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Posted to announce@apache.org by Andreas Lehmkuehler <le...@apache.org> on 2013/06/02 15:27:14 UTC

[ANNOUNCE] Apache PDFBox 1.8.2 released

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache PDFBox version 1.8.2. The release is available for download at:

    http://pdfbox.apache.org/downloads.html

See the full release notes below for details about this release.

Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.8.2

Introduction
------------

The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF 
documents.

This is an incremental bugfix release based on the earlier 1.8.1 release. It
contains a couple of fixes and small improvements.

For more details on all fixes included in this release, please refer to the 
following
issues on the PDFBox issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX.

Bug Fixes

[PDFBOX-1093] - Copy Page from one Document to another: Page Content Stream Linked
                 to Original Document
[PDFBOX-1561] - PDFBox throws exception with PDFTextStripper.getText
[PDFBOX-1580] - Oracle JVM crashes because of embedded fonts.
[PDFBOX-1583] - wasted work in PDDocument.addSignature(...)
[PDFBOX-1586] - IndexOutOfBoundsException when saving a document (at random)
[PDFBOX-1592] - Addition of 'null' in COSString when extracting form fields
[PDFBOX-1599] - ConvertToImage gets ClassCastException with Checkboxes in PDFForm
[PDFBOX-1601] - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Width (4032) and height (-2880)
                 cannot be <= 0
[PDFBOX-1602] - Erroneous values for TextPosition get{X,Y}[DirAdj]
[PDFBOX-1603] - Regression in PDDocument.loadNonSeq ?
[PDFBOX-1605] - PDPropBuildDataDict: use COSName instead of COSString as name value
[PDFBOX-1609] - EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION with PDF file and image conversion
[PDFBOX-1610] - Corrupted result pdf when overlay one document with another one
[PDFBOX-1611] - Avoid IndexOutOfBoundsException when extracting the font matrix 
of a Type1 font
[PDFBOX-1612] - Avoid ArrayOutOfBoundsException when creating a PDPixelMap using 
an indexed colorspace
[PDFBOX-1615] - Color map not correctly copied when PDF file is split

Improvement

[PDFBOX-1293] - PDFImageWriter should use logging instead of System.out.println
[PDFBOX-1581] - Add PDDocument.save(File) and PDDocument.loadNonSeq(InputStream, 
...)

New Feature

[PDFBOX-1565] - Add support for Lab color spaces


Release Contents
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This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.

About Apache PDFBox
-------------------

Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

For more information, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/

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------------------------------------

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