Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.16 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 2.0.15 release. It contains a couple of fixes and small improvements. 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. Bug [PDFBOX-3819] - TrueType glyphs not displayed in rendering on Windows 10 [PDFBOX-4017] - Symbol font glyphs not found on Windows 10 fall creators update [PDFBOX-4155] - Password Security with Unicode needs SASLprep [PDFBOX-4489] - Memory issue on org.apache.fontbox.ttf.GlyphSubstitutionTable.readLangSysTable(GlyphSubstitutionTable.java:147) [PDFBOX-4513] - FDFAnnotationStamp fails to parse some appearance streams [PDFBOX-4517] - Unable to decrypt PDF with String and Stream filter to identity [PDFBOX-4518] - NegativeArraySizeException thrown when converting PDF to Image [PDFBOX-4520] - PDFBox PDFToImage shows black bars on scanned text [PDFBOX-4521] - Missing Info value from file trailer: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSName cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary [PDFBOX-4525] - PDF completely blow up the RAM on RedHat [PDFBOX-4526] - Optional Content Membership Dictionaries (OCMD) not supported [PDFBOX-4535] - java.lang.ClassCastException in PDImageXObject.getMask() [PDFBOX-4540] - COSWriter sometimes retrieves wrong ObjectKey [PDFBOX-4543] - PDLineDashPattern fails as float[] is converted to List instead of List [PDFBOX-4549] - No Unicode mapping [PDFBOX-4550] - Poor performance with corrupt ToUnicode stream [PDFBOX-4551] - Prevent printing from CL applications when not authorized [PDFBOX-4553] - Break of backward compatibility from 2.0.14 to 2.0.15 [PDFBOX-4571] - IllegalArgumentException: illegal line join value New Feature [PDFBOX-4563] - Port Appearance Handler from 3.0 back to 2.0 Sub-task [PDFBOX-4564] - Port interface and base handler [PDFBOX-4573] - Add dummy call to create appearance to annotations [PDFBOX-4574] - Port individual appearance handlers [PDFBOX-4575] - Add appearance generation to annotation example code [PDFBOX-4576] - Update PageDrawer to match appearance handling in trunk Improvement [PDFBOX-4458] - Subclasses of OperatorProcessor dont use constants [PDFBOX-4509] - Font appears twice in resources of field widget [PDFBOX-4510] - Don't write identity matrix in form XObjects of field widgets appearance stream [PDFBOX-4519] - Reduce artefacts in shadings [PDFBOX-4522] - Resources cache should be passed to type 3 fonts [PDFBOX-4529] - ImageToPDF as Command Line [PDFBOX-4539] - Cache CharsetDecoder [PDFBOX-4544] - COSWriter.doWriteHeader(COSDocument) should use the document specified as parameter [PDFBOX-4562] - Remove the usage of COSDocument.getCatalog [PDFBOX-4578] - Overhaul StreamValidationProcess Wish [PDFBOX-4515] - Support for Add Text Callout Annotation tool. 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 a SHA512 checksum 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://www.apache.org/dist/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/ About The Apache Software Foundation ------------------------------------ Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for more than 100 freely-available, collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software; the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure of its 2,500+ contributors. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/