Black Ice Software is excited to announce the release of IceViewer 16.03, featuring enhanced performance, improved file optimization, and better document handling tools. This update introduces a redesigned Info Panel for streamlined access to file details and actions, a new Flatten PDF feature, and Font Subset Embedding to reduce file sizes and improve compatibility.

Access File Details Instantly

The redesigned Info Panel provides immediate access to document properties, metadata, and security settings. Users can quickly:

• Copy the file path
• Open the file location
• Protect PDFs with a password
• Change image resolution

The Info Panel can be accessed by selecting the Info option from the File menu.

🔒 Finalize and Protect Your PDFs

The new Flatten feature converts interactive elements such as form fields and other interactive elements in PDF documents into static page content. This ensures the document cannot be edited after finalization.

Flatten the current page, selected pages, or the entire document from the Tools tab.

📦 Smaller, Consistent PDFs

IceViewer now includes Font Subset Embedding, which embeds only the characters used in a document. This results in:

• Significantly reduce PDF file sizes for faster sharing or reduce storage
• Consistent appearance across all devices
• Preservation of original formatting and layout

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The complete list of improvements in the latest IceViewer includes the following:

DATE: 10-07-2025
Version: 16.03 (revision 3495)

• Improved the Info Panel design for PDF documents (IV-396, IV-432, IV-457).
• Usability improvement for the search bar (IV-159, IV-175, IV-461, IV-486).
• Stability improvements for Link Annotations in IceViewer (IV-485).
• Updated BiVPDF.dll to version 3.3.0.0 (IV-484).

DATE: 09-26-2025
Version: 16.02 (revision 3485)

• Improved font embedding for Text, Note, and Comment annotations, which now embed full fonts, while Add Text remains subsetted (IV-64, IV-392, IV-403, IV-394, IV-409).
• Added a page range selection dialog for the Flatten operation (IV-117).
• Added translations for the watermark dialog (IV-190).
• Improved the Save dialog design (IV-415).
• Stability improvements for saving TIFF annotations, specifically Note annotations as Image PDF (IV-406, IV-407, IV-413).
• Stability improvements for flattening PDF documents to keep them editable. (IV-418).
• Stability improvement for licensing when the Cisco AnyConnect client is installed on the system (ELIC-21).
• Updated Document Imaging SDK to version 13.21.1333.
• Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.44.366

DATE: 09-01-2025
Version: 16.01 (revision 3448)

• Added search bar on the caption bar (#20055, #20057).
• Added new themes: Blue, Light Blue (#19944).
• Added Flatten PDF Page option (#19558).
• Added font Embed Subsetting (#20048).
• Stability improvements for the print preview (#19992, #20058, #20068, #20071).
• Added new INI option to set the ribbon layout: classic or simplified (#20009).
• Stability improvements for displaying tooltips (#20029).
• Stability improvements for Link Annotations in IceViewer (#20028).
• Stability improvements for opening TIFF files with annotations with the IceViewer Extension, while an outdated IceViewer Desktop version 14.80 is installed on the computer (#20063).
• Stability improvements for the Comments Panel when opening a flattened PDF (#20082).
• Decreased memory usage when printing (IV-115, IV-151).
• Updated Document Imaging SDK to version 13.21.1320.

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