Adobe Reader XI 11.0.09

What’s New

Fill and Sign

The Sign Pane was renamed to Fill & Sign and the three related panels were unified in this single view. Form fill-in and signing workflows are made more usable since the forms tools now appear along with the signing tools.

In Reader, the Fill & Sign Pane automatically opens when form fields are present.

The tool logic is enhanced so that form fill-in is always possible even if another tool is selected. Starting a typing action simply deselects other tools.

Enterprise configuration via registry and plist preferences:

HKCU’s AVAlert\bDonotShowFSSWarningDlg set to 1 disables the Fill & Sign Alert dialog which appears when a user tries to use the service with a dynamic XFA form. Dynamic forms are currently unsupported.
HKLM’s cServices\bEnableSignPane set to 0 removes the Fill & Sign Pane from the user interface.
HKCU’s Workflows\bEnableAcrobatHS service’s master switch disables all features of the Fill & Sign Pane except for the Work with Certificates accordion. When forms are opened, the Fill & Sign Pane does not auto open.

See also Bug fixes.

Services integration

Acrobat.com integration with Reader and Acrobat is now extended to all supported languages.
Acrobat.com files are now cached locally. A new lockable preference bEnableBHCache allows admins to disable the feature.
Adobe Send received several workflow improvements.
See also Recent Files.
See also Bug fixes for Webmail integration, Services integration, and others.

Recent files

The startup screen displays a short list of recent files list and provides a View All link which opens the full list.

Choosing Open on the top menu opens a full recent file’s list that can access any file on the machine or on Acrobat.com. The list provide the following features:

Thumbnail view
File search
File details such as size and last modified date

Hove over the Menu icon to change how you view and sort your recent files list.

The recent files list now contains up to 100 files. The default of 100 can be configured via the iMaxMRUCntToBeStored. A link to the full list also appears on the product’s startup Welcome screen.

Hi DPI and Retina support

The Tools, Fill & Sign, and Comment panes are compatible with Hi DPI systems.
See also Bug fixes.

PDF Creation

Added Support PDF creation for AutoCAD 2013 64-bit PDFMaker & Import Comments.

Fonts

The Hindi Devanagari font is added to the 11.x font bundle. This change results in 11.0.09 showing a dialog when the opening a PDF containing extended language fonts which asks if latest font pack for Windows or Mac should be installed.

Bug fixes

Performance

Launch times and feature performance have been improved across the product
3777286: Scrolling page doesn’t work in “Fit one full page to window” view
3579064: PDF scrolling problem in Mac

Services integration

See also Webmail integration.
3758320: Disabling services via bEnableAcrobatHS does not remove Adobe Send (online) link from File > Send Email
3371664: bEnableAcrobatHS master HS switch does not disable EchoSign integration in Acrobat/Reader
3753555: Clicking on View All Sent Files link takes to Acrobat.com tab on the cloud.acrobat.com site although Sent files tab is working and it is visible below the Acrobat.com files tab
3702370: Not able to upload a file through Reader having a name which already exists in files.acrobat.com

Webmail integration

3732843: Outlook does not recognize some addresses from Global Addressbook in Shared Review Workflow
3654167: Outlook 2013 not able to send mail (Office 365)

Share reviews

3763566: Dynamic and custom stamps disappear in Shared Review workflows.

Accessibility

3800454: Toolbar items do not have valid accessibility names and are not accessible to screen readers
3680229/3707974: Improved stability while either Serotek System Access or NVDA is running
3736180: Scrollbars are too thin to be accessible on touch devices
3735349: Accessibility problem with radio button in dynamic PDF form

PDF creation

3804902: [64 BIT only] The functionality of “Export to Autocad” from Acrobat should be removed or appropriate message should be displayed in case of failure
3707690: Unable to compile AutoCAD Ribbons components when running as a Standard User
3791247: Embedded CorelDraw CDR image objects in a MS-Word document are not rendered in the resulting PDF
3766317: IFF-File cannot be displayed in PDF
3784654: Create PDF from Web Page fails for almost every website
3773518: Boundary of the table is not created properly when word doc containing table is converted to PDF
3729011: PDF conversion of word file results in one of the images having black horizontal lines on it
3723668: Labels at Y axis are not aligned properly from Word to PDF conversion
3764415: Cannot produce plain PDF files if PDFA/1A Support is turned on in PDFMaker in word
3784788: Converting word document with PDF/A-1a settings changes the background color of image/logo
3791233: Picture of format EMF has incorrect colours in PDF

