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  • 2013-03 Release March 26 2013. This release introduces JavaScript support and time-stamping of digital signatures. Version number: v2013R1 Java Visual Components: jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer New Features: JavaScript Support [jPDFNotes (Fill & Save Forms ...
    Posted Apr 22, 2013, 11:28 AM by Leila Holmann
  • 2012-09 Release September 11 2012. This release introduces multi-threaded rendering which manifests itself in a huge boost of performance, a major redo of text selection and extraction, and a new Pan ...
    Posted Mar 22, 2013, 7:17 AM by Leila Holmann
  • 2012-03 Release March 13 2012. This release contains many API and user interface improvements and adds a new watermark interface, support for Submit and Reset buttons in interactive forms and the ability ...
    Posted Oct 2, 2012, 8:45 AM by Leila Holmann
  • 2011-07 Release July 28 2011. This release adds a new loop tool, customizable context menu and access to panels (signatures, thumbnails, comments), shortcuts to open and create links and improvements with form ...
    Posted Oct 1, 2012, 7:24 AM by Leila Holmann
  • 2011-02 Release February 28 2011. This release adds support for annotations groups to allow selecting, moving or processing multiple annotations at once, and a new "image tool" to easily add an image ...
    Posted Oct 1, 2012, 7:28 AM by Leila Holmann
  • 2010-10 Release October 5 2010. This release adds new unicode support (for non-latin characters), a new callout annotation to draw attention to specific areas on a page, and a new calibration ...
    Posted Oct 1, 2012, 7:30 AM by Leila Holmann
  • 2010-06 Release June 24 2010. This release adds customization for digital signature appearance, new caret annotations (for reviewers to indicate that text needs to be replaced or inserted) and new Italian version ...
    Posted Sep 14, 2012, 11:25 AM by Leila Holmann
  • 2010-03 Release March 24 2010. This release adds support for CJK fonts, a redesigned annotation popup dialog (includes author names and date) and the ability to add and manage trusted certificates for ...
    Posted Sep 14, 2012, 11:25 AM by Leila Holmann
  • 2010-01 Release January 6 2010. This release adds a new PDF reader and parser engine which allows opening bigger documents as well as wrongly formatted documents, many improvements around digital signatures, a ...
    Posted Sep 14, 2012, 2:22 PM by Leila Holmann
  • 2009-06 Release June 11 2009 . This release adds support for PDF transparency, page mode views (continuous, single, facing) and offers new measuring tools (area and perimeters). A new interface for a custom ...
    Posted Sep 14, 2012, 11:30 AM by Leila Holmann
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2013-03 Release

posted Mar 22, 2013, 1:54 PM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Apr 22, 2013, 11:28 AM ]

March 26 2013. This release introduces JavaScript support and time-stamping of digital signatures.


Version number: v2013R1
Java Visual Components: jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer

New Features:

JavaScript Support [jPDFNotes (Fill & Save Forms), jPDFViewer (Fill Forms Only)]
Filling interactive PDF forms in jPDFNotes has become even easier with JavaScript support which adds:

  • Form field calculations to automatically compute the value of given fields from other fields.
  • Form field validation to prevent invalid data entry and ensure that all required fields are filled in.
  • Form field formatting to facilitate the capture of special fields such as dates, social security numbers, postal codes, phone numbers, etc…

By default, when a document containing Javascript is open in our PDF visual components, users are prompted to enable or disable JavaScript. Look at JavaScriptSettings class to allow JavaScript for all documents or per document or to completely turn off JavaScript.

Read more about JavaScript support in Qoppa's PDF library in our knowledge base to learn about what JavaScript events and objects are supported.

Time Stamp Server for Digital Signatures - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]

Timestamps are now supported in digital signatures.

  • [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer] Digital signatures which use a timestamp server can now be verified by Qoppa's PDF engine. The Signature validity and messages will include the timestamp information.

  • [jPDFNotes] It is possible now possible to add a digital signature with timestamp coming from a timestamp server. The time stamp is encapsulated essentially in another certificate which is signed with the certificate of the time stamp server company and contains both the customer's and the server's signatures.


Enhancements:


Text Selection - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer] 

There were two changes in text selection for this release:

  • Rectangular selection is back. In the September 2012 release, a new cursor-based text selection was released, a big improvement compared to our previous rectangular text selection mode. The cursor-based selection follows the natural order of text and handles multi-column documents. Based on customer feedback, a rectangular selection is added back as an alternate mode. Rectangular selection can be used as a fall back when selecting non-consecutive text on a page or when working with complex documents. To switch between cursor-based text selection and rectangular (lasso) text selection, hold the "CTRL" key (CMD on Mac).

