History

iText 2.0.5

• Changes made by Paulo
  • Added stamping capabilities for PdfCopy (contributed by Ryo Nakamura; optimized + support for adding annotations by Paulo)
  • Added support for PDF/A-1
  • Added support for icc profiles in jpeg
  • Added support for strikethru in HTMLWorker
  • Added support for the rgb() color notation in WebColors
  • Outlines can be set all at once in PdfWriter. Note that outlines set by other means, like Chapter, will be overridden.
  • PdfFileSpecification: file parameters and mime type can be set
  • Better password restriction control
  • XML parsing: whitespace is significant and must be processed.
  • Field flattening could cause a class cast exception with broken PDFs.
  • Tiff: broken tiffs with an invalid IFD pointer returned one less the real number of images
  • Tiff: TIFFTAG_JPEGIFOFFSET can be optional
  • PdfDate: dates in W3C format in the metadata were different than the PDF dates in the Info dictionary
  • Bugfix concerning the retrieval of the user password when owner password is known
  • Memory optimizations in class Phrase
  • RandomAccessFileOrArray: it's very expensive to open a memory mapped file and for the usage pattern of this class in iText it's faster the next re-openings to be done as a plain random access file
  • Preserve hyperlinks in PdfImportedPage (Michael Schierl)
  • Optimization of the DPI rounding in BMP, PNG and TIFF images
  • Removed some superfluous synchronized method modifiers.
  • Several improvements in memory fragmentation and thread locking in processing font data; some of the improvements were suggested on the mailing list and implemented by Paulo; one suggestion was sent to Bruno by Actuate.
  • PdfGraphics2D: jpeg compression is done with imageio (instead of with com.sun.image.codec.jpg.JPEGCodec)
  • PdfGraphics2D: partial acceptance of some extra functionality in drawString contributed by John Hellerud
  • PdfGraphics2D: enable bold simulation as proposed by John Hellerud, but with with extra check of the BaseFont
  • PdfPageLabels: added a series of null checks
  • PdfReader: fix to ascii85 decode (fixed by Aiken Sam)
  • PdfReader: page dimensions were assumed as direct objects
  • PdfSmartCopy was too liberal in comparing streams. Form XObjects (templates) are not candidates for comparison anymore.
  • FdfReader: extra check for the FDF key
  • PdfPageLabels: better page label options
  • Utilities: simplification in toURL()
  • RTF: bugfix for hanging indent (fixed by Tim Newsom)
  • RTF: added support for images in shapes of the picture frame type (contributed by Tim Newsom)
• Changes made by Bruno
  • Added support for custom names for document-level JavaScript actions in the Name Dictionary.
  • Fixed a series of indentation bugs reported by Janis Achenbach (fix by Bruno in more than one try; tested by Janis).
  • Fixed a page size/page margins problem in PdfDocument
  • A Copy/Paste error made that DUPLEXFLIPLONGEDGE was not seen as a possible value for DUPLEX.
  • FontFactoryImp: parsing the size of a font was not done correctly (fix by Janis Achenbach)
  • Bugfix: font propagation affected Phrases/Paragraphs that were reused.
  • Bugfix: extra space after a Paragraph affected the indentation.
  • Bugfix: Paragraph.setKeepTogether(true) affected the indentation and doubled the spacing after a Paragraph.
  • Update of the toString() methods in PdfDictionary and PdfStream; for instance: it no longer says 'Dictionary of type: null' for Dictionaries without a /TYPE key.
  • XMP: the 'Subject' of PDF metadata is now also added as a Description in the XMP metadata (Suggested by Seung Hyun Park)
  • XMP: added support for adding XMP metadata to the page dictionary of each page
  • BaseField: if you are using a template as icon, the state of the content of the template can be affected by the background color of the button (probably also by other properties of the button appearance).
  • PdfPageLabels: minor memory improvement
  • Made iText more tolerant towards the type of PDF object that is accepted as value for the /TYPE key.
  • Bugfix: table threw an IndexOutOfBoundsException in two specific cases that almost never occur
  • Bugfix: List.add(Object o) didn't always return the expected value (suggested by Dhruba Bandopadhyay)
  • Bugfix: if an image is new and it's a WMF image, the template has to be read, even if it's not null.
  • BuildTutorial: made the switch from CVS to SVN (suggested by Thomas Tampe)
  • Updated license information in the iText.jar; extra info about the files in iTextAsian.jar
• Changes made by Xavier
  • Removal of unused imports
  • Removal of useless redefinition of open() in PdfCopy and RtfWriter
  • Update from BouncyCastle 1.35 to BouncyCastle 1.37