Printing

3634768: Issue while printing PDF on legal size pages using Adobe Reader XI on Win 7 and MAC 10.8.4
3757566: Valid PDF File Fails to Spool for PostScript Printing under MacOS

Hi-dpi and Retina support

3770888: Size of UI is not consistent with system settings, which is problematic on certain tablet

Application Security

3345677: Protected View yellow bar should be accessible to Screen Readers and on pressing F6 the focus should shift to the ‘Enable All Features’ button in the yellow bar
3778541: Unable to open Acrobat.com file after toggling Protected View without restarting Reader

Digital signatures

3647309: MS Lync certificate appears in the sign dialog box
3736411: Reader does not populate/create the appearances.acrodata file in the Security folder or the preference for using the appearance file on a system that has had Reader previously installed
3786051: Change Default Sig Verification to Doc-Specific, Else Default
3795323: Cannot add additional signature to a signed PDF in a Portfolio
3739716: Digital Signature gets marked as invalid for the first time
3774949: Not able to save exported Digital ID file in p7c or cer format
3812403: Signature DMB/Certificate DMB for a file containing form fields does not look good – The sentence “This file includes fillable……fields” should start from the next line, and Acrobatcom has gone too far right side of the DMB

Content security

3779673: Adobe users not able to open the rights protected document intermittently
3793071: Win/Mac: Trust Setting Icons are Missing
3746409: Permission validity period not displayed in Adobe Reader
3573238: Massively slow response using certificate authentication of LiveCycle form with Reader

Macintosh

3770786: 10.8:Plist entries are not created in current user account when multiple user account is present on machine
3516107: Preview of files is not appearing in Reader Web UI
3735688: 10.9 or later only: Energy Impact data can’t be reduced to 1.3 after we run “Open Recent File” function
3809019: Browser: None of the options launching a URL is working in Right Hand Tools Pane and Fill&Sign Pane
3787282: Cannot change colour using CMYK Sliders
3804885: Scrolling Direction should be reverse when using multi-finger swipe via trackpad

Creative Cloud for Teams

3770703: Registry entries does not create when Acrobat is deployed on user machine using SCCM deployment method via local system account
3767491: Registry entries for second user are not getting created when we run mst in one user
3770478: Registry entries for std user are not getting created when acrobat is installed by std user.Registries gets created when Std user login again after installation

SharePoint

3717664: Error pops up while saving a PDF documents on a SharePoint 2010
3801912: SharePoint 2013: Multiple authentication requests thrown to user when accessing files over SharePoint
3759176: No entry point to access SharePoint/Office365 files through Open dialog invoked via My Computer tab in My Files view
3769110: If file is opened from SharePoint or Office 365, then a corresponding entry is added in Recent Locations in My Computer tab
3557397: Error pops up while opening a PDF from SharePoint location

Enterprise deployment

3742728: App-V: 11.0.07 App-V MSI should upgrade 11.0.01 MSI if it is installed on the client system
3793336: The SCUP Catalogs for 11.0.08 contains article ID of previous release APSB14-15 and title for MUI Reader is wrong

Miscellaneous

3769420: After FeatureLockDown Setting is made in the “com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist” file, the “Digital Editions” menu still exists in the Help menu
3799430: When uploading a file from a slow network, a 0KB file is left at the inprogress folder of Reader
3750557: When using search for the first time in a renderer and user is in thumbnail view then no thumbnails are shown for the search results, if any.
3774256: Not able to save exported comments in xfdf format
3799193: Page 0: When ‘Save As’ is done on a Page 0 document, the newly created document is not opened automatically
3744611: Icons not visible in Shared Reviews initiation wizard
3757837: Changing default PDF viewer to Reader via Edit->Preferences menu of Reader requires system restart
3740533: Dynamic Subform with WSDL connection issues when executing the WSDL multiple times
3720564: When using Output Preview Tool in Acrobat on CMYK color profile, the value appears different between “Separations- Preview” And “Object Inspector-Preview
3690569: Text spacing operators (Tw, Tc) not properly honored for some text strings during PostScript printing
3802487: At 100% scaling and high resolutions like 2560x1600 the width of RHP is not sufficient to show the strings correctly