Infix Change History

Infix Version 5.10 - Released 31st January, 2012

  • When merging documents, bookmarks are now also merged.
  • New find redact dialogue
  • Added ability to find/replace in bookmarks and annotations
  • Added ability to set open action for documents (page, zoom and layout) in the “Loading” preferences tab.
  • z517 - fixed inaccuracies in word count function
  • z531 - increased size of operand stack to cope with unusual PDFs
  • additional fix for the colour picker to stop rounding errors occurring on colour channel values.
  • improved saving of layers information
  • z441 - fixed stack overflow issue when joining/importing long document with article threads
  • z522 - fixed caused of low text rendering quality at small point sizes
  • z515 - fixed issue which could cause infix to run out of memory when removing watermarks from long documents
  • z527 - fixed possible document corruption on save (due to resource sharing between pages)
  • fix for flight checking. if a system font had not been explicitly loaded by Infix prior to flight checking, the flight check would always think it was missing from the fonts directory.
  • z528, z497, z520, z476 - problem with colour-key image masks resolved
  • z530 - Shift+Ctrl Select behaviour not working correctly with nested clip masks
  • z532 - text rendering issue
  • z533 - Euro character rendering - improved TrueType font parsing
  • Dictionaries and name trees are now RedBlack (balanced) trees. Should improve performance for some jobs.
  • z524 - fixed issue with overprinted text (synthetic bold)
  • z534 - fixed detection and export of 'O' and 'o' macron characters to
  • z535 - stability issue in font code after opening corrupt PDF
  • z271 - improved behaviour editing rotated text on rotated pages
  • z539 - slight change to work merge behaviour to cope with unusually spaced text
  • z536 - fixed crash opening swatches window when in outline mode
  • z543 - Possible crash when pages shares images
  • fixed problem which could see inaccurate line widths (related to z488)
  • fix to stop delete pages crashing when you have a single page document
  • hyperlinks weren't being tracked in jump history properly
  • z552 - Swatches issue when trying to change fill & line colour using swatches palette.
  • z551 - Import XML - font check were not being done correctly if a pre-defined font substitution list was available
  • z554 - infix crashed if you passed an invalid file name on the command line
  • z557 - Badly encoded chars not displaying as they should
  • z563 - weren't handling BMP image files with negative dimensions
  • z564 -
  • Fixed installation issue which would cause Infix to fail if installed into a directory that had non Ascii characters in it’s name.
  • Fix for using fonts in Infix with non-Ascii characters in the font name. also added support for format 2 cmaps in TrueType fonts.
  • z571 - Use ActualText in some cases when exporting (spaces)
  • z573 - Argus
  • z574 - improved text export by stopping words joining incorrectly in certain instances
  • z542 (re-fix) - made Infix more likely to output glyph names for unknown glyphs
  • z575 - update problem when moving an annotation
  • z568 - fixed issue related to parsing of Type1C font which caused some font s to be unusable in Infix
  • z580 -
  • Modified detection of new paragraphs. Infix/Argus are less likely to make new paragraphs now.
  • z578 -
  • z582 -
  • Changed detection of overset text. Infix was saying that all form-filler text boxes were overset as soon as they were created.
  • Improved detection of check-boxes when using form-filler T+ tool.
  • z357 - issue when saving a PDF with multiple font with the same name.
  • z583 - Text plus tool adds boxes that are immediately overset when you type into them

Infix Version 5.07 - Released 31st October, 2011

  • z501 - Improved editing of fonts with malformed encodings when a similar is available.
  • z508 - Fixed incorrect calculation of the visible area of a PDF
  • Fix to stop crash when an invalid .txt CAT Import file is loaded
  • z510 - Inconsistency in colour picker dialog for some colour spaces
  • Fixed intermitted crash on save - bug introduced in version 5.06

Infix Version 5.06 - Released 19th October, 2011

  • z493 - character mapping issue when using CAT Import
  • z497 - implemented basic image colour-key masks
  • Find and Replace in files would fail if Infix is not activated and a PDF hasn't already been loaded into Infix.
  • Changes to fix the progress crash that has been occurring in 5.05
  • Fix for problem rendering the Spanish welcome.pdf
  • Improved detection/elimination of spaces between words upon export to HTML etc
  • z505 - Fixed problem displaying images with colour lookup table
  • z506 - Improved behaviour with repeated nesting of the same layer.
  • z504 - Improved replacing Image with PDF (unbalanced gsave/grestore)

