PDF jet

News about PDFjet

What's new in the latest version of PDFjet:

Version 2.85 - Released on 12th of June / 2011.

  • Small cleanup of all examples.
  • This version is available at no cost to all existing customers. It is not plug and play compatible with all previous versions. If you have a much older version of PDFjet - please procede with caution when upgrading. Keep your older binaries until everything works fine with this new version. Please contact our tech support if you have not received the e-mail announcing this free upgrade.

Version 2.83 - Released on 5th of June / 2011.

  • Added support for QR code barcodes.
  • Improved the support for PNG images with alpha transparency.
  • Added more page drawing methods.
  • Improved the PDF reading code.

Version 2.81 - Released on 3rd of January / 2011.

  • Improved the support for PNG images with alpha transparency.
  • Numerous other small improvements.

Version 2.79 - Released on 15th of November / 2010.

  • Improved the code for handling BMP files. Code provided by Jonas Krogsbøll.
  • Enhanced the code for removing lines between table cells. Code provided by Uri Scheiner.
  • Added code to allow the setting of the Line Cap Style.

Version 2.78 - Released on 2nd of August / 2010.

  • Changed the Table drawOn() method to return a point where the next component should be positioned.
  • Added the method getRowsRendered() to the Table class.

Version 2.77 - Released on 15th of June / 2010.

  • Added initial support for reading PDF files.
  • Added support for PNG images containing multiple IDAT chunks.Code provided by Patrice De Saint Steban.
  • Added support for PNG images with 16 bit color depth.
  • Various other improvements.

Version 2.75 - Released on 9th of May / 2010.

  • Only one Java version that is Google App Engine compatible.
  • PDFjet is now using streams instead of files.
  • PDFjet can generate PDF/A-1B compliant files.
  • Numerous other improvements.
  • New .NET and Open Source Versions are comming very soon ...

Version 2.72 - Released on 31st of March / 2010.

  • Numerous small code improvements while moving the product closer to PDF/A compliance.
  • Implemented workaround for issue with the Mac Preview application.

Version 2.69 - Released on 11th of January / 2010. Updated on 2010/02/21.

  • Added support for BMP images to the Google App Engine Edition. BMP image data extraction code provided by Jonas Krogsbøll.
  • Added support for greyscale images in the Google App Engine editions.
  • Performance improvements in the PNG and JPEG image support.

Version 2.68 - Released on 15th of November / 2009.

  • All the commercial versions of PDFjet now include support for UPC barcodes.
  • Improvements to the OpenType and TrueType fonts support.
  • PDFjet is now using new embedable OpenType fonts. The size of PDF files that include these fonts is now much smaller.

Version 2.67 - Released on 9th of November / 2009.

  • All the commercial versions of PDFjet now include support for Code 39 barcodes.

Version 2.66 - Released on 8th of November / 2009.

  • The commercial version of PDFjet for the Google App Engine now includes Gentium OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines. Embedding these fonts instead of the original Gentium TTF fonts results in much smaller PDF files.

Version 2.65 - Released on 1st of November / 2009.

  • New Open Source version of the PDFjet for Java. This version is compatible with the Google App Engine.
  • PDFjet for Java - Google App Engine compatible commercial version is now available.

Version 2.65 - Released on 28th of October / 2009.

  • Fixed a minor issue in the Table class.

Version 2.64 - Released on 28th of October / 2009.

  • Added a new method to the Table class. Updated the documentation.
  • Preparation of the code for compatibility with the Google App Engine.

Version 2.62 - Released on 29th of March / 2009.

  • Added a few new methods to the Table and Cell classes.

Version 2.61 - Released on 15th of June / 2008.

  • Added code that allows the .NET version of PDFjet to optionally use the original zlibwapi.dll on 32 bit Windows. The original zlib library typically compresses data better than the .NET DeflateStream class.

Version 2.60 - Released on 12th of June / 2008.

  • Fixed a bug in the .NET version that was causing problems to older versions of Acrobat and SumatraPDF.

Version 2.59 - Released on 12th of May / 2008.

  • Fixed a bug in the TextColumn class that was causing a word to be repeated twice under certain conditions.
  • Added a couple of new methods to the Table class to make it more flexible.
  • Added two more examples.

Version 2.58 - Updated on 21th of April / 2008.

  • Added a script in the Open Source Edition to build PDFjet on Linux using Mono v1.9.
  • Tested the .NET version of PDFjet on Linux / Mono v1.9 using the standard Windows PDFjet.dll - everything works flawlessly.

Version 2.58 - Released on 12th of April / 2008.

  • Removed dependency on zlib1.dll in the .NET version. Now PDFjet for .NET is using 100% managed C# code.

Version 2.57 - Released on 7th of April / 2008.

  • Fixed an issue that was causing problems during PDF generation on systems using German locale in the .NET version of the library.
  • Fixed a bug in the Unicode support that was causing problems with PDF documents containing certain Russian words.

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