  • New word selection on double-click when in text selection mode.

Rounded Corners on Text Highlights - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
Text highlights now have rounded corners on the left and right sides. This is easier on the eye and gives highlights a crisper, professional look.

Interactive PDF Forms Enhancements - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]

  • Interactive button fields allow to import and display an image within the button bounds. Our components now support this features, allowing to browse to and insert an image into a form.
  • Form fields are now highlighted by default when opening interactive forms.
  • Required fields in interactive forms now have a red border so users can easily identify them.
  • When submitting form fields, required fields will be validated and an error message will be displayed if a required field is empty.
  • Support for more advanced features when submitting forms: email submission and receiving a PDF document back. Also show tooltip on the submit button to show what this button does (submit data to a server).

Rotated Rubber Stamps - [jPDFNotes]
jPDFNotes now supports adding rotated image or text stamps to a document. Call setRotation in RubberStamp before starting to add the stamp. The rotation will only be used to create the appearance stream of the stamp but is not saved as part with the document. This feature has been available since the previous release but was not announced then.

Area to Perimeter Measurement - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
Ability to automatically create a Perimeter measurement from an Area measurement and to convert an Area measurement to a Perimeter. Look for "Create Perimeter" and "Convert to Perimeter" under the mouse menu.  When creating a new perimeter, the 2 measurement annotation will overlap. It is possible to see and select the 2 distinct annotations in the Comments panel to edit or delete them.

Viewing Redaction Annotations - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
If redaction annotations were added to a PDF document, our components display them and the redacted area is blacked out on mouse rollover. In the next month, Qoppa Software is in the process of releasing a new product called jPDFEditor, a new visual PDF editing component which has all the features found in jPDFNotes plus content editing, an advanced redaction feature and OCR (optional). jPDFEditor will include our PDF manipulating library jPDFProcess, giving access to all the PDF manipulating and editing functionality found in Qoppa's PDF engine. Contact us for more information on this new component.

Display Improvements - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]

  • Many icons on the toolbar have been slightly redesigned with toned-down colors for a more discrete look.

  • Improved display of comments in the comments pane. When a comment has no note associated the "No Note" displays in gray, when the comment has a note, the note displays in light blue.


Small Enhancements and Fixes:

[jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer] 3539 Improvements around the way focus works in our components. Upon opening a document, focus used to be given to the content pane. This was creating issues for customers who relied on focus within their host application. A typical example was going down a list of PDF documents within a JList and opening the PDF document in jPDFViewer or jPDFNotes. The focus would be taken away from the list. This issue is now resolved.

[jPDFNotes] 2705 Fix issue with editing a rotated text markup where rotation was sometimes not preserved.

[jPDFNotes]  Fixed "jumping" issue when editing font size of a typewriter annotation when zoomed in.

[jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer] 2576 Fix Ubuntu and Mac + Java 1.7 text markup issue. Read more about this small fix.

[jPDFNotes] 3166 Fix issue with incorrect stamp proportion when flattening a stamp after resizing it. This fix was released in the previous release but was not announced then.

[jPDFNotes] 3029 Fix incorrect resize handles location for locked annotations.

[jPDFNotes] 2553, 2517 Issue with rotation, form fields and flattening.

[jPDFViewer, jPDFNotes] 1159, 3479, 3644, 3489 Fixes font issues (CID, Type3)

[jPDFNotes] 2817, 3401, 3348  Fixed issues with merging documents.

[jPDFNotes] 2838, 1725, 1236, 3230 Fixed issues with callout annotations. 

[jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer] 3104 Updated to the latest version of the Bouncy castle libraries (encryption).

[jPDFNotes. jPDFViewer] 2403 Handle bookmarks with contain only 2 items in the destinations: pageref and FitH, no "top" value.

[jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer] 3618 Fix null pointer exception when importing an FDF file created from PDF annotated with Adobe XI under some circustamces (after adding a review status then deleting an annotation.

[jPDFViewer, jPDFNotes] 2728, 2766 Many fixes related to specific documents.

[jPDFNotes] 2288 For barcode fields which type is not supported in Qoppa's PDF engine, a message is shown "barcode type not found". In previous versions, the message would be written in the file when saving the document. 

[jPDFViewer, jPDFNotes] 2598, 2821 Fix form field issues: widgets with appearance streams missing bbox's and word wrap issues in multi-line text fields (text seem to disappear).

 

2012-09 Release

posted Sep 13, 2012, 11:02 AM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Mar 22, 2013, 7:17 AM ]

September 11 2012. This release introduces multi-threaded rendering which manifests itself in a huge boost of performance, a major redo of text selection and extraction, and a new Pan & Zoom tool.

