Ability to add pages before and after the actual document
Background pages can now be applied with different modes, i.e. first page of
the background on the first page, the second page on all other pages
Drag & Drop: When printable files are dragged to a PDFCreator window,
they are automatically printed to the PDFCreator printer
While leaving the settings wind the settings are now checked for problems
Application Icon in 256x256 resolution
Reworked post processing of PDFs. All processing steps (background, signing
etc) are now done in one go, resulting in faster conversion
Stamps and Background page can be configured to be applied to first, last or
all pages
Bugs fixed
The stamping font was not always used properly, when the name was different
from the PostScript name of the font.
Temp files were not always released and remained in the temp folder for some
time
Synchronization problem with auto-save. The job result was evaluated in some
circumstances for it was finished, which was displayed as error
Under some circumstances, the output files may have been saved in the wrong
folder while trying to find a unique filename
The PDFCreator printing window was placed below other windows when the main
window was shown already
The default title replacement settings had doc before docx, which caused an
'x' to appear at the end of titles for docx documents
Known issues
We have seen problems with opening a mail client from PDFCreator with
Windows 8 and Thunderbird. The MAPI32.dll method just fails. This disappears
when the Log level is set to Debug, without observable reason.
Still missing
COM interface to automate PDFCreator (work on that has started)
A way to manage pending print jobs (will start after the release)
The new design isn’t fully compatible when desktop font settings are other than standard 96dpi. This is getting more and more common now that we have desktops and laptops with high pixel density screens.
Yes, we know that there are some problems left. We are currently working on fixing them (I have a higher resolution on my home laptop as well and found this annoying ;-))
When printing to jpeg images, the filenames of resultant files have a suffix in the form of page number. The page numbers should be prefixed by zero
(output01.jpg, output02.jpg, …output99.jpg). This way, the file would
ALWAYS be sorted and listed automatically.
The current version of 1.9.x does NOT do that. It removes leading zeroes!
This zero-padding behavior could be set in 1.7.2, but not in 1.9.x beta!!!
Signing documents are an incredible feature, many users need it.
Wishlist based on limitation of version 1.7.x:
1) Should be able to set font settings for signature.
2) Should be able to set custom signature appearance with rich-text formatting capabilities
a) (html?)
b) should be possible to add images to the left/right of the text
c) adjust text + images in a table.
d) change/remove the ‘V’ checkmark, which behaves as a watermark in the signature box.
e) should be possible to set fonts/formatting
3) Should also be possible to set signature ‘after text’ with an optional margin. This way, i can set the signature just after the end of the written document content. Currently I can only set up signature as a box at a fixed position.