Version History

PDF Reducer 4.0.9 (April 4th 2023)

• Improved PDF resource optimization.
• Improved PDF/A conversion and validation engines.
• A battery of minor bug fixes.

PDF Reducer 4.0.8 (January 31st 2023)

• Improved PDF reducer engine.
• Improved PDF/A validation and conversion engines.
• Improved PDF parsing of malformed documents.
• Improved PDF unembed font feature.
• Improved PDF rendering engine.
• Improved PDF resource optimization.
• Added new option to remove logical trees.

PDF Reducer 4.0.7 (August 26th 2022)

• Improved PDF/A converter engine performance.
• Improved PDF optimization speed.
• Improved MRC engine.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

PDF Reducer 4.0.6 (June 25th 2022)

• Improved PDF/A converter
• Improved JBIG2 compression rate
• Battery of minor bug fixes

PDF Reducer 4.0.5 (June 17th 2022)

• Improved PDF/A Validator engine
• Improved PDF rendering engine.
• A battery of minor bug fixes and improvements.

PDF Reducer 4.0.4 (May 6th 2022)

• Improved PDF/A converter and validator engines
• Improved MRC engine accuracy
• Improved hyperlinks removal
• Fixed a critical issue with the remove blank pages
• A battery of minor bug fixes and improvements

PDF Reducer 4.0.3 (April 1st 2022)

• Improved MRC engine accuracy
• Improved Handling of some malformed PDF
• A battery of minor bug fixes

PDF Reducer 4.0.2 (March 18th 2022)

• Added the possibility to remove blank pages from a document
• Added the possibility to remove JavaScript from a document
• Improved PDF/A converter engine
• Improved PDF resource optimization
• Improved MRC engine accuracy
• A battery of minor bug fixes

PDF Reducer 4.0.1 (March 10th 2022)

• Improved MRC engine accuracy
• Improved PDF/A converter engine
• Battery of minor bug fixes

PDF Reducer 4.0.0 (March 9th 2022)

• Added support for PDF/A including new PDF/A-4, -4e, -4f
• Improved compression rate
• Improved the MRC engine
• Minor bug fixes

Version 3.1.22 (December 11th 2021)

• Improved compression rate.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.21 (March 1st 2021)

• Global performance improvements.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.20 (February 17th 2021)

• Battery of minor bug fixes.
• Improved MRC engine.
• Improved compression speed.

Version 3.1.19 (December 30th 2020)

• Improved MRC engine.
• A battery of minor bug fixes.
• Better support for malformed document

Version 3.1.18 (November 1st 2020)

• Global performance improvements.
• Added support for doc, xls and ppt formats.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.17 (October 1st 2020)

• Added the possibility to remove the embedded fonts from a document.
• A battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.16 (September 24th 2020)

• Improved compression rate.
• Improved MRC engine.
• Improved speed.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.15 (June 19th 2020)

• Improved MRC engine
• Battery of minor bug fixes
• Improved support for malformed PDF documents

Version 3.1.14 (March 25th 2020)

• Improved mrc engine
• Improved compression rate
• Fix the menus
• Battery of minor bug fixes

Version 3.1.12 (December 21st 2019)

• Improved support for more than 4GB files.
• Improved compression rate.
• Improved speed.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.11 (December 15th 2019)

• Improved compression rate
• Improve speed
• Improved MRC engine
• Better support for malformed document

Version 3.1.10 (July 15th 2019)

• Improved speed.
• Improved compression rate.
• Improved MRC engine.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.9 (June 05th 2019)

• Dramatically improved the MRC engine.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.8 (April 24th 2019)

• Improved compression rate.
• Dramatically improved the MRC engine.
• Improved user interface.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.1.0 (February 13th 2019)

• Dramatically improved MRC engine.
• Improved built-in PDF compression engine.
• Added new option to optimize PDF fonts.
• Several UI improvements.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.38 (January 10th 2019)

• Improved MRC compression rate and produced document quality.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.37 (January 07th 2019)

• Improved compression rate.
• Improved the MRC engine.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.36 (December 17th 2018)

• Dramatically improved MRC engine.
• Improved compression rate.
• Dramatically improved speed.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.35 (November 21st 2018)

• Improved MRC engine.
• Improved compression.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.34 (November 19th 2018)

• Dramatically improved the MRC engine.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.33 (November 01st 2018)

• Improved compression rate.
• Added support for PDF 2.0.
• Dramatically improved MRC engine.
• Added options to better tweak the MRC engine.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.32 (October 12th 2018)

• Dramatically improved MRC engine.
• Improved support of malformed documents.
• Added support for txt format.
• Increased processing speed.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.31 (October 04th 2018)

• Dramatically improved the PDF/MRC generator.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.30 (August 26th 2018)

• Improved compression ration
• Dramatically improved MRC engine.
• Battery of bug fixes.

