CHANGELOG

March 28th 2008: jPDF version 7.0.7

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jPDF Viewer / Printer

• Fix Resized annotations will incorrectly show on the page.
• Fix Under rare occasion, documents with certain type of annotation would raise a ClassCastException.
• Fix Some cosmetic changes in the Viewer UI.

General

• Fix Some old documents encoded as ASCII, had some error with EOD detection.
• Fix Multithreading issue with the licenser: Production licenses would incorrectly show a DEMO banner.

January 21th 2008: jPDF version 7.0.6

Happy new year 2008 !

jPDF Viewer

• Fix Serious concurrency issue in the font renderer
• Fix In figure/form creation mode, the elastic can now be used to select multiple elements
• Fix A small issue with Zoom+ and Zoom- buttons when working with non standard zoom ratios
• Fix ClassCastException on a few images based on CalGrayColorspaces
• Fix The menu bar now shows correctly under Mac OSX
• Fix Closing the viewer will sometimes raises an exception
• Fix Images encoded as ASCII are no properly handled
• New Support for Jpeg 2000 - when JAI (Java Advanced Imaging) is in the classpath
• New Page preview panel reworked, it now has a cleaner look and reacts to page positions
• New Added a button on the toolbar to Zoom on area
• New On OSX, the file chooser now default to the native user interface
• New Distribution installer with better support for Windows Vista

General

• Fix Exceptions related to jRockit 1.4.2
• Fix If you get obscur ClassNotFound exceptions, there is a bug in Sun's hotspot. please upgrade to the latest JVM update.

November 5th 2007: jPDF version 7.0.5

jPDF Viewer

• Fix the JavaBean icon was not showing in IDE such as jBuilder and Netbeans
• Fix Tons of bug fixes (glyph selection,sizing and positioning) regarding embedded TTF and CFF fonts, please report any non working documents
• Fix On some documents, opening the Document properties window, was raising an null pointer exception
• Fix The viewer now shows a friendly error message when a file is not found
• Fix Better handling of malformed images that define less pixels than their actual size
• Fix On MacOS, the context menu won't show in the forms/signature panels
• Fix On MacOS, the menu bar was not showing properly
• New Three new methods have been implemented
  public void setZoomTo(int pageIndex, Point2D location, int zoomFactor)
  public void setZoomToArea(int pageIndex, Point2D upperLeft, Point2D bottomRight)
  public void setDocument(PdfDocument thedoc)

jPDF Merger

• Fix ClassCast Exception on rare documents

September 24th 2007: jPDF version 7.0.4

General

• New Tutorial Using jPDF Viewer as an applet

jPDF Viewer

• Fix TrueType composite fonts (typically used in CJK glyphs) had an alignment issue
• Fix Font substitution was sometimes now picking the best match
• Fix The certificate used to sign jpdf.jar has been updated. It is now valid for another 3 years
• Fix An issue where temporary fonts won't close correctly
• Fix Several rare problems around glyph rendering
• Fix Performance bottleneck identified and fixed during the parsin of Image ICC Profiles
• Fix Layout alignment issues with pages of different sizes
• Fix Clicking the toolbar print button would sometimes raise a "The printing page range is invalid"
• Fix Applet would raise a NullPointerException on page reload
• Fix Several CFF Font issues which would typically raise a IndexOutOfBoundsException
• Fix Clicking the page preview outline would raise a NullPointerException
• New Clear separation between VIEWER and EDIT mode using a toolbar toggle button
• New You can now click and drag the mouse to move around the page
• New Network panel and evaluation dialog now get a Proxy setup options
• New Right click menu will only show extended features when the editor is switched to EDIT mode
• New New toolbar icons
• New Application icon now shows under Mac OSX
• New We included several applet samples in the distribution
• New Toolbar now only shows edition icons with the design button is selected
  

jPDF Printer

• Fix Inherits most of the rendering fixes above

August 14th 2007: jPDF version 7.0.3

General

• New Tutorial Merging and splitting documents
• New Demos Online demos are now available
• Fix As most demos are available from the website, the evaluation package is now much smaller.
• Fix A parsing issue that would make jPDF fail on some documents

