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2PDF 4.0 (October 27, 2025)

  • New options to set or edit PDF metadata (Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, etc.)
  • New ability to attach external files to PDFs using the -pdf attpath parameter; for example, you can add an image, an XML, or Word document to generated PDFs
  • Write creation and modification dates to output PDFs (-pdf creationdate, -pdf modificationdate)
  • CAD to PDF conversion: Now it is possible to use eDrawings Viewer to convert DXF/DWG files when Microsoft Print to PDF is installed
  • Added new Grayscale operation (-oper grayscale)
  • Added new Resize operation (-oper resize)
  • Faster OCR performance: Optimized with SIMD technology (OCR SIMD: Yes enabled by default), delivering faster image decoding and text recognition (Available on 64-bit Windows systems only)
  • Improved OCR accuracy: The new noise removal (OCR remove noise: Yes) feature reduces image artifacts for cleaner text recognition
  • New OCR languages: Arabic, Korean, Dutch
  • Split PDFs by bookmarks: Use -pdf multipage:split split_mode:bybookmarks to split by bookmark sections (previously, it was possible to split a document by pages only). In addition, you can specify bookmark names to extract only the selected sections, for example, -pdf multipage:split split_mode:bybookmarks bookmark:"name1" bookmark:"name2"
  • Retrieve a list of bookmarks as a return code using -info:bookmarks
  • Change the CSV default field separator (delimiter) in Advanced Settings → File loading settings → CSV
  • Automatically fit data to cell size (Autofit columns)
  • Render HTML files in "Print layout" mode using EO.PDF (Render HTML as if for printing)
  • Export all logs and current settings as a ZIP archive (-options export_path) — a convenient way to share details with the support team for troubleshooting or getting help
  • Enhanced components for processing Microsoft Excel and Word files
  • Added digital signatures to some installation DLL files to prevent false-positive antivirus alerts
  • New supported formats: Lotus Word Pro Document LWP (.lwp), CBR, CBZ (.cbr, .cbz)
  • Fixed issues with processing Microsoft Outlook PST files
  • Corrected TXT margin detection
  • Fixed issue with HTML encoding detection
  • Fixed color-space handling during rasterization with "As is" mode
  • Fixed EO.PDF component issue causing landscape HTMLs to convert with incorrect orientation

2PDF 3.0 (January 18, 2024)

  • Improved and more reliable file processing core
  • New Text annotation operation to quickly add text to converted files (-oper textannotation)
  • Setting margins around text for both Text watermark and Text annotation operations with the new txt_margin parameter
  • New Crop operation that enables you to crop output pages by setting margins; you can do it manually or via the Auto crop method to automatically remove margins (-oper crop method:autocrop)
  • Ability to load source files listed in an Excel spreadsheet (XLS, XLSX or CSV) 
  • Ability to run multiple command lines in one 2PDF session using the -cmdlines switch
  • New supported format: SVG (no additional software required)
  • Ability to convert password-protected XLS and XLSX files
  • Ability to save/load 2PDF Settings via Export and Import buttons
  • Loading custom settings by setting a path to a settings file using the -inipath switch 
  • Ability to set post-processing actions using the -keepsf switch
  • New -fls switch that allows setting specific file loading parameters in the command line syntax, for example, for processing Excel and raster image files
  • Ability to save a brief log with 2PDF session statistics using the -options reslog switch
  • New Remove blank pages operation (-oper removeblankpages)
  • New options for combined PDF/TIFF files if file(s) with the same filename already exist in the output folder (-options ocf): Append, Create separate file, Overwrite, Skip
  • Ability to optimize file size of a PDF containing bitmap images by rasterizing its pages into JPEG format (-oper rasterize)
  • Ability to load an embedded ICC color profile when processing image files (-fls iccprofile)
  • Added new options for Attachments of unknown types action setting to handle "unknown" attachments that are not supported by the program
  • Added a new setting for HTML source files — Allow proprietary media formats
  • Enhanced HTML to PDF conversion thanks to updated component module
  • Enhanced CAD drawings (DWG, DXF) conversion by updating the component module
  • Added a new option, Display line weight, for DXF and DWG drawings, allowing users to adjust the thickness of lines
  • Added a new option, Fonts to bold, for DXF and DWG drawings, enabling users to make fonts bolder
  • New macros {copy} and {copies} available to add, for example, when adding different watermarks depending on the file's number of copy
  • New macro {attno} to indicate attachment number in the output file name or in a watermark
  • New regular expressions of source file name (e.g., Take digits from the end) to use data from source files in the output filename or in a watermark
  • Fixed issue in adding Data Matrix barcode as a watermark
  • Incorrect rotation when converting HEIC to PDF fixed
  • Fixed issue when Convert only attachments option is used (-options attachments:onlyatt)

2PDF 2.0 (August 24, 2022)

  • New supported formats: HEIC, EPUB, VCF, ICS, EMLX, DNG
  • Converting Word, Outlook, and Excel files without Microsoft Office
  • New post-processing actions: move, copy, delete source files
  • Saving web pages as PDF using URL as source
  • Converting files from multiple sources at once
  • Splitting multipage documents by page ranges
  • Drawing a custom rectangular frame on pages or images
  • Adding source file names as bookmarks when merging files to a multipage PDF
  • Keeping bookmarks of source files
  • Disabling Microsoft wildcard matching algorithm
  • Changing rasterization resolution (DPI)
  • Ability to run 2PDF from a batch file (TXT)
  • New tooltips added in 2PDF Advanced Settings
  • New Edit operations tab in 2PDF Settings
  • Adding multi-line text watermark
  • Placing watermark behind document's contents (Z-Order)
  • New macro for text watermark: {containername}
  • Adding a clickable URL to text or image watermark
  • New and improved components for processing CAD files: DWG and DXF
  • Attachments of unknown type are ignored (by default)
  • Fixed issue with HTML files encoding detection
  • Fixed conversion of XML files 
  • Fixed issue with adding multiple watermarks
  • Fixed text watermark rotation issue
  • Fixed issue with long lines when converting text files
  • Fixed issues with splitting Excel worksheets and page orientation
  • Fixed issue with CR2 (Canon photo RAW files) processing
  • Fixed conversion of Outlook MSG and EML files with attachments
  • Improved logging

2PDF 1.0 (August 20, 2019)

  • Ability to convert to PDF format
  • Ability to convert all files from a selected folder (including subfolders)
  • Ability to combine all files from a folder to a single multipage file
  • Ability to set the file name for a combined multipage file 
  • Ability to OCR files to searchable PDF (6 languages available)
  • Ability to convert all files listed in a text file
  • Ability to convert CAD drawings
  • Ability to combine multiple PDFs into a single PDF file
  • Ability to split multipage files into separate PDF pages
  • Ability to set manual or auto page rotation (portrait, landscape)
  • Ability to set page range
  • Ability to delete source files after conversion
  • Ability to set the output file name template
  • Ability to handle file attachments
  • Ability to sort output files by a certain parameter
  • Ability to add text watermark and adjust settings
  • Ability to add image watermark and adjust settings
  • Ability to compress output PDF file size (DOC, DOCX > PDF)
  • Ability to quickly merge a large number of files
  • Ability to password-protect one or multiple files
  • Ability to remove password(s) from one or multiple files