CHANGELOG JPDF V6

October 20th 2006: jPDF version 6.0.5 is released

• jPDF Template
  Fixed: Images part of sub-forms where not detected by the API.
  Fixed: A useless dependency with the XML libraries even if the fields manipulation was not using XFA or RichText.
  Fixed: A wrapping issue during the rendering of text fields.
  Fixed: Several other minor rendering enhancements especially with the construction of font objects.
  
  
• jPDF Signer
  Fixed: An IllegalAccessError with the latest BouncyCastle jars (1.34)
  Fixed: The samples used to demonstrate CustomSigner usage were not working.
  
  
• jPDF Viewer
  Fixed: A few cosmetic changes with fonts. In preparation for next release.
  Fixed: FormFields marked as Hidden/Non Printable were not correctly handled.
  
  
• jPDF Printer
  Fixed: FormFields marked as Hidden/Non Printable were not correctly handled.
  
  
• Others
  New: Added a new licenser type based on a hardware key
  New: Completely rewrote the IO layers - while only visible on heavy processing, it makes the engine faster and more stable.
  
  

August 14th 2006: jPDF version 6.0.4 is released

• jPDF Template
  Fixed: RTF rendering was broken
  
  
• jPDF Signer
  Fixed: An issue with JDK 1.3 which would force signer to skip the signing certificate during validation.
  
  
• jPDF Viewer
  Fixed: An issue with toolbars, where their bounderies would be reserved even if marked as invisible
  Fixed: Renderer Scrollbars are now only displayed when required.
  Fixed: Issue when clicking on certain types of outline entries.
  Fixed: Invalid caracters in outlines / table of contents.
  New: The Viewer API has now more controls to hide toolsbars and change how the jPDF viewer looks
  New: Introduced a new class RenderingPanel, used to ease viewer integration with 3rd party integrators.
  New: The User Interface is now fully internationalisable, there is a new setting in the Preferences along with translations to French.
  New: Preferences have been redesigned.
  New: The Identity Manager is now part of the Preferences.
  New: On the windows platform, you can now import certificates and keyPairs directly from the Microsoft KeyStore.
  
  
  New added Text to PDF conversion tutorial and its associated sample code in the distribution.
  New added Creating and changing RichText Form fields
  New added Viewer tutorials

June 12th 2006: jPDF version 6.0.3 is released

• jPDF API
  Fixed: Several multi threading issues which only affects the viewer under heavy load.
  Fixed: An issue with malformed streams which would make some documents fail to read.
  Changed: Better support for Unicode strings.
  Changed: PDF generation create smaller documents.
  New: Xerces is now part of the distribution.
  New: Added new validation and correction rules to our PDF parser.

• jPDF Encryption
  Fixed: An error in handling Encryption makes read only documents impossible to open.
  
  
• jPDF Template
  Fixed: Font handling issues during the creation of form fields appearances.
  Fixed: Rendering of multiline form fields, where part of the text was out of bounds.
  Fixed: Several rendering issues related to CheckBoxes and Comboboxes.
  New: Manipulation of RichText now fully works with Acrobat 7.0.
  
  
• jPDF Viewer
  Fixed: TrueType fonts rendering issues
  Fixed: A border look and feel issue on Mac.
  Fixed: Fonts resizing issues on JDK 1.5
  Fixed: Layout ans scrollbar issues.
  Fixed: The UserInterface would sometime show blackborders after a UI refresh.
  Fixed: Page up & Page down keys would show an error message when reaching upper or lower bounds.
  New: Type 1 fonts are now natively supported.
  New: Better support for CJK fonts, CMAP files are now part of the distribution.
  
  New RichText field manipulation tutorial
  

April 17th 2006: jPDF version 6.0.1 is released

• jPDF API
  Fixed: document.saveAsNew() wasn't pointing to the new created instance.
• jPDF Merger
  Fixed: Preferences were sometimes reset during several consecutive merges.
  Fixed: An issue related to form field visibility when conflicting names are found.
  Fixed: An IndexOutbound Exception generated when with the methods append(PdfDocument[] ...)
• jPDF Template
  Changed: The form flattening method TemplateModule.flattenField(String fieldName) now returns a boolean
  depending on the success of the process.
  Fixed: an issue with the Flattening Process of Form Fields, as Form Field which could not be flatten were removed from the document.
• jPDF Signer
  Fixed: There were a few inssues in the creation of invisible signatures.
  New : Addition of a feature allowing signature appearances to be duplicated on multiple pages.
  

New Online tutorials
New Benchmarks document
New Online Videos

 

March 1st 2006: jPDF version 6.0.0 is released

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