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October 2026 v5.2.12.119

1.Length & Area Measurement – Add/Remove Grips

When measuring length or area, you can add or remove grips (control points) to refine the measurement boundary with greater precision.

2.Auto-Create Bookmarks – Select Multiple Positions

The auto-bookmark feature now supports selecting multiple positions at once, allowing you to generate bookmarks for several locations in a single operation.

3.Search Shape – Select Multiple Region

Shape recognition now lets you specify the recognition range, so detection is limited to the area you actually need.

4.Line Weight Display – Option to Ignore Line Weights

You can now choose to ignore line weights when displaying drawings, giving you a cleaner view when line weight rendering is not needed.

5.Experience Optimizations – Shortcuts, Auto-Scroll, and More

General usability improvements, including shortcut enhancements and automatic screen scrolling, for a smoother workflow.

September 2026 v5.2.9.116

Drawing Comparison Feature Upgrade – Review Drawings with Ease!

View Tutorials : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvPcNKANQw

1. Compare Two Multi-Page Drawings with One Click

Now you can load two multi-page drawing documents simultaneously. Whether it's multi-page schematics or construction drawings broken into separate volumes, the system completes the full comparison in one go. No page splitting or pre-processing required – just select the two files and the system will go page by page to identify differences for you. Multi-page reviewing is no longer a hassle.

2. Automatic Drawing Alignment – No More Manual Adjustments

In the past, when drawings had different scales or alignment offsets, you had to drag and align them manually – time-consuming and straining on the eyes. Now, the system automatically detects discrepancies and intelligently aligns the drawings for you. You can view comparison results under a unified baseline with minimal effort.

3. Customizable Highlight Colors for Better Visibility

The colors used to mark difference areas are now fully customizable. You can change the highlight colors to match your project standards or personal preferences, making critical differences stand out clearly and improving team collaboration.

August 2026 v5.2.3.110

Resize Pages

This function enables you to adjust PDF page sizes. You can unify inconsistent page dimensions within a document, or set all pages to specified standard sizes such as A0, A1 and more. Perfect for standardizing merged or scanned PDF files.

Other optimizations

July 2026 v5.2.0.107

Measure irregular shapes with ease – curves made simple:

1.One-click arc capture: When encountering a curved edge, simply long-press the Command key. The system will automatically snap to and recognize the arc, eliminating the need for manual tracing.

2.Precise three-point arc: For manual drawing, press the A key to enter "3-Point Arc" mode. Define the start point, control point, and end point to perfectly match any irregular contour.

Video Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BJ-ZuHGyTs

Add Stamp on PDF Files

Easily add stamps to your PDF documents. Each stamp comes with customized name and timestamp, ideal for file marking, version identification and document traceability.

June 2026 v5.0.7.102

1. Continuous measurement supports curves and segment length display 
2. Leader text supports color fill 
3. Bookmark improvements (export bookmarks + current page highlighting) 
4. Support for custom scale input 
5. Other optimizations

May 2026 v5.0.6.101

1. Added [Typewriter] function
2. Support for setting fonts 
3. Leader text supports in-place editing

February 2026 v4.9.4.89

1. Support reorder pages
2. Other optimizations

December 2025 v4.8.9.84

1. Leader Text supports in-place editing upon double-click
2. OCR adds support for switching to Thai and Crillic languages
3. Optimization of the PDF to searchable document conversion feature
4. UI optimization

November 2025 v4.8.1.76

1. Legend function: Add a measurement legend of current page. https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/386/how-to-generate-and-summarize-all-measurement-legends-in-planform
2. New markup type: Polyline
3. Text comment support in-place editing upon double-clicking.
4. Supports custom comment colors.
5. Combine files: Option to create bookmarks with filename
6. Other optimizations

September 2025 v4.6.4.68

1. Optimization for Comment Category

• ① Quick creation of annotation categories: batch creation and PDF import.
• ② Switch annotation categories without exiting the drawing command.
• ③ Support sorting for the standard category list.

2. Replace Pages

3. Support New Language: German

August 2025 v4.5.7.63

New features

1. Optimization of Search Shape: More accurate for different drawings

Function optimization

1. Add the Search Shape button to the measurement panel

2. Support highlighting of searched shape

July 2025 v4.5.4.60

1. Select preset scale, and batch set for multi pages https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/256/setting-multiple-scale-references-in-a-single-pdf-drawing-file
2. Optimized OCR accuracy for English
3. Japanese OCR
4. Thumbnail function
5. Support Traditional Chinese language
6. Improved printing efficiency and printing quality

June 2025 v4.5.1.57

1. Export Commentlist as displayed
2. Drag bookmark
3. Professional Translate (Only for Team Account) https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/236/how-can-i-translate-text-in-a-drawing-that-is-in-a-foreign-language-into-a-language-i-understand

May 2025 v4.4.0.51

1. Area Measurement Cutout:  Cut out or subtract an area from an existing area measurement
2. Add Point to Area Measurement: Add a control point to an area measurement
3. Copy Annotations: ①Ctrl + C & Ctrl + V ②Copy to the same location: Ctrl + Shift + V
4. New Custom Column For Commentlist: Number
5. Easy access to modify basic properties
6. Other Optimizations

March 2025 v4.2.3.46

1. Insert image to PDF https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/191/how-to-integrate-photos-into-pdf-drawing
2. Search text: Set search range; Markup checked texts; Export searched results  https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/148/text-search-in-pdf-to-find-key-information-instantly
3. New Language: support switching language to Japanese

January 2025 v4.1.1.41

1. Comment list: How do I manage the comment list in a PDF drawing using PlanForm?

•  Tracks and manage all the comments placed on a PDF, including color, comment type, page number, etc.  
•   Support adding new properties to comments.
•   Export comments data to Excel

2. Support imperial units

3. New Language: support switching language to Chinese

4. Batch Extract Tables: Extract tables of multiple pages to Excel. Tutorial: https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/86

5. Erase: Erase document/drawing content

November 2024 v3.10.5.34

1. Search Shapes: Automatically search and count similar shapes. Tutorial: https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/82
2. Bookmark: Add, edit, delete, rename, search
3. Auto create bookmarks. Tutorial: https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/83
4. Copy Comments
5. Display in grayscale. Tutorial: https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/84
6. Insert Pages
7. Sequence Optimization: New border shapes and lead line style. Tutorial: https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/78
8. Open in new window
9. Scale pdf drawing on softcopy

• https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/244/how-to-scale-a-pdf-drawing-metric-units
• https://club.fastcadreader.com/question/detail/245/how-to-scale-a-pdf-drawing-imperial-units

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