August 2017 Release Notes

Next Release:

The next release is on Tuesday 5th September 2017

Summary:

• Memory usage improvements for handling JPEG and CMYK to RGB Conversions
• All IE8 Features have now been removed
• Fixed Issue with TrueType hinting having to use special code
• General bug fixes and improvements

August Release (1st August 2017):

Enhancements

• [HTML-2886] – Improve memory use for JPEG handling
  We have lowered memory consumption in JPEG handling on larger files.

• [HTML-2887] – Improve memory use in cmyk to rgb conversion
  We have decreased memory usage when converting CMYK to RGB.

Fixes

• [CORE-2869] – Issue with TrueType hinting requiring special code to handle twilight zone
  Fixed

• [CORE-2871] – Type 1 CID fonts using incorrect glyphs when converted to image
  Fixed

• [HTML-2849] – Non-printable extraction characters removed in shapetext mode
  Fixed

• [HTML-2864] – [IDRViewer] Destination zoom/offset info does not account for page rotation or crop offset
  Fixed

• [HTML-2870] – [IDRViewer] Text selection not working in IE/Edge in Presentation & Magazine layouts
  Fixed

• [HTML-2873] – Incorrect escaping of quotes inside Link Annotation with JavaScript action
  Fixed

• [HTML-2880] – Spaces missing due to null glyph appearance
  Fixed

• [HTML-2858] – Scaling fitWidth/fitHeight does not account for page rotation
  Fixed

• [CORE-2881] – /L key in ID object not correctly read
  Fixed

Developer

• [HTML-2871] – IE8 features removed
  We have removed IE8 features that were deprecated

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