Version 2.11.21 of Big Faceless PDF Library
Release Notes: Regressions where some documents with compressed XRef streams would fail to open in Acrobat, where adding JPEG images to a PDF could result in them being, and where merging multiple copies of the same PDF could result in larger files than necessary, or with errors if PDF was encrypted were fixed. The "MergeResources" step was improved for PDF/A and PDF/X documents. It will now merge compatible but different subsets of the same OpenType font.
Other releases
Release Notes: This release added support for reading/writing PDFs with AES-256 Encryption as used by Acrobat X. Version numbers when reading/writing PDFs with ISO 32000 extensions were corrected. Exceptions when rendering documents containing progressive JPEG images were fixed. Memory footprint when moving pages from one PDF to another was reduced. A crash and/or incorrect glyph widths in the resulting document when merging certain types of font with the MergeResources feature was fixed.
Release Notes: This release adds an OpenType layout engine, replaces ImageIO-based JPEG and JPEG2000 decoding with a new implementation, makes PostScript functions an order of magnitude faster (this will mainly help those rasterizing PDFs containing DeviceN colors), adds a PDFImage.quantize() method to convert CMYK or RGB images to indexed, and changes the position/size of text in the text and choice fields to match Acrobat more closely.
Release Notes: Regressions where some documents with compressed XRef streams would fail to open in Acrobat, where adding JPEG images to a PDF could result in them being, and where merging multiple copies of the same PDF could result in larger files than necessary, or with errors if PDF was encrypted were fixed. The "MergeResources" step was improved for PDF/A and PDF/X documents. It will now merge compatible but different subsets of the same OpenType font.
Release Notes: "bfopdf.jar" jar is now compiled for Java 5.0 or later; customers running Java 1.4 now need to use the "bfopdf-14.jar" instead, which is a backported version of the main jar. This change allows benefiting from the improvements to Java, while still continuing to support customers using Java 1.4. Fixes to setOutputProfile, which was sometimes not failing when it should have. This could result in profiles being applied incorrectly, so documents that should have failed when being converted to PDF/A were succeeding.
Release Notes: This release verifies the API against Java 7 and fixes some Java 1.4 compatibility issues. JBIG2 classes from JPedal are now included and have been optimized. There's no longer any need to use "jbig2dec" or include the "jbig2.jar" in your classpath. There are speed improvements for text extraction and PDF creation. There are improvements to XFDF reading and writing. Rendering bitmap images with a Blend Mode is now working. PropertyChangeEvent support has been added to PDFPage and PDF classes.
