Ctrlk
QuickstartContact SalesSign In
For the complete documentation index, see llms.txt. This page is also available as Markdown.

Version 11.9.0 Changelog (2025-11-26)

WebViewer Core

New

General

  • Added support for moving pages while a linearized PDF document is downloading.

DOCX Editor

  • Added formatted tracked changes.

  • Added Ctrl/Cmd+A keyboard shortcut functionality to select all text.

  • Enhanced image pasting functionality.

  • Added the ability to add line breaks using Shift+Enter key.

Rich Text

  • Added a getMajorityTextColors API to the Free Text annotation Rich Text editor to get the majority colors.

Text Selection

  • Added support for text selection in mixed content documents.

  • Added new APIs to adjust text selection sensitivity.

Annotations

  • Signature Widget annotations now respond to keyboard events for signing actions.

Form Builder

  • The 'Download', 'Save As' and 'Open File' buttons are no longer greyed out in Form Builder mode.

Fixes

General

  • Fixed rendering of PDF files with Usage Application Dictionaries between view and print.

  • Fixed an issue that would cause requirePage to never resolve when using the single threaded worker.

  • Fixed an issue with PDFNet.Convert.office2PDF, which would hang when run with PDFNet.runWithCleanup().

  • Fixed an issue where unmounting WebViewer could still cause it to be detected as mounted.

  • Fixed an issue where displayAdditionalSearchResults would only display the most recent search results.

  • Fixed an issue where diagonal swipes could navigate to the wrong page in both swipe orientation mode.

  • Fixed an issue with the rendering of PDF files with Usage Application Dictionaries between view and print.

Annotations

  • Fixed an issue where a Free Text annotation with pure white text color would disappear after performing a text search.

  • Fixed an issue with XFDF not being formatted correctly in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue where snap indicators were not shown while resizing measurement annotations.

  • Fixed an issue where measurement annotations couldn't be resized beyond the snap area.

  • Fixed an issue where Rectangle Area measurement annotations couldn't be resized using the top-right control handle.

  • Fixed an issue where toggling off auto font size resets edits.

  • Fixed an issue where when there were nested text replies, they would not always show in the notes panel.

  • Fixed an issue where pressing Backspace/Delete while editing a FreeText annotation in a nested Shadow DOM removed the whole annotation.

  • Fixed an issue with incorrect typing when instantiating TextWidget Annotations.

  • Fixed an issue where an autosized Free Text annotation shifted when creating it on a rotated page.

  • Fixed an issue where importing annotations would fail when the contents contained invalid unicode characters.

  • Fixed an issue where a new line would reset the style while editing a Free Text annotation with Rich Text support.

  • Fixed an issue where annotations flickered (disappeared/reappeared) during zoom or window resize when WebViewer was rendered inside a nested Shadow DOM.

  • Fixed an issue with Callout annotations not automatically resizing based on AutoSizeType.

  • Fixed an issue with Free Text and Callout annotations wrapping early instead of using maximum available width when autosizing.

  • Fixed an issue with Free Text and Callout text being vertically misaligned with textbox when rotated by 180 degrees.

  • Fixed jumpToAnnotation API to allow number input and correctly parsed string input.

  • Fixed an issue where changing a Widget annotation's field’s flag or size did not trigger the annotationChanged event.

  • Fixed an issue with the padding of multiline text widgets.

  • Fixed an issue where line annotations were not toggling visibility even if they were bound to a layer.

Signature Tool

  • Fixed an issue where SignatureCreateTool.getPreview didn't get the preview of a signature correctly.

  • Fixed an issue where using trust lists in the Web Component could prevent digital signature validation.

  • Fixed an issue where users could use the delete key to remove Signature Appearances.

Callout Tool

  • Fixed an issue where holding the shift key would not lock path point to a multiple of 45 degrees.

  • Fixed an issue where setting the Callout Tool line count greater than 2 would prevent the creation of Callout annotations.

