PDF2XL Version history

1.0

[Wen, 7 Dec 2005 10:00:00]

Initial Release

1.2

[Tue, 2 Jan 2006 10:00:00]

• Added page navigation bar
• Added support for Windows 98 and Microsoft Unicode Layer
• Better RTL language support
• Added OCR mode
• Added advanced table selection modes: row, column and cell
• Added advanced table editing of merge and split for row, column and cell
• Added column formatting
• Added handles to the table lines
• Added page rotation support
• Added Undo and Redo functionality
• Added Right click context menu

2.0

[Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:00:00]

• Save and load layout
• Added better support for Excel and Word 2000
• Added command line interface
• Added text conversion preview
• Added word and excel merge cells settings
• Added text direction option

2.2

[Mon, 06 May 2006 10:00:00]

• Added page range conversion
• Added column-format context menu on the preview area
• Added convert button as a drop-down menu

2.4

[Wen, 25 Jul 2006 10:00:00]

• Added multi-page OCR support
• Added Copy Layout from Page menu
• Added copy and paste layout
• Added multiple page layout capability
• Added fields support
• Added table deletion
• Added "set header as first line" option
• Added the option to change minus characters from right to left

2.6

[Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:00:00]

• Convert to CSV capability

3.0

[Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:00:00]

• Replaced Simple OCR with IRIS OCR
• Moved Command line interface capability to a different product

3.2

[Wen, 10 Jan 2007 10:00:00]

• Moved the OCR functionality to a different product

3.4

[Thu, 27 Mar 2007 10:00:00]

• Added Vista support
• Added "Split here" option
• Added upgrade option

3.6

[Wen, 8 Aug 2007 10:00:00]

• Added multiple table option
• Added naming a table option
• Added option to convert to multiple sheets
• Improved conversion speed

4.0

[Wen, 30 Jan 2008 10:00:00]

• Added automatic table detection
• Added copy and paste table option
• Added convert table option
• Combine two different tables on same page
• Added an option to transpose table (columns and rows)
• Added keep leading zeros option
• Added same rows height option
• Added Hide empty line option
• Added terminal server support
• Added keyboard navigation (up/ down/ page up/ page down)
• Added Previous and next table buttons

4.2

[Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:00:00]

• Added header auto detection capability
• Added conversion to PowerPoint
• Added optional finding of table according to header location
• Added option to associate field with a specific table
• Added optional automatic calculation of table height
• Added option to convert to the old Excel format when Excel 2007 is installed

4.4

[Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:00:00]

• Advanced Row and Cell editing - Removed the selection mode (Column, Row, Cell) and added a simple and easy user interface, that allows more flexibility in selecting the data for manipulation (very similar to the Excel data selection interface)
• Added the option to convert Image as a field
• Added the option to Edit the output (allows reorder and toggle of tables and columns)
• Increased maximum number of tables per page to 63
• Now allows opening a layout file from the open file menu
• Added option to show formatting (font size and color) in preview
• Added superscript support

4.6

[Mon, 17 May 2010 16:30:00]

This version includes some major improvements for our PDF to Excel converter.

For starters, it now supports conversion into OpenOffice! PDF2XL can now convert directly to .ODS files so that you can load them in OpenOffice Calc, or your other favourite office suite.

Also, PDF2XL can now keep the indentation of text in columns, as well as text-wrapping inside table cells, so you have the option to keep the original text flow in addition to the original formatting.

Here is the snippet of change-log from our developers:

• Added PDF conversion to OpenDocument Spreadsheet
• Added an option to combine cells automatically
• Added an option to keep text indentation and/or wrapping
• Added fields output editing (reordering, hiding fields, dragging fields into tables)
• Added support for non standard operating system fonts
• Fully updated and tested for Windows 7
• Fully tested for Office 2010

This was taken from the PDF to Excel converter version history page

4.8

[Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:30:00]

This new release from Cogniview upgrades various internal components of PDF2XL:

• Revamped the layout display and editing
• Simplified the layout creation process
• Images are now considered a conversion format rather then a special field option. This means that you can convert table columns as images, which is useful (for example) in catalog table conversion
• Fixed support for PDF files that could not be opened before

This was taken from the PDF to Excel converter version history page