We're excited to announce the latest version of our Black Ice TIFF Viewer Browser Extension (version 14.40) for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. This powerful tool allows you to easily view and manage TIFF and PDF documents over the internet, making it an essential tool for anyone who works with these types of files. The Chrome and Edge extensions are automatically updated in your browser if you have internet access.

New features in the latest version include three new stunning user interface themes and new icons for Zoom In and Zoom Out with a single click. The extension also includes a new feature to burn annotations into the document when saving.

In addition to these new features, the latest extension also includes several improvements for TIFF documents, such as major performance enhancements for OCR and the Intelligent Redact features, and dozens of usability improvements for drawing and editing Note, Text, and Rubber Stamp annotations.

For PDF documents, the extension now includes an enhanced text selection feature, making it easier for users to select and copy text information. Plus, the extension has further stability improvements for printing and saving PDF documents with filled forms.

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With easy integration into existing applications, the IceViewer can be effortlessly embedded into a webpage with advanced administrator options for customization.

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

DATE: 03-13-2023
Version: 14.40 (revision 2185)

• Added the Tiff Viewer Core Web Application (#16123)
• Stability improvements when opening a local TIFF file with Drag and Drop in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16224)
• New feature to burn in annotations when saving a TIFF document with Chrome / Edge extension (#16341)
• Save icon renamed to Save As to reflect the functionality better in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16340)
• Stability improvements for printing PDF Forms in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16277)
• Stability improvements for printing PDF files after copying and pasting pages in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16264)
• Stability improvements for drawing Rubber Stamp and Stamp annotations in Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16236)
• Stability improvements for memory usage when using OCR feature in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16230, #16279)
• Stability improvements for the “Enable Thumbnail Mode” when opening PDF documents in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16287)
• Stability improvements for using the Intelligent Redact feature in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16312, #16322)
• Stability improvements for using the “Magnifying Glass Mode” and then navigating between pages in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16316)
• Stability improvements for the Note annotation Opaque feature in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16241)
• Stability improvements for zooming with the mouse wheel in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16198)
• Stability improvements for opening TIFF files with large Stamp and Rubber Stamp annotations in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16343)
• Stability improvements for using Rubberband Zoom on PDF documents in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16357)
• Quality improvements for the Arrow and Note annotations in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16235, #16280, #16281)
• Quality improvements for resizing the Note annotation in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16313)
• Quality improvements for saving TIFF files with JPEG compression in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16342)
• New OCR icon for the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16266)
• Minor stability improvements for the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16268, #16237)
• Minor user interface improvements for the Chrome / Edge extension (#16295, #16233, #16265, #16282, #16267, #16337)
• Tiff Viewer installer turns off the “Recent File List” option when Tiff Viewer is installed to a Citrix server (#16211)
• Removed the language selection option from the Tiff Viewer update (#16225)
• Stability improvement for opening certain color TIFF files containing an incorrect Photometric Interpretation tag (#16208)
• Stability improvement for restoring file associations when uninstalling Tiff Viewer (#16347)
• Stability improvement for filling PDF forms generated by the Black Ice Printer Driver (#16100)
• Updated BiImg1.dll (BiTiff.dll) to version 13.06.957

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