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The smallest, fastest and most feature-rich free PDF viewer/editor on the market.
Create, view, edit, annotate, OCR and digitally sign PDF files - and that's just the beginning. Please see here for a breakdown of the main features of PDF-XChange Editor. A virtual printer is included with this product at no additional cost.

 
Indeed, PDF-XChange Editor is a comprehensive tool for managing PDF files. It offers a range of features from viewing and editing to OCR and digital signatures. Thanks for sharing the download link!
 
Build 11.0.1.0
Released Jun 9th, 2026 . Requires maintenance through Jun 9th, 2026

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:​

  • Fixed a crash in the new Open/Save dialog box when creating a new folder in an unavailable network path. (49552)
  • Fixed a rare/infrequent crash on some dynamic XFA forms after changing their field values.
  • [installer] Fixed an issue where shortcuts were lost during an upgrade from the previous version.
  • [installer] Fixed an issue preventing migration of serial keys during updates from version 10.
  • Fixed the issues with the shell context menu after installation of version 11.
  • Fixed the issue with filtering comments. (49478)
  • Fixed the issue that caused "Error [IO subsystem]: Invalid access mode." when converting PDFs to MS Office formats.
  • Fixed an issue with the context menu position on some multi-monitor systems. (48467)
  • Fixed an issue with handling complex custom file filters, displayed by JS, in the new Open/Save Files dialog box. (49486)
  • Fixed several issues with the new 'Select Folder' dialog box. (49505)
  • Fixed an issue with the new custom 'Open File' dialog box when using double-click to open it. (49498)
  • Fixed an 'infinite' loop/proliferation in the 'Open Files' and 'Manage Places' dialog boxes. (49526)
  • Fixed an issue with handling the mouse wheel inside the document "Find" box. (49539)
  • Fixed an incorrect behaviour in the 'Go back (Alt+Left)' button in the new Open/Save Files dialog box. (49510)
  • Fixed an issue with the shortcut keys (Alt+Left/Right) after navigating via breadcrumb paths in the new Open/Save Files dialog box. (49554)
  • [installer] Fixed an issue with redrawing the progress text in the EXE installers.
  • Fixed the issue where a mouse click outside of the polyline/polygon context menu during annotation creation would cancel the annotation. (49475)
  • We switched back to using the system Open/Save/SelectFolder dialog box by default, instead of using the new one, because some popular features such as the QuickAccess/Recent items are missing in the new version. These will be added in a future release.
  • Replaced the 'Extension' column in the new Open/Save File dialog box with a more user-friendly 'Type' column. Also fixed some issues when handling the 'Show file extension' option. (49497)
  • Added the ability to authenticate local network shares in the new Open/Save Files dialog box. (49557)
  • Improved the handling of dates after 01.01.2030 in XFA files - now such dates are stored properly when set via the dropdown widget.
  • Flags NoZoom and NoRotate are now respected for only a limited subset of annotations.
 
Build 11.1.0.0
Released Sep 29th, 2026 . Requires maintenance through Sep 26th, 2026
  • NEW AI Assistant: added an option for users to add custom prompts.
  • NEW AI Assistant: added an option to specify the language in which the AI should answer questions.
  • NEW New Open/Save File dialog box: added support for multiple OneDrive-folders and Network Locations, and added a 'Quick Access' folder.
  • NEW Added a 'Use system title and frame' option (Preferences > General > Tabs & Windows) to turn on/off the use of the system's title and border for the main window. This option can also help solve a possible problem under WINE where the system title may sometimes overlap the application's custom title.
  • NEW Added a 'Relationship' column to the attachments pane. (T# 7748) (48980)
  • NEW Implemented handling of the fill_tab property in JS dialogs. (50011)
  • NEW Added Brotli compression as an option when recompressing images, and for performing some other operations.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:​

