.


New in PDFClerk 3.8.1

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bullet Option in the Display Boxes Inspector (media box templates) to resize a page's media box to an outset from a secondary display box.

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bullet The workaround in version 3.8 for a bug introduced by Apple in Mac OS X 10.5.7 was inefficient and could exponentially increase the time it takes to open a document. This fix implements an efficient workaround so that opening even huge documents is snappy again.

bullet PDFClerk Pro no longer offers to save encrypted documents when quitting.


New in PDFClerk 3.8

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bullet Annotation reordering now works for all supported annotation types.

bullet Dragging selected pages from the page list to the Finder exports a PDF containing those pages.

bullet Fullscreen option, now independently of remote control function.

bullet Kiosk mode when in fullscreen mode is optional.

bullet Positioning, sizing and rotating objects now works on all selected objects, where possible.

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bullet It is now possible to change the font of selected form fields without needing to bring up the inspector.

bullet It is now possible to change the font of all selected text objects (like form fields and text boxes).

bullet Clearing all form fields now also clears check boxes and radio buttons.

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bullet Implemented workaround for bug introduced in Mac OS X 10.5.7, where annotation order on a page shifts by one when the page is first opened. (Unfortunately this does not fix the issue in other applications that use the same frameworks, most prominently Preview.)

bullet Creating a new polyline no longer draws it on all pages.

bullet Changing a form field's font when multiple form fields are selected now changes the font in all selected fields.

bullet The explode dialog incorrectly listed "Sheets Per Document" where it should read "Sheet Sides Per Document".

bullet Resolved some glitches to do with light table mode and window resizing.

bullet Resolved some glitches when switching to a different list view while in light table mode.

bullet Changed import document shortcut to command-control-I, so as not to clash with text-italic shortcut.

bullet Fixed issue where if template slot fit percentage was set to 0, behaviour would be unpredictable. From now on 0% gets interpreted as 1.

bullet Resolved issue where certain imposition contexts could lead to undesirable behaviour.

bullet Resolved drawing glitch when drawing an annotation index number when editing all annotations (work mode 4).


New in PDFClerk 3.7.1

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bullet Added resize handles to the bottom of the sidebar lists (both on the left and right side of the document window).

bullet Watermark rotation can now be specified with a negative value. It will be translated into a positive vale (e.g: -90º becomes 270º).

bullet Holding the option key while clicking the center button in the placement inspector will center objects only horizontally on a page.

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bullet The sidebar lists on either end of the document window no longer resize when the window is resized. Only the preview area resizes.

bullet When toggling light table state, the previous width of the left sidebar is now remembered.

bullet A PDFClerk document can now be saved at any time.

bullet Streamlined user feedback when saving speech to an audio file.

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bullet Some UI glitches.

bullet Undo/Redo of page sorting works again.

bullet Removed a freeze that could occur under rare circumstances.

bullet In mixed annotation mode objects couldn't be deleted from a page.

bullet Since version 3.7 selecting text and then creating a text box was not creating a copy of the selected text for editing in the box.

bullet Canceling the document settings dialog now also cancels changes to watermarks.

bullet Undoing changes to document settings now also undoes any changes to watermarks within the dialog's session.

bullet Resolved an issue with calculation of creep amount.

bullet A 'default' undo menu item no longer appears when opening a PDFClerk document.

bullet Adding a check box from the toolbar popup menu now really adds a check box, rather than a push button.

bullet Resolved issue with "Revert to saved" functionality.


New in PDFClerk 3.7

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bullet Annotation sequence on a page can now be reversed with a single command in the contextual menu for pages (useful with forms).

bullet Form field tab order can now be adjusted by dragging a field's index number to another form field, to swap sequence order.

bullet Added a mixed mode for editing static and dynamic annotations simultaneously.

bullet Added a "Clear All Form Fields" menu item to the Dynamic Annotations menu. Use this after having finished designing a form to clear any form field contents.

bullet Added a warning the first time (per session) you change a media box when the document is shown by another display box.

