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Posted to announce@apache.org by Andreas Lehmkuehler <le...@apache.org> on 2012/05/29 18:18:30 UTC

[ANNOUNCE] Apache PDFBox 1.7.0 released

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache PDFBox version 1.7.0. The release is available for download at:

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

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


Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.7.0

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

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

This is an incremental feature release based on the earlier 1.x releases.
This release contains many improvements and fixes especially related to
performance, resource usage and rendering. The most significant
new feature is the new non sequential parser.

This version also includes the new PDF/A preflight module. Due to some unfinished
refactoring we decided to release them source only. Uncomment the commented entries
in the reactor pom to build your own jars.

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

New features

[PDFBOX-5] - CJK decoding
[PDFBOX-1056] - Integration of a PDF/A validator in PDFBox
[PDFBOX-1142] - Implement type 4 functions (PDFunctionType4)
[PDFBOX-1156] - Color conversion for PDJpegs using a DeviceN colorspace
[PDFBOX-1160] - Add "Save as image" to PDFReader
[PDFBOX-1214] - Allow subclassing of PDFParser
[PDFBOX-1221] - Add support to set a start and/or end page when splitting a pdf
[PDFBOX-1230] - Support CIDToGIDMap of CID-Type2 fonts
[PDFBOX-1253] - split PDFont#encode

Improvements

[PDFBOX-804] - First page not rendered correctly by the pdfbox tools (PDFReader, 
PDTToImage ...)
[PDFBOX-956] - Poor text extraction performance in PDFTextStripper.java
[PDFBOX-1080] - Improve TextPosition.isDiacritic and ICU4JImpl normalizeDiac 
performance
[PDFBOX-1081] - padaf integration : remove unused style file and change 
subproject cases
[PDFBOX-1105] - Integration Test in preflight to make easy validation
[PDFBOX-1111] - Add Duplex and PrintScaling to viewer preferences
[PDFBOX-1117] - [Preflight] Continue the PDF validation after syntax error
[PDFBOX-1131] - Patch: Adding line cap, line join, and line pattern support to 
PDPageContentStream
[PDFBOX-1136] - Possibilty to direcvtly add R and D stream into 
PDAppearanceDictionary
[PDFBOX-1144] - update pom in parent project to support maven build in eclipse 
Indigo
[PDFBOX-1146] - Don't use COSArrays when calling PDFunction#eval
[PDFBOX-1159] - Speed up LZWFilter decoding
[PDFBOX-1165] - Xmpbox does not accept rdf:description without rdf:about attribute
[PDFBOX-1168] - Adding Basic Job Ticket Schema
[PDFBOX-1175] - Stream parsing performance improvement + patch
[PDFBOX-1177] - Create a module with examples instead having them in pdfbox.jar
[PDFBOX-1179] - Remove file resource used to retrieve version of parser
[PDFBOX-1186] - Improve xmpbox code strength
[PDFBOX-1193] - BaseParser print useful offset instead of java object
[PDFBOX-1196] - Object offsets should be of type long + PATCH
[PDFBOX-1198] - Remove dependency to commons-io in xmpbox
[PDFBOX-1199] - Non-sequential PDF parser + PATCH
[PDFBOX-1211] - Refactor IO interfaces + PATCH
[PDFBOX-1252] - Use a separate CMap for the ToUnicode mapping
[PDFBOX-1286] - Add the BouncyCastleProvider only once a time
[PDFBOX-1294] - Unable to read values from PDF Form fields saved by Acrobat Reader
[PDFBOX-1297] - ExtractText fails to extract text from packaged PDFs
[PDFBOX-1309] - Support decompression of password protected pdfs
[PDFBOX-1310] - Remove project version retrieval in preflight
[PDFBOX-1311] - Extend commandline utilities to use the non sequential parser by 
choice
[PDFBOX-1315] - Build WriteDecodedDoc and PDFMerger as .NET tool

