History

iText 2.0.2

• Changes made by Paulo
  • Added some convenience methods in PdfArray and PdfDictionary
  • intHashtable: next() didn 't return the right object
  • AcroFields: short names are recognized in all methods if the form is XFA
  • PdfGraphics2D bugfix: getComposite() will return what was set in setComposite()
  • Barcodes: pattern caching to improve speed
  • Barcodes: added DataMatrix barcode support
  • PdfName: added the property user units
  • Type3Font: more flexible glyph definition (contributed by Kevin Knowlden)
  • iText now makes a distinction between the user and owner password
  • bugfix: hyphenation could throw an exception if the split character was not a space
  • javadoc corrections in CFFFontSubset, PdfArray, PdfDashPattern, PdfDictionary, PdfString
• Changes made by Xavier
  • Made the source code ASCII only to fix encoding problems
• Changes made by Bruno
  • Lists: removal of some System.out debug code
  • The inner class to handle indentation was made static in PdfDocument
  • HTMLWorker: avoiding a NumberFormatException for numeric attribute values (quick and dirty fix)
  • Files altered with PdfStamper get a fileID
  • SimpleBookmark: better exception message
  • SAXiTextHandler: moved addImage to an separate method
  • iText toolbox: added a new tool to compress/decompress page streams
  • PdfEncryption/PdfReader: added some convenience methods contributed by Michael Schierl. These convenience methods make it easier for tool builders to work with encryption.
• Changes made by Mark
  • RtfDocument: made the filterSpecialChar method resilient against null Strings