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bullet Swapped orientation of horizontal and vertical page splitting to be more intuitive. (Horizontal split now splits horizontally instead of along horizontal axis, which would result in a vertical split & vv.)

bullet When adding an annotation to a page the new annotation now becomes the last annotation on the page, rather than the first (this results in a more likely satisfying tab order when designing PDF forms).

bullet When adding a button annotation to a page using the toolbar popup, it now defaults to the more widely used check-box button, rather than a rarely used push-button.

bullet The Add Button Widget menu item now has a submenu to chose the type of button to create.

bullet When duplicating dynamic annotations, they are now created with a unique field name, rather than with the same field name as the original.

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bullet Page Labels popup of application preferences works again.

bullet Changes to font settings under the Labels tab of the application preferences dialog are now reflected again.

bullet Corrected text of undo menu items for horizontal and vertical page splitting.

bullet Changing view mode when a form field is being edited now stops editing that form field.

bullet When creating a form field the font is now set to the last font used for previously created form fields.

bullet Resolved an issue when importing PDF documents without outlines.

bullet Resolved a number of UI glitches relating to shapes with callouts.

bullet Trying to save an empty PDFClerk document would fail.


New in PDFClerk 3.6

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bullet Grid for object placement.

bullet Added an easy way to put frames around form fields, and underlines under links. (Bring up contextual menu on selected dynamic annotations.)

bullet Selected pages can now be merged into one page. (Bring up contextual menu in the page list to access the feature.)

bullet Added an easy and quick way to split individual/selected pages (bring up contextual menu on a page to find it).

bullet Option to set starting file number or use page labels as file numbers when exploding to PDF.

bullet Added import of form field data in CSV form (as exported from PDFClerk).

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bullet When deleting pages in the pages list, the selection is now set to the first page after the last deleted page.

bullet The pages list no longer scrolls to the last selected page when removing from a selection.

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bullet When closing the Impositions Editor by clicking the OK button immediately after entering a value in a field, that value is now retained.

bullet Corrected issues where the Display Boxes Inspector and other elements could be confused as to which page to treat as the current page in certain situations.

bullet Corrected bitmap export for pages that are not shown by their media box, when the shown box is smaller than the media box.

bullet Worked around an issue where some radio button/check box annotations would lose their settings when a PDFClerk document is saved.

bullet Corrected a glitch that would cause those same annotations to not be correctly set when reading the PDFClerk document back in.

bullet The active displaybox wasn't being set correctly when opening a PDFClerk document. The document would always open showing the crop box.

bullet When saving PDFClerk files, the displayboxes of original PDF documents whose media box origin was displaced, were being incorrectly written.

bullet Corrected some glitches in CSV form data export.

bullet Resolved an issue when promoting an imposed document to master.

bullet Miscellaneous minor corrections.


New in PDFClerk 3.5.1

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bullet In text selection mode, holding down the option key while dragging, selects the text that falls within the selection rectangle rather than selecting text by line. This makes it easy to e.g. select an individual column of a page.

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bullet When editing cells in the pages list, tabbing now selects the next editable cell. Shift tabbing selects the previous editable cell, across rows when appropriate.

bullet Hitting the return key while editing a cell in the pages list now starts editing the cell below it. Shift return moves to the cell above it.

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bullet Corrected a bug that could cause a rare crash when the current page in the preview area changed.

bullet It is now possible to set the font color of form fields.

bullet Hitting Shift-Tab on top-level outline items no longer makes them disappear. It now has no effect.

bullet Turning on registration marks no longer draws them on the individual imposed pages.

bullet Some registration marks on non-imposed pages would not draw.

bullet Resolved minor glitch with the page stepper in the Index Table linking dialog.

bullet Resolved bug introduced in v3.5 that could cause the automated outline generation feature to fail to find the target page for some outlines.

bullet Made a small improvement to the automated outline generation from links feature.


