Changelog | PSPDFKit Java Library

Newest Release

1.6.1 - 10 Sep 2024

Changed

Improves the evaluation experience.
Fixed

Fixes an issue where signed fields may not display correctly on rotated pages. (J#CORE-608)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where redaction didn’t handle certain text objects correctly, resulting in some displaced text. (J#CORE-612)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where the same font was embedded multiple times when entering diacritics, leading to a massive file size. (J#CORE-634)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where annotations exported to XFDF and then imported again may lose their text color. (J#CORE-648)

1.6.0 - 12 Aug 2024

Changed

Updates JSON dependency to avoid vulnerabilities. (#43257)
Added

Adds PdfDocument.destroy method to free resources associated with a document. (J#CORE-645)
Added

Adds support for parsing custom colors in PDF JavaScript and for converting colorspaces by using the color.convert API. (J#CORE-580)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where a comment status may not show when a saved file is open in third-party software like Adobe Acrobat. (J#CORE-610)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where redaction didn’t handle certain text objects correctly, resulting in some displaced text. (J#CORE-612)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where exporting and importing Instant JSON may incorrectly move annotations or forms. (J#CORE-589)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where too many fonts were added to the PDF in certain rare circumstances, causing crashes. (J#CORE-605)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where, after redacting, some images were displaying wrong (e.g. black instead of white). (J#CORE-561)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where redaction annotations could not be applied by third-party software like Adobe Acrobat. (J#CORE-555)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where the line dash pattern was rendered differently from other PDF readers. (J#CORE-540)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where the page labels may be incorrect in some documents. (J#CORE-560)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where the redaction tool may redact a bigger area than necessary in some documents. (J#CORE-562)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where the text in a callout annotation may appear in the wrong position. (J#CORE-466)
Fixed

Fixes measurement labels on rotated pages not being exported correctly. (J#CORE-529)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where font names with certain encodings may not be parsed correctly. (J#CORE-292)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where redacting some kind of documents may corrupt them. (J#CORE-375)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where shape annotations imported via Instant JSON may incorrectly show a black border. (J#CORE-392)
Fixed

Fixes a crash when listing embedded files in certain rare PDFs. (J#CORE-493)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where extracted text was garbled due to incomplete reading order information in the PDF. (J#CORE-385)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where text with the FL and FI ligatures wasn’t extracted correctly. (J#CORE-443)
Fixed

Fixes a potential crash when generating AP streams. (J#CORE-364)
Fixed

Fixes free text callout rendering and rich text link render on rotated pages. (J#CORE-297)

1.5.0 - 26 Dec 2023

Added

Adds additional flags invisible, readOnly, locked, toggleNoView and lockedContents to the flags property of annotations in InstantJSON. (#41335)
Added

Adds support for a fontSize property for redaction annotations in Instant JSON, which sets the size of the redaction overlay text. (#39017)
Added

Adds support for serializing and deserializing annotations with measurement info to the XFDF format. (#36936)
Changed

Updates the HarfBuzz library to 8.2.1. (J#CORE-229)
Changed

Updates the Botan library to version 2.19.3. (#40107)
Changed

Updates libexpat to version 2.5.0. (#37257)
Changed

Updates boost to 1.79.0. (#34723)
Changed

Updates minimum glibc version requirement to 2.28. (#37638)
Changed

Improves (reduces) memory usage on pages with a lot of vector graphics. (J#CORE-210)
Changed

Improves text rendering, particularly for languages that do not use the Latin alphabet. (#39812)
Changed

Improves compatibility with other PDF software when rendering multi-line form field text. (#37072)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where some annotations added to a document are not correctly exported to Instant Document JSON. (#39014)
Fixed

Fixes the unsetting of annotation flags via Instant JSON. (J#CORE-183)
Fixed

Fixes importing of Instant Document JSON containing image annotations onto a rotated page. (#32021)
Fixed

Fixes importing of Instant Document JSON containing multiple radio buttons of the same label. (#31855)
Fixed

Fixes importing of Instant Document JSON where image annotations have been moved. (#31945)
Fixed

Fixes a crash when using a custom DataProvider during heavy load. (#27482)

1.4.1 - 29 Jun 2021

Fixed

Fixes an issue where applying redaction annotations using PdfDocument.SaveAs with a WritableDataProvider fails to process the redactions. (#29838)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where redactions of paths could fail with Coordinate outside allowed range if the path coordinates were very large. (#29791)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where OCR would fail if no text is on the page. Now the call returns successfully. (#29527)
Fixed

Fixes an issue with OCR where no text is found if the text on the page is relatively large. (#29512)

Previous Releases

1.4.0 - 11 May 2021

Changed

Updates the Catalog examples to run in trial mode without a license key. (#29356)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where applying redaction annotations using PdfDocument.SaveAs may delete the redaction annotations without applying them. (#29222)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where importing a document from a data stream using the DocumentEditor throws an exception. (#27155)
Added

Adds the ability to extract lines of text from a document PdfPage with getTextLines. (#26923)
Added

Adds a initializeTrial method that allows trialing the library without a license key. (#27238)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where OCR could not be performed on a certain image due to an incorrect render scale. (#26118)
Fixed

Fixes issues where pages were not moved correctly when using the document editor API. (#24939)
Changed

OCR now uses NEON and AVX intrinsics for better performance. (#24870)
Changed

Improves log noise in the OCR Library by removing unnecessary log messages in release mode. (#25532)

1.3.0 - 14 Jul 2020

Added

Adds a new OcrProcessor to provide OCR functionality enabling images with text to searched and have markup annotations applied. (#24655)
Added

Adds an example in the Catalog to show how to add a hyperlink annotation. (#24140)
Fixed

Fixes macOS x64 architecture to future proof new architecture additions. (#24676)
Fixed

Fixes an issue where text with word or character spacing is shifted after redaction has been applied. (#24476)

1.2.0 - 16 Apr 2020

Added

Adds GetRotation method to PageInfo exposing the page rotation information. (#23220)
Added

Adds the PdfProjection helper class to convert between raw PDF coordinates and normalized PDF coordinates. (#23387)
Added

Adds the ability to get and set form field values. (#23640)

1.1.0 - 04 Feb 2020

Added

Adds a new RedactionProcessor to automate the permanent removal of data from a document. (#22813)
Added

Adds a SaveAs method for Document allowing for saving to a specified destination. (#22620)
Added

Adds a POM file to aide dependency management with maven repositories. (#22663)
API

Removed public PdfDocument constructor. Please use static method PdfDocument.open(DataProvider) to open a document. (#22787)
Fixed

Fixes initialization error output to advise on fixes. (#22901)
Added

Adds explicit null checking on API parameters to provide better exception messages. (#22812)

1.0.1 - 09 Dec 2019

Fixed

Fixes an issue where flattening was not performed when a custom DataProvider was used. (#22624)
Fixed

Fixes Windows runtime dependencies causing “Can’t find dependent libraries” message. (#22592)

1.0.0 - 31 Oct 2019

See the announcement post.

Changed

Initial release