2025.04 Release Notes

Release date: 2nd April 2025

Next release: 14th May 2025

We have tested JPedal on Java 24 and found no issues
The default page border in the JPedal Viewer is now removed, it can be re-enabled using the properties
New tutorial: Extract Structured Text as ePUB
New blog posts:
- What is inside a PDF file?
- How to process PDFs for use with AI

We have made improvements to continuous and continuous-facing modes so link navigation and text selection is available
We have added the ability to pass a Map of properties to the JPedal Viewer
We have added the ability to extract structured text as JSON or ePUB
General bug fixes

JPED-889, JPED-914 Added support for navigating links in continuous and continuous-facing modes
JPED-913 Added support for passing in properties to the JPedal Viewer as a Map
JPED-919 Removed the default page border (previously yellow, existing solutions will not see affect without updating their properties.xml file)
JPED-920 Improved the API of Viewer.executeCommand() so that the varargs parameter may be null
JPED-923 Added a menu item in the JPedal Viewer to allow exporting of signed PDF files
JPED-929 Added support for extracting structured text as JSON
JPED-931 Added support for extracting structured text as ePUB
JPED-946 Added support for text selection in continuous and continuous-facing modes

JPED-904 Fixed a rare bug where sometimes font sizes were calculated incorrectly
JPED-906 Fixed a bug where invalid font files would crash the document properties window
JPED-915 Fixed a bug where changing from continuous to single mode did not restore the dragging cursor correctly
JPED-918 Fixed a bug where the old catalog was not fully copied in signed PDF files
JPED-924 Fixed a performance issue caused by file attachments being reprocessed each time a page was decoded
JPED-925, JPED-927, JPED-928, CORE-4077 Improved the accuracy of JPedal Inspector’s Objects Viewer tree
JPED-932 Fixed a potential memory leak in the OutlineWriter
JPED-936 Fixed an issue where the JPedal Viewer would think there was printing active even if there was not
JPED-937 Improved the UX of the printing dialog by not showing error messages if the user presses cancel
JPED-940 Fixed a bug where the JPedal Viewer would duplicate the layers tab
JPED-943 Fixed a bug where Unicode control characters were erroneously appearing in JPedal’s XML output
JPED-947 Improved the JPedal Inspector’s UI so that it can be dynamically resized and works on displays with scaling applied
JPED-948 Improved the handling of platform dependant file separators
CORE-4076, CORE-4080 Improved the handling of empty/invisible layers

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