Neevia docCreator changelog

version 5.2 - January 25, 2026
Added:
  new PDF generation engine;
  updated image conversion engine;
  improved MS Office to PDF conversion performance;
  improved Image to PDF conversion performance;
  improved support for Windows Server 2025;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 5.1 - July 12, 2024
Added:
  updated PDF generation engine;
  updated image conversion engine;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 5.0 - July 28, 2023
Added:
  support for PDF/A-2U and PDF/A-3U;
  updated PDF generation engine;
  updated image conversion engine;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 4.9 - July 22, 2022
Added:
  support for PDF 2.0 as output format;
  support for Windows Server 2022;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 4.8 - March 8, 2021
Added:
  new PDF generation engine
Changed:
  improved PDF merging engine;
  improved PDF stamping engine;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 4.7 - March 18, 2020
Added:
  new PDF generation engine
Changed:
  improved multi-threading performance;
  improved Unicode support for the PDF stamping engine;
  improved long file name support for mergeMultiplePDF/mergeMultipleTIFF methods;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 4.6 - March 12, 2019
Added:
  support for PDF/A-3b as output format;
  support for Windows 2019;
  support for HEIC/HEIF images;
  new PDF conversion engine;
Changed:
  improved unicode support for the PDF stamping engine;
  improved conversion performance for large documents;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 4.5 - February 21, 2018
Added:
  support for HEIF images;
  new PDF generation engine;
  new image conversion/resizing engine;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 4.4 - October 31, 2016
Added:
  new COM object;
  new PDF merging/stamping/resizing engine;
  new image conversion/resizing engine;
  support for Windows Server 2016;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 4.3 - March 29, 2016
Changed:
  improved support for Office 2016 and Windows 10;
  improved support for PDF files with missing fonts;
  improved IMAGE->IMAGE and IMAGE->PDF conversion performance;
  improved multithreaded conversion performance for MS Office documents;
Fixed:
  minor bug fixes;


version 4.2 - February 21, 2013
Changed:
  improved multithreading performance;
  updated PDF generation engine;
  updated IMAGE generation engine;


version 4.1 - April 18, 2012
Added:
  PDF/A-2b as output format;
Changed:
  updated PDF generation engine;
  minor bug fixes for TIFF conversion engine;
  improved support for barcode fonts;


version 4.0 - September 3, 2010
Added:
  new COM/.NET interface, faster and more flexible;
  new engine for image conversion;
  new PDF merging/splitting engine;
  support for unicode watermarks;
Changed:
  improved conversion speed and stability;
  improved support for 64 bits systems;


version 3.6 - July 22, 2008
Added:
  support for Windows 2008;
  support for PDF v1.7 as input format;
Changed:
  improved PDF generation engine;


version 3.5 - July 16, 2007
Added:
  support for PDF/A-1b as output format;
  support for Windows Vista;


version 3.4 - July 20, 2006
Added:
  support for Neevia PDFcompress v1.0;


version 3.3 - May 24, 2006
Changed:
  improvements to the PDF generation engine (mostly performance related);
  improvements to the TIFF rendering engine - better output quality for the G3 & G4 compression algorithms;


version 3.2 - December 24, 2005
Changed:
  improvements to the PDF generation engine (mostly performance related);
  improvements to the TIFF rendering engine - better output quality for the G3 & G4 compression algorithms;


version 3.1 - May 24, 2005
Changed:
  improvements to the PDF generation engine, better handling of the JPEG2000 compressed images in the PDF files;
  improved TrueType fonts handling;


version 3.0 - January 11, 2005
Added:
  PSD, CMYK TIFF and PCL-XL output formats;
  support for PDF v1.5, v1.6 rendering, including JPEG2000 images, compressed objects and xrefs, 16-bit deep images;
  fill order support for TIFF images;
  LZW and packbits compression support for color TIFF files;
  text and graphics antialiasing support;
Changed:
  improvements to the PDF generation engine, particularly for text and images, resulting in smaller files;
  improvements in Asian font support;
  improvements to shading (gradient fill) rendering that are faster and higher quality;


version 2.3 - July 6, 2004
Added:
  support for PDF files with corrupted headers;
Changed:
  improved the DSC comments handling;
  improved handling of CMaps files with large number of CMap entries;
  improved the performance of the TIFF->PDF conversion engine;
  implemented color mapping linearity checks;
  updated the CMYK->RGB conversion algorithm;


version 2.2 - November 17, 2003
Added:
  implemented the text rendering mode 3 to allow PSPDF parser to pass invisible text;
  include default font map into compiled initialization files but use it only if the default font map file fails to open at run time;
  generate pseudo-random font names for subset fonts from the glyph usage array;
  generate searchable PDF files from Unicode documents;
Changed:
  fixed ASCII85Decode filter to match Adobe's when strings that are not multiples of four are padded with other than zero;


version 2.1 - May 10, 2003
Added:
  support for image file conversion;
  support for Windows 2003 Server;
  TIFF LZW compression support;
  support for PDF v1.4, including ICC based color space support;
  PDF stamping support;