Version numbers: jPDFNotes v5.00, jPDFViewer v6.50.


New Features

Out-Of-Thread Rendering - 2992 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]

We've implemented a new rendering which splits each page of a PDF document into multiple tiles that can be rendered and cached independently. This new strategy enables implementing out of thread rendering and improving image caching and memory usage. This will be make it easier to work with large PDF documents or documents containing intensive images and graphics in a few ways:
  • Rendering Improvement: Huge boost of performance when rendering big documents.
     
  • Annotation Drawing Improvement [jPDFNotes]: Smoother drawing of annotations when marking up intensive PDF documents, for instance the pencil annotation outline could be a little jagged.

  • GUI Responsiveness: Page rendering is done out-of-thread so the user interface remains completely responsive when scrolling, navigating and scaling within documents.
Major Redo of Text Selection - 2658 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
  • Column Detection. Text selection and extraction now supports multi-column documents (such as research or magazine articles). We think that our new algorithm is first-in-class when compared to other PDF tools and we hope you'll enjoy it too.

  • Cursor Based. New cursor-based text selection and highlight to replace our previous rectangular selection. The new selection follows the natural order of text within pages and handle selection across columns.
New Pan & Zoom Tool - 3202 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
Our new pan and zoom tool allows users to zoom in and out of high-resolution pages and move around the page ("pan") while keeping a larger view of the page. This is a great enhancement for media, print and graphics professionals.


Improvements

Handle Very Large CCITT Fax Images- 2991 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
Used to display red "X"s when rendering pages with big fax images (200Mb+) and the library was running out of memory.

Memory Improvement - 3030, 3025 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer] 
  • Displaying Documents with Link Annotations [jPDFNotes]. Resize handle that are used to resize annotations on a page are now created when a link is edited the first time instead of at creation time so we don’t create unused resize handles. This is especially important when rendering a document with many link annotations. Next version, the same change will be implemented for other types of annotations.

  • Closing a Document. There were a number of objects that were keeping references to PDFDocument, and so holding it in memory even after a document was cleared.

Unicode Mapping Missing - 2111 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
Improved text extraction to handle cases where there isn't a method available for mapping the character codes to Unicode values.

API Change: FieldListener - 2240 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
Added new method valueChanged in FieldListener interface. Field types that will fire an event are Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Choice Fields, and Text Fields.

Selected Fields in Reset and Submit - 2454 , 2455 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
Reset and submit fields based on the include/exclude flag and the fields array in form buttons.

Remember Color in Color Chooser - 2592 - [jPDFNotes]
When editing annotations colors, recent color swaps were not remembered within the color chooser component. Recent colors will now be remembered within a session.

Improved Form Field Editing - 2624 - [jPDFNotes]
When pasting text into a field, convert tab characters to spaces. Tab characters are not supported by fields. In previous version, we used to remove tab characters if they are pasted from another application. We are now replacing tab characters with spaces which makes more sense.

Ligature Characters - 3084 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
Improvements on displaying, searching and selecting ligature characters such as fl, fi, etc...



Fixes

Error with Java 7 in Text Search - 2097 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
The log for the error was the following:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!
at java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeHi(Unknown Source)

Display Error Rendering Page - 2968 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
This is a regression bug for an issue introduced in version 4.70. When having an issue rendering a page in a document, we used to show "Error Rendering Page" and below "Error Reading File". In version 4.70 the pages are blank.
 
Loupe Tool - 3034 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
The loupe tool dialog was sometimes not displaying the correct text after zooming in / out. This seemed to happen with documents that take more time to render. 
 
Some Fax Images Not Displaying - 2808 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
Regression issue introduced in version 4.70. Some fax images were not displaying correctly.
 
Stamps on Rotated Documents - 3165 - [jPDFNotes]
Regression bug introduced in version 4.70. Wrong stamps dimensions on landscape documents.

Edit Rotated Callout Annotations - 3023 - [jPDFNotes]
When editing text in callout annotations placed on rotated document, the cursor position was off.
 
Flatten Rotated Form Fields- 2648 - [jPDFNotes]
When flattening form fields on rotated forms, they would sometimes end up rotated.
 
Links to Mapped Drive - 2567 - [jPDFNotes]
Adding a link to a page in another document located on a different drive would sometimes fail.
 
Zooming While Drawing - 2941 - [jPDFNotes]
When changing scale / zooming while in the process of adding an annotation (line, polyline, polygone) would add the annotation at the wrong location on the page. 
 