Redaction

  • Fixed an inconsistency where redaction overlay text on text-based redactions would rotate during preview but remain horizontal after applying; preview now matches the final applied state with horizontal text regardless of page rotation.

Forms

  • Fixed an issue where auto-sized text widgets were not saving with the correct font size.

  • Fixed an issue where clicking or copying and pasting a Radio button field was generating duplicated widgets for that field.

  • Fixed an issue where signatures were duplicated across fields in some scenarios.

Text Selection

  • Fixed an issue where an extra white space was added to mixed content text segments when selected.

  • Fixed an issue where office documents would copy RTL text in reverse.

  • Improved text selection with mixed content.

  • Fixed an issue with text selection after cropping the page.

Spreadsheet Editor

  • Fixed an issue where financial data calculation with formula could reference wrong cell ranges.

  • Fixed an issue where column rendering was too narrow with some spreadsheet files.

DOCX Editor

  • Fixed an issue with Select All for tables, headers, and footers.

  • Fixed an issue where the DOCX Editor caused unintended scrolling.

  • Fixed an issue with the documentation for getMaxHeaderFooterDistance. It was incorrectly labeled as returning a Promise.

WebViewer Server

  • Fixed an issue where cookies were being unnecessarily removed.

  • Fixed an issue where using WVS wouldn't load all annotation appearances.

Security

  • Fixed a sandbox escape vulnerability where Promise constructor exposure in embedded PDF JavaScript allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox.

  • Fixed an issue where unsafe class inheritance in Embedded PDF JavaScript allowed for arbitrary code execution outside of the sandbox.

  • Fixed an issue where nested Functions would bypass AST sanitation.

Workers

  • Fixed issue where workers were not reinitialized upon remounting.

  • Removed a WebViewer-specific override of the native window.Worker class.

Accessibility

  • Fixed an issue where tagged PDFs loaded using the loadDocument API with a custom docId failed to generate the correct document structure and triggered an incorrect tagging warning.

  • Fixed an issue where the Accessible Reading Order (ARO) mode's disabled status was not preserved across tabs in multi-tab environments.

  • Fixed an issue where tagged PDFs loaded in ARO mode with a custom docId triggered an error and failed to generate accessible content correctly.

WebViewer UI

New

General

  • Added the documentViewer.search API to the Search Panel UI.

  • Added support for overlays to the whitelist in View-Only mode.

Multi-Tab

  • Added a new event, TabManager.beforeTabDeleted, to allow saving the open document when deleting a tab.

Spreadsheet Editor

  • Added text wrapping options (Wrap, Overflow, Clip) to control how text displays when it exceeds cell width, accessible via a new toolbar button with a flyout menu.

Accessibility

  • Improved keyboard accessibility for Signature Widgets in the page container.

Fixes

General

  • Fixed an issue where custom page labels set via instance.UI.setPageLabels were not accepted in inputs, causing label ranges to be treated as invalid.

  • Fixed an issue where a warning was thrown when switching to a custom language.

  • Fixed an issue where users could multi-select annotations one-by-one using the CONTROL or META key and then edit other users' annotations if they had permission to edit the final annotation.

  • Fixed an issue where users were unable to use whitespace to highlight a comment.

  • Fixed a crash that would happen when the user became offline and tried to open a panel or modal.

  • Fixed an issue where lastActiveTool would ignore disableTool api call.

  • Fixed an issue where some elements had inconsistent font sizes in mobile view.

  • Fixed an issue where the Search and Notes Panel buttons were being hidden on mobile in ViewOnly mode.

  • Fixed an issue where Webpack bundle concurrency in Angular applications could break the WebViewer web component.

  • Fixed an issue where printing via WVS failed to print.

  • Fixed an issue with overlapping elements in the Search panel.

  • Fixed an issue with using embedded thumbnails on XOD documents.

  • Fixed an issue where several components were not dynamically updating when the language changed.

  • Fixed an issue with inconsistent document loading in Web Component when using blob or array-based initialDoc parameters by aligning getHashParameter behavior with the iframe implementation.

  • Fixed an issue with the Search panel that prevented the first search result from being selected by default.

