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Version 2.1 - April 29, 2008
Enhancements:
- Introduced support for rendering ordinary and flattened form fields in PDF viewer component.
- Introduced overloaded saveAsImage() method in PdfDocument class to save the images with specified compression quality and size.
- Introduced memoryReader() method in PdfReader class to load PDF documents from a byte array. [All except Create]
- Introduced setFont() and getFont() methods in PdfDocument and PdfPage classes to get and set default font that will be used by PdfDocument objects to render text elements [Professional, Standard and Create]
- Introduced overloaded addAction() method in PdfDocument class to add document-level go-to action [Professional and Standard]
- Introduced method removeBookmarkRoot() in PdfDocument to delete the bookmark tree (removes all bookmarks) [Professional, Standard and Bookmark]
- Introduced overloaded addCell() methods in PdfTable class [Professional]
- Updated documentation.
Fixes:
- Inability to compress documents in reading mode [All except Create]
- Minor issues with flattenFormFields() methods [Professional and Forms]
- Failure of setAutoAdjustTextHeight(true) method [Professional and Forms]
- Problems related to creating/modify radio buttons [Professional and Forms]
- d.getPageCount() method threw NullPointerException instead of returning value 0 (zero) if no pages were added to the document
 
Version 2.00 - February 15, 2008
Enhancements:
- New PDF viewer component [Professional]
- New PDF printer component [Professional]
- Support for embedding fonts in an existing PDF. (Previously, font embedding was supported only in creation mode.) [Professional]
- New overloaded method in PdfDocument and PdfPage classes for adding text watermarks inside a specified rectangle [Professional, Standard & Stamp]
- New method in PdfFormField class for specifying Unicode/Non-Unicode names for form fields [Professional & Forms]

Fixes:
- Adding annotations to a rotated page. [Professional, Standard & Forms]
- Inability to read PDF dictionary comments containing numbers. [Bookmark, Forms, Stamp & Merge n Split]
- Several fixes for addWatermarkText() and addWatermarkImage() methods [Professional, Standard & Stamp]
 
Version 1.42 - March 26, 2007
- Support for specifying a default font for a page [Professional, Standard & Create]
- Support for reading document information [All editions]
- Support for specifying submit actions for AcroForms [Professional & Forms]
and a number of fixes.
 
Version 1.41 - January 16, 2007
[PDFOne Java Standard]
- Support for splitting PDF files based on numbers of pages and page range.
- Support for reading actions specified for link annotations.

[PDFOne Java Create Version 1.0]
- Support for reading PDF content from files and memory streams.
- Support for saving PDF content to files and memory streams.
- Support for rendering shapes such as circle, bezier curves, and rectangle.
- Support for rendering images of all image formats supported by the .NET framework.
- Support for Unicode text rendering.
- Support for full and subset embedding of TTC, TrueType and OpenType fonts.
- Support for changing default page layout.
- Support for changing default document view (page mode).
- Support for reading XML metadata of a document.
- Support for 40-bit and 128-bit encryption.
- Support for changing user permissions. (Requires owner password.)
- Support for reading password protected documents. (Requires password.)
- Support for reading and writing viewer preferences properties.
- Support for reading and writing document information properties.
- Support for Unicode document information.
- Support for e-mailing the document after it is saved to a file.
- Support for printing the output PDF file (with Adobe Reader) immediately after it is created.
- Support for opening the output PDF file (with Adobe Reader) immediately after it is created.

[PDFOne Java Bookmark Version 1.0]
- Support for adding new bookmarks and editing existing bookmarks with unlimited nesting levels.
- Support for adding actions to bookmarks (URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, and JavaScript].
- Support for deleting existing bookmarks.
- Support for setting and removing thumbnail images.

[PDFOne Java Forms Version 1.0]
- Support for adding/reading/editing/deleting various types of annotations such as circle, file attachment, link, and free text.
- Support for custom appearance for all annotations except link and popup annotations.
- Support for adding/reading/editing/deleting various types of form fields such as text fields, combo boxes, and radio buttons.
- Support for flattening of form fields.
- Support for importing/exporting form fields to FDF (Forms Data Format).