Bug Fixes

[PDFBOX-163] - IOException: expected='/' actual='e'-101
[PDFBOX-383] - BaseParser incorrectly handling stream, exhibiting IOException
[PDFBOX-479] - loading a CUPS-generated PDF results in RasterExceptions
[PDFBOX-569] - Text-Extraction of PDF fails
[PDFBOX-585] - PrintImageLocations example calculates wrong image width/height
[PDFBOX-610] - Fonts should not be cached by PDFStreamEngine
[PDFBOX-611] - PDSimpleFont. Font height reported as zero.
[PDFBOX-692] - Contents are unknown type:org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary
[PDFBOX-697] - Error: Expected an integer type, actual='' -
[PDFBOX-744] - Landscape PDF Rasterized as Portrait
[PDFBOX-750] - Extracted images are dark without color
[PDFBOX-807] - NullPointerException in StandardSecurityHandler.java:261
[PDFBOX-817] - IllegalArgumentException not catched or declared while creating 
ICC profile
[PDFBOX-847] - FlateFilter.java swallows Exceptions (should rethrow)
[PDFBOX-864] - Incorrect cropping from PDFToImage with offset mediaBox
[PDFBOX-879] - PDFMergerUtility
[PDFBOX-886] - Scanned PDFs from XEROX scanners was blank/black when convert to 
image
[PDFBOX-892] - ClassCastException in PDXObjectImage.getMask
[PDFBOX-895] - Infinite recursion when trying to extract text from specific 
types of PDFs
[PDFBOX-980] - Expected an integer type, actual='Active'
[PDFBOX-999] - Cant compile PDFBOX 1.5 with IKVM
[PDFBOX-1001] - TextPosition.getHeight() returns erroneous value for some PDFs
[PDFBOX-1047] - PDPageLabels with Junks in Particular Pdf
[PDFBOX-1059] - WinAnsiEncoding : the code 0251 (Copyrigth) inserted twice
[PDFBOX-1075] - Can't get images from a PDF
[PDFBOX-1079] - TestCOSFloat occasionally fails: Is something wrong with my machine?
[PDFBOX-1085] - Wrong PostcriptScriptTable due to wrong assumption in 
Encoding/MacRomanEncoding
[PDFBOX-1088] - Class PDDocument Method getPageMap returns a ClassCastException
[PDFBOX-1092] - Image Rendering Regression
[PDFBOX-1095] - PDFToImage image rendering fails on pdf with embedded picture(s)
[PDFBOX-1096] - CMapParser doesn't parse cmap version
[PDFBOX-1097] - Classes from generated sources are not included in preflight jar
[PDFBOX-1098] - Wrong implemented stream reader
[PDFBOX-1101] - Improve JavaCC Grammar and Preflight to manage Xref stream object
[PDFBOX-1106] - PDFMergerUtility corrupts file attachments
[PDFBOX-1108] - NPE and IndexOutOfBounds in PDFunctionType3
[PDFBOX-1112] - Fix outline hierarchy control
[PDFBOX-1116] - Wrong colors with test file
[PDFBOX-1118] - All images in pdf document is not listed/extracted
[PDFBOX-1125] - NullPointerException when saving Document
[PDFBOX-1127] - PDF supplies glyph->unicode mapping, but PDFBox doesn't use it.
[PDFBOX-1128] - Wrong color space used for DeviceN operator without color space 
specified
[PDFBOX-1137] - PDSimpleFont.determineEncoding will never parse embedded CMAPs
[PDFBOX-1140] - TTFDataStream.read32Fixed() discards fractions
[PDFBOX-1145] - "write2file" gives Null Pointer Exception
[PDFBOX-1161] - CMapParser exception when call extractToUnicodeEndoding
[PDFBOX-1162] - Font error in "preflight" .....when validating the attached PDF/A
[PDFBOX-1171] - Parsing hexadecimal strings is not strict enough + FIX
[PDFBOX-1172] - COSNumber throws IOException
[PDFBOX-1173] - Missing Fonts after PDFMergerUtility mergeDocuments
[PDFBOX-1174] - i have problem in BaseParser.readInt
[PDFBOX-1178] - Type3Validation error when firstChar and lastChar badly defined in
                 font description dictionary
[PDFBOX-1180] - Anomalie lors de la validation d'un PDF/A1-b
[PDFBOX-1184] - [PATCH] Bug in PDPage when the page is rasterized
[PDFBOX-1185] - A problem with indexed color spaces: bpc of the base color space 
seems wrong.
[PDFBOX-1188] - PDStream Exception when using a Cast
[PDFBOX-1190] - Attempting to render to BMP, WBMP or GIF causes 
IllegalStateException
[PDFBOX-1194] - XMLValueTypeDescriptionManagerTest fails on Java 7
[PDFBOX-1195] - Font Validation Problem
[PDFBOX-1197] - PrintImageLocations does not print information of all images
[PDFBOX-1212] - NullPointerException in 
SecurityHandler.addDictionaryAndSubDictionary
[PDFBOX-1216] - Arabic / Farsi (Persian) text appear disconnected when PDF is 
converted to image
[PDFBOX-1218] - width = 0 if a type1 font uses a standard base 14 font
[PDFBOX-1220] - CMYK image cannot be extracted (empty file generated)
[PDFBOX-1232] - FlateDecoder in stream mode
[PDFBOX-1233] - CCITTFaxG31DDecodeInputStream - Extended codes have wrong length
[PDFBOX-1237] - PDPixelMap uses wrong number of components for the target colorspace
[PDFBOX-1238] - Document stream used a undefined font resource
[PDFBOX-1243] - XMPSchemaMediaManagement : bad setManagedFrom
[PDFBOX-1248] - PDNumberTreeNode method setNumbers( Map numbers ) sets the key 
for the for the
                 Nums dictionary entry to Names rather than Nums
[PDFBOX-1249] - PDF/A file has a preflight, .pdmodel.font exception. Validates 
with commercial viewers
[PDFBOX-1265] - Invalid Font Definition
[PDFBOX-1266] - When I try to convert certain pages of certain PDF to images I 
am getting error
                 java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNull 
cannot be cast to
                 org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary
[PDFBOX-1269] - ClassCastException on COSDocument#getDocumentID
[PDFBOX-1275] - Glyph error, CID 0 -- passes compercial validators as a valid PDF/A
[PDFBOX-1279] - Preflight reports "1.1 : Body Syntax error"
[PDFBOX-1281] - FDFDictionary parses fields in XFDF incorrectly
[PDFBOX-1285] - Unable to process attached pdf
[PDFBOX-1289] - PDResources overrides any existing font when calling addFont
[PDFBOX-1290] - CloseFillNonZeroAndStrokePath operator fails to do the stroke.
[PDFBOX-1295] - Unable to create the color instance / bg color inverted
[PDFBOX-1299] - BaseParser.readUntilEndOfStream can stop too early, causing 
IOException on valid PDFs
[PDFBOX-1306] - Transparent PNG file display with black border
[PDFBOX-1308] - PDResources.getImages() is broken
[PDFBOX-1316] - NonSequentialPDFParser does not set security handler for access 
check
[PDFBOX-1319] - NullPointerException in NonSequentialPDFParser with corrupt 
xref/trailer
[PDFBOX-1320] - NPE in extractEmbeddedDocuments

Release Contents
----------------

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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