New in PDFClerk 3.5

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bullet Automated hyperlinking of cross references in the document using regular expressions.

bullet Automated hyperlinking of Index Table entries.

bullet Several compression options for saving bitmap image objects in a PDFClerk document.

bullet It is now possible to detach page contents so that they become a shape object on top of a blank page.

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bullet Moved showing of license agreement back into first run of application.

bullet PDFClerk Pro now asks about auto updating permission when first run.

bullet PDFClerk now defaults to saving bitmap image objects with lossless compression when saving its own file format.

bullet When editing a text box, now the background will retain the text box color.

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bullet The Go To Page menu command would not work while the preview area had focus.

bullet Bug introduced in 3.4.3 disabled sorting pages by clicking on the columns headers in the pages list.

bullet Improved object selection behaviour in certain circumstances.


New in PDFClerk 3.4.3

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bullet Resolved issue introduced in version 3.4.2, which could result in a crash when creating an untitled document in demo mode.

bullet Resolved issue where the automatic outline creation dialog would not show a preview of the PDF if the original document had been moved after opening it in PDFClerk Pro.

bullet Add polyline menu item is now disabled when it should be.


New in PDFClerk 3.4.2

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bullet Added callouts to static text boxes and static rectangles.

bullet Added application wide option to be warned about printer paper size not matching size of first page before printing. (This option is off by default.)

bullet Added application wide preference for defaulting to a border around text boxes.

bullet Added ability to apply auto-incrementing (or decrementing) number replacement in regular expression find/replace in outlines.

bullet Added ability to export form data as a csv file.

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bullet Automatic outline generation from TOC now correctly handles leader lines containing middle dot character.

bullet Rotated opaque static text boxes now draw their background correctly.

bullet Exporting to PDF while running in demo mode no longer balloons the file size of documents with more than a few pages.

bullet Testing the auto-outline creation dialog in demo mode no longer causes malfunctions.


New in PDFClerk 3.4.1

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bullet Double clicking on a page (i.e. not on an object on the page) when in annotation mode switches back to text mode.

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bullet Under some circumstances, double clicking a dynamic annotation would fail to auto switch to Edit Dynamic Annotations mode.

bullet The automatic review feature introduced in v3.4 would open the generated PDF(s) in a new instance of the PDFClerk application.


New in PDFClerk 3.4

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bullet Turn off hierarchical indentation during auto outline creation.

bullet Apply hierarchy altering actions through the find and replace dialog for outlines.

bullet Freetext annotations can be edited inline. (Double click annotation to start editing.)

bullet Double clicking an annotation changes to the correct work mode for that annotation and selects it, regardless of what the current work mode is. Freetext annotations and text boxes will automatically enter editing mode.

bullet The prefix/suffix fields of the relabel dialog support the special variables "$title", "$author", "$subject", "$sourceName", "$currentPageNumber" and "$totalPages", which are dynamically replaced by their respective values in the document, both when displayed in the page list, and when rendered on the pages. (So the labels adjust automatically as you reorder pages and/or add/remove pages, or alter some document attributes.

bullet Name based watermarks support the same special variables mentioned above.

bullet Added workmode selection buttons to the Toolbar.

bullet New application preference to open PDFs after exporting them (does not apply to exploded PDF generation).

bullet Added link, under the Help Menu, to the online tutorials.

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bullet Creating outlines from selected links now flows through the auto outline creation dialog, providing more control and better results, especially in the case of columnar TOC layouts.

bullet From now on, leaving the number field empty in the relabel pages dialog will cause the page number to be omitted from the label during the relabeling process.

bullet Moved Find Field from Toolbar to the Find list.

bullet Redesigned a number of Toolbar items.

bullet Redesigned the list views navigation bar.

bullet Made some changes in scripting terminology to page inclusion and exclusion types, since some terms were conflicting with other properties (namely: first page, last page).

bullet Formatting of samples in the search results list now conforms to the more usual formatting as in Apple's preview.

bullet Other minor UI tweaks.