[PDFOne Java Stamp Version 1.0]
- Support for inserting watermarks and stamps with text and images.
- Support for adding/reading/editing/deleting stamp annotations.

[PDFOne Java Merge n Split Version 1.0]
- Support for merging multiple documents.
- Support for inserting pages from one document to another.
- Support for appending pages from one document at the end of another.
- Support for extracting pages from documents to create new ones.
- Support for splitting PDF files based on numbers of pages and page range.
 
Version 1.4 - December 15, 2006
[Professional]
- Support for adding embedded document-level file attachments.
- Support for retrieving embedded document-level file attachments.

[Standard]
- Support for printing output PDF file (with Acrobat Reader) when it is created.
- New overloaded drawImage method for specifying FileImageInputStream as parameter.
 
Version 1.3 - November 22, 2006
[Professional]
- Support for page stitching (side by side, one above another, or with specified offsets).
- Support for changing existing page dimensions.

[Standard]
- Support for rendering transparent text, images, and shapes.
- Support for LZW-compressed streams.
- Support for representing shapes, images and text in CMYK colors.
- Support for localization of exception messages.
- Fix for problem with merging in creation mode.
 
Version 1.2 - October 13, 2006
[Professional]
- Importing field values from FDF (Forms Data Format) introduced.
- Editing of PDF forms with XFA data (Acrobat 6 forms) introduced.
- Flattening of form fields at document and page levels introduced.
- Deletion of form fields at page level introduced.
- Watermark annotation creation and editing introduced.
- Support to delete and/or flatten individual form field introduced.

[Standard]
- Additional named actions for printing, searching, finding and opening documents introduced.
- Interface PdfBookmarkMergeHandler for providing bookmarks merging options introduced.
- Interface PdfFormFieldRenameHandler for renaming form fields while merging documents introduced.
- Options to include annotations, form fields and bookmarks while merging documents introduced.
- Methods to merge documents, append, insert and extract pages enhanced to handle form fields & annotations.
 
Version 1.1 - September 15, 2006
[Professional]
- Exporting fields to FDF (Forms Data Format) introduced.
- Class com.gnostice.pdfone.PDFOne introduced for component (PDFOne.jar) activation.
- Editing of form fields thoroughly enhanced for quality and speed.
- Editing of form fields by type and by name at document level and page level introduced.
- Editing of form field hierarchies with widget nodes on different pages is supported.
- Deletion of form fields at document level and page level introduced.
- Cloning of form fields introduced.
- Default appearance stream creation for all form fields introduced.

[Standard]
- Additional auto text tags for Author, Filename, absolute Filename and File Path introduced.
- Support for custom (user defined) auto text tags introduced.
- Event handling interfaces made simpler.
 
Version 1.04 - August 16, 2006
[Professional]
- Creation of form field hierarchy with heterogeneous field types at document and page level introduced.
- Editing of hierarchical form fields with heterogeneous fields at page level introduced.

[Standard]
- Variable placeholders (auto text tags) for page number, page count and date introduced.

- Documentation enhanced.
 
Version 1.03 - July 28, 2006
[Professional]
- Creation of hierarchical form fields at document and page level introduced.
- Editing of hierarchical form fields at page level introduced.
- Reading of annotations at document level introduced.
- Reading of selective annotation types at document and page level introduced.
- Minor bug fixes for PdfAppearanceStream class.
- Reading of annotations optimized.

[Standard]
- Document reading speed optimized.
- Documentation enhanced.
 
Version 1.02 - June 05, 2006
[Professional]
- Appearance streams for annotations and form fields.
- Sample codes for all important features.

[Standard]
- Sample codes for all important features.
 
Version 1.01 - May 15, 2006
[Standard]
- Bug fix for PdfFont, PdfObject and PdfPage cloning.
- Minor bug fixes for Bookmarks, Shapes and writeText method.
- Documentation enhanced.
 
Version 1.0 - April 13, 2006
PDFOne Java v1.0 Released.
 
Version 1.0 - March 3, 2006
PDFOne Java v1.0 Announced.
 
   
   
   
 
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