Version 3.0.29 (July 25th 2018)

• A battery of minor bug fixes.
• Improved compression rate.
• Improved speed.
• Improved compatibility with some malformed documents.

Version 3.0.26 (May 29th 2018)

• Improved speed.
• Improved compression rate.
• Improved MRC engine.
• A battery of minor bug fixes.

PDF Reducer Cloud Edition (March 22nd 2018)

• Version 1.0.0 released.

Version 3.0.23 (January 21st 2018)

• Improved compression speed and rate.
• A battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.22 (January 14th 2018)

• The battery of minor bug fixes.
• Improved compression ratio.
• Improved compression speed.
• Improved import of non PDF document.

Version 3.0.21 (November 23th 2017)

• Battery of minor bug fixes
• Improved performances in term of speed and compression ratio.

Version 3.0.20 (October 06th 2017)

• Reorganized the options menu, strongly enhancing its clarity. Options relying on inactivated ones are also now automatically disabled.
• Added buttons to the main windows allowing to either pick input file(s) or selecting an input director directly.
• Added the possibility to remove the hyperlinks from a document (command line: "/RH").
• Added the possibility to delete the original files when they are succesfully reduced (command line: "/DO").
• Added command line option "/DW" to disable warning when input and output directory are identical.
• Fixed automatic character repair option.
• Fixed drag and drop input mode.
• Fixed a licensing bug which occured when the software window was launched in a minimized state.
• Added message to inform when an instance of the program is already running.
• Added possibility to export logs to destination folder (command line:"/LOG").
• Improved compression rate.
• Improved support for malformed documents.
• Improved speed.
• Reduced memory usage.

Version 3.0.17 (July 11th 2017)

• Added an option to only process PDF documents.
• Added a command line option to choose the document formats to process.
• Added possibility to keep the original last edition and access time of the input files (command line:"/KT").
• Added warning when input folder and output folder are the same and possibility do disable this warning.
• Got rid of Romanian language support. (will be reintroduced with several other languages in a future update).
• Added support for txt, rtf, docx and svg input formats.
• Battery of user interface improvements.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.14 (March 2nd 2017)

• Slightly improved compression rate.
• Slightly improved speed.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.10 (August 28th 2016)

• Improved compression rate.
• Improved speed.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.3 (June 10th 2016)

• Added support for PDF/XFA.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 3.0.0 (March 16th 2016)

• Dramatically increased performance speed. PDF Reducer 3 is 2x faster than PDF Reducer 2.0!
• Added support for nearly 100 input files formats!
• Increased quality of produced documents.
• Improved the color detection feature (accuracy and speed).
• Produced PDF now retain original file Date.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 2.1.0 (February 29th 2016)

• Dramatically increaded performance speed. PDF Reducer 2.1 is 2x faster than PDF Reducer 2.0!
• Increased quality of produced documents.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 2.0.0 (April 03rd 2015)

• Added support for MRC (Mixed Raster Content) compression.
• Increased performance speed by 30%.
• Increased compression efficiency.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 1.1.9 (May 14th 2014)

• Improved JPEG 2000 codec performances.
• Battery of minor bug fixes.

Version 1.1.8 (April 22nd 2014)

• Improved compression ratio.
• Improved PDF parsing speed.
• Improved malformed PDF content recovery algorithms.

Version 1.1.6 (February 25th 2014)

• Improved compression ratio.
• Added /Min option in the command line support to start the application with a minimized window state.

Version 1.1.4 (December 17th 2013)

• Improved compression ratio.
• Some minor bug fixes.

Version 1.1.2 (November 14th 2013)

• Speed improvement in multi-thread context, until 4x faster on 8 cores computers.
• Improved compression ratio while improving produced document quality.
• Some minor bug fixes.

Version 1.1.1 (October 05th 2013)

• Critical bug fix in the free version that prevented Software starting.
• Some minor UI bug fixes.

Version 1.1.0 (October 03rd 2013)

• Version pro is now available.
• Speed & memory optimizations.
• Improved compression ration.
• All reported bug fixes.
• The document imaging core is now based on GdPicture.NET 10.

Version 1.0.2 (January 08th 2013)

• Romanian translation of the interface.
• Speed optimization.
• Some minor UI bug fixes.

Version 1.0.1 (December 28th 2012)

• French translation of the interface.
• Speed optimization.
• Added multi-select file input mode.
• Added option to interrupt the batch when running.

Version 1.0.0 (December 21st 2012)

• First release of the ORPALIS PDF Reducer Free edition.