Tag: bug fixes

Hi,
we released PDFsam Basic version 4.2.2. In this version, beside the usual PDF engine, translations nad bundled JDK updates, we implemented a couple of changes requested by our users:

1. Application wide shortcut to execute the current task: Just press CTRL + X and the task will run.
2. The numerical sorting policy of the selection table has been improved to consider trailing digits, this means that file 10.pdf will appear after file 2.pdf
3. Default file name sorting is now locale sensitive and should yield better results (Ex. the _ character coming before other alphanumeric characters)
4. Moving rows manually clears the currently selected sorting policy
5. You can now click on the column header to set a sorting policy and then add the files, the files will be added sorted
6. Linux portable bundle is now a tar.gz and retains files permissions

As usual you can get it from the download page.
Enjoy!

We just released the version 4.1.4 of PDFsam Basic. In this release we upgraded the bundled JDK to the latest Adopt OpenJDK 11.0.8, we have updated Sejda to its latest version with few bug fixes. We also updated the translations and fixed few bugs.
You can get it from the download page.
Enjoy!

We just released the new version 2.1.7 of PDFsam Visual. We fixed a couple of bugs related to the Open Folder button that wasn’t always working as expected. It also now always open the Explorer window in foreground.
You can download it from the download page.
Enjoy!

Hi,
we just released the new PDFsam Visual. In this version we updated the PDF engine with few bug fixes and improvements, we fixed an issue in Merge and Alternate Mix with encrypted files, we added a new checkbox to the Extract Pages to let the task generate separate files for each selected page set. We also finally notarized the MacOS .dmg so that Catalina doesn’t scare the users away anymore.
As usual you can get it from the download page.
Enjoy!

We released the new PDFsam Visual 2.1.2 where we fixed few bugs and we updated the PDF engine. You can get it from the download page.
Enjoy!

The new release 2.1.1 of PDFsam Visual is out.

• We upgraded all the underlying components (PDF engine, Electron, PDF rendering engine..)
• We fixed few bugs and improved some error/feedback message
• We added an option to automatically populate the output folder with the parent directory of the selected PDF file
• We added a context menu to most of the tools, to allow the user to quickly set the output field same as one of the input files
• The Merge module can now combine PDF files and images

You can get it from the download page.
Enjoy

We just released the new 4.0.5 of PDFsam Basic, you can download it from the download page.
We updated the bundled jdk to the latest version 11.0.5, updated translations and fixed an issue some users where getting when launching PDFsam on Windows:

Exception in thread “WindowsNativeRunloopThread” java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.staticScreen_getScreens(Native Method)
at com.sun.glass.ui.Screen.initScreens(Screen.java:412)
at com.sun.glass.ui.Application.lambda$run$1(Application.java:152)

For those interested in this issue there is some discussion on Stackoverflow, the openjfx-dev mailing list and the bug report we opened.
Enjoy

Hi,
we had few requests for a 32-bit version of PDFsam Visual and after a bit of work we managed to provide one.
We also upgraded the underlying PDF engine, fixed an issue with UNC paths on Windows, fixed an issue related to batch text extraction, here the complete changelog.
You can get the new version from the download page.
A big Thank you to the Electron, the AdoptOpenJDK and the OpenJDK teams for their amazing job.
Enjoy

We just released the new version 4.0.3 of PDFsam Basic. You can now load a list of PDF files from a csv/text file, we added a [TOTAL_FILESNUMBER] placeholder, a Clear button to the Split modules to clear settings, we upgraded the PDF engine, translations and bundled OpenJDK and we added a setting to disable default PDF compression.
You can get it from the download page.
Enjoy!

Since the release of PDFsam Basic 4 we had some support requests regarding the application being unusable and starting with a white screen on Windows.

After some investigation we found some tickets on the openjdk bug tracker here, here and few others, we tested the proposed workaround and it seems to have fixed the issue for those users experiencing the white screen.

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