PDFOne (for Java™) v5.0.0.123
100% Java PDF component suite to create, edit, view, print & enhance PDF documents and forms on Java™ platform

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Features

Gnostice PDFOne for the Java™ platform supports the following features. (For system requirements, click here.)

Feature Matrix By Edition

Features By Category
General Features, I/O and Security Support
Document Creation (new documents)
Document Modification and Processing (existing documents)
Document Re-organization
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)
Document Viewing and Printing
General Features, I/O and Security Support	Professional
Load from file and memory stream
Save to file and memory stream
Full support for reading PDF version 1.3 through 1.6 (Acrobat 4 through 7) files
Support for TrueType, OpenType and TTC (TrueType Collections) fonts
Support for Full Embedding of TrueType, OpenType and TTC (TrueType Collections) fonts
Support for Subset Embedding of TrueType, OpenType and TTC (TrueType Collections) fonts
Unicode support for text rendering. Support for all character sets – Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese...
Specify watermarks, document information properties, bookmarks and text annotations in Unicode
Secure PDF document with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption
Read encrypted PDF document with given password
Read XML metadata of PDF document
Read and modify document information properties such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords…
Set document viewer preferences
Add and modify page thumbnails
Render several types of images including JPEG, BMP (v1.0 through v4.0) including indexed BMP, and PNG formats
Compress/decompress document using Flate Encode/Decode, ASCII85 Encode/Decode, ASCIIHex Encode/Decode, RunLength Encode/Decode, and LZW Encode/Decode
100% Java code
Document Creation (new documents)	Professional
Advanced drawing functions – Header/Footer, Paragraph, Table, Textbox, Watermark/Stamping and Auto Pagination for text and images
Insert Annotations - Text, Link, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, StrikeOut, Stamp, Ink, Caret and more
File Attachments
Add actions to links and annotations - URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named
Add document-level and page-level actions
Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Add page-level and document-level file attachments
Document Modification and Processing (existing documents)	Professional
Add watermarks and stamps with text and images
Add, edit, and delete annotations
Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Add actions to annotations [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Insert page-level and document-level attachments
Add page headers and footers
Add, modify, and delete page thumbnails
Draw shapes such as circles, ellipses, squares, rectangles, lines, polylines, polygons…
Write formatted text with various fonts
Place autotext in rendered text [page number, total page count, time, and date]
Enable a PDF document to be used as a presentation slide with various transition effects
Change page layout
Change document viewer settings
Change document viewer window settings
Modify and delete actions assigned to a bookmark
Modify and delete actions assigned to a annotation
Add, modify, and delete bookmarks
Change owner and user passwords
Change document restrictions
Adding digital signatures
Parse page elements
Search text (using literal text and regular expressions)
Redact text (using literal text and regular expressions) and page regions
Extract text
Add digital signatures
Document Re-organization	Professional
Merge several documents into one
Copy pages from one document and append or insert them in to another document
Split a document into several new documents
Include/exclude bookmarks, annotations, form-fields, page-level actions, document-level actions from page reorganization operations
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)	Professional
Create new PDF form fields
Edit and fill existing form fields
Flatten existing form fields to make them non-interactive
Delete form field
Clone form field
Import form field values from an FDF file
Export form field values to an FDF file
Edit form fields with XFA data
Document Viewing and Printing	Professional
PDF viewer component
PDF printer component
Font types - embedded Type 0, Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType
Image encoding - CCITT Fax and DCT
Image colorspaces - Device (RGB, CMYK and grayscale), CIE-based (RGB, grayscale, and ICC), and special (Indexed, Separation* and DeviceN*)
Image bits per color component - 1, 4, and 8
Ordinary and flattened form fields
Page view options - fit, zoom, and rotation
Viewer navigation options - first page, last page, next page, previous page, and custom (manual input by user)
Options for specifying printer, printer page size, page range, number of copies, and automatic page resizing, rotation and centering.
Export to image formats (supported by the installed JRE version and Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools API)

System Requirements

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Minimum Software Requirements

• Oracle JDK 1.4 or above (~ Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris)

