Software update: Adobe Reader 18.011.2003x

Adobe has released an update to Acrobat Reader DC. Acrobat Reader DC is the successor to Acrobat XI and consists of the commercial package to create PDF documents and the free reader to be able to read them. With Reader it is also possible to create simple PDF documents via an online tool. Version 18.011.2003x is referred to by Adobe as a Continuous update and should contain several bugs and security issues help. The changelog looks like this:

Accessibility

• 4232082: Acrobat mappes roles to tags in the tree view by default, but not if tag name has some specific characters.
• 4195769: Read Out Loud not reading slow enough. User cannot set less than 150 words per minute in Reading Preferences.

Portfolio

• 4212726: Unable to save added or removed columns in a DC created Email portfolio.

Security

• 4223361: Unable to open PDF after applying password protection for some files.

Browser

• 4225014: Delay in loading PDF files in Internet Explorer.

Compare

• 4225249: Compare PDFs causes a crash when comparing related PDFs, one saved from Preflight.
• 4228132: The Summary Page displays in between the compare result while navigating through the Next /Previous Change arrow, if two scanned files are compared.
• 4231258: Diff rect is not shown at proper place when files used are cropped before compare.

Forms

• 4232403: Acrobat Crashes on using ‘Prepare Form’ tool during processing of some shortcut with more than one form-PDF document open.
• 4227286: Acrobat Reader crashes on placing CMYK jpeg to an image field.
• 4224823: Mouse action up/down not working properly on Form field properties.

preflight

• 4232061: “Verify conformance” option is returning incorrect status for PDF/X-5n compliant files.

OCR

• 4236105: Not able to run OCR properly on images having “inverted text” or colored background.

AutoCad PDF Maker

• 4232296: Unable to open dwg file in Acrobat through drag and drop or File->open and Acrobat crashes.

PDF Maker

• 4232075: Using Mail merge from Word 2016, it saves the file to .doc format first.
• 4081754: Acrobat does not capture the DATE field from the original message during conversion when MSG file attached to email opened.

viewer

• 4237190: Acrobat crash while opening the PDF created in Live cycle designer.
• 4229000: Incorrect file location is shown for file opened from mapped network drive.
• 4229460: Cursor Co-ordinates windows scrolls down along with the PDF content scroll in continuous Scroll mode.

SDK

• 4232040: Added support for opening password protected files via OLE.

javascript

• 4217681: JavaScript functionality is not persistent on Mac and Win.

Organize Pages

• 4205759: Limit on the number of page ranges that can be extracted at one time.