Import XFDF - 2837 - [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]
When importing annotations from XFDF, if there is a parent and IRT annotation in the XFDF file and the parent annotation is already present in the document, we throw a null pointer exception.

Many internal improvements and fixes.



Press Release:

Qoppa Software’s fall release of Java PDF libraries and components improves PDF text extraction and rendering performance.

2012-03 Release

posted Sep 13, 2012, 11:01 AM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Oct 2, 2012, 8:45 AM ]

March 13 2012. This release contains many API and user interface improvements and adds a new watermark interface, support for Submit and Reset buttons in interactive forms and the ability to invert colors.

Version numbers: jPDFNotes v4.70, jPDFViewer v6.20.

New Features:

Watermark Interface 107, 364: New convenience setWatermark method that will set that watermark on documents when they are loaded. Look for setWatermark method and new interface com.qoppa.pdf.IWatermark.

Submit Forms: Support for Submit and Reset button actions in interactive PDF forms

Invert Colors Mode 1413: It is now possible to invert colors when rendering PDF documents. For typical documents, the display will change from "Black on White" to "White on Black". New method setInvertColorsMode in LoupeTool and PDFPageView.

License Keys Improvements 2054 [All PDF library products]: We've added convenient ways for our customers to request, validate and set license keys on Qoppa's library jar files.

Thumbnail On Demand 1558: Thumbnail image producing threads are now created on demand. Threads are not created when the thumbnail pane is hidden.

Tabbing Through Fields 2239: When tabbing to navigate through fields in an interactive form, if the field is a single line text field, the contents of the field is now selected. This will help when editing data within form fields.

Easy Open Link 1792 When the text selected on a page corresponds to a valid web or email url, the mouse context menu will show an option to "Open Link". This was already available in jPDFNotes, it is now available in jPDFViewer.


Improvements:

Form Field Editing Right-Click Menu 638: When editing a form field, it is now possible to right click in the field to show an edit menu in order to cut, copy, or paste text (control-click for one-button mice).

Improved Search Results Display 1538: Search results will now be centered within the window to make it easier to identify them in their surrounding content.

Bookmarks and Deletion / Insertion of Pages 1847: Better handling of bookmarks and go to page actions which should improve bookmarks retention when inserting and deleting pages.

Side Panels Visibility 1878: Added more flexibility to side panels configuration (Attachments, Thumbnails, Bookmarks, Signatures) in the left split pane. Added new interface PDFPanel to handle visibility and selection of panels. Deprecated methods showTab* in PDFViewerBean. Replaced with get*Panel().setPaneVisible() from the bean. Read our KB entry for more details.

Document Properties XMP Meta Data 111:When creating new documents or updating existing document properties, the library also creates or updates the XMP metadata so both document's properties dictionary and XMP meta data are kept in synch. If missing, the XMP metadata's tree is created. If the tree exists but the specific attributes for the updated properties are missing, the attributes are created.

Form Field Alignment 119: Cursor alignment and text highlight was incorrect when editing centered or right justified interactive form fields.

Annotation Modified Date 1292: The PDF format only has a modified date, there is no creation date for annotations.

Deprecated current set/get CreationDate methods. Added methods to set / get ModifiedDate -The modified date is now updated every time an annotation gets modified through the API or through the GUI.

Annotation Selection Model 1296: New IAnnotationManager class which managers the selection cycle for annotation component.. Deprecated methods AnnotationComponent is/set Selected.

Toolbar Separators 1553: Added get methods for the toolbar separators in AnnotToolbar, PDFToolbar, SelectToolbar, and SelectToolbarNotesEdit to allow customers to remove toolbar separators or modify them.

ThumbnailContextMenu 1790: New class ThumbnailContextMenu. As part of giving access to context menus to make customization possible, we didn't open access to the thumbnail context menu in the last release (it was on oversight). To get the thumbnail context menu call notesBean.getThumbnailPanelNotes().getThumbnailContextMenu().

Creation of Annotations 1802: New IAnnotationFactory class. AnnotationFactory class is no longer in the API. IAnnotationFactory is accessible from notesBean.getDocument().getAnnotationFactory().

Applet Improvements:

  • Look & Feel 1781: System look and feel is set on all our applets samples.
  • Applet Dialogs Centering 1326: When running in an applet with the browser window not maximized, annotation's properties dialog would open at the top left corner instead of being centered on the applet.
Import / Export Radio Buttons 1856: Radio Buttons can have an array of export values. We now convert the stored value to the export value when we export to another format (fdf, xfdf, etc). We also convert it back on import.