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bullet Using the Tab key to indent outlines now correctly takes into account whether the option key is being held down (previously it was always treating it as down).

bullet Resolved an issue between the inspector and line endings, which could cause unpredictable behaviour.

bullet Removed FDF export menu, which made it into a recent update by mistake.

bullet Multiline page labels are now shown in the page list with all linefeeds removed. (This should clear up some cases where the display could become messy.)

bullet Scripting an annotation's stroke style to solid now works.

bullet Setting properties of static annotations in scripts did not always update the content view.

bullet Improved implementation of watermark scriptability. All properties should now be settable and readable.

bullet Making a new outline in a script now successfully returns a reference to the new outline.


New in PDFClerk 3.3

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bullet New polyline tool. Draw arbitrary shapes consisting of straight lines.

bullet Option to auto-close the path of freehand or polyline shapes.

bullet Static annotations can now draw their fill in one of various blend modes (in scripts this is the "fill mode").

bullet Easily add a cross or check mark to a box when filling out static forms. (Control click on box and choose from top of contextual menu.)

bullet Extended search functionality, available in the Find menu of the Edit menu.

bullet Powerful outline specific find and replace (including regular expressions).

bullet Option to force alphabetical sorting when importing files: Hold down the control key when dropping files or confirming the import dialog.

bullet Watermarks whose name is used as the source text to be rendered onto the pages.

bullet Hierarchal outlines can now be rearranged using Tab and Shift-Tab.

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bullet Changed and improved automatic outline generation feature.

bullet It is now possible to set a fill color for dynamic annotations of type square and circle.

bullet Simplified and restructured the Appearance Inspector, while adding support for new features.

bullet If the remembered position of a document window, when opening a PDFClerk document, doesn't totally fit on one or more screen, the window position is reset to the top left of the main screen.

bullet When creating dynamic annotations the recently set annotation properties will be remembered and used as the new annotation's properties.

bullet When searching text, all found instances of the search strings are now highlighted simultaneously. The selected instance has a distinguishing color.

bullet When inserting a blank page, the page now takes its size and display boxes from the page currently at the place where it is being inserted.

bullet You can no longer preview page 0 in the watermarks preview.

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bullet When exploding a document through AppleScript the number of exported files returned would always be 0.

bullet When exploding a document through AppleScript no errors were raised if a file could not be saved to disk.

bullet Drag-resizing freehand paths now follows the mouse better.

bullet Rotated shapes now draw correctly when a PDFClerk file is reopened.

bullet Rotating a shape after opening a PDFClerk file now rotates the shape correctly.

bullet Corrected cosmetic drawing glitch when undoing rotation of a line.

bullet Improved cursor tracking in the PDF view.

bullet In some cases where it should, the inspector panel did not update.

bullet Improved hit testing on rotated annotations.

bullet Resolved issue where rotating an unrotated object with the rotate left command would rotate it initially in the opposite direction.

bullet Opening a PDFClerk document with freehand paths and then resizing those paths without first moving them would cause the paths to malfunction.

bullet Improved hittesting when dragselecting rotated annotations.

bullet Drag-resizing unrotated polygons now works correctly. Drag-resizing of rotated polygons improved.

bullet Resolved a recently introduced bug that would cause inserted blank pages to be copied/duplicated incorrectly.

bullet Resolved an issue that could sometimes cause an annotation to be added to the wrong group (static/dynamic) making it difficult to select and edit it.

bullet Opacity is now applied to watermarks with text based sources.

bullet Text based watermarks now respond correctly to the different sizing options.

bullet Resolved some issues when importing files.


New in PDFClerk 3.2

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bullet Outlines are now scriptable.

bullet PDF actions are now scriptable.

bullet Option to apply a filter when exporting to PDF or bitmaps. (So you can now produce PDF-X or reduce file size, etc.)

bullet Application preference to open the most recent document on startup. This option overrides the "open untitled document" option when activated and is on by default.

bullet Imposition templates can now be duplicated in the impositions editor.

bullet Text on a page can now be directly accessed in scripts (e.g: "first paragraph of page 1").

