v9.8 [May 31, 2014]
- Hand-drawing effect
- One-click drop shadows
- Translucent raster images, bitmap textures, and gradient fills
- Smooth blending of raster images into the background (8-bit alpha channels)
- Improved rendering quality and more powerful handling of translucency effects
- Faster, higher-quality bitmap exporting
- 50% smaller PDF files and support for PDF 1.5, including layer data.