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History

Version 5.0.0.123 - June 7, 2012

• Introduced
  • PDF Processing
    • Added new overloaded PdfDocument.search() methods with a "page range" option
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • Signature not added when a PdfFormSignatureField instance is filled with a PDF signature and then added to a PdfPage instance
    • addTable() methods in PdfDocument and PdfPage classes draw borders even when current pen width is set at 0
    • Text inside tables (created by addTable() methods) not rendered when cell margins are set
    • getPageElements() methods do not find composite page elements (PdfPageElement.ELEMENT_TYPE_COMPOSITE) and inline images (PdfPageElement.ELEMENT_TYPE_INLINE_IMAGE)
    • Text rendered using different PdfFont instances but originating same font file suffer from character-spacing issues
    • Word-spacing issues encountered with ExtractText() and saveAsText() methods
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Multiple font-rendering issues

Version 5.0 - February 6, 2012

• Introduced
• General
  • Pure Java font engine - XtremeFontEngine replaces FreeType
• PDF Processing
  • Support for digital signatures - adding visible/hidden digital signatures, adding blank signature form fields, filling blank signature form fields, removing all existing signatures
  • Method PdfDocument.deleteAnnotations() in PdfDocument and PdfPage classes to delete existing annotations
  • New overloaded PdfDocument.addAction() methods with parameters for go-to PDF actions and for scaling of a destination location
  • Overloaded PdfDocument.saveAsText() methods with option to ignore extra blank lines
  • Overloaded PdfDocument.redactText() methods with option to toggle the filling and stroking of redacted regions
    
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • BadPaddingException thrown when loading encrypted documents whose metadata stream was not encrypted
    • Wrong number of pages is read from a document with XRefStm
    • Some lines of text were incorrectly split into multiples lines by PdfDocument.saveAsText()
    • Unable to search contents of Form XObjects
    • PdfDocument.redactText() method removes some extra characters
    • PdfDocument.search() method fails to find some text in some documents
    • PdfDocument.saveAsImage() method ignores page crop box dimensions (and instead considers media box dimensions) in some documents
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Exception thrown when rendering some PDF documents with CID fonts
    • Indexed DeviceRGB 8 bpc images are not rendered properly as colorspace stream did not get decompressed
    • Text using Type3 fonts are not rendered correctly in some documents
    • When a path with dash pattern is encountered, all subsequent paths are rendered with the same dash pattern even if they do not have one
    • EmptyStackException thrown if some documents contained octal numbers in the content stream

Version 4.0 - October 21, 2011

• Introduced
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • JBIG2 image rendering
  • PDF Processing
    • PDF encryption using AES 128-bit standard
    • Page elements extraction - text, shape and images
    • Formatted text extraction
    • Text redaction for specified region and specified string (or regular expression)
    • Advanced text search with normal text strings and regular expressions
    • Incremental text search with normal text strings and regular expressions
• Enhanced
  • PDF Processing
    • Fault tolerance for pages whose dimensions are not specified [Note: Page will be considered to be Letter size or 612 mm x 792 mm]
    • PDF forms submission method defaults to HTML POST if PdfFormPushButton.setSubmitActionType(int) method is not called
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Optimized rendering performance
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • Streams compressed using Flate filter takes too long to get decompressed - Flate filter decompression logic has been optimized
    • Loading documents that have XRef stream of size more than 2 kb run into issues
    • Huge images are not exported correctly [Note: Huge "rotated" images will be exported only if heap size permits it.]
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Rendering 4-bpc Indexed RGB and CMYK images runs into issues

Version 3.5.4 - June 27, 2011

• Enhanced
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • New setRotation method in PdfPage class to specify page rotation
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • New setPrintChromaticity and getPrintChromaticity methods in PdfPrinter class for color/monochrome printing setting
    • New PdfPrintHandler interface with methods beforePrinting() and afterPrinting() to allow user class to do pre- and post-processing work around print jobs
• Fixed
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • Incorrect reading of cross reference sections in CrossReference Table of some documents
    • PdfDocument.importFDF() throws ClassCastException with a few documents
    • Value of the /Size entry in the Cross Reference Stream dictionary was not one greater than the value of the last object number in the documnet according to the PDF Specification
    • Inability to parse PDFDocEncoding-encoded annotation property strings
    • Value of the /Size entry in the Cross Reference Stream dictionary was not one greater than the value of the last object number in the documnet according to the PDF Specification
    • Blank pages after modifying a document (containing Indirect Reference Number as the value for /Rotate entry)
    • Exception thrown when merging a document that is created in memory
    • PdfDocument.close() does not dispose PdfFont objects (when creating documents)
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Issues in parsing CMap stream of a font when it contains some tokens with extra spaces
    • Slow rendering of some 8-bpc Indexed DeviceRGB images
    • Freetype exception thrown when displaying documents containing invalid embedded font streams
    • PdfDocument.saveDocAsTiffImage() method not considering width and height of a page's crop box
    • Issues in handling Flate-encoded streams with Predictor value 2
    • Decode Array (such as [1 0]) not handled for Type1 8-bpc Device Gray images
    • 8-bpc Separation Colorspace Images with alternate colorspace as DeviceCMYK are rendered blank