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bullet Removed the file type selector from the save panel. The proper way to choose what kind of file to write to disk is by either saving (type:PDFClerk) or exporting (type:PDF)..

bullet When ending editing of a text box by clicking outside the box, the text box will now remain selected (unless the click is on another object: then that object will be selected instead). This makes it more convenient to nudge text boxes after entering text.

bullet Progress info sheets during save and export now provide improved feedback.

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bullet Corrected an oversight that could cause a PDFClerk Pro file to fail to open under certain circumstances.

bullet Corrected an error when saving a PDFClerk document with rotated pages to disk, that could cause those pages to have missing parts upon the document being read back in.

bullet Resolved off-by-one scripting issue in the page ranges argument of the Export command. If your scripts work around the issue up to now, you'll need to remove the work-around. (The range indexes are now one based, instead of 0 based).

bullet Resolved a crash that could occur when saving large documents to disk in demo mode.

bullet Resolved an issue with QuickLook when saving imposed documents to disk.

bullet Several corrections to the inspector panel when inspecting outline actions. (E.g. it now updates when an outline is selected while the caps lock key is down.)

bullet Corrected issue with annotation inspector when a button widget has no caption.

bullet Progress indicator when saving to bitmaps now works again.

bullet Some watermark issues related to changing and syncing to source.

bullet A glitch when placing an annotation on the page by dragging, where the feedback rectangle would not match the drag.

bullet Corrected an issue where copying a static annotation and pasting it to another page made the pasted annotation uneditable.

bullet When copying pages between documents using thumbnail views, the page list would not reflect the changes.


New in PDFClerk 3.1.2

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bullet The following PDF document attributes are now scriptable: title, author, subject, keywords.

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bullet Contentscaling mode properties "width" and "height" have been renamed "fit width" and "fit height" to avoid clashes with the page properties width and height.

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bullet Issue with annotation stamp objects that could, among other things, cause issues with file saving in Demo Mode.

bullet Resolved a memory leak that could occur when closing a document.

bullet Interleaving documents through scripting should now work.

bullet Corrected the scripting dictionary entry for page label opacity.

bullet Scripting page label alignment should now produce correct results.

bullet Scripting changes to document settings should now dynamically update the content view.

bullet Removed the non-functional Go To Page menu item in the Dynamic Annotations Inspector (use Hyperlinks instead).

bullet Watermarks can now again import PDFs.

bullet Corrected scripting issue that failed to get a page's forced display box when the box type was none..

bullet Corrected scripting issue that failed to set and read the manual and none content scaling modes correctly in various places.

bullet Corrected user interface availability in the Annotation Stamp Inspector. (Reloaded stamp objects cannot change their appearance stream.)


New in PDFClerk 3.1.1

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bullet It is no longer possible to drag content to imposed sheets.

bullet Removed a cause for infrequent crashes when exporting to PDF. The downside is that the UI blocks during the export, which may be less than ideal for large documents, but it is better than the potential for crashing.

bullet If the print command was issued while the content view had focus, the PDFClerk Pro print options would not be loaded and printing coud be incorrect.

bullet A cosmetic glitch in the security inspector was corrected.


New in PDFClerk 3.1

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bullet Added extra printing options to the print panel allowing greater control over page rotation and page scaling.

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bullet Fixed an issue with sheet orientation when printing impositions.

bullet Adressed a number of stability and functionality issues in the media browser.


New in PDFClerk 3.0.1

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bullet Watermarks are now scriptable.

bullet Watermarks can now track their source file (so that they dynamically update when the source file is modified).

bullet A watermark's source can now be changed/reconnected after the watermark has been created.