Fixes:

Save Form Warning 805: Fixed issue where documents with interactive form fields were not marked as modified after fields were edited. No warning was given to save the document upon closing.

Signing Dialog Display 1327: In jPDFNotes, when signing, the dialog where user chooses the digital certificate seemed "cut" at the bottom.

Better Error Handling in Forms Widgets 1350: Handle gracefully any exception when parsing appearance streams for form widgets and annotations.

Deleting Annotation Disabled. 1963: When disabling annotation deletion through AnnotationTools.setDeleteEnabled(), the trash button in the comments pane is now disabled as well as the cut menu in the annotation mouse context menu.

Text Position. 1990 [All PDF library products]: Fixed a bug with text positioning for text field with specific margin and border properties.

Scrambled Image 2140: Fixed issue with image decoding for specific images with CCITFaxDecode compression.

Text Search on Linux 837: Fixed text search dialog user interface issues: search text field too narrow and some international labels cut.

Obscured Password Field 661: Fixed interactive password field to obscure text when typing password in (passwords field are uncommon in forms).

Export to FDF 1872 [jPDFNotes, jPDFViewer]: Fixed a null pointer exception when exporting check boxes with a null value to an FDF file.

XDP Import 1928: Fix issue with importing an XDP file into an XFA form PDF when multiple fields shared the same name.

Infinite Loop 2118: Fixed infinite loop when saving document while the drawing tool for the ink annotation was active.

Export Annots 2195: Fixed null pointer exception when calling method exportAnnotsAsFDF when using a relative file name as parameter.

Dynamic Font Sizing Minor Fix 1875 : When landing on a field and then exiting without making any changes was resizing the font of the field.

Invalid xref position 1706: Fixed issue when opening some PDF documents "Invalid xref position".

2011-07 Release

posted Sep 13, 2012, 11:00 AM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Oct 1, 2012, 7:24 AM ]

July 28 2011. This release adds a new loop tool, customizable context menu and access to panels (signatures, thumbnails, comments), shortcuts to open and create links and improvements with form fields editing.

Version numbers: jPDFNotes v4.60, jPDFViewer v6.10.

New Features:

Loupe tool - 1767 - A new loop tool allows to see small details on a PDF document more closely. The tool displays a rectangle that can be moved on a page and the magnified version of the corresponding area is displayed in a floating window. This tool will be useful in a number of industries such as printing, graphics, electronics and biology.

Customizable Context menus and access to panels - 1560.
"Open Link" and "Create Link" - 731 - When the text selected on a page corresponds to a valid web or email url, the mouse context menu will show an option to "Open Link". This offers a convenient shortcut to browse to web links present in a document. The "Create Link" menu option will also now default the url to the text url making it faster to create link annotations "on the fly" from existing urls in the document content.

Improvements:

Interactive form field font autosize - 1068 - Autosize font is implemented for both single line and multiline text fields.

Goto page actions - 1289 - Support for all goto page actions in named destinations: x,y,z location, zoom mode, page view (Fit to Page, Fit to Width). This affects bookmarks, links and buttons.

API change to create temporary file - 1394 - New method in PDFNotesBean called setCreateTempOnSave(boolean createTempOnSave). Sets whether or not a temporary file is to be created during a save operation. By default, jPDFNotes uses a temporary file when saving a documents locally (overwriting an existing file) in order to avoid losing the document if any error happens.Through this new method, customers can change the default behavior.

Fixes:

Unrecognized command - 867,1313,1357,1426 - Error rendering Page: Unrecognized Command. Such errors happened when the PDF parsing engine had issues detecting the end of image stream on inline images. Not all "Unrecognized Command" issues are resolved but a lot of them.

Open document error - 1525, 1530 - Fixed regression issue introduced in previous version when opening a PDF document containing annotations with null dates values (this error happened for instance for documents created in Open Office).

(Linux) - OpenJDK JPEG image rendering - 1274 - For rendering JPEG images, jPDFNotes used to depend on internal sun classes. These classes are not supported correctly in OpenJDK and Linux customers running this version of Java could not see JPEG images. jPDFNotes now uses standard imageio classes to render JPEG images.

Black boxes - 1330 -  Fixed issue where some PDF documents were displaying "black boxes" (issue in IndexedColorSpace conversion from float color).

Form fields flattening - 1581 - Fixed issue when flattening form fields data in very specific cases (field data contained the string " Q " which corresponds to a push in PDF command).

Multiline form fields - 1789 - Application was extremely slow when typing large amounts of data in a multiline text field.

Invalid bookmark page destination - 1285 - Fixed issue with bookmarks not going to the correct pages when in Fit To Page view mode.

