Black Ice Software's newest TIFF Viewer release includes many new features and dozens of improvements to enhance the user experience when viewing and editing PDF and Tiff Documents!

The latest TIFF Viewer comes with a new “Center Page” view mode, which gives users a new but familiar way to view their documents. With the new “Center Page” view mode the TIFF Viewer will keep the page in the center of the view area, even if the user zooms in or out. Zooming and changing View Modes in the TIFF Viewer has also become smoother than ever, as we have eliminated instances where the Tiff and PDF would flash when making changes.

Comment and Note annotations have also been greatly improved to require fewer clicks when editing font settings. This helps save users valuable time, especially when they must use different font settings for different Comments or Notes.

The Search feature has also been switched to case-insensitive. Helping users find all the potential search results in the first search.

The latest TIFF Viewer comes with further user interface improvements for email sending, tooltips, and stability improvements for removing old Wang and MODI annotations from TIFF documents.

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The complete list of improvements in the latest TIFF Viewer includes the following:

DATE : 10-11-2022
Version : 14.15 (revision 2064)

• Fixed translations for the OCR menu (#15749)
• Fixed certain vector PDF files being incorrectly identified as PDF forms (#15788)
• Stability improvement for the “Search the Help for More Information” link on the getting started dialog on 64-bit systems (#15789)
• Searching has been changed to case-insensitive by default in the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extension (#15638)

DATE: 09-23-2022
Version: 14.10 (revision 2058)

• Fixed the text editor not being re-focused after changing font in Comment and Note annotations (#15549)
• Fixed modifying the font of Comment and Note annotations when nothing is selected changes the font of the whole text (#15550)
• Fixed first page of PDF documents flashing up in Normal view mode while opening (#15710)
• Fixed currently viewed page flashing up at 100% zoom when changing the zoom level in Fit To Width and Fit To Window view modes (#15719)
• Fixed the Enable Annotation tab option not affecting options in the image right-click menu (#15606)
• Fixed setting a custom zoom level in Fit To Width and Fit To Window view modes not possible (#15499)
• Added Center Page view mode (#15721)
• Minor user interface improvements for the Border toggle feature when a Note, Highlight or Redact annotation is selected (#15551)
• Minor user interface improvements for view modes menu (#15722, #15744)
• Minor user interface improvements for tooltips (#15501, #15562)
• Minor user interface improvements for email sending (#15740)
• Stability improvement for removing old Wang and MODI annotations from certain JPEG compressed TIFF files (#15704)
• Added the product name to the Manual Registration dialog (#15707)
• Updated BuRegister.dll to version 17.12.2886
• Updated BiDisp.dll to version 13.05.952

DATE: 09-07-2022
Version: 14.05 (revision 2046)

• Added a dialog with instructions on how to restart Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge when registering Tiff Viewer (#16537)
• The PDF file format support option in the Chrome / Edge extension now applies to every user on the computer (#15652)
• Minor user interface improvements when configuring PDF file format support in the Chrome / Edge extension settings window (#15566, #15664, #15665)
• Minor user interface improvements in the Tiff Viewer installers (#15640, #15641, #15643, #15671)

DATE: 08-24-2022
Version : 14.00 (revision 2035)

• User Interface improvements enabling support for PDF files in the Chrome / Edge extension (#15564, #15565)
• Added new options to the View, OCR, Browser Plug-In and Admin pages and improved the user interface in the Tiff Viewer Options (#15423)
• Redesigned the Save As dialog for TIFFs and Image PDFs (#15286, #15287, #15288, #15289)
• Minor user interface improvements in the Tiff Viewer installers (#15592, #15588)
• Stability improvement for opening certain BMP files (top-down BMP files with negative height) (#15595)
• Fixed files being saved with incorrect compression when using Save As to save into Image PDF (#15561)
• Digitally signed all DLL files in the installer. (#15607)

DATE: 08-16-2022
Version : 13.99 (revision 2025)

• Added new feature to Chrome / Edge extension to open every document in a new browser window (#15308)
• Stability improvements for the Intelligent Redact feature in the Chrome / Edge extension (#15491)
• Added the "Enable the Chrome Extension for every user" option to the Tiff Viewer installers (#15529)
• Changed the order of the options in the Tiff Viewer installers (#15528)
• Turned off the "View PDF documents in the Black Ice Chrome Extension" option by default in the Tiff Viewer installers (#15527, #15558, #15559)
• Turned off the "Install the Black Ice Form Filer" option by default in the Tiff Viewer installers (#15535)
• Stability improvement for searching in edited but unsaved PDF documents (#15539)
• Fixed zoom level not being reset when selecting the current view mode again in Single Page View and Multi-Page View (#15498)
• Changed the name of the Load feature on the Annotation tab to Open (#15532)
• Added missing tooltips and changed incorrect ones on the user interface (#15502, #15503)

DATE: 08-08-2022
Version : 13.98 (revision 2011)

• Fix for OCR opening Notepad instead of the default OCR output viewer application in some cases (#15511)
• Tiff Viewer quits automatically if it is started in session 0 by a shared Black Ice Printer Driver (#15516)
• Stability improvements for the Chrome / Edge extension for refreshing the browser and reopening a PDF document (#15481)

DATE: 08-05-2022
Version : 13.97 (revision 2006)

• Added support for opening TIFF and PDF documents generated by the Black Ice Printer Drivers in memory without writing the files to disk (#15408)
• Added new INI option to disable the "Upload to SharePoint" feature in the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-In (#15457)
• Added new INI option to disable the "Send Email" and "Email Settings" features in the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-In (#15458)
• Removed the yellow background of the Text annotation that appeared while editing it (#15476)
• Fixed vector PDF pages being converted to image PDFs when using the Split, Cut or Extract features (#15473)
• Removed the "bi-native-messaging-host.bat" file from the Tiff Viewer installers (#15497)
• Removed the old visual c redistributable dlls from the Tiff Viewer installers (#15344)
• Added version number to the BiTiffViewer-NativeMessaging.exe (#15403)
• Improved error handling for Tiff Viewer installers when the installers cannot write the installation time into the registry (#15435)
• The Tiff Viewer installers no longer ask for restart when Tiff Viewer is running during update or uninstallation (#15426)
• Added option in the Tiff Viewer Options to set the default OCR output viewer application (#15420)

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