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bullet Corrected input/output values of percentage fields for start/end shape size of lines. (They now work with percentages.).

bullet Imposed documents are now scaled down, if needed, to fit the selected paper size when printing.

bullet Horizontal/Vertical corner radius input fields in Appearance inspector can now be set to 0.

bullet Corrected scriptability of several object properties.

bullet The content view is now always redrawn when the Document Settings dialog is dismissed.

bullet Removed the tool tips in the toolbar and menus because they could cause odd behaviour on some 10.5.2 systems.

bullet Re-installed factory provided slot creep indexes in the factory provided default imposition templates. (If you had an earlier version of PDFClerk Pro installed, you'll need to remove the "PDFClerkPro Impositions.plist" file from the Application Support->PDFClerk folder to gain the indexes as this removal will cause a frash copy of the factory provided templates to be installed.

bullet MS Word documents can again be dropped onto the PDFClerk Pro application icon or onto the page list of an open PDFClerk Pro document.


New in PDFClerk Pro 3.0

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bulletPDF outlines (a.k.a. Boomarks): Create and edit outline items manually or automatically.

bulletPDF annotations (dynamic annotations): Mark up and collaborate on documents with ease.

bulletPDF forms: Create and edit interactive forms using form field annotations.

bulletPDF document encryption.

bulletSelectable and searchable document text.

bulletThumbnail view for light-table style views of your documents.

bulletPDFClerk files can be exchanged without losing custom layouts.

bulletMore powerful page and imposition layout features: incl. even/odd sheet margins and resizing media boxes.

bulletSpeech: Have selected text or whole documents read back to you.

bulletScripting: Automate repetitive tasks using Applescript, Python or Ruby.

bulletFont info: know which fonts are used in selected text.

bulletFullscreen presentation mode (with remote control).

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bullet PDFClerk Pro 3.0 was rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of the improvements in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). While in some places small improvements have been made in a number of areas there are new modes of working.


New in PDFClerk 2.8

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bullet Very flexible "watermarks" (also useful for footers/headers and other recurring patterns).

bullet Step & Repeat layouts.

bullet Media Library for easy access to secondary source material.

bullet Registration mark color can now be user defined.

bullet You can now drag selected text from other applications straight onto a page.

bullet Text based files can now be imported through the open and import dialogs.

bullet New toolbar items and other UI enhancements.

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bullet The list of pages now sorts source names and labels like the Finder does: digits are treated as numbers. This increases the usefulness of sorting on those columns.

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bullet Duplicate command now works in the page list.

bullet Duplicate command now works in the impositions editor.

bullet Dragging in the Impositions Editor's impositions list is enabled again.

bullet Fixed a glitch that could cause files created with some older versions of PDFClerk not to open correctly.

bullet Other minor fixes.


New in PDFClerk 2.7

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bullet Freehand drawing tool.

bullet Optional arrows and other end points for line objects.

bullet Triangle now turned into a proper polygon tool: create polygons with an arbitrary number of sides.

bullet Ability to change the source name of selected pages.

bullet Basic document navigation through Apple Remote.

bullet Duplicate command in the Edit menu.

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bullet Pages no longer forcibly create a white fill when generating a PDF document. So, if an original PDF page is transparent and it's color has not been adjusted in PDFClerk then it will remain transparent in the final PDF document produced by PDFClerk.

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bullet Resolved some undo related glitches.

bullet No longer draws selection marks if there are selected objects while exporting to graphics file.

bullet Copied text boxes now paste correctly again.

bullet Page labels now draw correctly again when set to appear at top (bug introduced in PDFClerk 2.5).

bullet Graphics copied within PDFClerk now paste correctly within PDFClerk.


New in PDFClerk 2.6.1

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bullet PDF sources that specify a rotation are handled correctly again. (This bug was introduced in PDFClerk 2.5.)


New in PDFClerk 2.6

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bullet Export a document's pages as graphics files (jpg, tiff, png, etc).

bullet Trim and bleed marks now can be automatic or manual, greatly enhancing their usability.

bullet New toolbar button for exporting as a single PDF document.

bullet New application preference to choose between using File Name or PDF Title property as the source name in the page list when opening/importing PDF documents.

bullet ⌘= now doubles as an alternative to ⌘+ for zooming in.

bullet Streamlined updating thanks to Sparkle by Andy Matuschak.

bullet Revamped About Box.


