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Foxit Conversion SDK v4.0 ​

Release date: September 30, 2026

New features and enhancements ​

PDF ↔ Markdown ​

  • Added PDF to Markdown: foxit::conversion::pdf2md::PDF2Md::ConvertToMarkdown, configurable via PDF2MdSettingData (table format, headers/footers, bold/italic, skip scanned pages, and more). Requires the PDF2MD module license.
  • Added Markdown to PDF: foxit::conversion::md2pdf::Md2PDF::ConvertFromMarkdown, configurable via Md2PDFSettingData (page size and margins, base font size, custom font path, style JSON, font embedding, and more). Requires the MD2PDF module license.

PDF to Office ​

  • Improved dual-layer / scanned PDF to Word performance and image-only page handling
  • Reduced unnecessary PDF to PPT output file-size growth
  • Improved Lao, Myanmar, Khmer, and Thai font support in PDF to Word. Suggested default fonts: Lao DokChampa, Myanmar Myanmar Text, Khmer MoolBoran, Thai Angsana New (DokChampa, MoolBoran, and Angsana New usually require a separate install)

Bug fixes ​

PDF to Word ​

  • Fixed conversion failure returning error code 103 on specific files
  • Fixed errors/crashes on Linux when combining OCR with the PDF2Word engine
  • Fixed possible hangs during PDF to Word
  • Fixed failure handling bold for MICROSS.TTF
  • Fixed loss of bold on subsection titles after conversion
  • Fixed incorrect font substitution for PDF to Word/Excel
  • Fixed leftover newline placeholders and errors at page bottoms on Linux C++
  • Fixed incorrect line breaks
  • Fixed blank pages and abnormal layout in some results
  • Fixed residual newline artifacts affecting downstream translation layout
  • Fixed text misclassified as shapes; TOC/bookmarks not converted to heading structure
  • Fixed incomplete remediation of prior Word conversion regression cases
  • Fixed vector regions incorrectly converted to tables
  • Fixed PDF/A to Word converting text into images
  • Fixed borderless tables becoming text boxes, and slow ML recognition
  • Fixed text conversion mismatches vs the source PDF
  • Improved overall PDF to Word quality on specific samples
  • Fixed letter “I” misrecognized as a Roman-numeral bullet

PDF to Excel ​

  • Fixed crashes on specific files with e_WorkbookSettingsEachPage or e_WorkbookSettingsEachTable
  • Improved poor PDF to Excel quality caused by the underlying engine
  • Fixed cell fill colors exported as images instead of fill

Word to PDF ​

  • Improved overall Office to PDF quality
  • Fixed font weight and horizontal-line position mismatches vs the source
  • Fixed missing nested tables
  • Fixed incorrect table numbering
  • Fixed missing glyphs, extra spaces, and header page-count errors
  • Fixed text color changes, missing content, and incorrect table structure
  • Fixed rewritten heading numbers and inconsistent page counts
  • Fixed layout errors that inflated page counts

Excel to PDF ​

  • Fixed radio buttons not displayed
  • Fixed image stacking/offset covering document content
  • Fixed image stacking offset
  • Fixed image offset stacking and punctuation mojibake

PowerPoint to PDF ​

  • Improved PPTX to PDF output quality