jPDF Viewer

• Fix Depending on the layout settings, the current page index calculation was sometimes broken.
• Fix Scroll to page N was incorectly calculated.
• Fix Reworked the CCITT decoder, it is now twice faster and also fixes rare decoding issues
• Fix An issue where temporary fonts won't close correctly
• Fix The scrollbar would sometimes flash on/off indefinitly
• Fix Scrollbars would sometimes expend well beyond the total page bounderies
• Fix Calling closeDocument() would not show an empty page
• Fix The matrix mode 4x4 was removed, with the new continuous layout, its usage was redondent
• Fix Eval button "Request API" wasn't pointing at the right URL
• Fix An issue with loading jpdf icons from within an applet
• Fix A few rare ClassCastExceptions with fonts and certain types of outlines
• New Resizing the viewer now keeps the page index and positions
• New Zooming in/out keeps the focus point
• New FitWidth mode now uses an all new continuous layout
• New Our native fonts can now find and instanciate system fonts
• New KeyBindings - jPDF now implements most of the default Acrobat key bindings
• New Introduced new API calls to ease document printing
  

public abstract void printCurrentPage() throws PdfException;

public abstract void printPageRange(int startIdx, int endIdx) throws PdfException;

jPDF Printer

• Fix Some rare documents would raise a NullPointerException on Print.
  

June 1st 2007: jPDF version 7.0.2

General

• Fix Fonts now use an advanced technique to clean up temporary files. Some operating systems would complain that too many files were open
• New Tutorial Using Destinations as links to a given PDF page
• New Tutorial Printing using JDK 1.4 or better
• New Tutorial How to convert PDF to PCL or Postscript

jPDF Viewer

• Fix Font substitution is more accurate regarding styles, jPDF does not use AWT fonts anymore
• Fix Some TTF and CFF fonts were not correctly parsed, resulting in malformed font glyphs
• Fix Issues with some malformed Type1 fonts
• Fix The Scrollbar would sometime show hidden when a multi page document is first opened
• Fix Default Scrollbar increment was set to 30 instead of 1 pixel
• Fix Switching layout from 4x4 to 2x1 would fail
• New Changed the page refresh/rendering policy to minimize cpu utilization
• New Pressing ESC will stop the current rendering

jPDF Creator

• New Users can now manipulate Named Destinations. Destinations are typically used from URL links to point at specific targets in the PDF document
• New We updated our tutorials to show use cases of the new features

jPDF Merger

• Fix Concurrency issue with the font cache engine, the following message was sometimes showing during a merge: com.crionics.jpdf.PdfException: PdfDictonary.put() is trying to insert an object which doesn't belong to the same document
  

jPDF Template

Fix Text extraction was broken for some documents

Fix Text alignment in multiline textfields

Fix Checkbox and radiobuttons appearance generation was broken

April 20th 2007: jPDF version 7.0.1

General

• Fix The certificate used to sign jpdf.jar had expire, we now use a new one.
• New Improved the PDF corrector to support more documents that do not comply with the PDF spec

jPDF Viewer

• Fix On rare occasions, the page layout won't display all the pages in the document
• Fix Many issues with glyph selection and rendering
• Fix Pattern rendering was raising an IllegalArgumentException on a few documents
• Fix Some Image with an ICCProfile would display a red background
• Fix Some rare CCITT fax image had their color inverted black <-> white
• Fix Groups of checkbox/radiobutton were not correctly displayed and generated
• Fix Truetype font size issues
• Fix Proxy host and port were not correctly used
• Fix Reworked the CMAP asynchronous loader, download progress would stall forever
• New Better font substitution algorithm
• New jPDF now natively supports CID type 0/2, Type 1, TrueType. CFF, OpenType TTF, OpenType CFF and Type 3 fonts
• New When printing a document, jPDF now prompt for a Printer

jPDF Printer

• New Full support for the Java Print Service API (only for JDK 1.4+). This feature opens the door to many features such as collating, duplexing, runtime printer selection and discovery
• New We updated our tutorials to show use cases of the new features

jPDF Merger

• Fix Two important merging issues related to documents not properly complying with the PDF Spec. These few documents are now properly handled

jPDF Template

Fix Problem with RichText fields, rendering of content was broken

Fix Some fields had their name truncated. This would typically happen for fields part of groups - such as radio buttons or checkboxes

Fix Side effects - changing form fields value would sometime raise an exception

March 11th 2007: jPDF version 7.0.0

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