Infix Version 5.05 – Released 12 th October, 2011

  • Added facility to make all text invisible. Can help when performing awkward OCR corrections.
  • Added ability to switch user-interface languages via a pop-up in the File->Preferences->Spelling tab.
  • Added support for Ctrl scroll wheel to zoom in/out
  • Added progress dlg to loading/saving of documents.
  • Added 3rd column showing HEX code of missing chars in translation font problems dialogue box.
  • Added support for HTML entities to XML parser used during CAT Import
  • Added concept of font-scale to the XML CAT import/output.
  • Added character count feature to Document->Word count dialog.
  • z452 - text filled with patterns causing a crash (fixed)
  • z445 - improved rendering of images with soft masks
  • z462 - text baseline could creep during editing in OCR mode
  • Finding strings containing chars greater than 255 fails when match case is turned off. (Fixed)
  • Tab-stops were broken due to earlier code-analysis changes. (Fixed)
  • z467 - Improved handling of Hebrew and some Chinese fonts
  • Fix for bug which could cause font sizes to be incorrect after CAT Import if a paragraph used multiple font sizes.
  • Fix for possible crash when using CAT Export on a single text box.
  • z471 - "(Infix)" appended to Doc Info on every save (fixed)
  • z470 - Fixed problem with decoding in-line images with \r\n line-endings.
  • z468 - all dlgs now de-activate while help-download dlg is open.
  • z474 - right-menu missing "Image Properties" for In-line images
  • z475. Field update was being applied to every fielded piece of text during Clones even if they weren't PageNum Fields.
  • z477 - Underline code adding gaps to an existing underline (fixed)
  • z479 - Watermarks added via Document->Pages->Watermarks became permanent for documents saved with free version of Infix.
  • z472 - Better handling of CID font widths (nested Cmaps now handled correctly).
  • z481 - Improved handling of transformation matrix scales close to 0.
  • Fixed redraw issue when deleting objects off the page edge.
  • Changed galley auto fit default to 'autofit only if overset' which is better for translators.
  • z480 - Improved handling of unembedded Kanji fonts
  • z482 - drag & drop files onto infix icon crashes (fixed)
  • z484 - resolved spacing issue related to subletting existing fonts
  • Changed backup behaviour to backup every time you save an edited document.
  • Changed default CAT Export mode in dialog box
  • z485 - Editing could cause some text to become transparent. Related to unbalanced extgstate commands.
  • Improved behaviour when importing single lines during CAT Import.
  • Modified XML Cat Import to ignore any content not enclosed by <span> tags.
  • z487 - Improved font subsetting
  • z488 - Improved handling of wide lines and stroked text
  • Fixed obscure crash that could occur after Find/Replace of text style.
  • Improved rendering of a Arabic type1c fonts.
  • z495 - Resolved Place PDF issue related to unbalanced gsave/grestore
  • Ensure text decorations (underlines/strike-thru) are placed in same layer as text to which they belong.
  • Improved saving of PDFs that use layers.
  • z496 - Improved handling of mitre limits

Infix Version 5.04 – Released 6 th September, 2011

  • Added support for zero width unicode chars so that non CJK Asian language characters can be input correctly.
  • Stopped toolbars resetting every time Infix started. Now only reset if the mode (free/standard/pro) changes.
  • Spelling corrections in user interface.
  • Fixed possible crash when choosing Document->Translate->Refresh Story...
  • Bug when refreshing story translation. Could mean some paragraphs remained in their original fonts even after re-import.
  • Bookmark view wasn't refreshing after save. Clicking on bookmark after save could cause crash.
  • Modified "Document Properties" dlg to make doc filename area larger.
  • Replace Font & Replace All in documents with greater than 250 pages would fail for no apparent reason.
  • Mapped ligatures to two characters. Some ebook readers don't like ligatures.
  • Help->Quickstart and finding by bookmark topic were not correctly using utf8 encoding.
  • z430 - Double-byte font mappings were not being handled correctly.
  • z413 - Fixed intermittent crash on Export.
  • z415 - Change text highlight button behaviour to toggle a highlight. Also added dbl-click support to open associated highlight window (in text edit mode) rather than having to use right-mouse menu.
  • z419 - Create Outlines was not outlining type1 compound characters
  • z424 - Fixed spurious error when pressing OK on Article Information dlg.
  • z423 - Exporting contents could sometimes change the way a page looked in Infix.
  • z402 - Auto bookmarks would sometimes miss out headings after a page had been edited.
  • z422 - New text added in OCR Corrections mode was remaining visible when the mode was exited.
  • z427 - Fix to avoid corrupting PDF during save in certain rare occasions
  • z431
  • z433 - Some CJK characters were not displaying correctly.
  • z434 - Page jumped to random zoom location on "Undo Locked Objects".
  • z429 - Added support to handle remapping of font subsets with duplicate names.
  • z438 - Fax-encoded images could display all-black in certain circumstances.
  • z439 - Spell checking a long document could cause a crash after 200+ pages.
  • z447 - Improved handling of substitute fonts when none is found in the PDF.
  • z444 - Shift+Ctrl select object behaviour improved to better select objects under the mouse pointer.

