Release Notes by Version

For MacroBeta users: We've made significant progress towards our PROD editor release date of November 1st! We are incredibly excited about what we've built and the final touches to come.

• Overhauled and fixed numerous edge case bugs and issues with Compare, including PDF comparison stability, output formatting, and much more.
• Fixed several bugs with Automate: loading CSVs and XLSX now correctly respect headers and transposing.
• Shrunk total application download, installation and executable size by 40%.
• Fixed aspect ratio for organize pages on non-portait pages and rotation.
• Fixed loading certain types of encrypted PDFs in Organize.
• Fixed opening external urls from hyperlinks.
• Fixed several early termination conditions for document preprocessing in the viewer and DOCX and PDF comparison.
• Lowered baseline memory usage of the idle application by about 30%.
• Fixed organize pages not treating merges or loading multiple documents as an edit.
• Fixed numerous UI styling quirks throughout the application.

Our team has been hard at work for our "era of polish." Version 2.7 brings a smoother, more stable experience with numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and UX enhancements.

• Enhanced comments experience: Comments are now visible on the right hand side, and float next to the intended content.
• PDF Processing improvements: We've significantly improved the error handling for our local PDF processor, avoiding errors in a wider variety of environments.
• Added ability to set default on Mac OS.
• Organize pages revamp: we've overhauled the organize experience, which will allow much easier merging, rearranging, rotation, and manipulation of pages.
• Bug fixes: We've fixed a few potential failure cases with loading encrypted files, among numerous other optimizations.

• Compare fixes
  • Improved granularity for changes spanning multiple paragraphs or tables
  • Registers comparisons of headers and footers, preserves when necessary
  • Increased customization of output file types (PDF, DOCX) during multi-file export
• Performance increases; app now loads 2x as fast!
• Placeables improvements
• Numerous QOL changes

• UI Improvements
• Added support for native PDF bookmarks alongside Macro's AI TOC
• Added enhanced recent file selector, filtering, and starring
• Added hotkeys to numerous additional functionality
• Prevent search results from disappearing on key press
• Security enhancements, performance improvements, and bug fixes
• [Bonus] Finished technical foundation for our (not so) secret big release — coming very soon!

The Macro Release!

CoParse is now rebranded to Macro (macro.com) - a new name to reflect our expanded product and roadmap. Read more here. Our first release of the Macro app contains:

• A fresh UI + UX for the PDF Viewer
• Hotkey support throughout the app, plus tooltips to guide you
• Authentication/License Activation revamp (10x increase in all account operations speed)
• New annotation features: shapes and page numbers
• Comparison revamp! Compare PDFs, export multiple files, and see revisor names in track changes.
• Improvements to Search Pane (Simple and Advanced Search)
• Improved settings page
• Enabled DMS integration throughout all file loading operations in the app
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

CoParse 2.3 achieves app-wide performance improvements, bug-fixes, and quality of life changes (not to mentioned numerous feature additions!)

• Performance improvements, including:
  • Significant improvements to the scroll speed and page render times
  • Smaller application size
  • Faster initial launch time
• Word search: see and quickly navigate word search results in the Search side panel
• PDF comment threads: create threaded replies to comments and annotations
• Added hotkey accelerators
• Added Windows 11 support
• Numerous app-wide bug-fixes

• Added persistent pinned terms
• Improved iManage integration with file saving
• Bugs fixes and improvements

• Added Automate - automatically extract bracketed terms from template Word docs and fill with a spreadsheet UI
• Added redaction
• Internal links open in PiP
• Fixed exporting PDFs from Organize
• Fixed numerous bugs and QoL improvements

• Revamped home page to include sidebar with application launchers
• Added application level tab bar to support multiple open documents or workflows
• Updated PDF Viewer styling
• Improved authentication to avoid frequent re-logins
• Added enhanced Compare tool - blackline, multiple blackline, and consolidate edits
• Added standalone organize pages tool
• Added eSignature launcher
• Numerous bug fixes, performance optimizations, and stability improvements

• Fixed issues when saving highlights
• Fixed certain highlighted text displaying in the left hand pins panel

• Fixed bug related to double-click highlighting of text
• Quality of life optimizations
• Performance improvements

• Added ability to decrypt password protected files
• Added ability to encrypt / password protect a file
• Overhauled text layer system to enable immediate document interactivity
  • Improved + smoother highlighting
  • Added status indicator popups in lower right corner
  • Decreased logical parsing time by ~15%
  • Decreased document page load times
• Added ability to fill and save PDF forms
• Added full OCR capabilities
  • Auto-detect PDFs that require OCR, prompt user to perform OCR and parse within CoParse
• Styling improvements
• Bug fixes
  • File system (saving, loading, caching) improvements

• Organize pages revamp - new user interface with more intuitive controls
• Added loading indicator to the homepage when DOCX files are dropped into the dropzone or opened via the file picker. This aids users in understanding that work is being done — especially for long Word files — when the document does not show instantly
• Printing
• Fixed DOCX loading bug that caused, in some instances, DOCX files not to load properly in a new window
• Fixed slow window load times on some PCs on Windows OS