Quirks with grouped annotations - 1262 - Improved the way typewriter and free text annotations behave when they are grouped and copied.

Appending pages from interactive form - 1656 - For some interactive forms, a null pointer exception happened when merging field names.

Merged document corrupted - 1703 - After merging 2 PDF interactive forms, Adobe Reader reported that the output document had errors and crashed.

API Change: SetSplitPolicy - 1559 - The method setSplitPolicy in PDFNotesBean has been "undeprecated" as it is still needed and there is no good replacement for it.
 
Many internal improvements and fixes.
 

2011-02 Release

posted Sep 13, 2012, 10:46 AM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Oct 1, 2012, 7:28 AM ]

February 28 2011. This release adds support for annotations groups to allow selecting, moving or processing multiple annotations at once, and a new "image tool" to easily add an image as a stamp on top of a PDF document.

Version numbers: jPDFNotes v4.50, jPDFViewer 6.00.

New Features:

Annotation groups. Group multiple annotations on a page to process as a single unit. Grouped annotations share their comment and are moved, deleted, reviewed or flattened at once.

Multiple selection of annotations. Implemented a new selection model which allows to select multiple annotations on a page at once to move, delete, review or flatten them all at once. Annotations selected on the document will also be selected in the annotations tree under the Annotations Pane.

Easily add images. There is a new image icon on the toolbar which allows to easily add an image (as a stamp) onto the page. Image files can also be copied and pasted onto a PDF page directly through copy and paste commands without having to open the image in an external image viewer.

Links from highlighted text. Create a link from right-clicking (CTRL + Click on Mac) on selected text and choosing the option "Create Link" in the context menu.

Improvements:

Document XMP metadata: When editing document properties and xmp metadata is present in the document, jPDFNotes will update the xmp metadata so properties are correctly read and displayed in all PDF viewers.

Performance improvements: Improved performance on on Graphical Documents with Transparency. Printing and scrolling performance enhanced for certain documents containing transparency. Users in the graphics and pre press industry may enjoy faster times (up to 5 times faster on specific documents) when printing and rendering documents.

Default document name: When creating a document from image files, jPDFNotes will default the name of the PDF to the original document.

Text search dialog: Ability to cancel search. Search button is being disabled during a search so users can not accidentally click search twice. After search is finished, clicking "Enter" will go to the next occurrence in the results list.

Form field tooltip: To help users filling forms, field information (if available) is now displayed as tooltips under interactive form fields. The data shown corresponds to the "/TU" entry in the field dictionary.

Copying and pasting pages: New menus available under the Thumbnails Pane to copy, cut and paste pages within a document or accross documents.

Link annotation: A link annotation will not be selected when users click on it to follow the corresponding URL. This will prevent users from starting to move the link by error. To select a link annotation and edit its properties, users should now directly right-click (mac: ctrl + click) on the annotation.

Fixes:

"Missing Font" in PDF documents. There are magic fonts (Helv, CoBO, Cobo, Cour) not specificied in the PDF specifications that do not need to be embedded in the document and that use "shortcut names" compared to standard font names.

(Mac) Shortcut CMD + C was broken to select text on mac.

PDF created in Open Office. Error happened when opening a document created in Open Office. This issue was reproducible on Linux with documents containing annotations. The PDF file generated in Open Office does not follow PDF specs.

Flatten text box. When flattening a text box after a document was saved, the text was not available as text content and thus could not be selected or highlighted.

Label cut. The Properties label was cut for foreign languages in the Annotation Popup Dialog.

Annotation tooltip. When updating the content of an annotation from the Popup Dialog (the Popup Dialog is the dialog that popups when double-clicking on the annotation and that displays the content, author and date for the annotation), the tooltip text for the annotation was not updated accordingly.

Text search. The results list in the Text Search Dialog allowed for multiple rows selection. However, the functionality of the dialog was dependent only on the first row selected. The results list is now single selection.

Escape in text annotations. When editing a typewriter, free text or callout annotation, hitting escape will exit the edit mode and select the annotation (it used to not select the annotation).

Rotated callout and text box. Fix some issues with callout and text box annotation on rotated documents. When moving annotations, they would appear to move in the opposite direction.

2 other issues related to digital signatures and encrypted documents.


Internal bug fixes and enhancements.


Press Release:

New general release of Java PDF components/libraries adds group annotations & unlimited file size access

2010-10 Release

posted Sep 13, 2012, 10:28 AM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Oct 1, 2012, 7:30 AM ]

October 5 2010. This release adds new unicode support (for non-latin characters), a new callout annotation to draw attention to specific areas on a page, and a new calibration tool for measurement annotations.