Infix Version 5.03 – Released 21st July, 2011

Infix Version 4.31 – Released 24th June, 2011

  • Improved speed of find/replace in long documents.
  • Fixed problem with cropping rotated pages.
  • Fixed crash when dealing with badly encrypted document meta data fields.
  • Fixed problem with translation where the font replace dialog was not dealing with the No Break Space character, which is rarely ever present in fonts.
  • Improved handling of JPEG2000 images when multiple rez versions exist.
  • Improved italic/bold buttons to work with more fonts.
  • Fixed spell check problem that could cause corrected text to change colour.
  • Fixed obscure case when page contents could be lost after inserting pages from other documents.

Infix Version 4.30 – Released 25th March, 2011

  • Fixed minor GUI issue with print-dialogue.
  • Fixed issue with reflowing text which could randomly cause text to reflow badly
  • Fixed stability issue with linking/unlinking text blocks
  • Fixed stability issue with undo after reflowing text between linked text boxes
  • Fixed problem which could cause overset text to be lost after saving.
  • Fixed minor display issue in page rotation dialogue box
  • Fixed problem which could cause text boxes to have incorrect size after merging

Infix version 4.29 – Released 17th March, 2011

  • Fixed issue with inferred tabs which would caused some opportunities for tabs to be missed.
  • Adjusted tolerance for making text overset.
  • Fixed sporadic hang when doing an undo after linking two text boxes
  • Fixed issue which could cause text to disappear before any editing due to a problem interpreting clipping paths.
  • Modified Activation and Pay & Save network communications to work better on MacOSX and Linux with Crossover
  • Added support for TrueType CID fonts with glyph difference arrays
  • Improved detection of reverse-written paragraphs
  • Fixed issue which caused the loss of blank lines between paragraphs when re-loading edited documents.
  • Fixed underline issue affecting text underlined at the start of a tabbed line
  • Fixed problem editing a single line in a rotated page
  • Fixed problem pasting into first character on line in rotated page
  • Fixed problem with reflow on first line of text block (noticeable when adding larger font sizes)
  • Fixed problem with line-spacing of line including tab characters

Infix version 4.28 – Released 16th February, 2011

  • Fixed obscure issue that could cause text colour to be wrong on pages containing certain kinds of image masks.
  • Fixed reflow problem affecting fully-justified paragraphs starting with multiple spaces.
  • Fixed problem when saving to a path that contains non ansi characters.

Infix version 4.27 – Released 7th February, 2011

  • Fixed crashed when saving introduced in version 4.26

Infix version 4.26 – Released 4th February, 2011

  • Improved reliability of editing font with no/bad encoding for space
  • Improved behaviour when dealing with long lines, sparsely populated with characters
  • Improved management of large images on pages
  • Fixed instability when dealing with AES encrypted files containing unencrypted strings
  • Improved editing and saving of pages including text-clipping paths
  • Improved behaviour of Marshall Text function with respect to document containing Infix layout information
  • Fixed bug related to highly compressed PDFs using encryption and XRef stream objects
  • Updated version of Jbig2Dec included in the install to version 0.11 to fix problems with some JBIG2 encoded images.
  • Added ‘Memory’ entry in image properties display to show size of uncompressed image.
  • Loads and uses system fonts installed but not in the Windows\Fonts directory.
  • Fixed bug which meant that hidden text boxes responded to mouse clicks and were shown when viewing text boundaries.
  • Patch to stop Infix PDF Printer producing un-editable PDFs when printing from Firefox

Infix version 4.25 – Released 7th January, 2011

  • Fixed export of multi-character ligatures such a (ffi)
  • After text box->split paragraphs, some text boxes were being incorrectly classified as overset
  • Fixed possible hang when deleting a page from a document
  • Fixed image output problem which could cause certain DeviceN-space images to come out inverted
  • Improved paragraph analyses to deal better with overlapping lines
  • Improved keyboard behaviour in Form Filler mode
  • Improved behaviour of text structure storage which includes forms
  • Improved Find and Replace in Files dialog box
  • Infix PDF printer fixed. Stopped working on Windows 7 x64 after recent update.

