Version 11.9.0 Changelog (2025-11-26)
- Added support for moving pages while a linearized PDF document is downloading.
- 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.
- Added a
getMajorityTextColors API to the Free Text annotation Rich Text editor to get the majority colors.
- Added support for text selection in mixed content documents.
- Added new APIs to adjust text selection sensitivity.
- Signature Widget annotations now respond to keyboard events for signing actions.
- The 'Download', 'Save As' and 'Open File' buttons are no longer greyed out in Form Builder mode.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fixed an issue where cookies were being unnecessarily removed.
- Fixed an issue where using WVS wouldn't load all annotation appearances.
- 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.
- Fixed issue where workers were not reinitialized upon remounting.
- Removed a WebViewer-specific override of the native
window.Worker class.
- 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.
- Added the
documentViewer.search API to the Search Panel UI. - Added support for overlays to the whitelist in View-Only mode.
- Added a new event,
TabManager.beforeTabDeleted, to allow saving the open document when deleting a tab.
- 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.
- Improved keyboard accessibility for Signature Widgets in the page container.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fixed an issue where the content edit box appeared on the wrong page when interacting within a Web Component.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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