Version numbers: jPDFNotes v4.30, jPDFViewer v5.30.


New Features
 
Unicode support. jPDFNotes now allows editing unicode text in annotations content. This will be of special interest to customers using non-latin characters such as arabic, asian, greek, cyrillic characters. jPDFNotes now also supports unicode text within document properties (author, subject, description)

Callout annotation. This tool combines a text box with a line and an arrow and is used to draw attention to text or objects in a PDF document

Calibration tool. The new calibration tool for the measuring tools allows to set the scale directly from the drawing. Users are prompted to choose two points on the document and enter the length of the measurement.

Copy and paste images and text. Images and text can now be pasted directly into a PDF document. jPDFNotes will automatically generate rubber stamps from them that users can move around or resize before applying them to the document.

Bookmark style allowing users to define color and text style in documents outline or table of contents.

Home and End shortcuts. Added support for Home and End shortcut to go to the first page and last page in a document. .

Improvements
 
Text box annotation editing. Text can now be edited directly on the document via cursor (in the same way as the type writer annotation).

Text markups transparency. Users can now set the transparency of text markup tools such as underline, cross-out, etc.

Import and export of XFDF files: Now supports reading and writing the following attributes: dash style/size, annotation subject, border style, opacity, rich content, and popups.
Improvement Improved highlight behavior of form fields such as radio buttons, check boxes and text fields.

Form fields editing: Improved edit and display of rotated form fields (text fields, barcode fields). Support for scroll long text property in multi line fields to turn off scrolling ability within fields.

GUI improvements: A new link to an annotation's Properties Dialog has been added under the annotation's Comment Popup Dialog.

Barcode: Improvements to the way PDF Studio renders code 128 and code 309.
 
Fixes

Cloud annotation.  Cloud annotations didn't show the text bubble even when there was text in the comment.
 
AES encryption. Fix issue when opening some PDF documents with AES encryption.

"Missing pages entry in file catalog". Fix issue that was giving the following error upon opening PDF documents: "Missing Pages entry in file catalog".

Open password. In the previous version 4.21, jPDFNotes had been updated so PDF documents that only had an open password with no permission password were opened without user being prompted for password. In this version, we reverted to the previous behavior to be consistent with Adobe Acrobat. jPDFNotes will now prompt for an open password for all documents that have an open password, even for documents that have an empty permissions password.

Internal bug fixes and enhancements.


Press Release:

Qoppa Software Enhances Java PDF Libraries, Java PDF Components: Digital Signatures, New Annotation, Measurement Calibration

2010-06 Release

posted Sep 13, 2012, 10:26 AM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Sep 14, 2012, 11:25 AM ]

June 24 2010. This release adds customization for digital signature appearance, new caret annotations (for reviewers to indicate that text needs to be replaced or inserted) and new Italian version.

Version numbers: jPDFNotes v4.21, jPDFViewer 5.21.
 
New Features

Digital signatures appearances. Allows to add text, images or logos.See com.qoppa.pdf.SignatureAppearance.

Caret annotations. 2 new caret annotation "Text Replace" and "Text Insert". These annotations are used by reviewers to indicate that text needs to be replaced or inserted.

Italian version. The international component and message labels are now available in Italian. 

Initial view. Initial view settings can now be set programmatically to be applied to documents that do not have these settings defined, and / or to override the settings found in the document. see com.qoppa.pdfViewer.InitialViewSettings
 

Improvements

CJK fonts. Our components now supports CJK fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and more generally CID fonts when filling interactive form fields.

Memory usage. Improvements in memory usage when reading and converting JPEG images.

Sound annotation. When playing a sound annotation, jPDFNotes will now display a progress dialog and allow users to stop the sound playback at any time.
 
Fixes

Rotation and selection. After rotating pages in a document from the Thumbnails pane, the selected page was sometimes jumping to a different page.

PDF created from Word. Fixed issue when opening some PDF documents created in Word 2010.

Export to XFDF. When exporting annotations or form fields in xfdf format for PDF documents opened from urls, the path to the documents in the xfdf file was not set correctly.

Internal bug fixes and enhancements.

2010-03 Release

posted Sep 13, 2012, 10:25 AM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Sep 14, 2012, 11:25 AM ]

March 24 2010. This release adds support for CJK fonts, a redesigned annotation popup dialog (includes author names and date) and the ability to add and manage trusted certificates for digital signatures.

Version numbers: jPDFNotes v4.20, jPDFViewer v5.20.
 
New Features

Support for CJK fonts (Windows, Mac). jPDFNotes can now render PDF documents which use CJK character sets (Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts) as well as extract text from such documents.