Infix version 4.24 – Released 18 th October, 2010

  • Improved support for certain kinds of Type1/Type1C font
  • Improved reliability of font name display in Document Fonts and Insert Character dialogues
  • Fixed issue which caused paragraph marks, tab-stops and line-breaks to be invisible during editing.

Infix version 4.23 – Released 8th October, 2010

  • Improved support for Fit=XYZ style hyperlink destinations.
  • Fixed crash sometimes triggered when closing documents in which text boxes linked across pages had been edited.
  • Fixed crash which could occur when starting to edit documents with certain kinds of printers’ ligatures.
  • Improved centre and right justification of text.
  • Modified crop function so that it doesn’t begin editing the current page.
  • Improved printing speed

Infix version 4.22 – Released 27th September, 2010

  • Improved compatibility with some older Solaris based PDF generators
  • Improved stability of clipping code when tidying up redundant clipping commands
  • Fixed intermittent crash that could occur when pressing the right mouse button
  • Updated Infix PDF virtual print driver to include support for Windows Server 2008 R2 64Bit
  • Added support for reading new-style file specifications in file-hyperlinks.
  • Fix to improve stability of text copy/paste

Infix Version 4.21 released 5th September, 2010

  • Modified automatic bold detection to be more reliable.
  • Improved text editing when dealing with fonts having no space character
  • fixed crash when copying image on page with no text
  • Fixed redraw issue when making text Bold or Italic
  • Fixed issue which caused Infix Layout information to be recorded in a watermarked PDF even when layout was disabled in the Preferences dialogue.
  • Fixed bug which could cause tabstops at the beginning of a line that starts with a space to be ignored when a document is re-loaded and Infix layout is enabled.
  • Improved batch find & replace by ensuring “Infix Layout” information is never embedded in documents during processing.

Infix Version 4.19 released 5th August, 2010

  • Fixed crash when rendering type 3 image fonts in outline mode
  • Fixed crash when encountering an unsupported annotation type.
  • Added support for fonts that have a string-based name instead of name-based.
  • Missing information messages were being displayed when trying to activate Infix with a “Pay and Save” key
  • Unwanted tool-bar buttons are now correctly and more quickly hidden on boot-up
  • Images on rotated pages in outline mode were not being drawn correctly.
  • Infix layout information can now be safely removed from documents when saving with ‘Add Infix Layout’ set to ‘Never’.
  • Fixed crash when pressing Bold button with no text selected.
  • Improved behaviour of bold, italic and underline buttons.
  • Improved centre justification

Infix Version 4.18 release 9th July, 2010

  • Fixed crash when trying to edit fonts using /001 as the space character
  • Fixed crash when you try to add a bookmark when no document was open
  • Changed Save and Save As mechanism to improve problem reporting and robustness.
  • Fixed issue that could cause painting order to be altered as a result of bold text detection
  • Removed ability to select deleted text blocks with the text-block link tool.
  • Improved undo stability when editing text across pages
  • Improved text editing stability when deleting pages
  • Synthetic bold is now used when incomplete bold fonts are available in the PDF
  • Improved behaviour of font-substitution dialog box
  • Page number wasn’t always updating during flight-check
  • Fixed redraw issue with text boxes when adding overset text
  • Increased tolerance of clip paths within text when forming paragraphs
  • Improved speed when opening large, structured documents.
  • Improved rendering of luminosity soft-masks
  • Fixed crash when dealing with some types of large images
  • Improved test for inferring tab-stops in unedited documents.
  • Fixed ‘Invalid Checksum’ activation issue caused by spaces at the end of the activation key
  • Added facility to stop Infix automatically checking for updates
  • Added Infix.cfg switch to allow cropped text to be ignored.

Version 4.17, released 17th June 2010

  • Closing Help document in second Infix window could cause it to crash.
  • Fixed crash caused by web hyper-links with a very long destination address.
  • Fixed problem with retaining external graphics states on saving.
  • Infix now correctly repairs documents with null/bogus pages.
  • Improved editing with badly encoded fonts.
  • Invisible characters now display when in Outline mode.
  • Fixed issue causing large tab-stops to be inserted into bullet-point paragraphs.
  • Increased clip-stack size to resolve rare overflow issue.
  • Fixed cache issue with type 4 colour conversion functions.