  • Fixed the "Error [AFSLib]: File cache for specified file already exists" error that may sometimes appear when a user opens a file from a cloud-based "Place" using the new Open File dialog box.
  • Fixed an issue with saving a document when the destination file is located on a special cloud-based document management system such as CenterDevice.
  • Fixed rare issue with crashes on some documents during rendering. (T# 7845)
  • Fixed "Convert Text Files to PDF" for specific encodings. (49334)
  • Improved the accuracy of the stroke colour description for link annotations when this property is not specified in the structure. (T# 7896) (49815)
  • Fixed an issue with layers not merging correctly. (T# 7888)
  • Fixed an issue with applying the thickness value to Text Markup comments during import, and added support for exporting and importing rounded-corner radius values for Rectangle comments. (T# 7853) (49661)
  • Fixed an issue where JavaScript related to AcroForms in stamps was not updated after saving. (T# 7844) (49609)
  • Fixed an issue with dimming and overlapping in the Highlight Destination function. (T# 7903) (49991)
  • Fixed an issue with excluding UI-commands from the 'Quick Launch' dropdown and 'Customize Toolbars > Commands' dialog box when they are disabled by Group Policy.
  • Fixed an issue with missing thousands separators for file sizes in the "details" view of the new Open/Save dialog box. (49791)
  • Fixed an infrequent 'not enough permissions' issue when saving documents after previewing them in the new Open/Save File dialog box if opened from cloud-based places.
  • Fixed crashes on File Open under Wine (Linux). (49752)
  • Fixed issues with using the MS Office Click-to-Run products (including Microsoft 365 and Office 2019/2021) inside the Office-to-PDF features. On some systems such features may not work.
  • Fixed an issue with setting labels for measurement comments by applying corresponding comment styles that already contain custom labels.
  • Find/Search: fixed an issue with the 'Clear' item in the dropdown list. Now it is not selectable by keyboard/auto-complete/mouse-wheel, but only by mouse. Also, the auto-complete feature there is now case-sensitive.
  • Fixed some issues with the system's Narrator screen reader app, including it being unable to read text labels on dialog boxes.
  • Fixed an issue with the creation date in PDF/A files.
  • Fixed issues with the incorrect filtering of annotations. (43529)
  • Fixed issues with rendering text in text annotations with white text.
  • Fixed an issue where PDF documents converted from MS Word could have black areas.
  • Fixed an issue with handling the percent character in macro strings. (49748)
  • Fixed issues with text rendering in some specific cases. (T# 4061, 4957, 7871)
  • Improved handling of align_fill in JS dialogs. (T# 7897) (49847)
  • Fixed a rare case of a possible crash during color conversion in some documents. (T# 7885)
  • Fixed the incorrect appearance of "down" push button form fields that have icons. (50006)
  • Fixed potential issues when signing documents with certificates that use the ECDSA-SHA384 algorithm.
  • Fixed an issue where some selected page content was not copied to the clipboard.
  • DocuSign: signatures saved in the user's DocuSign account are now available when signing documents in PDF-XChange Editor. (50063)
  • Changed text encoding detection for text files. (49328)
  • Added Recents and Favorites groups to the Stamps pane. (T# 4335)
  • Added the ability to recolour stamps. (T# 7764) (49059)
  • Added support for letters in the auto-incrementing interactive field of the “Create Custom Stamp” feature. (T# 7904)
  • Upgraded the Markdown plugin to use a new engine, providing full CSS support and support for LaTeX formulas.
  • Added the ability to search for layers by name. (T# 6644) (40856)
  • Added the “Open new files within the active virtual desktop” option (enabled by default) and made other improvements to virtual desktop handling. (T# 7872)
  • Added support for selecting pages related to Watermark/Background/Header & Footer/Bates Numbering settings. (T# 7858) (49729)
  • Added an option to prevent the text in a comment pop-up from scrolling to the end when the pop-up is opened. (T# 7488)
  • Added the ability to focus the selected page number range when opening the Page Numbering dialog box. (T# 7753) (49017)
  • Added a highlight indicator to the currently active profile in the "Set scale" dropdown menu. (T# 7719)
  • Fixed an issue with the 'Text Correction' tool. Closing the insert/replace comment popup by pressing Esc now returns the text cursor to the InsertText-annotation position.
  • Improved the 'Identify Forms' tool.
  • Improved document loading time, especially for documents that contain a dictionary object with many entries.
 

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