Version 3.5.3 - February 17, 2011

• Enhanced
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • New overloaded PdfDocument.attachDocument methods to specify compression options
    • New overloaded PdfFileAttachment constructors class to compression options
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Parsing logic of PDF page contents is optimized for PDF viewing and printing
    • Support for rendering of annotations (other than widgets objects) if they have normal appearance streams
    • New PdfDocument.setRenderingOptions method for more control of the rendering of PDF page contents
    • New PdfRenderingOptions class for specifying PDF page rendering options
    • New PdfRenderFontHandler interface for user classes to customize the automated internal substitution of non-embedded PDF fonts not available on the system
    • New showNativePrintDialog() and showCrossPlatformPrintDialog() methods in PdfPrinter class
• Fixed
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • Long document-load times with PDF Version 1.5 or later when JDK v1.4 is used on BEA WebLogic Platform
    • Incorrect checked symbol when filling check box form fields with some documents
    • Incorrect handling of PDF page resources that have the same name when stitching pages
    • Inability to parse PDFDocEncoding-encoded annotation property strings
    • Incorrect reading of content property of free-text annotations in some documents
    • Inability to draw single-page TIFF images on a PDF page for some PDF documents
    • PdfImage.create method throwing class cast exception if an RenderedImage object is passed as the argument
    • Inability to correctly retrieve/parse PDF objects modified in incrementally updated document
    • ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception thrown when processing internal array objects of actions of bookmark or link annotation
    • Incorrect rendering of PNG images encountered with JDK versions 1.6 update 18 or later
    • DPI metadata not included in TIFF files generated by saveDocAsTiff and savePageAsImage methods of PdfDocument class.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Certain images with color-key masking (those with Mask array set to [0 0]) not rendered properly
    • Some rendering issues with Type3 fonts
    • Printer ignores margins set by the user
    • Issues with landscape printing when using custom page size and autoRotateandCenter property is set to true
    • Rotation Angle of the PdfViewer was not getting reset to angle 0 while loading a new PDF document
    • Incorrect masking of some inline images
    • Issue with rendering of Type3 font text if font size is greater than 1
    • Issues with rendering shapes with dash patterns in some documents
    • Inability to load documents that has a cross reference stream with a hybrid reference (both CrossRefTable and CrossRefStream)
    • 1-BitPerComponent Indexed DeviceRGB images not rendered properly
    • Exception raised when loading a document with a stream in the page dictionary
    • Issue with rendering Indexed images whose Indexed Colorspace array is represented as a string
    • NullPointerException raised by the constructor overload PdfFormListBox(PdfRect r, String name, int fieldFlags)
    • List box option added by the overload PdfFormListBox.addItem(String item) not getting submitted

