Free PDF Reader v1.4
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Features

Gnostice Free PDF Reader supports the following features. (For system requirements, click here.)

Feature Matrix By Edition

Features By Category
Viewing
Printing
Export
Viewing	Standard
Font types - embedded Type 0, Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType
Image encoding - CCITT Fax and DCT
Image colorspaces - Device (RGB, CMYK and grayscale), CIE-based (RGB, grayscale, and ICC), and special (Indexed, Separation* and DeviceN*)
Image bits per color component - 1, 4, and 8
Ordinary and flattened form fields
Page view options - fit, zoom, and rotation
Navigation options - first page, last page, next page, previous page, and custom (manual input by user)
Integrated bookmark panel
Printing	Standard
Options for specifying printer
Option for specifying printer page size
Options for specifying page range and number of copies
Options for specifying automatic page resizing, rotation and centering
Export	Standard
To image formats (supported by the installed JRE version and Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools API)

System Requirements

Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.

Software Requirements

• JRE: v1.42 or later
• OS: Windows, Linux, or Mac (OS X)

History

Version 1.4 - August 11, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Improved page rendering and scrolling
  • Optimized rendering of 1-bit and 4-bit images
  • Support for JPEG-2000 images

Version 1.3.1 - July 3, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Support for navigation by history (links and bookmarks)
  • New Page Display Settings dialog
  • New integrated navigation panel - currently having a bookmarks tab
• Resolved
  • Scrolling in single page and side-by-side layout
  • Compression level option in Export As Image dialog

Version 1.3 - July 8, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Multi-page viewing
    • Page layout options - Single page, single page continuous, side-by-side, side-by-side continuous with 2 columns, side-by-side continuous with user-specified number of columns, and auto-fit columns
    • Option to show cover page separately in side-by-side layouts
    • Option to enable or disable gaps between pages
    • Option to enable or disable page borders when there are no gaps between pages
  • Enhanced link navigation - navigate to area, fit page style, page zoom setting
  • Enhanced export-to-image feature with option to specify single or multi-page TIFF output, compression type, resolution scaling (72, 96 and 110 DPIs), and custom image dimensions or as viewed in viewer
  • Support for fill and stroke with tiling graphics patterns

Version 1.2 - May 15, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Apple Macintosh (OS X) support
  • Optimized document loading performance
  • Support for rendering of CMYK images and masked images
  • Options to select different look-and-feel (as supported by JRE)
  • Printer options for specifying paper trays, paper collation, and paper sides
• Fixes
  • Rendering of Type 0 Fonts (CID Fonts)

Version 1.1 - March 16 2009

• Enhancements
  • Interactive links in viewer
  • Support for rendering of masked images in the viewer
  • Print dialog options to specify page size, margins, and orientation
  • New print-to-file option
• Fixes
  • Decompression with FlateDecode filter
  • Rendering of rotated pages with crop box
  • Miscellaneous issues

Version 1.0 - February 3 2009

• Viewing
  • Supported font types - embedded Type 0, Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType
  • Supported image types
    • Encoding - ASCII Hex, ASCII 85, LZW, Flate, Run-Length, CCITT Fax, and DCT
    • Colorspaces - Device (RGB, CMYK and grayscale), CIE-based (RGB, grayscale, and ICC), and special (Indexed, Separation* and DeviceN*)
    • Bits per color component - 1, 4, and 8
  • Display of form fields - ordinary and flattened
  • Page view options - fit, zoom, and rotation
  • Navigation options - first page, last page, next page, previous page, and custom (manual input by user)
  • Integrated history panel
• Printing
  • Dialog options for specifying
    • printer from list
    • printer page size
    • page range - all pages, odd pages, even pages, reverse order, and custom (manual input by user)
    • number of copies
    • automatic page resizing
    • automatic rotation and centering
• Export
  • PDF pages to image formats

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