2024.10 Release Notes

Release date: 9th October 2024

Next release: 20th November 2024

Key features at a glance

• General bug fixes
• Password support for various PDF manipulation classes
• Java 17 is now the minimum supported version

Several of our customers have told us they did not realise how many PDF problems you can solve with JPedal. So we have updated the list here to show you.

New Tutorials

• How to remove unused objects from a PDF file
• How to remove a page from a PDF file
• How to split PDF files
• We also created a glossary of commonly used PDF terms

New Features

• JPED-879 Added password support to PdfPageDeletion, PdfPageExtraction, and PdfPageSplit
• JPED-884 Added command line parameters to the PdfOptimizer. Also added a new enum to simplify choosing optimizations programmatically

Fixes

• JPED-870 Fixed an issue where line annotations would sometimes curve unexpectedly
• JPED-880 Improved the structured text extraction XML handling
• JPED-883 Fixed an issue where some paint strokes were removed during printing
• JPED-886 Fixed a rare issue where some PDFs created by Quartz would have enormous xref tables after using PdfOptimizer
• CORE-4048 Fixed an issue where incorrectly ordered rectangle values would offset content outside the clip
• CORE-4050 Fixed an issue where some extracted clipped images did not match the page rotation
• CORE-4055 Fixed a rare issue where an object missing it’s endobj token could cause the JPedal viewer to hang
• CORE-4057 Fixed an issue where form images with the same name but different content could overwrite each other

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