Version 3.5.2 - June 25, 2010

• Enhanced
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • Made PdfDocument class as a Java Bean component.
    • Support for JNLP applications and applets.
    • New setOnPasswordHandler and setOnPageReadHandler methods to register event handlers in user classes implementing PdfPasswordHandler and PdfPageReadHandler interfaces.
    • PdfDocument can directly create, load, save, and close PDF documents - no need for PdfWriter and PdfReader instances.
    • New PdfDocument.dispose() method to dispose I/O resources - previously required to be used with PdfWriter and PdfReader instances.
    • New PdfDocumentChangeHandler interface for user classes to get notified of document loading and closing events - use addPdfDocumentChangeHandler() and removePdfDocumentChangeHandler() methods in PdfDocument to specify user class instance that implements the event handlers.
    • New setFixedPrint() and isFixedPrint() methods in PdfWatermarkAnnotation class to specify whether the annotation should be printed relative to the dimensions of the target media.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Updated Java Bean properties of PdfViewer and PdfPrinter components
    • Support for rendering form fields whose appearance details are not defined in the document
    • New overloaded loadDocument() methods to load PDF documents from file and streams.
    • New closeDocument method to close loaded PDF document.
    • New dispose() method in PdfViewer class to close any loaded document and also release its thread pool
    • New setFinishings/getFinishings methods to specify the javax.print.attribute.standard.Finishings options such as binding and stapler.
    • Add new methods setShowPageNumberLabelOnScrolling() and isShowPageNumberLabelOnScrolling() in viewer to control the current page floating indicator that is displayed when the user scrolls a document.
• Fixed
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • "PageTree is not a dictionary" exception when loading some encrypted documents.
    • Octal values in bookmark titles, document information properties and other string literals not processed.
    • Unable to load documents that did not have a .pdf extension.
    • Unicode strings not justified properly when rendered on a page.
    • PdfDocument.isOverrideFieldAppearanceStreams() method always returns false even when NeedAppearances entry was true in the document.
    • PdfException for "PDFArray cannot be cast to PDFDict" when merging PDF documents that have only one PDF action for the document-open event.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Some documents with negative mediabox coordinates rendered incorrectly.
• Changed
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • PdfDocument constructors that use PdfWriter and PdfReader instances are deprecated.
    • Direct use of PdfWriter and PdfReader classes is not required.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • PdfViewer and PdfPrinter constructors using PdfDocument instances are deprecated.
    • closeDocument() method throws IOException.
    • PdfPrinter.setSelectedPrinterName() throws PdfException if print services are not available.

Version 3.5.1 - April 30, 2010

• Enhanced
  • PDF Creation/Processing
    • Support for new line characters in strings passed to writeText overloads
    • Support for loading document encrypted with AES 128-bit algorithm. (See related Known Issue in Readme file - Readme.html)
    • Overloaded PdfDocument.getPageAsBufferedImage method with zoomPercentage and rotationAngle parameters
• Resolved
  • PDF Viewing
    • BufferUnderflowException thrown by some PDF documents
    • Printing issues with CCITT 1 bit per component images
    • Rendering of incorrectly encoded inline images
    • Memory leak issues in usage of font processor library
    • Issues in rendering of soft-masked images in some PDF documents
    • Text rendering issues with CID fonts having single- and double-byte characters
  • Document Creation/Processing
    • Incorrectly encoded creation date and modification date document information property
    • Issue in writing text using PdfEncodings.UTF_16BE encoded TrueType fonts
    • Issue in creating PdfFont object using the path of the TrueType font file in Linux
    • StackOverflow error while reading heavy bookmarks nodes
    • Problems with bookmarks after merging
    • WinAnsiEncoded Symbolic font text displayed in viewers as square boxes
    • Text form fields not rendered in viewers after their value is set - occurs if they originally did not have an appearance stream
    • Issues in creating appearances for rotated form fields
    • Loading a PDF from a byte array throws exception "stream end not found" if the stream dictionary used an Indirect Reference number for its "/Length" entry

Version 3.5 - August 11, 2009

• Enhancements
  • PDF Viewing
    • Page caching and scrolling optimizations
    • Optimized rendering of 1-bit and 4-bit images
    • Support for JPEG-2000 images (if Java Advanced Imaging I/O support is available for JPX Decode)

Version 3.4 - July 22, 2009

• Enhancements
  • PDF Viewing
    • Multi-page viewing
      • Page layout options - Single page, single page continuous, side-by-side (2 columns), side-by-side continuous (2 columns), side-by-side continuous with user-specified number of columns, and auto-fit columns
      • Option to show cover page singly in side-by-side layouts
      • Option to enable or disable insets around pages
      • Option to enable or disable borders around pages when no insets are displayed
    • Enhanced link navigation - navigate to area, fit page style, page zoom setting
    • Support for navigation history for the link annotation and bookmark actions
    • Support for fill and stroke with tiling graphics patterns
    • PdfRenderErrorHandler to track and handle rendering errors
    • New zoomIn and zoomOut methods that change page zoom level to pre-defined values
    • New integrated Navigation Panel inside viewer component
    • Introduced PdfViewerPageDisplaySettings class for specifying default page display settings
  • PDF Document Component
    • New isEncrypted() method introduced for checking if a document is encrypted
    • New methods to get and set "creator" document information property
    • Enhanced rendering of images with Indexed colorspace
• Resolved
  • PDF Document component
    • Version returned by getVersion() method for old PDF versions
    • Image export of cropped and rotated pages
    • Font storage in document when additional text is rendered using an existing font

