Gnostice Information Technologies

"FREE PDF READER" History

Version 1.4 - August 11, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Improved page rendering and scrolling
  • Optimized rendering of 1-bit and 4-bit images
  • Support for JPEG-2000 images

Version 1.3.1 - July 22, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Support for navigation by history (links and bookmarks)
  • New Page Display Settings dialog
  • New integrated navigation panel - currently having a bookmarks tab
• Resolved
  • Scrolling in single page and side-by-side layout
  • Compression level option in Export As Image dialog

Version 1.3 - July 3, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Multi-page viewing
    • Page layout options - Single page, single page continuous, side-by-side, side-by-side continuous with 2 columns, side-by-side continuous with user-specified number of columns, and auto-fit columns
    • Option to show cover page separately in side-by-side layouts
    • Option to enable or disable gaps between pages
    • Option to enable or disable page borders when there are no gaps between pages
  • Enhanced link navigation - navigate to area, fit page style, page zoom setting
  • Enhanced export-to-image feature with option to specify single or multi-page TIFF output, compression type, resolution scaling (72, 96 and 110 DPIs), and custom image dimensions or as viewed in viewer
  • Support for fill and stroke with tiling graphics patterns

Version 1.2 - May 15, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Apple Macintosh (OS X) support
  • Optimized document loading performance
  • Support for rendering of CMYK images and masked images
  • Options to select different look-and-feel (as supported by JRE)
  • Printer options for specifying paper trays, paper collation, and paper sides
• Fixes
  • Rendering of Type 0 Fonts (CID Fonts)

Version 1.1 - March 13, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Interactive links in viewer
  • Support for rendering of masked images in the viewer
  • Print dialog options to specify page size, margins, and orientation
  • New print to file option
• Fixes
  • Decompression with FlateDecode filter
  • Rendering of rotated pages with crop box
  • Miscellaneous issues

Version 1.0 - February 3, 2009

• Viewing
  • Supported font types - embedded Type 0, Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType
  • Supported image types
    • Encoding - CCITT Fax and DCT
    • Colorspaces - Device (RGB, CMYK and grayscale), CIE-based (RGB, grayscale, and ICC), and special (Indexed, Separation* and DeviceN*)
    • Bits per color component - 1, 4, and 8
  • Display of form fields - ordinary and flattened
  • Page view options - fit, zoom, and rotation
  • Navigation options - first page, last page, next page, previous page, and custom (manual input by user)
• Printing
  • Dialog options for specifying
    • printer from list
    • printer page size
    • page range - all pages, odd pages, even pages, reverse order, and custom (manual input by user)
    • number of copies
    • automatic page resizing
    • automatic rotation and centering
• Export
  • PDF pages to image formats