Changes

bullet Changed slot size terminology "First Page Size (Dynamic)" to "First Page Size (Scaling)" to better represent what it does.

bullet It is now possible to type positive fractional values that are smaller than 1 into text boxes omitting the leading 0 (e.g. ".25").

bullet New watermark when running in demo mode.


Fixes

bullet Now prints correctly when displaying the document in non-continuous mode.

bullet When reopening a PDFClerk document, page objects are no longer misplaced (bug was introduced in v2.5).

bullet Now remembers imposition mode when opening a PDFClerk file that was saved with the last imposition in the list of impositions.

bullet The sheet size popup button in the Document Settings dialog would not correctly reflect the "Automatic" setting.

bullet Fixed sheet size was not remembered in between sessions of the same PDFClerk document.

bullet Text boxes that have been resized manually no longer forget that fact when saving and opening a PDFClerk file (bug was introduced in v2.5).

bullet Bleed and trim marks are now drawn correctly on rotated pages.

bullet Fixed a bug introduced in v2.5 that swapped the manual top/bottom display box margins when set in imposition templates. (This fixes templates that were last used with v. 2.4, not those last used with v2.5.) Unless you have explicitly set manual display box margins this does not affect you at all. If you set these margins using v2.5 please check and re-set them if needed.

bullet Fixed a bug, introduced in v2.5, that could occasionally result in a crash when closing a document window.


New in PDFClerk 2.5

Hyperlinks

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You can now create and edit hyperlinks, as well as preserve hyperlinks from imported PDF documents.

bullet Getting Personal With Hyperlinks

bullet Inspector Panel links tab


Drawing Tools

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Markup your documents with ovals, rectangles, triangles and lines; with or without fill color and transparency. Frame graphics, text objects and PDF objects or tint them with a transparent fill.

bullet Inspector Panel shape tab


Miscellaneous New Features

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bullet Sheet size for imposition can now be changed in the Document Settings Dialog.

bullet Picas added to measurement units.

bullet When resizing pages you can now specify how to realign its contents (making it much easier to e.g. resize between A4 and US Letter and keep the contents centered). (See: Document Settings Dialog)

bullet Text boxes now accept dragged and pasted graphics.

bullet Select Alternating Pages option in page list contextual menu.

bullet Reverse Selected Pages option in page list contextual menu.

bullet Interleave… option in File menu.

bullet Sheet size for impositions can now be changed in the Document Settings Dialog.

bullet Forward delete can now be used to delete objects

bullet Pressing escape while a PDF document is being imported will stop importing further pages.

bullet Holding down the command key when opening/importing a PDF document will force the file name (instead of the Title property of the PDF document) as the Source Name in the page list.


Changes

bullet All coordinates are now based with 0,0 as the bottom left of the page.

bullet Manually resizing a text box now fixes the vertical size as well as the horizontal.

bullet Revamped and improved inspector panel adapted to new features.

bullet Metric input fields now only allow valid input.

bullet Scrolling in the content view now changes the currently selected page in the list when appropriate.

bullet Zooming in and out much improved.

bullet More efficient opening and insertion of large PDF documents (while keeping the UI responsive).


Fixes

bullet When adding a blank page it is now sized according to document settings, rather than set to 600pt x 800pt.

bullet Page Label settings are now saved and restored.

bullet Corrected a problem when undoing/redoing changes to page sizing mode.

bullet Corrected a bug where a rotated image object could cause other objects to also draw rotated.

bullet Corrected some minor UI glitches.

bullet Corrected some text box editing related glitches.

bullet Display boxes are no longer printed when they are visible on screen.

bullet Improvements to resizing of rotated objects.

bullet Adjusting a display box in the inspector no longer creates other display boxes as well.

bullet Removed a glitch that could cause instability when opening a PDF document into a new PDFClerk document.

bullet An innocuous glitch with multi-page impositions when document has only a single page was corrected.

bullet Links on rotated pages are now correctly rendered to PDF.

bullet Selecting all pages no longer changes the current page.