Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.8.7 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 1.8.6 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 [PDFBOX-91] - Problem with Form TextField and option "COMB" [PDFBOX-710] - XMPSchema.java:392 and XMPSchema.java:570 Possible null pointer dereference of bagElement [PDFBOX-1268] - OutOfMemory Error because of huge colors [PDFBOX-1511] - pdfMerger App produces Garbage [PDFBOX-1533] - When merging certain PDF's several odd looking empty pages occur in the result [PDFBOX-1872] - PDMetadata.exportXMPMetadata fails when Metadata has encrypted stream [PDFBOX-1875] - Image and some text missing in rendered file [PDFBOX-1940] - Faulty pdf->image rendering [PDFBOX-2020] - PDF/A Validation raises NullPointerException for PDFs without ImageColorSpace [PDFBOX-2141] - Shading not applied to text [PDFBOX-2153] - Setting the correct clipping path for shading [PDFBOX-2154] - NPE while rendering files with type3 fonts [PDFBOX-2156] - different shading patterns at different resolutions when ctm is null [PDFBOX-2160] - PDFTextStripper doesn't always write paragraph start [PDFBOX-2163] - inline image with EI in the middle incorrectly parsed [PDFBOX-2166] - AIOOBE with barcode ttf font [PDFBOX-2183] - COSArray cannot be cast to COSNumber [PDFBOX-2185] - Rotation and skew not applied on rectangles [PDFBOX-2186] - java.io.IOException: Catalog cannot be found [PDFBOX-2187] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in TIFFFaxDecoder [PDFBOX-2194] - Refactor predictor [PDFBOX-2198] - ClassCastException in COSArrayList.convertIntegerCOSArrayToList for font widths [PDFBOX-2201] - getKeywords returns null although keywords are present [PDFBOX-2207] - Stream parsing still incorrect if length value is wrong [PDFBOX-2212] - OutOfMemoryError in GlyfCompositeDescrip [PDFBOX-2218] - PDFCheckbox NPE [PDFBOX-2222] - NPE in PDFStreamEngine [PDFBOX-2225] - ClassCastException in PDFMergerUtility.appendDocument [PDFBOX-2228] - LZW EarlyChange parameter isn't supported [PDFBOX-2234] - [PATCH] Invalid Color space preflight error on Java 8 [PDFBOX-2237] - java.io.IOException: Image stream is empty for inline image [PDFBOX-2243] - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: negative dash phase [PDFBOX-2247] - Regression in text extraction between 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 [PDFBOX-2249] - Listbox controls render incorrectly in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader [PDFBOX-2251] - NoSuchElementException when reading cmap format 4 subtable [PDFBOX-2257] - BufferedInputStream wrapped in BufferedInputStream [PDFBOX-2267] - IOException and partial rendering and colorspace creation error [PDFBOX-2270] - PDField.getFullyQualifiedName() returns name adding suffix '.null' [PDFBOX-2285] - debugLogMetadata doesn't log [PDFBOX-2291] - Differences in Overlay stamping between version 1.8.2 and 1.8.6 [PDFBOX-2292] - Saving of decrypted version of password protected document gives an error [PDFBOX-2330] - Typo on usage message; "PDFDBox" instead of "PDFBox" [PDFBOX-2344] - NegativeArraySizeException in radial shading [PDFBOX-2345] - IndexOutOfBoundsException reading encrypted pdf [PDFBOX-2347] - NPE while creating security handler for decryption Improvement [PDFBOX-1055] - XMPMetadata.getSchemasByNamespaceURI() implementation inefficient [PDFBOX-1915] - Implement shading with Coons and tensor-product patch meshes [PDFBOX-2151] - Replace log4j with commons logging [PDFBOX-2211] - Create sample code for creating a PDF with shading [PDFBOX-2236] - Useless dependency in specific usage [PDFBOX-2239] - Add missing values to PDComplexFileSpecification [PDFBOX-2314] - Restore backward compatibility between Overlay and OverlayPDF 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. 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