Version 3.3 - April 30, 2009

• Enhancements
  • in PDF Viewer & PDF Printer components
    • Apple Macintosh OS X support
    • Support for rendering of CMYK images and masked images
    • Printer options for specifying paper trays, paper collation, and paper sides
    • Support for string localization in printer dialog using PdfPrintDialogLabelResources.properties file
    • Introduced PdfPrintPageHandler to pre-process the page contents before it is actually sent to printer
    • Introduced PdfPrintPageHandler.cancelPrinting to cancel the current print job
  • in PDF Document component
    • Optimized document loading performance
• Fixes
  • in PDF Document component
    • File release by PdfReader.dispose() method
    • File release by PdfDocument.merge() methods
    • Form field rotation by PdfFormField.setRotation(int) method
    • PdfDocument.saveAsImage() when null is passed as image name prefix - used to cause NullPointerException
    • PdfDocument.saveAsImage() overload with imageWidth and imageHeight parameters - clipped images fixed
  • in PDF Viewer & PDF Printer components
    • Rendering of Type 0 Fonts (CID Fonts)

Version 3.2 - March 16, 2009

• Enhancements
  • in Viewer & Printer components
    • Interactivity links in viewer - support for link annotation actions (go-to, named, and URI actions)
    • Support for rendering of masked images in viewer
    • New printing options to specify custom page size, margins, and orientation
    • Support for printing to file
    • New page-level events - before, after and while a page is printed
    • New overloaded saveAsImage and saveDocAsTiffImage methods with arguments for specifying image DPI
  • in Document component
    • New overloaded DrawImage() method to take a RenderedImage instance as argument
    • New overloaded DrawImage() method to downsize an image to fit inside a smaller page
    • New overloaded addPageBreak() method to quickly add a new page after the default page of a PDFDocument (created for a new blank document)
    • New PdfAutoPageCreationHandler event to set page size and margins for the pages created by autopagination and the new addPageBreak() method
• Fixes
  • in Viewer component
    • Several bug fixes for Viewer
    • Decompression issues with FlateDecode filter
    • Inability to show the rotated PDF Page with CropBox
  • in Document component
    • Returning annotation's location in proper user-equivalent coordinates in relation to page's rotation

Version 3.1 - February 2, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Updated viewer component
    • Support for rendering of text using embedded/non-embedded identity/non-identity-encoded Type 0 fonts
    • Support for rendering of text using Type 3 fonts
    • Optimized rendering of images using CCITTFax encoding
    • Optimized rendering of all supported image formats
    • Support for Separation, DeviceN colorspaces that use RGB or CMYK colors with Type 0 or Type 2 functions
• Fixes
  • Decompression issues with LZW Filter

Version 3.0 - November 28, 2008

• Enhancements
  • Updated viewer component
    • Optimized rendering of documents
    • Added support for
      • Type 1 fonts
      • TrueType fonts
      • Type 0 fonts
    • Added support for
      • Images with the following colorspaces
        • DeviceRGB
        • DeviceGray
        • DeviceCMYK
        • CalRGB
        • CalGray
        • ICCBased
        • Indexed
      • Images with 1, 4, and 8 bits per color component
  • Updated printer component
    • Optimized printing of documents
    • Introduced methods to
      • Set and get page range subsets
      • Set and get page scaling
      • Get and set page auto-rotation and centering
      • Print pages in reverse order
  • Updated document component
    • Added support for exporting specified pages as a multi-page TIFF (requires Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools API in the build path)
    • Introduced methods for
      • Adding file attachments using a byte array
      • Getting file attachments
      • Removing file attachments
      • Obtaining other attachemnts-related information
      • Removing embedded fonts in a PDF
      • Replacing an existing font with another font
  • Introduced bookmark panel (outline viewer) component
• Fixes
  • Inability to add new-line characters while setting value for multi-line text field.
  • After merging documents, bookmarks originally from the second document link to pages originally from the first document.
  • A blank page is created when a loaded document containing no pages is saved.
  • If more than nine attachments are added, viewer applications are unable to open attachments #9 and those after it.
  • Unexpected behaviour with NoToggleToOff and RadioInUnison properties of PdfRadioButton.
  • Inability to load the document using PdfReader.fileReader(File file) overloaded method in certain cases.
  • Inability to load document because of invalid objects.

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