April 2017 Release Notes

Next Release:

The next release is on Tuesday 2nd May 2017

Summary:

• Search has been added to the IDRViewer
• Keyboard navigation has been added to the IDRViewer
• Last Java 6 release (moving to Java 8)
• Lots of general bug fixes and improvements to the IDRViewer

April Release (4th Apr 2017):

Enhancements

• [HTML-2793] - [IDRViewer] Implement Search
  Search is now available inside the sidebar of the Complete UI (the Ctrl+f / Cmd+f keyboard shortcuts have also been overridden). There is also an IDRViewerOptions setting called generateSearchFile that can be enabled to write out a search.json file which contains the textual content from the whole document.

• [HTML-2799] - [IDRViewer] Page Navigation
  Added page navigation using Page Up, Page Down, Home & End keyboard buttons has now been added to the IDRViewer

• [HTML-2801] - [IDRViewer] Magazine Mode
  Added support for magazine mode in files where not all pages have the same bounds

• [HTML-2798] - Added support for Type3 fonts in SVG modes
  Pages containing Type3 fonts are now flattened to allow display. Affects a very small percentage of files.

• [HTML-2802] - [IDRViewer] Dropdown enhancements
  Unfocus dropdowns after used to allow keyboard navigation without extra click (Complete UI)

• [HTML-2795] - [IDRViewer] Zooming enhancements
  Ensure visible pages remain visible when zooming

• [HTML-2791] - Improved behaviour to display font with missing data
  Rasterize font if no default Font Width exists

• [HTML-2790] - Add class to shared CSS element
  The shared CSS element now has the class ‘shared-css’

• [HTML-2790] - [IDRViewer] Remove duplicate shared CSS element when loading pages
  Less clutter now in DOM

• [CORE-2848] - Improved pattern handling
  Improves sheared patterned images

Fixes

• [HTML-1537] - Fixed Incorrect mapping of glyphs onto space character
  Some PDFs were incorrectly mapping glyphs onto space character

• [HTML-2785] - [IDRViewer] Fixed Safari exception
  Fixed the exception in safari where the nav does not work on local filesystem (HTML only)

• [HTML-2796] - Font rejected by web browser font sanitizers
  Filtered out unnecessary data in font to pass browser inspection

• [HTML-2800] - Incorrect appearance of radio buttons and checkboxes in forms
  Disabled caching on same-size radio buttons and checkboxes to fix display issues

• [CORE-2835] - Missing form
  Forms were missing if PDF is repeatedly converted to image

• [CORE-2832] - Incorrectly truncating a data streams
  Fixed the Byte stream code to remove spurious LF/CR incorrectly truncates a data stream

• [CORE-2842] - GraphicsState being null
  Fixed the issue where GraphicsState might be null

• [CORE-2846] - Allow for addition of zero length FlateDecode (or other stream) in PDF file
  Fixed by removing unnecessary exception

• [CORE-2847] - PdfDecoder returns total pages as 0 when specific file rendered
  Fixed

• [CORE-2841] - Incorrect Glyf mapping in customer CidFont0 PDF
  Fixed the issue where the incorrect Glyf mapping in customer CidFont0 PDF

Developer

• Last Java6 release
  From the May release onwards, JPDF2HTML5 will move to Java8.
• [HTML-2787] - Deprecate IE8 Support

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