Redesigned annotation popup dialog. The new dialog will show the author name and date on the title bar and allow users to edit comments directly from the popup dialog.

Manage certificate authorities. Ability to add and manage trusted certificates authorities for digital signatures.
 
Improvements

Improved initial view. When opening a document, the default view is now "fit to width" to maximize reading experience. This is consistent with Adobe Reader® default behavior.

Multi-line text field. Multi-line text field editing in interactive PDF forms now uses native PDF fonts so the editing is very smooth and matches exactly with the rendering of the form field.

Text search. Better text searching and extraction especially when working with subscript and superscript.

Performance improvements. Improved performance in image color conversion code.

Fixes
 
Search results capitalization. Fix issue with results capitalization in text search dialog in some instances.

Rotation and Location. After rotating pages in a document, the selected page was sometimes jumping to a different page.

File name (Mac). When saving an attachment locally under mac, ".pdf" was automatically appended to the file name even when the file was not a PDF file.

Internal bug fixes and enhancements.

2010-01 Release

posted Sep 12, 2012, 2:32 PM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Sep 14, 2012, 2:22 PM ]

January 6 2010. This release adds a new PDF reader and parser engine which allows opening bigger documents as well as wrongly formatted documents, many improvements around digital signatures, a new cloud annotation and a new screenshot tools.

Version numbers: jPDFNotes v4.10, jPDFViewer v5.10.
 
New Features

Brand new PDF reader and parser engine which allows for:
  • opening bigger documents due to the revamp of memory management.
  • better handling of PDF documents that are formatted incorrectly.
Many improvements around digital signatures:
  • ability to add multiple digital signatures to a PDF document
  • new button on toolbar to create a new signature field
  • ability to clear, delete and resize an existing signature field
  • improved signature tabbed pane.
Cloud annotation.  There's a new cloud annotation useful to markup architectural drawings.
 
Screenshot tool. There's a new screenshot tool allowing users to select a page area with a lasso and copy the image to the clipboard.
 
Work with thumbnails. From the thumbnail view, added ability to work on multiple pages at once to delete them, rotate them, drag them or flatten comments.
 
Barcodes. XFA form fields containing a barcode ui will now be rendered in jPDFNotes.
 
Search annotations. Ability to search within annotations from the text search dialog or from the comments pane.
 
Change to the api to include gotoPreviousView and gotoNextView to navigate through history of page views.
 
Mailto. Added support for mailto protocol in links and bookmarks and launch mail client accordingly.
 

Improvements
 
Text highlight rendering. It is now a perfect text highlight obtained by using multiply composite.
 
Annotations Location. Improved the creation and rendering of annotations so the location and shape of the annotations are matching Adobe's precisely.
 
Drawing polygons. When drawing an annotation such as cloud, polygon or perimeter annotations, and using the auto-complete option from the mouse menu, jPDFNotes will now include the current location of the mouse as the last vertex.
 
Moving annotations. It is now possible to move annotations to the left, right, top and bottom using arrow keys.
 
Comments pane toolbar. There is a new search box to search text within comments.
 
Fixes
 
Scrolling to annotations. When in single page view mode, clicking on an annotation in the comments list, scrolling to the annotation was not working correctly accross pages.
 
Issue with the display of certain images.
 
Internal bug fixes and enhancements.

2009-06 Release

posted Sep 12, 2012, 2:29 PM by Leila Holmann   [ updated Sep 14, 2012, 11:30 AM ]

June 11 2009 . This release adds support for PDF transparency, page mode views (continuous, single, facing) and offers new measuring tools (area and perimeters). A new interface for a custom file opener gives integrators control over the list of files accessible within the components.

New Features

Transparency. Support for PDF transparency model.

Measuring tools. New area and perimeter measurement tools.

Page modes. Support for page mode views: Continuous, Single, Facing, Facing Continuous.

Custom file opener. Added interface to let the application define a custom file opener. By overwriting this method, integrators show files loaded from database, servers, or restrict the list of files loaded from the local file system.

Context menu. Right-click context menu on the page views for quick access to basic functions, such as adding a sticky note, zooming in and out, selecting the text.

Thumbnail customization. Ability to customize page thumbnails size (small, medium, large).

Improvements

Linux Look & Feel. No more bold font for the metal look and feel under Linux


Fixes

Focus:
  • Some focus issues in interactive PDF forms.
  • Focus problem with annotations in Java 1.4 where focus would sometime jump to the beginning of the document when clicking on the hand tool.
File dialog. Slow file open dialog under Windows XP when browsing through big zip files.

Internal bug fixes and enhancements.

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