  • Fixed an issue where the Warning modal displayed a secondary button from a previous Warning modal.

  • Fixed an issue where encrypted pdfs were unable to use embedded print.

  • Fixed an issue where the app would crash if the user pressed Tab after navigating away from WebViewer.

  • Fixed an issue where disabled tools still displayed their keyboard shortcuts in the Settings modal.

  • Improved focus management for the document container by moving focus target to the main container element, enhancing keyboard navigation predictability.

  • Fixed an issue when trying to save a PDF file with stamps using the 'Include Comments' option.

  • Fixed an issue where downloading via the UI with annotation author display names did not use the display names.

  • Fixed an issue where the notesInLeftPanel constructor parameter was not being saved correctly on the Legacy UI.

  • Fixed an issue where a memory leak was being created by unresolved promises, which eventually led to a crash in Mobile Safari.

Modular UI

  • Fixed an issue where changing tool style with sliders (e.g., stroke/opacity) on mobile didn’t persist to new annotations.

  • Fixed an issue where a crash could occur when disabling elements and resizing the window.

  • Fixed an issue where custom colors did not persist after a page reload.

  • Fixed an issue where modular configuration files included an unused isActive property.

Annotations

  • Fixed an issue where Free Text annotations with dynamic font sizing did not retain their font size after download.

  • Fixed an issue with Annotation Connector Line drawing incorrectly when multi-selecting annotations.

  • Fixed an issue where you could have duplicate options in ListWidgetAnnotations and ChoiceWidgetAnnotations.

  • Fixed an issue with compare annotations being regenerated when calling DocumentViewer.startSemanticDiff and opening the compare panel.

  • Fixed ComparePanel styling in Dark Mode.

Spreadsheet Editor

  • Fixed an issue where the downloadPdf API was not working for Spreadsheet Editor documents.

  • Fixed an issue where enabling a RTL language in Spreadsheet Editor caused broken rendering after scrolling.

  • Fixed an issue where hidden sheets were incorrectly displayed in the spreadsheet switcher when loading Excel files with hidden sheets.

Customize UI

  • External UI configurations are now checked against configorigin.txt whitelist.

  • Fixed an issue where the annotation style popup would close prematurely when adding or deleting a custom color.

  • Fixed an issue where the Context Menu Popup could open in the wrong position when a top offset was present in Web Component mode.

  • Fixed an issue with annotation popups that allowed users to change the link or alignment of annotations without permission.

  • Fixed an issue with the Style panel that allowed users to style annotations without permission.

Content Edit

  • Fixed an issue where the content edit box appeared on the wrong page when interacting within a Web Component.

Search

  • Fixed an issue where the search input was being incorrectly set.

  • Fixed an issue where WebViewer could crash when clicking the search button with no document loaded.

  • Fixed an issue where search result items did not have ARIA labels.

Stamps

  • Fixed an issue where parts of the "Timestamp Text" section were removed unexpectedly when toggling the checkboxes.

  • Fixed an issue where the delete button for custom stamps did not have a dataElement. It can now be disabled with the customStampDeleteButton dataElement.

ViewOnly

  • Fixed an issue where ReadOnly was coupled with ViewOnly.

  • Fixed an issue where the Snipping tool and Crop tool would be unable to clear their own annotations in ViewOnly Mode and ReadOnly Mode.

  • Fixed an issue with the whitelist not being updated until you interacted with the UI.

Outlines

  • Fixed an issue where files with many nested outlines would cause the UI to freeze temporarily.

  • Fixed an issue where the previous outlines of another document would get loaded into the panel.

  • Fixed an issue where outlines selection was expanding incorrectly due to a prefix match issue.

Multi-Tab

  • Fixed an issue with the getActiveTab API throwing an error.

  • Fixed a freezing issue when loading large files via the File Modal and switching tabs immediately.

  • Improved tab switching speed, especially if no changes had been made to the document or annotations.

Previousv11.9
Nextv11.9.1

Last updated

Was this helpful?